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Swing on These Swings in New York City, And You Will Make Beautiful Art
If you’re in New York City or nearby, there’s something you’ve got to do by the end of the weekend. Head over to the Park Avenue Armory on 68th street, plunk down $12 and spend an hour or so swinging on swings as you create art. The installation is called Ann Hamilton: The Event of…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2013 -
So Far, Hundreds Is the 2013 Game of the Year
I think I know what you’re thinking: Game of the Year 2013? Already? That’s crazy talk. You’re thinking that 2013 is only three days old. You’re thinking that a racing game fueled by the blood of its players could be 2013 game of the year right now, if said racing game was released some time…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 3, 2013 -
The Sequel To The Best Reverse-Tower-Defense Game Is Superb, If Barely a Sequel
Not that you can trust user reviews on iTunes, but one player of Anomaly: Korea recently praised the reverse-tower-defense game as being “one of a kind.” That’s false. Anomaly Korea is actually very, very much like 2011’s Anomaly: Warzone Earth, the reverse tower-defense game. You still command a slow-rolling column of tanks and transports through…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 2, 2013 -
What Was Kotaku‘s 2012 Game of the Year? We’ll Know… Soon
On Monday, January 7, you will know what Kotaku‘s 2012 Game of the Year is. But before then, you’re going to see us try to figure it all out. Starting today and running over the course of the next three days, nine Kotaku writers will publish a total of nine essays nominating their favorite game…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 2, 2013 -
On Second Thought, Play The Walking Dead On Anything But an iPhone
Happy new year. I’d like to start the year by helping you avoid a mistake I made in 2012. But let’s rewind one more year, first, ok? In 2011 I had the good fortune of playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on a machine that wasn’t the PlayStation 3. I played it on an Xbox…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 1, 2013 -
My Gaming Year
I’m obsessed with video games. No news flash there. I can mark months of my life with the games I’ve played, the games I heard about, the new systems I got or the articles about video games that I wrote. For me, it’s games, games, games all the time, which is why, when I look…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 24, 2012 -
Even One of The Biggest Critics of Violent Video Games Bashed The NRA Today
California State Senator Leland Yee, who took his fight against violent video games all the way to the Supreme Court a couple of years ago and lost, slammed the NRA’s odd, new attack on video games. It’s not that the former child psychologist suddenly loves violent video games. It’s that Yee, who wrote the failed…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 21, 2012 -
Listen To The Surprisingly Chatty XCOM: Enemy Unknown Holiday Card
Christmas Joust is still my favorite 2012 video game-related holiday card, but I’m giving this XCOM: Enemy Unknown one second place. Watch the video with the sound on and you’ll hear why.
By Stephen Totilo Published December 20, 2012 -
Gorgeous Games of 2012: Need for Speed: Most Wanted
It’s not easy to idle like this in Need for Speed: Most Wanted the excellent open-world racing game from EA’s Criterion Games. Even at high speeds—well, especially at high speeds—this game was great to look at. That earns Most Wanted a Cinemagraph (a subtly-animating-animated-GIF, if you don’t know) for our Year in Beauty series.
By Stephen Totilo Published December 20, 2012 -
Our 25 Most Popular Stories Of The Year, According to Math
We published a lot of stories this year. You loved some. You hated others. Some were great. Some were arrows Our finest tech people have crunched the numbers and provided me with a list of our top traffic-getters. Below, you can see the 25 stories that drew the most new readers to our site, which,…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 20, 2012 -
If you have really good taste, this is how you’ll count down to the end of the world.
By Stephen Totilo Published December 19, 2012 -
Minecraft Maker “Notch” Just Gave $250,000 to Reform Software Patents
Notch and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban are each donating a quarter million dollars to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF says that the money from the maker of Minecraft will help fund efforts to reform patent law in the courts and in the court of public opinion. Here’s Notch explaining why he’s giving his…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 19, 2012 -
You’ve Seen BioShock Infinite‘s Beginning. Here’s Something Vague, Non-Spoilery and Encouraging About Its Ending
You can now watch the first few minutes of March 2013’s BioShock Infinite online or read about the game’s first four hours in a preview we published a couple of weeks ago. But BioShock beginnings are not the kinds of things BioShock fans have precedent to fret over. BioShock endings? That’s another story. Ken Levine…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 19, 2012
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