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Dude, Why is Link’s Horse Called Ian?
Remember back to 2010, dear readers, and you may remember a cute little comic about Link and Epona by British writer and artist Louis Roskosch Well, the book that comic was due to appear in is now finished, and it looks just lovely. It’s not all about Zelda, but there’s a lot of video game…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012 -
Culture
The Battlefields, Hangar Bays and Future Guns of Mass Effect 3
Brian Sum is a concept artist who has worked for Canadian developers BioWare since 2007. Before that, he’d been at Sierra and Microsoft’s FASA Studio. As a senior concept artist working on Mass Effect 3, Sum has produced some stunning vistas for many of the game’s galactic locations, ranging from the inside of alien starships…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012 -
Capcom, Street Fighter, KONY 2012, Angelina Jolie’s Leg, Together
What happens when the team at Taiwanese animation house NMA and Capcom get together for what looks like a little marketing? Street Fighter X Tekken becomes Angelina Jolie X KONY 2012. And the world is a better place for it.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012 -
The New iPad’s Retina Display Can’t Stop Bullets
Apple’s new iPad has already sold 3 million units, and it hasn’t even been on sale for a week. This is important video game news, but I understand, there are a lot of people who like to pretend that isn’t the case. For them, here is video of a man shooting a new iPad. Not…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012 -
BioWare Takes Dragon Age Back to the Drawing Board
With Mass Effect 3 hogging the headlines for all the right (and wrong) reasons this month, BioWare feels now is the time to reveal that the Dragon Age series is in for what sounds like a serious bout of self-reflection. After the second game in the series bitterly disappointed many fans, and with it now…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallWhen French Musicians Make Love to the Video Games of the 1980s
Teaming up with French band Sna-Fu Grand Desordre Orchestre, artist Pierre Manry has made a clip for the group’s song Dream O Rama that is one enormous tip of the hat to the video games of yesteryear. If you like what you see, the band has alternate versions hosted on their site, like one as…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallAnd You Thought Mass Effect 3’s Ending Was Bad…
When people get all misty-eyed about the amazing, original Syndicate from 1993, they often overlook something. The game’s ending. Or, to be more accurate, its complete lack of one. Maybe they never finished the game, I don’t know, but I did. And it was a tough game. So getting to the end I was expecting…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 -
Total Recall Starts Now!
Kotaku’s daily look back at the history of video games starts….now.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 -
Microsoft Working on a Gaming Helmet, Glasses
Since 2010, Microsoft has been working on a gaming display system so small that it wouldn’t need to be sitting on an entertainment unit or even held in your hands. You could wear it in a pair of glasses. Or in a stupid helmet. The company sees two avenues for such technology: the glasses are…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 -
Star Warfare is Fighting Against Awful iPhone Controls
Look, for the most part, there’s nothing terribly remarkable about iPhone shooter Star Warfare. Its visuals are nice, if hardly top-shelf in this post-Infinity Blade world. Its structure, while taking enough cues from Horde mode games to be enjoyable, isn’t pushing the idea anywhere new. You essentially spend a lot of time running around shooting…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 -
Battlefield 3 Goes Back in Time, High-Fives Contra
Just in case you ever thought Battlefield 3 would be better with sound effects from Contra and the NES version of Top Gun (and music from Batman), here you go. Battlefield 3, with sound effects from Contra and the NES version of Top Gun It’s amazing how, once the joke wears off, you notice it…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 -
When Star Wars Meets High Fashion, AT-AT Drivers Ride French Bicycles
Artist John Woo throws together two very unlikely things – high fashion and the characters of Star Wars – in his “He Wears It” series of prints and images. Don’t let the name fool you, there are ladies as well. And some characters from outside the Star Wars universe, like the T-1000. But mostly, it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 -
Be the Humans, or the Giant Shark Monster
Omegalodon is a simple little arcade action game for the PC that gives you an easy choice: either control an enormous shark monster as it smashes through a city, or control the humans trying to stop it. Adding a little strategy to proceedings is the ability of the humans to jump in a wide range…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 -
Mass Effect 3’s Multiplayer Stats are Missing One
There’s the usual hours logged and enemies killed in this multiplayer stats report from BioWare, but the most interesting – percentage of players only playing in the first place because they felt they were forced to – seems to have been left out. Which may sound awfully ungrateful, but as robust as it is –…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 -
The Skyrim Tourism Board Wants you to Visit Winterhold
Not that Skyrim really needed a tourism board, since millions of people have been spending entire weeks in the place lately, but if it did, you’d hope its efforts would look this classy. These posters were done by artist Dean Walton, and if they look familiar that’s because he did a similar series for Zelda…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012 -
Bit.Trip Runner’s Sequel Just Keeps on Running
The ridiculously good Bit.Trip Runner has a sequel, of sorts, on the way. It’s not part of the Bit.Trip series, though, so it’s simply called Runner 2. Which about sums up what’s going on. Note that, as good as this already looks, it’s a “super sneaky peek” at pre-alpha code, which you’ll eventually realise with…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2012 -
First-Person Grand Theft Auto is Kicking Everyone’s Bananas
While this clip showing Grand Theft Auto from a first-person perspective is a little slower – and less explosive – than you’re probably accustomed to, it at least gets the spirit of the series less scripted moments right. Except for those hands. Not really sure what’s going on there.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2012 -
Mass Effect’s Reapers are Going to F**k Every Organic Being in the Galaxy
Surprisingly, this whole “unnecessary censorship” gag hasn’t entirely worn out its welcome, as this very dramatic clip from Mass Effect 3 shows. If you’re not entirely sold on the idea, make it to 1:13. Or, better yet, Miranda.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2012 -
The Very Best In Cosplay: Julia Kasu
Julia Kasu, aka KasuzameYuu, is a costume builder and cosplayer from Russia. You may never have heard of her, but if you read this website, you should have seen her work from time to time Her Left 4 Dead outfits (both of which she made, while she also “played” the Witch), for example, are some…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2012
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