Titanfall‘s Backstory, Summarized In One Minute

So that’s why theTitan classes are called Ogre, Stryder and Atlas! Lore‘s here to summarize Titanfall‘s background story with a huge amount of references. LORE Titanfall Lore in a Minute [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Filmed Footage That Can Be Controlled Like a Video Game

“Panomovie” is a 360-degree interactive panorama movie that allows viewers to look around via mouse or other interfaces. Kind of like a video game. Here, you can see a concept reel with clips of the Panamovie in action. Or, better yet, you can test some of the samples yourself (here and here). As TechInAsia points…

Don’t Move is supposedly a game about “ludonarrative dissonance and player investment manipulation.” What it actually looks like is a twisted social experiment of some sort. But in any case, it’s on Greenlight. And if it gets on Steam, it will cost a dollar, apparently. Hmmm.

Super Mario Bros. on Four Computer Monitors

Here is a full-screen version of Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 on several computer monitors. Just look at it all scrolled out before you. Do it! And here is World 1-2, complete with the exposed Warp Zone. These images come from Twitter user Morikuma_Works, who, when not unraveling Mario Bros., works as an engineer in…

Tetsuya Nomura Picks The Three Best Lightning Fanart

Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy character designer Tetsuya Nomura recently judged a fanart contest at deviantART, which featured the Final Fantasy XIII series’ recurring protagonist and costume aficionado, Lightning. After looking through literally thousands of submissions, he picked three. Here they are. The press release announcing the winners also had comments from Nomura for each…

Robots Can Not Beat Us At Ping Pong (Yet)

Man versus machine. It’s always the ultimate showdown, and in this case—where one of the world’s best table tennis players, Timo Boll, goes against one of the fastest ping pong machines out there—it makes for an intense match. While the robots don’t win this time—Boll barely wins by taking advantage of the robotic arm’s limitations—the…

Track: Light Years From Home | Album: Spacehop Chronicles Vol. 1 | Artist: Bluetech Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

​Catch A Glimpse of Titanfall‘s Expensive Live-Action Series

Usually, you have to wait months, years or decades before someone decides to pour blood, sweat and tears to make a filmed adaptation of a video game. Not with Titanfall. Work’s already underway on an effect-heavy series set in the world of Respawn’s mech-happy future. Looks pretty damn spiffy, if you ask me. This Free…

If you’re hanging out for Driveclub, it might be a while. Sony’s Sony’s Scott Rohde tells IGN the game went “back to the drawing board” last year so they can “make sure the game is great before we ship it.”

I Hope This Is The Future Of Action Figures

Boss Fight Studio are a small toy company, mostly made up of ex-Hasbro folks who worked on lines like GI Joe and Transformers. While they still do licensed work for big companies, its Boss Fight’s design for original action figures that look neat. Despite not having a universe or face to reveal (yet), the company…

Plays Like Syndicate, Looks Like…The Sabotage Video

Bringing together 1993 classic Syndicate and the video clip to Sabotage might not seem like your average video game inspiration, but that’s exactly what’s making LA Cops look so damn cool. Indie studio Modern Dream’s (the Button Affair guys) game drops you in a super-stylish, isometric 70s world and gives you two characters to control,…

​Let’s Make More Strategy Games This Pretty

It seems like more and more big-budget game developers are ditching their cushy studio gigs and striking out on their own to make smaller, often more interesting games. I’m into it. The latest of these is Duelyst, a self-described “tactical turn-based strategy game with ranked competitive play.” Here’s the new trailer, which shows off the…

WoW Level 90 Character Boosts Are Just An Expansion Pack Preorder Away

The physical editions of this fall’s Warlords of Draenor expansion for World of Warcraft will come with a code that’ll allow players to boost a character to level 90. Pre-order a digital edition from Blizzard, and you’ll get the boost right away. The Warlords of Draenor expansion gives players the ability to explore World of…

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