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Guy Almost Makes A Glorious Knife Kill, Gets Denied By Trigger-Happy Victim
Scoring a knife kill in a first-person shooter is the ultimate insult to your victim. It’s one of the most satisfying kills, too. But it’s not always easy to pull off, as this Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player finds out. He looks to be basically on the camera-focused player’s shoulders, so close to getting that glorious…
By Tina Amini Published April 19, 2012 -
Don’t Like Any Of The Games In The App Store? Make Your Own!
Canabalt? Pft. Make your own Canabalt, with art and level designs as you see fit. It’s not like the web-to-mobile game already has fitting art and great music. Sketch Nation Studio isn’t really a game, per se. It’s more like a mini game studio that you can fit in your pocket. It gives you the…
By Tina Amini Published April 19, 2012 -
Everything You Need to Know About Team Fortress 2 Lore in One Minute
If you’re only hopping onto Team Fortress 2 to shoot at people you’re missing out on a rich history of greed and betrayal dating back to the 19th century. The latest Lore video from The Game Station gets you fully caught up in 60 seconds, or your money back. The makers of the best Pokémon…
By Mike Fahey Published April 19, 2012 -
Sometimes Real Life Is Just As Buggy As A Video Game
It’s always tricky to get water right in a video game. All those messy physics. Seems like real life is just as tricky. Check out what happens when you trickle water next to a speaker playing a 24hz sine wave. It’s like a glitch in the Matrix. Or Skyrim Cool Sound and Water Experiment! [YouTube…
By Jason Schreier Published April 19, 2012 -
DiRT, Bodycount Developer Codemasters Shifts Exclusively to Racing Games
The last few years have been rough for British game developer and publisher Codemasters. Despite a lengthy and varied history going back to the 1980s, their more recent games have seen mixed success. Last year, after their first-person shooter Bodycount launched to decidedly mixed reviews, and admist accusations of unlawful working conditions, Codemasters shut down…
By Kate Cox Published April 19, 2012 -
People Like You—Yes, You—Gave $9 Million to Kickstarter Video Game Campaigns Last Month
After the monstrous success of the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter campaign, it’s impossible to escape talk of video game development powered by the internet’s largest crowdfunding destination. Part of all the buzz comes from the perception that there’s a lot of money out there that people want to contribute to help produce entertainment that they’d…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 19, 2012 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! It’s about time that sad, ol’ greyhound in…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 19, 2012 -
Prey 2 Isn’t Cancelled, But It’s Delayed
Despite rumors, Prey 2 is not cancelled, publisher Bethesda said today. But it won’t be out in 2012. “Development of Prey 2 has not been cancelled but the game will not be released in 2012 as planned,” the company said in a statement today. “The delay is due to the fact that game development has…
By Jason Schreier Published April 19, 2012 -
How To Get Skyrim Looking As Awesome As Computationally Possible
I’ve been playing Skyrim again recently, and thanks to the wonders of modding, it is lookin’ damned fine. That’s not to say it ever didn’t look fine—when the game was released last November, it was a perfectly okay-looking game. A little rough around the edges in places, not the hottest textures in the world, but…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 19, 2012 -
Disappointed With the New Kid Icarus? Play the Original in 3D Instead
Everyone remembers the original Kid Icarus, right? The classic platformer everyone begged Nintendo for a sequel to? What do you mean you never played it? I’ll admit it. I never played Kid Icarus on the NES. Was I excited there was going to be a sequel to it? Sure, but it was more a general…
By Mike Fahey Published April 19, 2012 -
Norway Killer’s Court Testimony Reveals How He Used Call of Duty to Train
It’s already a matter of record that Anders Behring Breivik wrote about using Call of Duty to hone his marksmanship before he shot 69 people to death last year. But yesterday he testified in a Norwegian court about the roles that the first-person-shooter series and World of Warcraft played in his life leading up to…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 19, 2012 -
Splash Damage’s Rad Soldiers is a Turn-Based “Guns with Friends”
The folks behind Brink pull back on the action but throttle up the style with Rad Soldiers, a turn-based multiplayer strategy game for the iPad and iPhone they’re heralding as “guns with friends”. That’s an idea I can get behind. Mysterious McGuffin Rockets have landed in London, causing a city-wide evacuation, followed immediately by an…
By Mike Fahey Published April 19, 2012 -
Sony Confirms God of War Leak
The game is real. So says Sony’s Facebook
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2012 -
Brave Man Turns Dead Aircraft Into Awesome Flight Simulator
James Price, an air traffic controller at Oakland airport, owns a flight simulator. Not a “buy a joystick and plug it into your computer” flight simulator. A “chop the nose of an actual giant airplane and turn it into a flight simulator” type of flight simulator. Price has, stuffed in his garage, the actual nose…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2012 -
Stand in Awe of This Life-Sized Metroid Statue (Made of Paper!)
I’m hesitant to call this papercraft, since that’s a word we normally associate with little things that sit on a desk. Instead, I’m just going to call this 6’10″ model of Metroid’s Samus Aran a masterpiece. It’s made entirely of paper. Her giant helmet, her giant arms, even her giant feet, all made from paper…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2012 -
This Game Uses Not Just Kinect, but the Wii as Well
And what’s more, it looks awesome, because instead of just asking players to dance to pop music or sing like a teenage girl, it’s asking you to pop, lock and boogaloo your way to awesomeness. It’s called WiiPop, and uses a combination of Wii Remotes (strapped to the player’s body) and Kinect’s camera to, well,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2012 -
A Fez Love Letter, Quite Literally
Reader John wrote a love letter to his lady friend Sara. To ensure it didn’t end up straight in the bin, he turned it into an elaborate mural starring Gomez, of Fez fame. John says of the work: I’m a gamer, an art guy, and I love FEZ. Sara is my girlfriend, awesome, and loves…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2012