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It’s A Drinking Game! It’s A Tabletop RPG! It’s… Drinking Quest!
If you’d like to get with your RPG-loving friends and spend some time getting a little bit sauced, you could certainly do worse than either Drinking Quest or its sequel, Drinking Quest 2: Yeddie Vedder’s Yeti Adventure The game is designed as a light (very light) card-based role-playing game with a few rules built around…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 1, 2012 -
Morrowind Just Got Even Prettier With This New Graphical Overhaul
I may have spent an ungodly number of hours wandering around Skyrim, but I still miss Morrowind, the setting of the third game in Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls series. The swamp-covered, volcano-tormented realm of the dark elves just had so much character; it was an endlessly interesting place to go questing. (The soundtrack really was the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 1, 2012 -
Crysis 3‘s New “Hunter” Multiplayer Mode Looks Unbalanced, Fun
Fresh from the Eurogamer Expo comes this new demo of Crysis 3‘s “Hunter Mode,” which pits two nanosuit-enhanced players against a team of lowly soldiers with no stealth abilities or super-armor. Or chance. It doesn’t exactly look balanced, but it does look like a lot of fun. (via VG24/7)
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 1, 2012 -
Sex, Lies and Strawberries: Kotaku‘s Month Of FarmVille 2
It’s not lost on us that a good chunk of Kotaku‘s readership and commentariat is perplexed by our decision to play, study, and write about Zynga’s latest free Facebook game FarmVille 2 And yet for the past month, that’s just what we’ve been doing. It’s been both enjoyable and fascinating. No, FarmVille 2 isn’t for…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 1, 2012 -
Yes, This Really Is The Worst Movie Death Scene Ever
When I saw this video flying around the internet yesterday, I thought, “Can it really be the worst movie death scene ever?” And then I watched it, and lo, it is indeed the worst movie death scene ever. The only scene I can think of that comes close is this now legendary scene from Troll…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 28, 2012 -
Video Game Music: A Killer Opportunity For Hollywood Composers
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Video games are the new best way to make a living composing music It’s not just indie developers and composers who are figuring this out—Hollywood has gotten in on the action as well. A new article at the L.A. Times goes in-depth with some of the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 28, 2012 -
A Startling, Emotional Alternate Ending For Black Mesa
When does something stop being “fan-made” and start being real? Considering the fact that the excellent Half-Life tribute Black Mesa was itself made by fans of the original game, this amazing alternate ending, created and uploaded by Machinima filmmaker TomahawxX, feels perhaps a touch more real than your average fan-made video. The filmmaker, who created…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 28, 2012 -
A Sexy, Soapy iPhone Game That Also Teaches You To Make Drinks
Bartenders get all the good stories. People often go to bars simply to talk—we need a drink sometimes, to get away from it all, and we hope to find a bartender who will listen long enough to let us get it off our chest. The Bar Oasis series has long understood that while it’s fun…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 27, 2012 -
When Liquid Nitrogen Meets 1,500 Ping Pong Balls
If you’ve ever wanted to see more than a thousand ping pong balls detonated by a bottle of liquid nitrogen, have I got a surprise for you! This video of Plymouth University’s professor Roy Lowry uploaded by Techietickets shows just what happens when a garbage can full of ping pong balls gets… angry. Update: Well…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 25, 2012 -
The Latest Humble Bundle Keeps On Getting Bigger
Just because there’ve been a lot of humble indie bundles over the last few years doesn’t mean they’re any less of a good deal. The latest humble bundle offers a crapload of good games, all for whatever price you want to pay. For as little as you want, you’ll get EFF, (Wait, that’s not a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 25, 2012 -
Solve The Mystery Of A Composer’s Life Through Hidden Clues And Music
There’s something very cool about a game that lets you explore a house and learn about its inhabitants. Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor cast players as a spider who, by casting webs and moving through an abandoned house, learned the story of its inhabitants and what transpired there. In The Fullbright Company’s upcoming PC…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 25, 2012 -
ReviewsLittleBigPlanet Vita: The Kotaku Review
Few games beg for physical contact like LittleBigPlanet does. The series is known for its miniaturized, Gondryesque diorama worlds, where fuzzy Beanie Baby-like characters carom off of cloth-covered wheels and cubes like so much bric-a-brac in a shoebox. Any sane player would immediately want to reach out and touch the screen. So it feels only…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 25, 2012 -
Goodbye, FarmVille 2. It’s Been Fun, But I’ve Had Enough.
This past weekend, I took a trip out of town. I went outdoors, I sat in the sun. I drove through Northern California, past vinyards and polo fields, plots of land with a strip of earth out front for growing tomatoes and corn. I didn’t really have my computer with me. When I got back,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 25, 2012 -
Torchlight II‘s Amazing Hidden Tribute To Minecraft
It’s really been a couple of weeks for hidden easter eggs in games. First we’ve got Borderlands 2, which managed to hide something in what feels like every single room, and now there’s Torchlight II The third act of Torchlight II is so big that I have a feeling people are just scratching the surface…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 25, 2012 -
There Are Two Types Of People: Those Who Love Movies Clichés, And Those Who Don’t
There really are two types of people in this world. A dichotomy, if you will. Okay, a lot of dichotomies, but dichotomies nonetheless. This amazing supercut pulls together clips from movies when a character says that “There are two types of people in this world.” Or, as Evan said when he showed me this: “There…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 24, 2012 -
Has Inflation De-Valued The Mario Coin?
If you’ve heard anything at all about the latest Super Mario Bros. game, you know that it has a lot of coins. So many coins. The diligent player can collect a million of the shiny little guys. An article over at Scripted Sequence ponders whether the ongoing inflation of coins in Mario games has led…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 24, 2012 -
Yes. XCOM: Enemy Unknown Is Really Good.
I’ve lost video game troops before. I’ve sent virtual men bravely to their digital deaths. In StarCraft, in Company of Heroes; in Warcraft and Civilization, I’ve sent heroic men and women to the front lines, never to return. Sometimes I feel a pang at an unnecessary loss, but most video game troops are just numbers…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 24, 2012 -
There’s A Mysterious City Hidden Beneath The Water In Borderlands 2
We all know that Borderlands 2 contains a ton of secrets, references and easter eggs. But I’ve found something that’s not on any “best secrets” list… it’s something truly mysterious and perplexing that may change the way you feel about the world and your place in it I’ve become enamored of Borderlands 2‘s reflections—in standing…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 24, 2012 -
Write (And Re-Write) Letters Of Intrigue In This Fantastic Free Game
If you’ve written an email to a friend, spouse or lover, chances are you’ve gone through a few drafts. “How do I address him?” “Should I be so callous?” “Maybe I shouldn’t close with a joke?” “How would she read this part?” “Too many exclamation marks!” “I don’t want to sound flippant.” “How shall I…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 24, 2012 -
Mark Of The Ninja Is Coming To Steam, Won’t Subject You To Games For Windows Live
Good news for PC-owning stealth-fans—Klei Entertainment’s Mark of the Ninja is coming to Steam in a couple of weeks. The game, which Patricia liked and Jason and I can’t shut up about will be on Steam on October 16 for $14.99. In an email to Kotaku, lead designer Nels Anderson had some assurances to make:…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 24, 2012
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