WTPT: Let These Breathtaking Journey Visuals Soothe Your Soul

You’ve seen the screenshots, the trailers, and the words written about it. It’s not hard to see that Journey is a beautiful game. That’s why our video extraordinaire, Chris Person, put together this time-lapse of some of the most beautiful sunsets and scenery in the game. The two red-robed players look so peaceful against the…

Clearing Out Goldeneye 007 With a Steering Wheel

Using a Nintendo 64 emulator and a Logitech DFGT steering wheel, YouTube user welovelordtaco has beaten Goldeneye 007‘s Facility level in spectacular fashion. I don’t know why anyone would ever consider using a steering wheel to play a first-person shooter, but hey, we all have our hobbies. Goldeneye 007 Facility Challenge With A Steering Wheel…

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This Game is About Gardening On Mars. It’s Way Cooler Than It Sounds

Planting a garden is an exercise in resource management. What goes where? How much room will everything take? Which plant needs how much water? It’s a constantly evolving puzzle that plays out over long periods of time. Speed things up a bit, and you’re starting to have the makings of a really engaging game. Now…

A Little Mario Music Makes Battlefield 3 Ten Times More Entertaining

Furthering the notion that there is no situation, real or virtual, that cannot be enhanced by the addition of Koji Kondo music, I give you “SuperField Bros. 3”, the perfect marriage of heavy weapons and heavy whimsy. YouTube video craftsman DerpShark took the music of Nintendo classic Super Mario Bros., laid it over some Battlefield…

Watch This, Play This Begins Now

Stuff to play, stuff to see, here comes Watch This, Play This. Confused? Read this

Capcom Says Resident Evil: Revelations Spelling Error Was ‘Embarrassing’

Gaming magazine Game Informer put up an interview with Capcom Senior Vice President of strategic planning and business development Christian Svensson on its website yesterday that’s well worth reading. They talk a lot about several topics, including upcoming survival horror game Resident Evil 6 and the power of crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Svensson also had a…

Pick the Best Japanese Role-Playing Game for Someone That Never Plays Them

In today’s turn-based edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid admits that his Japanese role-playing game experience is limited to Final Fantasy XII. We cannot let that stand. Help him choose a more definitive JRPG to get him hooked on the genre. Denizens of Speak Up, I demand an audience! (Editor’s Note: No! Well,…

The Future of Mirror’s Edge Is Still Frustratingly Vague

What’s the future of Mirror’s Edge, that flawed but beautiful cult-favorite of a first-person parkour game? That question is nearly mandatory for any interview with a person of power at Electronic Arts and its development studio DICE, so of course I asked it last week when I was supposed to be interviewing studio manager Karl…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Wednesday’s commonly known as Hump Day but around these parts we call it the Dawn of the Foreboding Dread. But fear not! You’ve arrived at Kotaku‘s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to…

How Wasteland 2 Went From Hopeless to Half a Million in 24 Hours

Brian Fargo had given up. He’d spent the better part of the past decade pitching a game idea to publishers, only to be met by indifference and rejection. While he pitched and tried to sell his game, business executives would stare at their phones, texting. Barely paying attention. It was infuriating. The idea was for…

Did You Know Kid Icarus: Uprising is Part Collectible Card Game?

With “hundreds” of augmented reality (AR) cards being distributed across via special events, magazines, retailers and Club Nintendo, Kid Icarus: Uprising for the 3DS is more than just a third-person shooter; it’s also a collectible card game. Can you collect the whole set? The initial set of AR cards that came packaged with the Nintendo…

This 3DS Game Didn’t Scare Me Much, But It Did Make Me Want to Puke

Maybe a brightly lit conference show floor was not the place to be playing a game meant to scare the pants off of me, because all I felt while playing Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir was dizziness. Spinning off of the Fatal Frame series—generally acknowledged to be some of the scariest games ever—Spirit Camera has…

BioShock Infinite‘s Handyman is the Saddest Tosser of Them All

In the first “Heavy Hitters” video for BioShock Infinite we met evil robot George Washington. In this second video Ken Levine and crew introduce us to the Handyman, one of the first villains we saw in the game’s trailers, and possibly the last one we’ll see in game. Capitalizing on the inherent creepiness of “realistic”…

What a Korean Pop Song Can Teach Us About Video Game Sequels

I’m going to ask you to think about K-pop Girls’ Generation (SNSD)’s song “Gee”. You know, “Gee, gee, gee, gee, baby, baby, baby…” Now that you have that song stuck in your head again, check out the English remix by an American pop-rock band called Nylon Pink in the above video. For research purposes, I’ve…

This Cosplayer Is Hungry Like a Wolf

This is South Korean cosplayer Hyun-Ah Cho. That’s not her cosplayer name. Oh, no. Her cosplayer name is “Wolf”. The Seoul resident tackles a wide variety of games and anime with her cosplay. Though, she sure seems to like fighting game Guilty Gear. There’s a lot of Guilty Gear! When not cosplaying Wolf says her…

Why The Hell Am I Not Playing this Korean Girl Group Game?

In Asia, Girls Generation is huge. And in their native South Korea, the girl group has shilled DSi units for Nintendo. Yet, the group does not have its own game. But if it did, would it look like this? This is a fan creation. It’s totally made-up and headed to stores sometime between never and…

Press This Arcade Button. A Real Person Will Appear.

One of the best things about Japan is the service. The service is generally great. One of the things that makes it so great? Call buttons. Instead of sitting in a restaurant waiting around for a waiter or waitress to make his or her way towards your table, you can press the call button, and…

This Xbox 360 Game Demo Is Ten Hours Long. Wait, What?

This spring, Japanese adventure game Root Double: Before Crime*After Days is coming to the Xbox 360. The game’s limited edition bundle costs ¥9,240 (US$112), while the regular edition is ¥7,140 ($87). That’s a lot of money. How can you be sure it’s worth it? Well, you could play the game’s demo. Make that, the game’s…

League of Legends is the New StarCraft in Korea [CORRECTED]

I guess Koreans are finally starting to get sick of StarCraft II and Fifa Online 2, because League of Legends (LoL) has made its way to the top spot in e-sports tournaments, replacing StarCraft II. Professional broadcasters as well as sponsors are now supporting LoL, which may be an effort to improve stagnating expansion of…