It took me a minute to get my head around Twitter’s latest redesign. I don’t have a particularly strong opinion about the new blue-line-connected conversations, but the reverse in flow often has me moving my eyes in directions to which they are not accustomed. Right as I was catching my balance, the Twitter avatar up…
If you told me about a new TV show called Space Dandy, I’d assume it would be about a dandy who has adventures in outer space. And what do you know, I’d be right! Over the weekend, we got a teaser for a show with that very name. It’s an upcoming series from anime visionary…
Hey, if you want the gang members in your video game to talk like gang members, why not go to the source? That’s just what Rockstar games did for their upcoming open-world crime opus Grand Theft Auto V. Spotted by Videogamer, the series’ longtime radio host Lazlow went on Chicago’s WGN talk radio to talk…
And so it was that two new albums were released unto the world, and they featured sounds inspired by the video games of ago. And they were good. Lo, they were bitchin’, even. Two albums! Both very good! And okay, while that’s sort of a pushy headline, you should strongly consider listening to them. First,…
This November, Kotaku game-of-the-year-winner XCOM: Enemy Unknown is getting its first substantial expansion, Enemy Within. It’ll feature a bunch of new abilities, weapons, enemies, and other changes. It sounds really good With this new trailer, we can see that it looks pretty good, too. Mech soldiers, genetically enhanced soldiers, the new “Mechtoid” enemy, as well…
The dream is a good one: An interactive application that can really, truly teach you to play guitar. And Rocksmith 2014, even more so than its ambitious predecessor, is aiming to do just that. In this video, the game’s makers demonstrate how the new “lessons” will function. The lessons look pretty cool, and it sounds…
Tim Schafer had a lot to talk to me about, a lot to clarify, when we met in his offices in San Francisco. It’s been a wild couple of months for Schafer and Double Fine productions. Back in July, Schafer sent an update to backers of his record-breakingly successful Kickstarter adventure game Broken Age, telling…
There are few things as eerie as an abandoned house, even if there aren’t any ghosts inside. And there may well be a ghost or two in this abandoned German home, particularly the way it’s been photographed by Dan Marbaix. Marbaix is a photographer fascinated by urban decay; he’s even got a book on the…
Name That GTA V Trailer Track: If you said “Sleepwalking” by The Chain Gang of 1974, you’re right! Now kick back in your deck chair, turn up the volume, and enjoy
Sure, we all know Knights of the Old Republic had good Star Wars. But did you know that it almost took place during the Clone Wars? That and two other facts in this week’s “Fast Facts” video from Lore in a Minute. There’s even a Mr. Plinkett cameo
Wasteland 2 sure is looking nice. Here’s a lengthy demo of a level from the game, which gives a good sense of a bunch of the different systems and encounters and how they all fit together.
“The face of war has changed,” begins this trailer for Warface. And yet the name of Warface has not changed. It is still Warface. And thank god, really. Crytek’s absurdly monikered free-to-play multiplayer shooter will be coming to Xbox 360 in 2014. It’s a remarkably dour, serious game, considering that it’s basically impossible to take…
The Xbox 360 Kinect camera may have been intended for use with video games, but many of its most interesting uses were unlocked once the device was hacked. Suddenly, people had access to a cheap, relatively easy to use motion capture device. Nice! Film director Andrew Gant used the Kinect, along with several other cameras,…
Not a day goes by that I don’t somehow, consciously or subconsciously, live out a lesson I learned from Calvin & Hobbes. I sense I’m not alone in this. As much as I’d have loved it if comic-creator Bill Watterson had kept working forever, there’s something bittersweet about the fact that Calvin & Hobbes is…
Long have the Grand Theft Auto games existed in their own musical stratosphere, so far beyond other games’ soundtracks that a comparison seems almost unfair. It’s no surprise to hear that GTA V will have a phenomenal soundtrack, given the tracklist info that’s already leaked. But now that Rockstar has begun to announce official info,…
When I reviewed The Last of Us earlier this year, I may not have given its multiplayer portion enough credit. The stripped-down deathmatches were enjoyable enough at the time, but the more I play, the more fun I have. And with a coming free update, the whole thing is gonna get bigger, more tactical, and…
Everyone knows cosplayers often dress up as video game characters. But what happens when a video game features characters based on cosplayers? Madness, that’s what. Dogs and cats! Sleeping together! Mass hysteria! The game in question is Comic Conquest, an upcoming tactical RPG that takes place—where else?—at Comic-Con. The game, coming to mobile devices, tablets…
Grand Theft Bigfoot: Writing for The New Yorker, Simon Parkin takes a look at the ongoing hunt for Bigfoot in the woods of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I love this sort of video game myth-hunting, particularly the creepy goings-on we saw in Red Dead Redemption. Will Bigfoot turn up in GTA V? Time will…
Ghost in the Galaxy: Check out this new trailer for Erin Robinson’s lovely indie puzzle/platformer Gravity Ghost, featuring music from FTL composer Ben Prunty. More at GravityGhost.com
Today, Sony stirred up some speculation by tweeting about GTA V coming to PlayStation 4. But Rockstar Games tells us that was just a typo. Anyone who’s seen the impressive videos and screenshots of September’s Grand Theft Auto V has probably wondered if the game will come to next-gen consoles. Rockstar, however, has talked only…
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