Kirk Hamilton

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Your Favorite Video Game Characters Review Their Favorite Games

by Kirk Hamilton So many games have other, smaller games within them that sometimes it feels like video game characters spend as much time playing games as we do. In the spirit of Kotaku’s made-to-order box quotes, we thought we’d ask some of our favorite video game characters what they think of the games they…

Get A Load Of This Amazing Real-Life Assassin’s Creed Parkour

Just when you think no one could really move through the forest as gracefully as Connor from Assassin’s Creed III, someone does. Free-runner Ronnie Shalvis, specifically. You can find more on Shalvis at his Facebook page, and see a behind the scenes video here Man, this really makes me wish Jesper Kyd had done music…

The Robot Is Pretty. Fight It? Wait, What Is Going On

There are several types of weird interactive fiction. For example: The type that’s just plain weird, and the type that’s delightfully weird. Walking Story by Michael Brough is most certainly that second type. Are they haikus? Not technically, but sort of in spirit. Are they bizzarre? Yes. Will you laugh? I don’t know, but I…

Heck Yes I Would Play Descent Remade In The Unreal Engine

I’ll never forget playing Descent back when it first came out. More specifically, playing the demo, which I think came with PC Gamer magazine. I played the demo over, and over. Eventually I stopped spinning around in place and actually completed the demo mission, too. I would play the heck out of a new Descent…

Happy Halloween! Check out the new The Ghouls ‘n Ghosts EP by Mega Ran and Richie Branson.

Persona 4 Golden‘s New Battle Music Rules

The advance press copies of Persona 4 Golden for the PSVita unlocked yesterday, and I’ve been playing the game it with every free hour I’ve had since then. The soundtrack, by Shōji Meguro, is so good I can’t stand it. The Vita version also has a bunch of new stuff from the original PS2 game,…

Need for Speed: Most Wanted Has Great Cutscenes

In my review of Need For Speed: Most Wanted, I mentioned how the game has these wicked-cool little videos that play before every race. There are a lot, and they’re great. I grabbed one to give you a sense of what I’m talking about. I particularly love how none of the in-game events start out…

Bash Zombie Heads in with a Wrench in The Dead Linger

One of the cool things about PC gaming is the opportunity to get in on interesting games before they’re even finished and try them out. Many of us started playing Minecraft back when it was far from the polished experience it is today-there’s just something cool about poking around in an unfinished game. But even…

Jalopnik Updates

jalopnikupdates: This Amazing Time Lapse Video Shows Sandy’s Assault On New York And The Moment The Lights Went Out A camera on top of 2 Northside Piers shows New York before Sandy rolled in, its destructive approach, and the sudden loss of power as the storm surge flooded lower Manhattan. This is the best angle…

Link’s Not the Only One Who Plays the Ocarina

Sure, Link was okay at ocarina, but he was just a little kid. It’s pretty fun to watch someone who can really play the thing. Here’s ocarina diva Cris Gale playing the Koume and Kotake/Twinrova Theme from Ocarina of Time. You can find about more about Gale at her website, and get her album on…

Is this how Star Wars: Episode VII will begin?

Need For Speed: Most Wanted: The Kotaku Review

Need For Speed: Most Wanted is a video game shot out of a cannon. It starts at a sprint and never stops for breath, hurtling forward with such momentum that it feels like it may rattle apart at any moment. Most Wanted is exhilarating, disorienting, maddening, cathartic, and hilarious, all in equal measure. It’s the…

What Hotline Miami Is All About

I could write lots and lots of words about the super-cool, super-violent new PC game Hotline Miami. In fact, I’ve already kinda done that The game is: Awesome. You should: Play it. But if you’re still unsure what it’s all about, check out this playthrough of the first level, uploaded by JereHakala. This guy/gal is…

Joss Whedon ‘Endorses’ Mitt Romney, Harbinger Of The Zombie Apocalypse

Leave it to Avengers director/Buffy-creator Joss Whedon to surprise us all with his presidential endorsement. You’d think, given his liberal leanings, that he’d be all about Barack, but no; he’s a Romney man. Though, not for the reasons you might think.

Last Night’s Jeopardy Contestants Sure Did Not Know Much About Video Games

I’ll take, “Things I don’t know the first thing about” for a thousand, Alex. On Friday’s Jeopardy, the Final Jeopardy written question was: “The villains in this game were inspired by the swine flu epidemic scare.” The three contestants’ guesses were… not close to the actual right answer. You can see it go down in…

Drunk Jeff Goldblum Wants To Tell You About PayPal

You have likely already seen Drunk Jeff Goldblum enthusing about things. The internet, pizza, and more. This latest video, in which he slurredly marvels at the ubiquity of PayPal, might be my favorite. (Part of that may have something to do with the fact that I see the actual full-speed version of this ad approximately…

Gearbox has patched the PC version of Borderlands 2 so that the latest DLC works with PhysX

Return To New Vegas: God Bless V.A.T.S.

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” the old saying goes. If you’ve got a problem that must be solved but no proven way to solve it, you’re going to have to get creative. Fortunately for Bethesda, fixing Fallout 3‘s shooting didn’t require a new invention—in fact, it required them to look to the past. When…

If The Exorcist Had Been An 80s Sitcom…

It’s almost Halloween, which means it’s time to break out our ironic re-cuts of famous horror films and make them seem different than they actually were! I enjoyed this recut by Film School Rejects, though, mostly because it doesn’t just use happy images; it also uses some disturbing ones. And hey, while we’re here, let’s…