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Reviews
Review: The Astro A50 Wireless Gaming Headset
Finding a good gaming headset really shouldn’t be as hard as it is. And yet for the longest time, I couldn’t find a decent set of gaming headphones. Until Astro came along, that is. It seemed simple enough: I like playing video games with headphones. I was starting to play more games online, and liked…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 -
If Radiohead Had Performed The Limbo Soundtrack
I usually don’t like listening to outside music while I play games, and certainly not while I play atmospheric games like Limbo. And yet if I had to choose an alternate soundtrack for Playdead’s dark little game, I could think of worse albums than Radiohead’s Amnesiac The Gameological Society has combined the two, creating this…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 -
Battlefield 3 Gets The A-Team Treatment
I don’t know about you, but I think Battlefield 3 would be a lot more fun if it had some more Mr. T. No, not Mr. Totilo! Mr. T! Like the A-Team! YouTuber GDarleyy agrees, recreating the A-Team’s now-famous introduction in Battlefield 3 Man. Gotta love that theme song.
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 -
How To Kill Civilians In A War Game
Civilian casualties are rare in video games. Every real-life war results in a terrible loss of innocent life; collateral damage is a grim reality of battle. Yet most war video games play out across perfectly crafted arenas in which each “team” is clearly marked and civilians are nowhere to be found. Spec Ops: The Line…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 -
The Joy And Wonder Of A 3-Year-Old Playing Journey
ThatGameCompany’s Journey is a wonderful game, a beautiful experience with universal wonder. The first time I played it, I felt a often felt a sense of childlike wonder. Logan also feels childlike wonder as he plays the game. In fact, every time he feels wonder, it’s childlike wonder, because he is 3 years old. Everyone…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 -
Telltale’s Walking Dead Game Is Coming To Apple Devices This Thursday
Telltale’s masterful (so far) episodic Walking Dead game will be coming to Apple devices this Thursday, according to a post on the company’s blog The iOS version will be called Walking Dead: The Game, which should differentiate it from all the other Walking Dead stuff out there. The first episode of the planned 5-episode run…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 -
Barricade-Jumping Video Game Developer Runs The Olympic Torch Route With A Banana
Let it never be said that the folks who make LittleBigPlanet lack for chutzpah. Last week, the Olympic torch was set to go past the Media Molecule office in Guildford. Not one to let an opportunity like this pass by, Media Molecule’s Omar [last name redacted at Omar’s request] decided to jump the barrier and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 -
Athene, The ‘Best Gamer In The World,’ Is Taking Your Questions Right Now
Surely you’ve heard of Athene, right? He’s the best gamer in the world! He’s got all kinds of world records, in everything from World of Warcraft to online poker. He can beat Diablo III‘s first boss in less than a second. His online fans are legion, and with their help he’s farmed the most powerful…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 -
I Finally Beat Diablo III. What A Letdown.
This is the ending of the biggest PC game of the year? What a bummer. Congratulations! You’ve defeated Diablo III. Greater challenges and epic items await you in Nightmare Difficulty! I guess I saw it coming. The story up until this point had been an undercooked mess of arch codswallop. It almost couldn’t help but…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 24, 2012 -
Two Bros Hanging Out Being Hilarious On Twitter
Ask anyone: Twitter can be a vile, negative place that turns your friends into jerks. Saying the wrong thing on Twitter can get you kicked out of shows, or worse. But it’s not all negativity on Twitter. In fact, there are some delightful tweeters out there. And of all the delightful Twitter accounts I follow,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 23, 2012 -
A Moving Tribute To The Last Man Alive In Minecraft
What happened to the world? Where have all the Steves gone? And will this Steve ever find happiness again? Via the wide world of Reddit comes this majestic (no, really!) video from YouTuber Kiwix86. Good stuff. I would play this game.
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 23, 2012 -
The Dark Knight‘s Christopher Nolan: Writer. Filmmaker. Game Designer?
Director Christopher Nolan builds a lot of rules into his movies. From The Prestige to Memento to The Dark Knight, each film is an intricately created network of systems and balances, shapes and lines set in motion against one another. It can be exhilarating, but it can be exhausting. It’s certainly distinctive. The New Yorker‘s…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 23, 2012 -
An Innocent DayZ Bus Ride Turns Into A Fight For Survival
A lot of zombie fiction seeks to explore the dark underbelly of humanity—sure, there are flesh-eating undead shambling around, but we are the real monsters. DayZ, the popular Arma II mod, captures that human desperation and darkness in an often unsettling manner Here’s a great case in point. As tends to be the case in…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 23, 2012 -
Torchlight II Is Much Bigger Than Torchlight. How Much Bigger? This Much Bigger.
Torchlight II is going to be a heck of a lot bigger than Torchlight. Runic founder Travis Baldree has written a blog post on the game’s site detailing just how much bigger. By his reckoning, Torchlight II is about four times the size of its predecessor. Here’s the breakdown in helpful infographic form: Size Matters:…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 23, 2012 -
Watching These People Play The ‘Slenderman’ Game Is Almost Scarier Than Playing For Yourself
There’s something special about watching someone else play a horror game. Particularly one you’ve already played. It’s the mark of a truly scary game—once it catches on, there follows a growing number of videos of people playing, and being freaked out by, the game. It became popular with Amnesia: Dark Descent—I certainly lost a couple…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 23, 2012 -
Horror Is Not Mainstream
With each new year, it feels like I’m watching another horror series becomes less horrific. Resident Evil, Alien, and most recently, Dead Space. What started out as pure, hardcore horror becomes a fun, popcorn-munching good time. But hey, that’s okay. It’s the natural way of things. Horror isn’t mainstream. Much has been made recently about…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 21, 2012 -
My Name Is Aaron Sorkin, And You’re Fired
You may have heard that Aaron Sorkin, somewhat beleaguered creator of The Newsroom, has fired his entire writing staff, save himself and his ex-girlfriend. Away with you! All of you! You are the problem here, not me! Given that the show has up to now been more or less a caricature of Sorkin’s worst writing…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 20, 2012 -
Dumb-Looking TV Show Upstaged By Its Flashy Interactive Street Ad
I’m not saying that TNT’s new show Perception is necessarily going to be bad, but it’s got a ways to go before it’s as cool as its interactive dot-matrix advertisement. The ad, which is on the street in New York, was created by the tech firm Breakfast. In the above ad about the ad (yes,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 20, 2012 -
It’s A Battle For The S**ty Wok In These New South Park RPG Screens
We here at Kotaku are pretty darned excited about the upcoming South Park RPG South Park: The Stick of Justice THQ has sent out four new screenshots of the game, including what looks like a boss battle against Mr. Kim, the manager of the oh-so-humorously mispronounced City Wok. Good times.
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 20, 2012 -
This Impressive Fan-Made Dishonored Frankentrailer Was Assembled From Real Movie Bits
Dishonored has all the trappings of a major motion picture: intrigue, assassinations, redemption, cool masks… rats… you know, the usual. As it turns out, it’s possible to create a trailer for an imagined film adaptation from bits and bobs lifted from other films. This fake trailer, made by YouTuber bloodrunsclear, is darned impressive, mixing together…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 20, 2012
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