Well, this sucks. After nearly a year, the 2013 action game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has come to PC, but it arrived with a dark passenger: It apparently won’t work without an internet connection. The single-player Revengeance is digitally available on Steam, but readers have written in to alert us that the game won’t start…
I think we’ve all been there: You’re hanging out at a cocktail party when a man standing next to you is shot by a sniper. Then, everyone starts levitating and twisting inside out, floating in circles and regurgitating their own limbs like hellish ouroboros. …oh, just me? Well. Maybe I should stop playing Spy Party…
Looking for advice on your love life? Good news! Kotaku is bringing on the one and only Dr. Nerdlove for a recurring column answering your questions about love, life, and dating. He’s taking questions for his first column via email, so send him queries at [email protected] and put the word “Kotaku” in the subject.
Quick: What are video games going to look like in the year 2024? Will we be beaming games directly into our brains? Will eXistenZ or The Matrix come to be a reality? Will Half-Life 3 finally come out? If we made our guesses now and wrote them down, future generations might look back on our…
Want to make modern-day Skyrim look amazing? Check out this Rock Paper Shotgun feature from Duncan Harris of Dead End Thrills—whose work we love to highlight here—as he outlines his process for making Skyrim look better than ever in 2014.
If you like point-and-click adventure games and have a heart beating in your chest, you probably like The Longest Journey. And so you were probably happy to hear that Dreamfall Chapters, the next game in the series, had a successful Kickstarter campaign and will be coming to PC. If you’re wondering what the game will…
Valve has been in the software business for a long time, and they’ve gotten pretty good at it. In 2014, the PC gaming giant will be launching their first official piece of hardware: The decidedly odd, innovative Steam Controller. What will happen when a company steeped in software releases their first piece of hardware? No…
Hey GameCube fans: Got a free hour? If so, go read Emily Rogers’massive history of the Nintendo GameCube over at Dromble
Kenny G may be the bane of self-respecting music fans everywhere, but you can’t say the man doesn’t have a sense of humor about himself. In this new video from Funny or Die, Mr. Kenneth Gorelick becomes comedian John Daly’s imaginary friend. You guys know I can’t resist some good sax humor, so I had…
“Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.” I doubt Quentin Tarantino would be okay with one of his movies being made into a video game, particularly not a primitive, retro console game like the one CineFix imagines here. But if he did allow someone to make one… I’m just saying that I would play it.
“Some modders are making Morrowind in the Skyrim engine,” they said. It’s looking really good. And I listened to them, I did. But it wasn’t until I saw these screens that I believed it. Screenshot master Duncan Harris of Dead End Thrills has been snapping shots of the Skywind project, and it is looking amazing…
What’s better than one violinist and two singers performing epic World of Warcraft music? A whole fleet of digitally cloned singers and violinists performing epic World of Warcraft music, of course. In this case, those musicians include violinist (and YouTube stalwart) Taylor Davis along with singer Peter Hollens and his wife Evynne. With the help…
I knew about some of these Google tricks already… Atari Breakout, the Zerg Rush, “Do a barrel roll!” But I didn’t know about all of them. Hat-tip to Buzzfeed Video for putting a bunch of great Google tricks in one helpful video. Be right back, I’m gonna go walk around Google maps as a wee…
27) R3 26) D-Pad Right 25) Share (PS4) 24) R Trigger (GameCube) 23) A (Xbox 360) 22) C (Wii Nunchuck) 21) 7 (Intellivision) 20) Mouse Wheel 19) Trigger (GunCon) 18) -/Select (Wii U) 17) D-Pad Up 16) “Xbox, Go Home” (Xbox One) 15) C Down (N64) 14) D-Pad Down 13) LB 12) R2 (PS4) 11)…
Getting robbed by another player in the online survival game DayZ usually means being kidnapped, likely humiliated and possiblyforced into a cage match against a fellow prisoner, all before being killed and having your corpse looted. But must it be that way? In the video up top, Joab Gilroy attempts to set a new sort…
Blizzard has identified a fake version of World of Warcraft‘s Curse Client add-on manager that secretly installs “trojan” malware onto users’ computers, stealing account information and passwords. The malware has been downloaded by players Googling the client and inadvertently clicking on an unofficial link, which takes them to a malware download site designed to look…
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We spend a lot of time talking about the future. What’s on the horizon, what’s coming, what’s the next big thing. Between the hype-laden developer diaries and the publisher-approved preview events, you’d be forgiven for thinking there’s no room left for surprises in video-game land. But of course, you’d be wrong. 2013, like every other…
Video-Game Violence: What Does It Mean? I wrote an article about meaningful game violence as part of The New York Times‘ year-in-review series. It focuses on a few games we’ve talked about a lot here, from The Last of Us to BioShock Infinite to Consensual Torture Simulator
Did you know cows like playing checkers? Apparently, they do. For all its good qualities, Assassin’s Creed IV does have its share of glitches. As much as I liked the intense, apocalyptic one Luke shared a few weeks back, this one, shared by Vincent Caravella, is my new favorite. I guess we know what the…
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