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Forget Draw Something, Check Out the Madness of Drawception
Do you like Draw Something, but feel like it could be crazier? Drawception might be more to your taste. It combines the fun Pictionary-style guessing of Draw Something with the weird-to-weirder design of a game of “Telephone.” Here are the rules, as shared on the Drawception site: How it Works Like the games “eat poop…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 27, 2012 -
Finally, A Game That Lets Me Have Unique Relationships With More Than 15 Realistic Horses
I wouldn’t say I’m a “Horse-Game Connoisseur,” but I do think horses are pretty neat. So I got a kick out of the press release I received from Ubisoft today about their upcoming 3DS game, Horses 3D According to the press release, Horses 3D will be the “first authentic horse game for the Nintendo 3DS…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 27, 2012 -
The Fake Threat of Fake Geek Girls
Imagine: You meet a girl, and you get to talking. You talk about your jobs, your neighborhoods; you talk about your interests. As it turns out, the two of you are into a lot of the same things. This is cool! Wow, she likes the same obscure slasher flicks and retro video games that you…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 27, 2012 -
Closure, Fifa 2012 New This Week on the PlayStation Store
Sony’s “Spring Fever” promotion comes to an end this week with the IGF award-winning (and very cool looking) Closure releasing as a downloadable game, as as Fifa 2012 coming as a full downloadable game for the PS3. Also of note, the AR Monument Viewer for Resistance: Burning Skies has come to the Vita as a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 27, 2012 -
Jumping the Mega Shark
Greetings, Kotaku readers, and welcome to Monday’s open thread. We’ve got some fun stuff for you, gathered from around the internet. Enjoy: The ultimate Lego duel – Wow. The things people get up to with toys these days. “The Film Noir Roots of Cowboy Bebop” – An excellent piece by L.B. Jeffries, as always. Facebook…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 26, 2012 -
Robot Helicopters Can’t Deliver Your Tacos, Says Bummer Scientist
Last week, I saw something that sounded amazing. Like a dream come true. A dream called… TacoCopter “Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To Your Location,” said the website. It seemed to be too good to be true. It was almost certainly a hoax or prank. But it was also too irresistible not to get at least…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 26, 2012 -
5 Ways a Hunger Games Video Game Could Work, Killer Kids and All
Sooner or later, we’re going to get a video game based on The Hunger Games. No film can be as popular as this one, raking in just under $155 Million opening weekend, and not bring a huge amount of tie-in products in its wake, video games included. As KPCC’s Matthew DeBord notes, there are a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 26, 2012 -
Zelda Games Are Taking Longer and Longer to Get to the Point
I found Tevis Thomson’s lengthy critique chronicling the decline and fall of the Legend of Zelda franchise to be very convincing. That doesn’t quite diminish my enjoyment of more recent Zelda games, but then, I’m no Zelda super-fan. But it was hard to argue with his points about how the series has changed and in…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 26, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Fantastic Mass Effect 2 Music That Didn’t Make The Cut
We know that some really cool music from the first Mass Effect is hidden in the background of Mass Effect 3. As it turns out, there’s also some great unused music from Mass Effect 2 that’s hidden… in the background of the internet! Okay, that was an awkward transition. At any rate, the video above…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 24, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallHeavy Rain‘s Finale Was Never So Hilarious
This isn’t the newest video in the world, but hey! This is Total Recall! We play older stuff here. (Note to those who haven’t played Heavy Rain: This video spoils the living crap out of the game and the ending.) I have no idea how this thing came into existence, but it popped onto my…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 23, 2012 -
CultureTotal Recall
From Bully to Persona, I Love a Game With a Schedule
I’ve been thinking a lot about why it is that I love both 2008’s Bully and 2010’s Persona 3 Portable, which I’ve recently started playing on my Vita. Both games are set in high schools, and while I’m on the record as wanting more High School games, that’s only part of the reason I like…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 23, 2012 -
“Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To Your Location”
Do you really need to hear anything more than that? I certainly don’t. Greetings, Kotaku, and welcome to the Friday evening open thread. Many things from around the internet, including whatever amazing scheme that headline refers to, await you below. A mixtape of “Jazz for Metalheads” – This is awesome. Get ready for the greatest…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 23, 2012 -
Holy Crap, Super Time Force Looks Cool
Super Time Force, the IGF XBLA-Prize-winning game from Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP creators Capybara Games, is looking danged cool. These new screenshots give a sense of the game’s crazy action on screen, done up in the a signature old-school-yet-lush visual style. It’s fun to look through each one and try to parse what’s actually…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 23, 2012 -
ReviewsKid Icarus: Uprising: The Kotaku Review
How much to we value weirdness? How much weight do we place on eccentricity? There are so many video games that are essentially retreads of the same old tired space; it can feel so nice to see a game that, even while following the same basic formulas as its brethren, does so with enthusiastic weirdness.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 23, 2012 -
Somewhere There Is a Crime Happening
Hello, Kotaku! Welcome to your Thursday evening open thread. Have you had a good week? I’ve been quite sick, but I’m better now. Here, as always, are some things from around the internet for you to enjoy and maybe talk about. Celebrities read tweets about themselves – Ha. A Cool NPR story on fostering creativity…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 22, 2012 -
Mario Meets Morrissey, At Long Last
Look, I know that 8-bit covers of pop tunes are not a new thing. But all the same, I liked this cover of The Smiths’ “This Charming Man” done by Soundclouder Lazyitis. I don’t know why I liked it! I’m not even a huge Smiths fan. The melody tone is fairly irritating. It just… worked…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 22, 2012 -
Frat Rock Never Sounded So Ethereally Beautiful
I love Boston’s “More Than a Feeling,” mainly because it is such a solid Rock Band jam. It’s a fun song, full of crazy-high male vocals, epic guitarmonies, and a big singalong chorus. (And yeah, okay, it’s not entirely fair to call this anthemic tune “Frat Rock.”) At any rate, I’ve never heard it like…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 22, 2012 -
The Rise of the New Music Games
Since well before Kotaku Melodic, I’ve been writing about and keeping an eye on musical video games. Whenever I talk about “music games,” people tend to think of the same kinds of things—plastic musical instrument peripherals and dance pads, Rock Band, Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution. But actually, most of the music games I’ve…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 22, 2012 -
Spacehog: The Glam-Grunge Band That Should’ve Been Huge (And Still Might Be!)
“This band is pretty much David Bowie meets Queen. The lead singer has a massive voice, the songs are dramatic anthems about sex, drugs, and outer space. It’s all mixed in with killer guitar riffs and insanely catchy chorus hooks.” Sounds like an amazing band, right? The kind of band that should be famous, with…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 22, 2012
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