Drinkbox’s Mutant Blobs Attack! has joined our list of the best games on the PlayStation Vita. To see why, check out our review
Epic Games will be demoing the Unreal Engine 4 at the Game Developers’ Conference next week. At DICE, Epic’s Tim Sweeney said that the engine would require a console much more powerful than the Xbox 360.
I still think fondly back on when I played the first Mass Effect. It had so much going for it, and I was so excited about the game—I remember tearing through the campaign, loving the story, and tolerating the somewhat janky combat and technical issues. I also remember the interface. It was something that I…
We’re back with a second episode of Retro Rumble, where guys compete to get high scores in olllld (really old!) video games. This time around, they’re playing Asteroids, which is a good deal more colorless than you may have thought. I know I’d have ‘roid rage if someone kept calling me “son” while I was…
Surely you all know about Tim Schafer’s incredible Double Fine kickstarter adventure, which has now raised $2.1 million. Using the money, Schafer and fellow Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert will be making a new old-school-style adventure game. In the (awesome) video above, Schafer takes on the role of interviewer, talking with Gilbert about their shared…
Welcome to Friday Night’s “recent” version of Total Recall, where we’ll be looking at games that are new enough not to be super old, but old enough not to be new.
“…I could never.” Greetings Team Kotaku, and welcome to the Friday night open thread. I hope you had a fun and exciting week, and are looking forward to a restful weekend. It’s almost spring! Can you smell the springness in the air? Here, from around the internet, are some things that you might want to…
This is a little bit niche, but if you’d like to have some truly cool, distinctive posters for your dorm room or apartment, you could do worse than Rachel E. Morris’ awesome series of prints created on commission for the NYU Game Center’s “Practice” lecture series. You can check out all of the various posters…
The tax on violent video games proposed by Oklahoma representative William Fourkiller has been rejected by the Oklahoma House Revenue and Tax Subcommittee. Fourkiller’s proposal had been modified to focus on creating a task force looking into video games’ relationship to obesity and aggression. It was voted down 5-6. In the minutes from the subcommittee…
Hello, Kotaku, and welcome to the Thursday evening open thread. Oh, I like Thursday evenings. I’m slaving away all day on Kotaku Melodic, and then I get to organize the open thread. Today, for some reason, I got started off on one of my favorite films of all time, Wet Hot American Summer. I hope…
It took me a long time to understand synthesizers. When I was a kid, I would often think of a synthesizer as being more or less the same thing as an electric piano—wasn’t a Rhodes or a Wurlitzer basically just a synthesizer? No, in fact—a synthesizer, like a Moog or a Yamaha CS-15, is much…
Welcome back to “Menu Music,” a regular Kotaku Melodic feature in which we’ll be listening to the best and worst menu music in video gaming. Last week, we listened to the mind-numbing music of the PlayStation Vita, so it seemed only fair that this week we should listen to the music of its competitor, the…
Last week, I had some fun sharing a bunch of jokey dubstep videos inspired by the new trailer for Far Cry 3. In doing so, I remembered how much I loved the music from Far Cry 2, and so I’m sharing some of it here. This music, composed by Marc Canham, stands apart from the…
You may have heard that it’s tough to make a living as a musician. You heard right! It’s a tough world out there, and very few people get paid a good living to make music. But while it may seem daunting from the outside, there is actually a greater demand for music than ever—there is…
Like anyone with a brain and ears, I seriously love Frank Zappa. Certainly one of the most brilliant, idiosyncratic composers of the 21st century, Zappa’s amazing orchestral compositions, unhinged harmonic freakouts, and hilarious lyrics have long been a musical inspiration. As great as many of his more well-known albums are, the first album that truly…
I’ve written in the past about how much I like Danny Baranowsky’s work, but tonight during Kotaku melodic, we’ll be running a more in-depth feature about him, so I thought it would be cool to share some of his non- Binding of Isaac work. You can download most all of this stuff at his Bandcamp…
I’ve been playing a bit of Escape Plan on the Vita; it’s a charming puzzle game that places you in a series of incredibly dangerous rooms and tasks you with helping the two hapless, goofy main characters survive. It’s got a neat, clean black & white art style, and a humorously mournful style. It’s also…
Welcome to Kotaku Melodic, your Thursday Night spot for music, games, and things pertaining to the two. Coat check at the door, two-drink minimum.
I still remember when I saw The Blob. Not the original film, the 1988 remake. I was probably around ten years old, and we were having a Christmas party. The big kids had gone off into a separate room to watch horror movies. I came in right as what I call “The Yo-Yo Scene” was…
Hello, Kotaku, and welcome to the mid-week evening open thread! Hope your wednesdays went splendidly. It was a beautiful day in San Francisco. Here, from all around the web, are things for you to check out and maybe talk about. TV sports announcer falls off a stool – It’s hard to be cool. This kid…
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