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Chris Hecker Rants at GDC Without Saying a Word
It’s revealing that at first I didn’t get the point of this, which is Chris Hecker’s rant at Game Developers Conference 2013. So much of the nonstop big budget press conference bullshit you hear in this business all sounds alike, forcing me into a kind of weird active listening where I’m trying to decode pabulum…
By Owen Good Published March 31, 2013 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Table Talk
Everyone had so much fun annotating little Samael Henkel’s Arma II table yesterday that I figured it had to be good for our latest ‘Shop Contest. Look, I know it’s just a table, but this is where you guys come in. If you can make that funny, you can make anything funny. And I have…
By Owen Good Published March 31, 2013 -
Is It OK to Take a Free Game When the Company Selling It Makes a Mistake?
As I was packing up for some time off about 10 days ago, someone sent an email to me and others who had review copies of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 that all of the game’s downloadable courses were already on Xbox Live, and none of them had a price. It was $67 worth of…
By Owen Good Published March 31, 2013 -
The Stunning Debut Trailer For Hardware, A Game By Some Guys Who Made PC Classic Homeworld
First revealed all the way back in 2011, it’s only today that we’re getting our first (barely) moving look at Hardware, a new game from a studio made up of a number of former Relic developers, including Rob Cunningham, Homeworld’s art director. So if you think the teaser trailer above looks (and sounds) familiar, that’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2013 -
Xbox 360 golfers, the Stick Jockey Country Club is now accepting membership applications in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 and we’ve waived the initiation fee and credit history check. Search for “Stick Jockey” among the game’s country clubs and use the password jockey317stick to join. Please remember that Stick Jockey CC is a very exclusive…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2013 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Habemas Pope Francish
So, here we go, the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest debuts under the site’s third design in the four-year history of the feature. Thanks for your patience while I was away last week; today, we round up a look at the latest leader of the Ecclesiastical Church of St. Games, Francis, the lisping, PC-gaming ragemonger who had…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2013 -
‘Warzone’ Multiplayer is on Gears of War: Judgment Disc Thanks to Stray Code
Earlier this week Gears fans figured out how to trigger Warzone—it has to be done from a private Team Deathmatch, while hitting the A and B buttons simultaneously in the match’s parameters menu. Warzone’s exclusion and mysterious reappearance led to rumors the mode was going to be included later as paid DLC, but an Epic…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2013 -
So, It Seems Lil Wayne is Sampling Assassin’s Creed Now (not Mass Effect)
This is “Trigger Finger” from Lil Wayne’s newest album I Am Not a Human Being II, released Tuesday. But Mass Effect Assassin’s Creed fans should recognize that opening sample, before it lights up a bowl and rolls into the filth-flarn-filth lyrics (so, yes, NSFW warning if you’re listening around others over speakers.) [Update] Reader SRTMH…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2013 -
A Six-Year Old is Modding Arma II, and He Made This Table
No, this isn’t particularly spectacular for a mod, much less one for ArmA II, but it is one made by a six-year-old boy, who was curious why his dad spent so much time in front of the computer. When Myke Henkel told his son he was making things for a video game, son Samael insisted…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2013 -
Cliff Bleszinski Is One Of The First People In The World To Get A Pair Of Google’s Crazy Computer Glasses
Former Epic designer Cliff Bleszinski (not pictured) has been selected by an “independent panel” to be one of the first 8000 people in the world to get a pair of Google’s potentially pioneering/ridiculous wearable computers, Google Glass. In order to be selected as one of the earliest recipients of the tech, participants in a competition…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 30, 2013 -
Sad You Weren’t At GDC? Me Too. Let’s Take A Virtual Tour Of All The Cool Stuff Instead.
This year’s Game Developers Conference is about to end today, leaving behind great panel discussions and announcements, and also a lot of other cool stuff that was not shown on any stream. The GDC staff already uploaded almost 1,000 photos to their official Flickr page, and we’ve selected a few exciting ones to show more…
By Gergo Vas Published March 29, 2013 -
A New Week in Gaming Apps for an All-New Kotaku
This week’s special late edition of the Week in Gaming Apps is brought to you by learning how to use an entirely new publishing system on the fly. It’s a learning experience. Oh my goodness these images are so big. Fortunately many of this week’s gaming apps were big as well. We’ve got Magicka on…
By Mike Fahey Published March 29, 2013 -
‘What We Want to Do is Scare the S–t Out of Players. So We’ll do Whatever Is Necessary To Achieve That Goal.’
This is Outlast, a first-person, combat-free horror game about investigating an asylum. It’s coming to PC (Steam) at the end of the summer by new development studio Red Barrels. We saw the game at PAX East last weekend. Supposedly one of the people who tried the game at PAX was so freaked out that he…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 29, 2013 -
The Case Of The Flawed Metacritic Study
A study looking into the hidden formula that drives Metacritic made headlines this week, but Kotaku has discovered some critical errors that call it into question. Earlier this week, Full Sail University professor Adams Greenwood-Ericksen held a GDC session in San Francisco in which he shared some of his research on the effects of Metacritic,…
By Jason Schreier Published March 29, 2013 -
Here’s What I Want from BioShock Infinite’s DLC
It’s already known that BioShock Infinite will have DLC packs at some point in the coming months. Irrational Games hasn’t said yet what the add-ons are going to be but, with no multiplayer component to Infinite, there’s a chance that these might be story-centric add-ons like the excellent Minerva’s Den DLC for BioShock 2 At…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 29, 2013 -
Here’s Shovel Knight, A Surprise For Folks Who Miss the SNES
Shovel Knight is one of the many indie games that caught my eye at last weekend’s PAX East. It’s the only one that had me thinking Zelda II, though the retro-loving developers at Yacht Club Games also cite DuckTales and Mega Man as influences. Before I could even find Kotaku editor Chris Person, I had…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 29, 2013 -
Tim Schafer Is Very 80s, And So Are These Other Movers And Shakers
This week at the Game Developers Conference iam8bit put together a great photo shoot opportunity for attendees where you could get done up in 80s fashion. They even had hair and makeup on hand to put it all together. The results are nothing short of fantastic. There are three galleries-worth of Facebook photos you can…
By Tina Amini Published March 29, 2013
