We’ve all had that moment, the one where something in real life looks so deliciously game-like that we just wish we could dive in right there and start playing. Say you’re walking through a parking lot on a hot summer day, feeling bored. Next thing you know, you’ve lost yourself in a fantasy where you’re…
Rainbow Road is the final track in the final cup of Mario Kart 8. It’s been that way for Mario Kart’s entire history. Each version of the circuit track has been loopy, insanely colorful, and disorienting—with music to match. YouTuber TheEternalSushi has combined eight of the title songs from past and current versions of Rainbow…
I love Transformers. I don’t mean the toys, the cartoons, the comics, any of that stuff. I mean the new Transformers, the Michael Bay Transformers I know this is an unpopular opinion. But is far as I’m concerned, Transformers first came to life in Michael Bay’s series. And it is therefore the best Transformers until…
Track: Big Beast Artist: Killer Mike, T.I., Bun B, Trouble Album: R.A.P. Music Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
One thing people have always loved about The Sims is its quirky made-up language. It’s become so popular since the series debuted that fans now affectionately refer to it as “Simlish.” It doesn’t make much sense, but half the fun comes from deciphering what sims are trying to tell you by the tone of their…
If this new trailer for Dead Island: Epidemic is any indication, Deep Silver isn’t taking its zombie-killing quite so seriously anymore. That’s a great thing in my mind, because it shouldn’t have in the first place. I mean: killing zombies is mindless fun! Why not just reflect that? It’s not like every game has to…
Last week in my review, I described Tomodachi Life as “a bizarre, alternate universe where everybody had giant heads and spoke in ghostly robotic warbles.” If that’s not weird enough as it is (and it’s already pretty weird), imagine a veritable chorus of Nintendo developers chirping and prancing about in Mii form to hawk their…
Before he let himself go, Marlon Brando was pretty much the pinnacle of American masculinity. Too bad that Halo didn’t come out until a few months after the actor already finished his final role in the 2001 thriller The Score, then. Because you know what he could’ve used 48 years earlier on the set for…
AMD and Nvidia are at it again. The two reigning champs in the market for video game graphics have been fighting since late last month when some performance issues on the PC version of Watch Dogs kicked up a fresh controversy. And given that AMD is still talking about the issue publicly, it doesn’t look…
The beautiful strategy game The Banner Saga is coming out for the iPad and Android tablets this summer, publisher Versus Evil announced this morning. In other words: soon all you Game of Thrones fans who own iPads won’t have any more excuses for not trying this game out yet. via Polygon
Battlefield 3 players have been running into some renewed performance issues as of late, ones that are related to the 2011 shooter’s third-party anti-cheating software. Over the weekend, EA posted a message on its help website saying that PunkBuster, Battlefield 3’s anti-cheating program, was incorrectly marking some players and thus kicking them out of the…
The new-and-improved current-gen versions of 4A Games’ excellent Metro shooters are coming out on August 26th, publisher Deep Silver just announced. See some beautiful images from Metro Redux here
Making Miis and watching them grow is the best part of Tomodachi Life. So why not share some of that joy with the rest of the world? What’s that you say…because doing so is unnecessarily confusing? Well, I’m here to help you out. Like some other recent Nintendo games, the newly minted 3DS sim game…
Track: Jesus Gonna Be Here | Album: Bone Machine | Artist: Tom Waits Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
How do I describe Tomodachi Life? I’ll start with the name. “Tomodachi” (友達) is the Japanese word for “Friend,” so the title of Nintendo’s new 3DS sim game translates literally to “friend life.” That’s a bumbling phrase. But it helps illustrate why I’ve had such a hard time explaining the game’s appeal to friends and…
Are you one of the PC gamers who prefers Origin to Steam? Ok, ok! Sorry I asked. But hey, at least we can all agree that Titanfall is pretty awesome. And as Kotaku’s Kirk Hamilton has said many times now, EA’s hit multiplayer shooter plays like a dream on the PC. So if you’re one…
Track: The Real Slim Shady | Album: The Marshall Mathers LP | Artist: Eminem Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Video game addiction has never received an authoritative classification in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the American Psychological Association’s criteria-setting publication on all things related to mental illness. But that hasn’t stopped Americans—health-conscious and prone to cultural panic people that we are—from addressing it in other ways. Books have been written…
You don’t have to be afraid of missing out on Outlast’s scream-inducing fun any more, Xbox One fans. It’s now available on Microsoft’s latest console, Major Nelson announced in a blog post this morning. The terrifying survival horror game made it through our latest revision of the PS4 bests list, so Xbox One owners with…
Video games offer their players a much-needed chance to escape the stresses of real life, however temporarily. One ten year-old boy in Saskatchewan, Canada needed this kind of relief more than most to help cope with the fact that he’s living with a terminal form of brain cancer. So rather than just handing Patrick a…
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