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Would Breaking Bad make for a good video game? Maybe not, argues video-game writer Susan O’Connor.
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 12, 2013 -
Last Night’s The Walking Dead: Not Bad, Not Great
Last night, AMC’s The Walking Dead came back on the air for the second half of its third season. I thought the first half of Season 3 was pretty strong, all things considered, and even liked some of the ways they moved away from the source material. I haven’t always been the biggest fan of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 11, 2013 -
Fire Emblem: Awakening‘s Amazing Musical Milieu
We’ve talked plenty about how much we like the new 3DS strategy role-playing game Fire Emblem: Awakening here at Kotaku. Among other things, we like the romance, the permanent death and the even more permanent marriage. And all this despite the fact that no one in the game has feet But while I’ve talked a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 11, 2013 -
One Thing Dead Space 3 Gets So, So Right
When it comes right down to it, Dead Space 3 is a game about standing in a corner and blasting aliens into bloody bits. I’ve been playing through the opening hours of the game, and despite recognizing the various problems mentioned in some reviews (including Tina’s less-than-glowing review), I have to say that after six…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 11, 2013 -
Watch The Slender: The Arrival Beta In Action… If You Dare
Slender: The Eight Pages was one of the more beguiling successes of last year—a weird, super low-rent thriller that combined the popular Slenderman mythos with simple jump-scare design. Its stripped-down look and basic design were part of the appeal. Its sequel, the upcoming Slender: The Arrival, looks to have upped the ante in just about…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 11, 2013 -
Shazam! Here’s Gearbox president Randy Pitchford’s magic-trick-laden DICE talk, “Video Games Are Magic.”
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 8, 2013 -
At DICE, RPG scions Ray Muzyka and Feargus Urquhart gave this talk about the future of role-playing games.
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 8, 2013 -
Here’s Warren Spector’s full DICE talk about grown-up gaming (and his distaste for Lollipop Chainsaw).
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 8, 2013 -
Apparently, The Story Behind Epic’s Dazzling 2011 Tech Demo Is A ‘Doozy’
At the Game Developers Conference in 2011, Epic Games showed off a new demo of their widely-used Unreal graphics technology. The Unreal Engine drives a ton of popular games, from Gears of War and BioShock to Borderlands and Arkham City. The demo Epic showed was a violent, action-packed piece of work called ‘Samaritan,” and it…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 8, 2013 -
The new teaser trailer for Grid 2 has got some seriously squealing tires and some seriously flaring lenses.
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 8, 2013 -
Watch The DICE Awards Live, Right Here [Update: Winners Announced]
The annual DICE convention brings a bunch of big-deal thinkers and video-game creators to Vegas to engage in high-minded talk about creativity and technology and innovation. There’s also lots of free food, or so I hear. There’s ALSO an awards ceremony, since events like this tend to have an awards ceremony. It’s happening tonight, actually,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 7, 2013 -
Mad Men‘s Biggest Dork Guest Stars On You Don’t Know Jack
Part of the fun of the very fun Facebook-anchored version of You Don’t Know Jack is that because Jellyvision is constantly adding new questions and content, they can stay current. It also means, apparently, that they can have guest stars. Today, the company announced that they’ll be adding a new “Monthly Special Guest” episode featuring…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 7, 2013 -
Watch Heavy Rain‘s Creator Talk About How Gaming Needs To Grow Up
Yesterday at DICE, Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls creator David Cage gave a provocative talk titled “The Peter Pan Syndrome: The Industry That Refused to Grow Up.” Stephen’s already written up the salient points of the talk, and now you can watch the talk in its entirety online. So, sit back and watch one…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 7, 2013 -
She Lost Her Father, But Journey Helped Her Cope
Last year’s standout PS3 game Journey was an emotional experience for many. That was certainly the case for Sophia, a 15-year-old who wrote the above letter to one of the game’s creators, Jenova Chen, about how Journey helped her cope with the loss of her father. Chen read the letter aloud today at the DICE…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 7, 2013 -
Ancient Egypt? The Civil War? Pirates? It’s Time For Some Rampant Assassin’s Creed Speculation
Earlier today, Ubisoft announced that the Assassin’s Creed series would be getting a new game in “fiscal 2014” that would feature a new protagonist and a new setting. “Very interesting,” you may say, twirling your mustache and reaching for your prognostication hat. “Very interesting, indeed.” I’ve got my wild speculation hat on (it’s like a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 7, 2013 -
Check out this hypnotic video tracking the circuitous journey of a single car in SimCity
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 6, 2013 -
Seriously, Why Doesn’t Anyone In Fire Emblem: Awakening Have Feet?
“There’s an elephant in the room.” It’s a phrase people use when there’s some super-obvious thing that everyone’s consciously avoiding talking about, like, you’re at a party where the host just died of a heart attack and was carted off by the coroner, but you’re eating teeny-weenies and talking about the weather, and the elephant…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 6, 2013
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