Once was a time, when you play games like Hexen and Heretic, that first-person shooters weren’t always about shooting. Sometimes they could be about throwin’ fireballs and castin’ spells. Lichdom is a return to those times, and a good-looking one at that. Though billed as an “action adventure”, and with RPG elements up to its…
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I guess…someone at EA Australia signed off on this? Thinking this was a…good thing? It’s a shame. FIFA usually has some of the best commercials in gaming. Warning: this clip is very Australian. Perhaps, in parts, a little too Australian.
Danish (of course) designer Jonathan Trier has an idea. He wants to see a LEGO series with a more mature slant. A more Danish slant. And so we get…LEGO Hitman. It’ll never happen, of course, the franchise is just way too violent. So we will look at Trier’s images (of both a game and LEGO…
Mobile puzzler Dragon Academy didn’t have millions to spend on cinematic trailers and E3 booths. Indeed, it ended up with a marketing budget of…$11.13. What can you get for $11.13? Some stupid Vine videos, that’s what. And…exposure on an international video games website. Bargain. But seriously, this is as cute as it is effective. Dragon…
Stefano Tsai works at Creative Assembly as a 3D artist. Not on the Total War games, though, he’s currently chipping away at the studio’s mythical Alien franchise game. You won’t find any images of that here, obviously. What you will find are a number of breathtakingly “real” 3D images. Seriously, corridor cross-sections? It’s my secret…
Proving there really is a sport out there for everyone, Australian school teacher Sarah Hay is the best woman – and one of the best humans – in the world at…jousting. Seriously. In the full armour and everything Regular readers of Kotaku will know this stuff isn’t new, or rare; people all over the world…
Underneath all that armour and costume is not Castlevania’s Gabriel (or, in this case, Gabrielle) Belmont. It is cosplay superstar Meagan Marie, in one of the most industrious outfits I’ve ever seen. She built the entire thing herself, costume and accessories, from building the complex gauntlets to “forging” the swords to constructing the combat cross…
A pair of artists, in the name of a “social commentary” on video game violence, have decided to start playing Grand Theft Auto V as a serial killer. Complete with motive and costume. And document the whole thing. Look at the images enough times and your thoughts on the whole thing will likely have flip-flopped…
Think of the internet, and right up there with gifs, cats and nutshots you’ll probably think of comments. Awful, terrible, hateful comments, full of bigotry, spite and venom. It’s long been assumed that might just be the way the internet works, but surprisingly, things might actually be changing. In the last week, some of the…
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In the middle of a Reddit AMA, ostensibly about a Humble Bundle, lies a little piece of magic. It’s a gallery, shared by Fez programmer Renaud Bédard, showing how the game looked when the code went a little wrong The one up top was probably “caused by declaring 16-bit indices and actually feeding 32-bit indices”.…
I normally don’t like making such crude comparisons between games, but given the character design in Aer – and the fact I only just played Wind Waker again – I can’t help it. Don’t worry. It’s a very, very good thing. This is a “proof of concept trailer” for Aer. Swedish developers forgotten key say…
Next time you drive up to Michael’s front gate in Grand Theft Auto V, you might want to give it a nudge. What appears to be a simple security gate is actually a deadly car catapult. Shame these won’t count as stunt jumps, and that the gate will likely lose its magic powers after the…
I featured one DICE artist last night, it’s only fair tonight to showcase another man involved in the design of the Battlefield series. Below you’ll see some personal and professional work from Swedish artist Eric Persson, a concept artist at DICE who has worked on both Battlefield 3 and the upcoming Battlefield 4. You can…
Benjen Stark, brother of Ned Stark, is one of the more interesting characters you meet early in Game of Thrones. Then…he’s gone. But today, he’s back! A Tale of Benjen Stark is an amazing short that tells the story of what happens to Benjen, at least until the point he…well, yes. A tale of Benjen…
Adam “DjArcas” Sawkins used to work at Burnout developers Criterion. He left a while ago, to work on indie titles like Fortresscraft, but recently figured that hey, if nobody else is making Burnout games anymore, he may as well. He can’t afford the license, obviously, but his Unity game Truck Stop is a Burnout game…
Kowloon Walled City was the closest this planet has ever come to having our own, real Mega-City One. Poverty, people packed in like sardines, drugs, prostitution, a vacuum of authority…it was insane. It’s been gone for nearly twenty years now, but a series of amazing photos has helped bring the “city” back to life. Originally…
Here’s Mega64 trying to ruin a Grand Theft Auto V launch with a very special kind of spoiler. Stick with it. The escape is better than the crime. GTA V MIDNIGHT LAUNCH RUINED BY ME!!!!!!!! [YouTube, via ALBOTAS]
GameCube games can run on a PC. The Oculus Rift works for the PC. What comes next? White knuckles and sick bags. While the framerate stutters a bit on this particular footage, the fact it’s working should give hope – or fear – to F-Zero fans the world over. If we can’t get a new…
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