Chris Person

To Win This Game, You Have To Guess Where It Abandoned You

GeoGuessr, as you might have guessr’d from the name, is a straightforward game. You get dropped in the middle of a random location on Google Street View and have to guess, based on your surroundings, where the hell you are. The closer you are, the higher your score. Pretty simple right? The difficulty varies wildly.…

Show Us What You Love And Hate About Nathan Drake’s Character Design

Ah, Uncharted’s Nathan Drake — The everyman’s adventurer. In a gaming landscape populated with neckless, ‘roid-filled space marines and cyborg ninjas, you’re here to remind us that being a regular joe on a mystical adventure is its own kind of cool. Drake has gone through a lot of small, tiny changes over the years, but…

The Quiet Moments In Metro: Last Light’s Apocalypse

Mood is such an important thing in a nuclear apocalypse; a detail that is so easy to forget. That’s something that’s painfully palpable in the first hour of Metro: Last Light Yes there are telepathic, radioactive creatures. Yes, there is shooting and stabbing. But what really sticks to my ribs more than anything are those…

Some of the Best & Worst One-Liners in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, came out last week. If you played it, you may notice that its main character, Rex “Power” Colt, is an unstoppable, one-liner army. In the supercut above, I assembled some of Rex’s funniest, stupidest and most groan-worthy zingers. See how long you can go without cringing, giggling or saying “I…

Snoop Dogg’s New Game is Essentially PaRappa The Rapper but Broken

Did you know that Snoop Dogg (né ‘Snoopy’) has a game out today? It’s true! Its also doesn’t work half the time! Way of the Dogg is a downloadable game out today for XBLA. In it, you play a blacksploitation stereotype named America Jones (let that one really sink in) whose girlfriend is shot (it’s…

Breaking Down The Absurd Anatomy of a Video Game Scare Piece

Yesterday, Katie Couric did an hour-long exposé on the dangers of violent, addictive video games. While at times it attempted to be sympathetic and contained actual moments of pathos, it was essentially a maudlin, fear-mongering and clichéd piece of television meant to provide easy answers and scapegoats to very real, complicated problems. Here’s the whole…

The Grand Theft Auto V Trailers, Summed Up in 3 Animated GIFs

Rockstar released their triptych of trailers yesterday for Grand Theft Auto V‘s cast. Of course, it was a busy day yesterday. You may have been at work. You may have been enjoying a lovely April day. You may have been reading a review of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. Believe me, we understand. So in…

Here’s Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon in Action For Seven Minutes

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon— the neon and fuchsia drenched stand alone expansion for Far Cry 3 — is out today for the Playstation Network. We’ll have a review of it later today, but in the meantime, here’s seven minutes of me playing the game just to give you a taste of what it’s like…

Watch Some of GLaDOS’ Best Moments in Poker Night 2

Poker video games aren’t usually done well. They’re historically cheap, flavorless games without a lot of personality. Telltale’s Poker Night 2 does not suffer from those problems, particularly when it comes to its dealer, GLaDOS. In the video above, watch some of the psychotic AI poker dealer’s cruelest one liners. It almost makes the humiliating…

Telltale Games’ Poker Night 2 came out yesterday for the Xbox 360, and it has some pretty obscure references in it. Hell, it even references games that aren’t really out yet. Can you catch the indie game reference in this clip? The video is from the intro of Poker Night 2, where you’ll hear the…

Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen: The Kotaku Review

Oh, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen. I want to like you. I really, really do. On paper, I should. On paper you and I should be thick as thieves. So why, please tell me why, I don’t like you? Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is an expanded, budget re-release of the original game which, you might recall,…

Show Us What You Love And Hate About the Beyond: Two Souls Box Art

In a world where we’re constantly bombarded with gross, tacky box art, a well designed cover can be a breath of fresh air. To that end, how does the newly revealed, gunless box art for Beyond: Two Souls fit in? It’s time to weigh in, Kotaku readers. Using our image annotation system, show us what…

What Did Luigi Whisper To The President Of Nintendo?

Today Nintendo President and adorable spokesperson Satoru Iwata delivered one of the company’s Nintendo Direct videos. For a good portion of the time he was standing next to a giant, costumed Luigi. Sometimes, he stood next to many Luigis. Fun fact: A group of several Luigis is known as a ‘Miracle’. Also, the correct plural…

Show Us What You Love and Hate About Solid Snake’s Character Design

There are times when an expressive character design works the best. That’s how I’ve always felt about the art of the Metal Gear series — it’s emotional, dramatic and implies so much about its characters simply by how it’s drawn. Of course, you might disagree with me. Using our image annotation system, show us what…

Guacamelee! : The Kotaku Review

On its own, nostalgia isn’t worth a whole lot — It takes a truly special game like Guacamelee! to make you realize why you became nostalgic to begin with. In the video review above, I talk about the experience of playing the artsy retro-throwback Guacamelee!; What it does right and why you should play it.

The Dark Souls II Gameplay Reveal in a Single GIF

IGN had their 12 minute long Dark Souls II gameplay reveal today. It contained a lot of dying. It also had torches and boars in it (I thought they were bears at first). The above GIF sums up the trailer pretty nicely. Footage via IGN

The Many Memes, References and Homages of Guacamelee!

To say that the game Guacamelee! contains a few references would be a massive understatement — The game is absolutely brimming with them. While playing the game for review (which should be coming soon) I kept track of whatever hat-tips, homages, and internet memes that I could find in Guacamelee!. Most of them should be…

All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Playing LucasArts Games

I played a whole lot of LucasArts games growing up. Like, a lot. I used to look forward to getting the company catalogue, The Adventurer, in the mail. I knew all the sword-fighting insults by heart. Sam and Max taught me to love words. Hell, I even got made fun of by crappy playground bullies…

Here’s how Fox Business reported that closure of LucasArts had no effect on Disney’s stock price. Also, here’s how the media pronounces Kotaku (Note: This is not how to pronounce Kotaku).

LucasArts is Dead: Let’s Remember The Good Times

I don’t get wistful that often when it comes to gaming news. Companies come and go, but LucasArts was something special. It’s time to remember that. Yes, the LucasArts of more recent memory was not the company it was in the 1990s. Yes, the luminaries of old had left to found their own companies. But…