You can say a lot of things about Leetgion’s El’ Druin gaming mouse. About the only thing you couldn’t say is that it’s boring. Just look at it. Forget what it actually does for a second and just look at it. I’ve never seen a mouse like it. Which in a crowded peripheral marketplace surely…
Despite some negative press, zombie survival sim The War Z has launched on Steam and gone straight to the top of the best-sellers charts. So it’s curious timing that, on the same day the game was hitting those lofty heights, developers Hammerpoint Interactive released an update. Which introduced a new “feature”. Previously, including on the…
The art you’re seeing today comes from Daryl Mandryk, a freelance concept artist who has worked with EA on games like Need for Speed, Def Jam and SSX, and more recently on the Turok and Tron franchises. You may have seen him on Kotaku previously for that Tron stuff, but today’s gallery encompasses all of…
Malcolm Klock put together this nice video book-ending the year in video games in under two minutes. Before you reach for the keyboard for an angry “WHERE’S MY FAVOURITE GAME”, here’s what Malcolm has to say on the subject: Your favorite game isn’t missing because I don’t think its great, more likely it just didn’t…
Having just endured the train wreck that was Far Cry 3’s narrative arc, now’s the perfect time to look at this guide by GameFront on how to write a story for a video game. It may look like a joke (and because it is a joke, it gets a little wonky in parts), but think…
What you’re looking at here is the result of over 3000 hours of work and, insanely, two million pieces of LEGO. It’s a recreation of Bag End, from The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, and it’s life-sized. Well, sort of. Gandalf is as tall as everyone else, so maybe “giant minifig-sized” would have been a better…
A hacker claiming to be a software engineer from Belarus broke into online game Heroes of Newerth earlier this week, stealing passwords and account information from developer S2 Games’ database. “I hacked HoN because there’s nothing as hilarious as seeing a bunch of fanboys of a game get enraged over the fact that their favourite…
More shows need Christmas specials. The UK The Office and more recently, Downton Abbey both had some pretty outstanding specials; surely The Walking Dead could use one? This video from Jawiin imagines just such a scenario. The jokes are hit or miss, but the impersonations are all pretty great. “I’VE GOT THE HAM.” Are you…
Photography student David A. Reeves likes video games and movies with guns in them. So he’s found an awesome way to combine all three, crafting intricate little silhouettes of game and movie scenes out of paper then taking photos of them. If you think the results look a lot like Limbo, that’s cool, he’s got…
There is something about weddings and video games, huh? People proposing through games is something we hear about often. Here’s a small twist: announcing your wedding via video game. That’s exactly what Barry Abrams and his fiance, Katie, did—they made a small game to celebrate their wedding that anyone can play. It includes small snippets…
The year is winding down and, if we simply asked Activision boss Bobby Kotick what the smartest thing Activision did was this year, he might say it was the making of gobs of money. Yes, Activision is doing fairly well Activision did well in 2012 by being conservative. That’s not quite the same as playing…
I love looking at the early stages of a a creative work I’ve experienced in its finalized form. You get a glimpse of what-almost-was, what-could-have-been, and sometimes the thank-god-that-didn’t-happen. Bulbapedia has a fascinating page on prototype Pokemon and prototype trainers, as well as some Pokemon that just plain never made it into a Pokemon game.…
The first episode of Telltale’s The Walking Dead is currently free on iOS. Our advice: Play on iPad over iPhone.
FoxNews: Gun industry wants to couple 2nd Amendment talk w/scrutiny of “games that teach young kids how to shoot heads.”
Steam will now send you an email if a game on your wishlist goes on sale. Thanks!
Numerous vehicles and cranes! Diverse tasks! You’ve never seen wood cutting simulated like this before. It’s Woodcutter Simulator 2013!!! Coming to Woodcutter Simulator stores near you.
In a fit of frustration over Hotline Miami and the way gamers discuss violent games, I ended up talking to game critic/provocateur Cara Ellison. She adores Hotline Miami, you see. Originally I meant to consult her about a different article, but our conversation was much more interesting than what I wrote. So we’re publishing our…
Bless map editors. They make wonderful things possible—wonderful things that normally couldn’t exist. MP1st brings our attention to Youtube user ShadowZack, who took it upon himself to recreate a few famous maps in Far Cry 3. These maps hail from franchises like Call of Duty, Battlefield and Counter-Strike. The one above is Nuketown. Here are…
Previously exclusive to Tegra devices, Zen Pinball HD is now available on Google Play for non-Tegra Android devices.
Look out, Danny Ocean, you’ve got some competition: Last night, in a daring warehouse heist near Seattle’s SeaTac airport, thieves made off with 7,000 Nintendo Wii U consoles. Yes, you read that right: Seven thousand As reported by ABC News, the heist occurred during last night’s storm. The thieves rolled into SeaTac’s Seattle Air Cargo…
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