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Rayman Origins (PC)
Easily one of the best 2D platformers ever. Artwork is absolutely gorgeous. Music is also pretty great (for a cartoon) and catchy, although some tracks are completely ruined because somebody thought...
View ArticleVideo Review: Grand Theft Auto 1&2 by the Cable Bruddas
The original Grand Theft Auto games had a top-down perspective that faked 3D pretty well. It wasn’t until Grand Theft Auto 3 that everyone’s world changed and parents again had to wonder if video...
View ArticleVideo Review: Diablo 3 and Torchlight by the Cable Bruddas
Sometimes it’s nice to destroy every living creature in a dungeon without having to remember that the Polish octal characters on your screen translates to pink dragon. Two such games are Diablo 3 and...
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KICKSTARTER
Browsing Kickstarter is addicting. It’s amazing that Kickstarter rejects 40% of the requests they get. Kicktraq is nice because you can see where a project will likely end up and lately a lot of...
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Golf Journalism Is Also Terrible
We give a lot of shit to games journalism, but golf journalism is terrible as well. Thanks to Pinback for the heads up here: With twin 67s, Tiger Woods is officially in the hunt at The British Open...
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Analysis: Those Korean LCD Monitors
So I guess the internet has been going apeshit since January or so over these 27″ Korean LCD monitors with a native resolution of 2560×1440 and some state of the art LG panel that are selling for...
View ArticleVideo Review: Diablo 1&2 by the Cable Bruddas
Seven years ago I did a thread on a different forum about what I thought the 100 best games were. It looks terribly out-dated now, and it didn’t include pinball games. That being said, I had Diablo in...
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Kotaku’s Editor-in-Chief on the GMA Whoring
Here is a thread on Caltrops that links to some stuff that Stuart Campbell and Rab Florence wrote about how all game journalists are whores. No, really: dignity-free, easily-purchased whores. Well,...
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The Kong Off 2 in Denver, CO
If you’re in Colorado next weekend, check out the Kong Off 2, hosted at the 1UP Barcade. http://the-1up.com/kongoff
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Ready Player One (Book)
Okay so the rich guy was nuts about the 1980s even though this story takes place in the future (2050 perhaps). As a result, the whole world goes nuts over 1980s pop culture, studying every damn thing...
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That Hospital Level in Hotline Miami
OK, so there’s a Hotline Miami level where you lose your weapons and the controls get all screwy!! LOL! You know, I was a bit down on a game that didn’t have save-anywhere and relied on death from an...
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2012 Year End Link Bait: What We Hated
2012 is just about over, and we hated a lot of stuff. We also liked a lot of stuff, but nobody is going to click on a link to see other people acting all happy. The things I liked least about gaming...
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Thirty Flights of Loving (PC)
Someone figured out how to do jump cuts in the Quake 2 engine and made 2 demo levels of nothing but. There’s so little here I’m almost offended I had to pay for it, meanwhile game reviewers and...
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Kick Off The New Year With Caltrops
I spent my New Year holiday trying to clean up some problems with my Qix. Qix takes a 6.3 volt line to make the lights behind the marquee work. Most arcade games have a fluorescent tube behind the...
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The Genius of @PG_kamiya Encounters… Kotaku
Hideki Kamiya(@PG_kamiya) decided to — for some reason — to reply to every fucking tweet he receives now. This led to a question about Valve where he responded that he didn’t know much about them and...
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Review: Victorian Admirals: Anthology
Totem Games is a bit of an oddity. They are: 1. One of about two companies making historical naval combat games. 2. The only company making historical naval combat games about the American Civil War....
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Gamestop Rewards Sucks
I joined that Gamestop rewards thing last fall. Mainly because my Xbox magazine sub was running out and it was much cheaper to join Gamestop for 15 dollars and get Game Informer. I figured the other...
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The Current Problem With League of Legends
Editor’s Note: We are talking about League of Legends in the forum at the moment. I know it has a passionate fan base that loves telling people how it is the “most-played game of all-time.” The problem...
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TDARCOS presents…. Slop.
Welcome to the new cooking video from TDARCOS! This new cooking video is a homemade, delicious recipe that TDARCOS calls, “Slop.” Would you like to join the conversation? Join the conversation! Right...
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Proteus Review (PC)
You wake. You are wading in a blue, 8-bit ocean. The blocky, aliased sun shines brightly above you. In the distance, a hazy form clutters the horizon. You approach, and the outline forms into an...
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