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…
Track: Behind the Mask | Album: Solid State Survivor | Artist: Yellow Magic Orchestra Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
After 150 issues spread over 13 years, the grand comic that is Fables has finally come to an end. For those of you not in the know Fables is a comic series written by Bill Willingham that started in 2002 and ended last month. It is the last of the zeitgeist-changing Vertigo comics titles that…
Every season brings us a massive new amount of anime theme songs. Here are ten of the best from summer 2015. Anime: The Heroic Legend of Arslan (Arslan Senki) Song: “One Light” Artist: Kalafina Why I Love It: The ethereal voices of these two three singers and their use of counter-melodies makes this into a…
Because they cannot motivate themselves? Who knows! But according to Trending in China(via Tech in Asia), “programming cheerleaders” apparently exist. Here’s Trending in China explaining what’s going on: Internet companies across China are embracing programming cheerleaders, pretty, talented girls that help create a fun work environment. Their job includes buying programmers breakfast, chitchatting and playing…
Surviving the summer Comiket (Comic Market) isn’t just about rules and manners—sometimes it’s about beating the unbearable heat. This past weekend was the 88th Comiket, the bi-annual indie comic convention that showcases self-published manga and magazines as well as plenty of cosplay The Summer Comiket can be one of the more severe experiences in terms…
The new Ace Attorney, Dai Gyakuten Saiban, is full of the over-the-top courtroom drama you know and love. But outside of the courtroom, you have to prepare for the trials—mainly by proving how terrible a detective Sherlock Holmes is. In Dai Gyakuten Saiban you meet and befriend the world famous Sherlock Holmes. Several times throughout…
A pond at Kouyasan. Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. By Adrien Métivet. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!
This morning, for the first time, Major League Gaming ran a Rocket League tournament. The stakes were relatively low. The prize pool was meagre. At stake — not much really. Bragging rights. No-one could have predicted how insane the final outcome would be. Rocket League, as an eSport, is in its infancy. This was really…
This is a real, official thing. What a world we live in.
Peter Boehme is an artist based in Germany who has worked on games like Quake Wars, Brink, Rage, Doom 4, Uncharted 3 and Crysis 3. One of his more recent jobs was working on indie top-down shooter AIPD You can see more of Peter’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the…
Here are the two things I like about this website. One, it’s called halome.nu. Two, all it does is loop the epic/chanty menu screen music from the Bungie and 343’s Halo games. The site says “Have you ever left a Halo title running on your TV, just to listen to and watch the main menu?”…
In late 2014, to help a friend, I joined the team of Wander, the non-combat, exploration MMO, volunteering to help with mundane things like filling out paperwork and maybe playing the game a little to check out a few features. Nothing serious, I thought. I didn’t know that I’d soon be called in to help…
Holy shit. This feels like it could have come straight out of The Matrix or something. drekerrr brings us footage of a GTA eject so epic, it could easily be a stunt in a big-budget action movie: Not only does the passenger somehow avoid the missiles, he also gets to take revenge on the attacking…
Track: Mist & Shadow | Album: High Country | Artist: The Sword Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Christopher Caldwell, 36, has been arrested after security staff at a Walmart in Florida told police they found him stuffing a PS4 inside his pants. And then some. Local crime blog Off The Beat (via @ZhugeEX & pixeldynamo) say Caldwell was found in the bike section of the Port St. Lucie Walmart “sticking the PlayStation…
I just leveled up for the first time in new Steam space survival game RymdResa, and it was devastating. RymdResa is fascinating. It’s an outer-space roguelike-like that just launched on Steam, but it’s about exploration instead of combat. You drift through the infinite procedurally generated cosmos—once alive with technology and culture, now dead (or perhaps…
It just…the madness begins immediately, and for five minutes, it does not stop. What’s cool here isn’t necessarily the driving—though some of those drifts and flips are incredibly precise—but the design of the track itself, which has been meticulously arranged to allow for a car to be flung through it at top-speed with only millimetres…
Remember last week, when Xur briefly sold Gjallarhorn in Destiny, a video game where you travel through space waiting for the other shoe to drop? Well… Turns out our boy Gjally will be left behind when The Taken King comes out this September. While some exotic items—like Suros Regime and No Backup Plans—will get upgraded…
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