Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

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Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era.

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The artists behind 2009’s Game of the Year and recent award hog Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will be showing off the artistic talents that got them hired at Naughty Dog at the upcoming Unleashed: The Art of Naughty Dog Exhibit.
That opportunity to eyeball the creative works of some 20 strong Naughty [...]

Gaming academic (and Kotaku guest editor) Ian Bogost shares with the world this scan from a 1982 issue of Videogaming Illustrated, in which 1982 celebrities share their thoughts on the video games.
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Being 1982, we’ve got a stellar lineup, including comedian Mel Brooks, Superman’s Christopher Reeve, and another comedian, Chevy Chase. And [...]

Forget boxes of chocolates, flowers, and stuffed animals. Those are gifts you should be exchanging every day. No, for me, Valentine’s Day is the kind of day where you and your loved one go out and get Final Fantasy tattoos.
Long-time Kotaku readers might have been here when I got my first Final Fantasy tattoo, the [...]

The Art of Tomb Raider is looking like a must-have hard-edged coffee table book for any fan of the series and its curvy protagonist. Published by Dreams and Visions Press, the 568-page book actually comes in two volumes, with the first covering “every significant piece of Tomb Raider art” through Angel of Darkness, and the [...]

Nintendo’s refusal to step into the “next” generation of hardware means we’re years away from seeing a high definition Zelda game. Still, a man can dream…
These images were generated by Zelda fan Ryu-Gi, using Garry’s Mod, a PC utility which allows users to import and edit game characters within Valve’s Source engine. Taking some models [...]

Not having played every game on every platform, I was hesitant to issue genre/platform awards for my “Best Of” individual editor picks. Instead, I opted for one aspect of games that rarely gets award-level attention—costume and character design.
For my picks, I went not for the best graphics, story or gameplay innovation, instead focusing on some [...]

Do you like Alexey Pajitnov’s timeless puzzler Tetris as much as you like succumbing to unrelenting waves of nausea? You’ll probably want to check out the new Flash-based sensation, First-Person Tetris. There’s not much of a learning curve, here — it operates pretty much exactly like the block-dropping puzzler you know and love, only with [...]

In Darksiders, you play as War, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The other three, though, you never see them. They’re away, at a volleyball tournament. If they were around, though, this is what they’d look like.
Vigil’s Joe Madureira originally designed all four horsemen. He of course took some liberties; instead of War, [...]

It’s called, “try hitting on anyone while you’re wearing that thing.” That’s right, Harry Potter there is someone’s husband. So if this sweater makes him the world’s biggest geek, it also makes her the world’s most awesome wife.
Reasoning that “knitting stitches are basically pixels, right?” The Happy Seamstress converted World 1-1 into a “ginormous knitting [...]