There’s retiring old video game characters by not using them any more, and then there’s retiring old video game characters by building little models of them and destroying them. Introversion, the developers of strategy game Darwinia, are done with the property. Having worked on it in some for another for nearly a decade now across…
In case you’ve missed it, a video game idea on Kickstarter has helped smash the site’s records by raising over one million dollars in a single day That. Is. Bananas. And it begs the question: why? Why were so many people so willing to invest money in an idea that the video game industry itself…
Wow. Good job, internet! Despite the fact the project was announced less than 24 hours ago, Double Fine’s Kickstarter campaign for a new graphic adventure has reached its goal of $400,000. That means around 10,000 regular humans on the internet (maybe you!) donated $400,000 out of your own pockets to see some legends of an…
After I posted Sole’s new video yesterday, I was inundated with emails from people saying “OH YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THIS MUSIC VIDEO THAT’S LIKE A VIDEO GAME”. Most of them were rubbish, but this one, from Polinski, was great The entire clip plays out like an old Spectrum game, down to the tape loading…
The creators of Adventure Time have long been dreaming of the perfect video game adaptation for the series. So much so they’re starting to write stuff down. And share it! These sketches are the product of a little brainstorming session between Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward and Patrick McHale, one of the show’s writers. I…
This is Jason Baily, the CEO of East Side Games, with a mic in hand and some beef with Zynga, makers of Facebook games like Farmville. The world doesn’t have much of it, but it could really do with more video game stand-up comedy VIDEO: Stand-up comedy on Zynga cloning [Develop]
With the game out this week, now’s as good a time as any to look at some concept art from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning While a whole team of artists worked on the game, today we’re taking a look at the colourful contributions of Big Huge Games’ principal concept artist Sean Andrew Murray. If you…
Ever since EA binned The White Council, I’ve been dying for an open-world RPG set in the world of The Lord of the Rings. I am also far from the only one, as a team of modders has been working on building themselves just that, using Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls games as a base. The project,…
Come on, be honest. Someone, somewhere along the line would find a way to screw everything up. So these make-believe movie posters are probably as good as we’re ever going to get! These posters are the second batch we’ve seen from artist Olly Moss in this style, after the Super Mario ones we showed you…
Skyrim’s offical Creation Kit hasn’t even been out a week (or half a week!), and already, there is some amazing stuff being done. There are now crabs with tophats A new island in the game. With a village on it. And the whole thing is made of ice. The chance to get a new follower…
Meara Lynn Nichols, an employee at Nintendo of America, has been reported missing by her husband after failing to return home from an appointment at her son’s school. Although she had left her laptop on and Facebook account logged in, when she didn’t come home Matthew Nichols contacted the school, who let him know there…
The first Darkness game was released in 2007. With some original ideas for the genre and a setting that wasn’t space or a war, it was a surprise hit, and people still say nice things about it today. The second Darkness game was released in 2012. It’s…well…yes. While The Darkness was developed by Starbreeze, who…
Tim Schafer, an adventure game legend for his days working on old Lucasarts titles, has just put his Double Fine studio to work on a Kickstarter project. To “make an old-school graphic adventure”. Oh boy I say OH BOY because not only would Schafer – whose adventure gaming credits include Day of the Tentacle, Grim…
Rapper Sole, who we’ve featured once or twice here on Kotaku before, has a new video out with his Skyrider Band (pictured above), and it’s one that might be right inside a gamer’s wheelhouse. Why? The video for the track, Bad Captain Swag, was put together by a couple of game artists – Randy Greenback…
Theo Stylianides is a concept artist working in London for Opus Artz, a studio that’s provided content for series like Dead Space, Infamous and BioShock Today, though, we’re looking at Theo’s personal project, Helldiver, which he describes as “pretty much sci-fi-inspired super soldiers selected from the best military forces in the world, brought together to…
Artist Mads Peitersen combines an Xbox 360 with…Bilbo Baggins’ house. Don’t click away without at least looking at the shadow. Unexpected Journey [DeviantArt, via Rampaged Reality]
Malukah’s haunting interpretation of the Skyrim theme may not sound like the best thing to stick on at a party, let alone a wedding reception, but given the time and the place here it kind of fits. Boy, two months on and that song still gives me goosebumps. Skyrim Wedding Dance of the Day [TDW]
The PlayStation 3’s firmware has just been updated to 4.1. Of interest is a new web browser, which can’t be any worse than the last one! Also of interest is the fact that for many people it’s breaking Netflix.
Will there be a slimmer PlayStation Vita sometime down the line? Sometime soon? The evidence is mounting. It’s out there. Trust nobody. The Vita Mystery HD [Mega 64] Get More: GameTrailers.com, Mega64 – The Vita Mystery HD, PC Games, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A Red Dead Redemption fansite has been holding court with some interesting interviews lately with the Western’s cast, and the latest – with Rob Wiethoff, voice of John Marston himself – is no exception. Wiethoff makes Rockstar, who we normally assume to be a slightly eccentric, paranoid bunch, sound incredibly eccentric and paranoid with the…
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