It’s Like Portal, But Instead of a Portal Gun, You Get Time Travel

Stop me if any of this sounds familiar. Awakening from a cryo-tube, you make your way across an abandoned testing facility, following the commands of a character you cannot directly interact with, using a piece of ultramodern technology in increasingly creative ways to overcome obstacles. Yeah. The conceptual level is pretty much where the similarities…

A Fan Film That Pretty Much Could’ve Been an Actual Matrix Scene

In fact, if there was another Matrix movie in the works, it would probably look a lot like this. Matrix Online: The Movie? Might work. Probably not. In any case, Trickster was created by director Felix Joleanes after he came up with a 3D Sentinel (the squid robot) model in his free time. A friend…

Track: Torches | Album: IV | Artist: The Bronx Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Uncharted Writer Leaves Naughty Dog

IGN reports that Amy Hennig, the lead writer and creative director on the Uncharted series, has left developers Naughty Dog. Having originally reported “trusted sources” as saying she had been “forced out” of the company by Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley, the site has since updated with confirmation of her departure by a Sony rep.…

Space Guns, Come Get Your Space Guns

Stephan Williams is a senior 3D artist at Carbine Studios, the team working on sci-fi MMO Wildstar. We recently saw some great 2D Wildstar art from Garrett Hanna; this stuff is of the 3D variety but has all the colour you’d expect from a game that’s setting out to burst people’s eyeballs. You can see…

How To Make A Cool Sports Game When You’re Not EA Or 2K

Pixel Soccer is a game currently in development at Super Rock Games, an indie studio in London. It is speaking directly to my interests. Chief among those being football and the classic Sensible Soccer series. Pixel Soccer is basically an attempt at remaking that vintage “arcade” approach to the sport, only instead of using tiny…

Game Of Thrones Action Figures Are Works Of Art

These aren’t official figures. Those are coming, and they look OK. No, these figures are sadly one-off pieces for an art show, and that’s a damn shame. Because I want all of them. They’re the work of artist Mick Minogue, and will be appearing at a Seattle art show. Each one was carved, and painted,…

Reports: German Version Of South Park Delayed Because Of Swastikas

The new South Park game has swastikas in it. For the German version of the game, publishers Ubisoft said they were removing them, so as to comply with the nation’s constitution, which forbids displays of the Nazi symbol. Only…Ubisoft might have screwed that up. Users are posting on Steam’s forums that the German (and Austrian)…

​Batman: Arkham Knight Won’t Have Multiplayer, Will Have Kevin Conroy

Sounds like the newest Batman game, Arkham Knight, won’t just ship without a last-gen version; it also won’t include multiplayer. However, it will feature longtime Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy, reprising his role as Batman. The latest Game Informer has got all sorts of tidbits of information about the game, which will feature the Scarecrow…

Be The Goat: Goat Simulator will be available for purchase on April 1st. Until then, you won’t be able to play as a goat who can mess up human parties by running around with an axe in your mouth—sorry! For now you can still pre-order the game here. (Via Indie Game Mag).

South Park Censorship Makes Cute Australian Animals Cry

Remember, it’s not just the European version of the new South Park game that’s been censored. As reported last year, the Australian edition has been too, though the results are similar. If a little sadder Americans reading this, fear not. There is no scene featuring a crying Bald Eagle/Hot Dog/Cowboy, as the US version is…

​This Month’s Xbox One Console Update Changes At Least 15 Things

The March firmware update for the Xbox One will do a lot more than improve party chat in advance of the launch of the system’s big multiplayer March 11 game Titanfall. It’ll also tweak a bunch of other things on the console. Microsoft officials were kind enough to provide us with a list. We’ve numbered…

​What’s New With Diablo III‘s Big 2.0.1 Patch

Maybe you’re curious what’s new with Diablo III‘s chunky new 2.0.1 patch? I haven’t been keeping up on the nitty-gritties of what’s changed in the new patch, so I found this video to be helpful to the point where it made me want to play more Diablo III to see how all the new tweaks…

Everything Interesting Gabe Newell Said In His Reddit AMA

It’s not often the head of one of the most powerful gaming companies in the world pops over to Reddit to speak with the masses, so today was a bit of a treat. If you weren’t following the AMA featuring Valve boss Gabe Newell (and some other Valve guys like Erik Wolpaw and Greg Coomer),…