Here’s an idea: Take a pretty well-liked superhero game, keep the premise and the beautiful setting, and refocus the story on a more immediately appealing character. Sounds like a sure-fire winner, right? Well… Things aren’t so clear-cut with Infamous: First Light, the new standalone add-on to March’s superhuman Seattle shootfest Infamous: Second Son Where Second…
Titanfall‘s latest update will add a new mode that gives players the option of fighting without those pesky giant robots getting in the way. The new mode, called Pilot Skirmish, will be included in the game’s sixth major update, as detailed at the official Titanfall site. It’ll be an 8 vs. 8 shootout with no…
Like music in video games? Check out Beep, an in-production documentary about the history of video game sound. The filmmakers are currently raising money on Kickstarter, and the project sounds pretty cool. More info here
Track: L | Album: Awake/Hohokum Original Soundtrack | Artist: Tycho Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Last night, I stayed up really late playing Diablo III. The internet here is spotty at best. I played a bunch of Diablo anyway. The only reason I was able to do that without regularly pulling my hair with irritation was that I wasn’t playing Diablo III on PC. Instead, I was playing Diablo III:…
I knew that Michael Jackson was involved in “Do The Bartman,” but I did not know why The Simpsons movie was banned in Burma. These sorts of videos—the things you didn’t know about the thing—are awfully common these days. That said, this one from Buzzfeed Video is pretty good. I didn’t know a lot of…
Current-day Diablo III is a pretty different game from the one that launched back in 2012. But for all the changes, one thing remains the same: You still have to choose a character class before you play. Back when Diablo III first came out, I wasn’t surewhich class to pick. Should I be a monk?…
“Don’t be That VR Guy,” I keep thinking. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks playing Elite: Dangerous, a PC space-sim that works with the newest Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. It’s been pretty amazing, and I’m having a hard time not being That VR Guy. You know That VR Guy, right? Lately, it seems…
Grenades: They sure do explode! In this video, YouTuber GameInReview demonstrates some high-level uses for frag grenades in Titanfall. I doubt I could pull off half of this stuff, but it sure is fun to watch him wreck other players seemingly at will.
If you played To The Moon, you’ve probably been looking forward to the next game from its creator, Kan Gao. Good news – his follow-up, A Bird Story, will be out on November 5th. Here’s a new trailer Gao put together. The vibe will be familiar to anyone who subjected themselves to the brutal (wonderful)…
Are you seeking a brief respite from the weird shitshow that is Michael Bay’sNinja Turtlesremake? Good news: The internet has provided. In the video above, animator Aazim Khan of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFNJXC…Zim Animation has re-created the intro to the classic 80s TMNT cartoon in 3D. It’s welcomely non-heinous, which could not be said of several other Ninja…
Today in monetization news: This Gamasutra article talked with an analyst who was all, League of Legends isn’t monetized as aggressively as it could be, and then this response from Polygon‘s Ben Kuchera was like, dude, that’s one of the reasons League of Legends is so successful in the first place.
In Divinity: Original Sin, disagreements are often settled not with steel or spells, but with a game of rock, paper, scissors. Want a guard to let you pass without paying the toll? Rock, paper, scissors. Want a magical being to cough up the location of a spell you need? Rock, paper, scissors. Here’s the thing,…
Stealth-horror influenced by Thief and System Shock? Okay, yes, please. This is the pitch video for Solarix, an in-development PC game from KISS Ltd. The developers are in the final hours of a surprisingly modest Kickstarter campaign, which they say they’ll use to add animations, record professional actors, and re-work some of the sound design.
Over the last couple of weeks, Oculus has started sending out the new version of their much-vaunted Rift virtual reality headset. If you’re curious what the next step in home VR immersion looks like, well, good news. It’s here, and it’s pretty cool. The new headset, called the DevKit 2 or DK2 for short, is…
Most of the best video games grab your attention right from the start. They show you something amazing, or mysterious, or beautiful, and pull you in. Yesterday, Gone Home developer Steve Gaynor made the bold proclamation that the intro to Fallout was the greatest video game intro of all time: It’s a strong entry, to…
Track: Dancing in the Dark | Album: These Wilder Things | Artist: The Ruth Moody Band Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Existentially troubling puzzle game The Swapper is out today on PS3, PS4 and PS Vita. It’s really cool and super worth playing. But hey, you don’t have to take it from me: Check out Mike Fahey’s review of the PC version.
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