Play a horror game enough and you know where all the scares are. The terror becomes routine. But Daylight is promising something different. It’s going to transform each time you try to escape. Like Spelunky, No Man’s Sky and a slew of other games, the upcoming PC/PS4 title from Zombie Studios—built on Unreal Engine 4—uses…
2013’s pretty much over and, boy, was it ever a great year for comics. Here’s what I and other Kotaku staffers loved reading over the last twelve months. Sex Criminals It was fair to expect that a book from Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky would have some of the raunchiest porn comedy this side of…
A DLC add-on. A trippy mobile psychodrama. A triumphant rebirth. A chilling sci-fi future. A giant arcade cabinet that lives in New York City. This is what I’ll remember most about my video game experiences in 2013. Some of what I loved this year told great stories, tapped into my own ancestral history or messed…
Los Santos is supposed to be a criminals’ paradise, a place where the right crew, the right weapons and the right vehicles let you unlock as much money as you can earn. But a plague of hacking is clogging GTA Online‘s in-game economy with billions—maybe even trillions—of dirty dollars. Most of GTA Online’s initial launch…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Lots of looking back at 2013 going on in TAY-ville. There’s SpaceGar saying that Killer Is Dead had the best art. Aestevalis runs down the best in anime. FrogFro wants to talk about your favorite music, from either inside games or not. And Pink Zapper…
Boarding a slave ship and liberating its human cargo is probably the most satisfying thing you can do in the new Freedom Cry DLC for Assassin’s Creed IV. It’s also one of the toughest. Take a look at how this naval battle to free slaves almost ended in tears. The video here shows me taking…
Who knows what set off this Times Square performer dressed up as the Dark Knight? But it takes a team-up with two Spider-Men to ensure that this Batman doesn’t go all Death in the Family on the dude he’s arguing with. Warning: contains language that may be considered NSFW. The rage-filled rant that Batman goes…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Souls lets us in on how Assassin’s Creed IV made him cry. FoolProofAdam talks about how spoiling The Last of Us made it an even better experience. And Cill Bosby sings the praises of The Knights of the Old Republic Don’t forget that you can…
Playing Max: the Curse of Brotherhood with the Xbox One controller feels a bit like running through an up-scaled iPhone game on a much bigger screen. As you might imagine, that’s both a good thing and a bad thing. The Curse of Brotherhood has a lot going for it. Lead character Max must rescue his…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Rathorial’s in-depth, illustrated guide shows us how he built a PC that’ll be his own pseudo-Steam Machine. Gary Alexander Stott thinks we should all be getting excited for SOMA, Frictional Games’ upcoming space-horror title. And Stormborn draws a Psyduck that would be at home on…
The newest chapter of the Assassin’s Creed series gives me some of the things I’ve always wanted in a video game: a heroic fantasy that lets me control a warrior fighting against slavery. Part of it happens in Haiti, where my parents were born. Characters talk in Antillean Kreyol, the mosaic tongue made of French…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Zarnyx reflects on Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and how it made her think about her relationship with her sister and nephew. Stormborn keeps drawing cat-styled Pokémon; this time, it’s Persian. And Marsh Naylor looks at six memes that Street Fighter definitely might have…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Cimeas thinks we don’t need pseudo-intellectual BS in games criticism. NotGoodForYou compares Starbound and Terraria, because you kind of have to. Carter Brownlee thinks that 2013 is the best year of the outgoing generation. And Stormborn gets back to drawing Pokémon. This time, it’s Team…
People like to rag on downloadable content. It’s a boondoggle, detractors say. A crass way to get extra cash for a chunk of a game that should’ve just been included on the disk. That’s true in many cases. But Assassin’s Creed IV: Freedom Cry is the better brand of add-on, one where developers’ experimentation with…
What do you do when the future turns out shitty? You go back to the past. This time, it’s the developers of gorgeous first-person puzzle game Reset who are jaunting back through the timestream. Don’t worry, there isn’t any Terminator-style nakedness. Reset‘s been on our radar for a while now but the two-man team at…
So, master blacksmith Tony Swatton got The Legend of Zelda Master Sword out of the way and now he’s sharpening a replica of an iconic weapon from another console exclusive action game: Kratos’ Blades of Chaos. But Swatton only made one. What the hades, Tony? Yes, all the melting and forging and hammering and sharpening…
All those islands in the Caribbean that are plush vacation spots now? They used to be colonies, outposts for imperial powers that were replete with inhumane slave labor. Some of these places exploded—sometimes into self-rule—with violent uprisings and rebellions. The new add-on—out tomorrow—for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag puts you in the middle of one…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: GiantBoyDetective needs help assembling the lists of each platform’s exclusives for TAY’s Speaky Awards. NotGoodForYou compares Starbound and Terraria, because you kind of have to. And, because he wants to see the Pokémon in the next Smash Bros, Stormborn draws Mewtwo in typically great fashion.…
This week, I played a game that felt like the lovechild of an SNES platformer and a touchscreen puzzle-solving title. Where’s this cute and wonky hybrid showing up? Why, the Xbox One, of course. At first blush, you’ll think you know exactly what you’re getting in Max: The Curse of Brotherhood. It’s a shiny-cute adventure…
Bitcoin has fascinated people for a little bit now. It’s got that futuristic sounding name that sounds cool. Seems like something you should get into, right? But don’t be like the six percent of surveyed Americans who thought that Bitcoin was an Xbox game. Because it’s not. The Atlantic has a write-up of a Bloomberg…
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