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If You Wanted More GAME From Minecraft, This Might Be For You

There’s no doubting Minecraft’s phenomenal success, but I’ve often wondered how much of that is down to the actual game. You know, the part that begins that first day you have to scramble to survive, and ends the time you see/build your first giant dick, when it’s become more of a giant LEGO kit than…

This Is The Best/Worst Video Game Tutorial I Have Ever Had To Play

Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon does a lot of things right, but few are righter than the game’s tutorial. Which is terrible. On purpose.

Another Big Third-Party Game Skips The Wii U

For the first time since 1991, a Madden game will not be released on Nintendo’s primary/current home console. A statement sent by EA to Nintendo World Report says: We will not be releasing a Wii U version of Madden NFL in 2013. However, we have a strong partnership with Nintendo and will continue to evaluate…

Kotaku Takes The Oculus Rift For A Spin

Years from now the Oculus Rift I hold in my hand will gather dust in your attic. You’ll stumble across it like your very first mobile phone. I can’t believe how big this thing was, you’ll say. How the hell did I walk around with this thing strapped to my head? You’ll say these things…

Star Command Is A Great Game, But Also A Kickstarter Warning

For the last few days, I’ve been playing Star Command, a mobile game that’s had people excited for a very long time now. Beginning life as a Kickstarter project, it’s gone through several major delays, and arrives this week on the App Store an example not just of excellent portable strategy, but of the realities…

The Latest Team Fortress 2 Update Improves Nearly Everything

There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the next time you launch Team Fortress 2, you’ll automatically start upgrading to “Steampipe,” a new content delivery system which “improves the way content is downloaded, updated and stored” according to Valve. It means faster downloads, quicker boot times and map loads, and better…

Peter Molyneux tells Wired that the Curiosity cube should be done soon. And the reward revealed to the last person to chip away at Molyneux’s experiment? It’ll “change that person’s life forever,” he says.

He Unplugged From The Internet For A Year. This Is What He Learned.

The Internet makes us stupid. The Internet makes us lonely. The Internet makes us less productive. The Internet makes us unhappy. Surely you’ve heard any one of these claims? Last year, tech writer Paul Miller felt burned-out on being constantly connected, on being overloaded with information. Maybe there was something else out there? Something people…

NCAA Football 14 will include a longtime player request—new playing camera angles, including the “all-22” view of an offensive or a defensive coordinator. The cameras will be available in all modes, including the “Road to Glory” career mode.

There’s A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Easter Egg In Blood Dragon

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon not only has strong words about violent video games, it also features our favorite pizza-lovin’ turtles. If you’d like to see them yourself, GameFrontwalks us through how to access this easter egg in the video above. Unlike ‘scientifically accurate Ninja Turtles’, the Ninja Turtles in Blood Dragon seem rather cute.…

Space Raccoon Game Changes Its Unfortunate Eyebrow-Raising Name

The, uh, not-so-great name a Dutch development team chose for their upcoming browser-based platformer has been cast off in favor of one less cringe-inducing, unintentionally or not. Everyone, say hi to Curio’s Starquest Formerly, this was known as Starcoon and if, like me, some of your best friends are black, you can recognize how that…

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon: The Kotaku Review

There is joy in stupidity. In an age where the search for deeper meaning in our interactive entertainment pursuits begins after the first trailer — where more thought goes into post-game critical analysis than development — a game that bears its shallow soul for all to see is a blessing. “The game is stupid,” Far…

Too Many People Working on This Game Were the Victims of Bullying

There’s no gameplay in this video for The Silent Enemy, the new project being made by the creators of Papo & Yo. But, as you watch the various staffers of Minority Media face the camera or talk about their roles in the game, you realize that there’s a good reason that gameplay takes a backseat.…

The Film Industry Sure Sounds A Lot Like The Game Industry

What do films and video games have in common? Nobody really knows what they’re doing. A long lecture by film director Steven Soderberg has been making the rounds over the past 24 hours. It’s an interesting read with some good thoughts on the film studio system, the idea of “cinema,” and the role of independent…

A Survival Sim That (Mostly) Takes Place On A Single Screen

This scenery? That’s the bulk of what you’ll see while trying to survive in Gods Will Be Watching. The premise is simple: you’ve got 40 days until you can be rescued. You have a crew, which you have to feed and keep sane. You have a radio, which you’ll want to fix. Naturally, as you…

‘LEGO Breaking Bad’ is Good Enough to be Worth a Hellacious Spoiler

If you’re not current through Season Four of Breaking Bad, it kills me to give you a spoiler alert, because this thing is fan–tastic. I’m dillydallying around with LEGO City Undercover right now, but if made, I would 100 percent this mofo tomorrow. The work of one Brian Anderson on YouTube, it memorializes what was,…

Why Is Everyone Being So Sketchy About The New Call of Duty On Wii U?

You might have heard today’s big news: the next Call of Duty is called Ghosts, and it’s coming to current- and next-generation platforms this fall. To be specific: according to publisher Activision, the game is coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and “next generation platforms.” It’s safe to say that means the next PlayStation…

Let’s Look At Some More Oddly Electrifying Video Game Patent Art

The deal with Context-Free Patent Artis that it takes the weird flowcharts and bizarre drawings from the patents submitted by various companies and designers and throws them up on the web with no explanation about what you’re seeing. I didn’t know that the image up top was for an Addams Family Uncle Fester game that…

The Moneysaver: Bioshock: Infinite For $45 On Consoles And Much More

Elizabeth: Booker… are you afraid of God? Booker: No, but I’m afraid of paying full price. While the PC version of Bioshock: Infinite has basically been $46 since it released, console owners have found themselves paying in full for the game of the year frontrunner. Today you can snatch Infinite out of the sky for…

Why Soldiers Wear Call of Duty-style Masks

Now that Call of Duty: Ghosts is an official thing—and since the only detail we’re being given is something to do with masks, I think—it’s an interesting time to look back on what the famous and one-time-infamous Call of Duty skull mask even is. You might not remember the event that tried to place infamy…