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Culture
Christian Bravery’s Concept Art Kills Zones, Borders Lands
Christian Bravery, who founded and still works at concept art studio Leading Light, has been in the business for over two decades In that time, he’s helped shape the appearance of franchises as diverse as LittleBigPlanet, Killzone, Borderlands, Fable, NBA Jam and XCOM Sadly much of that good stuff is, as is typical in the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2012 -
Wow, the Xbox 360 is Absolutely Killing it (in the US, Anyway)
I tend to let monthly sales charts wash over me these days because, well, I’m 31 now and don’t give a shit which console sells more than another in any given month. Sometimes, though, I like to get a little hypocritical and take a peek at annual sales. And 2011’s make for interesting reading. While…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2012 -
You Better Believe Internet Cats Can Fus Ro Dah
I shouldn’t enjoy this. It’s an internet cat video, playing out a tired video gag from a game I’m pretty sure I’ve over-consumed in the past two months. And yet…here it is. After I laughed. In spite of all that. I think it’s more the victim’s reaction after than the shout itself, because unlike the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2012 -
Alienware Launches PC That’s Disguised as a Console
As consoles become more like personal computers with their patches and their upgrades, so too do PCs become more like consoles, with more people using control pads and hooking them up to TVs than ever before. Alienware sees a market in this, with the launch of the X51, a small PC that looks, and is…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012 -
Here’s Your Borderlands 2 Lilith Model, in the Flesh
Gearbox’s long and no-doubt exhaustive search for an attractive young woman who looks like an attractive video game woman is over. Australian Yasemin Arslan will be playing the part of Lilith in the upcoming Borderlands 2. You can see her in-character in the clip below. Hopefully with this competition over Gearbox can now turn their…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallLet’s Watch the Intro to Syndicate, Circa 1993
The single best piece of video game news today is that the original Syndicate is this Thursday going on sale over on Good Old Games for $6. You’ll get more fun out of that game than you will most games costing 10x as much. So let’s celebrate. Here’s the intro to the original 1993 game,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012 -
Mass Effect 3 + Kinect Looks Like This, Beta On February 14
Mass Effect 3 will use Kinect. But how, you ask, will that work? How dorky will I sound yelling things at my TV set? Watch this clip to find out. It’s…well, it doesn’t look too bad! Though these commands are all rather sterile. How well it works with my eyes full of tears or my…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012 -
Real BloodRayne Arm Blades. Real Awesome User Comments.
Believe it or not, you can actually buy this terrifying “replica” of the arm blade from BloodRayne. I say “replica” because it doesn’t look much like the one from the series, not because it doesn’t look like it could cut my face off. We’re not here for the blade itself, though. Sorry, fans of vampires…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012 -
Goatsnake: El Coyote
Ah, Goatsnake. Formed in 1996 and for all intents done for today, this is El Coyote, taken from the band’s 2000 album, Flower of Disease. Goatsnake were one of several amazing bands on the sadly now-defunct Man’s Ruin label, which was owned by artist Frank Kozik and which at some time or another boasted the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012 -
These Video Game Companies Hunt Pirates For Cash
You know how Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt were using German courts to go after alleged pirates of the game? And how they gave up when everyone told them how shitty the practice they were using was? Turns out CD Projekt are just the tip of the iceberg. An investigation from file-sharing specialists TorrentFreak has…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012 -
Culture
Game Art From Star Wars, Command & Conquer, Call of Duty & More
Thomas A. Szakolczay is a video game concept artist. With twelve years experience across some of the biggest franchises in the business, if you can’t tell me you’ve played a game he’s worked on, you’re probably lying. He’s been employed by the likes of Activision, Capcom, Epic, EA, Infinity Ward, Treyarch, Warner Bros., Lucasarts and…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012 -
Fake Guns Make for Great Battlefield 3 Movies
This isn’t, despite all appearances to the contrary, a fan film based on EA’s Battlefield 3. It’s a commercial based on EA’s Battlefield 3, one for a store that sells replica guns But that’s OK. The advertising is kept to a bare minimum, the majority of the clip devoted to grown men running around with…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012 -
Play Mario as Samus, Simon Belmont and Mega Man. Again!
In 2010, a fan-made game called Super Mario Bros. Crossover was released, which let players tackle the Nintendo classic using not just the standard plumber, but a cast of characters from other 8-bit games as well. It now has a sequel which is kicking things up a notch, taking the 8-bit visuals from the first…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012 -
Fans are Helping Make This Racing Game, and Will be Paid for it
Slightly Mad Studios made the white-knuckled, if flawed Shift 2 for EA. They’re now making something a lot more interesting: a racing game, Project CARS, where they’re getting help from fans to not just pay for the game, but to code it. Because the team are short on the millions normally provided by a publisher,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012 -
This Half-Life Mod is About Being Stuck in an Elevator. It is Incredible.
If you’ve got Half-Life 2 and Garry’s Mod you should really go and download this free mod called Elevator: Source. It’s about being stuck in an elevator with strangers. Internet strangers. And the elevator can take you anywhere That really is it. It’s like Chatroulette meets Half-Life. You’ll end up in an elevator with….well, freaks,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2012 -
Every Game Studio That’s Closed Down Since 2006
Pub trivia fans and those looking for an example of just how cut-throat the video game industry can be, take a look at this list. Try and memorise it if you must, but know it is very long, because it’s a list of every developer and studio that’s closed down since 2006. But first, a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 16, 2012 -
Microsoft is Not Doing Enough to Help Xbox Live “Hack” Victims
So there’s been some kind of security problem with Xbox Live accounts for a while now. Microsoft denies there’s been any compromise of its own data, yet still, for months now users have complained of having their accounts hijacked by people making unauthorised transaction. A theory emerged last week that the cause of the issue…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 16, 2012 -
Gauntlet Reimagined, Looks (Mostly) Badass
Artist Dave Rapoza, whose amazing work we’ve featured before here on Kotaku, let us know over the weekend about a little competition his (and fellow artist Dan Warren’s) website, Crimson Daggers, was running. The object was to recreate the cover to arcade classic Gauntlet. The results are awesome. BLOODSPORT 3! GAUNTLET! [Crimson Daggers]
By Luke Plunkett Published January 16, 2012 -
Droids Have Feelings too, You Know. Even When They’re Not the Droids You’re Looking for.
Don’t assume that, just because they’ve been built in a factory and programmed by man, that droids are just hunks of metal and wiring. They’re as much characters of the Star Wars universe as anyone else. More feelings [paperbeatsscissors, via Geek-Art]
By Luke Plunkett Published January 16, 2012
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