We’re nearing the end of our Game of the Year conversations here at Kotaku. This year, we opened up nominations to readers, and figured that we might as well also let readers vote for their own choice from among the nominations. Below, find a poll for each of the games put forth in our nomination…
She Sings the Songs of Skyrim: Check out this cool Daily Dot feature on Malukah, the now-viral singer/songwriter behind a number of beautiful video-game songs.
“I’m Ron Burgundy. Go f**k youself, San Diego.” I know, it has nothing to do with video games. But this 2013 TV news blooper reel from NewsBeFunny is just too good not to share. I can’t begin to name a favorite. Steve captured a few highlights in GIF form: [Via SuperPunch]
We’re in the midst of evaluating and voting for Kotaku‘s Game of the Year for 2013. This year, plenty of readers have made their own nominations, and we hope you will as well. Below if our collection of nominations for Game of the Year 2013. All this week and next, our staff members are playing…
Up for a challenge? See if you can beat Claw’s Titan Souls, a free game in the Shadow of the Colossus mode that pits you against four massive beasts with only a single arrow and a single hitpoint. Amazingly enough, the game was made in only four days as part of Ludum Dare 28. (via…
Look, I like Cinema Sins. I enjoy their brand of jovial pedantry, how they pick holes in the movies that we love. But nope. While I appreciate the effort, there is nothing wrong with Die Hard
Gone Home, the Fullbright company’s evocative house-exploration game, is being remade with an old-school JRPG look. Because why not? The demake will be the work of tech-savvy internet individual Seth Macy, whotweeted yesterday that he’s got the approval of the Fullbright Company to continue work on the project. He also shared some screenshots: It all…
Do you pronounce it “Roof” or “Ruf?” “Water” or “Wuhter?” Are little river shellfish called “crawfish” or “crayfish” or “crawdads?” Depends on where you grew up. I loved this new dialect quiz at the New York Times, and thought you all might dig it too. It managed to place me pretty accurately—it had me in…
Justin Carter, the 19-year-old League of Legends player who earlier this year was imprisoned for making a Facebook comment that was flagged as a terrorist threat, has had his motion to quash the case denied, according to a report today by San Antonio’s KENS 5 news. In February, Carter was arrested for making comments on…
I love the Pacific Rim theme. You love the Pacific Rim theme. And from the looks of it, this robot drummer loves the Pacific Rim theme. Check out this performance from Arc Attack Music in which a robo-drummer and some tesla coils bang out Ramin Djawadi and Tom Morello’s riff-tastic anthem to giant robots everywhere.…
Want to understand what makes Spelunky a great game? Over at Polygon, game designer Douglas Wilson (of J.S. Joust and more recently, Clusterfuck reknown) has written an in-depth, play-by-play analysis of one of the most amazing Spelunky achievements of 2013. Check it out
In twenty thirteen, it was a very good year. It was a very good year for video games, with zombies and dames, killing monsters with flames… oh the things we’ve seen… in twenty thirteen. It was a very good year, wasn’t it? I sure did play a lot of video games in 2013. More than…
Because it’s never a bad idea to check out some beautiful shots of Skyrim These lovely gifs come via Punished Gray Fox. Check out a few selections: I continue to hope that Bethesda makes the next Fallout game next-gen only, and as a result has the power to make the game look as good in…
Valve’s interesting, innovative new Steam Controller has caught a lot of eyes while simultaneously raising a lot of eyebrows. How exactly will this thing work? Will it really make traditionally mouse & keyboard PC games playable in your living room? We’ve seen the Steam Controller in action before, but I still have some questions about…
If you’re into classic arcade games, check out Michael Mateyko and Hans Thiessen’s “A Field Guide To Classic Arcade Design.” Very cool stuff. (Via The Verge)
“My name is Inigo Montoya. Now I have a machine gun. Hasta la vista, baby.” It’d probably be an overstatement to say that this supercut from MewLists contained every excellent action movie one-liner ever, but it’s damn close. Though allow me to say that they picked the wrong Judge Dredd movie. But hey, 99 out…
Curious about Valve’s new SteamOS? Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry takes the beta version of the new TV-friendly operating system through its paces, finding some issues that hold the OS back but allowing that it “could well be the direction PC gaming needs to find a home in the living room.”
2013 was one hell of a year for video games. So much action, so much drama! Such suspense, such anger and jubilation! It was a year of great change, in which things didn’t always always go according to plan and plenty of games failed to live up to expectations. We don’t love being negative here…
There’s a good way to use OKCupid, and there’s a not-so-good way. This is one of those second ways. The above video comes to us from the YouTube series OKCupid is the best!, which revolves around host solikebasically having her computer read aloud messages from her OKCupid dating profile. In this episode, a guy gamer…
I’m sure you’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that the story of Christmas past is quite a bit different from the story of Christmas present. But how about Chanukah and Kwanzaa? Watch Mental Floss host John Green get historical on a bunch of holiday traditions. Come for the Transformers: Dark of the Moon jokes, stay…
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