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Only One Video Game Awards Show Lets You Watch Solid Snake Blow Himself Up
Hey, Americans, did you know that many of the video games that you admired and obsessed over in 2011 were made in Canada? It’s true. Deus Ex: Human Revolution? Sword & Sworcery? Assassin’s Creed: Revelations? That one super-cute game about ponycorns that a five-year-old made? All crafted in the Land of Poutine. Such creativity should…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 29, 2012 -
Pre-Order Cards Show Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 As Coming November 13th
Rumors have pegged this year’s Call of Duty as a sequel to the Treyarch-developed Black Ops. Now, an image of Target pre-order cards running on IGN appears to confirm the title and show a release date of November 13th. If you’re keeping score, that’s one week after Halo 4 The release date follows rumors of…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 27, 2012 -
To-Do in New York: Play the Next Indie Sensations Before Anyone Else
Indie games that capture your imagination like Canabalt, Sword & Sworcery and Beat Sneak Bandit seem to come out of nowhere sometimes. But, in the case of other ambitious titles, like Mark Essen’s Nidhogg or Terry Cavanaugh’s At a Distance actually get commissioned by New York University’s Game Center for their yearly No Quarter exhibition.…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 27, 2012 -
Here’s How Sega Thought They Could Sell You A Crappy Kinect Game
Demographic projections. Drip-feed PR. Invoking the name of popular, established games to create interest in new ones. It’s the cold calculus of marketing, also known as everything you hate about modern day video games. Want to know how it works? Here’s a leaked marketing plan from Sega that lays bare the marketing strategy for a…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 27, 2012 -
Skyrim Patch Files Hint at an Incoming Snow Elf Prince and Crossbows
Hints of what’s coming next for Skyrim may be buried in the latest patch for Bethesda’s hit action/RPG. In the lore of The Elder Scrolls V, the Snow Elves have been driven underground by the Nords. But the in-game legends about the mystical race make it sound like they’re former badasses who’ve been laid low…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 27, 2012 -
The Space Shuttle Looks Awesome Flying Across New York’s Skyline
Just like it did over the skies of Washington, D.C. last week, the Space Shuttle made a low-altitude fly-by over the New York City Area this morning. Everybody here at Gawker HQ scrambled to the roof and waited for a few chilly minutes for Enterprise to come into our field of vision. Kotaku’s own Chris…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 27, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
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! Today’s TAYpic gender-bends Snooty Guy into a monster…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 27, 2012 -
“People Will Be Happy” Watching These Incredibly Abrupt Old-School Game Endings
You die and die and die. Load up another save, maybe. Finally, you emerge triumphant over the boss battle or end sequence you’ve been struggling with. Nowadays, you’re likely to get a big shiny, fully-voiced cutscene topped off with swelling orchestral music. But that wasn’t the case thirty years ago. Back in the day, the…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 27, 2012 -
Homemade Portal Pinball Will Teleport Into Your Heart
Action & reaction. Angles and speed. Momentum and inertia. Pinball is a game of physics. So is Portal. And that’s what makes this homemade Aperture Science pinball table so great. Reddit user iliveon built the working table with friends and says the goal is to get a pinball stuck in each portal. It’s clearly a…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012 -
Two Ways to Make Horror Games Better? More Build-Up, Less Combat
If you ask Frictional Games’ developers, horror games haven’t evolved much since the genre’s late 1990s/early 2000s heyday where Silent Hill and Fatal Frame showed off just how scary a video game experience could be. Sure, titles like Dead Space and Frictional’s own Amnesia capture new glory for the horror category but other former heavyweight…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012 -
30 Years Late, A Supposedly Impossible Atari Feat Puts Arcade Classic Onto a 2600 Cartridge
Howard Warshaw—the man who created the beloved best-selling Yar’s Revenge for the Atari 2600—said that a decent version of arcade hit Star Castle couldn’t possibly be stuffed into a game cartridge for the iconic home console. Scott Williamson never believed that. Three decades after the commercial death of the faux wood-grain game box that started…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012 -
New Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Screens Show Off Father-on-Son Violence
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will be making a September debut, marking the current-gen debut of co-op martial arts brawls for Namco’s fighting game series. This new batch of screens highlights various tag moves, the new Fight Lab mode and new looks for several characters. Young Heihachi still looks little creepy to me, honestly. Tekken Tag…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
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! Characters from a plethora of fighting games have…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012 -
Watch Adam Sessler’s Best Video Game Rants Right Here
It’s not an exaggeration to say that an era ended yesterday. G4 aired its last episode of X-Play with popular commentator Adam Sessler as co-host on Wednesday, just hours after Kotaku reported that Adam Sessler would no longer be working at the network While Sessler was best known for review and interview segments on X-Play,…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 26, 2012 -
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Cancelled, Developers Say, But New Game Survarium Will Follow in Footsteps
Just two weeks after promising signs of life from creative studio GSC Game World, it looks like post-nuclear horror FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is dead for good this time. But that doesn’t mean that fans of GSC’s creepy Eastern Bloc survival shooting won’t have anything to play. In a series of Facebook posts unveiling, former members…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 25, 2012 -
Watch Two Guys Get Robbed From Setting a Long Jump Record in Trials Evolution
Two men, three hands and a pair of rubber gloves may not sound like a recipe for video game victory. But it is! Until a cruel glitch denies them their massive accomplishment. Reader Jeff sent in this profanity-laced video of what’s presumably him and his buddies pulling off an epic vault on one of Trials…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 25, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Don’t let Wednesday win. Stay strong, everyone! 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! In…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 25, 2012 -
Twelve Comics That Will Corrupt You From Within This Week
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 24, 2012 -
Cowboy Joker? Pirate Batman? Thank You, Gotham City Impostors for These Ridiculous Super-Costumes
A few months back, the Monolith-developed shooter offered a wacky if inconsistent take on criminals and crusaders in Batman’s hometown. Gotham City Impostors imagined what ordinary folks who idolized the Dark Knight and the Clown Prince of Crime would do if let loose in all-out gunfights. Part of the fun of GCI comes from stitching…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 24, 2012 -
In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night! Panel Discussion Starts Now!
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
By Evan Narcisse Published April 24, 2012
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