Three Guys Made Six Games In Six Months And They’re Surprisingly Fun

Retro Game Crunch was a pretty crazy Kickstarter idea: Three developers would take votes on a theme every month and make a game based on the theme. Despite the rushed timeline, the results are quite fun. Rusty Moyher, Shaun Inman, and Matt Grimm teamed up for Ludum Dare to make a game in 72 hours.…

The second episode of this new season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead is now available on iOS devices via an in-app purchase. The ep hit PC, Mac, PS3 and 360 earlier in the week.

This Week In The Business: Oh, Tomb Raider Was a Hit.

QUOTE | “[Tomb Raider has] exceeded profit expectations and continues to make significant contributions to our overall financial performance.” – Square Enix’ head of studios Darrell Gallagher, explaining why the game is on its way to becoming the best-selling version in the franchise’s history. Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week ……

Welcome To The Weekend Of Phil On Kotaku

Happy Saturday, everyone. Your usual Kotaku weekend editor, Owen Good, has made his exit from this esteemed site, and I, Phil Owen, am not his replacement. I am merely a temporary caretaker, and hopefully I can assist in helping you, dear reader, survive this weekend. So let us drive off this metaphorical cliff in an…

How much stuff goes into a video game? To celebrate Broken Age going on sale on Steam, Double Fine has released an infographic with a collection of stats from the number of textures in the game to the total coffee consumption of the team. via Double Fine

Video game-style intros for Memphis vs. Chicago on ESPN.

An Oculus VR game about therapeutic shark-punching: Well, I guess the shark punching is only therapeutic if you need it to be. Here’s a goofy trailer for Shark Punch, a collaboration between Chaotic Moon and game studio Team Chaos. It’s currently only playable at South by Southwest, but maybe one day, we’ll all get to…

Help A Robot Find Love By Fighting Through Colorful Dungeons

Heart&Slash is about a robot finding its place in a harsh world. With swords. And guns. And fists. And interchangeable heads. There’s also love to be found. The first thing you’ll notice about the game is that it’s got a really cool voxel art style mixed with cartoonish graphics. It’s not all about the art…

​Coming Soon (Maybe) to Your Xbox Dashboard: Political Ads

Video games can be great place to escape the drudgery of the real world. No need to think about tax rates, paying utility bills or contractor rates when you’re in a Halo multiplayer match. But the dirtiest competition in the real world—jockeying for elected office—might be landing up on an Xbox near you, if Microsoft…

Pokémon Family Reunions Rarely End Well

You capture a Pokémon, add it to your Pokédex, and never once think of the family the poor creature left behind. Maybe now you’ll think, you heartless bastards. Maybe now you’ll think. Or not. See, this is why I number my Pokémon instead of naming them. By stripping them of their Pokémanity, I never run…

​The Best Video-Game Drug Sequences

Video games let us do all sorts of things we don’t normally do in our everyday lives. A lot of those things revolve around the (un?)holy trinity of guns, cars and drugs. I’ve been replaying Grand Theft Auto V recently, and I just passed the mission where Michael’s son drugs him and steals his car.…

Crossing Bridges Is Hard

Our goal in Bridge Constructor is to build a bridge, and then pass through it. But as usual, it wouldn’t be all that fun if it were that simple. Vinny on YouTube thankfully knows exactly how to do it in a classy way. Crossing the bridge is actually the last thing you wanna do: The…

Deus Ex Facebook Page’s World Book Day Message: Don’t Read Books

One would think a series with its roots firmly planted in the seminal transhumanist science fiction of the 20th century would be a bit more respectful of the whole book-reading thing. Alas. Celebrated in the United Kingdom on the first Thursday of March, World Book Day is a yearly event organized by the United Nations…

Quite Possibly the Most Depressing ‘Let’s Play’ You’ll Ever Watch

Often times the most interesting thing about watching someone narrate a game isn’t the game itself, it’s the person behind it. The short film Let’s Play Nomad X, uploaded last year but making the rounds now, is about what people can tell you about themselves when you read between the lines. It’s about the brief,…

A new Dark Souls? The next chapter in The Elder Scrolls? No, it’s just Angry Birds. Rovio is teasing another new Angry Birds title, soon to be soft-launched in Canada and Australia. Definitely getting an epic fantasy vibe, but which epic fantasy?

Three Tips For Playing Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition

Earlier this week, Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition arrived on the PS4. It’s a tweaked, graphically enhanced version of the already-good 2010 PS3 game; a relentless, arcade-y zombie shooter made by Housemarque, the same people who made Super Stardust and Resogun. Just like the original, the PS4 version is a fun game, and often a difficult…