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I Love Games That Use Licensed Pop Music
One of my most enduring game memories is getting into a car in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and tearing down the road to Two Tribes on Wave 103. Pop is the perfect gaming accompaniment – why can’t we have more of it? Wave 103 is the greatest. It helps make Vice City into a…
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This Family Really Makes Me Want To Play Farming Simulator 2015
I was idly contemplating what playing a Farming Simulator game for the first time would be like, because Farming Simulator 2015 is coming out on consoles in May. This family playing it together just made me super excited about it. I’ve written about how I’ve tried to get into Farming Simulator 15 before, when they…
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The Beauty Of The Game Instruction Manual
Kikopa Games has just released a game called Minkomora. It’s an exploratory game, a soft floaty little thing – but the best thing about it is the game manual. Kikopa Games is half Joni Kittaka and half Merritt Kopas – Merritt and I did a talk together at Indiecade East about our work recently, and…
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A Drake-Themed Game Doesn’t Have To Be Terrible
I’ll admit it, I’ll admit it. I downloaded Runnin Through The 6, a free iOS endless runner made by Nico Uribe, because I’m a huge Drake fan. But it is rubbish. The reason I was so into the idea of a Drake game is that Drake’s a rapper who occupies a liminal space. He’s halfway…
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Good Morning, Here Are The Terrible Raps From Trials Evolution
Yesterday I gave you the terrible yet awesome Mickey Rourke raps from Rogue Warrior to lull you through your Saturday. Sunday is a much worse deal. The intro raps from (very good) motorcycle balancer game Trials Evolution are a lot like if a drunk middle-aged beardy guy crashed your eighteenth birthday party thinking he was…
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This Game About Being A Parent Is The Most Irritating Game I’ve Played
There aren’t any games that can give you the authentic experience of what it’s like to be a parent. But I am willing to reckon free game Jostle Parent is one of the best attempts at it. Jostle Parent is a little browser based game made by Pippin Barr, a developer whose work I am…
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A Comic Where Joanna Dark And James Bond Meet
Me and my partner in crime Irene Koh (the artist on Batgirl Secret Origins #10 for DC) made a comic together about what would happen if the two heavyweights of the N64 Jo Dark and James Bond met. This game critique in comic form was originally published on my website, and funded by the subscribers…
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One Game That Actually Learns The Right Things From Movies
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992) has a part where you can play the initial titles or credits sequence at the beginning of the game. I find myself wishing that way more narrative-based games would do this adorable moviesque thing. I write a column over at Rock Paper Shotgun called ‘S.EXE’ which is…
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League of Legends Players Stumped By Mysterious Duck
League of Legends forum-goers are perplexed by the elusiveness of this rare duck seen wandering about in the public beta environment of the game. It’s a time for duck huntin’. Forum-typer Walking Titan remarks on League gameplay and balance forums that a duck sighted in the PBE a while back has not returned to the…
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New Indie Game Looks Like A Roguelike Doom
The PC gamer in me is being TWANGED by the look of this lovely first person shooter/Revolution Management hybrid Bunker Punks, probably because it appears to be a bit Doom II but in roguelike form. Developers Ninja Robot Dinosaur say that this shoot-and-loot will have randomly generated levels so no one game will be the…
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Lest We Forget Rogue Warrior‘s Funky Mickey Rourke Credits Sequence
The last time someone mentioned this tiny slice of Bethesda Softworks MASTERPIECE on Kotaku it was 2009. That can’t be right? That can’t be right! Let’s get your Saturday ON TRACK, my lovelies. Rogue Warrior was a Mickey Rourke-voiced first person shooter that was, almost everyone agrees, amazingly bad. The AI was so prone to…
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The Japanese Developer Of Downwell Used To Be An Opera Singer
For all of 2014 I’ve travelled, via crowdfunding from my generous readers, to stay with game developers around the world and write about them. It was something I called the Embed With Games series. I foundOjiro Fumoto in Japan in November, and he turned out to be a a genius game developer who was making…
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Life Is Strange Is Really Patronising
I really like the idea of Dontnod’s episodic game choice drama-em-up Life Is Strange, but really it just ended up making me wish it would shut up and let me experience it instead. Life Is Strange is a wonderful kind of idea: It’s five episodes long, gives us the much neglected teen girl player character…
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So I’ll Be Your Guest Editor This Weekend
Good morning! My name is Cara Ellison and I’m doing a bit of guest editing for you lovely lot this weekend. Sorry about the formal picture, I really couldn’t find anything else that wasn’t just me hugging another person or one of those pictures people take of you at parties when you have fallen asleep…
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