We’ve seen so many things remade in Minecraft over the past year or so, but this one is still worth sharing. YouTube user RedAshMason had gone ahead and made Zora’s River, The Forest Temple, and even a fair bit of Hyrule Field as originally seen in the famous Legend of Zelda game Ocarina of Time…
The Bard’s Tale, the highly enjoyable action role-playing game that launches today at the App Store, has a long, storied history—far longer and storied-er than your average iOS game. The first Bard’s Tale was a well-loved 1985 computer role-playing game, whose protagonist was, appropriately enough, a singing Bard. That alone set it apart from most…
Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky’s upcoming documentary Indie Game: The Movie will be making its debut at the well-regarded World Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The documentary follows three independant game developers— Fez‘s Phil Fish, Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes, aka “Team Meat” of Super Meat Boy renown, and…
Another day, another funny Skyrim video. This one’s been making the rounds a bit, but I thought it’d be fun to share—in it, YouTube user STuKKie86 climbs to the top of one of the game’s many mountains, and then, via some sort of in-game console wizardry, casts a spell that prompts the mountain to… vomit…
Yesterday, I took a look at Mario Kart 7‘s online multiplayer, which is functional and easier to use than any past Kart game. Today, I wanted to show another cool feature of the game’s multiplayer—the ability to make multiplayer communities. Each player can make up to eight separate communities, which can be customized a fair…
Call of Duty: Zombies was a hit on the iPhone, a simplified port of the popular “Nazi Zombies” game from Call of Duty: World at War—players fight to defend a building from increasingly difficult waves of advancing undead. It was a fairly humble iOS first-person shooter, but it had a strong brand behind it, was…
Greetings, fellow travelers. Welcome to another night of smooth sounds and smoother conversation. That’s right, it’s the evening Kotaku open thread. Some possible conversation-starters for you this fine evening: This guy gave his cheating girlfriend a crappy tattoo – literally! See what I did there? Wow actually, this would really suck. Teddy the (talking) porcupine…
Oh, man. This video, called “Unnecessary Censorship – Skyrim” from YouTube user NormalDifficulty (who also gave L.A. Noire the same humorous treatment) is a triumph. In it, they’ve added censoring bleeps to a bunch of the dialogue in Bethesda’s game, making it much saltier than the at times staid, often weird line readings really are.…
After last week’s big fall sale, this week’s PlayStation Store update is a bit more chilled out. A full-game download of Sly Cooper Collection is now available for $29.99, or you can download any of the three Sly Cooper games included in the collection for $9.99 each. Gonna have to play one of those, finally.…
The Los Angeles Times has taken a look at the October NPD numbers, which show that dancing games like Just Dance 3 and Dance Central 2 have grown in sales 326% over last year. That far outpaces the next nearest fastest-growing genre, fighting games, which grew just 33% over the same period of time. The…
Today, Metro has dug up an older post from the horror site Rely on Horror in which Capcom’s Masachika Kawata mentioned work on a new game in the series, theoretically Resident Evil 6. His statement was taken with a grain of salt, as well it should’ve been—it was posted in Spanish and translated into the…
Looking back, there’s an argument to be made that Mario Kart 64 was my first true multiplayer gaming obsession, more so than even Goldeneye 64. It was so much more fun to race against my friends than it was to race against the (frustrating, rubber banding) computer—the idea of online Mario Kart hadn’t even crossed…
Nintendo has been on something of a roll so far this holiday season, releasing a fantastic new Zelda game for the Wii and a triumphant new Mario game for the 3DS. This coming Sunday, the company will see if it can go three for three, releasing Mario Kart 7 for the 3DS handheld. Most of…
Greetings Kotaku-eers, and welcome to another late-night open thread. How was your Thanksgiving? Good, I hope? Snag some good Black Friday deals? Maybe you managed to grab some of these terrific Cyber Monday discounts? For my part, I’m back in San Francisco wishing I’d brought some leftovers home with me. I’d kill for a good…
Last week, I headed down to Ubisoft headquarters in San Francisco to get a first look at their upcoming tactical shooter Rainbow 6: Patriots. I posted my impressions of the event earlier today—it looks like a solid evolution of the small-team tactical template set forth in Vegas, but what’s more remarkable is that it at…
Special effects artist and designer Greg Aronowitz has posted a very cool, thorough rundown of his process making the life-sized (and sometimes larger-than-life-sized) Minecraft characters that populated last week’s Minecraft-only convention, Minecon. Aronowitz describes how he came on with only two weeks until the convention, and quickly got to work figuring out the design and…
Ever since hearing that Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island maestro Ron Gilbert had moved to Double Fine Productions (The Brutal Legend and Psychonauts studio headed by his old partner in crime Tim Schafer), I’ve been dying to know what he’s been working on. We’ve had all manner of announcements from the studio lately, but nothing…
Today only, Microsoft is selling the HD re-release of Michel Ancel’s cult adventure game Beyond Good & Evil for a mere $3, discounted from its usual $10. If you’ve ever wondered why so many people love this game, now’s a good time to find out. [XBLA]
We have certainly seen a lot of different kinds of posts about Skyrim over the past couple of weeks. We’ve got jokes and memes, fan-fiction and fan-art, and one billion YouTube videos, from the impressive to the disturbing But it ain’t a “thing” until some iPhone-toting hipster has posted a bunch of fake-retro photos of…
How far would you go to save a life? To save lives? Would you sacrifice an innocent civilian to save a hundred more? Ubisoft’s recently unveiled tactical shooter Rainbow 6: Patriots aims to tackle those tough (or at least, dramatic) questions. Last week, I headed down to Ubisoft’s headquarters in San Francisco to get an…
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