If you want to play Zelda-like games at the office, this is probably your best option. Seedling, a Flash-based video game that you can play on an Internet browser, is just about as close as you’ll get to The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past without firing up your Super Nintendo. And it’s totally…
Principal photography has finished on The Hobbit, and the team has entered post-production (which mostly means editing together the footage they’ve got). To celebrate, watch director Peter Jackson’s eighth production diary, which shows him heading to Comic Con and wrapping up production on the set of the upcoming film, which will be out this December.
A group of filmmakers have launched a new project called Critical Path that sets out to be the “definitive documentary archive project” for video game culture and history. Head over to the website to see 121 different interviews with a whole bunch of gaming figures (not 121; some of the clips are repeats). Interviewees include…
Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios fell apart due to a combination of poor management, bad decisions, and a whole lot of missed deadlines. And Schilling says their massively multiplayer online game—which was shuttered when the studio shut down earlier this year—just wasn’t fun. This fascinating piece by Boston Magazine tells the story behind the demise of…
This was created by dedicated Minecrafter Nathan Chatham as a tribute to Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski and his wife Lauren Berggren. It’s their dog. It’s totally adorable. (via Cliffy B)
The ridiculously titled Bravely Default: Flying Fairy will use a job system similar to Final Fantasy V, according to a report by Dengeki Online (as translated by Andriasang). You’ll get to use two types of abilities: Job Commands—active skills you can borrow from either your current job or one you’ve used before—and Support Abilities, which…
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima will show off his new Fox Engine on August 30, he said in an interview posted on the PlayStation blog today The Fox Engine, which Kojima and his team have been developing since the release of Metal Gear Solid 4 in 2008, will run the next Metal Gear Solid…
Even if you’re not an avid StarCraft II fan, you still might enjoy this montage of the competitive game’s greatest moments, all compiled from high-level tournaments in which professional StarCraft II players compete for cash and glory. The last moment is the best, but the whole video is pretty damn great. I made a video…
I saw The Dark Knight Rises this weekend, and while I thought it was absolutely wonderful, there was one thing that kept distracting me: the villain, Bane, sounds exactly like Diablo mainstay Deckard Cain. Deckard Bane, if you will. Here’s proof. Above: Deckard Cain saying his catchphrase, “Stay a while and listen.” Below: one of…
Square Enix will announce news about the future of Final Fantasy XIII on September 1, Andriasang reports today Presumably this will be a Final Fantasy XIII-3 that continues where Final Fantasy XIII-2 (and its DLC) left off, but Square Enix has not specified. They’ve only said more is coming, promising what’s called the “Final Fantasy…
You know how people like to use the word “rehash” to describe games? “Oh, that Call of Duty 44 is such a rehash.” “Can’t believe they’re rehashing Halo again.” That sort of thing? In the wake of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, I think it’s time to find a new word. Final Fantasy IV:…
Microsoft has denied responsibility for a game-breaking glitch that the developers of puzzle game Fez said they couldn’t afford to fix. Earlier this week, Fez developer Polytron said they wouldn’t fix a rare game-breaking bug because Microsoft asked for too much money to re-certify the game. In response to Kotaku‘s request for comment, Microsoft sent…
Nintendo will launch the Wii U this fall, at least a year before fellow hardware makers Sony and Microsoft release their own new gaming consoles. But Nintendo isn’t launching early to beat out the competition. They just want to change the world. “Being first in the next generation race is not important at all,” Nintendo…
Tickets for the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises might be sold out across the board, but here’s one guy with a spare. Don’t get too excited: there’s a catch. Update: The listing, created as a prank by comedian Joe Stapleton, has sadly been removed from Craigslist This anonymous Craiglister, posting in the “men…
While standing behind the demo for Papo & Yo yesterday at a Sony event, watching the game in action as I waited for my turn to play, the first thing I noticed was that the main character doesn’t walk up stairs. He just sort of glides. So when I got my hands on the controller,…
The first Ouya-exclusive game will be a prequel to Human Element, a post-apocalyptic zombie game by former Infinity Ward Creative Strategist Robert Bowling. [Kickstarter]
Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime has addressed player concerns with action-role-playing game Diablo III, promising improvements in a statement on Battle.net today Noting that the launch of Blizzard’s highly-anticipated sequel had “many challenges,” Morhaime noted that the team had fixed the majority of technical issues—like the much-mocked “error 37” issue that prevented players from logging into…
Playing video games can be wonderful. Sometimes not playing them can be even better. See, games are often time-devouring. Tedious. Difficult. Annoying. You might not want to spend hours of your life grinding for experience points to kill a dragon or shooting up bloody clouds of soldiers en route to some submarine. (There’s always a…
Rumors are swirling that Capcom Vancouver, the development studio behind Dead Rising 2, has laid off multiple people. One source contacted Kotaku to tell us he knew several people who were laid off today. Multiple people also reported the layoffs both on Twitter and the gaming message board NeoGAF Yesterday on Twitter in response to…
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