The Ellen Page-starring movie/game hybrid Beyond: Two Souls was often as much fun to watch as it was to play. And now, thanks to Gamebillstudio, you can go ahead and watch the whole thing, even if you don’t own a PS3. They’ve distilled the essence of the game’s story into a two-part, 4.5-hour movie. The…
Watch Dogs and Driveclub, two high-profile games planned for release alongside the PS4 and Xbox One, have both seen fairly last-minute delays into next year. However, both of those games had been included in next-gen console preorder bundles. Two readers inform us that today, Target canceled not just their game preorder, but their console preorder…
Do you feel that the Xbox One’s bold, clean design is just a little bit too austere? Ever wish it could be livened up by some shiny green soft-drink branding? Well then! The above photo was tweeted by the media rep for Hendrick Motorsports, who field Nascar driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. She describes it as…
If you want to find the computer geniuses of tomorrow, you could do worse than to check out which kids are playing Minecraft. That’s what Google’s thinking, anyway, with a new Minecraft mod that adds quantum behaviors to the game. In a new Google post, the Google Quantum A.I. Lab Team says that they’ve released…
Video-game achievements are funny things. We want to unlock them, and we’re willing to shoot the 1,000 zombies or speed-run the 10 levels to do so. But… they’re kind of silly, ya know? It’d be nice if more games took their achievements a little less seriously. Recently, Tom Francis’ excellent stealth game Gunpoint experimented with…
To this day, Batman: Arkham City remains a visually striking game. The grand, gothic feel of the comics was well-captured by art director David Hego and his team at Rocksteady. But I’ve never seen the game look quite like this These shots, captured by video-game screenshot master Duncan Harris at Dead End Thrills, go beyond…
Perhaps you’ve heard of The Stanley Parable? It’s this game, see. It’s a game about stories. It’s… well, it’s complicated. Maybe you’re wondering what it’s really about, why everyone is talking about it? Well. Allow me to elaborate. The Stanley Parable is a first-person storytelling game that functions as a sort of narrative puzzle. What’s…
We’ve been having fun with the first week of our month-long Last-Gen Heroes series, in which Kotaku‘s staff has been looking back at the heroes and zeroes of the past console generation. Over at TAY, readers have been having a grand old time themselves. Here’s some of what they’ve been talking about. Reader Zarnyx offers…
We’ve been talking about The Witness, the upcoming puzzle/exploration game from Braid-creator Jonathan Blow, for some time now. But for all the words we’ve spilled and the concept art we’ve shared, it can still be difficult to explain just how the game’s puzzles work Yesterday at a Sony-hosted PS4 preview event, I chatted with Blow…
These days, guns and action games go together like spoons and Nutella. And yet when it comes right down to it, there is a video game weapon that outclasses the gun in most every respect: The bow and arrow. I don’t think I’d go so far as to argue that the last generation of gaming…
Two young women. Two menacing mother-figures. Two sets of supernatural powers. Two fateful social gatherings. ONE HELL OF A RECIPE FOR HORROR. This brilliant bit of remixing comes to us from YouTuber Cracker76. It combines audio from a trailer for the upcoming Carrie remake with footage from Walt Disney’s 1950 classic Cinderella. It is surprisingly…
It can often feel as though some people who like video games want to have it both ways: They want games to be taken seriously and acknowledged as an exciting artistic medium, but the moment someone critiques a game’s politics they respond, as if cued by an invisible conductor: “It’s just a game! Stop taking…
If you have a pulse and own a 3DS, chances are you probably spent part of the weekend playing Pokemon X & Y. And yet before you even buy the game, you must begin to make decisions. Which one to get, X or Y? And which Pokemon to train? Time for a reader poll. And…
It’s Time For Beat The Geeks To Make A Comeback: Do you remember the early 2000s Comedy Central quiz show Beat the Geeks? A fantastic idea with untapped potential, gone before its time. We’re ready for it to make a return, or so argues David Cole over at Previously.TV. I think he’s onto something.
It’s human nature to want to break things down into easy-to-understand binaries: Introvert or extrovert. Gay or straight. Republican or Democrat. Autobot or Decepticon. And in video gaming, one of the greatest binaries of all is defined by how a player likes his or her right thumbstick: Regular or inverted? For those of us who…
PlayStation 3. Xbox 360. Wii. Over the past eight years, electronic boxes wearing one of those three brands came to occupy space in the entertainment centers of millions of people around the world. They were the heralds of the most innovative, occasionally uncomfortable, undeniably exciting era in video game history. That era is finally nearing…
Track: The Mother We Share | Album: The Bones of What You Believe | Artist: CHVRCHES Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Now this is the kind of cross-promotion I can get behind! Devlover Digital, the publisher behind such non-nonviolent video games as Hotline Miami, has enlisted the guys behind Viscera Cleanup Detail to help them clean up after their latest game, Shadow Warrior. Players who buy Shadow Warrior will get a free custom standalone game in…
Valve has confirmed to Maximum PC that Steam Machines won’t only use Nvidia graphics cards, despite that being the only brand announced to go out with their recently-announced prototypes. Valve says Steam Machines will be commercially available with AMD, Nvidia and Intel graphics hardware.
It’s a killer setup for a mystery: Hundreds of storybook fables have relocated to New York. One man—the Big Bad Wolf—is in charge of keeping order. And now, someone is murdering fables. That’s the premise for The Wolf Among Us, a new game based on Vertigo’s popular Fables comics. And while the game is often…
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