In this, the era of Pacific Rim and Godzilla, we could use a couple beans commercials like this one. Created by European visual effects house Cinseite, it imagines a world where beans companies are actually cool enough to make ads this awesome. I wish I lived in that world. [Via Digg Video]
What music will ring out during your next adventure? What soaring melodies, what elephantine beats, what shocked silence? With each new video game comes a new aural accompaniment, a new collection of custom-made compositions. And so we press the buttons, push the sticks, and lose ourselves once more in the rhythm of play. 2013 was…
Operation Broken Eagle, the first downloadable episode for Dead Rising 3, has been delayed to January 21. The DLC was originally expected on December 24, but Microsoft says they’re pushing back the date in order to spend a few more weeks polishing and playtesting.
Every day it seems someone makes something remarkable in Minecraft. But this… well, this is one of the most remarkable Minecraft things I’ve seen in a while. It comes from ItsJustjumby, who has crafted a working, Star Destroyer-sized 3D printer in the game. Watch the video from the start, where he demonstrates it in action,…
Ever since playing Far Cry 3, I’ve wondered what it’d be like to fly wearing a wingsuit. How fast could you go? How far could you travel? How close to the ground could you get? This video from wingsuit-er Brian Drake attempts to answer that last question, as Drake flies down the slope of a…
It’s hard to believe DmC came out this year… last January feels like a hundred years ago. Ninja Theory’s game boasted their usual striking visual style, as demonstrated in these new shots from Dead End Thrills The site’s also got some new shots from Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. We’ve featured Duncan’s work on that…
Track: Black Shuck | Album: Permission to Land | Artist: The Darkness Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Can you spot all the video game references? This nifty comic from artist Mario Zucca for Beutler Ink looks back at the year in pop culture. There’s plenty of hidden and not-so-hidden game references in there; see if you can spot ’em all. The full comic is below. Click “enlarge” to enlarge: [via Geekologie]
The year is finally over. The games have all come out, and boy did we play them. Now, it’s time to decide which one wins the honor of being named Kotaku’s Game of the Year. Here’s how we’re going to do GOTY stuff in this, the year of 2013. The GOTY conversation will be split…
Nothing says “get hype” like this trailer for Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh, a seemingly endless quick-cut montage of deliciously cheesy FMV acting with no context or sense of narrative or character. Then again, the trailer is pretty great nostalgia fodder—this past weekend while hanging out in New York with some friends (including erstwhile Kotaku…
The next-gen dust has settled enough to begin to get a sense of just who picked up which new console. So, we thought we’d just ask. Both Sony and Microsoft are crowing about various sales numbers based on various metrics. But let’s leave all that aside for a moment. If you read Kotaku and picked…
This new video from YouTuber cheekflapperer presents a scene not unfamiliar to many video-game shooter fans: A trip to a shooting range that might as well be a tutorial from the latest Call of Duty or Battlefield The only thing missing is a gruff drill sergeant hollering at you and an onscreen tutorial prompt: “Press…
Track: The Birds and the Bees | Album: Jim Hall & Pat Metheny | Artist: Jim Hall & Pat Metheny Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Well, this is pretty cool. Tonight at the Spike VGX, Tim Schafer revealed that Frodo himself, Mr. Elijah Wood, will voice the male lead in Schafer’s upcoming adventure game Broken Age Wood will play the male protagonist Shay, a boy who has lived his entire life on a spaceship under the watchful eye of a…
Riot Games has done an about-face on their policy blocking contracted players in their League of Legends Championship Series from streaming rival games. As came to light earlier this week, Riot’s existing Championship Series contract bars players from streaming any of a number of other games during the extent of the contract. Included games include…
Now that the PS4 (and soon, the Xbox One) offer built-in streaming capability, the world of online video-game streaming got a big injection of new users. Maybe you’re one of them? I was playing Assassin’s Creed IV this past weekend and decided to start streaming… and a couple button presses later, there the game was,…
In video games, it’s been the year of the bow for almost two years now. But games aren’t having all the fun – movies have been right in the thick of it. In fact, recent films like Brave and The Hunger Games have carried on a long Hollywood tradition of bows, arrows, bowstrings and arrowheads.…
Track: Difference a Day Makes | Album: Takes Time | Artist: Jim Guthrie Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Sometimes the headline tells the whole story. This is one of those times. The madmen and -women at Epix re-created the (awesome) slow-mo door breaching scene from the (similarly awesome) movie Dredd, mostly to test out their blood-spray hoses. The bullets hit the puppets starting at around 2:00, but the whole thing is worth watching:…
Come for the killer Tetris tune, stay for the hypnotic Tetris gameplay. As much as I liked the latest from Smooth McGroove, I was oddly transfixed by the gameplay video that goes along with it. Tetris, man.
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