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Summer Games Done Quick: Watch It All Right Here
If you’re not spending this entire week watching people play video games really fast, what are you even doing with your life? Summer Games Done Quick, the annual speedrunning marathon that raises money for charity, started yesterday, and the streaming continues all week, finishing off with a late-night Final Fantasy VI speedrun that will end…
By Jason Schreier Published June 28, 2014 -
UncategorizedThis Is Definitely A Live-Action Fatal Frame Movie Trailer
To the non-Japanese reader/speaker, the teaser trailer for this fall’s live-action Fatal Frame film is almost indistinguishable from any other Japanese horror film, until you get to the Camera Obscura bit. It’s not a Fatal Frame game until we start capturing spirits with a special camera, a rule that works for the movies as well.…
By Mike Fahey Published June 28, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Saturday Morning Stream: Rise Of The Dark Spark (All Are Done)
When is a movie tie-in not a movie tie-in? When Activision and developer Edge of Reality mix movie machines with Cybertronian ones. Let’s see how that worked out for them. Yesterday my colleague Yannick posted a story titled “Leave Michael Bay Alone, Transformers is Awesome.” I have no point to make here, I am just…
By Mike Fahey Published June 28, 2014 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Putting The ‘F’ In Free-To-Play
QUOTE | “I was so fed up of people telling us we should do free-to-fucking-play, in-app-fucking purchases, whatever the fuck that is, and that consoles were dead. So fuck all of those people and their fucking shitty stance.” – Graeme Struthers of Devolver, talking about why he’s happy to see next-gen consoles doing well Elsewhere…
By Steve Peterson Published June 28, 2014 - Uncategorized
6/23/2014: This Is How You Game
Welcome to your weekend! I hope it’s filled with video games, particularly games you can play with a keyboard and mouse, particularly a mouse you can put on your squishy pug. Just like Calumon‘s brother. In other news, it’s the weekend. So head over to Kotaku Selects for a roundup of all our best stuff…
By Tina Amini Published June 28, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Best Smash Bros. Mod Around Just Keeps Getting Better
Six years after its release, Super Smash Bros. Brawl is kept alive by hardcore fans that mod the game. In particular, fan-made Project M continues to add stuff that keeps the aging game feeling fresh. Here’s a trailer for Project M’s new upcoming “All Star” mode, which allows you to switch characters every time you…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 28, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Best Violent Moments In Video Games
There’s really no getting around it: many, many games are about violence, and sometimes it can be a bit much. Kill this, kill that, kill this until it all feels the same, like mowing a lawn or stomping an anthill. We’ve written a ton about it. But violence can also be incredibly powerful and interesting.…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
One of the best iOS games ever made is finally out for Android. The 1.1 update of Eliss Infinity—the evolution of beautiful/tough/artsy rapid-fire movement puzzle Eliss—debuts on the Google Play storefront today. The 1.1 is up on the Apple App Store, too. A rundown of the changes can be found here and Gamasutra‘s got an…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 27, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Most Unlucky Mario Kart Player
This, folks, is the very essence of “get wrecked.” Watch as Daisy is completely unable to catch a break in this video by HowBoutGaming: I think my favorite part is at the end, when she clearly just stops trying to move forward. I don’t blame you, Daisy. Confession: I have an absolutely irrational and intense…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
Watch The Folks Behind Sunset Overdrive Make A New Game
If people can livestream playing games, why can’t they livestream making games? Insomniac, the independent studio behind Sunset Overdrive and the Resistance series, among other games, just launched a new Twitch experiment: live video game development. They’ll be working on a small game called Slow Down, Bull and streaming every Friday afternoon, starting today at…
By Jason Schreier Published June 27, 2014 -
CultureHighlight Reel: June 27, 2014
Today’s gaming highlights: New world record speedruns, defusing bombs right under terrorist noses, and more! Speedruns BananasaurusRex gets a new world record in 1001 Spikes, coming in at 17:31.91 Yesterday we posted about this Super Mario Bros speedrun. It tops the old world record time by about a second with help from a Bullet Bill…
By Steve Marinconz Published June 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
Soul Blazer, An RPG Where You Play God’s Servant
Welcome to the Summer of Old JRPGs, where we’re playing classic role-playing games and talking about them every week. Check out the full schedule here Earlier this month I spent a whole bunch of time playing Soul Blazer, a video game about mermaids and talking plants. Hopefully you did too. Soul Blazer is the first…
By Jason Schreier Published June 27, 2014 -
UncategorizedItching for a New Dungeon Crawler? Try This One
Indie developers are always on the lookout for people to give them feedback, so it’s not uncommon for them to release a public alpha. All the better for you! In the video above, I play the alpha for a dungeon crawler called Vagante by Nuke Nine games. It’s still being worked on, but even in…
By Chris Person Published June 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Shovel Knight Soundtrack Is So Good
Shovel Knight, the game, is really good. Shovel Knight, the soundtrack, is even better. Composed by Jake ‘Virt’ Kaufman along with contributions from Mega Man composer Manami Matsumae, the Shovel Knight OST is a collection of anthemic chiptune compositions that, like the game it’s attached to, both recalls the classic games of the past and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
The long-awaited sequel to The Longest Journey isn’t going to be one big game anymore. Dreamfall Chapters will now be coming out as a series of episodic releases—with the first one hitting this fall—according to an update on the crowdfunded game’s Kickstarter page.
By Evan Narcisse Published June 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
Steam Summer Sale Day 9, Discount Plus and LIVE Subs, Pokemon X
Day 9 of the Steam Sale is here and with it comes discounts on Transistor, Octodad and not much else worth writing home about. As with every other day so far, several of the prices are currently wrong on the homepage. The Alan Wake Franchise is actually $6, which is a good deal for those…
By Shane Roberts Published June 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
A Cheat Sheet For Everything Wrong with Watch Dogs
Watch Dogs has some things going for it. It can look pretty. It handles aiming and shooting pretty well. But the story in Ubisoft’s open-world action game is not one of its strengths. Now we’ve got a hilarious movie script breakdown points out all the ludicrous stuff in Watch Dogs. Spoilers Ahead. Over at Playthroughline—a…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 27, 2014 -
UncategorizedLeave Michael Bay Alone, Transformers Is Awesome
I love Transformers. I don’t mean the toys, the cartoons, the comics, any of that stuff. I mean the new Transformers, the Michael Bay Transformers I know this is an unpopular opinion. But is far as I’m concerned, Transformers first came to life in Michael Bay’s series. And it is therefore the best Transformers until…
By Yannick LeJacq Published June 27, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Re-entering The Gecko • BioShock Infinite Lives, Lived, Will Live Up To (Most Of) Its Hype • State of Video Games 2014 [Expanded] • NotGoodForReview – Splinter Cell: Blacklist TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By András Neltz Published June 27, 2014
