To the gamers who say, “Enough with the zombie games already,” consider Dead State, an upcoming zombie role-playing game. The new game from development studio Doublebear got profiled over at Rock Paper Shotgun. In a detailed interview, lead developer Brian Mitsoda describes a game that seems to have many wonderful touchstones, from Fallout to X-Com…
In one week I’ll be in Seattle at PAX. Will you be there too? If so, you could attend not one but two panels hosted by Kotaku. You already know about the first one. The second is more serious. The details: Sunday, 2:00 PM – 3:00PM, Serpent Theatre Can Publishers Add Value for Indie Developers?…
This game was made by brave people. Bravery in game design is when someone makes a tennis video game and doesn’t let you control where the tennis players run. Bravery in game design is when you turn a series about a Bear that can jump into an ambitious game of LEGOs Bravery is when, in…
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One reason to attend the Penny Arcade Expo next week is to go to Kotaku’s panel. Another is to try to win one of these DSi systems illustrated by Scribblenauts artist Edison “Edy” Yan. The folks over at Super Scribblenauts development studio 5th Cell sent us these pictures of the prize winnings. The way this…
Earlier today we told you that the next big Castlevania game might remind you, from time to time, of Shadow of the Colossus or Uncharted. These screens show why: Here is the game looking like Shadow of the Colossus: Here is the game looking like Uncharted: And here is the rest of the new shots…
Thirty-eight people were laid off today from Red Storm Entertainment, the Ubisoft-owned studio co-founded by Tom Clancy and best known for the Ghost Recon franchise. The publisher confirmed the layoffs at the North Carolina-based stdio with Kotaku. A spokesperson for the company said the cuts were due to “a realignment of production priorities” and noted…
Who needs Bulbasaur when you can fight with Ghost? Who needs pocket monsters in your Pokemon game when you can have the heroes of Call of Duty take turns slashing and poisoning? One amazing video depicts the unreal Pokémon: Modern Warfare. (Video includes text-based profanity, so be mindful before sharing with Pokémon-loving kids.) The video…
The first chapter of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is broken into five parts, parts that tour through reinventions of some of PlayStation’s best exclusive games, from God of War to Uncharted to Shadow of the Colossus. Gradually, it’s also a fine Castlevania. You’re reading the second set of glowing impressions of the latest three-dimensional Castlevania…
On Thursday here at Kotaku, we talk video games. And we talk about them right here. Today’s TAY image was made by MrSnuffles, who is now part of the very problem he criticized. Create your own Catch-22 and submit an image at #TAYpics to be featured in a future Talk Amongst Yourselves.
Crecente and I hosted the latest Kotaku Talk Radio podcast today, and now you can download the one-hour show to hear us talk Gamescom, Halo Reach and both the future and noisiness of jetpacks. Jetpacks… everybody is wearing them, in video games at least. That’s just one of the deep topics we cover. I do…
I heard from a reader who has already experienced his own glasses-free 3D gaming… at a casino. I’ve not seen this myself; I’m not sure I want to. A company called IGT has been offering 3D slot machines since late 2008, I learned, following up on the reader tip. These Reel Depth slots have genies…
Several readers of our Halo Reach preview yesterday were wondering about the voice of the lead character in Halo Reach. Some clarification: You can choose whether your Spartan will be male or female, which will determine not just their body type but their voice. You don’t hear much from your Spartan in the game, though.…
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If you liked the BioShock Infinite trailer, check out the season finale of Irrational Behavior, the in-house podcast of the studio behind the next game. Did you know they composed riffs of the original BioShock music for it? Did you know how hard they tried to fake out people who saw it? Where does the…
Microsoft let me play a finished copy of Halo Reach on one of their Xbox 360s today. They even let me save my progress to my Gamertag.* I can talk about two missions, but I don’t want to spoil things. But, sorry… I can only be so vague. I will give away nothing of the…
Is one of the most advanced things created in video games this year a virtual horse? Several months ago, a man who works for Rockstar Games was setting my expectations high. He was being reckless, I thought, because he was telling me nothing less than that the horse in Rockstar’s then-upcoming game Red Dead Redemption…
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