Less than 24 hours after its creation, the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter drive has broken the $1 million mark. That’s more than double their $400,000 goal, and well beyond Kickstarter’s 24-hour fundraising record.
Tim Schafer sure is having a hell of a day. After asking the world to help his studio Double Fine make a new old-school adventure game, he has destroyed Kickstarter’s records for having the fastest-earning page. As of this posting, they’re at $875,000. That will change in mere seconds. Our own Stephen Totilo chatted with…
Greetings, Kotaku readers, and welcome to our hump-day open-thread. Hey, we’ve reached the peak! It’s all downhill from here. Here are some things from around the internet for you to enjoy and possibly talk about. There’s a new trailer for The Bourne Legacy – Whoo? I dunno, this sort of looks like that movie Shooter…
If you want, you can buy your college term-papers. This has been true for as long as there have been academic institutions—some students just don’t want to deal with the agony and all-nighters required to pull together a massive paper. They’d rather be socializing than sitting in front of a computer, bleary-eyed, cranking out half-coherent…
Amir Hekmati, the U.S.-born game developer sentenced to death in Iran for allegedly engaging in espionage for the CIA, has asked the Obama administration to do whatever it takes, including a prisoner-transfer, to save him from execution. Hekmati worked for the New York-based video game studio Kuma Games, where among other projects he worked on…
This week, there’s a good amount of solid stuff new at the PlayStation store; it ain’t the horn of plenty that we’ve seen in the past, but it’s certainly better than the cursed wasteland that was last week’s PlayStation Store update. We’ve got Shank 2, which is new this week, as well as Gotham City…
A woman is in peril! Unbeknownst to her, a killer is leaning out from the shadows, murder weapon at the ready, and only one man can save the day. Just one problem—her potential savior is a ghost, invisible and intangible. Guess it’s time to get creative. That may sound like the plot to a Righteous…
Aagh! Or maybe yay! Because you think that’s romantic. Who knows? It takes all kinds. Welcome to the nightly open thread, where you can come to chat away about anything you desire. Here, from the internet at large, are some things that might be fun to talk about, or just to check out. Man almost…
Mega Romantic | Mega Man meets his match in this adorable fan-made Valentine’s Day card. (Image by by Katie Crimespree.) Forget Call of Duty and Battlefield. Real Military Training Needs a Different Kind of Game You’re playing a game like Battlefield 3 or Call of Duty, shooting and grenading left and right. And you’re thinking,…
Ubisoft Shanghai’s upcoming adventure/survival game I Am Alive sure does look cool. Back when I saw the game a few months ago, I was impressed, with its gritty realism, and how it recalled Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Just the other day, Stephen checked it out and was equally impressed. The video above walks you through…
In addition to the the upcoming iOS game Mass Effect: Infiltrator, BioWare also announced an app called “Datapad” that would allow you to “stay in touch with all of the info in Mass Effect 3,” check the status of the war in the galaxy map, and even get messages from game characters. Okay, this kind…
EA’s upcoming Tiger Woods PGA 13 will feature a sort of “Jordan Challenge Mode”, which will allow players to enter the shoes of its titular golf star and live out the major events of his career, starting at age 2. Above is a video from the event where the feature was announced. We’ll have more…
At a press event in New York today, EA announced that BioWare’s hit Mass Effect franchise will be coming to iOS as a new game called Mass Effect: Infiltrator, which will tie in with their upcoming game Mass Effect 3 The game was described as a “fully featured iOS third-person shooter” which will showcase “stunning…
Hello Kotaku friends, and welcome to a new week. Did you have a good Super Bowl Sunday? I did. I thought that the game was pretty good if you were a fan of either of the teams (I wasn’t), and the ads were pretty much totally sub-par. Other than the one above. Welcome to the…
However you define “Nerdcore,” I’d say that once a guy is dropping rhymes about the ins and outs of Mass Effect, he probably qualifies. But let’s not get caught up in labels—these tracks, which premiered over at Destructoid, are a goofy good time. They feature Memphis hip-hopper Adam WarRock sampling everything from Jay-Z to Guns…
A Draugr Awakens | Surely we weren’t the only ones to notice a resemblance between Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime getup and the armor worn by Skyrim‘s undead Nords. (Image via Reddit) Putting the Razer Blade Through Its Gaming Paces Razer’s sleek and stylish Blade gaming laptop is slowly making its way into the hands of…
It seems like the character archetypes in every successful TV ensemble show are a bit interchangable—there’s the Rachel, the Ross, the Joey and the Chandler. Or the Samantha, the Carrie, and the Miranda. Or, if you watch NBC’s Community, there’s the Troy, the Abed, the Pierce and the Britta. Apparently, the characters of video game…
I don’t know if you caught this over at io9, but Max Landis’ drunken, half-crazed retelling of the saga of “The Death and Return of Superman” was the funniest thing I saw last weekend. Landis, whose father is director John Landis, sits in a chair while drinking whiskey and retelling the saga of DC comics’…
Believe it or not, that bed is not actually a murder scene! It’s a thing that someone with super-amazing taste and instincts thinks you’ll want to buy. Hello there friendly Kotaku readers. It’s been a long, fun week. Have you had fun? I sure have. We announced our four new team members, and I for…
Since we ran a feature on Duncan Harris, the groovy “video game photographer” behind the website DeadEndThrills, I’ve been sharing some of his work each week here. This week Harris was really on fire—a whole grab-bag of games, with some spectacular shots from Zeno Clash, Fuel Total War: Shogun 2s. Let’s dig in. First up,…
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