The surprise Jaws of Hakkon downloadable expansion for Dragon Age Inquisition appears to be designed for people who’ve played a fair amount of the game. Out today for PC and Xbox One, it advises players to be level 20. On Xbox One, the DLC costs $15, unless you have EA Access, which gets you a…
I know, I know, it’s hard to top a post about a great video game burger—seriously, that burger looks great!—but there are at least five other Kotaku posts I liked more last week. The Two-Year-Old Pokémon Card Thief | News editor Jason Schreier’s video game layoff stories were some of the articles I was proudest…
What is it? Why, it’s a Wii U game that uses what’s special about the Wii U to its advantage. We don’t get enough of those. Could you be more descriptive? Affordable Space Adventures is 2D game about flying a spaceship through enemy-filled environments—really pretty enemy-filled environments! How is that using the Wii U to…
I like this weird image from a neat little Majora’s Mask art contest that has commentary on each piece from Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma. Anything MM-related should be a bit weird!
What is it? The developers see FutureGrind as a mix of Uniracers and OlliOlli, though you just might see some Trials here, too. It’s about a year out from completion. Who is making it? Milkbag Games, a teeny-tiny indie studio in Ontario. Here’s a trailer: Did we play it? Yes, a few Mondays ago at…
I like Helldivers. It’s one of my favorite PS4 games. But I had 11 questions about it. I posed them to one of the game’s designers. He had answers. Thank goodness. The following Q&A was conducted over e-mail. Answering my questions is Patrick Lasota, a designer at Helldivers dev studio Arrowhead Game Studios. Oh, and…
One week ends, another begins and here I return with another five (or so) Kotaku stories to praise. If You Die In This Game, You Can Never Play Again. Ever. | This story by reporter Nathan Grayson was an unexpectedly huge hit with our readers and with people on Facebook. There’s no great digging here.…
What is it? Lego Jurassic World, another of those Lego games we’re always getting, this time covering the four Jurassic Park movies (including this summer’s Jurassic World). Who is making it? TT Fusion, who previously made the superb Lego Movie Videogame. Here’s a trailer… Did we play it? Yes, briefly during a demo session at…
I left our own Kirk Hamilton with a challenge when we last discussed one of the greatest games of all time—a game he had never played: “Let’s not do it again until you see Samus’ face.” Ladies and gentlemen, people of exquisite taste, I am happy to tell you that Kirk has seen the face…
Why is one of these guys not wearing a black shirt and jeans? Who knows! But if you watch that latest episode of GameTrailers’ Bonus Round (embedded below), you’ll at least find out what Kinda Funny Games‘ Greg Miller, GameSpot‘s Danny O’Dwyer, Bonus Round host Geoff Keighley and I think about what virtual reality means…
The biggest plot twist in Assassin’s Creed history is this: Assassin’s Creed Rogue, the least-hyped console game in the series, the one we had good reason to think would be bad, is…a very, very good game. It’s a must-play for any AC fan. What in the world? Did you even know there was a game…
I was on the road all last week, traveling to San Francisco for Game Developers Conference and then to Boston to gaze at PAX East and piles of snow. While I was gallivanting around, Kotaku ran some good stories. My favorites: I Tried VR Porn, And It Was Weird | Virtual reality was a big…
Drawing crowds at this year’s Game Developers Conference, this is motion control company Sixense’s forthcoming STEM System for virtual reality motion control. It’s working here with an Oculus Rift. The lightsaber demo is by no means Lucas/Disney-official, but it sure is an an enticing way to show what you could get if you combine VR…
Yesterday, I saw nine people play a single Wii U game. How’d they do that? One person (in this case Game Trailer‘s Andrea Rene) on the Wii U GamePad, and then four pairs of people sharing Wii Remotes and Classic Controllers. I should have shot this in panorama so that you could see all nine…
Box Boy!, the puzzle platformer that one of our guys in Japan calls a “love letter to the original Game Boy” and “easily the best 680 yen I have spent on gaming in years,” is coming to the American 3DS eShop this spring, according to Nintendo, who were talking eShop this week at the Game…
They’re calling it a demo, not a game, and it’s not quite perfect. You can’t even walk in it, after all. But there’s something really cool about the London Heist, a snippet of a first-person shooter made to be played using Sony’s PlayStation 4 Morpheus virtual reality headset. I know that telling you much about…
It’s always a pleasure to look back at a week’s worth of Kotaku stories. You get your news, some reviews, some pointed, not-for-kids commentary about Pikachu. All that good stuff. Best five stories? Maybe these… The Sad Story Behind A Dead PC Game That Can’t Come Back | Features editor Kirk Hamilton loves No One…
Minutes after I walked through a metal detector—and some time before she was flocked by well-wishers at the best-attended gaming lecture I’ve ever been to at New York University—I recently listened to the media critic Anita Sarkeesian describe eight things she’d like to see changed in video games. To be specific, she was describing “eight…
Nintendo’s gold Mario amiibo will be available at Wal-Mart for $12.96 starting on March 20, the video-game-maker-that-seems-suddenly-really-excited-about-making-figurines announced today. Contact the author at [email protected]
Sort of a theme! These games come out on March 10, March, 10, and March 24, respectively. No word on whether you get a discount if you buy them in one triple-trenchcoat pack. Contact the author at [email protected]
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