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Prepare To Be Hunted By Killer British Robot-Gentlemen
Man really is the most dangerous game. Not just for other men, but also for robots. Apparently. British indie development collective Big Robot (headed up by the friendly Jim Rossignol of Rock, Paper Shotgun) has announced its new in-development project, an open-world survival game called Sir, You Are Being Hunted. It’s described on the Big…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 13, 2012 -
This Game Teaches You To Fight By Having You Stab a Fat Guy in Prison
There’s brutal, and then there’s brutal—and the combat tutorial in Silent Hill: Downpour is brutal of the italicized variety. Captured by our intern Nick, this video is a tutorial of sorts, depicting the protagonist Murphy Pendleton performing a brutal prison murder on an unarmed, nearly naked fat guy. All while teaching players how to wield…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 13, 2012 -
If M.C Escher and Isaac Newton Made a Video Game…
The Bridge is an unfinished indie game that’s making the rounds. I saw it from afar at the DICE summit in February. I shot video of someone playing it at the Game Developers Conference last week, where it was part of the Independent Games Festival showcase. The Bridge winds up at these events, because it’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 13, 2012 -
Game Sales Are Dead, Long Live Game Sales
It’s become popular at the moment to worry about the death of gaming as we know it. The meteoric rise of mobile handheld platforms certainly has been disruptive and, as Kotaku Editor-in-Chief Stephen Totilo reported earlier today, there are valid concerns about the longevity and existence of console-based gaming in the future. The future of…
By Kate Cox Published March 13, 2012 -
Now You Don’t Have To Waste Time Reading Mass Effect 3 Codec Entries on Your TV
Like many of BioWare’s games, Mass Effect 3 is chock full of optional reading materials about its history and characters. It’s interesting, but it can be a chore to read on your television. Enter Mass Effect 3 Datapad, a free app that publisher Electronic Arts released today for iPhone and iPad. It’s designed to complement…
By Jason Schreier Published March 13, 2012 -
God of War III‘s Gigantic Titan Was Better Endowed Than You Might Think
The creative teams who’ve made the God of War games have done cruel things to the members of the Greco-Roman pantheon, with series hero Kratos wreaking jaw-dropping vengeance on Ares, Hermes and Hades. Each god Kratos came up against met a spectacularly bloody end but a talk at last week’s Game Developers Conference revealed that…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 -
Millionaire Wants Your Million Dollars To Make His First Game
Meet Ellwood “Bunky” Bartlett. He’s a practicing Wiccan, a retired accountant, and the winner of Maryland’s Mega Millions jackpot, which netted him $42 million back in 2007. He also wants your money to help make a game. Using crowdfunding site Kickstarter, Bartlett is asking for $1.1 million to create Your World, a massively multiplayer online…
By Jason Schreier Published March 13, 2012 -
The Panel Discussion Dozen: 12 Comics That Will Probe Your Mind This Week
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 -
Crossover: Find What Comics Inspired the Writer of Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
Part of Panel Discussion’s mission is to look at the ways and places where comics and video games intersect and here in Crossover, we’ll be talking to game creators about the comics stories and creators who’ve shaped their sensibilities. In our first installment, we hear from Remedy Entertainment’s Mikki Rautalahti, who—along with the dev studio’s…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 -
Justice League: Doom Delivers a Master Storyteller’s Final Achievement
It’s oddly fitting that a movie focused on the fracturing and rebuilding of the Justice League will be the last of Dwayne McDuffie’s work to make it onto the screen. Long a proponent of diversity in the comics medium, McDuffie frequently wrote stories that showed how people from different racial, psychological and philosophical backgrounds can…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 -
Panel Discussion Starts Now
Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this
By Evan Narcisse Published March 13, 2012 -
EA Update Adding Security Protection to FIFA Accounts
Reports began to surface last year from players whose Xbox Live accounts were hacked after they played FIFA 11 and FIFA 12. Players’ accounts were being activated on Xbox 360 consoles that were not their own, at which point their credit cards were charged for large amounts of Microsoft Points, then used on FIFA downloadable…
By Kate Cox Published March 13, 2012 -
Ask a Video Game Developer Anything … Call for Questions
Starting next week, game developer Jeremiah Slaczka will answer your questions here on Kotaku He just needs your questions, which you should ask him in comments section below. Here is his official bio, so you know who you’re talking to: “Best known for his multi-million unit selling franchises, Scribblenauts and Drawn to Life, Jeremiah focuses…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 13, 2012 -
These Guys Hope to Solve the Problem of First-Person Melee Combat
First-person melee combat ain’t an easy thing to pull off in a video game. Anyone who’s played an Elder Scrolls game—from Arena to Skyrim—knows what I’m talking about. In Skyrim, the less you see, the better things look. It’s one of the reasons I suggested playing with a shield—the combat feels punchier if you can’t…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 13, 2012 -
Maybe Video Game Reviewers Are Con Men. Maybe.
He starts with a statement that is as true or false as you want it to be: “Nobody is seriously accusing any website or writer of accepting money from publishers in direct exchange for positive reviews.” He ends with quotes from Metal Gear Solid And, in between, in a post tagged with such words as…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 13, 2012 -
Why Is There No Donkey Kong In Super Mario Galaxy 2? Because Miyamoto Said So.
After a game is finished and released, it’s always interesting to get a glimpse into what might have been, had not someone in the development process spoken up at just the right moment. Early in development, Super Mario Galaxy 2 contained a number of ideas that didn’t make the final cut. One such idea was…
By Kate Cox Published March 13, 2012 -
WTPT: The Nintendo 3DS is More Versatile Than You Think
The Nintendo 3DS makes all sorts of cute sounds, but have you ever heard them meshed together in a remix? No? Your day is incomplete, then. Fortunately YouTube user Jeesh123 (fun fact: “jeesh” means “pee” in Farsi) has uploaded a compilation of those sounds mixed into one glorious track. He uses everything from the Nintendo…
By Tina Amini Published March 13, 2012 -
Don’t Make Pokémon Angry. You Won’t Like Them When They’re Angry.
Well, you won’t like some of them when they’re angry. Check out this silly video created by animation group RedMinus to see what happens when you spend too much time teasing the goldfish Pokémon Goldeen. Goldeen Loves Guitar (Pokemon) [YouTube]
By Jason Schreier Published March 13, 2012