Hi there, Kotaku. The week is over, and so we come to the Friday night open thread. I hope you had a good week! If you’re at PAX East, I trust you’re having a blast. Here, gathered from the internet, are some things you might want to read before you get to gabbing. “What books…
It’s been a while since man/myth/legend/Doom co-creator John Romero put out a shooter. Almost ten years, in fact. Speaking with Eurogamer, Romero revealed some details on a new shooter he’ll be working on soon. Romero says he’s “already kind of designed the thing,” though the game isn’t in production yet. He described the game as…
You might be looking at that image and thinking, “Why the heck doesn’t Nathan Drake have a head? What is he thinking, going up against a helicopter with no head?” And that would be a fair question to ask! In fact, this is an image from today’s Naughty Dog panel at PAX East, in which…
Back in March, I found a new reason to get excited about the Xbox 360 version of Mincraft. Namely, split-screen local multiplayer for up to four players. I think it’ll be really fun to have friends over and play Minecraft together. Today at PAX East, Stephen Totilo got another look at the game and shot…
BioWare is planning to flesh out the existing ending of Mass Effect 3, but that doesn’t mean fans haven’t already done some fleshing-out of their own. (Spoilers!) The much-discussed “Indoctrination Theory” floats the notion that Shepard in fact didn’t make it to the final decision at all, and that much of the controversial ending took…
Our own Kate Cox is at PAX East, liveblogging BioWare’s Mass Effect Panel. What will happen? What will be revealed? How will it all end? Only one way to find out. To the liveblogmobile!
Most of Boston’s PAX convention happens over a weekend, making it easier for working stiffs to attend. But it starts on a Friday, which can be a bit tricky for anyone with a day job. Most years, it’s probably easy enough to just call in sick and hope your boss doesn’t follow gaming that closely.…
How many movie-based video games come out each year? Ask most people who play games and you’ll get the same response: Too many. Because most movie-based video games suck, get it? That’s true and all, but the intersection of Hollywood and… whatever the video game version of Hollywood is is interesting. How many film-based games…
Today at PAX East, Stephen Totilo ran into a familiar face—Rana McAnear, the actress who provides the official model for Mass Effect‘s Asari Justicar Samara and her unhinged sex-killer daughter Morinth. He took a moment to shoot this quick video of her in her awesome Samara outfit. There’s cosplay, and then there’s the actual person…
Why hello there Kotaku. This is your Thursday night open-thread. Are you ready to do some serious chatting? Hope so! Here are some things gathered from around the internet for you to check out and enjoy. Ugh, I’m being too affected by a dumb Nike commercial – Curse you Don Draper! A new interview with…
I’ve been working my way through the many, many, many games created during last weeend’s 2-day Peter Molydeux Game Jam. Now that there are videos, it’s much easier to share the ones that stand out, so yesterday I gave it a stab A list of five games feels woefully incomplete when placed against the insane…
The World Ends With You was a game about shopping, so it makes sense that included a sales-pitch with its in-game music. Also, about being a teenager. And… playing Tin Pin games? And ghosts. And general confusion. It was a game about a lot of things, wasn’t it? Part Battle Royale, part Shibuya shopping-simulator… all…
I think I’ve been spending too much time on the internet. I laughed for pretty much this entire video, even though I’m fairly certain it’s the most objectively bad music I’ve heard in a long time. It’s to the point that I don’t really know what to make of it anymore, so I’m putting it…
Holy heck, I loved Machinarium. I loved it for its art, and for its difficult puzzles and inventive hint system. And I loved it for Tomas Dvorak’s spacious, hugely evocative musical score. The track above is the first tune to play in the game, and it’s very much the moment when the game “reveals itself”…
I think it goes without saying that I love music in video games. But not all games require a soundtrack, and in fact, some games are better off without one. Music can be a distraction, an unnecessary layer of sound that pulls attention away from a game rather than enhancing it. Sometimes, there’s nothing to…
If there’s one sone more popular in the Game of Thrones universe than “Rains of Castamere,” it’s the rowdy, boisterous “The Bear and the Maiden Fair.” In bars, at weddings, in taverns and on the road, this song gets sung gets sung about as often as someone gets stabbed in the neck. So it was…
Every so often I’ll be going back through classic video game music and a game will sound completely different than I remembered. SimCity 2000 is one of those games. Listen to the music in this clip—it’s… really weird! The melodies are kind of haunting, odd dissonant notes up against lonely, floating basslines… looping over and…
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Color me excited—FarSight’s painstakingly crafted pinball game The Pinball Arcade will be coming to PS3 and Vita next week on April 10th.
The coolest feature of the upcoming 3DS game Mario Tennis Open is the ability to play the original Super Mario Bros.… by hitting a tennis ball against a wall. That may sound strange, but it feels very natural once you see it in action. It’s easily the most interesting part of the game, which for…
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