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UncategorizedBehold, The Game of Thrones Theme Performed By Floppy Disk Drives
Sometimes people put things on the internet. Glorious things. Sometimes, we get to watch those things, and revel in the sheer depth and breadth of the cool things the world has to offer. Today is one of those days. Behold, what might be my favorite rendition of the Game of Thrones theme yet—the entire theme…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Melodic Begins Now, Daddy-O
[Bass starts walking] [Ride cymbal sneaks in] [An announcer walks up to the microphone] Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Club Kotaku. We’ve got some great music lined up for you tonight, so order a drink or two, light up a smoke and kick back. We’ll take it from here.
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 - Uncategorized
All-Star Pitcher Schilling’s Video Game Studio Can’t Pay Its Employees, Either
It is looking dire for 38 Studios, the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning studio set up with a huge hunk of public funding from a Rhode Island jobs creation program. So now, we’re talking about an operation that took taxpayer money with the intent of creating jobs and can’t pay the employees working in them. That’s…
By Owen Good Published May 17, 2012 -
UncategorizedWounded Galatian: Max Payne 3‘s Soccer Mission, and the Meaning Behind its Fictitious Team
This only marginally qualifies as a spoiler alert because, if you’ve played Max Payne 3 longer than 20 minutes, you’ve encountered this mission already. It revolves around a shootout in the locker room of the Galatians FC in Sao Paulo, Brazil which, as a quick Internet search plus common sense reveals, ain’t a real team.…
By Owen Good Published May 17, 2012 -
UncategorizedCreator of ‘Satirical’ Tentacle-Rape Game Apologizes
Satire is a tricky thing—if your goal is to mock something by embracing it, how far can you go until the mockery takes a backseat to the embracing? That’s the question currently facing Tentacle Bento, a card game focusing on Japanese tentacle rape fantasies whichraised a ton of money on Kickstarter (and a ton of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 - Uncategorized
If Lego Batman 2 Happened in Arkham City, It Would Look Like This
Crossovers happen in comics all the time, where characters stumble into worlds that look radically different and meet alternate versions of themselves. Such a thing probably won’t happen with the kid-friendly Lego Batman 2 and the Dark Knight’s ultra-violent exploits in Batman: Arkham City But, damn if Wonder Woman, Robin, Joker and Catwoman don’t all…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 17, 2012 -
UncategorizedWatch The Unreal Evolution of Video Game Graphics
Here’s a look at the history of the Unreal Engine, put together by Kotaku video editor Chris Person. Unreal, isn’t it? It’s spectacular to see how Epic’s powerful gaming engine has evolved over the years—and how our standards have evolved with it. Just a decade ago, we thought those goofy faces at the beginning of…
By Jason Schreier Published May 17, 2012 - Uncategorized
You Can Sign Up For Dust 514’s Beta Right Now
If you’re not one of the lucky EVE Online players who own a PS3 and is already waging war in CCP’s upcoming massive online shooter, then you can go ahead and sign up for the Dust 514 beta by going right here
By Evan Narcisse Published May 17, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Game Club is doing a Diablo III Character Study Right Now!
Hey Game Clubbers, welcome to our first discussion of Diablo III. I hope that none of you guys had as hard a time as I did logging onto the game for the first time. If you did then, like me, you probably haven’t spent as much time with the game as you’d like. Even those…
By Mike Epstein Published May 17, 2012 - Uncategorized
Want to Be in the Far Cry 3 Multiplayer Beta? Read This
For two weeks this summer, Ubisoft will invite select PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gamers to a virtual tropical island to choose one of six character classes to shoot each other with in the Far Cry 3 multiplayer beta test. How to be involved? Let me count the ways. 1. Buy Ghost Recon: Future Soldier…
By Mike Fahey Published May 17, 2012 -
UncategorizedSony’s PlayStation Smash Bros. Has Won Me Over
I wanted to roll my eyes at Sony’s apparent clone/rip-off/however-else-you-want-to-insult-it/take on Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros.. OK, it’s not hard to admit that I did roll my eyes at the thing when we finally got official details about the long-rumored game a couple of weeks ago. But yesterday, I got to play PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale,…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 17, 2012 -
UncategorizedHarley Quinn Is Back and Boy, Is She Pissed At Batman
Despite her background as a psychologist, Harley Quinn doesn’t seem to be dealing with loss very well. The teaser for the upcoming “Harley Quinn’s Revenge” add-on for Batman: Arkham City sees the murderous moll grow even darker, even managing to gun down the Dark Knight. It’s already been leaked that you’ll spend part of the…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 17, 2012 -
UncategorizedSee That Retro Community Video Game in Action
The other day, we saw some images of a made-up video game based on the characters from NBC’s Community—now, we get to see the “game” in action, complete with vocal performances from the cast. (Though I wonder if at this point they just have a canned recording of Abed saying, “Cool. Cool cool cool.”) The…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
UncategorizedPortal Creator Says Valve Is More Structured Than You Think
From reading Valve’s employee handbook, you might get the impression that the Half-Life creator is freewheeling, chaotic, and structure-free. But Portal co-creator Kim Swift, who left Valve a few years ago to join a different studio, says it ain’t all that anarchic. “I disagree with the suggestion that they have no structure there,” Swift told…
By Jason Schreier Published May 17, 2012 -
UncategorizedTesla Coils Sing To The Tune Of Portal 2‘s Turret Song
Portal 2 Spoilers ahead. This version of “Cara Mia” isn’t as lovely as when it was sung by the turrets in Portal 2, but it might be even cooler. Tesla Turret Opera (Cara Mia Addio) [YouTube via Aperture Science]
By Tina Amini Published May 17, 2012 -
UncategorizedN.O.V.A. 3 Is The Most Ambitious Mobile First-Person Shooter I’ve Seen
First-person shooters suck on a mobile device, don’t they? They’re inaccurate, fidgety, uncomfortable…and just downright rage-worthy. Why would you even want to play Call of Duty on your iPhone anyway, right? Though N.O.V.A. 3 doesn’t escape the flaws of mobile first-person shooting entirely, it does a damn good job of making you forget about them.…
By Tina Amini Published May 17, 2012