Today, the folks at CD Projekt RED have ceased their ongoing practice of tracking down people they believe have pirated The Witcher 2 and threatening them with legal action. This aggressive approach came under fire from fans and the media, specifically from Rock Paper Shotgun, whose John Walker published an open exchange with CD Projekt…
I always thought of Schwarzenegger’s 1990 film Kindergarten Cop as a feel-good family movie. Little did I know that the film was also a horror prequel, set in the same terrifying school as a section of the seminal 1999 horror video game Silent Hill It’s easy to look at the first of these images (in…
Music isn’t a visual art-form, and many amazing musicians, from Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles to Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Roul Midón have created incredible sounds despite (or possibly even enhanced by) their inability to see. But music video games are still largely visual—in Rock Band and Guitar Hero, players must follow the colored squares…
I have a lot of fun ripping on Dragon Age II. BioWare’s 2011 follow-up to their epic and beloved Dragon Age: Origins disappointed and frustrated me in many, many ways. But plenty of people liked it just fine. In fact, some people bloody love this game, to the point that every time I poke fun…
When you play Grand Theft Auto games, do you ever feel a bit like The Terminator? Walking forward in an ungainly way, absorbing more bullets than a human ought to be able to absorb, shooting cops in the knee with reckless abandon? YouTube user taltigolt has uploaded this video of the “Terminator T1” mod for…
To channel the late great Chris Farley: Do you remember the part in Apollo 13 (the movie and the real-life NASA crisis), where they used the Moon’s gravity to slingshot their crippled space shuttle around and back to Earth? That was awesome. That is also essentially the setup for Falanxia’s Spaced Away, an iPad 2…
Plenty of updates as usual to the PlayStation online store, with full downloadable games Choplifter HD, Crazy Machines Elements, Toy Story 3: The Video Game (There’s a Toy Story 3 video game? Hmm.), as well as the earlier-than-expected demo for Capcom’s Asura’s Wrath That’s all well and good, but none of those games can hold…
Sometimes, it’s the little acts of heroism that make the biggest impression. Blogger Kristen Wolfe has written a humbly triumphant tribute to one such everyday hero, a young man who stood up for his little brother’s right to enjoy “girly” video games. Wolfe, who works as a shift manager at a Gamestop, witnessed a strapping…
Today, we got six new screenshots from Cyanide Studio’s forthcoming Game of Thrones RPG, which appears to not actually be called “A” Game of Thrones. Which will make a lot of nerds a little grumpy. Including me! Just kidding, I’m still hoping the game will be good, in part because I was heartened by my…
Filmmaker Andrew McMurry has posted this updated version of his last “Real Life Super Mario Bros“. In the last version, Mario, played by McMurry’s brother, finds himself up against a group of famous Mario enemies, eventually getting a “power-up” handgun and blowing away a bunch of poor defenseless Goombas. That was a funny joke! This…
Next week, Saints Row: The Third players will get the weirdest DLC for the game yet (and that’s counting the gun that launches shark-attacks) with Genki Bowl VII The trailer above gives the gist, as crazy-killer-feline-human-thing Professor Genki takes his Running Man-style competitive/deadly reality show out into the real world. Among the various challenges: Sail…
Our friends over at Unwinnable have posted the unforgettable story of “The Rapture of Ken Levine.” What does the Bioshock creator enjoy even more than talking about his latest game? Delicious frozen yogurt, as it turns out. They’ve got the pics to prove it.
The company OnLive has revealed a new iPad app that allows iPad owners to stream a full Windows 7 PC straight onto their tablet. Using similar technology that allowed them to make the iPad gaming app that allowed gamers to play full AAA console games on their iPads, Onlive has now given tablet owners access…
Minority Report slowly comes into focus… | Attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas go hands-on with a prototype 3M 46-inch touch-screen. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Kotaku‘s Guide to Gaming in the Year 2012 Another year, another twelve months filled with new game releases, extravagant gaming events, and big hardware releases. How…
Rockstar Games has posted the first in a series of posts about the creation of their upcoming action game Max Payne 3. In this one, they talk about visiting the city of São Paulo, Brazil, the setting for the game. Both Max Payne and Max Payne 2 had been set in New York. It’s a…
Last month, EA’s “EAsy” division, which runs the free-to-play Battlefield Play 4 Free, elected to lower the damage of paid-for in-game weapon add-ons in the interest of balancing the game. Users were justifiably angry that the in-game items they had bought had been taken away, particularly as they were offered no refund. EAsy explained their…
Kotaku columnist Leigh Alexander has put together a funny collection of “Stuff Gamers Say” over at the mumbling/entertaining/frustrating online magazine Thought Catalog. Top points for “Time to Crate” reference.
Since running a big, enjoyable feature on Duncan Harris, the “video game photographer” behind the website DeadEndThrills. Harris takes some of the most evocative, compelling video game screenshots I’ve ever seen, and so I thought it would be fun to share some of his work each week here. Awesomely, he has also released a new…
Over at Kill Screen, they’ve done their yearly “High Scores” poll in which each of their contributors send in a ballot of games, assigning points to any game from 2011. The results of the vote are in, and Portal 2 is the clear winner. Bastion, Dark Souls, El Shaddai, The Binding of Isaac, and Jetpack…
Man, what the heck is this guy on about? He is clearly just trolling for pageviews. I mean come on Kotaku, no one should be nervous about Mass Effect 3. There are so many reasons to believe that the game will, in fact, be the best Mass Effect yet. Hmm actually, let’s slow down for…
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