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I Can’t Decide Which Of These Awesome Video Game Wallpapers I Want To Use Most
I’m partial to the Zelda triforce logo, but that Fallout Nuka-Cola wallpaper is pretty damn cool too. These were all designed by talented Kotaku reader Keena Venegas. Any of them catch your eye? Or your desktop? Wallpapers Video Games [DeviantArt]
By Jason Schreier Published August 23, 2012 -
How Not to Be Seen in Dishonored
The plague-infested streets and alleys of Dishonored‘s industrial city of Dunwall are rather dark and shadowy, but without proper use of stealth techniques one might as well be stomping through them on mechanical legs. Noise levels, line-of-sight, hiding bodies — these are the sort of things that make fans of stealth action so excited you…
By Mike Fahey Published August 23, 2012 -
You Won’t Be Able to Stop Playing This Borderlands 2 De-Make
Gearbox wants you to believe that they’ve dusted off an apocryphal pre-cursor to their hit sci-fi first-person shooter series. Okay, guys. Sure thing. Nevertheless, The Border Lands is terrific fun, letting you play pixellated versions of Borderlands 2‘s four main characters across multiple stages. The retro-styled browser game harbors the same “ooh, new gun!” addictiveness…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 23, 2012 -
It Sounds Like Nintendo Wants to Make A Gamer’s Version of Facebook
Maybe we’ve been wrong about Nintendo. Maybe we’ve been wrong to be thinking in terms of Nintendo vs. Apple or Nintendo vs. Microsoft or Sony. Maybe we’ve even been wrong to think Nintendo’s big thing this fall is a new console. After I interviewed Nintendo president Satoru Iwata last week, I’m thinking that the angle…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 23, 2012 -
Why Do These People Insist On Talking Over This Stunning Assassin’s Creed III Footage?
Game developers, Revolutionary War experts and voice actors band together in a concentrated effort to interrupt ACIII gameplay clips at every turn, in this first installment of Inside Assassin’s Creed III, a four-part series with a great deal of talking. I realize Ubisoft wants to give people insight into the development of Assassin’s Creed III,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 23, 2012 -
Super Mario Bros., on The…Atari? Huh?
While the Mario Brothers did make an official appearance on an Atari console, that was the original Mario Bros. arcade game, not a Super Mario Bros. platformer. So this footage you see up top, as good as it looks, isn’t from a real game. It’s a demo made by Atari Age forum member Sprybug, showing…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 23, 2012 -
Build Robots, Race Robots, Fight Robots, Mourn Robots
Indie developer Alex Rozgo is working on Rawbots, a game that’s all about designing and building robots then having them…do stuff. Drawing on inspiration from stuff like LEGO and Spore, the idea is that you design, program and build your own robot then mess around with it in a virtual sandbox. So you can shoot…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 23, 2012 -
These Guys Went to the Real DayZ Island, Dressed Up And Took Pictures
Zombie survival mod DayZ takes place in the nation of Chernarus, which sounds entirely made-up, but it’s only mostly made up. The geography of the map is actually lifted from a real-world location, around Povrly, in the north of the Czech Republic. Sure, there’s no ocean in the Czech Republic (only ArmA/DayZ devs Bohemia Interactive),…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 23, 2012 -
Sagat Won’t Just Tiger Uppercut Your Face, He’ll Get Your Wallet, Too
Pop Culture will next year be releasing this Sagat statue, which stands an enormous 21″ tall and will set you back $365. For a statue that damn big, believe it or not $365 is a decent price! Painted by hand, and with real fabric not just for his shorts but his arm guard…wrap…things, you can…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 23, 2012 -
A Hypnotic Video Showing All 151 Original Pokémon Being Stitched Together
The Bayeux Tapestry might be a big deal for the French and English, but come on. It’s old, the people look rubbish and it’s not even a real tapestry! It’s embroidery, just like this epic image of all 151 original Pokémon, and if I had to choose between which one I’d hang on my wall,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 23, 2012 -
The Triumphant Return of Half-Life 2 LEGO
We featured the work of LEGO builder ORRANGE back in 2009, with his brilliant take on Half-Life, but a recent playthrough of the game has got him returning to the universe to take more pictures. So thanks, Half-Life 2. And thanks ORRANGE, for reminding us all that a world in which these sets and minifigs…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 23, 2012 -
I Had No Idea Scott Pilgrim’s Ramona Flowers Was a Real Person
I thought she was just a comic book character. Or, at best, there was that one lady who played her in a movie. But no, here, before my eyes, is Ramona Flowers, in the flesh, taking her hammer out for a walk, perhaps to buy some milk, or the morning paper. Ramona Flowers [Perspective is…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 22, 2012 -
You Don’t Have to Wait for NBA 2K13 to See Which Dream Team Would Win
If you want to face off the 1992 USA “Dream Team” of basketball versus the 2012 edition, without waiting for NBA 2K13, NLSC has the file you need, provided you’re playing NBA 2K12 on a PC. [via Operation Sports]
By Owen Good Published August 22, 2012 -
Final Fantasy Dimensions, a formerly Japan-only mobile entry in the series, will be out on iOS on August 31
By Luke Plunkett Published August 22, 2012 -
Oh Terrific, They’re Still Remaking Videodrome
Man, when will the pillaging end? When will they stop remaking movies that seriously, really and 100% truly do not need remakes? So now comes the news that not only is the a remake of David Cronenberg’s 1983 freakout film Videodrome is still happening, but ad-making talent Adam Berg, who has done some nifty ads…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 22, 2012 -
Watch This Artist Draw the Insides of a Portal 2 Turret
Anyone who’s played a Portal game knows that Aperture Science’s charmingly neurotic turrets are full of bullets. And CEO Cave Johnson showed off their design in this teaser video last year But artist Andrew Gabbott has gone above and beyond in his turret love, rendering by hand an incredibly detailed breakaway view of the Portal…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 22, 2012 -
Sleeping Dogs‘ New Add-Ons Are The Wrong Sort Of Downloadable Content
Like many of my Kotaku brethren and sistren, I really dig United Front’s Sleeping Dogs. I’m taking my time playing it, doing a lot of the sidequests, and I can tell that when I do finish, I’ll gladly pay for add-on content to expand the game. And look at that, I’m in luck! The first…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 22, 2012 -
Another Look Inside ‘Copernicus,’ the Game You’ll Never Play
It was meant to be the “first triple-A, hundred-million-dollar-plus, free-to-play, micro-transaction-based MMO,” according to the studio’s celebrity boss, Major League Baseball all-star pitcher Curt Schilling. But plans for “Project Copernicus” vaporized when Schilling’s studio—makers of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning went under back in May. Since then, screenshots and even this trailer concept have leaked out,…
By Owen Good Published August 22, 2012