There are few things more stressful than being forced to make an important decision without all the necessary information. Whom do you trust? Whom do you betray? And what aren’t they telling you? Telltale’s Walking Dead games have always thrived when forcing the player into difficult circumstances and forcing them to make challenging moral decisions.…
Dark Souls is in everything now. In this cool piece over at Kill Screen, author Chris Breault talks to a handful of game developers about how From Software’s seminal action-RPG has infected and influenced their games.
“Ah ah ah, you didn’t say the magic word!” Stupid Dennis Nedry, you ruined everything. You also became an indelible part of Jurassic Park canon, with your annoying error message shutting down Samuel L. Jackson as he tried to regain control of the island. Thanks to programmer Tully Robinson‘s “Jurassic Systems,” now you can play…
I’m a big fan of State of Decay, the little zombie game that could. I didn’t get into it until a few months after it came out, but it quickly became one of my favorite games of 2013. We’re finally getting a bona fide expansion, and it sounds cool. Late last week Undead Labs shared…
A Grim Fan’s Fandango: While we’re all waiting for Tim Schafer to finally get back the rights to Grim Fandango (could be a while), at least we can still play the original, as long as we still have the discs. This helpful new guide at PC Gamer details how to get the game running on…
What’s gonna happen on True Detective? Who’s the Yellow King? What’s Rust been up to all these years? Your guess is as good as mine. If you DO have predictions, I hope you’ll share them here, and also check out this great Wired feature breaking down some of the most popular theories.
Good news for gaming headset owners: The Xbox One March update will bring with it support for optical Dolby audio output, meaning that your Astro/Turtle Beach/other gaming headset will finally get a full surround signal. Polygon‘s tested an Astro headset and they say it works great.
What is the time signature of Brad Fiedel’s original Terminator theme? Maybe you can tell by counting it out (123-123-123-12-12), but that doesn’t make this in-depth investigation at Slate any less enjoyable.
An End, Once and For All: Here’s violinist Taylor Davis and pianist Lara de Wit performing one of Mass Effect 3‘s most memorable musical compositions
Looks like Mojang is working with Warner Bros. on a Minecraft movie. An actual finished film may or may not eventually materialize, but either way, you can’t help but wonder: What might a full-length, big-budget Minecraft movie look like? It’s not exactly a game that has an obvious cinematic counterpart, after all. The world of…
Most of the time video game loading screens keep it pretty chill. They show some art, maybe share a helpful tip or two. Sometimes they’re just a black screen and a spinning wheel. But sometimes… sometimes, video game loading screens go crazy in the best possible way. Minor spoilers for Thief follow. I didn’t think…
Track: When it Rains | Album: Largo | Artist: Brad Mehldau Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
As you’re sitting on the couch wearing a headset, playing a game and chatting with your distant friends over the internet, it’s easy to forget that video games are often best enjoyed with another person in the same room. Of course, that’s not the only way to enjoy a game. There are a lot of…
Persona 3 is perhaps best described as “Basically, Buffy The Vampire Slayer at a super fashionable Japanese high school.” If you’re anything like me, that description alone would be enough to make you want to play. Note: This post originally ran on 5/21/2012. Seeing as how we’ve finally got confirmation that Persona 5 will be…
Buckle Up: Outlast‘s “Whistleblower” DLC is coming to PC and PS4 in April. It’ll tell the story of Waylon Park, the source who contacted the protagonist of the main game. Judging by this screenshot, it will probably be super scary. We recently added the main game to our PS4 Bests List, and I can’t wait…
Oh, don’t be silly. There’s no such thing as a “perfect” game. Or maybe there is? Nah, surely not. But wait… then again… You know what, let’s see what you guys think. What game fits your definition of The Perfect Game? Surely it means something different to everyone. What makes a game perfect to you?…
Titanfall’s PC version is gonna be titan-sized. Yesterday, Respawn’s Vince Zampella said on Twitter that the PC version of the game will be an approximately 21GB download and will take up around 48GB of hard drive space. Best get housekeeping! Additional PC requirements here. [via PC Gamer] Update: As for Xbox One, Respawn has confirmed…
Controversial Jeopardy contestant Arthur Chu and his unorthodox strategies turned up again on tonight’s Jeopardy Spoilers for tonight’s episode of Jeopardy follow. How’d he do? Chu finished in first place on tonight’s show, bringing his total earnings over five days to $123,600. You can watch him take the win in the clip above. In tonight’s…
Early on in Ghostbusters, Peter Venkman gets slimed by a class five full-roaming vapor. His colleague Ray finds him lying on the ground, groaning and covered with snotty green ooze. “I’m with Venkman,” Ray breathlessly natters into his walkie-talkie. “He got slimed!” “That’s great, Ray,” Egon responds. “Save some for me.” I always loved that…
A city full of closed doors and dead ends, boxed in and lined with nothing but rough edges: That’s Thief. It’s hard to know quite where to begin with a shambling mediocrity such as this. It’s a game that could have been great and is instead a lumpy, frumpy disappointment, outclassed on all sides by…
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