Team Fortress 2 Meets One Of The Most Violent Games Around
Hotline Miami 2 is sure to be one of the most violent we'll play this year, but it's even more violent when recreated in 3D with characters from Team Fortress 2.
A Ten Minute Crash Course In Watch Dogs
Watch Dogs finally arrives later this month. To get us all even more excited for the ambitious-sounding open-world title, Ubisoft's has released this lengthy trailer that sums up almost everything you can do in the game's gorgeous rendition of a near-future Chicago. Unsurprisingly, a lot of those things involve…
Mysterious Fighting Game Gets A New Trailer
Necrostorm has released a new trailer for the fighting game Death Cargo, which we covered in a piece last week about the incredible allegations that the game might not exist. The new video highlights a range of different characters in addition to a fresh batch of appropriately gory deaths. In other words, it's exactly…
The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 3 Hits Next Week
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Clementine's journey through the bleak zombie apocalypse world of The Walking Dead continue next week, when the latest episode of the hit series arrives on multiple platforms.
Here's 12 More Minutes Of Skywind To Gawk At
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Hey, remember Skywind, that breaktakingly beautiful mashup of the two classic Elder Scrolls games Morrowind and Skyrim? Of course you do, because all us here at Kotaku can't seem to stop posting about it.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2's Trailer Remade With Toys is Charming
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The latest trailer for the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie had some pretty cool scenes, and the homemade version by the folks at Cinefix, with paper sculptures and toys, nails them perfectly.
One Of Gaming's Greatest Trailers, Remade For...Goat Simulator
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Now this...this is how you make a dramatic video game trailer.
Spoiler Alert Is A Game You Play In Reverse
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"The big bad boss is defeated, the coins are collected and the princess has been rescued." Well, the only thing left for you is to undo everything that led up to that.
He's A Kung Fu Renegade Cop, Hacking Time To Kill Hitler
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Sure, there have been plenty of movies about killing Hitler. But this one has Vikings. And dinosaurs. And a power glove, Thor, street punks, a disgruntled police chief... What I'm trying to say is that this movie has everything.
Screencaps Reveal All the Secrets in the Amazing Spider-Man 2 Trailer!
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer pretty much overwhelmed us with spectacle. And supervillains. Did you catch all of the amazing villain reveals, and weird clues? We've got you covered, with our complete roundup of screencaps!
The Best Game Trailers Of The Generation
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Video game trailers are all lies, damned lies. If they show us gameplay at all, it's cut together in the most exciting possible way. They're custom-crafted to generate hype, and they have the power to make a lousy game look fantastic. But, well... if they're lies, at least they're occasionally beautiful ones.
Everything You May Have Missed in the Captain America 2 Trailer!
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The first trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier dropped earlier today, and it was a concentrated blast of awesome. Including massive destruction, heartbreaking injuries, and some clues as to the nature of the conspiracy that Cap faces. Our roundup of nearly 100 screencaps reveals everything you might have…
Lana Del Rey's 'Video Games' Finally Turns Up In A Video Game Trailer
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It was only a matter of time, I guess, before Lana Del Rey's 2011 breakout hit "Video Games" wound up being used in a video game trailer. And so it has come to pass—this trailer for Hitman: Absolution turned up on Eurpoean airwaves last week, and it features Del Rey's song. Also, an out-of-focus naked woman in a…
The Secret To A Successful Game Trailer: Endings With Roars
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It's an ancient Mazatec secret passed down verbally from video editor to video editor: If you want your game to be a smash hit, end your trailer with something roaring. It can be an alien, a dragon, a balrog, a T-Rex, whatever; as long as it's roaring, you'll move a minimum of 20 million units, guaranteed.
Behind the Music of Transformers and BioShock Infinites' Moving VGA…
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Ever since Epic's Gears of War plucked heartstrings with a cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" game creators have been attempting to recreate that magic, forging an emotional bond between gamers and game through evocative music. Let's see how good a job Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and BioShock Infinite did of…
Upcoming Adventure Game To The Moon Will Be One Part Eternal Sunshine,…
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"When a video game can make us cry," the saying goes, "that is when we will know that games are art." But what if a video game trailer can make us cry?
What's Wrong With Video Game Trailers
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I love video game trailers, but I love them for the same reason I love concept work: I see them as entirely separate art forms from an actual video game.
The Single Greatest Trailer For the Greatest Games of E3
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Can you imagine if this was one game? One shooting, stabbing, jumping, running, driving, flying master piece of gore, politics, character growth, feminism and dude-brotopia?
The Year In Video Game Trailers
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Movie trailers suck. They lie, and they spoil. Game trailers, on the other hand, are an artform.
The Three New Techniques in UFC Undisputed 2010
When it hits May 25, UFC Undisputed 2010 will introduce three new fighting styles - karate, greco-roman wrestling, and fig-leaf gourd sambo. In this video, UFC coach Mark Laimon compares them to the existing styles in the MMA series.