In Real Life

This Isn’t Gun Porn. It’s LEGO Gun Porn You Can Make.

As a kid, I’d often snap LEGO bricks together and make crude pistols. They didn’t shoot anything, so for added realism, I would go “pow”. Like I said, crude.


April 30, 2012
Retro

The Worst Book Covers Of All Time Have Destroyed My Faith In Humanity

The worst album covers of all time made me miss the good old times of record shops. These books, however, just scare me. They scare me because, with the advent of personal digital book publishing, things are probably going to get even worse.


April 23, 2012
In Real Life

Manga Girls Show Improper Gun And Knife Use

Leave it to Japan to explain correct weapon use in manga form. A new book, Drawing! Gun and Knife Combat Pose Style Graphics, claims to do just that.


October 20, 2011
In Real Life

From Yale To Persia: Private Diaries Of Gaming’s Renaissance Man

In 1985 Jordon Mechner was a student at Yale riding high on a mix of euphoria over the surprise success of his first video game, Karateka, and trepidation over the idea of turning that success into a career.


April 21, 2011
News

How Virtual Cog-Driven Machines Made Game Of Thrones Awesome

Inspired by ancient self-operating machines and driven by clever computer animation, the opening credits for HBO’s Game of Thrones is packed with easter eggs and miniature marvels.


March 30, 2011
News

Rage The Book Hits In August

Del Rey and Bethesda Softworks have teamed up to publish a novel based on id’s upcoming Rage game.


January 26, 2011
Nintendo

Playing To Wiin Offers More Than Wii Puns

Nintendo is gaming’s comeback kid. Just when everybody counted them out with the GameCube, the Kyoto-based game maker fired back with the hugely successful Nintendo DS and the Wii. But there’s more to the Cinderella story than that.


January 11, 2011
In Real Life

Halo: Cryptum – An Excerpt

THE FORERUNNER STORY-the history of my people-has been told many times, with greater and greater idealization, until I scarcely recognise it.


November 19, 2010

Hull Zero Three – An Excerpt

Author Greg Bear isn’t just a one-time Kotaku guest columnist and a prize-winning science fiction author. He’s also the guy working on the origin story for the entire HALO universe.


November 11, 2010

Tearing The Sky – An Excerpt

The former head of the Game Developers Conference and current Electronic Arts indie headhunter just published his first science fiction novel, Tearing the Sky.