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UncategorizedAdventure Time Creator Has Four Game Ideas For Double Fine
Pen Ward’s been involved in a couple of games in some way or another, but never quite like this. Thanks to Double Fine’s two-week-long game jam—Amnesia Fortnight, aka the reason why Double Fine made Costume Quest, Stacking and others—you’ll get to vote on several pitches to see which the developers will prototype, four of which…
By Tina Amini Published February 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Terrible ‘Girl Gamer’ Sexism, Imagined As Even Worse 1900s Sexism
Take the boys-club crap of the video game internet, put it in a time machine and… you get a funny/sad comic that might just make it a bit more clear just how awful it is for the women who suffer the harassment of unenlightened dudes. By setting this strip in the early 20th Century, cartoonist…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedWe Convinced Felicia Day And Freddie Wong To Interview Each Other
Internet sensations. Gamers. Co-hosts of tonight’s D.I.C.E. video game awards. And now… Felicia Day and Freddie Wong are also Kotaku interviewers. One time only! They interviewed each other for Kotaku today. About games. About life. And just a bit about taking baths and what to do with nasty Internet comments. Up first, Freddie interviewing Felicia……
By Stephen Totilo Published February 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedMeet The New Sonic and His Next Game
Sonic’s celebrating more than 20 years as a video game icon. So it makes sense that Sega’s giving their furry blue mascot a bit of a facelift—nothing drastic, mind you—along with a new game and TV show in the hopes of keeping the hedgehog moving at top speed. You might be squinting to see what’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Crazy-Impressive Nail Art Inspired By South Park, Pokémon And More
Kayleigh O’Connor turned a bad habit into a good one when she realized she could actually design the fake nails she glued on to prevent herself from biting at her fingertips. And, my, has that hobby blossomed. She has an impressive array of designs—that are, sure, a bit impractical—all over her deviantART page, using a…
By Tina Amini Published February 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
The Best New Way To Play “F**K, Marry, Kill”
Who would Twitter like to bone: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Javier Bardem, or Franklin D. Roosevelt? Finally we can know for sure.* If you’ve ever been on a road trip with your friends, chances are you’ve played Fuck, Marry, Kill: The Decision-Making Game Of Extremes™. Thanks to some clever programming and a new Twitter bot, now you…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Humble Double Fine, Titanfall, LEGO Movie, Speaker Plugs [Deals]
The latest Humble Weekly features the games of Double Fine, with early access to Spacebase DF-9 for top-tier contributors, and that’s just the tip of today’s deal iceberg. Buying 300 on blu-ray nets you an $8 certificate toward the purchase of tickets to 300: Rise of an Empire. 300 on blu-ray is $8.77 today, so…
By Shane Roberts Published February 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedIf You Have A Vita, You Must Check Out Danganronpa
If you’ve ever wanted to play a game that could genuinely be described as a cross between Persona, Phoenix Wright, and Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, you’ve gotta look into Danganronpa Out for the Vita on Tuesday (February 11), Danganronpa is a visual novel in which 15 students are trapped in a high school and…
By Jason Schreier Published February 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
This Nintendo MiiverseSmash Bros. update about Rosalina raises so many weird questions…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Flappy Bird Is Making $50,000 A Day With Mario-Like Art [UPDATE 3]
UPDATE (2/10/14): Following the Feb 8 update to this piece, we’ve now published an apology to Flappy Bird‘s creator and a full accounting of what I believe was going on with reaction to the game. Please find that here. -Stephen Totilo, Editor-in-Chief, Kotaku.com UPDATE (2/8/14): This article was originally titled “Flappy Bird Is Making $50,000…
By Jason Schreier Published February 6, 2014 -
Uncategorized4 Minutes Of Probably The Weirdest Game You’ll Play This Month
Jazzpunk is a really hard game to explain. It’s like an adventure game that was written by a dozen different people, who all love puns, surrealist art, and computer jokes. Hopefully the video above will give you a feeling of what I’m talking about. If you’d like a more coherent explanation, Leo took a look…
By Steve Marinconz Published February 6, 2014 -
Uncategorized‘Penis Brothers’ Force You To Take Your Pants Off in Rust Or Die
What the… Ok, so we all know that socializing is kind of hit or miss in games like Rust or DayZ, but I…what? Beware that there are digital penisi as well as foul language that some might find funny, others more questionable. The short of it is that there’s a band of self-named “Penis Brothers”…
By Tina Amini Published February 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy VI Is Out On iOS Today
One of the greatest RPGs ever made is out on iOS today. It’ll cost you $15.99, and it’s got touchscreen-adapted controls and a brand new coat of paint. Check it out on iTunes if you’re interested, and pick a side: Team Cool Remake or Team This Shit Is Gross. Or, if you’ve never played FFVI…
By Jason Schreier Published February 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Odd Figures You’ll Be Able To Buy Soon • We Have To Learn How To Be Patient Again • Four Web Comics You Should Be Reading TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By Tina Amini Published February 6, 2014 - Uncategorized
Watch Every Panel At D.I.C.E. Live, Right Here
The top video game designers, developers and publishers are convening in Las Vegas for the 2014 D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit. It’s two days of compelling talks, capped off with the annual D.I.C.E. Awards, and you can watch it all right here. That’s right, this year’s D.I.C.E. is being broadcast, courtesy of the fine…
By Mike Fahey Published February 6, 2014 -
UncategorizedDayZ‘s Mythbusters Could Save Your Life
No need to waste characters to try out whether shooting someone’s gun would kill its owner or not, how vaulting affects your fall, or whether crawling or rolling are faster. Here’s the first episode of DayZ Standalone Mythbusters, which will hopefully help extend your character’s life in Chernarus. Permadeath is not a nice thing, so…
By Gergo Vas Published February 6, 2014
