When a developer opens up their game for testing, they see it as a chance to test things. When a consumer gets into a game for “testing”, they often see it as a chance to play that game early. There are a number of problems with this disparity, which will only grow larger the more…
Desert Golfing is what happens when someone captures the very best in mobile gaming and twists it into something terrible. That’s also incredible. And awful. There’s not much to Desert Golfing, and that’s part of the appeal. It’s a 2D golf game that you control using a direction/inertia system like that found in Worms or…
Every year I download the demo of the latest FIFA game, play it for a bit, nod then put it away and wait for the actual game to turn up before I start putting serious hours in. This year, I can’t stop playing the demo. For the first time in a few years, this feels…
In addition to a reportyesterday claiming Microsoft was in talks to buy Swedish developers Mojang, Bloomberg now saysthat according to “a person familiar with Microsoft” Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson will in all likelihood step aside from the company once the sale goes through. This source says that the deal was first discussed a few…
Track: Demon | Artist: Entombed | Album: Wolverine Blues Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Alex James is a matte painter who has worked in both the video games and movie businesses. If you’re wondering what a matte painter does, that gif you’re seeing above might help explain it. Some of the movies Alex has worked on include Sin City 2, Pacific Rim, Elysium and Oblivion. You can see more…
This is actually a music video, for Taylor Davis’ rendition of Ocarina of Time’s Kokiri Forest theme. Both the video, and the role-playing, are fantastic.
D Piddy’s Colossal Titan cosplay, last seen being a total creep on the streets of Tokyo, takes a break to break some hearts with a tiny little Mikasa. That’s Cheese cosplaying as Mikasa, and her outfit and gear was made by Yuto Akaboshi
My copy of Destiny didn’t arrive yesterday, so I had to scramble to find something else to play, what with my schedule having been cleared to play Destiny. So I sat down with Ultraworldinstead. Lucky me. It’s an open-world exploration game, one where you play someone inside a video game, tasked with helping out one…
This video begins with some bored Australian kids. It ends about as John Woo as you can get without doves flying out of something. [via Laughing Squid]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that, according to “a person with knowledge of the matter”, Microsoft is in “serious discussions” to buy Mojang, the studio that made smash hit Minecraft. The deal is reported to be worth a whopping $2 billion, and “could be signed as early as this week”. UPDATE – Bloomberg now…
This might be the tamest thing I’ve ever seen Finnish pranksters The Dudesons take a swing at. Nothing explodes, nothing bleeds and the only things broken are some (impressive) cardboard Minecraft suits.
You know what the 1920s needed more of? Giant mechs. The images you’ll see here are all by Jakub Rozalski, a concept artist based in Germany who works at mobile studio Goodgame. You can see more of Jakub’s work at his Tumblrand ArtStationpage. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re…
Photographer Pavel Vesnakov is trying something cool: a blending of screenshots and real-world photography techniques to create images that are very different to what you’d normally see coming out of a game. “First I am taking normal screenshots, which I post-produce with a template that I’ve developed”, Pavel tells me. He then takes out his…
LEGO builder Thomas Benedikt has big dreams. He wants to build a LEGO version of a Super Star Destroyer. And yes, there’s an official model of an SSD already available, but it’s only 4-feet long. Thomas wants to build one over three times larger One catch: that takes a lot of LEGO bricks. So Thomas…
Yup. That’s Fire Emblem’s Marth. Dancing to Kesha’s Tik Tok. And here’s Marth and Roy, cutting a rug. These clips, and more like them, were made by Shinju Kobayashi, using a program called MikuMikuDance, which is kinda like Source Filmmaker, only for funky moves [thanks Tiny Cartridge!]
This isn’t something you see every day. Earlier this week, a man walked into a used game store in Albuquerque, New Mexico (what is it with New Mexico and treasure troves of old games?) and sold a bunch of old Sega stuff. Among it was a box that contained 203 copies of Night Trap, one…
Oh look, another “Teens React” video, this time about the venerable Nintendo Entertainment system. You may come in expecting a clip full of laughter and confusion, but in these kids’ defence, loads of them not only knew what it was, but have played some its games. Well…newer versions of the old games. On their DS.…
Remember that awesome Madden glitchthat rendered one of the game’s players – LB Christian Kirksey – as a tiny little man? Taking the joke and running with it, EA Sports have released a trailer telling the story of “Tiny Titan” (who actually plays for the Browns). Well played, all involved. Well played.
It would be easy to assume that cosplaying as Groot, from Guardians of the Galaxy, is way out of your price range. All that detail! That scale! Turns out, nope, you can do it for just $50. Remember: twigs are free.
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