One of the oddest parts of Remember Me, which I checked out on Tuesday and liked, was this bit at the very end of my hour-long demo. As Nilin made her way through the game’s second level, the malls and apartments were all playing ads for this famous bounty-hunter dude who, surprise surprise, turns up…
It’s Valentine’s Day, and so lots of video game companies are putting out goofy cards to celebrate. But what about Fire Emblem: Awakening, one of the most romantic games in recent memory? What would Fire Emblem Valentines look like? Cute, it turns out. The Nintendo 3DS Facebook Page has shared some fun Valentines based on…
Portal may not seem like the most romantic game ever, seeing as how it’s populated with a bunch of robots and only a single human character. But even all these years later, people still haven’t gotten over protagonist Chell and her doomed relationship with the heart-decorated Companion Cube. The folks at Random Encounters Entertainment (not…
There’s already a lot to like about Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, the first-person medieval combat game from Torn Banner. But there’s perhaps even more to like about this video of a bunch of people playing on a low-gravity server. Hang with it for about thirty seconds and you’ll be sold. Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!! (Via Chris Remo)
There’s a lot to be said for text-based interactive fiction. It engages our imaginations so directly, and gets away from a lot of the challenges present in graphical games that offer interactive stories. In games like Mass Effect and The Walking Dead, more choices mean that the developers need to make more content, and the…
This photo, which as far as we can tell first appeared at Destructoid, appears to be a prototype controller for the next PlayStation. From the look of it, it mostly matches up with what our sources have told us about the system, code-named Orbis. An industry source familiar with the new system tells us the…
Steam is now available for Linux. In celebration, Valve is offering a big sale on Linux-supported games
The futuristic, memory-remixing action game Remember Me captured our attention when it debuted last summer, and I’ve been curious to play it ever since. A game about a kickass lady memory-thief who lives in a dystopian future-version of Paris? Sounds good to me. Tuesday at a Capcom press event in San Francisco, I had a…
I really liked the 3DS game Resident Evil: Revelations. So did Stephen. So it was cool to hear that it’d be coming to consoles and PC so that people could play the game—which really does feel like a “proper” console Resident Evil game—on their TVs. At the Capcom press event on Tuesday, I played a…
After yesterday’s preview event, Capcom sent along some cool new concept- and landmark-art from their upcoming adventure game Remember Me. I was impressed by my time playing the game, but I didn’t have time to include all the art, so I thought I’d toss it up here. Take a gander, and check out some of…
While at Tuesday’s Capcom press event in San Francisco, I got to take a brief look at Vergil’s Downfall, the first story-based downloadable content for DmC: Devil May Cry. Capcom producer Alex Jones told me that the full DLC, which will be out at the end of February, will last 3-4 hours, and will pick…
Love is complicated enough on its own, but the internet tends to make it even trickier. It can be hard to tell when someone is tweeting @ you out of kindness and friendship, or our of an interest in something more. It’s true of people, and it’s true of video games. Writer/romantic/roustabout (and erstwhile Kotaku…
Yeah, yeah, the whole Harlem Shake thing is out of hand. And this video is kind of one meme colliding with another meme, to create a memesplosion. Still, I got a chuckle out of ol’ Slendy’s take things. Everyone having a good week so far? What are you playing, what’s new? Sound off here or…
You like Canyon.Mid, right? Of course you do. Everyone does! Well, get ready for a serious trip down memory lane with Canyonmid.com, a site that recreates the experience of listening to Canyon.mid on a 90s PC with uncanny precision. Excellent.
Sure, the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers have saved countless cities from countless huge, hilarious monsters. But how do they fare without their Megazord, when they’re reduced to mere tourists? This goofy video from BaderTV takes a look, in honor of Power Rangers‘ 20th anniversary. Man, there’s really not much to the Power Rangers theme song…
“Transmedia” has become something of an annoying buzzword lately, or at least, a loaded one. It calls to mind corporate boardrooms where phrases like “maximum brand impact” and “synergy” are bandied about. But transmedia—the act of taking a story or fictional world outside its original medium and into others (books into movies, comics into video…
By almost all accounts, Aliens: Colonial Marines isn’t a good game. Patricia certainly didn’t care for it, saying that “it was literally a pain just to get through.” But hey, it happens. Sometimes, for various reasons, video games aren’t as good as the people who made them wanted them to be. What’s remarkable with Aliens:…
These days, it feels like the phrase “iPhone racing games are a dime a dozen” is an understatement—heck, more than a dozen of these games are free. So when I’m playing a new one, it had better grab me in the first thirty or forty seconds, else I’ll just go back to playing Time Surfer…
Because you knew it was going to happen: The Harlem Shake has invaded Skyrim
Aliens: Colonial Marines stinks. Is it that hard to make a decent Aliens game? This 2012 essay explores the question
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