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Ousted Community Showrunner Heads Off to Play More ‘F***ing Great’ Prototype 2
Yesterday night, the world of TV comedy got a bit of a drama injection when news broke that Community showrunner Dan Harmon had been fired by Sony pictures Television Harmon had had a prickly relationship with his network overlords since the first season of the show, and will be replaced with David Guarascio and Moses…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 19, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallHere’s How To Make The Professor Layton Soundtrack Much Better
The Professor Layton games have long demanded a soundtrack a bit more sophisticated than the one they have—the plinky, “ooh boy, we have a mystery!” music is fine at first, but eventually I’ve found that it begins to grate. This is especially true of the first game that I played in the series, 2008’s Professor…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 19, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallIt Takes A Lot Of Focus To Play Pong… WITH YOUR MIND
Psychic/possessed children are creepy. They do creeeepy things, like stare blankly at you and speak in a monotone and maybe set your hair on fire with their minds. But sometimes, they do something even creepier. They play video games… without using the controllers This scene, from the apparently terrible 1981 horror film Kiss Daddy Goodbye,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Weird Art of the Video Game Massacre
We’ve all done it. Anyone who’s played an open-world game, from Grand Theft Auto III to Fallout 3 to Red Dead Redemption, has gone on a murderous rampage. Those civilians. They’re all just… sitting there. You know what else is sitting there? Your dark, murderous id. Time to go to town. The number of video…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012 -
The Cop Who Can’t Be Stopped
What a long, wild week it’s been. Hello, Kotaku and welcome to your Friday night open thread. How are you? How was your week? Did you get some good video gaming in? I know I did, and I plan to do a bunch more this weekend. So many good games are out or about to…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012 -
Blizzard Is Giving You One Final Chance To Change Your Ironic My Little Pony BattleTag
It’s a tricky thing, choosing an online handle. You’ve gotta stick with it forever, so the dumb inside joke or ironically stupid insult you choose will be your name forevermore. As a general rule, Blizzard gives users a one-time-only chance to change their mind on their “BattleTag.” But, given that a good number of people…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012 -
The Missing Mario Link for Game of Thrones’ Littlest Lannister
Game of Thrones‘ Tyrion Lannister may be a small man, but he’s got a big heart, huge ambition, and is surprisingly good at killing people, all things considered. He’s also got something in common with Mario, if this goofy image floating around the internet is to be believed—one bite of a magic Mario mushroom and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012 -
A First Look at the Kingdoms of Amalur Studio’s New MMO
While they may be having their share of financial problems lately, Kingdoms of Amalur creators 38 Studios have still been working on at least one new game. That game is a massively multiplayer project dubbed Project Copernicus; just today, the governor of Rhode Island announced that the game will be released in June 2013. The…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012 -
ReviewsGame of Thrones: The Kotaku Review
I’ll confess: I really wanted to start this review with a choice quote from George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels. “Winter is coming” is played, I just did a riff on “You Know Nothing, Jon Snow” the other week… maybe a less common one, like, “Jon Snow flexed his sword hand”…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 18, 2012 -
What Gaming Moments Would You Want to Live Out In Real Life?
Hi there, Kotaku! Another crazy day has left me without a list of fun and random links for the open thread. So, taking the cue from another reader who’s written in, we’ll do another optional theme for tonight’s OT. Scott asks, “What memorable video game moments would you live out first-hand, if you could?” I…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
BioWare… Still Wants You To Tell Them What You Want in Dragon Age III
BioWare has been going back to the drawing board on Dragon Age III for a while now. Dragon Age II, as you may recall, received a mixed critical reception at best— I sure didn’t care for it though of course, not everyone hates the game including some thoughtful folks who work here Bioware wants you…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
Jesper Kyd’s Darksiders II Soundtrack Mixes Assassin’s Creed With Danny Elfman
You know what? I think that Jesper Kyd is a darned fine composer. He’s best known for his work on the Assassin’s Creed series, and his work has come to embody that series for me—that piercing, odd solo female voice, driving electronic beats, and wide-open string arrangements. He captures the series’ fixation upon flight and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
Mark Zuckerberg: The Musical
Most of us have seen The Social Network, and an equal number of us are probably tired of hearing about the Zuck, Mr. Z, Mark Zuckerberg. But there’s always room for three talented women singing about his life to re-lyric’d versions of famous show tunes! Enter Zuckerberg: The Musical!, a very fast-moving musical produced by…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
It’s a Beautiful Bluegrass Zelda Jamboree
The Zelda music has been performed so many times, and by so many instruments, but I do not believe I’ve ever heard it performed so beautifully on a piece of carpentry equipment. Here’s Michigander bluegrass duo Frontier Ruckus with a beautiful Zelda medley performed on banjo, melodica, and the common household saw. The two musicians…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
Diablo III Has The Best Installation Music I’ve Heard in Years
I’ve been giving Blizzard and Diablo III a lot of crap for the game’s disastrous launch, but I don’t mean to give the impression that I don’t like Diablo III as a game. In fact, I like it quite a bit! All of the little touches Blizzard has included are splendid and hugely enhance the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
This Chiptune Album Is Also a Graphic Novel
Video games and comics go together like, well, like video games and comics. I seem to see them coming together more and more—the latest fusion of the two media is “Adventures in Pixels,” a cute music/comic hybrid by musician Ben Landis. You can read the whole album here, clicking through the chiptune-y tracks along with…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
Behold, The Game of Thrones Theme Performed By Floppy Disk Drives
Sometimes people put things on the internet. Glorious things. Sometimes, we get to watch those things, and revel in the sheer depth and breadth of the cool things the world has to offer. Today is one of those days. Behold, what might be my favorite rendition of the Game of Thrones theme yet—the entire theme…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
Kotaku Melodic Begins Now, Daddy-O
[Bass starts walking] [Ride cymbal sneaks in] [An announcer walks up to the microphone] Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Club Kotaku. We’ve got some great music lined up for you tonight, so order a drink or two, light up a smoke and kick back. We’ll take it from here.
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012
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