In a post on his Major Nelson blog, Xbox Live’s Larry Hyrb announced that Inside Xbox—the internally-produced video show that delivered game news and previews directly to Xbox 360 owners over Xbox Live—will be ceasing production in the United States. That means that other English-speaking territories like Canada, Australia and New Zealand will no longer…
Most games concerned with keeping their heroes undetected create a reliance on a few familiar mechanics. Sticking to shadows, staying out of sight and keeping quiet have staple stealth mechanics for as long as the genre’s been around. And Dynamite Jack uses all of those. But, given that the only weapon that the titular hero…
Fable video games are supposed to operate around a promise. The three role-playing games spearheaded by former Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux dangled themes of changeable appearance, persistent consequence and pledge-keeping to pique players’ interest. And, yeah, the knock on the Fable games is that they tend to overpromise and under-deliver. However, to my mind, it’s…
Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! The first TAYpic to riff on the “Rich…
Halo 4‘s not the only AAA game with a real-life movie lead-in. Ubisoft’s just announced that their near-future squad shooter will be preceded by Ghost Recon Alpha, a 26-minute live-action film that will air on G4. There’s a multiplayer map based the locales in the film and scenes in the film will lead up to…
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…
You might’ve heard about how Mark Waid—veteran writer behind the awesome, on-going run of Daredevil—was selling off his massive comics collection to help finance a new digital comics intiative Well, Thrillbent—the site that Waid is spearheading—has launched today, with two offerings written by him that you can read for free. Insufferable tells the story of…
Cool stuff happens at TIFF Nexus, a collaboration and design collective in Ontario. Right now, they’ve helped mount an exhibition that mashes together 14 artists and designers from comics and games with digital and physical work that draws inspiration from each medium. The centerpiece of the show, programmed by the Hand-Eye Society, is a series…
Alternate realities are seductive, aren’t they? They entice you with the familiar, dangling remixed elements of the worlds you know in front of your eyes. Then there’s the thrill of the new randomness that a parallel plane of existence can hold. Alt-earths have been a sturdy concept in speculative fiction and, in superhero comics, they’ve…
Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this
Absolutely stunning movie trailers for The Dark Knight Rises and Prometheus exploded all over the web in the last 24 hours. A few weeks ago, it was the promo clips for Looper that got everybody buzzing. Like lots of other folks, I eagerly watched all those teasers over and over again. And I can’t stop…
It’s May. Many games will be out this month and some of them might even be good. You can talk about those games right here in Talk Amongst Yourselves, the official Kotaku forum. Feel free to air your views on all things video games, and even some things not video games. Here we are at…
It’s already been announced that Valve will be releasing DLC that lets PC and Mac owners create their own additions to Aperture Science’s brain-teasing architecture. Now, a leaked video shows what the Perpetual Testing Initiative looks like in action. The video seems to have originally come from level creator TopHatWaffle, who had early access to…
It’s common knowledge that Gabe Newell used to work at Microsoft, right? In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, the Valve CEO discusses learning that the first Doom outranked Windows as the most used software application: But what was so shocking to me was that Windows was the second highest usage application in the U.S. The…
The Mount Eddie DLC hits tomorrow for the recently rebooted SSX and promises to honor all your fond memories of video game snowboarding from the last console generation. So, does it live up to the hype? You can judge for yourself by watching these two videos. In them, I take the retro versions of Elise…
Sony’s made a big revelation today with the disclosure of the multiplayer component coming in God of War: Ascension. Our preview explains the motivations and mechanics of the mythological prequel’s gameplay, but what if you just want to see it in action? Well, then, just click play on the stream above to see game director…
It’s quick as can be but there’s an obscure teaser for Activision’s next big first-person shooter on the Call of Duty website. The concentric circles on the loading screen for CallofDuty.com contain morse code. You probably know what it says already, but it’s safe to consider this a sneaky sort-of confirmation from Activision. (If not,…
If Battlezone and, say, Risk had a baby, it’d look a lot like Glitch Tank. Michael Brough’s aggressively retro game turns your iPad into an 8-bit theater of sci-fi warfare. Whether it’s you vs. another human or fighting against an AI opponent, the basic mechanics are the same. Each player gets doled out three cards…
It’s been previously announced that Rockstar Games, Remedy Entertainment and Marvel Comics are teaming up to bring iconic cop to comics. Now, Kotaku can share an exclusive first look at the first issue’s cover, drawn by fan-favorite Greg Horn. We’re pretty sure that bottle of whisky is not standard-issue equipment for members of the NYPD.…
Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! Kicking Guy’s done turned into a werewolf in…
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