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CultureA Game About Building Crazy Cars Is Tearing Up Steam’s Charts Right Now
Prediction time: for the next few months, you will see people make the wildest shit in Scrap Mechanic. Scrap Mechanic has been Steam’s best-selling game all day—pretty much since it came out—and it’s not too difficult to see why. It’s a game that lets you use a simple yet versatile toolset to build vehicles you…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 20, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Best Silver Surfer Series Comes Back This Week
The Silver Surfer is one of those superheroes who’s always looked cooler than he actually was. The character’s visuals point to an ideal of unfettered freedom and navigating the cosmos with a slick, frictionless ease. But, in the main, the actual stories featuring the former herald of Galactus have had him weighed down by guilt…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 20, 2016 - Uncategorized
Mobile Games Website Uses Patreon, Things Get Messy
It’s not easy to make money running a video game website. In June 2015, popular mobile outlet TouchArcade said it was having cash problems and asked for help, and lots of people did—including mobile developers. But recently, following a mixed game review, one developer decided to pull their funding. “We could load the site up…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 20, 2016 -
UncategorizedPlayers Are Recreating The Entirety of GTA V In Minecraft
Los Santos has never looked so…blocky. What you’re looking at above is the creation of N11cK and friends, who have endeavored to created the latest ridiculous Minecraft construction: a 1:1 scale recreation of GTA V inside of Minecraft. Damn. The map is still a work-in-progress, and they estimate it will be 7,500 by 7,500 blocks…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 20, 2016 - Uncategorized
Fans’ Intense Love For Fallout: New Vegas Must Be Weird For People At Bethesda
Picture this. You spend years putting together a massive, ambitious RPG. After countless hours of hard work, you release your baby out into the public. Curious to see what people think, you start looking around the internet…only to see a small but vocal chunk of your fanbase wishing someone else had made your game. That’s…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 20, 2016 - Uncategorized
Star Wars: Episode VIII Delayed To December 15, 2017
The next Star Wars movie in the new trilogy has been pushed back a bit: Episode VIII will hit theaters on December 15, 2017, several months later than its initially scheduled summer 2017 release date. Per StarWars.com, the Rian Johnson-helmed sequel to last December’s The Force Awakens will be in theaters almost two years to…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 20, 2016 - Uncategorized
In Rainbow Six Siege, you’re never completely safe. Case in point: in this GIF by uhmsay, an enemy is hunkered down with the (reviled by many) riot shield and heavy armor in a difficult-to-breach room. And yet, their death is still swift and brutal. The lesson? When in doubt, reinforce the floor. And here’s the…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 20, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe Rick and Morty Version of Pokémon Is Brilliant
Pocket Mortys is a shameless rip-off of Pokémon —but that’s exactly what makes it so good, too. There are no cute monsters to collect in this mobile (iOS, Android) game. Instead, Pocket Mortys riffs off the fiction of Rick and Morty itself. Thanks to the show, we know that there are many different universes with…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 20, 2016 - Uncategorized
Layers of Fear, a promising horror game about a tortured artist, is leaving Early Access on February 16 for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. Patricia took a look at the in-development version of Layers of Fear last year, and having played it for myself, I can back her up: it’s terrifying. Contact the author at…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 20, 2016 -
CultureWhat We Liked (And Didn’t Like) About Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
It’s clear enough that a lot of us here at Kotaku liked Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. The game earned a positive review and a spot on our best of 2015 list. All the same, our three biggest Assassin’s Creed nerds had yet to sit down and talk it out. As we did with Assassin’s Creed III,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 20, 2016 - Uncategorized
Heroes Reborn Is A Garbage TV Show But Damn It’s Got A Cool Game
For a single season, Heroes was a fun TV show. Somehow, it stayed on for another three seasons, but I didn’t stick around to find out why. The equally boring Heroes Reborn reboot is on its way out, bringing with it yet another surprisingly good tie-in game that makes great use of the license. Wait,…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 20, 2016 - Uncategorized
The New Star Trek Game Is Great at Fan Service, Bad At Being Fun
Weaving Star Trek characters from all different eras and realities into one galaxy-spanning game is a wonderful thing. Wrapping that concept around a twisted mass of free-to-play mechanics and bugs is not. In these days of Star Wars fever, I proudly identify as a Star Trek fan. I’ve watched every episode of each television series,…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2016 -
UncategorizedUnstoppable Destiny Player Goes Solo In Trials Without Dying
These days, people are running out of things to do in Destiny, a video game where players travel through space trying to overcome their Destiny malaise. So what can a godly PVP player do to occupy his time? Well, if you’re Ramblinnn, you tell your Trails of Osiris teammates to leave so you can go…
By Jason Schreier Published January 20, 2016 - Uncategorized
Get an unbelievable kill streak in Rainbow Six Siege? Create an impossible rocket toilet in Just Cause 3? Kill the Galactic Empire single-handedly in Star Wars: Battlefront? We’d love to feature your clip on our show! Send your submissions to [email protected].
By Chris Person Published January 20, 2016 -
UncategorizedNew Assassin’s Creed Set In India Won Me Over With Its Beauty
The recently-released Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India plays ok (very much like ACC: China before it), but, wow, does it look pretty. The game’s artists took splendid advantage of how rare it is to see a game set in India. I had to capture some footage to show you. Enjoy! To contact the author of this…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 20, 2016 -
UncategorizedOut on March 1, Mortal Kombat XL is a new version of last year’s hit fighting game that bundles together the core game and all of the DLC released so far. It’ll include the characters coming with Kombat Pack 2, so it stands to reason that the add-on will be out on or before MKXL’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 20, 2016 - Uncategorized
Prison Architect, the very good prison building and management sim, will be out on Xbox 360, Xbox One and PS4 in spring. Priced at 30$, the console versions will add a Prison Warden mode where you manage pre-built prisons, and the World of Wardens network, used for sharing custom maps.
By András Neltz Published January 20, 2016 - Culture
Seven Public Domain Books That Would Make Great Games
Once a work enters the public domain, it is no longer subject to copyright laws. A publisher can print their own edition of the Beatrix Potter books, a filmmaker can make a film of any of Shakespeare’s plays, and a game developer can adapt any of the characters, scenes, or even whole stories from public…
Julian Benson Published January 20, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe Director’s Commentary Is The Real Hero Of The Deadly Tower Of Monsters
I was going to record commentary for my play through of Ace Team’s action-packed love letter to terrible ‘70s science fiction movies, but The Deadly Tower of Monsters brought its own, and it makes the game. The newly-released hack-and-slash adventure is filtered through VHS artifacts and studded with the tropes that defined just about every…
By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2016