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What a Skyrim Helmet Looks Like in the Real World
Harrison Krix, aka Volpin Props, is someone whose work you should be very familiar with if you’re a regular Kotaku reader. His latest piece is this incredible helmet from Skyrim, which through good design and fine craftsmanship reaches into the game, grabs a Draugr helmet off someone’s head and rips it right back into the…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 - Uncategorized
MMO Company Hacked in 2010, Just Found out About it Now
Cryptic, the guys behind Star Trek Online and Champions Online, have found out this week that they’ve been hacked. User details have been stolen, and some “portion of the passwords” present in a database were even cracked. Which is bad. What’s worse is that the hack took place in December 2010 With Cryptic only finding…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallBatman…Why so Serious? It’s Just a Video Game!
If you’re sensitive to unnecessary amounts of drama in your video game advertisements, a word of caution: this contains an unnecessary amount of drama for a video game commercial. If anyone ever tells you the 1990s weren’t the golden age of video game advertising, you slap them, hard, and tell them they are wrong
By Luke Plunkett Published April 25, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Third World War Brought Clinton and Saddam Closer Together
The Sega CD was home to some terrible things, but it was also home to some wonderful curiosities as well. And few are as curious as Micronet’s 1993 strategy game The Third World War. Let’s start with the cover art. That amazing cover art. Sadly, it was only for the Japanese edition of the game…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Bang Bang, Kiss Kiss
Oh why hello there, Kotaku. You’ve survived Hump Day I see. That wasn’t supposed to happen… we don’t have a contingency plan for this. No one was supposed to survive hump day. Hmm, well. Guess we’ll have to improvise… Let’s start with an open thread. Go ahead and dive on in, talk about whatever you…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedLeisure Suit Larry Remake Makes Its Half-Million Bucks, Thanks To You?
The guy on the left is Al Lowe, adventure game pioneer and lead creative force behind the Leisure Suit Larry games. The guy on the right is Tim Schafer, adventure game pioneer and lead creative force behind Day of the Tentacle and other LucasArts classics. When I took this photo, in February, Tim was on…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Entire Universe, And Other Things That Are Awesome
People aren’t very big at all. But at least we’re bigger than ants, cells, the X chromosome, and all the empty space between particles. On the other hand, we get tiny awfully fast. Even dinky little Rhode Island looks huge in comparison to us. At least, until you keep scrolling out… From quantum foam and…
By Kate Cox Published April 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Trailer for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is Pure Torture—In Live Action
Raiden is beaten, bloodied and in trouble and somewhere, something’s gone nuclear, not in a good way either. We have to wait until April 30 to find out who will, or even can, make it right. The tagline on this live action Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance trailer seems to put that on you, dear viewer.…
By Owen Good Published April 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
STALKER Franchise Sold to Bethesda? [Update]
According to Russian reports, STALKER creator and GSC boss Sergei Grigorovich has issued a statement revealing that the reason a new development team couldn’t get the rights to the STALKER series in order to make a sequel – as only briefly alluded to earlier today – was because those rights have been sold to Bethesda.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Valve’s Gabe Newell Prefers Fans To Make Half-Life Movies, Not Hollywood
Jamie Russel’s “Generation Xbox: How Video Games Invaded Hollywood” revealed why the Halo movie failed. But Microsoft isn’t the only company interested in crossmedia platforms for one of their most beloved franchises. Valve seems like an easy choice for a Hollywood spotlight. The fictional universe and its characters are intriguing, and the fanbase is already…
By Tina Amini Published April 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Hello Friends, Madden has a New Commentary Team
Though it began so promisingly, the Gus Johnson era of calling the play-by-play in Madden NFL is over after two years. The game’s analyst, Cris Collinsworth, is likewise out. The reason? Neither of them got in the booth together. For Madden, or for any other purpose. They’ll be replaced by a duo who did, because…
By Owen Good Published April 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Calvin Johnson Will Be On The Cover Of Madden 13
The fans have spoken. Madden 13‘s cover athlete will be Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin “Megatron” Johnson. Publisher Electronic Arts revealed the news today at an event in New York City, where fans came out to watch finalists Johnson and Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton as they had silly food-throwing competitions and jokingly gave one…
By Jason Schreier Published April 25, 2012 -
ReviewsPrototype 2: The Kotaku Review
In very few games have I truly inhabited the persona of a goddam-right-I-am badass, whose demonstrations of power were as personal as Prototype 2‘s. And it’s not because I’ve imagined any of the superpowers you wield in this game, or how I’d perform with them. It’s because of the very normal, very pissed-off man in…
By Owen Good Published April 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedI Wish This Star Trek Phaser Was Real
Sadly, this is probably just a camera trick involving smoke and LED lights. But what if a man actually built a working Star Trek phaser? What if he used it to pop balloons? What if he brought it to a bank and took everybody hostage? What if he used all of the money to build…
By Jason Schreier Published April 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
What Your Video Game Controllers Look Like At Airport Security
I’ve never actually wondered what a console controller looks like on the inside. Perhaps I am too easily distracted by their colorful plastic exteriors, or by wanting to throw them across the room in response to certain games. But a Reddit user out there with access to an industrial-strength x-ray system did wonder how a…
By Kate Cox Published April 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Valley Without Wind Still Managed to Blow Me Away
While I was playing A Valley Without Wind, someone asked me what I was up to. Here’s what I said: “Well, it’s a platformer. I mean, it’s not, it’s a roguelike. But totally a platformer. Really, it’s a dungeon-crawler. It exists for exploration. Well, no, for upgrades. Actually, it’s kind of an adventure game. Also…
By Kate Cox Published April 25, 2012