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 has some great stuff, focusing largely on Mass Effect 2 and the Half-Life 2 mod/ghost story Dear Esther. Let’s get to it! First up, at top,…
NPR has posted an interesting article about the eye’s defense mechanisms, referring to how defensive enzymes open and close “almost like a Pac-Man mouth” as they chomp harmful bacteria.
Frosty, The Snow-Men | Employees from Halo studio 343 Industries took a snow day yesterday in Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood. This Week in the Business: ‘PlayStation 4 Must Look Beyond Games’ What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “PlayStation 4 must look beyond games.”-Chris Morris, veteran game journalist, on…
You’re on a first date. It’s going pretty well. You’ve had a good time talking, you’re both laughing a lot. You’re feeling the vibe. Ordinarily, video games probably wouldn’t enter into the equation here. But Fingle, an IGF-nominated iPad game from Game Oven, is the exception. Seen in the trailer above, Fingle is a flirty,…
I’ll go ahead and call this a glimmer of hope. When we first got a glimpse of the FPS reboot of the PC strategy classic Syndicate, I was dispirited. The original Syndicate was a isometric strategy game with a cold, still-iconic art style and a generally groovy vibe. The action sequences I saw in the…
The week is almost at an end, and so it’s time for a Thursday Kotaku evening open thread. How has your Thursday been? Have you Seattle-ites been keeping out of the snow? Have those of you in the rest of the country been keeping from being too holier-than-thou about how much snow you get each…
Okay, yes, inserting censorship *bleep*s over clean dialogue to suggest naughtiness is a cheap way to get a laugh. And yes, it’s something that Jimmy Kimmel has already done to death. And yet, this second “Unnecessary Censorship” video of Skyrim is actually funnier than the first one, which we posted a while back Some of…
Here come the cyborgs | A nostalgia-inducing screen from PC gaming classic Syndicate, which re-launched today on GoG.com It’s Official! Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield Co-Star in Resident Evil 6 As teased at NoHopeLeft.com and GameStop advertising materials, Resident Evil 6 is officially coming this November, bringing the series two most popular male leads together…
Yesterday, I had a chance to play a whole bunch of Kid Icarus: Uprising, the upcoming shoot-em-up for Nintendo’s 3DS handheld. My impressions are here In this trailer, you’ll get a sense of the fast-paced combat from the game, with protagonist Pit facing off against a Space-Kraken, Space-Pirates, and even the “dark” version of himself.…
When Nintendo announced Kid Icarus: Uprising at last year’s E3, I remember the enthusiastic response from the crowd. “Hooray!” they said. “A new Kid Icarus game!” And yet when we paused to think about it… “Hooray? A new Kid Icarus game?” That initial enthusiasm was actually a little puzzling. It was nice to see Nintendo…
Greetings, Kotaku musketeers, and welcome to your mid-week open thread. I realized that I’ve started several of these with Total Recall references, so I thought I’d go ahead and do yet one more. Also, I just took a vote on twitter tonight about Marzipan, and got an equal number of votes for “Marzipan: Heck yes!”…
Today, NPR’s Morning Edition dedicated a nice segment to the recent Music and Gaming Festival. They interviewed Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu, among others, closing out with this epic tune. Well played, NPR.
ScaryGirl, a platformer based on Nathan Jurevicius’s graphic novel, has been released on Xbox Live Arcade, with a PSN release scheduled for next week and a “coming soon” release date for PC. As you can see in the trailer and screens above, it’s looking mighty nice! I had been under the impression that this was…
In a statement made on his Facebook page, Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) announced that he is withdrawing his support for the Protect IP Act, which he co-sponsored, though he still supports “the original intent of [the] bill.”
Happy Tuesday, Kotaku-eers. Welcome to another late-night open thread. I’m your friendly MC, Benekirk Humblethatch. Have you had a good start to your week? Are you as excited as I am that Justified‘s third season begins tonight? You may be taking tomorrow off to boycott SOPA, but we’ll still be here at Kotaku, reporting SOPA…
Some good stuff in this week’s PlayStation store update. We’ve got full-game downloads for a number of solid titles, including Crysis 2, Rainbow Six: Vegas, and individual downloads for the HD versions of both Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. That latter one, in particular, is certainly worth $20, even if you played it on…
Double Fine’s latest game, the Kinect XBLA minigame collection Happy Action Theater, now has a launch date of February 1st. It will cost 800 Microsoft Points, or $10.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has issued a statement that due to Republican and Democratic “retreats,” hearings regarding the controversial Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) will resume in February. SOPA’s Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act, is scheduled for a vote on January 24th.
I recently opined that one of the things I didn’t like about Uncharted 3 was that it lacked a delightful love-triangle like the one in Uncharted 2. Turns out maybe there was one, and most of us just missed it. The jokers at “Touchbone Pictures” have put together this parody trailer for Uncharted: Drake’s Devotion,…
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