What else is there to do in Los Santos, really? A hit Pet Shop Boys song gets the GTA Online treatment in this machinima music video from YouTubers Vader2K and TK7554. Something about the long shots of suited-up dudes walking and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous-style glamour pans reads as very 1980s to me.…
The season finale of The Wolf Among Us comes out next week. The fifth episode of Telltale’s adaptation of DC Comics’ Fables series hits Steam and North American PSN on Tuesday July 8. It lands on European PSN and Xbox Live on Wednesday July 9, with the iOS version following on Thursday July 10.
Super Time Force is coming to Steam soon. Formerly an Xbox One and Xbox 360 exclusive, the time-screwing action platformer hits Valve’s digital storefront this summer as Super Time Force Ultra. Yeah, that’s STFU for short.
Track: Read The TL. It Retains Information. | Album: That’s Not How You Do That: An Instructional Album For Adults| Artist: Jean Grae Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Assassin’s Creed games revel in meticulous recreations of historical eras. So let’s see actual historians discuss the times two newer AC entries were set in. In this video, YouTube series History Respawned takes a look at Liberation and Freedom Cry as reflections of black life in the 18th Century slavery system.
You probably don’t think very much about Link’s headgear when playing through or hoping for a Legend of Zelda title. But, no matter how things change from game to game, that pointy, green cap is a beacon that says ‘all are welcome here.’ A new illustrated essay at The A.V. Club covers the evolution of…
The actress best known for her controversy-filled personal and professional lives has claimed before that Rockstar Games based a character in Grand Theft Auto V on her, without permission. And now she’s suing them. According to an AP report on Yahoo! Finance, Lohan’s lawsuit claims that GTA V character Lacey Jonas is based on her,…
Imagine a Tony Hawk game with crazy guns on a Horde Mode-style map. Insomniac Games did more than imagine. They built something very much like it for Sunset Overdrive‘s Chaos Squad multiplayer. Looks crazy enjoyable. The trailer above offers the first details about the online co-op component, which you can jump into straight from single-player…
So far, 2014 has felt like a year of surprises. Some of them have been good while others—like the growing crop of games that have been pushed to next year—are bummers. But, there’ve been standouts among the games that have come out. Let’s talk about them, shall we? This has been the year where the…
Nintendo recently turned Mario into a cat. Now you can turn your cat into Mario. Sort of. If you’re the kind of person who wishes your feline pet could be more like Nintendo’s iconic plumber, then this playset diagram might make your dreams come true. It comes courtesy of artist Timothy Ridley and the folks…
Thunder, thunder, Thundercats… no! Come with us, children of the 1980s and journey through a twisted tale about why there was only one terrible game based on the mega-popular fightin’ cat-people cartoon. Old-game archivist Larry Bundy digs deep in the sketchy game publishing history tactics of three decades ago to find out why a seeming…
JFK, stealth bombers and Silicon Valley are coming to the next Civilization game. Oh and lasers, too. It’s about to get all modern up in here. In the video above, I take in a near-final build of Civilization Revolution 2, the sequel to the built-for-consoles spin-off of Sid Meier’s popular strategy series. You’ll see some…
One of the best iOS games ever made is finally out for Android. The 1.1 update of Eliss Infinity—the evolution of beautiful/tough/artsy rapid-fire movement puzzle Eliss—debuts on the Google Play storefront today. The 1.1 is up on the Apple App Store, too. A rundown of the changes can be found here and Gamasutra‘s got an…
The long-awaited sequel to The Longest Journey isn’t going to be one big game anymore. Dreamfall Chapters will now be coming out as a series of episodic releases—with the first one hitting this fall—according to an update on the crowdfunded game’s Kickstarter page.
Watch Dogs has some things going for it. It can look pretty. It handles aiming and shooting pretty well. But the story in Ubisoft’s open-world action game is not one of its strengths. Now we’ve got a hilarious movie script breakdown points out all the ludicrous stuff in Watch Dogs. Spoilers Ahead. Over at Playthroughline—a…
There’ll be more to do when you get to the nexus of the cosmos in No Man’s Sky. This video on Hello Games’ hotly anticipated sci-fi game tells the story of how No Man’s Sky was born and what the dev studio wants to achieve with their ambitious procedurally generated galaxy.
Almost everything we love about modern video game owes a huge debt to Another World. So, it’s a boon that people playing on the Xbox Ones and PS4s of today can experience what made this proto-indie adventure a classic. Elegant world-building. Storytelling quirks unique to the medium. Beautifully naturalistic animation. Proper use of cinematic influences.…
The Sims is supposed to about setting up a perfect fantasy life, right? And, for some players, swimming pools are a key part of that. But they won’t be in Sims 4 and that’s made some players quite upset. Doing stuff with real estate and person-like characters that you’d can’t actually afford or do in…
An octopus cooking for you? Must mean that there’s new DLC coming for Octodad: Dadliest Catch Coming later this summer, the Shorts add-on (because, y’know, it’s hot) will be free and features new levels where you’ll need to pretend that an eight-armed underwater creature is a just a normal ol’ human father.
Reminder: charity speedrun marathon Summer Games Done Quick is full of people doing and showing amazing video game things. Right now, they’re playing 1993 Data East oddity Ninja Baseball Bat Man, a game where heroes have to “recover various artifacts stolen from the Baseball Hall of Fame, a task prescribed to them by the Commissioner…
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