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Track: The Blues Are Still Blue | Artist: Belle & Sebastian | Album: The Life Pursuit Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
British Telecommunications, a multinational mega-conglomerate with origins dating back to the 1800s, is suing Valve, a video game company that can’t count to three. The suit has been filed against Valve in Delaware, a place that tends to favor patent holders. BT claims that Steam “offers a broad range of products and services which incorporate…
Postal 2, a 2003 PC game known for open-ended design and “offensive” humor that ran the gamut from wannabe-South-Park to downright ugly, recently did something pretty clever. We’re a bit late on this, but it’s cool enough to warrant talking about anyway. For more than a decade, Postal 2 contained a roped-off section in the…
Von Caberte is an artist from The Philippines who has worked with companies like Wizards of the Coast and Fantasy Flight. You can see more of Von’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is…
Does anyone else never use the flee/escape option in turn-based RPGs? Or is this unusual?
Track: Theme de Camille | Artist: Georges Delerue | Album: Le Mepris Soundtrack Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
This week twenty-nine years ago, the first Street Fighter was released in arcades. There was Ken, Ryu, and some very different buttons. As pointed out on Event Hubs, the first cabinets had giant pressure-sensitive pads that you were supposed to POUND WITH YOUR FIST. Which is nuts. Problems arose from players punching the buttons, such…
Track: Bodies of Christ | Artist: Mariachi El Bronx | Album: Mariachi El Bronx (II) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
It’s not easy being a Steam developer these days. Even once-successful creators are falling on hard times. Since 2009, Arcen Games has released 11 games on Steam. They’ve done pretty well for themselves, despite mixed reception of games like A Valley Without Wind—which, at best, can be called an ambitious mess—and its sequel, which, at…
This past weekend, I found a couple of small box in my apartment full of memories from when I was writing about video games for MTV News a decade ago. They might as well have been a buried time capsule. I had little memory of what I’d saved in those boxes, which I don’t think…
We’re returning to the art of XCOM 2 today for a third time, because artist Dongmin Shin has shared some of his cute-as-hell poster art that adorns the walls of the game’s world. As shown off on the game’s blog, these cute little designs of the game’s bad guys were originally intended as posters for…
After a much-needed sabbatical, Highlight Reel is coming back this Thursday! I’m going through the backlog of submissions I’ve received now, but feel free to send more great clips my way at [email protected]
Track: Suedehead | Artist: Morrissey | Album: Viva Hate Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Ah, just as I was saying there isn’t enough Dark Souls cosplay, along comes some more very good Dark Souls cosplay. This impressive Artorias outfit is by Fort Nox Props
It’s good that this is a quality Witcher 3 outfit. It’s great that the guy is 100% in character for it. Cosplay by Aleksandr Gerutskiy, photos by Alexander Bootsman.
Thank goodness. The latest update for RimWorld, the Steam sensation that’s basically Dwarf Fortress in space, adds two crucial features: a tutorial and, of course, drugs. The tutorial is much-needed, given that RimWorld’s early goings can be overwhelming with all the death and madness going around. The drugs, meanwhile, are drugs: -Beer – Improved mood…
Infocom, founded in 1979, were one of the great studios of the early days of PC gaming, responsible for classics like the Zork series. They may be long gone (Infocom were shut down in 1989), but their history lives on in this incredible collection of old documents This piece originally appeared 11/23/15. Uploaded to Archive.org…
On last week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason and I talked a lot about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Is it more fun the second time around, and is it more rewarding if you force some limitations on yourself? (Answers: yes and yes.) Read my full review here; find the full podcast episode here
Svetlana Tigai is a CG artist and illustrator from Kyrgyzstan. You can see more of Tiagi’s work at her Deviantart page, Patreonand ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the…
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