Indie Game: The Movie is an upcoming documentary focusing on the trials, tribulations and processes behind some of the luminaries of the independent gaming scene, including Phil Fish (Fez) and Jonathan Blow (Braid). Also helping out on music duties is Jim Guthrie, best known around these parts for the incredible Swords & Sworcery soundtrack It’s…
Sir Mix-A-Lot tried tricking Kotaku Editorial Director Joel Johnson to sign a nondisclosure agreement with whiskey for his new Facebook game Mix-n-Match. It didn’t work. Still, I’m pretty sure Joel, who’s on vacation his week, is drunk. Screw NDAs, Sir Mix-A-Lot! Next time, make Joel sign a big butt
Mario and Metal Slug. They’re two of 2D gaming’s most wonderful franchises, and for these three shining moments, they become one. Mr.ラビット [pixiv, via Tiny Cartridge]
Former Vice-President, current Current TV mogul Al Gore addressed the Games for Change summit yesterday. Read Kotaku‘s liveblog here (Top photo: Ethan Miller | Getty)
In between projects, and given the lackluster critical reception afforded to the last game in the series, creative agency Basic figured they’d take a swing at pitching a new Medal of Honor game. After all, it couldn’t do much worse than the last one! No doubt inspired by the likes of Modern Warfare and Ghost…
Nintendo’s 3D television service “Itsu no Ma ni Terebi” went live today in Japan. The service is light on actual 3D programs, and it might disappoint some. Others, it will make uncomfortable, but not for the reason you’d think. It’s no secret, 3D gaming and the 3DS and me do not mix. That’s fine. Nintendo…
Mario hasn’t always been known as Mario. Back in the day, one of his earlier names was Jumpman. The story of how the change came about is informative, if also a little sad, especially for poor Pauline. [via neatorama]
Protests don’t get any more polite than this. Late last week, a banner appeared on a Studio Ghibli building outside Tokyo’s city center. The banner read: “Studio Ghibli wants to make movies with electricity that’s not from nuclear power plants.” The banner has cute sunflowers drawn on it. Studio Ghibli is well within its right…
If you were wondering how the PlayStation Vita’s gimmicky (though optional) motion controls would affect the handheld’s upcoming Uncharted game, Golden Abyss, wonder no more.
While casting calls and web domain registrations have already seemingly peeled back the curtain on the next proper Grand Theft Auto game, a report on GameSpot says that title is a lot further along than you’d think. According to “sources close to the Take-Two Interactive subsidiary” (that subsidiary being developers Rockstar), development on Grand Theft…
If you thought Duke Nukem Forever was the last gasp for the ’90s video game icon, well, what the hell were you thinking? Publisher Take-Two certainly isn’t done with Duke, regardless of the reaction to his latest game. Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick tells Forbes that “you will see future Duke IP coming from this company.”…
Good evening, Kotaku readers. Is it really Monday already? (*sound of heavy sighing*) Good news! We got an open thread right here where we can share in the pain together! There’s a ton of good links just below, so please, take a look and talk amongst yourselves. This *is* an open thread, so please, go…
Konami is releasing a special edition version of Gradius-meets-boobs shoot ’em up Otomedius Excellent. It features a bonus rarity for North American retail releases, a two-side pillowcase with busty cartoon girls printed on it, girls that won’t protest being drooled upon by you. For the record, this is what it looks like. The special edition…
Valve’s forever updated Team Fortress 2 is rolling out “the biggest, most ambitious update” in the history of the game later this week, the Über Update. Despite its name, it’s not solely focusing on TF2‘s Medic class. The first part of the Über Update, detailed on the game’s official site, is Mafia-related, detailing three new…
In this excerpt from his book The Erotic Engine, Patchen Barss talks about one part of the future of pornography and sex on the internet: video games. Not all virtual environments take the approach of Second Life, which is to rely on emergent sex as an engine of change and creativity. Some virtual sex comes…
We’ll have plenty of time to scrimp, save and perhaps land a second job to afford the next generation of video game consoles. Avalanche Studios, creators of Just Cause and the forthcoming Renegade Ops, believe 2014 is when we’ll get them. So says David Grijns, the man heading Avalanche’s new New York City-based studios. He…
The handful of people making zombie survival horror game Project Zomboid have pulled their game from the Internet, not because they hate that their game is getting pirated. They expected that. They could even live with that, as they had been, quite merrily. They have pulled their £5 game because, despite their tolerance for piracy,…
Bowling with Tekken characters is coming to the PlayStation 3 this fall with the release of Tekken Hybrid, the Blu-ray disc bundle that includes one computer animated movie, Tekken: Blood Vengeance, and one PlayStation 2 remake, Tekken Tag Tournament HD That PS3 exclusive will both help us wash the foul taste of the live action…
SERIOUS GAMING | The Games for Change Festival kicked off this week in New York City. (Photo by Brian Crecente) Resident Evil’s Dip Into Action Is More Experiment Than Evolution I haven’t had a good scare since 2005, at least not at the hands of Resident Evil. While it may not be another six years…
If you know the name Jim Redner, there’s a good chance you know him for the single Duke Nukem Forever tweet that caused a brief public relations shitstorm last week. If you don’t, Jim Redner will tell you all about the “brain fart” that caused Duke Nukem Forever’s publisher to drop him like a bad…
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