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The Saturday Morning Stream: The Elder Scrolls Online
Welcome to the first weekly installment of the Saturday Morning Stream, which is just like Saturday morning cartoons, only with more cursing. Let’s kick things off with a little romp through The Elder Scrolls Online. As mentioned in my weekend editor intro post, I am a big fan of massively multiplayer online role-playing games. That…
By Mike Fahey Published March 15, 2014 - Uncategorized
Your New Weekend Editor, As Foretold By Prophecy
“I’ve watched the other two, how hard can it be?” That’s what I imagine the director of The Prophecy 3: The Ascent was thinking before giving Christopher Walken hair extensions, fingerless gloves and a trumpet — not at all what I’m thinking as I begin my tenure as Kotaku‘s third regular weekend editor. In November…
By Mike Fahey Published March 15, 2014 - Uncategorized
We’ve updated our Game Release Calendar with deals on The Elder Scrolls: Online, LEGO: The Hobbit, Daylight, Dark Souls II [PC], Murdered: Soul Suspect, Alien: Isolation, Bayonetta 2, and lots more, along with new upcoming games and release dates. Let us know what you’re excited for, what our list is missing, and of course any…
By Shane Roberts Published March 15, 2014 - Culture
This Week In The Business: It’s Anybody’s Game
QUOTE | “If we need games for 10-year olds do we need to hire 10-year olds to make games? If I can’t make a game for someone else I’m a shitty designer.” – Laralyn McWilliams, veteran game designer, explaining why hearing ‘If we want more games for women we need more women in game development’…
By Steve Peterson Published March 15, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Millennium Falcon is a master of disguise
By John Struan Published March 15, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Best of Kotaku, The Week of March 10
Are you guys ready for your new weekend Kotaku editor? I sure hope so! I’m certainly excited about it. But before we get into the weekend, be sure to catch up on our best stuff over at Kotaku Selects The image above is from a game called Proven Lands. Here’s a little bit about it…
By Tina Amini Published March 15, 2014 -
UncategorizedInfinite Crisis “What Do You Fight For?” trailer
By John Struan Published March 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Random Game Concept Generator. Via BB
By John Struan Published March 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
The ballpark of the future according to Sports Illustrated: What can baseball fans expect their stadiums to look like in 20 years’ time? To find out, Sports Illustrated approached Populous—one of the world’s most prolific stadium designers and the architects behind roughly 20 MLB stadiums, including the two most recent venues in New York, Target…
By John Struan Published March 14, 2014 -
UncategorizedChroma Squad—”All 3 Japanese TV Ads”: We are going full Japanese with this new trailer for their simulation/turn-based strategy game Chroma Squad. Literally. The trailer is fully voiced in Japanese and includes classic tenets from eastern culture such as curry rice and brightly-colored letters that blow up on the screen faster than anyone could possibly…
By John Struan Published March 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
New pictures of the Link and Ganondorf Twilight Princess figures, listed for July 30: Link Figure Packaged in gatefold window box. $79.99 Ganondorf Figure Packaged in gatefold window box. $124.99 The Link figure measures 10” high on, sculpted base, and the Ganondorf figure measures 12”. Each is meticulously detailed and has been approved by Nintendo…
By John Struan Published March 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
This Game Jam Is About Bringing To Life A Computer’s Weirdest Ideas
Orteil42, creator of Cookie Clicker, has a toy on his website that generates random game concepts like “A tycoon game where you stop breathing if you don’t hug chores.” Now, there’s a game jam to make those games real. Insanity Jam is set up around the idea of one-person teams making games based on the…
By Steve Marinconz Published March 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Days of Future Past Heroclix Nightcrawler.
By John Struan Published March 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Attack on Titanfall by BossLogic
By John Struan Published March 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
Seven Types of People You Don’t Want To Watch TV With
Watching TV can be a great communal experience, a thing you love doing with friends and family…or it can suck, depending on the type of person you do it with. Hopefully the people you watch TV with are nothing like the folks in this comic by Dorkly, though. You can check out more great Dorkly…
By Patricia Hernandez Published March 14, 2014 -
UncategorizedRemember To Play Titanfall With Style, Folks
There’s nothing quite like the moment in Titanfall when you finally call down your giant mech, sprint across the battlefield, and leap into the cockpit. It’s robot fightin’ time! Lately I’ve gotten a bit obsessed with style, specifically with trying to climb into my titan in the coolest way possible. So far, I’d say the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 14, 2014 - Uncategorized
A Gauntlet For Our Modern Era
I love playing Gauntlet, but sometimes you want something faster, leaner and more aggressive. Indie hopeful The Hero Trap hopes to fill that void. Nikita Mikros (One of the dudes behind the fantastic local multiplayer game Killer Queen) and Smashworx are trying to kickstart The Hero Trap, a multiplayer, dungeon roguelike in the vein of…
By Chris Person Published March 14, 2014