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Dyad, Rhythm Thief and Theatrhythm: Three New Music Games For Three Different Audiences
Just over the halfway mark, 2012 has already provided an embarrassment of riches for music game fans. We’ve had music games of every shape and color, with many more on the horizon. If you like gaming and you can keep a beat, chances are there’s a game out there that you’ll enjoy. Over the past…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 12, 2012 -
Watch The New Trailer For The Ass-Kicking Halo 4 Live-Action Series
Here now, the first trailer for Halo 4: Forward Into Dawn, an upcoming, very ambitious live-action series based on the Halo universe. Drama! Romance! Master Chief! Oh, yeah. Maybe a bit cheesy looking, but hey, I’ll watch it.
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 12, 2012 -
This Free Game Lets You And A Friend Fall In Love To The Sounds of Cut Copy
Music games sure do get abstract sometimes, and Sun God by Bennett Foddy (the madman behind QWOP and GIRP) is one of the more abstract ones I’ve played in a while. The free flash-based game lets one or two players team up to fly in tandem through a color-drenched landscape capturing sparks while music by…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 12, 2012 -
FutureSports and Video Games Collide in Justice’s Mind-Blowing New Music Video
Holy crap. French electronica duo Justice has never been shy about making wicked-cool music videos. That said, this new one for their song ‘New Lands’ is on a whole other level. This video is the business, plain and simple. “New Lands” comes from Justice’s 2001 album Audio, Video, Disco., and the video is a collaboration…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 12, 2012 -
Kotaku Melodic Takes The Bandstand
Greetings listeners; it’s 8:00 on Thursday night, do you know where your music is? That’s correct, it’s right here on Kotaku Melodic, where for the next hour we’ll be listening to all kinds of great tunes. Turn up your speakers, plug in some headphones, and enjoy.
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 12, 2012 -
In A World Full Of Guns, The Dude With A Knife Is King
Knives are dangerous, there’s no doubt about it. If a person with a knife gets close enough to you, he can really mess your stuff up. And yet in the world of video games, knives have become a bit too deadly. They’re far more deadly than guns—in everything from Call of Duty to the recently…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 12, 2012 -
The Time Mario Was Knocked Out, Thrown In A Sack And Eaten
I bet you always thought that when Mario died in a Mario game, he simply magically jumped towards the screen. Little did you know that there were many grizzlier fates that could have befallen him. This excerpt from the choose-your-own-adventure book Mario Brothers in: Double Trouble: Nintendo Adventure Book #1 posted to the Tumblr You…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 12, 2012 -
The Calvinball Theory of Building a Mythological World
Hi Kotaku, and welcome to the evening Off Topic post. You know Calvinball, right? It’s the game that Calvin and his tiger Hobbes would play in Bill Waterson’s genius comic Calvin and Hobbes. The whole point of Calvinball was that there are no rules other than the ones that have been made up in the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 11, 2012 -
Cyborg And Nightwing Join The Cast Of Injustice
The latest two additions to NeatherRealm’s upcoming Justice League fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us will be Cyborg and Nightwing. Kotaku‘s Evan Narcisse is on the show floor at San Diego Comic-Con, where he chatted with NeatherRealm’s Ed Boon. Evan will have more more info on Injustice soon.
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 11, 2012 -
Watch The Mental Meltdown Of A Leaderboard-Beating Dyad Run
Dyad is the kind of game that’s tough to talk about—you kinda have to play it to get it. That said, watching a level play out gives a decent sense of the whole disorienting, often exhilarating experience. Here, Chris Person blasts through one of the early levels and puts on a pretty impressive show, earning…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 11, 2012 -
More Superheroes Need Arkham City‘s Superpowered Fist-Fighting
Today, we’ve seen a rumor flying around that Rocksteady’s next Batman game will be a Silver Age-era game about the first time Batman met Joker. Variety notes that this period is when Batman formed the Justice League of America along with Superman and a bunch of other famous DC superheroes. Which of course, raises the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 11, 2012 -
The Kama Sutra PlayStation Game Pitch Sony Turned Down
Game publishers get all manner of weird game pitches. Sometimes, one man’s weird pitch is another man’s potential goldmine… especially when sexual positions are involved. In an interview over at Eurogamer, Sony producer Pete Smith talked about a pitch the company once got for a game for the PlayStation 2’s EyeToy camera based on the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 11, 2012 -
On the Ground at Comic-Con
The biggest party in comics is about to begin. San Diego Comic-Con officially starts tomorrow. Our own Mike Fahey and Evan Narcisse are in sunny SoCal right now, and as you see, Fahey is already all registered. Kotaku will be bringing you all kinds of SDCC coverage for the rest of the week and weekend.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 11, 2012 -
Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video Games’ Finally Turns Up In A Video Game Trailer
It was only a matter of time, I guess, before Lana Del Rey’s 2011 breakout hit “Video Games” wound up being used in a video game trailer. And so it has come to pass—this trailer for Hitman: Absolution turned up on Eurpoean airwaves last week, and it features Del Rey’s song. Also, an out-of-focus naked…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 11, 2012 -
Diablo III‘s Deliciously Disgusting Sounds Were Made With Delicious Food
Believe it or not, my favorite aspect of Diablo III is not the Real Money Auction house. Nope! Nor is it the always-on internet requirement. I know! No, my favorite aspect of Diablo III is the amazing, disgusting, visceral sound design. When my monk plows through a gaggle of succubi, the sound is what makes…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 11, 2012 -
Dyad Sneaks a Boastful Joke Into The Most Unlikely Place
You may have noticed that members of the press are playing the trippy, soaring game Dyad, which comes out next week. I downloaded it last night, and after I added it to my basket in the PlayStation store, I noticed a funny thing about the game’s file size. (See above.) Oh, so the file is…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 11, 2012 -
Touch A Single Firefly To Set Off a Soothing, Addictive Chain-Reaction
If you grew up in certain parts of the country, you’ve no doubt got some fond memories regarding fireflies. A cool summer’s dusk, the stars just starting to be visible, the chirping of insects—and flashing lazily about, the lights of fireflies. Fireflies! the game has an exclamation mark in its title. That enthusiastic punctuation should…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 11, 2012 -
Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me His Dark Materials Was Amazing?
Well, I mean, okay, other than the billion people who have told me His Dark Materials is amazing. This is mostly on me—I’d heard that Philip Pullman’s fantasy trilogy was good, and had been meaning to read it for a long time. Plus, pretty much the entire world has already gone and said that these…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 5, 2012 -
A Listener’s Guide to the Music of Kids on the Slope
And so with one last musical interlude, Shinichirō Watanabe’s marvelous anime Kids on the Slope concluded its 12-episode run. Kids was something truly special—a nostalgic, dream-like tribute to friendship, love, and the mysterious power of music. And oh, what music! I’ve already written at length about my unabashed love of this series. If anything, my…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 5, 2012
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