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Porter Robinson’s New Video Is Like The Internet Ate Too Much Ice Cream And Had A Really Weird Dream

When friendly Mr. Anthony Carboni shared Porter Robinson‘s new video for “Language” yesterday, he described it as “What tumblr dreams about at night.” I agree. It’s a little bit Twilight/Hunger Games, a little bit The B.F.G., a little bit “Desktop Background Website.” And a lot awesome.

See How Sound Shapes Turns Your Vita Into A Fully Fledged Music Sequencer

I’ve had my eye on Sound Shapes for a good long while; the music-platformer-sequencer isn’t quite like any game I’ve played before, and I’m entirely enamored of its approach to musically integrated level design. In this video, Queasy Games’ Jonathan Mak puts together a track using the built-in level editor. As you can see, it’s…

The 12 Greatest Drum Solos On The Internet

Buddy Rich. Dennis Chambers. Dave Lombardo. Animal. These are the legends of the drums, masters who make the most acrobatic drum fills look effortless. It’s fun to listen to them play; it’s even more fun to watch. Here now, Kotaku Melodic presents the funniest, the shreddingist, the most entertaining; the 12 Greatest Drum Solos On…

Riding a Mech To The Bottom Of The Ocean In Mass Effect 3‘s Leviathan DLC

I’ve just played a chunk of one of the combat missions in the new Mass Effect 3 DLC, Leviathan. There was a boat. There was water. There was a mech. And Shepard dove to the bottom of the sea, Abyss-style. Before I got the controller, BioWare’s Nick Clifford took us through a cinematic near the…

A Tasty Sampling Of The New Baldur’s Gate Music

Mmmm, tastes like music clips. When Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition was first announced, one of the coolest things about it was the fact that it’ll feature an all new adventure, “The Black Pits.” And one of the coolest things about that was that it meant we’d be getting new music for the iconic game, music…

Customize The ‘Meow Mix’ Theme Song Of Your Darkest Nightmares

Tina isn’t doing the off-topic thread tonight, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have cats! In fact, let’s just combine her thing (cats) with my thing (music) into one super thing I give you THE MEOWMIXER. File this one under “Publicity Stunts We Fell For,” because I fell for this one. Something about mixing my…

The Best Meat-Head Dialogue From the New Expendables Game

That’s the point of The Expendables, right? That they’re a bunch of meatheads from another era who are Back To Kick Some Ass? Even keeping that in mind, this game footage assembled by our video maestro Chris Person is some of the goofiest, most meatheaded dialogue I’ve heard in a long time. It’s practically Duke…

You’ve Met The Pyro. You’ve Met The Heavy. Now, Meet Portal 2‘s Cores.

In the spirit of the many “Meet The” videos from Team Fortress 2 comes this fan-made video by Harry Callagan. Made mostly in Premiere Pro and Photoshop (not in Source Filmmaker!), it’s an impressive showing, considering that Callagan describes it as something that “started as a very quick visual test, but grew into something a…

Shiver At The Sight Of DayZ‘s Ghostly Flying Man

DayZ is the kind of game that leaves you on edge at all times. You never know when you’re going to be ambushed and killed, or get taken for a ride to a deathcamp, or be ambushed by sprinting zombies. Or, as is the case here, when you’re going to see a totally freaky bug…

A New Look At Far Cry 3‘s Story-Based Co-Op

In addition to a big, head-trippy single-player campaign, the upcoming Far Cry 3 will feature a fleshed-out 4-player co-op campaign. It’s more than your standard “kill the enemy waves” setup; FC3‘s co-op has a story, complete with four different playable characters. There’s the hardassed chick, the goofy older russian dude, the wiseass cockney (or some…

“Epsilon Program,” the fake Scientology-like religion last seen in GTA: San Andreas, has come to life on Twitter. Fact!

Try Your Hand At Meth-Making In Cooking Mama: Breaking Bad

The latest riff on Breaking Bad comes from Juan David Gómez, who has made this Breaking Bad-themed riff on Cooking Mama in which you’ll smash up sudafed, combine various chemicals, and cook at the proper temperature to get a good batch of sweet blue crystal. Not featured in the game: Betrayal, chemotherapy, shattered families, axe…

If The Star Of This New Resident Evil 6 Footage is Ada Wong, I Don’t Wanna Be Right

But seriously though, the star of this new Resident Evil 6 footage is Ada Wong. Also: sorry, that was Fahey’s joke. This clip is of Ada Wong’s side-story in action. There’s also a new video of the multiplayer mode “Agent Hunt,” which I’m assuming has nothing to do with the Mission Impossible films. I really…

Deadlight: The Kotaku Review

Now is the summer of our zombie apocalypse discontent. We’ve played so many zombie games; we’ve had glorious highs and depressing lows. We’ve grown sick of zombie games only to be surprised by good zombie games only to become sick of zombies games all over again. At this point, what kind of magnificent zombie game…

Woah: Heath Ledger’s Joker Was Basically Tom Waits

There have been few if any comic-book movie performances as startling and singular as Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker in The Dark Knight. At once loose and strong, purringly deadly and weirdly vulnerable… it was a shambling shaggy dog performance for the record books. There’s no way to know now where Ledger drew his…

Knock Knock. Who’s There? A Customizable Haunted House Defense Game

I have not played The Void, but it’s on my list. And I’ve definitely heard enough about the game to make me think that the developer, Russian studio Ice Pick Lodge, has some interesting video game ideas. Their latest idea, which they’re funding via a fairly low-priced Kickstarter (at least by video game standards), is…

There Was a Nintendo 3DS In the Olympics’ Opening Ceremony For Some Reason

The opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games had their share of surprises, but we certainly weren’t expecting to see a Nintendo 3DS among them. Get off the stoop, young man, and go do some sports! I’m a fan of the 3DS myself, but I think I’d have a hard time sitting on the…

Things Don’t Look Good For Sean Bean In The New Silent Hill: Revelation 3D Trailer

Poor Sean Bean. Dude can’t really catch a break, can he? Good things rarely happen to the characters he plays. We don’t quite know anything for certain yet, but it looks like nothing good will happen to him in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, either. It sort of looks like a lot of pretty not-good things…

This Action-Packed Sleeping Dogs Trailer Will Make You Go ‘Woooo’

See what I did there? Because Woo. This ad for the upcoming action game Sleeping Dogs even goes so far as to call its gunplay “Hard-Boiled.” In case you weren’t picking up on the cinematic influences. Lots of sweet environmental destruction going on, too. I guess that’s what I’m into these days. Show me a…

Is That A Tiger In Your Boat Or Are You Just Glad To See Me

I had mixed feelings when I heard that they were making a film adaptation of Yann Martel lovely little book Life of Pi. I remembered reading that book right when I first moved to San Francisco in 2003—there was a period of time when 50% of the people on the bus were either reading it…