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UncategorizedLest We Forget Rogue Warrior‘s Funky Mickey Rourke Credits Sequence
The last time someone mentioned this tiny slice of Bethesda Softworks MASTERPIECE on Kotaku it was 2009. That can’t be right? That can’t be right! Let’s get your Saturday ON TRACK, my lovelies. Rogue Warrior was a Mickey Rourke-voiced first person shooter that was, almost everyone agrees, amazingly bad. The AI was so prone to…
By Cara Ellison Published April 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
The Japanese Developer Of Downwell Used To Be An Opera Singer
For all of 2014 I’ve travelled, via crowdfunding from my generous readers, to stay with game developers around the world and write about them. It was something I called the Embed With Games series. I foundOjiro Fumoto in Japan in November, and he turned out to be a a genius game developer who was making…
By Cara Ellison Published April 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
Life Is Strange Is Really Patronising
I really like the idea of Dontnod’s episodic game choice drama-em-up Life Is Strange, but really it just ended up making me wish it would shut up and let me experience it instead. Life Is Strange is a wonderful kind of idea: It’s five episodes long, gives us the much neglected teen girl player character…
By Cara Ellison Published April 11, 2015 - Uncategorized
So I’ll Be Your Guest Editor This Weekend
Good morning! My name is Cara Ellison and I’m doing a bit of guest editing for you lovely lot this weekend. Sorry about the formal picture, I really couldn’t find anything else that wasn’t just me hugging another person or one of those pictures people take of you at parties when you have fallen asleep…
By Cara Ellison Published April 11, 2015 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Taking Baby Steps
QUOTE | “I don’t think VR is a now thing. I’m not saying it’s five years from now, but it’s not really a now now thing.” – Xbox head Phil Spencer, talking about why Microsoft is sitting on the VR sidelines right now QUOTE | “So far, cloud gaming is the Coleco Adam of online.…
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CultureThey’re Trying To Make The Goriest Video Game Ever
It all started with one completely anatomically accurate virtual person. And then they slashed the person to ribbons. Reads like the beginning of some fucked up Bible, right? In the beginning, there was man, and then man got his skull caved in by a sledgehammer shotgun. That’s kind of how things went for chaotic co-op…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 10, 2015 -
CultureGTA Motorcycle Tricks That Are Smooth As Silk
On today’s Highlight Reel we have fantastic motorcycle tricks, self-immolation, parachute roadkill, traveling violations and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Battlefield Hardline – 5-0 excessive use of force –…
By Chris Person Published April 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedA Horror Game That Looks Straight out of Mass Effect
Pamela is an upcoming PC game that looks pretty striking for something that’s supposed to be a survival horror game. No gross, gritty environments that are so typical of the genre to be found here! Instead, the futuristic setting looks way more utopian—which makes the premise of exploring a dead civilization seem all the more…
By Patricia Hernandez Published April 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedWorth Reading: How Two Brothers, One In Prison, Use Games To Connect
This week’s edition of Worth Reading, a collection of the best writing from the past week, goes behind-the-scenes with the mysteries of Bloodborne and the connections we share with family. Hey, You Should Read These Bloodborne creator Hidetaka Miyazaki: ‘I didn’t have a dream. I wasn’t ambitious by Simon Parkin So many people are familiar…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
GTA Players Search For Secret Jetpack, Find Touching Memorial Instead
Some GTA players have been scouring every inch of Los Santos in the hopes of finding a fabled jetpack or an alien mystery for two years now. So far, they haven’t found their treasure—but they have found some other poignant things along the way. As spotted by New World Notes, last month players trying to…
By Patricia Hernandez Published April 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
12 Must-Read Daredevil Stories
With a new Netflix TV series on the way, now’s a good time to learn about blind lawyer Matt Murdock and his long, twisted superhero career as Daredevil. Good news. This Marvel hero has starred in some incredible (and easily-obtainable) comics. First, some back-story. He is nicknamed the Man Without Fear. As a child growing…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Asks: The Guy Who Runs NeoGAF [Q&A Over]
Talk to just about anyone who works in gaming about the message board NeoGAF and you’ll hear the same thing said, often with shame, every time: “Oh yeah, it’s, uh, a guilty pleasure.” Founded in 2004 as an offshoot of the Gaming-Age forums, GAF has morphed into one of gaming’s most influential communities, a place…
By Jason Schreier Published April 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
Amiibo Has A False Prophet, And His Name Is Esteban
Nintendo fans have Amiibo fever, and sometimes fevers can induce hallucinations. Amiibo fans recently started worshipping a customer service representative named Esteban. For a time, he became their prophet. It’s understandable that desperate Amiibo fans would put their hopes in a mysterious figure like Esteban, as ridiculous as that sounds. Amiibos are hot commodities that…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedHow an RPG Works on the Apple Watch
There will be games for the Apple Watch. Of course. One of them—a role-playing game called Runeblade—will have battles that last anywhere from five to 15 seconds. You’re probably going to look pretty silly playing it. The trailer for the first Apple Watch RPG doesn’t offer up any details about how to actually play it.…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedHow A Small Studio’s Chance At The Big Time Died At Microsoft’s Doorstep
One week in early February, three top employees from the independent game studio Darkside Games flew to Redmond, Washington for a secret meeting with Microsoft. Over the course of the meeting, which lasted two days, Darkside’s leadership tried to convince the mega-corporation to give them a few more million dollars, according to two people familiar…
By Jason Schreier Published April 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedEveryday life in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt looks so cool. The game just got a new gameplay trailer, full of combat, but the best-looking parts are the ones with the NPCs doing their medieval daily routine. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and…
By Gergo Vas Published April 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedWe’re Not Crazy About Xenoblade Chronicles 3D
Today marks the release of Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, a smaller-sized version of the 2012 JRPG that was originally made for the Wii. The port—which is exclusive to the New 3DS—is a bit underwhelming. The interface is very clunky, and something about Xenoblade’s grandiose world makes it an ill fit for the 3DS’s small screens. To…
By Jason Schreier Published April 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.: The TAY Review [Updated] • Game of the Week—Sci-Fi, Grinding, and Emotional Impact [Phantasy Star II] • Bloodborne Stories – The Secret of Cainhurst TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By András Neltz Published April 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedTen Great World of Warcraft Inns
With people leveling their characters super fast nowdays, the inns of World of Warcraft no longer function as hubs where you can heal after doing a bunch of quests. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have awesome features. And they’re not abandoned at all. Here’s Crendor, trying to find the 10 best inns in Azeroth,…
By Gergo Vas Published April 10, 2015
