If you’ve spent much time online—playing games, talking on social media, using message boards—chances are you’ve gotten some abuse. Someone’s called you a fag, or a dumb bitch, or suggested they might find out where you live and skullfuck you to death. When that happens, we generally take it as a cost of doing business…
Wouldn’t it be cool if someone remixed the character themes from Bravely Default? Yeah, that’d be cool – and hey, someone has. DJ Cutman & Ralfington, specifically – you can watch a trailer up top or buy the four tracks at loudr.fm.
If you want to build something for the U.S. military, you’re probably going to have to make a diagram or a chart to demonstrate how it’ll work. Might as well bust out Illustrator and paste together the weirdest diagram possible. In an excellent feature over at Medium, writer Paul Ford has confessed to his minor…
When I finished episode three of the second season of The Walking Dead game, I thought, “Well, that sure was an episode of The Walking Dead.” Mild zombie- and jacket-related spoilers follow. I think that, like our young protagonist Clementine, I’ve gotten too hardened, too young. I’ve seen so many people die, witnessed so many…
Let Bartlet Be Bartlet: If you’re a fan of the TV series The West Wing, you owe it to yourself to read this new Hollywood Reporter feature. It’s got a ton of great stories from pretty much every person who helped make the show.
Track: You Go Down Smooth | Album: Bad Self Portraits | Artist: Lake Street Dive Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Anyone who’s played Rampage has probably enjoyed assuming the role of the Kaiju, destroying cities and leveling armies in an unstoppable quest to… eat… things… or whatever. But what if Rampage could be a bit more strategic? Enter Kaiju a Gogo, an in-development game from Kerberos Productions. The game will let you play one of…
It’s May! The sun is shining, the days are longer than ever, and that means it’s time to play some video games. I’ve been enjoying asking what games you all are playing each month, so I wanted to do the same thing for May. Rather than list all the games I’m playing (though the top…
Remember Borderlands 2? It came out a couple years ago, everyone played it a lot and generally really liked it? Of course you do. Well, it’s back. The 2012 first-person shooter, which was hefty on its own and grew even heftier thanks to a whole bunch of post-release downloadable expansions, has come to the PlayStation…
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends, racing through super high-res backdrops! These beautiful screenshots come to us from Duncan Harris at Dead End Thrills, who’s been using a debug build of Sonic & Allstars Racing Transformed provided by developer Sumo Interactive to grab some beautiful high-res images. Enjoy:…
If you’re going to perform Zelda music, you might as well do so while standing in an epic desert. Here’s the latest from frequent video-game violin maestro Taylor Davis, who this time lends her talents to a rendition of “Bolero of Fire” from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Listen to the original here:
I rarely get all that hyped while reading game previews, but Phil Owen’s recent preview of Insomniac’s open-world Xbox One action game Sunset Overdrive was an exception. Now we can watch it in action, and it does indeed look like a hell of a lot of fun. Basically, some sorta mixture of Dead Rising, Infamous…
There’s a new PlayStation Vita handheld out today. It’s called the Vita Slim, and while for the most part it’s similar to the first model, it does improve on a number of small things. Though there is the issue of that new screen… The Vita is, generally speaking, a good portable gaming device. For more…
Today on The Singularity Watch: A computer program that can scan the Internet for multiple arguments on a complicated topic, distill the various sides of the debate, and argue both sides against one another. In this video shared by the Milken Institute, we see a demo of IBM’s Watson supercomputer. In addition to being really…
Do you still play The Last of Us multiplayer? I’m curious how many of you still sneak and creep on each other, given how many good multiplayer games have come out since last year. This trailer shows what’s new in this week’s DLC—new maps, new abilities, and new difficulty for the singleplayer campaign.
And lo, the clouds parted, and the sun shone down, and a game studio known for re-releasing classic PC games filed for a trademark on one of the great lost video game series of our age. As spotted by Siliconera, an outfit called Night Dive Studios has filed trademark applications for No One Lives Forever,…
Sir, your game is ready today. The highly enjoyable first-person survival game Sir, You Are Being Hunted is officially out of early access andavailable on Steam today. It’s worth checking out – for more, watch our own Leo Wichtowski put the game through its paces.
The PlayStation 4 already has no shortage of good indie games, and soon it’ll be getting even more. Today at an indie-focused press event outside of San Francisco, Sony revealed a bunch of new indie games that’ll be coming to PS4 and other PlayStation systems. The current list: Axiom Verge will be coming to PS4…
What can men do against such reckless beauty, such wanton loveliness? How can a game so obviously gorgeous, so well-constructed, still tilt uneasily forward and stumble? And if a game reaches so hungrily for greatness that it trips over itself, is it enough that it reached at all? Child of Light, out this week for…
The PS4 gets a big update tomorrow, and Sony’s shared a list of all of the new features it’ll add. The new HDCP-free option and improved video sharing get top billing, but I’m just as psyched that we’ll finally be able to dim the controller’s light bar.
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