NBC News in Rhode Island is reporting that Curt Schilling’s Rhode Island-based game development house 38 Studios is meeting with Governor Lincoln Chafee to resolve “issues” with the state. This comes after the state of Rhode Island loaned 38 Studios $75 Million to relocate from Massachusetts. According to the NBC report, if 38 defaults on…
The free-to-play model has been taking hold in the west. More and more games are being designed around letting people play to their heart’s content, then monetizing the game in other ways once players are invested in the game. Writer/roustabout/troublemaker Michael Thomsen has written a scathing critique of free-to-play gaming titled “Will Work for Fun.”…
And here we have what looks like the box art for Halo 4, as assembled by NeoGAFer spawn031. An email from Microsoft went out with fragments of this image, titled “Your piece of the Halo 4 puzzle.” Each email came with a bit of this image, which spawn031 assembled and monsterfracas shared. Hey, now. That…
I love a good Game of Thrones joke as much as the next guy. But this one, made by Twitter user iScoff, really does take the cake. The Twitter-cake. The cake of tweets. He somehow manages take commonly mocked topics like Twitter’s character-limit and penchant for encouraging us to share our wretchedness (which our own…
Last week we were unable to get clear sales figures, but today Microsoft announced that Minecraft has sold more than 1 million copies in its first week on Xbox Live, in spite of its relatively steep $20 pricetag. That’s a lot of crafting.
What is there to say about Dreadline, really? It’s an in-development indie game from Eerie Canal Entertainment, which consists of folks who worked on Freedom Force and BioShock. It features time-travel and stars The Mummy, a cube named “Cube-rick” (ha),The Wolfman, and a ghost, all of whom are traveling through time, “visiting calamities to kill…
Has it been a while since you last played Full Throttle? I’m guessing it has. Sit back, relax, and watch the intro movie from the game. I remember the gravel-voiced intro, the long shots of the road… but more than anything I remember that song that kicks in when Ben ramps his bike over that…
Most everyone has some memory or another of 1943, the top-down airplane bullet-hell shooter to which we all lost a good deal of quarters. When I think of 1943, I think of things like “Difficulty” and “Insane Difficulty.” I do not, however, think of a flying baby. But in the Japanese ad campaign for the…
They say Red Dead Redemption is haunted, you know. They’ve said it for years now—ghosts exist in the system, devils and spooks and specters and maybe even a class-5 full-roaming vapor or two. I’ve never encountered any ghosts in the game myself, but I’ve heard and read enough accounts that I’m willing to believe something…
Hello, Kotaku. It’s week’s end, and so here we are, ready to go out, be social, see people… and clear the decks before the spring video game rush arrives next week. Are you planning on getting Diablo III? Max Payne 3? Holding out for Future Soldier or considering Game of Thrones? Or maybe you’re just…
We’re all looking forward to next Tuesday’s launch of Blizzard’s long-time-coming action RPG Diablo III. Every store has some sort of preorder going on, and megachain Wal-Mart is no different. The prices are about the same everywhere (though Wal-Mart does knock $0.03 off the $59.99 standard), so the key to get people to buy it…
If you pledged financial support during Double Fine’s now-legendarily successful Kickstarter campaign, you probably already saw this video. But if you didn’t, now you get to. 2Player Productions is making a documentary tracking the game’s progress, and those who supported the kickstarter. Now, volume 1 is available to the public—you can watch it below. In…
I sure hope not! Hi there Kotaku, and welcome to your Thursday night open thread. We’re almost there! We’re almost to the weekend! Can you smell it? Can you smell the weekend? It smells like… hamburgers. Mmmmmm. Here, from the internet, are some things to read and maybe talk about. If Pinterest had been invented…
Man. I do like a good Portal 2 remix. This one, however, is on another level. It was created by Will Bedford, and I’ve been listening to it all day. For real. Maybe it’s the happy pop chord progression. Or the kicky beat. Or the triumphant Cave Johnson breakdowns. Or the double-time section. Or I…
While many composers worked on the Mass Effect soundtracks over the years, Sam Hulick and Jack Wall are the names most commonly associated with the game. Wall composed that emotional menu music that was hidden in Mass Effect 3, while Hulick composed the music that plays while navigating the galaxy map. Both composers have gone…
And we’re back with another Melodic Mailbag! Where we answer musical questions from our friendly Kotaku Melodic readers. Let’s get right to it. Dan asks: I was listening to The Beatles and it got me thinking: Which game do you think honors its band inspiration more: Journey (the 1983 videogame, not the 2012 sand one)…
To celebrate their 20th anniversary, Epic games has released 20 rare musical tracks from their past games. I’d call the playlist “epic,” but I already used that that word once today
Metal-head and Kotaku-friend Gus Mastrapa’s excellent article about chiptunes and heavy metal has been republished over at Pitchfork today. Give it a read, for real.
Time passes in Animal Crossing. This is known. Now, thanks to comic artist Brian Lee, you can have the game’s music follow you throughout your day. If you head over to this page, the site will detect your local time and play you an Animal Crossing tune that matches up. This is. An amazing. Idea.…
Yeah, the word “Epic” gets thrown around a lot. Who knows if its meaning has just been diluted over the years or what. But I can’t come up with a better term for this! As you may know Superbrothers and Capy’s Sword & Sworcery EP had my favorite soundtrack of last year. That music, composed…
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