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Four Things To Know About That Borderlands 2 Tiny Tina Campaign DLC
It’s ok if you’ve never played Dungeons and Dragons before. You can still appreciate Borderlands 2 shoved into a fantasy-trope skin. Why? Because the whole thing is narrated by Tiny Tina with a few eye-rolly comments from Lilith or an adorably clueless remark by Brick. And chances are you’ve played some variation of a fantasy…
By Tina Amini Published May 28, 2013 -
Guns, Mercs, Tactics, Mechs, And Explosions: This Is Black Talons
Or, more eloquently, Black Talons is an upcoming real-time tactics game for the PC. A real-time XCOM in another galaxy, if you will. You take your squad from mission to mission, planet to planet, training them up in the process, with the goal of taking down the evil government in the end. Clichéd, yes—but fun-looking.
By András Neltz Published May 28, 2013 -
One of Japan’s Greatest Arcade Brawlers Gets a $120 Special Edition
Back in March at PAX East, Capcom announced the re-release of two of the greatest arcade brawlers of all time—Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara—in the Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara collection. In the West, this game will be available via download only, but Japan will be…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published May 28, 2013 -
You’d Think A Horror Game Being Top-Down Would Make it Less Scary
But nope. Case in point: a terrifying new gameplay trailer for Darkwood, the procedurally generated top-down survival horror game we showed you two months back. Incidentally, there’s an Indiegogo campaign going on for the game, so if Darkwood seems like something you’d want to check out, have a look
By András Neltz Published May 28, 2013 -
200 People, Retro Multiplayer, No Internet. It’s Madness.
On the weekend, the Personal Computer Museum in Ontario, Canada held its annual “Game Night”, throwing open its doors and letting around 200 people in to get their hands on a ton of vintage video games, which can be played on their original hardware. Thing is, there’s a catch. There’s no internet allowed. Anywhere. If…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2013 -
Jimmy Fallon’s Game Of Thrones Tribute Is Surprisingly Amazing
Say what you will about Jimmy Fallon’s tenure of the Late Night show, when his team decide to do a Game of Thrones parody, they go all out It was a rough Sunday night without a real Game of Thrones, but if we’re going to sit through ten minutes of homage, it could have been…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2013 -
A Look At BioShock Infinite’s…Architecture
After playing about 3 hours into BioShock Infinite, my mind was only able to formulate one solitary question, a query that even Shakespeare couldn’t have phrased more eloquently. A question that is, in fact, worthy of its own quote block: “What. The. ****. Just. Happened.” What did I just see? How did so much content…
By Aaron Cote Published May 28, 2013 -
Even eBay Is Making The Most Of The Xbox One’s Bad PR
We’ve all had our fun with the Xbox One’s less-than-stellar reveal, but for eBay, the console’s problems are more than just a joke; they’re a way for Nintendo to make some sales. eBay Germany’s Facebook page ran the above ad over the weekend. The image is fine, but it’s the text underneath that’s getting the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2013 -
Putting The Xbox One’s Reveal In Perspective
LaserFrog’s summary here of last week’s big console reveal may well be the first time something has been so melancholy it’s made me smile. Then again, it doesn’t matter how you say “bag of farts”, that’s normally enough to get a laugh out of me. Run, Play, Think! – Xbox One Reveal Revealed [YouTube]
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2013 -
13 Years Later, A New Final Fantasy IX Quest Has Been Discovered
People dig up random little easter eggs and bugs in old games all the time. What they don’t often find are entire side-quests which have somehow remained hidden from view for over a decade. YouTube user GarlandTheGreat has uploaded a video showing a sidequest present in Final Fantasy IX that, until now, was pretty much…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2013 -
Grand Theft Auto Meets The Simpsons
Hey. It’s artist Dan Luvisi again. Three times in one year? It’s worth it, because Grand Theft Otto – mashing the Simpsons and Vice City – is what it is. Awesome. It also reminds me of a dream game of mine, back in the day, where Rockstar and EA sat down, put Vice City and…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2013 -
Yeah, Punching’s Great. But Superman Should Kick More Guys in the Nuts.
The Last Son of Krypton mostly pummels evildoers in the face. Yes, there’s the good ol’ freeze breath and heat vision attacks but those tend to feel a bit impersonal. And Superman always pulls his punches with normal human bad guys. But, what if someone pissed him off so much that he didn’t hold back?…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 27, 2013 -
At The End Of The Experiment, This Portal Cosplay Will Be Baked
If you’re against the use of photoshop in cosplay photos, I can understand where you’re coming from. But then, if there was no photoshop in cosplay photos, we wouldn’t get amazing pictures like the one up top. Other highlights this week include, yes, more Final Fantasy, but also some BioShock Infinite, Doctor Who and, for…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2013 -
Hope You Never Miss Out On Something Because You Played A Game Solo
Anxiety caused by the fear of missing out (FOMO) is a real thing: it’s when you worry that no matter what you’re doing at that moment, you could be doing something better somewhere else. Typically, FOMO is discussed in the context of social media, as social media feeds into the fear of missing out. We…
By Patricia Hernandez Published May 27, 2013 -
The Best SNES Endings
Compared to video game endings on the NES, the Super Nintendo stepped things up a bit. Thanks to the power of 16-bit, devs were able to do much more; ending cutscenes became longer and, similarly to arcade games, a lot of them showed us the best moments and characters of the game in looped sequences,…
By Gergo Vas Published May 27, 2013 -
The Last Of Us: The Series: Episode 1
Teased a few months back, the first episode of What Remains, a series based on Naughty Dog’s upcoming The Last Of Us, is now out. It’s 18 minutes long While it looks like an official tie-in, it’s actually the work of Manifest Film, a team of gaming filmakers who, when this is done, are hoping…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2013 -
The Moneysaver: Baldur’s Gate, Logitech G500, Arrested Development
There’s always money in the Moneysaver. Memorial Day seems like as good an excuse as any to save money, so let’s get right to it. Amazon has the Logitech G500 Gaming Mouse for $38, an easy sell if you’re in the market for a new input device, and the BenQ Official Major League Gaming Monitor…
By Shane Roberts Published May 27, 2013 -
The Games That Make It Hardest To Say Goodbye
There haven’t been a ton of new games out lately, so maybe you’ve had time to finish one or two that had been sitting on your backburner. And maybe, if you were lucky, one of those games was good enough that you had a hard time letting go. It’s a unique and lovely thing, the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 27, 2013 -
The People Behind The Games We Play
Happy three-day weekend! Or, to those of you who don’t live in America, happy Monday! Given that it’s an Official Kotaku Holiday, we thought this might be a good time to revisit some old stories. So we’ve gone through the archives and dug up some some of our best pieces for your holiday reading pleasure.…
By Jason Schreier Published May 27, 2013 -
Sonic and Mega Man’s Enemies Team Up to Make Some F***ed-Up Robots
Knuckles Man.? Rose Woman? Shadow Man? Only two horrible minds could’ve come up with evil robot antagonists like these. Dr. Wily and Dr. Eggman’s malevolent subversion of Sonic the hedgehog’s friends gets revealed in the latest issue of the Worlds Collide crossover, an Archie Comics event pairing up Sonic and Mega for twelve issues of…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 27, 2013