The Boston edition of the Penny Arcade Expo kicks off this Friday, and we’ll be there. So too will BioShock creators Irrational Games, who will be hosting an interesting panel (and handing out free stuff). On Friday at 5pm EST, BioShock Infinite’s Creative director Ken Levine, art director Nate Wells, lead artist Shawn Robertson and…
I don’t normally associate feelings of tranquillity with playing Minecraft. Normally it’s a blend of tedium and sheer panic. The game’s official soundtrack, though, is as tranquil as a good night’s sleep. Quietly released last Friday, this is the official soundtrack to the hit PC indie game, and in keeping with the spirit of the…
Well, there is The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. That is a Wii game, a big one. Oh, and there’s a Kirby game coming. But after that, it’s…a void. There is a reason for this, says Nintendo. According to Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime, one reason for the skimpy Wii line-up is that the…
It’s terrifying to think what their kids will be like. By John “wafflehouseninja” Pading
A public servant working for an Australian politician has asked for “extended internet access” on her work computer. Why? So she could play Facebook games. The cheek of some people! Caroline Beinke was 100% serious when she made the request, aimed at getting around the web filters imposed on the computers of most government employees…
This is a happy one. Years later, internet person TigerC10 has finally been reunited with his old gamertag, after reading on Kotaku that Microsoft was freeing up old and unused ones. Warm, fuzzy feelings all around! [via IGN]
Well, they’re both sequels…but there’s more. Both games feature the vocal talents of actor Eric Ladin, who’s appeared on Mad Men as well as starring in a new crime program The Killing Ladin voiced Ellis in Left 4 Dead 2. The actor also voiced and did motion capture work for Cole, Infamous 2’s main character.…
“It’s dangerous to go alone. Take this”. It’s a classic Zelda line, uttered by the Old Man as he gives Link his first sword. But what if, instead of it being an old man, it was Link’s old lady? Andrew Bridgman over on Dorkly explores this, making it not just Link’s mother, but what is…
While there will be PC gamers who feel that their version of Crysis 2 will have suffered from having to be “ported” to console, I’m taking a different approach. It may be a “glass half empty” thing, but instead of the hypothetical that the PC version could have looked better if it was PC-only, I’m…
You just can’t stop Double-Fine from releasing games at the moment. Costume Quest, Stacking, Sesame Street, all out or coming out within a year of each other. You can now add Trenched to that list. Trenched is a tower defence game with a twist: instead of looking down on the batlefield from a safe distance,…
Ping pong with zombies? Fishing for zombies? S&M with zombies?! Parody Yakuza: Of The End brings its familiar zombies and dignified deaths to survival horror.
Former Total Nonstop Action Wrestling star Stevie Richards (aka Michael Manna) apparently scored a perfect game in baseball game MLB 2K11. If verified, he might be the first person to do that, putting him up for line for a million dollar payday. The game’s publisher is holding a contest that will award a cool mil…
Thirty-one year-old Kenichi Moriai was unemployed. But after his fighting game-inspired rampage bent on destroying windshield wipers, he wasn’t just out of a job, he was arrested. Again. On January 28, in Yashio City in Saitama Prefecture, eight trucks in a freight company parking lot had their windshield wipers bent and mangled. According to the…
The man on the left in this video is Intel’s Shmuel “Mooly” Eden, a company vice president and Israeli beret-wearing champion. On the right? Valve boss Gabe Newell, who it seems doesn’t cope well with unexpected questions. If you’ve ever wondered why video games PR is so entrenched in the machinations of this business, this…
The Dark Knight is one of the great movies of our time. It’s not perfect, though. Well, it wasn’t. It is now. (Warning: you’ll need to turn the sound up).
Video games can never do a decent sex scene. Know why? It’s all about the mouth. In the movies, people kiss. In video games – like Dragon Age II – it’s like two mailboxes clanging against each other. Sure, there’s narrative satisfaction to be gained from seeing your character and another knock boots, but that…
Fastball 2 is a game for people who love Canabalt but can’t handle all that death and destruction. The game was actually first released last year, but a recent update has seen it catapult itself back near the top of the “free” section of the App Store’s “Games” chart. It’s as simple as games come:…
It’s been too long since we checked in with the Kotaku readership and asked, “Hey, what are you listening to?” Tonight’s open thread, a Themed Tuesday, will let us ask again. These days, I seem to listen to nothing but podcasts: This American Life, Freakonomics Radio, the Giant Bombcast, New York Times front page… and…
North American gamers will get their hands on Deus Ex: Human Revolution on August 23ā€”earlier than our Australian counterparts. We’ll also get a reasonably priced “Augmented Edition” for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC when the third Deus Ex game arrives. What’s in that $69.99 USD “Augmented Edition”? The following digital goods: a new…
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