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UncategorizedNvidia’s New Shield Console Is Nothing To Get Excited About
Last night at the 2015 Game Developers Conference, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said he was announcing three things—a revolutionary television, a game console and a supercomputer. He actually revealed an Android console, the third Nvidia device in two years to carry the Shield name. Yay? Having teased the announcement for the better part of a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 4, 2015 -
CultureA New World Record For Beating Super Mario 64 With No Stars
Did you know it’s possible to beat Super Mario 64 without ever getting a single star? Ah, the wonders of speedrunning. As spotted by Digg, here’s run by akira06072525 where they manage to beat Super Mario 64 in 6 minutes 54 seconds with zero stars. This feat is accomplished via glitching, yes, which allows akira…
By Patricia Hernandez Published March 4, 2015 - Uncategorized
Valve’s Changed The Steam Controller Again
As Valve continues to tweak its own controller, GDC has another look at the evolving peripheral. Kotaku boss Stephen Totilo snapped this photo while walking around the show today. We should have a closer look at it—and whatever else Valve is showing at GDC—later this week! Remember when the Steam controller looked like this? You…
By Patrick Klepek Published March 4, 2015 - Uncategorized
A Graphic Novel That Shows The Creepy And Awesome Sides Of Nerd Culture
Many comic books are fantasies, filled with feats and adventures that ordinary people wish they could pull off. But some of those fantasies can also invoke sex and violence in ways that make folks feel icky. And if you’re the one turning out those stories, what happens when you’re burnt out doing the thing you…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 4, 2015 - Uncategorized
How Big Is No Man’s Sky?
For years now, scientists, journalists, and other truth-seekers have dedicated their waking hours to answering one single question: Is the video game No Man’s Sky gonna be big? If so, how big will it be? Investigators around the world, including some right here at Kotaku, have spent the last two years trying to solve this…
By Jason Schreier Published March 4, 2015 - Uncategorized
Microsoft HoloLens Designer Killed In Hit-And-Run
Mike Ey, a 30-year-old software engineer for Microsoft’s HoloLens, was killed in a hit-and-run accident over the weekend, according to the local Seattle station Kiro TV. According to Kiro TV (via NeoGAF), local police said that Ey was rear-ended by another driver who was speeding “over 100 miles an hour” while driving on the highway…
By Yannick LeJacq Published March 4, 2015 - Uncategorized
EA Shuts Down SimCity Developer Maxis
EA has shut down Maxis Emeryville, the main Maxis studio and longrunning developer behind SimCity and Spore, among other games. Though the Maxis brand will carry on, the studio that most people knew as “Maxis” is no more. “Today we are consolidating Maxis IP development to our studios in Redwood Shores, Salt Lake City, Helsinki…
By Jason Schreier Published March 4, 2015 -
UncategorizedHow To Get The Good Ending In Five Nights at Freddy’s 3
Unlike previous Five Nights games, Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 has multiple endings. There is a bad ending, where you beat the game and the animatronics continue being haunted. And there is a good ending, where you put the spirits of the dead children to rest. You want to put the children to rest, so…
By Patricia Hernandez Published March 4, 2015 -
UncategorizedSix Of Nine
Yesterday, I saw nine people play a single Wii U game. How’d they do that? One person (in this case Game Trailer‘s Andrea Rene) on the Wii U GamePad, and then four pairs of people sharing Wii Remotes and Classic Controllers. I should have shot this in panorama so that you could see all nine…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 4, 2015 -
UncategorizedUnreal Engine 4 Is Awfully Good At Rendering Kites, Emotions
Unreal Engine 4 is now free for anyone to tinker with, so at the Game Developers Conference today, Epic Games debuted an impressive real-time demo to show it off. Hold onto your kites… The company says this is running in real-time at 30 frames-per-second, a way to demonstrate the worlds developers can dream up and…
By Patrick Klepek Published March 4, 2015 -
UncategorizedScreamride Is Great, But Players Are Making It Even Better
Is Frontier Development’s Xbox-exclusive amusement ride builder worth a play? That depends—how strong is your stomach? I played some Screamride live over the weekend, and I was impressed with two out of three of the game’s career tracks. I’m not much of a builder, so finishing up pre-built coasters in the Engineer mode wasn’t my…
By Mike Fahey Published March 4, 2015 - Uncategorized
Extra 10% Off Consoles, New PlayStation Store Sale, and More Deals
Groupon is taking an extra 20% off local deals, or 10% off getaways and goods today with code TRIPLE. This works sitewide, but here are a few suggestions from the gaming world: Get 20% off any Groupon Local Deal or 10% off any Groupon Good with Code TRIPLE The Last of Us Remastered Digital-Download ($18)…
By Shep McAllister Published March 4, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe New (But Very Early) Unreal Tournament Is Already Really Fun
In less than 30 seconds, it all came flooding back, as my flak cannon suddenly struck gold. There’s nothing like aiming the secondary fire of Unreal Tournament‘s flak cannon, sending a glob of shrapnel in the direction of your reticle, and watching someone gib into a million pieces. In the waning months of 1999, you…
By Patrick Klepek Published March 4, 2015 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s Box Boy! Is Coming To The U.S. This Spring
Box Boy!, the puzzle platformer that one of our guys in Japan calls a “love letter to the original Game Boy” and “easily the best 680 yen I have spent on gaming in years,” is coming to the American 3DS eShop this spring, according to Nintendo, who were talking eShop this week at the Game…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 4, 2015 - Uncategorized
Dying Light will get its long-awaited “hard mode” on March 10th, Techland said today. Can’t wait! In addition to that free update, a $5 “Survivor Bundle” will also be released, giving players three additional character skins and four new weapons.
By Yannick LeJacq Published March 4, 2015 -
UncategorizedHow Sony’s Impressive First-Person Shooter Virtual Reality Demo Works
They’re calling it a demo, not a game, and it’s not quite perfect. You can’t even walk in it, after all. But there’s something really cool about the London Heist, a snippet of a first-person shooter made to be played using Sony’s PlayStation 4 Morpheus virtual reality headset. I know that telling you much about…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 4, 2015