I finally got a chance to play Ultimate General: Gettysburg over the weekend. It was a lot more important than I thought it was going to be. If you want to read up on the background – and why people are quietly excited about this game despite it coming from seemingly nowhere – here’s an…
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Track: Ugly Boy | Album: Donker Mag | Artist: Die Antwoord Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Ridge Racer has come a long way since the first arcade game was released over 20 years ago. Sadly, for a while now a lot of it has been downhill. A champion of the earlier PlayStation eras, the game’s been on a sharp decline since its infamous appearance at Sony’s 2006 E3 appearance, culminating in…
As absurd as it may sound, the humble game of pinball was once declared illegal across large swathes of the United States. And the law being the law, some of those swathes are only just getting around to fixing that. It was announced last week that the city of Oakland, which criminalized pinball machines in…
There were 169 people killed on-screen during the fourth season of Game of Thrones. For those in need of a recap, here they all are. WARNING: OBVIOUSLY, THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS
Track: I Could Hear The Water At The Edge Of All Things | Album: Oblivion Hymns | Artist: Hammock Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Marek Madej is a concept artist at CD Projekt, the developers of The Witcher series. In addition to his contributions to that series (and in particular Witcher 3), he’s also done card games, board games, film and album cover work. You can see more of Marek’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page. To…
Yes, you read that right. This costs $900, not $90. But whatever. If it means I can walk around muttering “enhance” and shooting at robots, I’ll pay it. Limited to just 50 pieces worldwide, it’s as faithful a reproduction of Harrison Ford’s sidearm as we’re ever going to get, with each component exactly the same…
Attendees at Sydney’s Supanova convention last weekend got to try out something pretty neat: a 360-degree camera rig just like the ones E! uses on the Oscars red carpet. The results are pretty cool. Cosplayers acting out can sometimes look a little naff, but the way this freezes them in the middle of a pose…
Snowpiercer is a very, very good movie. It’s not an original concept, though, being based on 1982 French comic Le Transperceneige. Which, despite being regarded as something of a cult classic, has only now been translated into English. Titan has translated and published not just the original Le Transperceneige, but its 1999 sequel (which was…
Track: Just One Fix | Album: Psalm 69 | Artist: Ministry Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Video games don’t have a great track record when it comes to Arabic, but those are Western games where people have done a shitty job depicting the language. Things look much better when we let a natural handle things. Egyptian graphic designer Ibrahim Hamdi has taken a bunch of famous and iconic gaming logos and…
Pavel Elagin is an Australian artist who has not only worked on games like XCOM and BioShock, but also the LEGO movie. You can see more of Pavel’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them…
This Destiny video is unlike any other you’ve probably seen about the game, because it’s all about…the user interface. Which, as you may have noticed during the alpha, is really really good. It’s not in visuals or sound that the really expensive games, the ones made by hundreds of experienced developers, can stand apart from…
French cosplayer and artist Boredman shows what happens when you give up on ever finding Waldo: he dies, rots then returns to feast on the flesh of the living. If you’re curious about the strange metal clip sticking out of his mouth, Boredman says it’s a prop to help his mouth curl into a zombie-like…
Panzer Corps is not a new game. It’s been out since 2011, and is a faithful remake (in all but name) of a game first released twenty years ago. None of which matters. In 2014, it’s still one of the best strategy games you can get on the PC. Despite being a huge Panzer General…
This large cardboard box measures around 48″x 48″x 48″. It is full of Nintendo DS and 3DS games. Around 1200 pounds of them Redditor HxCurt, who works at an e-cycling plant, says most of them are Activision’s dreadful iCarly 2 on DS, which will never find a home, not at any price. Hence their arrival…
There are so many things to love about the movies of Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli, but the one I’ve always admired the most is the worlds they take place in. Those worlds, so often based on European and Japanese landscapes, are brought to life in a way that makes them look like the most…
Midora is basically Minish Cap, only with a female lead. And some crafting. I love the pixel art, I love the character design. Back it on Kickstarter
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