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A Video Showing Everything A Mouse Clicks On In A Single Day
Clicking on a mouse has become such a mundane task, such an embedded part of our daily lives that it’s become like breathing. We need to do it, but we never actually think about it when we do it. So it’s fascinating watching this video of an artist who took a picture every time he…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 14, 2014 -
Internet Magic Tricks: Six Seconds Per Laugh
Vines may only be about six seconds long, but that’s all Zach King needs to to pull an awesome trick, illusion or silly stunt. And before you can react or wonder how he did it, boom, he hits you with another neat parlor trick. It’s pretty great! Some of these, like the Pikachu one, you…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 14, 2014 -
Building Your RPG Characters In The Real World
Hero Forge is like an RPG character creation tool. You choose a gender, choose a build, choose some armour and get yourself a reasonably unique character. Only at the end of this one, your character gets made in the real world instead of being trapped inside a video game. Designed with tabletop gaming in mind,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 14, 2014 -
Hotline Miami Pop Mash-Ups Combine Murder And Kanye
The top-down murder-death-kill simulator Hotline Miami had already earned the distinction of having one of 2012’s top video game soundtracks. But these mash-ups from Jessica “NNXT” Gore take the whole thing to another level. NNXT mixes Kanye, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg and Katy Perry up with original tracks from Hotline, and it is pretty great.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 14, 2014 -
Skyrim Guards Are The Worst At Law Enforcement
Sometimes, criminal scoundrels need to be stopped—it’s true. But dang, Skyrim guards, just because some Dragonborn get out of hand doesn’t mean you can just do whatever you want! Granted, it’s the guard’s willingness to do things like sick a vicious dog on someone or outright kill a suspect that makes this Cops parody by…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 14, 2014 -
The Xbox One Can Do A Lot More Than You Might Think
Sure, the Xbox One has a few tricks up its sleeves—some of which we’ve told you about before. But, damn, had I known about some of the more advanced things the Xbox One is capable of, Microsoft would have sold me on the console way quicker. Thankfully, Sean Ong takes the time to walk us…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 14, 2014 -
A moment to appreciate the excellent music of Assassin’s Creed IV: Freedom Cry. I liked the soundtrack for AC IV: Black Flag just fine, but I really like Olivier Deriviere’s work on Freedom Cry, which blends orchestral arrangements with traditional Haitian folk songs for a distinctive, evocative flavor.
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 14, 2014 -
The Console Wars Aren’t Just Real, They’re Personal
The Console Wars™ can often seem pretty dumb when you’re looking at them from within the sane circle of your home outward onto the dregs of Internet forums. What should be intelligent discussions turn into nasty rivalries and insult-throwing with fans vehemently and blindly defending big corporations. It’s all pretty silly, actually. But fan loyalty…
By Tina Amini Published January 14, 2014 -
Artist Turns The Hobbit Book Into Paper Sculpture Of Smaug
Books are art, you know? Sometimes literally. This paper-sculpture is the work of Danish artist Victoria, known on DeviantART as FarTooManyIdeas. She crafted it before the most recent Hobbit movie came out, “after watching the trailer many many times.” I’ve heard of words that “jump off the page” before, but this is taking it to…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 14, 2014 -
Comic Book from Writers of Hitman: Absolution Isn’t What You’d Expect
People love the Hitman games for the meticulous ways you can take out a target. Wear an outrageous outfit, slide in between the shadows and NPCs and perform an assassination with meticulous stealth. Yeaaah, there’s none of that in the new comic from two dudes who worked on the last game featuring Agent 47. It’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 14, 2014 -
Telltale Games says that the next episode of The Wolf Among Us will be out during the first week of February. After a thread on their own forums and on Reddit blew up with outrage over the lack of news as to when episode 2 would be coming out, the developer announced that “It’s been…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 14, 2014 -
If PlayStation All-Stars Had Every Good PlayStation Character…
…It’d probably look like this fan art, drawn by talented Kotaku reader Max and his brother Leonardo. Lots of old PlayStation characters to spot in there. BONUS FUN FAN ART—also by Max and Leonardo, here’s Breaking Bad, Mario Kart style:
By Jason Schreier Published January 14, 2014 -
A Game That Captures The Majesty of Space
Space, as a general rule, is a quiet place. And space travel is by all accounts a very lonely profession. Few games capture that sense of desolation. RymdResa, however, does. In the video above, I walk through the very moody indie title RymdResa, currently in beta on iPad and on Steam Greenlight (here). It’s a…
By Chris Person Published January 14, 2014 -
The Creator Of Final Fantasy Tactics Wants To Make Another One
Yasumi Matsuno is asking for $600,000 to make a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics, and if that sentence doesn’t make you giddy, you haven’t played Final Fantasy Tactics. For those of us who have played the legendary strategy-RPG… Pause. Breathe in. This is actually happening. Matsuno, the creator of Vagrant Story, Tactics Ogre, and…
By Jason Schreier Published January 14, 2014 -
Fake Demon Baby Terrorizes New Yorkers
Babies: They do the darndest things! Especially when they’re the animatronic spawn of fake Satan. If you see an unattended baby stroller on a busy city street, you probably walk up to make sure everything’s okay. And then… well, if you’re lucky, you just may be attacked by a screaming, vomiting, remote-controlled demon baby. Likethe…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 14, 2014 -
DayZ or Rust: Which Players Are Friendlier?
Two games. Both about surviving in a post-apocalyptic world. One lets you force-feed people disinfectant. The other lets you run around naked and bash people with rocks. I had to know – which has friendlier players? Note: If you’re confused, Rust is the game with naked people, but you have to turn off the “censor…
By Steve Marinconz Published January 14, 2014 -
EA Says It Took Over Six Months To Make SimCity Work Offline
In the wake of yesterday’s news that SimCity will be getting an offline version, EA has come out with a blog post explaining just how they made it happen—and how much effort that took. “The original creative vision for SimCity was to make a game where every action had an effect on other cities in…
By Jason Schreier Published January 14, 2014 -
The Banner Saga, Astro A50, PSN 14 for ’14 Sale, G400s [Deals]
Pre-order The Banner Saga, which releases tomorrow, for $15 and get The Insane Viking DLC for free. Use code GFDJAN25. [Gamefly] Update: Unfortunately Gamefly’s $5 off deal on The Banner Saga expired moments before our post went live, but you can still hit it with the code for 25% off. Once the Playstation Store updates…
By Shane Roberts Published January 14, 2014
