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These Developers Just Took Their Characters Out Back and Shot Them. For Real.
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
Why the Internet Gave This Man $1 Million. In a Single Day.
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
Gamers Donate $400,000 IN ONE DAY To See Their Heroes Make a New Game
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
This Awesome Music Video Thinks it’s a Very Old Video Game
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
Adventure Time Game Ideas Sound like Something for Awesome Old PC Gamers
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
Even Stand-Up Comedy Routines Are Giving the Farmville Guys Shit
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]
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
Culture
Reckon With Some of Kingdoms of Amalur’s Concept Art (Sorry)
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
Middle Earth is Being Recreated, Tower by Tower, in The Elder Scrolls
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,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
A Zelda Movie Could Never Look This Cool
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
Thanks to You, Skyrim Now Has Fancy Crabs, Spider-Man and Tiny Nords
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2012 -
Nintendo Employee Reported “Missing”
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2012 -
Reviews
The Darkness II: The Kotaku Review
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2012 -
The Creators of Monkey Island & Day of the Tentacle Are Trying To Make Another Old-School Adventure Game
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2012 -
This Rap Video Was Made by Game Artists
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2012 -
Culture
Commander Shepard, You’re Looking Awfully Dangerous Today
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2012 -
Nothing Says “First Wedding Dance” Like the Skyrim Theme
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]
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2012 -
The PlayStation Vita Slim is Coming. One Day.
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
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2012 -
A Crazy, Paranoid Story From Red Dead Redemption’s Development
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 7, 2012
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