It's a strange age we live in when Kim Kardashian can make so much money off of a mobile gaming experience and we write endlessly about its production, its profits, and its deeper cultural meaning instead of the obvious question: What will be the next smash-hit celebrity gaming experience?
Face-to-face LAN parties—local game gatherings, usually PC-focused—just aren't what they used to be in this modern, always connected age. Not even one of the biggest in the world can escape time. But the thousands of PC gamers who gather in Texas every summer are pushing off the inevitable as heroically as they can.
Swinging a chainsaw while riding a shark sounds pretty fun, but the reviews of the new Sharknado endless runner mostly just complain about the game constantly crashing. I posted the trailer below:
The Legend of Zelda series is so steeped in lore at this point that just figuring out which version of Link you're playing as can be tricky. Heck, I'm still not sure that's even his real name.
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You eventually tune it out, but the constant whir of a desktop computer's cooling fans can take a toll on your psyche. It's like a buzzing mosquito that never strikes, and never stops. So the folks at a German company called Silent Power have created a compact desktop PC that trades noisy fans for a block of exposed…
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Making games as a solo developer is a hard lifestyle. You can put a lot of hours into making something that goes nowhere. But figuring out what platforms to publish on and how much things will cost is a whole other stress. Here's how much it cost to put one indie title onto Xbox One. Spoiler: launching it on PC is…
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August's Playstation Plus line-up has been announced and includes heavy hitters like Dragon's Crown, and indies FEZ and Proteus. It's also a cross-buy heavy month. Here's the list:
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This afternoon, Crytek announced that they had downsized their Texas-based USA studio and moved development of the free-to-play co-op shooter Hunt: Horrors of the Guilded Age to their main offices in Frankfurt, Germany.
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On Friday, Guardians of the Galaxy hits theaters, with its unique blend of space-opera and insane comedy. Which classic films must Guardians defeat to take its place among the greatest science fiction comedies? Here are the 13 greatest (live-action) science fiction comedies of all time.
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Originally slated for release on July 31, Zen Studios' Pinball FX2 for the Xbox One has been pushed back into August in order to implement changes need to allow players to import tables they've already purchased on the Xbox 360. Thank goodness.
Hi everybody! Here's your daily reminder that the Souls games are engineered to cause pain and misery, even from people you trust. Never trust anybody!
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The HGST Touro is one of the only 7200 RPM external hard drives out there, and the 1TB model is only $60 today, which is as cheap as we've ever seen it.
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Way back in February 2013, when Sony first announced the PlayStation 4, they talked a bit about their partnership with the streaming company Gaikai. With the power of the cloud, Sony said, we'd all be able to stream PS1, PS2, and PS3 games.
In the wake of Crytek's financial troubles, Deep Silver has just acquired the rights to Homefront: The Revolution and will develop the game under a new Nottingham-based studio, the publisher announced today.
Remember that leaked Deadpool movie test footage? It's been released in a hi-res version, reportedly straight from Blur Studios itself. Update: An Escapist article says that the hi-res release isn't an official one.
All 30 Mario Kart 8 characters, reviewed. Read John Teti's hilarious take on the cartoon cast in Nintendo's newest kart racer. "Rather than being an empty sad-sack, Luigi has become the personified answer to the question, 'What if Mario were kind of an asshole?' And this is awesome."
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Legend tells of a game. A game so accessible to young and old, experienced and inexperienced alike that it became the second best selling video game of all time. That game is Wii Sports. While this motion control buffet was bundled with the Wii for the majority of its lifespan, it's still an impressive feat to sell…
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Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: The Problem With Completion • Game of The Week — Inciting 90's Moral Panic: Doom • Akuma no Riddle: The Ani-TAY Review
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