Most interviews with game developers are stuffed with predictable hype about how wonderful everything in their game will be. It’s pre-release time. A season for optimism! Here’s something different—something brutal yet refreshing… …from Mark Pacini, former game director of the incredible Metroid Prime games. His studio’s now making a side-scrolling Metroid-style Batman game for the…
I’m already on-record about how fascinating Prison Architect is. Seriously, it’s SimPrison—or ThemePrison, if you will—made by people who seem to be damn near fearless about making video games about uncomfortable topics. The game is from the indie studio Introversion, who have also made the saddest/best game about nuclear war. I recently sent Introversion’s own…
Forget the controversial ending, the boring mining mini-games or the lack of playable Hanar. If there’s one element that I believe all Mass Effect fans can agree to love to hate (and hate to love), it’s the series’ elevators. Those elevators were just too damn slow. (They weren’t supposed to be.) Mass Effect Elevators: Origins…
Every year, the people at PC developer Stardock (Sins of a Solar Empire) release a report to tell their customers and fans how they’re doing. Here’s the 2013 edition [PDF]. But before you hop over there, check this out: The report usually includes some interesting analysis about the state of PC gaming. A standout chunk…
If Far Cry 3 can have its insane Blood Dragon DLC, then Call of Duty: Black Ops II can get Mob of the Dead, one piece of the new Uprising downloadable expansion to Activision’s blockbuster first-person shooter. The mobsters here are controlled by you and three other friends in the game’s co-op zombies mode. They’re…
Coming to smartphones and tablets, a remake of 1993’s Prince of Persia: The Shadow and The Flame. The awkward thing here is that, well, the graphics of the 20-year-old game look cooler than the remake’s—at least to me. That can’t be right, can it? For comparison, here’s the ’93 version. Soooooo. Who likes the 2013…
A new source e-mails me several days ago. The source has access to a development kit for the next Xbox 360—the codenamed Durango. Accurately describes the look of the new controller, but mentions something he’s confused about. The Durango he’s seen doesn’t just send a signal out through an HDMI port (that’s normal). It has…
Is it worth it to run two graphics cards in one gaming PC? Our friends at Lifehacker have some answers. (Short version: it depends, but they generally recommend one great card over having two lesser ones.)
We cover video games here at Kotaku, but, in case you hadn’t noticed, we cover some other stuff, too—and we certainly don’t cover every video game. We’d like to hear from you. What games and non-games stuff would you like to see more coverage of on this site? Currently, we aim to cover gaming from…
Can we judge the quality of a video game by the number of people who finish it? Probably not, since I’ve met many a people who just loooove Shadow of the Colossus and never reached the fourth Colossus. Nevertheless, that PC gaming service Steam allows us to determine which games people bother to finish. Take…
Now that the people at GameFront have created a Metal Gear timeline (1944-2018), that series’ storyline makes so much more sense. See for yourself
Are you excited about the newly-announced Batman: Arkham Origins? It’s ok if you were on the fence. But surely this boxart for the Xbox 360 version can win you over? This is a real listing at Wal-Mart. They’ll probably change it soon. [UPDATE: And they just did.]
This post was originally published on Kotaku on August 28, 2009. To celebrate Mass Effect week, we’re bumping it up! What if Mass Effect was multiplayer? What if there was a way to get a taste of that, even if it was just in a solo mode? Now, strangely, there is. Mass Effect: Pinnacle Station…
I don’t know what the term is for what happens to a console in the year its successor console comes out. What is it, a lame duck session? That’s not quite right, because a system like the PS2 winds up getting support well after the year the PS3 comes out. The PS2 simply isn’t Sony’s…
Still consumed with determining which company is America’s worst, The Consumerist takes issue with EA’s assertion that they’re really not that rotten. Consumerist charges EA with shifting blame
Microsoft is sorry about yesterday’s Twitter drama surrounding Adam Orth, a creative director at the company’s Xbox division, though they’re not ready to speak freely about the part of that drama that could actually affect your gaming future. “We apologize for the inappropriate comments made by an employee on Twitter yesterday,” the company said in…
“It turns out that there isn’t enough helium in the world to make Columbia fly. The math puts it at around 330 million cubic meters of helium.” —An expert explains the difficulty of keeping flying cities—like the one in BioShock Infinite—aloft. Read more at io9
Video game giant Electronic Arts might not be rumored to be launching an always-online console, but people are pretty mad at them nonetheless. They have been a lot, lately, and now it seems that EA might be about to repeat its standing in a web poll that invites the online public to name the worst…
Cliff Bleszinski will get his head shaved if he can raise $10,000 to help kids with cancer. He’s asking gamers to donate to make it happen. The currently-unemployed lead designer of Gears of War is doing the fundraiser through the the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a charity that raises money for kids’ cancer research. “I like…
Two Kotaku sources have added more credence to the rumor that the next Xbox, expected to battle the PlayStation 4 in late 2013 or early 2014, will be an always-online system, though it will be able to tolerate dropped connections. “Unless something has changed recently,” one of the sources told us over email, “Durango consumer…
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