Telltale’s The Walking Dead game may have won its share of year-end awards and accolades, but it’s not without some problems. Notably, the game can be quite buggy, particularly the disc-based, retail Xbox 360 version. The game’s designer Telltale is now running an amends program for anyone struck by “hitching” in the game, which is…
One of the best things about XCOM: Enemy Unknown is naming your squaddies after your friends. It’s a lot of fun to tell people you know about their daring exploits in the battle against the aliens, and equally goofy to inform them of their heroic—or needless—deaths. (Of course, sometimes that second part can get weird.)…
The cinematic adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s beloved graphic novel series Y: The Last Man will be helmed by Dan Trachtenberg, director of the excellent 2011 Portal fan-film No Escape, Vulture reports It’ll be Trachtenberg’s first time as a feature-film director, which… could go either way. Given how strong No Escape was, I could see…
Earlier this week, I talked to some game developers about why they love Final Fantasy Tactics. But beloved or not, man, does this game have a steep learning curve. A little background: I never had a PS1, so I didn’t have a chance to play Final Fantasy Tactics. I became terrifyingly hooked on Tactics A2…
It can’t be easy to be a BioWare writer. You and your co-workers run yourselves ragged crafting huge, sprawling stories, and afterwards you’re subjected to all manner of intense feedback, much of it shouted by the more extreme corners of your fanbase. So it’s perhaps not a huge surprise that these days, Dragon Age lead…
Gameological analyzes a game from Star Trek that was “Angry Birds if you had an orgasm every time you killed a pig.”
This new trailer for SimCity takes you on a spline-reticulating whirlwind tour. Nifty.
You know, no big. Just another day. We got a cool new video from Anamanaguchi. And oh hey also, a single from a little-known singer named DAVID BOWIE. This is the first single of Bowie’s in ten years, released to celebrate his 66th birthday. “As long as there’s me, as long as there’s you,” he…
PC modders have really begun to dig into Far Cry 3. The mind reels at the possibilities. Granted, Ubisoft hasn’t been as supportive of user-created modifications as, say, Bethesda was with Skyrim. But that doesn’t mean we can’t put together a wishlist of mods we’d love to see. I did an informal poll of the…
If you’ve ever seen one of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films, you’ve encountered the work of composer Joe Hisaishi. His haunting, gorgeous compositions have accompanied films from Castle in the Sky to My Neighbor Totoro to Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away Hisaishi will also be creating the music for Studio Ghibli and Level-5’s upcoming PS3 role-playing…
I wouldn’t have guessed Sansa Stark would be much of a rapper, but this clip from the DVD commentary for the second season of Game of Thrones proves me wrong. This comes as something of a follow-up to last year, when the actors who play the Starks sang along with the intro music on the…
Not only is this new College Humor video-game spoof of LOST funny on its own, it’s also got some good criticism of the show. I particularly liked dodging bad plots in season 3, and anyone who agrees with me that “The Constant” was the series’ best episode is cool in my book. Spoilers! Obvs. CollegeHumor’s…
The highly enjoyable Far Cry 3 “New Game Plus” overhaul mod has gotten a no-mini-map version.
I don’t even know what else to say, really, about NYC-based chip-rock quartet Anamanaguchi. Their music more or less speaks for itself. Above, please find the most excellent new video for their most excellent single「MEOW」. If you like video games and good times, you will most likely enjoy this music video. The track is from…
I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re reading that headline and thinking, “Um, ‘well-meaning death notification?'” But believe it or not, that’s exactly what we’re talking about here. See, Kotaku Game of the Year 2012 XCOM: Enemy Unknown inspires stories. As our own Owen Good recounted in his argument for why it should be our game…
I’m a sucker for Pixar short films, and from the looks of it, I’ll also be a sucker for The Blue Umbrella, the new one coming from the Toy Story-makers. This tease, posted at The Wall Street Journal, pretty much confirms it: Yep, I’m going to love this. The final video will play in front…
I’ve played a lot of Far Cry 3. A looooot. And so I’m always looking for ways to freshen up the game for another go-round. I got about halfway through on a second playthrough, but it still didn’t seem quite different enough for me. Fortunately, PC modders have wasted no time coming up with clever…
I don’t know about you, but my first thought upon seeing Nvidia’s new Shield handheld gaming console was as follows: Plenty of other folks took the joke one step further, drawing quick comparisons to the failed Nokia N-Gage, the little portable video game system that couldn’t. [View the story "Nvidia Shield = Nokia n-Gage" on…
Are you a fan of Machinarium? Now you can pre-order this plush Robot Josef straight from the game’s designers
The cool-sounding Lewis & Clark history-RPG Meriwether is about to hit its funding goal with a couple days left.
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