I’ve been chipping away at Carrier Command’s beta for a while now, and telling most people who’ll listen how much fun I’ve been having. Those who know the track record of developers Bohemia Interactive (ArmA) or the limitations of the original game it’s based on (first released in 1988) often wonder why that is. This…
Developers Eidos have done away with the long-standing tradition of having a real-life Lara Croft promote a Tomb Raider game. Instead, they’ve done something far more useful: brought in someone to actually play Croft in the game English actress Camilla Luddington will basically be Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, as she’s done…
This is TRIP. By Axel Shokk. There’s not much to it, apparently, just wandering around exploring a world, checking out some animals. But what a world this is. It’s like an acid trip sat down and learned how to program in Unity. If the trailer above doesn’t send you lunging for a way to end…
You know what? Never tell me the odds. It was only yesterday I took a look at Sideshow’s new Boba Fett figure, and today, they’re wheeling out two more. Well, one? Two figures, but they come in the one box. The pairing is an obvious one: C-3PO and R2-D2. Unlike the company’s Sixth Scale pieces,…
James Paick is a freelance concept artist who has worked on more big games recently than I could fit in that headline. Since I’ve got more room down here, here’s a continued selection: The Last of Us, Uncharted 2, Prey 2, Infamous 2, Medal of Honor, Tomb Raider, Lost Planet 3… ...Resistance 3, Tron, City…
Kirk walked away from E3 quite impressed with Ubisoft’s Wii U shooter ZombiU, but since none of us got to see what the game really looked like, we had to take him at his bullet-pointed word For those of you who distrust saxophone players – and really, who can blame you – try watching this…
When Warner Bros. was first trying to put a LEGO movie together, one of the groups it approached was Blur Studios. Sadly, their vision of a coming-of-age quest didn’t get the nod. But you know what, that’s OK. Because what we’ve got instead might be just as good. Variety reports that the actual and upcoming…
A: Because this ad, and this console, never appeared outside Japan. Many people blame the Dreamcast for Sega’s exit from the console market, but that’s a harsh point for both the console and the company. Really, it was the Saturn that marked the beginning of the end. The market share the Saturn ceded to Nintendo…
Regular Kotaku readers will of course know that Nintendo hasn’t always made video games. The company has dabbled in everything from love hotels to badass “LEGO” sets. It also, in the early 1970s, tried its hand at electronic card games. In about the most bizarre way imaginable. This is Electro Poker, released in 1971. It…
Um. Here he is. Part of Sideshow’s line of sixth-scale Star Wars figures, this Boba Fett piece arrived at my house this morning. He really is quite lovely. While loaded with around a billion accessories and display stands, this is a large-format (12″) “figure”, and not a “statue”. Much of his arsenal is interchangeable, and…
Heads Up! Hot Dogs is an upcoming iOS game that’s described by its creators as an “ALL-NEW ALL-BEEF ALL-ACTION FRANKFEST”. Which seems fairly accurate given the trailer above. Not really sure why so many dudes are so down about a hot dog being slapped on their noggin. Free hot dogs falling magically from the sky?…
Oniken came out last week on the PC. Yeah, you read that right. The PC. Not the NES, not the Master System, a personal computer, in the year 2012. So thorough is the developer’s homage to the 1980s, though, and in particular Japanese side-scrollers, that I needed to actually point that out. Whenever someone makes…
Digital Extremes, the studio most recently behind The Darkness II, have unveiled a new third-person shooter called WARFRAME. Their caps, not mine. The good news is that art direction looks great. The bad news is it’s a free-to-play game, so yeah. There’s a closed beta out sometime this Fall.
It just never really clicked, did it? Despite all the advertising and hype and expectations placed upon it, Sony’s Resistance series has always just…been there. People like it, sure, but it’s not exactly a blockbuster, certainly not to the level Sony were hoping/expecting when it debuted alongside the launch of the PlayStation 3. I remember…
Khang Le is the boss of Adhesive games, the studio behind the promising Hawken, a multiplayer mech shooter on PC. But he’s not just the boss. He’s also the game’s creative director. There’s a few Hawken pieces here, as well as some other mechs and robots. But there’s also some beautiful environment pieces featuring fantasy…
Nintendo’s next Mario game will have paid DLC. In this video, company spokesmen outline the motivations behind such a move, and the means via which it will become available.
Don’t try and make sense of Spinal Breakers, a 1990 coin-op game. It’s got a story that centres around nuclear war, something called “hildroids” (which look a lot like Nazis to me) and the alteration of the Earth’s axis. What’s important is that you play as a man (and walking Michael Biehn tribute) called Captain…
Like anyone else who played PC games in the early 1990s, I was, and still am, madly in love with Wing Commander III, perhaps the finest moment of the period’s fixation with using real actors. One thing always seemed a little weird to me though: why was there a porn star on the ship? Yes,…
NeoGAF user Joe Prodigy left his 3DS alone in a spot where his dog, Loki, could get it. So, yeah. Loki ate the 3DS. If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like when an animal tries to eat a Nintendo handheld, now you know. Either that dog is smart, or just tenacious, because he managed…
One of the biggest problems I’ve had with Star Trek over the years is that, recent movie aside, it’s so dorky. So old-fashioned. This re-imagined intro sequence, done by artist Shawn Sheehan, flips that to its advantage, crafting a clip that revels in its retro chic so much it nearly drowns in it. And it…
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