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Insanity, Urination and Other Things to Watch Out for in The Amazing Spider-Man
While we continue our review-aimed adventure with the new Peter Parker under, over and through the streets of New York, here are some of the fun features of The Amazing Spider-Man you can expect to experience in the game’s earliest moments. I’d make a joke here about crazy people urinating and the authentic New York…
By Mike Fahey Published June 27, 2012 -
Max Payne’s Day-To-Day Life Probably Shouldn’t Be This Funny
And yet it is. This video by Michael Shanks (the same man behind that great Box-Art Brawl video from last week) depicts the high’s and lows, mostly lows, of Mr. Max Payne’s day-to-day life. Yes, it’s a joke that’s been done before. Perhaps too many times. And yet the execution here is pretty damned funny.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 27, 2012 -
Liara, You’re Looking Awfully Blue Today. And Very Three-Dimensional.
Hello, Dr. T’soni. Why are you looking at me that way? One Reddit user Nobody_home’s cousin is apparently both a sculptor or prop artist and a Mass Effect fan. This recreation of Liara may not be pitch-perfect—she’s hovering somewhere between her earlier, innocent archaeologist self and her later, darker, Shadow Broker self—but it’s still remarkably…
By Kate Cox Published June 27, 2012 -
The Video Game Roger Ebert Loved
Ever since he typed the words “Games are not art”, Roger Ebert has been vilified by the video game community. But here’s something you might not know about him: He once reviewed a video game and loved it. In the video above, I break down The Cosmology of Kyoto, one of two games that gaming’s…
By Chris Person Published June 27, 2012 -
Hey, You Got Your Pokémon In My Kingdom Hearts
Meet the Dream Eaters, the monsters you’ll be attacking, breeding, and recruiting in upcoming action-RPG Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, which is out July 31 for Nintendo 3DS. Kind of remind you of a certain other Nintendo game, don’t they? Still, I’m psyched for this one. It’s looking more like Kingdom Hearts II than…
By Jason Schreier Published June 27, 2012 -
Noisia Drops Some Serious Bombs On The DMC Soundtrack
What kinds of bombs? Dude, all kinds of bombs. F-bombs, beat-bombs, bass-bombs. All of the bombs. The drum and bass group Noisia (NOISIA? I kind of like this all-caps thing bands are doing) has been brought on along with Combichrist to make music for Ninja Theory’s upcoming DMCry, and, well… the music Noisia has made…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 27, 2012 -
This Is Either Leaked Half Life 2: Episode 3 Concept Art, or Just Cool Half-Life Art
The website ValveTime has posted a gallery of concept art that their source claims are leaked pieces of concept art for Valve’s much-anticipated (and super long-in-development) Half Life 2: Episode 3. (I should add that the art is from an anonymous visitor from an unnamed source. So, grains of salt in hand.) The art is…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 27, 2012 -
Wonder What Your First Wii U Experience Might Be Like? This Was Mine.
The Wii U console and its distinctive GamePad control device have been floating around convention floors and meeting rooms since its unveiling at last year’s E3. But, for one reason or five others, I hadn’t gotten my hands on one myself. At least not until yesterday, when Stephen Totilo and I wandered around Nintendo’s somewhat-recreated…
By Tina Amini Published June 27, 2012 -
The Best Portal Cosplay Ever? Quite Possibly.
Warning: The video above is more than a year old. But I only saw it for the first time last week when Valve’s Yasser Malaika and Leslie Reed used it in a presentation about Steam for Schools I don’t think Kotaku has ever posted this incredible interpretative Portal dance number. What makes me grin at…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 27, 2012 -
Kickstarter Doesn’t Really Care If You Get Scammed Out Of $25
Worried about Kickstarter not caring if one of its projects steals your money? Well… you probably should be. According to Sunny Bates, advisor-slash-board member for the crowdfunding website, if you give your money to a project, that project gets funded, and you then get ripped off, you’ll be left to fend for yourself. “Here’s the…
By Jason Schreier Published June 27, 2012 -
You Will Be Excited About PlanetSide 2, Even if it Takes an Entire Seven Minute Explainer Video
Why do I want more PC gamers to get excited upcoming massively-multiplayer first-person shooter PlanetSide 2? Am I a masochist? Am I in the pocket of Sony Online Entertainment, bribed by all of that cash they made on The Agency? No, the answer is much simpler than that: I want to kill you all. After…
By Mike Fahey Published June 27, 2012 -
This Iron Man Case is Not Made by Tony Stark, But is Still Cooler Than You
You know who’s cool? Tony Stark is cool. He’s so cool he doesn’t have to give a damn about things like “civility” or “gravity” or “playing nicely with the big green monster scientist.” Iron Man is also cool. Mostly because he’s Tony Stark in a suit of badassery. This PC may not be able to…
By Kate Cox Published June 27, 2012 -
Opening Origin Always Makes Me Feel a Little Bit Sad, These Days
I didn’t always feel sad when I started up Origin. Vaguely annoyed, perhaps, with the way it always defaults to “Store” instead of “My Games.” Somewhat grumpy, when confronted with bugs. But lately, I feel a little pang of woe. And it’s not really from Origin at all. No, what makes me sad is seeing…
By Kate Cox Published June 27, 2012 -
The Complicated Alternate Reality of The Secret World and its Secret Seals
The Secret World officially launches next week, on July 3. It’s a somewhat unconventional approach to the MMORPG genre, set in the sinister, secret underbelly of the real world, the 21st century Earth we all inhabit. And while developers Funcom have been running the standard closed beta and public beta weekends, something more sinister has…
By Kate Cox Published June 27, 2012 -
No Dude, Kingdom Hearts Isn’t Based on Heart of Darkness
Lately, it seems like lots of video games are based on Joseph Connrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. Games like Far Cry 2 and Spec Ops: The Line made the inspiration explicit, while many other recent games simply borrow Conrad’s basic gist. But despite the fact that both things have the word “Heart” in the title,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 27, 2012 -
Valve Is Releasing Its Own Free Movie-Making Tool
This is the Source Filmmaker. It lets you use your PC to create animated short films. And it’s entirely free. This is the tool that Valve used to create all nine of its “Meet the Team” short films. Will yours be as hilarious? Only time will tell. “The goal of the SFM was to develop…
By Jason Schreier Published June 27, 2012 -
It’s Finally Time to Meet the Pyro
The Pyro. A man (or possibly woman) shrouded in mystery since Team Fortress 2 launched in 2007. We’ve gotten to know his compatriots. We’ve gotten to know lunch. Now it’s time to Meet the Pyro, and it’s an incredibly disturbing meeting indeed. In some twisted corner in the back of my mind, this is exactly…
By Mike Fahey Published June 27, 2012
