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Listen To One Of The Best Video Game Soundtracks Of The Year Right Now
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 25, 2012 -
In Da Club: A Musical Moment Few Video Games Get Right
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 25, 2012 -
Play This Funky, Spooky Mystery Game For Free
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 25, 2012 -
Reviews
Medal of Honor Warfighter: The Kotaku Review
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,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 25, 2012 -
This Weird, Bad Xbox Dating Game Is Brilliant To Play With Friends
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2012 -
Medal of Honor‘s Most Annoying Bug Makes My Soldiers Stop Caring
“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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2012 -
Run, Run, Run For Your Life, And Sometimes Space-Punch A Zombie
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 24, 2012 -
If You Don’t Watch Homeland, Claire Danes Will Cry On You
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 23, 2012 -
Return To New Vegas: The One Place You Just Had To Rob
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.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 23, 2012 -
Yes, We Could’ve Had A Diablo Set In Outer Space
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 23, 2012 -
The New Macbook Pro Looks Just Like A Certain 80s Film Star
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.
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 23, 2012 -
The Beautiful Hidden Paintings Of Dishonored
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 23, 2012 -
Why Pulp Fiction Was So Cool
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 22, 2012 -
The Best Way To Transform Doom Into Thief Just Got A Little Better
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 22, 2012 -
Return To New Vegas: How To Mod The Wasteland Pretty Again
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 22, 2012 -
How To Fix Borderlands 2‘s PC Performance-Killing DLC Bug [Update]
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 22, 2012 -
By The Power Of Zeus, It’s A New God of War Trailer
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.
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 22, 2012 -
Trick Or Treat! Starting Today, Guild Wars 2 Gets Even Bigger
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 22, 2012 -
A TV Appearance By A Man Who Saw Lincoln Get Shot
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 19, 2012 -
If You Want To Be Taken Seriously, Don’t Call Your Game Warface
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 19, 2012
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