Using the magic of Photoshop and the wizardry of Garry’s Mod, Ariel Flores has brought together some of video gaming’s greatest heroes in the one team. Calling it the “Vindication Series”, it’s got action, explosions and…Commander Shepard sticking his tongue down the back of Lightning’s neck. Something I never thought I’d see, and now I’ve…
Dr. Grordbort is a character created by WETA’s Greg Broadmore, a champion of Victorian Britain’s struggles against the inhabitants of Mars. Beginning life as the avatar for a range of fancy toy guns, he’s become something of a cult figure, partly for his awesome toy guns, partly because of his wonderful facial hair. Sadly, for…
Brian Johnson makes replica video game weapons. Unlike other ones that just look nice, though, he goes the extra mile and has them functioning as actual NERF guns. We showed you one of these last year, but man, the whole collection is so great I’m showing you a ton of them tonight. Drawing from properties…
Inspired by the replay modes in EA’s Skate series, friends Brandon and Darren decided to put the controllers down and go and make a real skate video just like it. So they did. This is it. It’s called Scorch & Wood, and all the shots you see were filmed at a minimum of 1500 frames…
When I posted a clip from Sniper Elite V2 the other day, I was focused on one thing: killing Germans. So I shot for the head, and I shot for the heart. Both were poor choices. Turns out I should have instead aimed a little lower. It’s funnier that way. WARNING: Video contains exploding balls.…
Let me set the scene. DayZ, a mod for ArmA II, is one of the bleakest, most brutal video game experiences you’ll ever have In keeping communication, convenience and supplies to a minimum, leaving players to their own devices in an empty world out to kill them, it gets what makes a zombie apocalypse so…
Via Vice mag’s tech site, Motherboard, we get a look at one of the best pieces of work ever done on a Game Boy. And it’s not even a game. In response to recent excitement over things like the iPhone’s Game Boy camera app, Michael Byrne shares this clip, made by some friends of his…
The Book of Watermarks is an adventure game released in Japan, and only in Japan, in 1999. Rare for a Japanese adventure game, it featured full-motion video acting and 3D visuals. Oh, and it also tipped its hat to the work of William Shakespeare. Though it’s of course heavily inspired by Myst, being a puzzle-based…
Tinkering around with Directx 11, Romanian developer Silviu Andrei is building an engine capable of rendering not corridors, or arenas, but entire planets Similar to the Outerra project that we’ve featured previously, Andrei not only has a very nice ocean up and splashing, but seamless travel between space and the planet’s surface. While there’s the…
Sony is blaming a price-cut and the 2011 Thai floods for a big loss in the company’s PlayStation division, with $2.8 billion walking out the door never to return. PS3 hardware sales were also down. [Sony]
It’s not hard finding things that are wrong with the video game industry these days. From rip-off DLC to paid-for cheats to games that are sold essentially incomplete, consumers are increasingly getting short shrift. If you want to push back, though, what are your options? Stop buying games? Effective, perhaps, but that’s also cutting off…
Hobbyist Blair Kelly has been working on a project called Arduino Wifly Mini, which takes a remote-controlled Mini Cooper, crams it full of cameras and has you controlling it with your choice of video game peripherals. You can use either an Xbox 360 or PS3 pad, but the car also supports force feedback if you…
Mark Molnar is a concept artist and illustrator who has worked with of the biggest names in entertainment. People like WETA, Games Workshop, Time Warner and Square Enix. To see more of his work, check out his personal site Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of…
Since so much has been made over the past year of World of Warcraft’s declining subscriber numbers, it’s only fair to point out that at last count yesterday morning, the game’s playerbase had stalled at 10.2 million, exactly where it was at last count. With an expansion to come later this year, that number may…
A GameStop source has told Kotaku that, given the relative failure of the company’s push into online PC sales via its purchase of Impulse, it’s now trying something a little more practical. Namely, selling Steam vouchers in its bricks-and-mortar stores. After all, if you can’t beat ’em, skim a little of their money off the…
Expo Fighter is a 2D fighting game in development that leaves dojos, headbands and scantily-dressed Japanese women at the door, instead focusing on combat between…video game company executives. On the stage at E3. That’s the good news. The bad news? It’s asking for $18,000 as a crowd-sourced project, which for a browser-based, free-to-play title seems…
Look at the detail on this statue of Alduin, the badass villain of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The plated scales, the individual teeth, the glowing red eyes, the curled tongue. It’s insane. Now, know that the inscription on the base reads “Happy Birthday Tim”. Yup. This is a cake It wasn’t meant for looking. It…
Of all the teen movies that crawled out of the 1980s, High School USA was far from the finest. And yet here we are, watching a scene of it, right here on Kotaku. Why? Because Michael J Fox is in it, looking divine. And because it reminds us Crispin Glover has always been a little…
The word “arcade” is these days synonymous with video games, but it wasn’t always that way. In 1968, there was no such thing as a consumer video game. So arcades had to make do the old-fashioned way. With pinball machines, novelty amusement machines and lightgun games. There was even room for a fortune teller. These…
Sony announced today that on may 25 they’ll be releasing a bundle which includes a 320GB PS3 and a copy of Modern Warfare 3. And that’s it. No second controller, no bonus DLC, no fancy custom console. Just a black console and the game.
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