These might be the most important words in comics: “Hey, have you read that?” The medium’s lifeblood has always been the word-of-mouth that passes from one reader to another. The only query that might surpass the above is “So, what’d you think?” We’re going to kick off a recurring feature here in Kotaku‘s slice of…
Slate music critic Jody Rosen snapped this picture of arcade and gambling cabinets lined up outside a flooded Red Hook warehouse In the aftermath of last week’s storm.
It’s the way that they move. Sure, the background music filled with tense strings creates some anxiety in the first gameplay glimpse of Big Robot’s Sir, You Are Being Hunted. And the low visibility in tall grass adds to the tension, too. But something about the movement of the game’s automaton antagonists chills me to…
Amazon France has outed a mega-bundle that offers every console game made for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed fanchise. According to Polygon and Eurogamer, the Assassin’s Creed Anthology will include last week’s Assassin’s Creed III along with Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed 2, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations The listing touts a piece of € 150,…
You know the story. Almost everyone who wielded a joystick in the 1980s does: the tie-in game for Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was so unplayably bad that it almost single-handedly sank the first wave of video game infatuation. An experience like that needs to be put in its place. That’s exactly what speedrunners Adelikat…
The next hurricane-delayed trailer for GTA V will be debuting on Wednesday November 14th, according to Rockstar Games
Mass Effect 3 Special Edition will be out for Wii U on Nov. 18th, including the Extended Cut DLC. Full details here
CNNMoney runs videos of people who they think have great professions. Who’s in their latest batch? None other than Ryan “Morello” Scott, lead content designer on Riot Games’ League of Legends In the segment, Scott talks about the different ways one can get into the game design field, as well as detailing the career path…
Lots of gamers threw their goodwill towards the various stunts and trailers that Disney spooled out for Wreck-It Ralph, even if they made fun of modern-day games All the hype paid off, with the Disney Animation film pulling in $49.1 million over the weekend, according to Box Office Mojo That makes it the highest grossing…
Nowadays, it seems like all sorts of beefed-up characters in shooter games can sling taunts and emotes. But back in 2008, Army of Two won a crucial bros’-rights battle when the two leads-whose names, c’mon, no one even remembers-were able to express their bro-love for each other in a series of team-based mechanics. With elements…
The Mass Effect Trilogy-which bundles BioWare’s acclaimed sometimes controversial sci-fi series all in one place-comes out next week. (PS3 owners will be able to download the first game in December.) In case you need a refresher for Commander Shepard’s saga, watch the clip above.
The last thing I was expecting from a game built on relativistic physics principles was a gentle allegory about the afterlife. But that’s exactly how A Slower Speed of Light starts off. The little protagonist in this title from the MIT Game Lab actually dies right at the start of the game and has to…
Ubisoft hasn’t mentioned anything about their show-stealing, hacker stealth game Watch Dogs for a while. That’s presumably because they’re off making it. And they need more people to help craft the initial entry of what’s presumably a new franchise. Based on the comments in the video above, the team working on Watch Dogs seems to…
Let me break it down for you: 12 years of Catholic school. Powder-blue communion suit. Did the Stations of the Cross ON MY KNEES for multiple years. Childhood best friend was an altar boy. (He’s fine. Nothing ever happened. Thanks for asking.) I say all this to establish that I know all about nuns. Nuns…
I like the portable Assassin’s Creed game a lot. But it clearly could have spent more time in development. One bug I encountered had an alligator spawn about five feet in the air. That didn’t stop me from killing it, though, which left its sad carcass floating aloft as a warning to those would mess…
History often seems lightyears away, doesn’t it? Even game franchises like Civilization-where you zip from ancient Rome to space flight in the span of hours-put a layer of abstraction over the experience that make it feel distant. The Assassin’s Creed games use history exceedingly well, but none of them have felt as personal as Assassin’s…
I’ll be honest: I never really dug Guerilla Games’ Killzone titles. They never really lived up to the Halo-killer hype that accompanied them and never stood out from the FPS landscape in a way that, say, Insomniac’s Resistance games did. Killzone 3 didn’t get very high marks from me. But this waterlogged Killzone Trilogy will…
Word games? I love ‘em. Give me a jumble of letters and a grid and I’ll go to town. One great thing about the advent of smartphones is how they’ve ushered in a major re-think of the word game DNA. So, last week, when a neighbor mentioned that a new iOS word game was spreading…
You’ve spent all year figuring out a great get-up for All Hallow’s Eve and now the day is finally here. We want you to show us your Duke Nukems and your Altairs, Ezios and Connors. Head over to Kotaku’s official Facebook page and post your ensembles. We’ll be rounding up the best for a showcase…
There had to be some sort of heroes back then. Unnoticed in the ways that mattered and exploited in the ways that left permanent fractures, the African people that came over during the Atlantic Slave Trade had to have found ways to survive and thrive in a land where they were looked on as property.…
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