The excellent indie platformer Guacamelee! is coming to a whole bunch of new consoles, developer Drinkbox Studios just announced. It’s coming to the PS4 July 1st, and the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Wii U the following day. Huzzah!
When Michael Thommason put it up for sale earlier this month, the prospect of taking hold of the world’s largest video game collection probably seemed like a tall order for gamers lacking the necessary funds or storage space. But one had the luck and $750,250 necessary to take home the prize. According to an update…
The Kickstarted documentary Video Games: The Movie is coming to screens both big and small next month, Variance films just announced. Watch the new trailer up top and check on the movie’s website to see if it’s coming to a theater near you.
Animal simulators are all the rage these days, with games about playing as goats, cats, and bears all popping up in one form or another thanks to the magic of the internet. Playing as various members of the animal kingdom isn’t all fun and games, however—though that’s certainly an essential part of any such experience.…
When you’re playing a game as infectiously compelling as Grand Theft Auto V, it can be difficult to take a step back and reflect on all the wanton acts of destruction in which you’ve participated. This can be weird in its own right considering how much of a time sink open world games can be.…
“Maybe you don’t know what the nights are like for people who can’t sleep,” the poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in his Book of Hours I’ve fought with insomnia as long as I can remember. Rilke’s line here has always struck me as the best description I’ve read of the experience. Trying to force myself…
Track: Hold On, We’re Going Home Artist: Drake ft. Majid Jordan Album: Nothing Was The Same Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
I used to dream about Warcraft III. This was before it came out, before Blizzard had even settled on making the epic real-time strategy game that would eventually come to be known as Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. I would check the mailbox impatiently every day for the new issue of PC Gamer to arrive,…
Before this week, David O’Reilly was best known in the gaming scene for making the pretty-looking futuristic video games in the recent science fiction film Her. Sadly, none of them were actually playable for anyone other than Joaquin Phoenix’s character in that movie. But now O’Reilly has returned with a playable video game that’s just…
The dubious quality of Nintendo’s eateries has been a touchy subject for a while now, and that saga continues with the temporary closure of a vendor operating at Nintendo of America’s headquarters. According to a detail listed in a recent update on the public health section of the King County website, the food vendor “I…
Inch by inch, feather by feather, Rovio is turning Angry Birds into the bloody sword-fighting game it was always meant to be. The next step in the hit mobile gaming franchise’s evolution from a cute physics-based puzzle game arrived today in the form of Angry Birds Epic, out now for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone-powered…
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It’s the week of E3, so of course Vice is covering the video game industry’s largest annual event in true Vice style: by writing about plastic cases that let you mold your very own 3D-printed dildos. Ok, I kid. The Brooklyn-based hipster media empire and current Gawker sparring partner did do something very cool and…
Shortly after Ubisoft upset many Assassin’s Creed fans by saying that it had abandoned its plan to have female characters in its new game’s co-op multiplayer mode, the company returned with another controversial explanation about the absence of women in its games—this one focused on Far Cry 4 Speaking in an interview with Polygon, Alex…
Lots of Titanfall fans were disappointed this week when a rumored sequel wasn’t announced. But if you were one of the people curling up inside your giant killer robot to sulk Monday night after EA’s press conference, at least you can console yourself with the knowledge that there’ll be two more ways to have Transformers-style…
Shocking as this might be to hear: people swear a lot on the internet. I mean, a lot. I don’t even know how many “fucks” I’ve typed into the ether over the past few days with all this E3 craziness happening. And I’m not even a Redditor! Speaking of that massive teeming cesspool of all…
Sony just revealed a new game for the PS4 and its nifty virtual headset Project Morpheus. It’s called The Assembly, and it looks pretty scary. Writing in a post on the PlayStation blog, The Assembly developer Patrick O’Luanaigh described it as “a mysterious VR adventure game that we have designed for VR from day one.”…
The next big Assassin’s Creed game and the first to appear exclusively on next-generation consoles won’t let people play as female assassins in a new cooperative multiplayer mode, Ubisoft said this week at E3. Speaking in an interview with Polygon, Unity creative director Alex Amancio said that while they originally planned to include female assassins,…
Making levels in Mario Maker is easy. Like, really easy. In a good way. Actually beating them? Not so much. Nintendo took the lid off this exciting Wii U game that lets players build their own Super Mario levels this morning during its E3 press event, and Kotaku was able to go hands on with…
Talk about a realm reborn! Fans of Final Fantasy XIV who were upset about the game’s controversial decision to exclude gay marriage need not worry any longer. Director and producer Naoki Yoshida confirmed the change during one of its live-streamed E3 developer talks that the game will introduce same-sex relationships in an upcoming patch. The…
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