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The Beauty Of The Game Instruction Manual

Kikopa Games has just released a game called Minkomora. It’s an exploratory game, a soft floaty little thing – but the best thing about it is the game manual. Kikopa Games is half Joni Kittaka and half Merritt Kopas – Merritt and I did a talk together at Indiecade East about our work recently, and…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: The Unofficial Veteran Farmer’s Almanac of Seasons and Their Stories • Pre-Cult: Valiant Hearts: The Great War • Bloodborne – (almost) Final Impressions • Why Doesn’t This Game Exist: Physics-Based Combat Classes TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

A Drake-Themed Game Doesn’t Have To Be Terrible

I’ll admit it, I’ll admit it. I downloaded Runnin Through The 6, a free iOS endless runner made by Nico Uribe, because I’m a huge Drake fan. But it is rubbish. The reason I was so into the idea of a Drake game is that Drake’s a rapper who occupies a liminal space. He’s halfway…

Good Morning, Here Are The Terrible Raps From Trials Evolution

Yesterday I gave you the terrible yet awesome Mickey Rourke raps from Rogue Warrior to lull you through your Saturday. Sunday is a much worse deal. The intro raps from (very good) motorcycle balancer game Trials Evolution are a lot like if a drunk middle-aged beardy guy crashed your eighteenth birthday party thinking he was…

This Game About Being A Parent Is The Most Irritating Game I’ve Played

There aren’t any games that can give you the authentic experience of what it’s like to be a parent. But I am willing to reckon free game Jostle Parent is one of the best attempts at it. Jostle Parent is a little browser based game made by Pippin Barr, a developer whose work I am…

A Comic Where Joanna Dark And James Bond Meet

Me and my partner in crime Irene Koh (the artist on Batgirl Secret Origins #10 for DC) made a comic together about what would happen if the two heavyweights of the N64 Jo Dark and James Bond met. This game critique in comic form was originally published on my website, and funded by the subscribers…

One Game That Actually Learns The Right Things From Movies

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992) has a part where you can play the initial titles or credits sequence at the beginning of the game. I find myself wishing that way more narrative-based games would do this adorable moviesque thing. I write a column over at Rock Paper Shotgun called ‘S.EXE’ which is…

League of Legends Players Stumped By Mysterious Duck

League of Legends forum-goers are perplexed by the elusiveness of this rare duck seen wandering about in the public beta environment of the game. It’s a time for duck huntin’. Forum-typer Walking Titan remarks on League gameplay and balance forums that a duck sighted in the PBE a while back has not returned to the…

New Indie Game Looks Like A Roguelike Doom

The PC gamer in me is being TWANGED by the look of this lovely first person shooter/Revolution Management hybrid Bunker Punks, probably because it appears to be a bit Doom II but in roguelike form. Developers Ninja Robot Dinosaur say that this shoot-and-loot will have randomly generated levels so no one game will be the…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Trainime New Season Impressions! – Spring 2015 Part 2 • Spacemon: A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol 2.: Chapter 25 • My Love Story!! Tells a Different Kind of Tale TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Lest We Forget Rogue Warrior‘s Funky Mickey Rourke Credits Sequence

The last time someone mentioned this tiny slice of Bethesda Softworks MASTERPIECE on Kotaku it was 2009. That can’t be right? That can’t be right! Let’s get your Saturday ON TRACK, my lovelies. Rogue Warrior was a Mickey Rourke-voiced first person shooter that was, almost everyone agrees, amazingly bad. The AI was so prone to…

The Japanese Developer Of Downwell Used To Be An Opera Singer

For all of 2014 I’ve travelled, via crowdfunding from my generous readers, to stay with game developers around the world and write about them. It was something I called the Embed With Games series. I foundOjiro Fumoto in Japan in November, and he turned out to be a a genius game developer who was making…

Life Is Strange Is Really Patronising

I really like the idea of Dontnod’s episodic game choice drama-em-up Life Is Strange, but really it just ended up making me wish it would shut up and let me experience it instead. Life Is Strange is a wonderful kind of idea: It’s five episodes long, gives us the much neglected teen girl player character…

So I’ll Be Your Guest Editor This Weekend

Good morning! My name is Cara Ellison and I’m doing a bit of guest editing for you lovely lot this weekend. Sorry about the formal picture, I really couldn’t find anything else that wasn’t just me hugging another person or one of those pictures people take of you at parties when you have fallen asleep…

A Horror Game That Looks Straight out of Mass Effect

Pamela is an upcoming PC game that looks pretty striking for something that’s supposed to be a survival horror game. No gross, gritty environments that are so typical of the genre to be found here! Instead, the futuristic setting looks way more utopian—which makes the premise of exploring a dead civilization seem all the more…

Worth Reading: How Two Brothers, One In Prison, Use Games To Connect

This week’s edition of Worth Reading, a collection of the best writing from the past week, goes behind-the-scenes with the mysteries of Bloodborne and the connections we share with family. Hey, You Should Read These Bloodborne creator Hidetaka Miyazaki: ‘I didn’t have a dream. I wasn’t ambitious by Simon Parkin So many people are familiar…

GTA Players Search For Secret Jetpack, Find Touching Memorial Instead

Some GTA players have been scouring every inch of Los Santos in the hopes of finding a fabled jetpack or an alien mystery for two years now. So far, they haven’t found their treasure—but they have found some other poignant things along the way. As spotted by New World Notes, last month players trying to…

Bloodborne really nails the whole “Lovecraftian Horror” thing. YouTuber Super Bunnyhop has put together a cool (spoiler-filled!) video highlighting the many ways the game references the work and worlds of H.P. Lovecraft.

12 Must-Read Daredevil Stories

With a new Netflix TV series on the way, now’s a good time to learn about blind lawyer Matt Murdock and his long, twisted superhero career as Daredevil. Good news. This Marvel hero has starred in some incredible (and easily-obtainable) comics. First, some back-story. He is nicknamed the Man Without Fear. As a child growing…

Kotaku Asks: The Guy Who Runs NeoGAF [Q&A Over]

Talk to just about anyone who works in gaming about the message board NeoGAF and you’ll hear the same thing said, often with shame, every time: “Oh yeah, it’s, uh, a guilty pleasure.” Founded in 2004 as an offshoot of the Gaming-Age forums, GAF has morphed into one of gaming’s most influential communities, a place…