As part of a (kinda random!) cross-promotional stunt, 5th Cell’s upcoming Hybrid will allow for unlockable helmets that let you dress your character up as a Minecraft creeper, among other things. Players who choose the “Variant” side of Hybrid‘s ongoing world war will have access to the Creeper, while Palladin players will get Steve, the…
Ha ha, Skorpion Scorpion. Very funny. This joke brought to you by Game Developer Editor-in-Chief Brandon Sheffield, who apparently has nothing better to do with his time than share exceptionally good video game-themed Your Mamma jokes made by musician/troublemaker Andrew Toups (I kid. Hi, Brandon.) I don’t know about you, but now I want to…
Game of Thrones has always opened itself up to some creative cosplay, but this one really takes the cake. Not only does it capture two characters from the books, it immortalizes one of the most iconic moments from the second book/season. Warning- It’s a season/book 2 spoiler! The photo of this unnamed cosplayer was snapped…
We spend a lot of time with our video game devices, so it’s easy to start to think of them as family members. Sometimes they are friends, sometimes they fight. Sometimes they’re happy, sometimes they’re sad. Sometimes they talk to us. It’s not weird! It’s normal! NORMAL I SAY. This terrific illustration by DeviantARTist Ry-Spirit…
I grew up with Encyclopedia Brown. He was my kind of hero, a kid who beat the bad guys not with brawn or physical skill, but with his mind. When I was around ten years old (I’m approximating), I used to devour every story of Leroy “Encyclopedia” Brown, his partner Sally, his nemesis Bugs Meany…
Because the world always needs more Sexy Mario, the big man in the overalls is back, this time with some super hawt Tennis shots. I’m not sure this quite outdoes the “mouthing of the tiny question mark cube,” but the one with the balls and racquet is… erm, appealing. I guess. Sexy Mario [Facebook, thanks…
I’ve sometimes wondered what video game characters would smell like—I’m not the only one, as regular Kotaku roustabout Tim Rogers explored the question in depth with hideous results Over at Polygon, Brian Crecente has written a fun story about the act of converting video game characters themselves into smells. Sound weird? It is. Crecente spoke…
The Steam summer sale is underway, and all of our wallets are at risk. Oh hey look, it’s The Legend of Grimrock for six bucks! Oh wow, Civilization V for cheaper than ever! Don’t mind if I do! Never mind the fact that I still have a few games from the last big Steam sale…
Florida singer/songwriter Shauna Sweeney has a boyfriend, and he sounds like a pretty great guy. He’s into video games, comics, and he’s pretty good at defragging a hard drive. And so, she wrote this adorable (and catchy!) song called “My Nerdy Boyfriend.” A lot of this kind of stuff—”cute girl sings a song about nerds”—can…
It’s midnight in Paris, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance. A fearsome dictator has come back from the grave, secret treasures of untold power have been unearthed, a girl is in trouble. Nothing left to do… but dance, dance, dance! That’s about the sum of Rhythm Thief and the Emperor’s Treasure,…
It was a good war. A just war. It was, maybe, the last great war. I’m not talking about World War II. I’m talking about the great console war of the 1990’s. I had a great time goading Lisa Foiles into reviving the 90’s console wars with me a few weeks back—despite the best efforts…
Happy Friday the 13th! Jason is over right now, he says to tell you guys, “Hi.” I get that survival horror is about being afraid, running away from an unstoppable evil. But Jason is almost too damned goofy to really work as a big-bad in a survival horror game. Maybe that’s why there hasn’t been…
2011 was a hell of a year for big game releases. I remember at some point in the fall thinking, “Dude, we are approaching 2007 territory here.” 2007 was a hell of a year for big game releases. Modern Warfare. Mass Effect. Bioshock. Portal. That year set the stage for the franchises that would dominate…
I’m all out of faith. This is how I feel. I’m cold and I’m alone, bound and broken on the floor. Oh, AMC’s The Walking Dead. I gave you so much of my time and energy. I believed in you. And yet you frustrated me to no end with leaden performances, boring writing, and slooooowwww…
If you’re a little magical fairy and you’ve got to navigate the sweaty crowds of comic-con, you’re going to have to be assertive. And there’s really only one way to do that: “Hey, listen!” “Hey! Listen!” “Watchout!” “Hey…. listen!” “Watchout!” “Hey! You! Yeah, with the backpack! GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY!” Fahey caught…
It’s the height of summer, which means that you’re hopefully going to be spending some time out on the town. And when you do, you’ll surely be taking your mobile device out with you, playing some portable video games. It means that animals will be romping about in the sunshine—bears, bees, birds, and maybe some…
Ubisoft has shared two new videos of direct gameplay from ZombiU, their Wii U-only survival horror game. The footage comes from the same part of the game that so impressed me when I played it at E3 The meatier part, above, shows the nursery level, where take it from me—stuff goes wrong—it’s a lot of…
Actress Ellen Page is surely one of the biggest draws for video game auteur David Cage’s Heavy Rain follow-up, Beyond: Two Souls. This video from IGN shows Page assuming the role of Jodie, the spiritually superpowered protagonist of Beyond: Two Souls, as well as a couple of her co-stars, who Eurogamer says are TV stars…
Check out the announcement trailer for F1 Race Stars, a kart-style racer from Codemasters, who are typically known for more grounded, realistic fare. My, that is a heck of an incline there, at the end. The game will be out in November.
Well, then. I should say they aren’t “making” the movie yet—they’re Kickstarting it. But after a couple days on Kickstarter, the project is more than halfway funded… and I have just a sneaking suspicion that it’ll hit its goal. The video on the Kickstarter page tells the whole story of the film Anomalisa, throwing back…
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