If you have a good idea for a new Gex, Anachronox, or Fear Effect, now’s the time to dust it off. As part of its Collective program, Square Enix is allowing developers to pitch new takes on games and franchises the publisher isn’t working on. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected]…
A Runescape player was recently swatted while 60,000 people watched. When he tried to record a video about it, he broke down crying. A 19-year-old in Las Vegas was arrested for coordinating a swatting in Illinois. What motivates someone to take this dangerous step? I tracked down a self-professed swatter to find out. How I…
It’s been a while since we’ve heard about The Evil Within‘s DLC plans, but the first of three add-ons arrives next month. The Assignment follows Detective Sebastian Castellanos’s partner, Juli Kidman, and seems to involve using closets to hide from bad things. I’m game. Hopefully, The Assignment is more like the earlier, creepier parts of…
It’s a special Monday edition of Worth Reading, thanks to yours truly running out of time on Friday afternoon. But let’s kick this week off right by inviting debate on some of the most contentious topic around: frame rates and the price of a video game. However… These are paragraphs I might otherwise dedicate to…
If you’re a World of Warcraft player who’s colorblind, Blizzard will introduce a slew of new accessibility options in the upcoming 6.1 patch. “For example, when you move your mouse cursor over a piece of rare gear and then a piece of epic gear, the game colors the names of the items blue and then…
If you set the in-game date of the shipping version of SimCopter to Friday the 13th, the male residents would strip down and occasionally make out. The game was patched to remove this. The programmer who added it, Jacques Servin, was actually fired by Maxis You can reach the author of this post at [email protected]…
The Binding of Isaac already received a major update with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth last year, but designer Edmund McMillen is moving full speed ahead on a proper expansion. Today, McMillen revealed the add-on, which doesn’t yet have a release date, will be called Afterbirth McMillen is known for being exceptionally open with his…
Free-to-play games supported by sneaky in-app purchases reign supreme in the mobile world, but Apple has apparently started promoting games that shy away from doing so. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek
Brutal DOOM remains one of the most infamous DOOM modifications around, allowing folks to dial up the game’s violence to new heights. Sure, it all looks a little goofy—DOOM came out in in 1993, after all—but Brutal DOOM still manages to shock. Next up? Bloody, destructible bodies! Even though the violence of DOOM looks slightly…
The moment someone utters the term “endless runner,” my eyes begin to glaze over. And yet, as I watched the utterly gorgeous trailer for Alto’s Adventure, a snowy adventure through the mountains, I began to consider an exception. Alto’s Adventure comes out next week on iOS. You can reach the author of this post at…
It’s possible your next trip to Las Vegas could benefit from your many years of video game playing, Kotaku readers. The Las Vegas Sun reports the Nevada senate committee is currently mulling a bill that would would pave the way for regulators to allow games that reward skill. Here’s how the publication puts it: “That…
The deadline for getting health insurance through Obamacare is February 15, and the White House has enlisted heavy hitters from the eSports community to encourage players to sign up. The White House explained how this came about in a blog post today, too: “Don’t know what eSports is? You should. Electronic sports — or eSports…
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask for 3DS is almost here, which means the hype train is in overdrive, and Nintendo’s doing everything it can to get people interested in Link’s revamped adventure. The company’s throwing an art competition on the Miiverse, kicked off by series producer Eiji Aonuma himself, and it’s resulted in some…
In the near future, Atari will be launching one hell of a reinvention of the arcade classic Asteroids. The company just announced Asteroids: Outpost will be a multiplayer-focused survival game for PC that’s launched through Steam’s Early Access program. That’s a surprise. Here’s how Atari describes Asteroids: Outpost in its press release: “Set in the…
Parrying is an advanced move in the Souls games, as you can deflect an enemy’s attack. Remarkably, a number of bosses can be dismantled with a parry, too. Most players (i.e. me) are too busy rolling out of the way of a sword to worry about knocking it back, but it’s impressive to watch a…
While it feels like Street Fighter II has been released on every platform ever, that’s not true, as Capcom never blessed Nintendo’s doomed Virtual Boy with the classic fighter. That’s where fans come the rescue, as Hyper Fighting has introduced Street Fighter II to wildly outdated 3D. Homebrew games have existed in the still-active Virtual…
You can count the number of decent Jurassic Park video games on a single hand. It’s tragic. Fans haven’t given up on the dream, though, and a modder going by the name conceptcrash has been slowly building and realizing his prehistoric dream with Jurassic Park: Aftermath. It’s been in development for years, looks absolutely gorgeous,…
Danganronpa is a wonderfully weird and subversive murder mystery series, so it makes sense someone would eventually cross it over with wrestling. Enter Danganwrestling, where we learn John Cena’s most coveted secret: he looooooooves anime. As luck would have it, that might actually be true A few episodes are already live, actually. Here’s the first…
Every time you reload a gun in Battlefield Hardline, there’s a very small chance of finding a weird and secret reload animation. The developers thought it would take a while for players to discover them, but as the game’s beta moves forward, they’ve found some rad easter eggs. This all came to light when someone…
The Wall Street Journal reports Netflix and Nintendo are in the early stages of producing a live-action series based on The Legend of Zelda The publication’s sources describe the project as being in the “early stages” but is being thought of as “Game of Thrones for a family audience.” No writers have been attached the…
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