People propose at fan conventions like PAX, Comic-Con or GenCon all the time. And, yes, many of these declarations of love involve costumes. But a very select few—maybe only one?— have the fan-favorite actress who gives voice to Portal series antagonist GLaDOS singing “Still Alive” along with a banjo. The cuteness here is off the…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: SloopyDrew—who’s new to playing games with a keyboard-and-mouse set-up—wants help from WASD and right-click masters. JJtheTexan continues his catalog of long-lost Nintendo games with a look at Game Boy Color titles. And Cimeas has a great piece about open-world games, focusing on how Rockstar’s approach…
You won’t quite be able to figure out what’s going on in this trailer for new horror/FPS Betrayer. But it’ll still make you feel queasy. Maybe it’s the ghosts flying at the camera in a stark, 17th-Century rural landscape. Or the muskets, crossbows and tomahawks promised on the game’s official site. But Betrayer—which PC Gamer…
You don’t work at Kotaku. But if you did, you’d see a constant comics-centric conversation going back and forth between our staffers. Recommendations and raves pop up in our instant-message chats all the time and we catch up on must-read series and creators over lunch. These chats are always fun so, lucky you, we thought…
Remember the handlebar controllers on the Paperboy arcade machines? You really felt like you were controlling that cartoony bike on the screen, right? Well, what if you had a whole bike that you had to pedal to play an updated version of that classic game? It’d basically look like PaperDude VR. PaperDude VR—the creation of…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Dear Video Game Expert—Marsh Naylor’s column that answers your burning questions in most humorous fashion—has some sage advice about the holes you encounter in video games. Aikage wants to know what your favorite examples of breaking the fourth wall in video games. And GIantBoyDetective offers…
Oh, it’s not called Umberella but anyone who’s been around video games for the last 20 17 years knows where this job interview is happening. Sparsely scattered bullets? Illegal genetic experiments? Parasol, indeed. If you’ve played Resident Evil—or, really, any other survival horror game—the jokes in here will make you laugh. You’ll also think that…
Good news: that Tomb Raider sequel—outed by Kotaku during Comic-Con—is already in the works. In a post on the company’s corporate blog, Square Enix CEO Phil Rogers says that they’re “well into development” on a “next-generation” sequel.
It took more than two years for BioShock Infinite to go from announcement to release. That’s a pretty long time. But it might be even longer to get Irrational Games’ successful first-person series onto the PlayStation Vita. Why? Studio head Ken Levine says, “I can’t personally greenlight the thing myself.” Some people expected that Monday’s…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Peter Tieryas does an interview with indie dev Kyle Muntz about grinding in RPGs. Zarnyx writes up her visit to Barcade in Brooklyn, where a bunch of NYC-based game critics were hanging out on Tuesday night. But, wait! Sam G. says Chicago’s Headquarters Beercade is…
Pikmin 3 is finally here and you can download it this weekend. The ultra-cute strategy game leads the list of downloadable games hitting Nintendo hardware this week. Cloudberry Kingdom also comes out right about now, along with Kirby’s Dreamland 2, Disney’s Planes and Harvest Moon, too. Check out the full list of games that will…
Picture it: you’re at the 2013 edition of Nerd Prom, finally taking a break from waiting in long-ass Hall H lines and getting something to eat. Then, some dude wearing some sort of outfit from Assassin’s Creed runs up and jumps right over your burgers. It’d freak you out, right? You don’t see much reaction…
Even though he just announced DLC that will bring players back to the iconic undersea metropolis of Rapture, Ken Levine says he doesn’t feel trapped inside the BioShock franchise. In so much as there’s a template for Levine’s signature first-person games, he says it he’s not interested in re-using it “unless I think of an…
Maybe you’re burning to know how the PS4 and Xbox One’s graphics will stack up against each other. Maybe the way each console handles lighting, textures and detail will be what makes you pick one over the other. Sadly, we don’t even know when the next-gen machines are coming out. But, hey, you could conceivably…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Seething Hatred shares some insights on how games can strengthen your mind. ClockworkDefinition offers up opinionated takes on which video game sequels deserve to exist and which ones don’t. And HokutoAndy relays the thoughts of the man who infamously collided with Phil Fish now that…
This morning, I woke up from a dream to answer nature’s call. My first waking thought was, “Whoa, I need to get back to that dream.” Because, in that dream, I was going to deliver an impromptu lecture to a packed loft-style apartment—with Joe Kelly, Gail Simone and, Jesus H. Christ, one of my all-time…
Seeing as how it’s an unbreakable metal, the adamantium that laces Wolverine’s bones is probably hella expensive. But, cripes, it costs a whole hell of a lot more now. Mashable put together a set of infographics that postulates how much various Marvel and DC superheroes need to shell out in their crime-fighting lifestyles. It’s a…
It’s been four months since I played BioShock Infinite so, yes, I forgot how to play it. But, the game’s new Clash in the Clouds DLC brought all the chaos of the FPS combat rushing back to me. Everything you loved or hated about the game’s combat gets amplified here. I got the chance to…
Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: EtchedChamp opens up the confessional for another session of Gamer Shame, so folks can talk about the big games that they haven’t played. Peter Tieryas runs down a list of his favorite JRPG battle themes. And BattleBorn is trying to get a Pokemon tournament together…
All of the lead protagonists in the BioShock games have been men. Haunted, lethally determined men. But, thanks to an upcoming downloadable add-on, players will be able to take control of Elizabeth, the AI character who was the focus of BioShock Infinite Hundreds of thousands of people gobbled up the twisty, surprise-filled storyline of BioShock…
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