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UncategorizedThe Rare Angry Birds Theme Guitar Remix Spotted in the Wild
When musicians decide to take video game music and make it better, the results are almost always fantastic. Julian Brasart’s Angry Birds theme song, played on electric guitar, is no exception. His youtube channel has some other video game/electric guitar gems, which are sure to impress anyone you show them too. Thanks to twitter user…
By Jen Schiller Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Death of PC Gaming Scheduled to be Disproven on August 26
We’ve heard it said time and time again, PC gaming is not dead, but sometime just saying something isn’t enough. This Friday, PC peripheral maker Razer plans to prove it. As one of the world’s top manufacturers of high quality PC gaming gear, Razer has a vested interest in the future of PC gaming. One…
By Mike Fahey Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Aliens: Colonial Marines Shows Why it’s Smart to Wait 25 Years to Make a Movie Game
While we’ve known for a while now that Gearbox’s upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines makes extensive use of original concept art from the movie it’s based on, 1986’s Aliens, it’s still a surprise to see it brought to life 25 years later. I caught a showing of the game during Gamescom last week, a demonstration that…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 22, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Trailer For Dark Souls Comes with Fair Warning.
The new trailer for Dark Souls comes with a simple warning: Prepare to die. This warning, of course, serves two purposes. Not only is it for your character, who you can see coming up against creature after creature, but it also refers to the gameplay itself, which promises to be even harder than Demon’s Souls…
By Jen Schiller Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
This is Gamescom
We’ve talked about the games, about the cosplay, the camping and the crowds. But no single story or set of photos can truly encapsulate all that is the world’s biggest video game show. Here’s a look at the show through the organizer’s own camera lens. Don’t forget to click on the bottom right of each…
By Brian Crecente Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
“The Gamer” T-Shirt is Beautiful, Will Also Haunt My Nightmares
Creating a memorable shirt design can be difficult, but this one will stick with me for a long time. Whether I want it to or not. “The Gamer,” a hairy creation by powerpig, shows us that gaming is not just skin deep. Look deep into his d-pad eyes and see into the eyes of madness.…
By Max Abrams Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Deus Ex: Human Revolution‘s Review Scores Are Perfectly Natural
In the year 2000, Ion Storm unleashed the perfect marriage of futuristic shooter and skill-based role-playing in Deus Ex, a game so unique that even its own sequel couldn’t replicate its success. Can any follow-up possibly do it justice? Deus Ex: Invisible War took the award-winning formula established in the first game and dumbed it…
By Mike Fahey Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Game From Portal and Left 4 Dead Vet to be Revealed at PAX
The first game collaboration between Square Enix and Airtight Games will be revealed at a PAX panel this Saturday, 7:00 PM PST. The panel will feature former Valve developer, Kim Swift. Kotaku is covering everything PAX, so check back regularly!
By Max Abrams Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Never Count Nintendo Out
If there are any universal rules or golden constants by which the game industry is governed, one of them is surely this: Never count Nintendo out. It is not an exaggeration to call the Kyoto firm the world leader in video game production. They have sold more video game hardware than anybody else (Nintendo dominates…
Chris Pruett | Robot Invader Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
If You Can Figure Out Minecraft’s PigTales, You Get a Cookie
The Minecraft folks have teamed up with Mackapar Films to make…something. PigTales, the resulting website, features a customizable video of Minecraft pig sock puppets. You make up dialog, then post to the site. We’re still not sure why. [PigTales]
By Jen Schiller Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Must We Compare Every Online Role-Playing Game to World of Warcraft? Yes, And Here’s Why
In today’s thrilling episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Vezroth explains why people need to stop getting angry when every other massively multiplayer online game in the world is compared to World of Warcraft. I am, and have been a consistent World of Warcraft player since the Burning Crusade expansion. Vanilla I played off…
By Mike Fahey Published August 22, 2011 -
UncategorizedPortal Turrets Invade Bastion
The kid started a New Game+ mode in the celebrated summer indie game Bastion. He bought himself the Gel Canister and spawned some mean turrets from Aperture Science. He told himself he was only seeing this because he was now in the Steam version of the game, the one that came out last week, the…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
How to Play Your Xenoblade Import on a North American Wii
Xenoblade Chronicles is out in English right now, but Nintendo of America doesn’t seem keen to let North American’s play it, so they can’t. Not unless they import a copy from Europe and follow Joystiq’s guide for soft modding Nintendo’s Wii to play imports. Joystiq’s step-by-step guide takes Wii owners through installing the Wii Homebrew…
By Mike Fahey Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
You guys actually read what we write!! The call to arms has been answered, and we have a couple new TAYpics. But we’re not out of the dark yet! Keep those submissions coming! Gamescom is over this week, but don’t worry, PAX is right around the corner! Chat up your favorite convention, or the convention…
By Jen Schiller Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Visit To the Thousands-Strong Gaming Tent City of Cologne
COLOGNE, GERMANY – For one week a year a very different sort of campsite forms along Cologne’s pebbled shores of the Rhine river. Tucked between the fourth largest convention center in the world and the towering, majestic Cologne Cathedral, more than 3,000 people set up a small town of tents, camp chairs, bonfires and video…
By Brian Crecente Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dragon Ladies
Dress Up | TOKYO, JAPAN: A Konami event for Gree’s Dragon Collection mobile title. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) From Erotic Games to Murder Charges In 1999, a thirty-one year-old voice actress under the name Suzuka Yuna voice one of the lead characters in Japanese erotic computer game Triangle Heart 2. More » A Tale of Two…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
One of Japan’s Biggest Developers Will Be Smaller at the Tokyo Game Show
Year after year, Level-5 is one of the biggest draws at the Tokyo Game Show. Except this year. Level-5 will be at TGS, but it’s most likely to be a meeting room, instead of a huge booth like in year’s past. Instead, Level-5 is holding its own event, “Level-5 World”, in October in Tokyo. “I…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
So Much Time, So Many Crappy-Sounding 3DS Games.
The Nintendo 3DS gets flack for not having a killer line up. And so far, it doesn’t. That flack is largely deserved, but it’s flack that will, over time, disappear. But until that happens, dig in Japanese 3DS owners. As 2ch pointed out, here are known release dates for titles between August and November: •…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 22, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Guy Just Wants To Hold a Controller (So Do I)
Game designer Xander Davis recently started a new game design show on YouTube called “THINK TANK!” (his caps, not mine), where he sounds off on game design. Davis most recently did the UI art for Transformers: War for Cybertron and is currently working on a new CryEngine 3 action role-playing game. In the above episode,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 22, 2011