Fuseproject’s Yves Béhar is joining us right now to answer your questions about designing the Ouya console and controller. Behar, the renowned designer of the One Laptop for Child, has been tapped by the folks behind the forthcoming $99 Ouya console to make the new gaming machine stand out among all the console boxes we’ve…
Have a look—and a listen—to some new music from Beck that is being used to structure levels in next month’s PS Vita and PlayStation 3 game Sound Shapes. Notice how the lyrics are incorporated into the level. What’s a little harder to grasp is that, as you control the little guy in this platforming game,…
To some jaded eyes, the new God of War revealed this past spring looked too much like the old God of Wars. Oh, they added multiplayer this time, but what was so fresh in the game’s solo campaign? Earlier this week, David Hewitt, design manager at Sony Santa Monica, showed me what was new. He…
Three companies with major involvement in video games—EA, Zynga and Microsoft—have joined some 40 other companies, including the Gap, Google and Starbucks, along with several cities, including New York, Boston and Los Angeles, in filing a brief to support a legal challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act. The Act, signed into federal law in…
Do you have a question about Assassin’s Creed III? Would you like Alex Hutchinson, the creative director of this fall’s big game, to answer it? Ask your question in the box below. Hutchinson will be answering the best ones starting at 5pm ET. We’ve got him here for a half hour. Go! UPDATE: Here’s a…
Julie Uhrman want to make a $99 hackable Android-based game console, and now she’s got about $5 million in Kickstarter pledges to make that dream a reality. But since news broke about the ambitious Ouya device, many gamers have had many questions. Some have been answered in official interviews; some on Ouya’s Kickstarter page. Today,…
We’re so in love with our new live, reader-led Q&As that we’re doing two of them today. At 1:30pm ET, you’ll be able to ask questions and get answers from Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman. And then, at 5pm ET, come back and do the same with Alex Hutchinson, the creative director (read: top game developer)…
It’s been four years since the first Fieldrunners, the hit tower defense game which was what everyone with an iPhone seemed to have long before Angry Birds took over. Subatomic Studios has finally created a sequel, a rather large game that makes the first one look like a tech demo. The core gameplay is the…
Yesterday’s news that the next Ratchet & Clank involves tower defense elicited at least one groan from a reader who recalled what a wretched addition tower defense was to last year’s Assassin’s Creed. Tower defense games may be popular—who doesn’t love setting up rows of towers to kill marching enemies?—but some series just don’t need…
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, the upcoming portable game in Ubisoft’s hit franchise, is being overseen by the core AC team at Ubisoft Montreal. But the identity of the team doing the bulk of the work on the game was a surprise to me, when the game’s writer told me today. That didn’t surprise me as…
The following story originally ran in March of 2011, but since the excellent game it’s partially about just came out this week, we’re showing it to you again. And, before you ask, the last time I asked Dyad’s creator about this special gaming chair, he didn’t make it sound like it would be going into…
There are websites for everything. Therefore, there are websites for gamers who need dates, and there are websites for people who want to date gamers. These sites might be one and the same. It’s not really clear in the surprisingly inept world of video game dating sites, a web of false promises, Google search bait…
We’ve got ourselves a notice posted today on the official site for Battlefield, home of Battlefield 3, a game that still has three major downloadable content packs coming out between now and the end of March 2013. The message was posted in light of today’s official confirmation about, uh, Battlefield 4 Battlefield fans – The…
Video remix specialists The Reverse Enginears have done the hard work of squeezing the evolution of PC gaming into a 151-second clip. Now you get to watch it. The video debuted at the website Polygon, which has the full list of games in the clip The evolution of PC games [YouTube, via Polygon]
We’ve interviewed Julie Uhrman, the driving force behind the Kickstarter-funded $99 hackable Android console Ouya. On Thursday, it will be your turn. Uhrman will be taking Kotaku reader questions live—and answering them live—from 1:30-2:00 PM (ET). And then, on Friday, from 1:30-2:00PM (ET), Yves Béhar, the celebrated head of design firm fuseproject and the man…
Yes, Kinect is played out. Yes, Dubstep is is the cliched soundtrack for everything we’re supposed to think is cool. But when you combine the two, you get something like this, a Kinect-powered full-body instrument called the V Motion Project. It may remind PlayStation 3 gamers of the Move-powered Pixeljunk 4AM. Why not? Body controlled…
The Angry Video Game Nerd’s Mike Matei knows the Super Nintendo better than I did and spends a half hour in this video showcasing 10 obscure SNES games that I’ve never seen. These games seem very cool. His 10 obscure SNES gems: 10. Rock and Roll Racing 9. Hagane 8. Knights of the Round 7.…
The wall-crawling adventures in the Assassin’s Creed games are not directly inspired by Spider-Man comics, but the thematic connections are there. Because of that, this mock-up of Todd McFarlane’s iconic Spider-Man #1 (1990) done up as an AC comic is pitch-perfect. It’s one of several classic comic book covers re-done to feature the video games…
In a previous job, a few colleagues and I would write a weekly round-up called What We’re Not Playing. This is like that. This is why I’m not playing the following games, all of which are stacked in my home waiting to be tried (and, full disclosure, all of which were sent to me by…
I’m not sure which terrific features of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance this new screenshot released today is supposed to be showing. Do you? Maybe they should have just gone with this one? Or this one? At least the game was fun to play back at E3.
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