The Flock is a multiplayer horror game that ends after too many people die. Cool idea! The game itself? Freaky, but limited. Here’s how it works: you start out as a creepy gargoyle monster, one of the titular Flock. Your goal is to claim the Light Artifact, a fabled instrument from a time of eternal…
“Why anyone would ever play this game is beyond me.” 542.9 hours played. You’ve probably seen a Steam review or two to that effect before. Steam Review Watch is an entire tumblr of them. Enjoy.
Today, I am going to attempt Mario Maker’s “100 Mario challenge,” a mode where you are given 100 lives to clear a set number of courses created by other players. Who knows what I will find? (Probably not the princess. She’s never at the castle. Jerk.) If you’d like, you can watch me undertake this…
Juggalo Geralt says hello. Witcher 3’s new mod tools might leave something to be desired, but that hasn’t stopped modders from injecting the game with a cackling dose of fuckweird. Let’s look at a few of the less… expected mods that have come out in the past week. Geralt face fusion This one lets you…
Riot’s Jeffrey Lin has amended his statements about how ranked League of Legends players will be punished for having chat restrictions or temporary bans this season. On Twitter and in a new ask.fm post, he said that only a specific subset of ranked players won’t be eligible for 2015 rewards. Read the full update here.
Walls have always been an important part of Pac-Man. Your little yellow guy (or lady) is stuck in a maze with some deadly ghosts. The walls of the maze frame the action and give it structure. So… what if one of those walls didn’t exist, and the maze became endless? That’s the idea fueling Pac-Man…
It’d be really nice if it was Friday, right? You’re in luck! Not only is it Friday, but that means another installment of Worth Reading, our weekly roundup of the best games writing around. Hey, You Should Read These “How the F.B.I. Made ‘Winners Don’t Use Drugs’ the Arcade Motto of the ‘90s” by Sean…
Do you like to crowbar people? Half-Line Miami really is exactly what it sounds like: a mash-up of Half-Life and Hotline Miami. It’s a fast-ish top-down shooter, but with Half-Life locations and, of course, the gravity gun. Oh, but unlike both of those games, it’s free. Otherwise, it’d be a one-way train ride to Lawsuit…
Offworld takes a look at how gaming terms have influenced Chinese slang, and it’s a fascinating read.
“SEGA is currently not planning to release the PS4 version of Phantasy Star Online 2 outside of Japan,” a representative for the company tells Kotaku. Still no word on the other versions, which they announced for U.S. release back in 2012 but haven’t said a thing about since. Sorry, guys.
They bitch about character changes. They make fun of other fans for not knowing as much as they do. They hate on cosplay. Look in the mirror and pray that you are nothing like the babymen of the Eltingville Comic Book, Science Fiction, Fantasy Horror & Role-Playing Club. I first encountered the four guys of…
Twitch is a popular service, and there’s a good reason Amazon paid nearly $1 billion for it. But as a streamer and viewer, I’ve come to realize it’s not perfect; there are lots of problems, actually. It’s not an exaggeration to say Twitch is largely responsible for popularizing (and democratizing) the live streaming of games.…
UPDATE (5:30 pm): Riot’s Jeffrey Lin has issued a follow up statement to the one this post originally covered, saying that he had made “a huge blunder” in his ask.fm post about the developer’s plans for the 2015 season rewards. While he originally said that all League of Legends ranked player who received any kind…
We’ve been waiting for Warner Bros. to release a huge patch for Batman: Arkham Knight on PC to address the game’s huge technical shortcomings, but it’s not coming for another “few weeks.” Last we heard, it was supposed to come out this month. If you’re not familiar with what went wrong with Arkham Knight on…
You might have wondered, after last year’s incredible Madden Season commercial, how EA Sports would top themselves. Wonder no more. For Madden NFL 16, which comes out on Tuesday, EA got a bunch of actors and football stars—miss you Rex—to participate in what might be the most preposterous commercial ever made, complete with dinosaurs, tragic…
Fallout 3 doesn’t follow the same basic formula for open-world sandbox games that has produced some truly great games, from Grand Theft Auto V to The Witcher 3. But what if Bethesda wasn’t making an open-world sandbox RPG at all? When Grand Theft Auto III released in 2001, it was a revelation. Sure, open-world games…
Usually, superhero cosplay goes in one direction: from the pages of a comic book out into the real world. But a bunch of cosplayers will be winding up on the covers of series featuring the Marvel characters they dressed up as. Pretty cool. The House of Spidey just announced a suite of covers as part…
Pokken Tournament, previously only available on arcades in Japan, is coming west for Wii U. The Pokémon Company announced the news today at the Pokémon World Championships in Boston, assuring fans that the fighting game will get a worldwide release on Wii U this spring. Like the arcade version, this will be developed by Tekken…
At Gamescom a few weeks ago, I had an appointment to see Oculus to try out the soon-to-be-released retail version of the Rift, which I was interested to see but not exactly zinging with excitement about. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK I’ve tried various VR technologies several times by now, as well as…
Two of us at Kotaku—Luke and Brian—really dug the first Toy Soldiers game when it came out. And now, years later, they’re going to review the latest entry, Toy Soldiers: War Chest This is the first Toy Soldiers that is not a Microsoft exclusive. Published by Ubisoft, Toy Soldiers: War Chest is out on the…
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