What do you do when cheese expires? You go get some new cheese, of course. When I re-reviewed Destiny last week, I talked about the narrative that has emerged in this game over the past few months: Players come up with an exploit. Bungie patches it. Players find a new exploit. Yesterday, Bungie patched a…
It’s early January in the Year of our Lord 2015. Is there a better time to release a mobile game based on the beloved 1987 Rob Reiner film The Princess Bride? I can’t think of one. Like any sensitive modern gentleman, I love both The Princess Bride the film and The Princess Bride the book—not…
The Grand Theft Auto series has taken us to destination cities like London, New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. There has not, however, been a GTA game set in Portland, Oregon. That is probably for the best. Over at the blog of real estate company Movoto (via NeoGAF), writer Willie Clark has published an article…
Four months into its existence, Destiny is a better, more frustrating, more expansive—and ultimately, expensive—game than it was at launch. It’s also very different, because after months of tweaks, it has become clearer than ever who we’re really playing against: the people who made it. The player’s greatest adversary in Destiny isn’t an alien warlord…
The PS4 controller is a pretty darn good video game controller, but there’s always room for improvement. A couple of months ago, I bought a couple of cheapo PS4 thumbstick covers called Grip-Its and found that I liked them more than I was expecting to. After I ran an article about them, a couple of…
Track: Grace Kelly | Album: Life in Cartoon Motion | Artist: Mika Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
We came, we saw, we played. We nominated, we debated, we decided. Here, in alphabetical order, are Kotaku‘s top 12 games of 2014. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Destiny Divinity: Original Sin Dragon Age: Inquisition Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Kentucky Route Zero, Act III The Last of Us: Left Behind Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Rusty’s Real…
Love may be a many splendored thing, but that doesn’t mean we don’t screw it up from time to time. This year, we decided to hire a guy who might help with that. Ever since his first column last January, Harris “Dr. Nerdlove” O’Malley has been visiting Kotaku every two weeks to dole out relationship…
2014 was a funky year for new games. Lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous. Several games I was hoping would be great were disappointments, and many of games I wound up liking best came out of nowhere. Like I did in 2012 and 2013, I’ve put together a list of my favorite games of the…
Elite: Dangerous‘ orchestral soundtrack was composed by a talented musician named Erasmus Talbot. It’s perfectly nice, but there’s also the game’s other soundtrack, composed by the likes of Billy Gibbons, Norman Greenbaum, and Ace Frehley. Any time I play the game, I tend to mute the in-game soundtrack and pipe in a classic rock playlist…
Sure, you could say that video games get more beautiful every year. Graphics technology gets better, game developers get more adept, and as a result, games get more beautiful. All the same, 2014 felt like a special year for video game beauty. This year, PC games looked as good as ever, while new consoles let…
The Legend of Korra drew to a close last week with a series finale chock-full of drama, suspense, sacrifice, and last-ditch heroics. And then, when the dust had settled, something truly wonderful happened. Hey! Spoilers for the end of The Legend of Korra follow. Of all the things that happened during the final half-hour of…
2014 was a weird year for video games. Lotta ups, lotta downs, lotta what-have-yous. But while the year had its share of bummers and disappointments, it was not without some lovely surprises, too. Last week, we chronicled the biggest disappointments of 2014. Today, like we do every year, we’re offsetting that post’s bitter sadness with…
In an effort to make good on the troubled launch of the Xbox One’s Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Microsoft announced today that they’re giving anyone who played the game some free stuff, including a copy of an upcoming remastered version of Halo 3: ODST. In a letter posted to the Xbox website, 343 Industries…
Among the new pieces of gear in Destiny‘s The Dark Below expansion, one stands out: a gun called “Husk of the Pit.” It’s kind of a piece of crap… but it also isn’t. See, the Husk starts out as a common assault rifle that pretty much completely sucks. However, if you follow its upgrade path…
In a perfect world, we’d spend all of our time actually playing video games. But if 2014 has taught us anything, it’s that our world is not perfect. And so, among other things, we must spend a percentage of our time watching loading screens. Slowly but surely, video game developers are getting better at loading…
2014 was a weird, wooly year for video games. The big new consoles were finding their feet, and most of the games we were expecting to play got pushed back to next year. Some of the ones that did come out were great, but others, well… weren’t as great. As has become a tradition here…
Destiny has been out for several months now, long enough for most people to have a pretty good sense of what it’s all about. Sure, it got its grindy tentacles around a lot of us back in September, but has it managed to keep everyone playing since then? I’m probably not representative of the average…
After months of early-access alphas and betas and gammas(?), Elite: Dangerous is officially out today. I’ve been playing various incarnations of Frontier’s space-sim off and on for a while now, and I dig it. I started back in August, when I went deep into my VR immersion tank and played a bunch of the game…
The video games of 2014 sounded really, really good. Better, perhaps, than in any past year…though I guess it always feels that way. This year’s nominees ran a wide gamut, from acoustic woodwind ensembles to screaming electric guitarmonies, techno jazz remixes to lounge electronica. 2014’s standout soundtracks highlighted how diverse video games can be, and…
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