Hopefully you are already hip to Hotline Miami, Cactus’ unhinged, techno-drenched top-down murderfest. It’s a wicked cool, incredibly fun game, and it sports one of the best soundtracks of the year. (If you’re not aware of the game, you can read some of my impressions here.) And now, can now listen to the entire soundtrack…
Games take us to all manner of fantastical, unlikely places. But as good as video games have gotten at accurately recreating a space-marine shootout or a mountaintop dragon battle, there’s one thing developers are still learning how to create: A dance club. Many games try to create thriving urban environments for players to occupy, and…
There’ll always be a place for the opaque in gaming—mysterious games that don’t immediately express their intent with garish tutorial pop-ups and button-prompts. Jake Clover’s Nuign Specter, a free experimental PC game, definitely falls into that category. It’d be no fun for me to tell you what happens in the game; you really should just…
The flashlights look pretty good. As I went through my notes searching for something positive I’d written about Medal of Honor Warfighter, that line stuck out to me. “The flashlights look pretty good.” They do look pretty good. Whatever lighting magic Electronic Arts has handed around to its subsidiary studios is nifty and authentic-looking. Often,…
I would never have enjoyed playing Don’t Die Dateless, Dummy! if I had played it alone. And yet on Saturday, I stopped by the Revision3 offices in San Francisco to help keep them going on their 24-hour Extra Life charity drive. We played the game. And I enjoyed myself quite a bit. The weirdly-written dating…
“Hurry up and wait.” It’s a common phrase used in the U.S. Military, one that encapsulates the often frustrating tedium of life in the armed forces. “Hurry up and wait” may apply to real life, but it probably shouldn’t be true in a video game. Or at least… not to this extent. But this kind…
I like a good runner as much as the next guy; any game that requires me to run forward and time my taps to keep my on-screen character alive for as long as possible. From Canabalt to Jetpack Joyride to Temple Run, the key to a good running mobile game is simplicity. Save Them All…
Homeland, ya heard? If you haven’t heard, I’m here to let ya know: It’s a pretty awesome show. I mainlined the entire first season, which you can now get on DVD, last week. Goodness. It’s a lot of fun. I describe it as, basically, “If 24 has been an actually good show.” That perhaps undersells…
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been getting my open-world RPG fix with Fallout: New Vegas. Yesterday I talked about how to mod the game to look nice and pretty, and from here on in I’m going to share some things I’ve noticed while playing the game. So here’s a thing: The Silver Rush.…
StarCraft is cool. Diablo is cool. So what if… the two combined, letting you click demons to death in outer space?? Why, that would likely be pretty great. And it could’ve been a reality. Blizzard prototyped a version of Diablo set in space, according to an excerpt from David Craddock’s upcoming book Stay Awhile And…
The inner workings of the new Macbook Pro, unveiled today at Apple’s mini event, look familiar. In fact, if this thing had a laser on its shoulder, it could have had a successful film career in the 80s.
There’s no question that Dishonored has great art. But in addition to Viktor Antonov’s wonderful visual design direction and Sebastien Mitton’s art direction, the game also has a lot of great art. As in, there are some really cool paintings in the game? Okay, you get it. Bethesda has pulled together shots of all (I…
When I saw Pulp Fiction, I was 14. It was the coolest thing I had seen in my entire life. Since that day, I’ve seen the move probably a dozen times. Each time, I have more of an appreciation for the craft behind it. And so I loved this video essay, which went up at…
After several years of existence, The Dark Mod remains the single best way to convert Doom into Thief. Hey, I’ll take it – I like Doom fine, but I like Thief better. The new version of the mod, version 1.08, adds a crap-ton of fixes and tweaks; way more than I could list here. And…
There are so many good games out this fall. So, so many. There’s a type of video game for just about every type of video game player. But there is one thing missing: There’s no vast, open-world role-playing game. Bethesda, scions of the vast open-world RPG, have dedicated this year to the fantastic but decidedly…
Many of us here at Kotaku are fans of Borderlands 2‘s first downloadable content, Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty. The sand skiff is great, the new loot is poppin, and the bosses are super challenging. But as I played the new content on my PC, I began to notice a problem—anytime I’d enter a…
Here now, the newest trailer for God of War: Ascension. Enthusiastic, Articulate Voice-Over Guy(™) and I agree—this sure looks like a God of War game! If you want even more Zeusiness, you can watch this 7-minute dev diary about the game.
It’s Halloween in Tyria, and the Mad King has returned. Starting today, all Guild Wars 2 players will log in to find a ton of new content in the MMO, from holiday-themed decorations to transformative costumes all the way up to whole new areas, mini-dungeons, and bosses. Some of these events will only happen for…
Now here’s a YouTube video you don’t see every day. In this video uploaded by GiveMeBlackandWhite, a Maryland man named Samuel Seymour, who witnessed Lincoln’s assassination, turns up on the 50’s game show “I’ve Got A Secret.” No, not JFK. Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln I swear, every time people complain about the irreverence of most YouTube…
Crytek, the studio behind the Crysis series and its eye-bleeding Cryengine graphics tech, are getting ready to launch their newest game. It’s a free-to-play shooter. It’s already out in some parts of the world, and will be out in North America pretty soon. And it’s called Warface Yes. That is the name. “Warface.” Crytek would…
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