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The Biggest Challenge In This Game Is Preventing Your Character From Committing Suicide

Actual Sunlight is not a happy game. In fact, I’d caution folks sensitive about suicide and depression against playing it. It’ll trigger you, it’ll punch you in the gut. The game is an interactive story about a man called Evan Winters. He works at some corporation, doing who knows what, really—it’s one of those nebulous…

The Craziest Mad Scientists In Video Games

Mad scientists and evil masterminds are classic villain archetypes, and defeating them is always nerve-wracking. Instead of facing you, they’d rather hide in the shadows and rely on their minions. And when it does come to combat, they usually love to show off their deadliest creations. We gathered some well-known crazies; a mustache or a…

The guy who made that one nifty Jay Z + Chrono Trigger mash-up has made another one

Ouya Will Be Getting Tim Schafer’s Big Kickstarter Game. Other Consoles Won’t, Ouya Boss Says [UPDATE]

Tim Schafer throwback Kickstarter-funded game, Double Fine Adventure, is coming to multiple platforms, but only to one console, the CEO of the upcoming Android mini-console said today during a talk at DICE. It’s coming to hers, the Ouya. Schafer’s game is one of 450 games planned for the system, Ouya boss Julie Uhrman said. She…

Midweek Moneysaver: In Omerta, No One Can Hear You Scream

This Wednesday edition of Kotaku’s The Moneysaver catches all the offers, promotions and bargains that can’t wait until the weekend. The Midweek Moneysaver is brought to you by Dealzon. Software—PC games GameFly • Yesterday’s release Dead Space 3 is $47.99 (list $60) • Far Cry 3 is $39.99 (next best $50) • Mar. 31 release…

I (Kirk) wrote a whole thing about the challenges of living in San Francisco and my ambivalence about how it’s changed.

Forget Powerpoint. They’ve Got Rayman.

At the DICE convention in Las Vegas, Ubisoft’s Xavier Poix illustrates his talk about Ubisoft’s creation of launch games for new platforms using the Rayman Origins UbiArt game engine to essentially make an interactive slide-show. It’s a side-scroller as Powerpoint, steered with an Xbox 360 controller. And, yes, Media Molecule did this through LittleBigPlanet at…

Beat Dead Space 3 And It Will Give You The Finger

…Literally! This video from Prima Games shows how to get the “Devil Horns” weapon, which… well, it’s actually just a foam finger. Like, from sporting events? Yeah. They say it’s the most powerful weapon in the game. Makes sense. To get it, you’ll have to beat the game in classic mode. This is not the…

This Game Wants You to Take Your People to Meet a God

What if going to church was an epic quest, filled with hazards and gut-wrenching decisions that affected the people you loved? You’d think pretty seriously about your choices, wouldn’t you? That kind of weighty aspiration is exactly what Unwritten: That Which Happened is aiming for. The in-development PC game being made by Roxlou Games‘ Joe…

You Can Never Really Have Enough Zelda-Like Indie Games

This is Anodyne, a top-down 16-bit Zelda-like game created by two guys: Sean Hogan and Jonathan Kittaka. On one hand, we’ve seen a lot of action-adventure indies that try to clone that addictive, delightful, swipe-solve formula that makes the Zelda games so good. On the other hand, can you really have enough Zelda clones? I…

Yep, Bungie’s Still Answering Halo Fan Mail

Though Bungie no longer is the steward of the Halo franchise, after five games and a dozen years, it’s hard for some to let go. Or, well, if your Halo gaming career begins with ODST, perhaps you’re not that plugged-in to begin with. But the guy did draw an awesome picture, and Bungie does promise…

These Fans Want $75,000 To Make A Half-Life Short Film Series

You might remember “Enter The Freeman,” a very cool short Half-Life film we featured a few months ago The fan-film’s creators are crowd-funding $75,000 to turn it into a whole series, which may or may not be welcome news to Valve, considering that CEO Gabe Newell just announced he’d like to make movies with director…

Return to the Airbender Universe with Two New Comics Projects

You could make a pretty good case for Avatar: The Last Airbender being one of the best new pop culture mythologies to debut in the last decade or so. Creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko made a world where young people embodied hope, even as they were thrust into a war that tore their…

It’s Stupid How Excited I Am About the Tamagotchi App

The toy that taught an entire generation to care for something that didn’t exist is returning soon, and I’ve never been so excited about the prospect of cleaning up poop. Bandai Co. and Sync Beatz Entertainment are breathing new life and love into the Tamagotchi on Android and iOS. Mobile phones are the perfect place…

Half-Life, Portal Movies Are In Early Development Stages, J.J. Abrams Says

Appearing with the director J.J. Abrams at D.I.C.E. Summit today, Valve’s Gabe Newell said the company would “find out if there’s a way we can work with you on a Portal and Half-Life movie.” Polygon reports that things may be a little further along than that. Speaking after the panel, Abrams told Polygon “We are…

They’re Attractive, They’re Women, And They Play Games Live On The Internet. But They’re Not ‘Camwhores.’

Back when Kotaku wrote about a troll that targeted women, there was one critical word that kept popping up in responses: camwhore. Also curious: the women in the videos streamed themselves casually playing video games, and they took donations. It was as if some folks were saying, no, the harassment these women face is actually…

Check Out Remember Me‘s Combat, Memory Wiping, And More

The upcoming sci-fi action/adventure game Remember Me has caught a lot of eyes around Kotaku way. Developed by Dontnod and published by Capcom, it’s a dystopian sci-fi stealth-brawler staring an amnesiac woman is remarkable enough, but the fact that the game lets you actually climb into someone’s memory and re-arrange it to affect the present…

Nine Ways Video Games Need to Grow Up, From the Guy Who Made Heavy Rain

“These are exciting times for the gaming industry,” game designer David Cage of Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls) said as he began a talk here in Las Vegas that seemed set to criticize the modern state of gaming. After all, the talk was called: “The Peter Pan Syndrome: The Industry That Refused to…

FarmVille 2 Gothic Revival Kitchen Recipes: Everything You Need to Know

If you’re ready to really dive into the Gothic Revival theme in FarmVille 2, you can now purchase some of the theme’s limited edition trees and put their fruits to good use in the game’s Crafting Kitchen. There are three new recipes available to cook in this theme, and all three of them require Beautyberry…

Sounds Like Young Han Solo And Boba Fett Will Get Their Own Star Wars Movies

“Boba Fett? BOBA Fett?? Where?” Yesterday, Disney’s CEO confirmed that in addition to the upcoming Star Wars trilogy, there will be all kinds of single-character spin-off films Today, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that one of those films will feature young Han Solo, and another will star Boba Fett. According to EW, the Han story will…