Are you done having the seizure induced by this video’s thumbnail? Cool. Sorry about that. Okay: I love the Tabla— the Indian hand-drums that involve a technique more complicated than anything I could hope to master (they have their own language, for god’s sake), but which sound utterly unlike any other kind of drum. Many…
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“Why call it Hybrid?” When I asked Hybrid producer Caleb Arseneaux that question, his response was vague. The game has a lot of hybrid qualities, he said. It’s a hybrid of familiar 3rd person shooter mechanics and new ideas, a hybrid of MMO-style map-conquest and instanced deathmatches… That ambiguity could indicate a lack of focus…
Doesn’t matter where you are, Westeros or America—Politics are dangerous business, full of sex and lies and betrayal. And sometimes murder! This hilarious image depicts the parallels between the cast of Game of Thrones and the cast of current American politics. I laughed hardest at the last one. “The truth of the matter is that…
Oh why hello there, Kotaku. You’ve survived Hump Day I see. That wasn’t supposed to happen… we don’t have a contingency plan for this. No one was supposed to survive hump day. Hmm, well. Guess we’ll have to improvise… Let’s start with an open thread. Go ahead and dive on in, talk about whatever you…
As we fumble our way through action and strategy games on our touch-screen devices, it’s easy to lose track of the simple, sublime joys of touch. We get so caught up in rules and mechanics, learning unit strategies in Amoebattle or finagling bullet-time in Max Payne Mobile that we forget that the joy to be…
Hello, Kotaku. It’s Tuesday, and that means it’s time for the Tuesday open thread. Let’s get to it. Here are some things from the internet! There is a reason that this is the most popular dog on instagram – It’s because cute. I don’t even know what to do with this – It’s the saga…
I’ve done it. You’ve done it. We’ve all done it. Just about every person who has ever played a video game has stayed up too late gaming and has nodded off, controller in hand. The princess is in another cazzzzzzzz You were almost a Jill sandwizzzzzzz War. War never zzzzzzzzzz All your base are belonzzzzzzzzz…
For today’s Burning Questions, Kirk and Jason tackle Fantasy lore. Why are some game worlds believable and interesting while others are boring and rote? What makes “dark fantasy” “dark”? When does that moment come in an RPG when you say, “Okay, I’m into this”? My, those are some… Burning Questions. Kirk: Today we’re going to…
Meet Crum. (Hi, Crum!) He wears a big badass skull on his head. (Hi, huge badass skull on Crum’s head!) He hunts things, and lives a life of contented happiness in the freezing mountains of Some Fantasy World of Another. Until… he makes the Gods mad. And some dumb stuff happens. Soon his wife is…
When I spoke with Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen about her latest project, I had to ask about it. The Puzzle. The great cat-mustache debacle. You know what I’m talking about, right? The Worst Adventure Game Puzzle Ever? Oh, boy. In Gabriel Knight 3, Gabriel needs to get a motorbike to continue the story. But…
A little while back, Jimmy “Big Giant Circles” Hinsen released an album of music that he’d written for Mass Effect 2 but that didn’t make the cut. Now, he’s put out a free remix album called Max Effect featuring music from Mass Effect 1, originally composed by Jack Wall, Sam Hulick, Richard Jacques and David…
At the end of March, Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner found the source code for the game years after he’d thought it was lost. But the data was saved on computer disks that were more than 20 years old—would they still be readable after all these years? Would it be safe to put them…
Hello Kotaku. Happy weekend! I hope you’re going to have a good one. I sure am. Let’s get right to the open thread today. Here, as always, are some things from around the internet: “Forest Service may blow up frozen cows in cabin” – You need nothing but this headline. This is the greatest headline.…
When a game gets as many things right as Trials Evolution, it’s all the more noticeable when it gets something wrong. And man, this game’s soundtrack is all wrong. It hits you in the face before the main menu has even loaded. This conflagration of spitty, grunted vocals, dry audio production and slightly distorted yet…
Watching Game of Thrones is fun, but you know what’s more fun? Watching Game of Thrones while totally smashed Thanks to artist Lucylle, we’ve got what might be the most comprehensive (and dangerous) Game of Thrones drinking game ever. She put this together just as the second season started, and now that I’ve seen a…
Adventure games have changed a lot over the past twenty years. And now, thanks largely to Tim Schafer’s super-successful 3.4-million-dollar Kickstarter, we’re about to get a whole lot more of them. Schafer isn’t the only adventure game luminary getting into the Kickstarter business. Jane Jensen, the creator of the beloved 1990’s occult adventure series Gabriel…
Hello, Kotaku! It’s almost the weekend, and that is just groovy by me. I hope you’ve had a good thursday, and are ready to get your open thread on. It’s gonna be hot! So hot! Here are some things for you to read and maybe gab about. “The State Home for Manic PIxie Dream Girls”…
This past Monday, I got hipped to this video by FreddieGredde, YouTube tribute-artist extraordinaire. I’ve seen a lot of videos that I kind of describe as “Guy With Instruments Playing Video Game Music” (GWIPVGM) videos—they can be great, or they can be dull. They can be as charming as Pomplamoose, or as annoying as… well,…
“I’d like to make a request.” (A woman has approached the bandstand. She’s smiling.) “Do you guys know ‘The Girl from Ipanema? I love Bossa Nova.” You and the rest of the band are midway through your second set at this wedding; this is your first request. The ceremony is over, and everyone has moved…
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