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New Blade Runner Movie is a Sequel, Features Same Writer & Director [Update]
While we’ve known for a while that Ridley Scott was working on a new Blade Runner movie, the project got a lot more exciting today with word that he’ll be joined on the project by Hampton Fancher – who wrote the 1982 original – and that this will be a sequel. I don’t know which…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 17, 2012 -
Uncovered Vehicle List in Max Payne 3 Reads a Lot Like a Grand Theft Auto Fleet
Someone on GTAForums.com pried apart the files inside Max Payne 3 and found a vehicle list shot through with callbacks to past makes and models from the Grand Theft Auto series. There is an enormous thread going on both there and on NeoGAF, about the subject. Noting that this isn’t the first time Rockstar Games…
By Owen Good Published May 17, 2012 -
BioWare… Still Wants You To Tell Them What You Want in Dragon Age III
BioWare has been going back to the drawing board on Dragon Age III for a while now. Dragon Age II, as you may recall, received a mixed critical reception at best— I sure didn’t care for it though of course, not everyone hates the game including some thoughtful folks who work here Bioware wants you…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
Activision’s “Sphere”: The Most-Used Unusable Piece of Video Game Music Ever
In the middle 1980s, my brother and I both had Commodore 64s. Our next-door neighbor was the electronics buyer for a catalog showroom—a breed of variety store brought to its knees by Walmart before Best Buy and e-commerce finished the job. Our neighbor was in charge of buying computer hardware, and software. That meant we…
By Owen Good Published May 17, 2012 -
Jesper Kyd’s Darksiders II Soundtrack Mixes Assassin’s Creed With Danny Elfman
You know what? I think that Jesper Kyd is a darned fine composer. He’s best known for his work on the Assassin’s Creed series, and his work has come to embody that series for me—that piercing, odd solo female voice, driving electronic beats, and wide-open string arrangements. He captures the series’ fixation upon flight and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
I’ve Gone And Injected Wub Into All This Beautiful Video Game Music. Sorry.
Usually, around this time each week, I throw a video playlist together for the Kotaku Mix Tape, but this week I was a little distracted by The Wub Machine The Wub Machine is an online app that will automatically generate a Dubstep, Electro or Drum & Bass remix for any MP3 that you throw into…
By Chris Person Published May 17, 2012 -
Mark Zuckerberg: The Musical
Most of us have seen The Social Network, and an equal number of us are probably tired of hearing about the Zuck, Mr. Z, Mark Zuckerberg. But there’s always room for three talented women singing about his life to re-lyric’d versions of famous show tunes! Enter Zuckerberg: The Musical!, a very fast-moving musical produced by…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
It’s a Beautiful Bluegrass Zelda Jamboree
The Zelda music has been performed so many times, and by so many instruments, but I do not believe I’ve ever heard it performed so beautifully on a piece of carpentry equipment. Here’s Michigander bluegrass duo Frontier Ruckus with a beautiful Zelda medley performed on banjo, melodica, and the common household saw. The two musicians…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
Diablo III Has The Best Installation Music I’ve Heard in Years
I’ve been giving Blizzard and Diablo III a lot of crap for the game’s disastrous launch, but I don’t mean to give the impression that I don’t like Diablo III as a game. In fact, I like it quite a bit! All of the little touches Blizzard has included are splendid and hugely enhance the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
The Sworcery Guys Will Be Making Beautiful Music for Sound Shapes
Just like an all-star music festival where awesome acts keep announcing that they’ll be showing up to play, upcoming PlayStation Vita game Sound Shapes keeps pulling in top-notch talent to its creative roster. Game-loving celebrity DJ Deadmaus is contributing to the game and now he’ll be joined by some bonafide indie gaming superstars. Two of…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 17, 2012 -
This Chiptune Album Is Also a Graphic Novel
Video games and comics go together like, well, like video games and comics. I seem to see them coming together more and more—the latest fusion of the two media is “Adventures in Pixels,” a cute music/comic hybrid by musician Ben Landis. You can read the whole album here, clicking through the chiptune-y tracks along with…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
Behold, The Game of Thrones Theme Performed By Floppy Disk Drives
Sometimes people put things on the internet. Glorious things. Sometimes, we get to watch those things, and revel in the sheer depth and breadth of the cool things the world has to offer. Today is one of those days. Behold, what might be my favorite rendition of the Game of Thrones theme yet—the entire theme…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
Kotaku Melodic Begins Now, Daddy-O
[Bass starts walking] [Ride cymbal sneaks in] [An announcer walks up to the microphone] Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Club Kotaku. We’ve got some great music lined up for you tonight, so order a drink or two, light up a smoke and kick back. We’ll take it from here.
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
All-Star Pitcher Schilling’s Video Game Studio Can’t Pay Its Employees, Either
It is looking dire for 38 Studios, the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning studio set up with a huge hunk of public funding from a Rhode Island jobs creation program. So now, we’re talking about an operation that took taxpayer money with the intent of creating jobs and can’t pay the employees working in them. That’s…
By Owen Good Published May 17, 2012 -
Wounded Galatian: Max Payne 3‘s Soccer Mission, and the Meaning Behind its Fictitious Team
This only marginally qualifies as a spoiler alert because, if you’ve played Max Payne 3 longer than 20 minutes, you’ve encountered this mission already. It revolves around a shootout in the locker room of the Galatians FC in Sao Paulo, Brazil which, as a quick Internet search plus common sense reveals, ain’t a real team.…
By Owen Good Published May 17, 2012 -
Creator of ‘Satirical’ Tentacle-Rape Game Apologizes
Satire is a tricky thing—if your goal is to mock something by embracing it, how far can you go until the mockery takes a backseat to the embracing? That’s the question currently facing Tentacle Bento, a card game focusing on Japanese tentacle rape fantasies whichraised a ton of money on Kickstarter (and a ton of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 17, 2012 -
If Lego Batman 2 Happened in Arkham City, It Would Look Like This
Crossovers happen in comics all the time, where characters stumble into worlds that look radically different and meet alternate versions of themselves. Such a thing probably won’t happen with the kid-friendly Lego Batman 2 and the Dark Knight’s ultra-violent exploits in Batman: Arkham City But, damn if Wonder Woman, Robin, Joker and Catwoman don’t all…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 17, 2012