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CultureNew Steam Hit Is Basically Horror Hide And Seek
I just got done playing a few matches of Dead Realm, and I’m shaking. Admittedly, it could be the fact that I’ve consumed waaaay too much coffee in the past couple hours, but the multiplayer horror game’s tension definitely got to me. Currently in Steam’s top ten best sellers, Dead Realm is basically hide and…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedFar Cry 4’s World Is Fire And Blood With Mad Max Maps
Far Cry 4 has a very cool map editor. Mad Max is a very cool movie. Both feature shitty old cars. You know where this is going. This custom Future Dead Australia map for the game isn’t some elaborate mod; it’s just a map, so you can download it (these vids are from PS4), take…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2015 -
CultureClicker Games Are Suddenly Everywhere On Steam
It all started with Clicker Heroes. Or maybe Adventure Capitalist. Now things are getting out of hand. In the past few weeks, there’s been a veritable explosion of clicker games—that is, games where you mostly click on stuff until it dies to progress, slowly but surely leveling up to improve your clicking prowess—on Steam. Among…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 30, 2015 -
The BestsThe Best JRPG Soundtracks
JRPGs are games designed to use a bunch of talking and combat as an excuse to blast killer soundtracks at you for hours and hours on end. Which…might explain why this list of best soundtracks also looks a lot like a list of the best JRPGs. What follows are our collective picks for the very…
Kotaku Staff Published July 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Now Here’s A Great Idea For A League Of Legends Skin
This is Burgergot. He’s a fan-made alternate skin concept for the great but oft-under-appreciated League of Legends champion: the big fat crab king Urgot. Impressive and often hilarious champion skin concepts are frequently posted on the League of Legends forums by talented fans of the online multiplayer game. But this one by Necronolith has to…
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
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By Yannick LeJacq Published July 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedDeep Sea Wonderland Built In Minecraft Looks Incredible
Minecraft players build ridiculous and elaborate structures all the time. But it’s rare to come across a Minecraft creation that feels lush, convincing, alive. Deep Sea, a an underwater world built over the course of six days, is an exception. Looking at this cinematic uploaded by BlockWorksYT, Deep Sea is on the level of something…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 30, 2015 -
CultureWatch A Speedrunner Break The Hell Out Of Earthbound
Did you know that if you press the right buttons in the right order, you can manipulate Earthbound’s random enemies into doing whatever you’d like? No? Now you know. Last night, as part of the annual Summer Games Done Quick marathon, speedrunner Aurilliuxshowed off some of the incredible things he can do in the classic…
By Jason Schreier Published July 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedSpooky’s House of Jump Scares Is Cute Yet Terrifying
A game called Spooky’s House of Jump Scares seems self-explanatory, but it’s really not. I didn’t know much about the game before booting it up, but recommendations from friends and the cutesy aesthetic had me scratching my head: how could this be scary? Here’s the premise, per the Steam page: Can you survive 1000 rooms…
By Patrick Klepek Published July 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedNever Alone’s New DLC Is About Preserving Iñupiaq History
I never expected the world’s first Alaskan Native video game to come out with DLC. But Never Alone’s new add-on means more than just than just extra gameplay. In terms of how it got made and the narrative told inside the game itself, Never Alone stood apart from most video games that came out last…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedKonami’s New Initiative: Erotic Castlevania Pachinko
Once upon a time, there was a company called Konami that would release all sorts of delightful video games in all kinds of genres under big, beloved franchises with names like Suikoden, Contra, Gradius, Silent Hill, Castlevania, Metal Gear, and Zone of the Enders. Today, there is a company called Konami that makes pachinko machines—Japanese…
By Jason Schreier Published July 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Five Things You Should Know About The Five Nights at Freddy’s Movie
Yesterday, Deadline reported that Gil Kenan (Monster House, Poltergeist remake) was set to direct the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie. Since then, Kenan has been answering all sorts of questions on Twitter and Instagram—and these juicy details give us a better sense of what we can expect from the movie. The Animatronics 1) Here’s a…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Witcher 3 vs. Dragon Age: Inquisition: The Comparison We Had To Make
In the last half a year or so, we’ve gotten not one but two epic western fantasy RPGs in the form of Dragon Age: Inquisition and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. It’s only natural that we’d want to compare them. Last fall, I reviewed Inquisition. I liked it! Then in May, I reviewed The Witcher…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Red Ash Kickstarter Is A Disaster
In 2013, game producer Keiji Inafune earned gamers’ hearts worldwide by promising to bring back Mega Man in the form of Mighty No. 9. Two years later, he’s launched a sloppy, misleading new Kickstarter that threatens to squander all that goodwill. Red Ash, which took to crowdfunding earlier this month with promises of launching a…
By Jason Schreier Published July 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedYears Later, ZombiU Is Hitting PS4, Xbox One, And PC
There have been rumors of Ubisoft porting the excellent Wii U launch title ZombiU to other platforms for a while, but now it’s official: Zombi (no more u!) arrives digitally on August 18. Ubisoft dropped a trailer online this morning: It looks like…ZombiU. That’s not a bad thing, mind you, since ZombiU was not only…
By Patrick Klepek Published July 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
Ready Player One author Ernest Cline on Growing Up Gamer
“It was the first time I had ever controlled anything on a video screen,” Ernest Cline, the author of Ready Player One—and a new book, Armada—says of playing Space Invaders as a child in 1977. “I was suddenly drunk with power.” Cline talked to former NPR producer and correspondent JJ Sutherland for Shall We Play…
By Chris Suellentrop Published July 30, 2015 -
UncategorizedGTA V Mod Is Trying To Turn PC Version Into An RPG
All the things you love about GTA V. All the things you love about role-playing video games. Together in one place. It’s slowly happening, all thanks to a person who doesn’t work at Rockstar. GTA: RPG is the work of LogicSpawn, a modder out of the UK who’s doing the hard work of adding skill…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 30, 2015 - Uncategorized
League Of Legends Just Killed Off A Champion
Something weird happened last night in League of Legends, something that’s never happened before in the ludicrously popular game’s 6-year history: a character died. Like, actually died. In the story. And at least for now, in the game too. Lore is OP. League of Legends development studio Riot Games has been putting on a calamitous…
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 30, 2015
