While Steam theoretically allows you to play your games without an internet connection, there are catches, like the fact that every now and then you have to get back online for the feature to work. Which in some circumstances kinda defeats the point! Weirdly, while you’d be forgiven for thinking this was a design decision,…
So a few days back a fantastic blooper reel from the filming of the first Star Wars was found. Naturally, this footage has now been cut into a trailer for the movie. Based on the very first Star Wars trailer – which my poor brain now associates with Unkleinstead of the movie – it swaps…
Look, video game names have always been a little silly. And likely always will be. But this past console generation saw the emergence of a new kind of silly, one that graduated from “harmless fun” to “facepalm”. I’m talking about the concept of taking standard naming conventions and throwing them out the window. I’m talking…
Come on. When Sony started teasing the return of a quirky PS1 peripheral – the PocketStation – you didn’t really think they’d re-release the actual hardware, did you? No, instead it’s returning in the form of a PlayStation Vita application (literally called PocketStation for PlayStation Vita), which is being made available free to PlayStation Plus…
Everyone have a good weekend? Here’s some stuff you might have missed. Valve Fans Rampage After Game Fails To Hold…A Halloween Event Battlefield 4 Has Some Problems (But They’re Being Worked On) Halloween Is The Best Week For Cosplay Reports: Nintendo Game Doesn’t Censor Lyrics, Drops F**k, S**t Bombs
Track: Sadness Comes Home | Album: All We Love We Leave Behind | Artist: Converge Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Outerra, an engine that has the potential to change the way we play certain genres of video games, just keeps looking better every time we see it. This new video highlights the massive engine’s ability to generate and distribute vegetation as it flies over Mexico. Not a tiny, artificial caricature of Mexico. A 1:1 recreation…
This is the latest trailer for Capy’s Super TIME Force, and while their lastone was awesome, this might be even better. Forget expensive cinematics or insomnia-curing developer diaries; this is how you sell a video game. You entertain and inform. Seamlessly. If you thought your Xbox 360 was done for, think again, because this hits…
What you’re seeing here is Ironfall. The footage isn’t strictly a game. It’s a tech demo showcasing the kind of effects you’ll hopefully see in it when it’s done. But for now, let’s just enjoy it and hope they can actually pull this off. The Gears of War influence is being worn on Ironfall’s sleeves…
Wii Karaoke U is a service that’s been available in Japan for a while, a built-in app for Nintendo’s console that lets users play a basic singing game using their Miis. The game – developed by Joysound – went and hit Europe last month, converted to a downloadable title, and the song selection is…interesting. According…
Hyper Light Drifter was oncea tiny little Kickstarter. It was asking for $27,000. It ended up making $645,000 Now that the dust has settled and the cash has been counted, here’s three minutes of gameplay from a “pre-alpha basic demonstration”. Normally that disclaimer is attached because an in-progress game is looking like crap, but this,…
I like to keep the cosplay related to video games where I can on Fancy Pants, but some days – or even some weeks – you’ve got to make exceptions. The week that included Halloween is one such exception. There’s some Carrie and Labyrinth cosplay on show this week that is just the best. And…
Like most online games, Battlefield 4 on PC is having some teething problems. While they’re not as severe as certainother gameshave experienced this year, they’re still a pain in the butt for those affected. Things like server crashes, long queues, loss of player progression and in-game bugs are making some people’s experience with the big…
Videos of the Xbox One’s dashboard and user interface in action have been getting progressively better, the latest being this handy clip put together by The Verge Shot with a half-decent camera/phone, and by a man who can keep his hand steady while filming, this video also benefits from uploader Tom Warren narrating the action…
Valve normally runs cute little Halloween events for some of its games. Team Fortress 2 gets Scream Fortress, for example, while DOTA 2 had Diretide. Oh, except for this year. And boy are people upset Once Halloween came and went with no announcement of a Diretide for 2013, fans of the game went nuts. The…
Morning, internet! Here’s some cool stuff that happened overnight. Crazy Man Puts Computer Inside Arm (Without Help From Doctors) Rockstar’s Perfect Video Game Moment If Only Sony Made PS4 Controllers This Nice Nice Zelda Video, Nintendo. Shame You Screwed it Up.
You don’t have to drivearound killing people and scooping up dirty money in Grand Theft Auto V. The game gives you a camera. You could just walk around taking beautiful photos, like Luis Serrano here. A lover of video game photographysince the days of San Andreas, he’s been using GTA V’s camera phone to take…
American Tim Cannon is a “biohacker”. That unsightly bulge on his arm there is where he stuck a giant computer chip beneath his skin, which transmits his biometric data to Android devices. Which will be interesting data and all but oh God just look at those stitches The chip is kept safe because it’s sealed…
Martin Deschambault is a senior concept artist at Ubisoft Montreal. The last time we gave him his own feature on Fine Art was foran Assassin’s Creed game, so let’s not go changing things just for the sake of change. Deschambault’s work on Assassin’s Creed IV is, as you can see, fantastic. So good, in fact,…
Here’s a cute little video from Nintendo, showing some guys building a replica of Wind Waker’s Windfall Island out of sand. Such craft! Such whimsy! Except… THAT IS THE OUTSET ISLAND THEME SONG, NOT THE WINDFALL ISLAND THEME SONG.
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