Dying Light’s add-on multiplayer mode “Be The Zombie” will be free for all players, developer Techland announced this morning. Previously, the DLC had only been available as a pre-order bonus, which enraged many prospective fans who are justifiably sick of that sort of thing. Phew!
Transistor developer Amir Rao just published an interesting breakdown of all the work that went into the game’s unique “functions” system. I found the inspiration that Supergiant pulled from Magic: The Gathering particularly neat. And the fact that they deliberately eschewed “power-leveling.” Read it at Gamasutra.
Shadow of Mordor surprised everyone with its unique features like the oft-praised “nemesis system.” The game’s novelty and ambition meant that it couldn’t accomplish everything it set out to, though. Developer Monolith opened up this week about some things that were left on the cutting room floor. Writing in a development postmortem forGamasutra, Monolith design…
He’s just saying what we’ve all been thinking for, I dunno, the past ten years?!?!?!
One big thing that makes video games unique in the cornucopia of pop culture is the time investment they demand of their audience. This had lead to an age-old debate about whether games are “too long,” one that Kill Screen founder Jamin Warren recently tackled in his latest PBS Game/Show episode. Arguments about the merits…
As fanfiction, Super Smash Bros. takes bits and pieces from many different Nintendo games and weaves them together into a uniquely chaotic patchwork. It remains faithful to its source material, but only to a point. Some of the most interesting stuff the newest Smash repurposed came from Mario Kart, of all places. Mario Kart’s presence…
Track: You Put A Smell On Me | Artist: Matthew Dear | Album: Black City Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
The overall crappiness of Mario Kart 8‘s battle mode is well established. And since Nintendo hasn’t unveiled any concrete plans to make it better with some extra stellar DLC goodness, it looks like what we’re stuck with what we’ve got. Or wait—what’s that over there on the internets? RC cars to the rescue! This video…
The old-school business sim game Theme Hospital is currently free on Origin, EA just announced. Go get it—stat!
League of Legends has changed so much, and so quickly, over the years that it’s easy to lose sense of the game’s rich history. Thankfully, there are always plenty of fans online to remind us that there was one a time when, say, Urgot wasn’t the butt of quite so many cruel jokes. Poor Urgot.…
Some exciting news for Xbox gamers: Microsoft just confirmed the release dates for three rad-looking games that are all coming out this Spring—i.e., soon. The games are Ori and the Blind Forest (March 11th, $19.99), Screamride (March 3rd, $39.99), and the Xbox One version of State of Decay (April 28th, $29.99). Woo!
After unlocking “The Void,” the Mario Kart 8 hackers have started to put stuff inside of it. In their latest video, the fraternal modding duo MrBean35000vr and Chadderz show what happened when they started dropping odds and odds (like giant stacks of goombas) into an empty track they found in the game. Neat! Also just…
Like any popular competitive multiplayer game, League of Legends has its go-to characters and its…less well-loved ones. To shake its champion selection up, the game recently started testing a new gameplay mode that has people choose the opposing team’s lineup, rather than their own. What could possibly go wrong? The new mode, known as “The…
I got a message from a Smash Bros. player recently that made a bold promise: he’d figured out how to reduce every character’s lag time in the game. That’s a tall order, so I was skeptical. But then other players started to think he might be on to something. And that’s when things got really…
Rifick, an avid Super Smash Bros. stage builder who’s made some of the coolest custom levels I’ve seen for the game, just posted a handy tutorial for some of the mode’s trickier parts. Give it a look if you’ve been having any problems with your own custom stages. And let me know if you have…
Twitch kicked up a huge storm last August when it started muting users’ archived footage that used copyrighted music—a sudden and unpleasant change that lead many to accuse the service of taking the worst possible cues from YouTube. Today, the company offered a concrete idea for a new way forward: a music library. The newly-minted…
It was only a matter of time before Minecraft put out an official licensed something related to The Simpsons thanks to its new corporate overlords at Microsoft. What’s genuinely surprising about the Simpsons “skin pack” announced today is just how…unsettling it looks. The Simpsons “content packs,” which will cost $1.99, are coming out for the…
The comments on this False vs. Keitaro matchup and the ensuing Reddit thread make it clear that nobody’s suggesting that the “Gamer” stage from Smash Bros. should make it in to serious tournaments. I know. But at the same time…why the hell not?? Crazy random events are what make the casual Smash game so much…
Dying Light is supposed to be a big game. But just how big? This new PlayStation Access video shows what it’ll be like to walk from one end of the map all the way to the other. Needless to say, there are plenty of zombies in-between. We’ll have more on Dying Light closer to release,…
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