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UncategorizedThe Happiest Word Game Ever, With Bears
The problem with trying to tell people about Spry Fox’s Alphabear is stopping playing long enough to do so—at least in any form besides random tweets. Normally I am not a big fan of mobile games that encourage users to post Twitter or Facebook updates, but every now and then there are exceptions. That’s one…
By Mike Fahey Published July 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
Batman: Arkham Knight PC DLC Delayed Until The Game Is Fixed
Batman: Arkham Knight players on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One get their first taste of post-release downloadable content this week with Batgirl: A Matter of Family. Those still playing the PC version will not, and for good reason. After all, it would be silly to release downloadable content for a version of the gamethat isn’t…
By Mike Fahey Published July 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
Transformers First All-Female Combiner Team Is All The Fans’ Fault
Here’s our first look at the toy version ofVictorion, the first all-female Transformers combiner. Fans voted on her name, gender, modes…color scheme. Maybe this fan voting thing isn’t so great after all. Now before we criticize, let’s get a good look at this close-knit group of female robots. Victorion is six separate entities that form…
By Mike Fahey Published July 11, 2015 - Culture
This Week In The Business: It’s The Little Things
QUOTE | “We can’t just be a company that’s only about gigantic big things.” – EA’s Patrick Soderlund, EVP of EA Studios, explaining why the company is working on games like Unravel Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “Starting your own business is a lot of fighting yourself.” – Nick Doerr,…
By Steve Peterson Published July 11, 2015 - Culture
Counter-Strike Map Based On One Piece Actually Kinda Works
This is certainly one of the more… imaginative Counter-Strike maps I’ve seen in recent times. The map is based on the Thousand Sunny, the ship captained by the main characters of anime titan One Piece. No super-powered pirate antics here, though—just terrorists. Though I suppose you could pretend that they’re pirates in the very real…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 10, 2015 - Culture
Thinking about picking up Codemasters’ latest racing game, F1 2015? Probably wait. The PC version is suffering from numerous issues, from frame rate drops and crashes to busted menus and controller problems. Codemasters acknowledged the issues and released a patch, but there’s still more work to be done.
By Nathan Grayson Published July 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
A Few Extra Features Just Made The Sims 4 A Lot Better
The Sims is a very additive game. It never really stops or “ends” the way many single-player games do; it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. This week, a handful of small but much-needed new tools dropped into The Sims 4. First there’s the two official additions that EA dropped into the game this week:…
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 10, 2015 - Culture
Someone Made A Team Fortress 2 Dating Sim
Rule 34: if it exists, there’s porn of it. Rule 35: if it exists, there’s probably also a dating sim of it on the way. The Team Fortress 2 dating sim is coming to us by way of Schiphys, who describes themself as, “a damn scientist who makes things on the computer for science.” The…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedTahm Kench Is A Great Addition To League Of Legends
A gigantic man-eating catfish arrived in League of Legends yesterday. His name is Tahm Kench, AKA “The River King.” And the newly-minted champion seems pretty freaking awesome so far. I’ve only managed to play a few games with Kench so far, and it always takes a little while for League of Legends’ gigantic player community…
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedWorth Reading: The Story Behind Dragon Age Inquisition‘s Best Character
Look, it’s Friday. The day is starting to wind down. That means it’s time for Worth Reading, our weekly collection of the best games writing from the past week. Hey, You Should Read This “Open world games are becoming too bloated to be fun” by Fraser Brown Boy, do I share this sentiment. With most…
By Patrick Klepek Published July 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
What We Loved and Hated About Batman: Arkham Knight, With Spoilers
Let’s gather and talk about the newest Batman game. All of it. In the most spoiler-riffic fashion. Last night I got together with my fellow Kotaku writers Kirk Hamilton, Luke Plunkett, and Chris Suellentrop to talk about Rocksteady’s latest interactive Batman saga. We’d all finished the game, and although Chris had alreadyreviewed it for us,…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Asks: The Staff Of Kotaku
Hello, Kotaku. We’re Kotaku. Let’s chat. It’s Friday, so come ask us questions about whatever you’d like. We’ll keep an eye on this post for at least a few hours, if not longer. This is Kotaku Asks, a weekly feature where we invite guests from the world of gaming to come answer burning questions from…
By Jason Schreier Published July 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
Crypt of the Necrodancer is an amazing game, and it’s coming to both PlayStation 4 and Vita, the developers announced today! There’s no release date for the rhythm action game just yet, but it’s the perfect handheld game. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek
By Patrick Klepek Published July 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
Podcast: Why Her Story Worked But Sunset Didn’t
On the most recent episode of Shall We Play a Game?, my podcast with former NPR producer and correspondent JJ Sutherland, we review Sam Barlow’s Her Story as well as Sunset, a game from Tale of Tales about being a housekeeper during a South American revolution. You can listen to it here. Spoiler: JJ really…
By Chris Suellentrop Published July 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Gamer Parent’s Dilemma
Of all the strange things that come with writing about video games for a living, raising kids while doing so might be the strangest. We have daughters, who are now 3 and (almost) 5. They are old enough to know that when Dad is holed up in his office over the garage, there’s a very…
By Chris Suellentrop Published July 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
Shrek 5, anyone?
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedDespite 23 Months Without Updates, Cube World Devs Say Game Isn’t Dead
Cube World grabbed endless headlines for good reason: it looked incredible. A playable alpha was released in July 2013, but the game only received a few updates before things got weird. The last time the developers said anything publicly was over a year ago. Is it dead? Apparently not. It once cost $20 to jump…
By Patrick Klepek Published July 10, 2015 -
Uncategorized1979 Revolution is a game that’s caused Iran to brand one of its creators a spy and made another one hide his identity. The long-brewing game set in the Iranian Revolution—is up now on Steam Greenlight. Spearheaded by former Rockstar Games developer Navid Khonsari, the episodic game is expected to be out this fall, with…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedIt’s Not Clear Who’s Publishing Devil’s Third Right Now
Nintendo was supposed to publish the long-in-development Devil’s Third from Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki, but various reports suggest that’s no longer happening. Itagaki has been working on Devil’s Third for a long time, and it seems to have been a troubled development. He left Tecmo back in 2009, forming Valhalla Game Studios the…
By Patrick Klepek Published July 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
Daybreak Games Hit By DDoS After CEO Threatens Lizard Squad Hacker
If you had trouble signing into online games like PlanetSide 2 or H1Z1 over the past day or two, you can blame whoever’s going after their servers. For the past couple of days, the studio Daybreak (formerly called SOE) has been getting hit by Distributed Denial of Service attacks that have rendered games like PlanetSide…
By Jason Schreier Published July 10, 2015