Patrick Klepek

VR Demo Brings Shark Nightmare To life

I’m tremendously excited about virtual reality’s potential. We’ll be able to visit far-off worlds and have experiences that haven’t even been dreamed up yet! If I was making a top ten list of things I wanted to better understand through VR, however, a shark attack wouldn’t be on it. As part of a promotion for…

If LittleBigPlanet Were A Horror Game, It’d Look Like This

The developers of LittleBigPlanet for Vita and Tearaway Unfolded are preparing something far more unsettling. Hunger is about a little girl’s escape from a very strange place called The Maw. Tarsier has been working on Hunger since last summer, right after the studio received about $170,000 in funding for its development from the Creative Europe…

Prepare for buckets o’ blood, as Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is officially launching on March 10 for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Mac, Linux, and Vita.

Resident Evil: Revelations 2‘s Advertising Isn’t Entirely Honest

You can play split-screen co-op on the console versions of Resident Evil: Revelations 2 but not the PC version. It’s not uncommon for games to have different features on other platforms, here’s the problem: Capcom didn’t appear to tell anyone until the game was about to launch. In Revelations 2, players are always running around…

Cancelled Sonic Game Brought Back To Life After 18 Years

Sonic X-treme should have been Sonic the Hedgehog‘s 3D debut on the Saturn, except it was cancelled in 1997. Diehard fans haven’t given up on the game, though, and someone recently ported Sonic X-Treme onto modern PCs. The dream of Sonic X-treme will never die, it seems! The news was announced on the Sonic Retro…

The Colder It Is Outside, The Less This Game Will Cost

Most people don’t hope the temperature drops, but in the case of A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, the colder it is outside, the less you’ll have to pay to start playing this charming puzzler. A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build launches on Steam and other places tomorrow. Eventually, it’ll cost $12 to…

Resident Evil Revelations 2 Isn’t Off To A Great Start

It’s been nearly 20 years since Capcom introduced us to the world of Resident Evil, but Revelations 2 is the first time the series has gone episodic. I’m not convinced it’s better for it. Revelations 2 picks up well after the Raccoon City incident—the mansion, the t-virus, the evil Umbrella corporation—that kicked everything off. It’s…

A Guide To Resident Evil‘s Endless Lore

Many stories have been told in the Resident Evil universe since the t-virus, Umbrella Corporation, and Raccoon City debuted in 1996. The Resident Evil lore hole is deep and maddening. The episodic Resident Evil: Revelations 2 starts tomorrow, and no one would blame you being confused! Let’s clear things up. First of all, Revelations 2…

Salvaging Games From A Broken 3DS Is Surprisingly Easy

My 3DS bit the dust a few months back. Rather than pay for Nintendo to fix it, I waited for the New 3DS. Unfortunately, most of my games were purchased digitally, and you can’t just insert an old SD card into a New 3DS. On Nintendo platforms, games are tied to the hardware. Dumb? Yes.…

If you think you’ve heard Mega Man music covered in every possible way, let me point you to this rendition of Spark Mandrill’s theme from Mega Man X performed by eight floppy drives. For comparisons sake, here’s the original version from the SNES classic. Not bad. You can reach the author of this post at…

Dead Or Alive 5 Is The Latest Big Game Shipping With Too Many Glitches

The official Twitter account for Team Ninja, developers of the recently released Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, is a complete trainwreck right now. In a variety of languages, nearly every tweet is warning players of some bug or glitch currently plaguing the fighting game. Where do we begin? As reported on Friday, the game’s…

Worth Reading: Real-Life Hadoukens, Questioning Game Length, And More

Two scoops of Worth Reading in one week? Gosh, we’re lucky. What better way to celebrate than an in-depth investigation into how fighting games have infiltrated real-life fighting, a considered take on the value of game length, and lots more? You’re just one click away, buddy. There used to be a time when I had…

Indie Dev Cancels PAX East Booth Over Security Concerns

Giant Spacekat, developers of space adventure game Revolution 60, announced this weekthey cancelled PAX East booth space due to safety concerns. The studio has since spoken with PAX organizers and responded to criticism over the fact that its head of development, Brianna Wu, still deciding to attend PAX East and appear on several panels. In…

Twitch just announced TwitchCon will be happening in San Francisco on September 25 and 26. It’s co-produced by Twitch and ReedPOP, the folks who put on PAX events all year round. More details, including how to buy tickets, will be announced in due time.

$200,000 Gun Controller Kickstarter Goes Dark, Then Asks For More Money

The Delta Six is an unusual controller shaped like a gun. Kotkin Enterprises raised nearly $200,000 on Kickstarter, double the asking price. More than a year after the promised shipping date, the Delta Six is shipping, but there’s a catch: backers have to fork over more money to get what they already paid for. Here…

Apparently I’m Not Playing Demon’s Souls The ‘Right Way’

I’ve never encountered a more tribal community of fans than worshippers of the Souls games. There may not be another game series where more people are ready to tell you how wrong you are. For me, the criticism began when I picked my class for a playthrough of Demon’s Souls Demon’s Souls was released in…

Widespread Bug Makes Dead Or Alive 5 Freeze On Xbox One

If you’re playing Dead or Alive 5: Last Round on Xbox One and have been experiencing a steady stream of crashes, you’re not alone. Many players are reporting the game’s having issues, but some have apparently discovered a temporary fix, while Tecmo Koei works on an official patch. All it takes is a quick search…

Sunset Overdrive Once Had Less Jumping, More Shooting

What Sunset Overdrive looked like when it shipped—pretty, colorful, wild—is not what it looked like when development started. The games sport very little art, which is why we never see the early days. Fortunately, Insomniac has given use a glimpse at an unpolished Sunset Overdrive While Insomniac was prototyping what would become Sunset Overdrive, the…

‘Pants Were Shat’: Stories Of Real-Life Video Game Trolling

We want to trust our friends and family, but sometimes they lie to us. Sometimes, they troll us. What follows are the funny (and tragic) stories people shared with me about gaming gone awry. No one will be surprised to learn many happen to involve a big brother being a jerk. This all started when…

Remember, Last Generation Had Plenty Of Ports, Too

The announcement of Darksiders II: Definitive Edition coming to PlayStation 4 later this year got Kotaku wondering if we’re seeing way more direct ports this generation. While it sure feels that way, I’ve compiled a list of them from last generation, and it doesn’t seem all that different! I came up with a couple of…