Last year, my favourite “game” of GamesCom had the working title Adrift. Set in a desolate, bleak vision of a future Paris, it was all about the trading of memories and some very sexy concept art Sadly, that’s about all it was. Hence the “game” business. This year, it’s back, and it’s back as a…
We have no idea how well the newest Star Wars game, 1313, plays. From what little of it we’ve seen, it appears to be your standard third-person, cover-based shooter. But boy does it look amazing. This trailer, the game’s first proper clip for public consumption, mixes footage we saw at E3 with some new stuff,…
Wargame: European Escalation, released on PC earlier this year, was great. Developed by the team behind RUSE, and very much in the spirit of the just-as-excellent World in Conflict, W:EE took us back to the Cold War with a gorgeous, intimate look at fictional tussle between NATO and the Soviet Bloc. Next year, it’ll be…
For the second time this week, “SuperDae” is trying to offload an alleged Xbox “Durango” development kit
David Vigil, who is a master leathersmith, is taking orders for an item he’s called “UNCHARTED 3: Nathan Drake Inspired Gun Holster”. While appearing to be entirely unlicensed by Sony, official blessing seems to be the only thing it’s lacking. Because it looks incredible. Based on, obviously, Drake’s shoulder holster from the third game in…
Nicola Adams, a boxer and freshly-minted Olympic gold medalist, is currently facing Britain’s media answering countless questions about her preparation, training, state of mind, reaction to winning, blah blah blah. I found one of her answers a little more interesting than the rest, though. Speaking with The Independent, Adams says that the night before her…
These days, Rockstar are known as a publisher with a reputation for very slick marketing, especially when it comes to their flagship series, Grand Theft Auto. Things weren’t always as “cool”, though. As this advertisement from 1997, for the very first game in the series, shows. Run before Rockstar was even known as Rockstar, it’s…look,…
Here’s something very cool: a rare look so far behind the scenes of how a video game console is made that you’re seeing the very beginning. The injection moulds used to actually make the plastic components that came together to become an Atari Jaguar. To recap: the Jaguar sucked, it died a horrible death, and…
If you don’t know Raymond Swanland by name, you may well know him by his work. A veteran concept artist, Swanland has worked across numerous fields, but around these parts will probably look most familiar to people for his Oddworld and Magic: The Gathering images. Swanland spent eight years working on the classic Oddworld series,…
There’s a new Sesame Street DVD out that is, according to whichever Muppet writes their press releases, “full of fun video game spoofs”. It appears they are telling the truth. Going a little beyond your clichéd Space Invaders and Pac-Man, there’s a bunch of more contemporary games being reappropriated for the purposes of education, like…
Mortal Kombat can be hard enough at the best of times, but could you play it with your eyes closed? Course you couldn’t. And even then, you at least know what the stage and characters look like when you open your eyes again. James, blind from birth, does not. Which is what makes his story…
Valve’s announcement of a new “Mann vs Machine” game mode for Team Fortress 2 didn’t just come out of the blue. It didn’t even have its hat tipped over the weekend No, the studio that does crowd-teasing like no other has been building up to this moment for over two years The history of the…
Last year, Kotaku reader Chris Sands went through a bit of a rough patch. Undergoing complex brain surgery to help alleviate a bizarre hiccupping condition (which got him on the BBC as the star of a documentary!), he made PSP game Beaterator an integral part of his rehabilitation. An avid musician, putting beats together on…
Team Fortress 2 now has a co-operative “horde” mode of its own, allowing five players to team up and take on waves and waves of…angry robots. As expected, Valve’s “Gray” teases have indeed led us to the dawn of the franchise’s war against robotics. The robots are modelled after each of the existing game’s iconic…
CBS has an interview with “the most famous video game developer in the world”. It’s (probably) not who you think
Classic adventure-themed Lost Cities is a pretty great card game. It’s now a pretty great iOS game as well. While available on other platforms, from Facebook to – albeit briefly – Xbox Live Arcade, the iOS version of Reiner Knizia’s game of risk and reward is easily the best, combining snappy controls with smart visuals…
Ruan Jia is a concept artist currently living in Quebec. Having formerly worked for Chinese developers NetDragon, his most recent gig was with Volta, a studio that specialises in providing things like art and world building for video game companies. His art isn’t just great by concept art standards. If I could print these off…
The clip’s title, “100 Greatest Maniacal Movie Laughs”, pretty much sums it up. What’s intended as creepy, unsettling or even mildly terrifying in a movie becomes one hell of a gag when they’re all played back-to-back. 100 Greatest Maniacal Movie Laughs [honsco]
Remember in January how everyone got a little excited about the official return of the Neo Geo brand, via a new handheld system called the NEOGEO X GOLD? Yeah, well, it might be time to get a little less excited. Because the thing costs $200. That’s right. For a small handheld that plays a bunch…
This futuristic take on what looks like Ezio, from the Assassin’s Creed series, was designed by artist Davis Lim. It takes the Renaissance killer and drops him squarely in the future. Or, if you prefer, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. I’m getting a very “Old Republic” feel from that armour…
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