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Here’s YouTube’s Reply To Angry YouTubers About This Content ID Mess
YouTube is responding to gamers and YouTubers who are upset about the Internet video giant’s extraordinarily aggressive new copyright sweeps. We’ve got a a copy of the e-mail they’re sending out below. You won’t see an apology here. You won’t see a change in policy. You’ll see support for the Content ID system that’s been…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 17, 2013 -
UncategorizedThe Most Ridiculous Victim of YouTube’s Crackdown is a BASIC Game
YouTube’s content ID match system may be the best way to keep copyright holders happy but it continues to cover everyone else in embarrassment. The latest example: This guy just got flagged for a playthrough video of a game. A game he programmed. In BASIC. This is “the action surfing adventure” Surfshooter, according to its…
By Owen Good Published December 17, 2013 - Uncategorized
Kotaku‘s Game Of The Year Nominations
The year is finally over. The games have all come out, and boy did we play them. Now, it’s time to decide which one wins the honor of being named Kotaku’s Game of the Year. Here’s how we’re going to do GOTY stuff in this, the year of 2013. The GOTY conversation will be split…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 17, 2013 -
UncategorizedNo Minecraft On Nintendo Makes No Sense [UPDATE]
Is there a bigger no-brainer in gaming that isn’t happening right now than Minecraft‘s absence on all Nintendo gaming machines? Today, Minecraft comes out for PS3: It’s already out on Xbox 360: It’s coming to Xbox One: It’s coming to PS4: Minecraft is big on iOS, too! Check out the top of these charts, released…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 17, 2013 - Uncategorized
iTunes’ Top Selling, Top Grossing, And Simply Top Games Of 2013
Every December the editors of Apple’s iTunes face the monumental task of selecting two games out of the thousands released during the year to receive top honors as the Best of 2013. This year they chose ridiculously well. I cannot link you to iTune’s Best of 2013 feature — you’ll have to go into iTunes…
By Mike Fahey Published December 17, 2013 - Uncategorized
The Sequel To 2012’s Amazing Walking Dead Game Is Here. It’s Depressing.
The Walking Dead Season Two—Telltale’s follow-up to their fantastic episodic adventure series—kicks off today with its first episode and it’s even more depressing with Clementine as its lead character Don’t worry, there are no spoilers in this kind-of-review. In season two of Telltale’s depressing The Walking Dead episodic series, an older Clementine is without her…
By Tina Amini Published December 17, 2013 -
UncategorizedThe Next Star Wars Game Is… A Free-To-Play Online Space Game
Video game publisher Electronic Arts might have the rights to make real Star Wars games, but Disney is still milking that social/mobile/free-to-play online cow. Today they officially announced Star Wars: Attack Squadrons, an online space game set in the iconic sci-fi universe. To quote Disney: “Star Wars : Attack Squadrons is a free-to-play online space…
By Jason Schreier Published December 17, 2013 - Uncategorized
Humble Bundle, iPhone Games, Ouya, Link Between Worlds [Deals]
In addition to the rest of the great deals today, there’s an all-new Humble Bundle for PC and Android featuring Little Inferno and Anomaly 2. [Humble] If you’ve been curious about the Ouya, the little Towerfall console that could, you can get one of the first real discounts on it from Amazon today, and did…
By Shane Roberts Published December 17, 2013 -
UncategorizedGame of Thrones In Minecraft Continues To Blow My Mind
It’s hard to watch videos from Westeroscraft—the stunningly ambitious project to re-create the entire world of Game of Thrones in Minecraft—and not be impressed. This one is Gulltown. It’s tremendous. You can log in and explore the full map via the team’s website, or just watch and drool and wish you lived in Minecraft world…
By Jason Schreier Published December 17, 2013 - Uncategorized
The next season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead begins its release today with episode 1 on Steam and PS3. Xbox 360 follows with a release tomorrow, iOS users will have to wait until later this week. Expect our impressions to go up later today. via Twitter
By Tina Amini Published December 17, 2013 - Uncategorized
The Definitive Video Game For The Least Popular Gaming Machine Around
Tearaway, I write in today’s New York Times, is a system-defining game for the PlayStation Vita. It’s as perfect for Vita as Super Mario 64 was for the N64 and Brain Age was for the DS. Some music is made for violin and unimaginable for trumpet. Other pieces are best on piano, worst on drums.…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 17, 2013 -
UncategorizedGarden Warfare Looks Like Battlefield with a Plants vs. Zombies Mod
Here’s a look at about 6 minutes of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare‘s “Gardens & Graveyards” multiplayer, which PopCap calls “a remix of Rush and Conquest gameplay modes from Battlefield but with a PvZ spin.” The similarities end there, because I’m not sure Rush or Conquest features carnivorous plants that can tunnel underneath you to…
By Owen Good Published December 17, 2013 -
UncategorizedStephen Colbert Spies on the Spies Playing Second Life
Last week, Jon Stewart tackled the absurdity of the NSA spying on World of Warcraft because there might be terrorists playing it or something. This week, The Colbert Report chimed in with a look at spying on Second Life—”a game for people who don’t have a first one!” The action picks up around the 1:10…
By Owen Good Published December 17, 2013 -
Uncategorized9 Minutes of Dying Light to Get Your Heart Racing
Even though I’ve already played through this level of Dying Light at PAX Prime, I’m still shifting in my chair, on edge while watching and waiting to see if the protagonist lives or dies in these 9 minutes of footage. I mean, of course he’s going to live. But as skilled as whoever’s behind the…
By Tina Amini Published December 17, 2013 - Uncategorized
Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Bobsplosion starts up a thread to round up the best pick-me-up anime, Dexomega shares an essay on the cultural diffusion between the U.S. and Japan, and Greg the Mad reviews the newest Hobbit movie Don’t forget that you can always go join the voices talking…
By Tina Amini Published December 17, 2013 -
UncategorizedBeautiful Sci-Fi Game That You Can’t Wait For Will Support Oculus Rift
What do you do when the future turns out shitty? You go back to the past. This time, it’s the developers of gorgeous first-person puzzle game Reset who are jaunting back through the timestream. Don’t worry, there isn’t any Terminator-style nakedness. Reset‘s been on our radar for a while now but the two-man team at…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 17, 2013 - Uncategorized
New Nintendo Direct video/infomercial tomorrow, 9am ET… “focusing on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS software launching through spring 2014.” Watch it at Nintendo’s site. Or just stick with Kotaku and we’ll break out all the news. Start your guessing now for what they’ll be showing now. Just more Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze, Bravely Default and…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 17, 2013 -
UncategorizedMinimalist Post-Apocalyptic America Sure Looks Pretty
Don’t let the nice, sharp colors and shiny polygons distract you, though. It’s hard to survive in post-apocalyptic America. Indie group Ice Water Games is currently working on a little project called Eidolon, which takes you on a journey across a post-human Western Washington filled with rolling, green hills, massive forests, and burnt-out husks of…
By András Neltz Published December 17, 2013 - Uncategorized
This spectacularly beautiful digital painting of a Kerbal sight-seeing happened after redditor Calebm12 accidentally came across their old graphics tablet—one afternoon later, the painting was born. If you want to use this as your wallpaper (I don’t blame you), you can find a bunch of different sizes here Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…
By András Neltz Published December 17, 2013