In Real Life

A Guy Tried To Get His Girlfriend To Play A Video Game. Here’s Why It Didn’t Work.

So you’re lucky. Your significant other wants to sit down and play a game. And not just any game, either. The title that’s piqued interest is Just Cause 2, Avalanche Studio’s stunt-tastic open-world shooter. But Reddit user rfry11 found his lady love stymied by what he says are poor design choices and bad tutorials that befuddle new players.


February 21, 2012
PC

Just Cause 2 Is Just $5 Today On Steam

Yes, Steam has daily deals every… day, but today their daily deal is the rocking Just Cause 2, marked down from $US14.99 to just $US5.09. This game is worth a fiver, if only for the skydiving.


November 10, 2011
News

Watch A Video Game Bus Bounce Off Water

People don’t love Just Cause 2 for its story, or its characters. They love it for the fact it’s a giant toybox, giving them the vehicles, the environments and the physics to do whatever the hell they want.


May 27, 2011
PC

11 Million Deaths Have Never Looked So Beautiful

Here are the deaths of eleven million Just Cause 2 games, caused by bodies smashing into solid ground, visualised on a map from the heavens. Please, watch it.


March 28, 2011
News

Just Cause Creator: “DRM Doesn’t Stop Piracy”

Kotaku AU

Christopher Sundberg, top dog at Avalanche, creators of Just Cause 2, has come out against DRM claiming that it’s stupid and “does not stop piracy”. He also reasoned that developers should try giving hackers a job.


December 17, 2010
News

The Just Cause Movie Wants To Be Like Bond, James Bond

Just Cause, a game series starring a swarthy man bathed in tight shirts and explosions, was always going to get a film adaptation. Thankfully, that adaptation sounds faithful to the games. Well, as faithful as you could get.


December 14, 2010
In Real Life

Just Cause 2 Might As Well Jump

This base-jump in Just Cause 2 certainly gives new meaning to the term “leap of faith”.


November 26, 2010

Kotaku’s 2010 PC Gift Guide

There’s no faster way to somebody’s heart than to buy them a great PC game. With that in mind, here are our picks for PC games to stuff in that special someone’s stocking.


October 12, 2010
In Real Life

What Have You Been Doing In Just Cause 2?

Kotaku AU

Just Cause 2 is one of those games that allows you the freedom to pretty much do anything that’s on your corrupted, disgusting little mind at that precise moment.

And recently Namco Bandai were good enough to forward across some cool stats detailing just precisely what it is you have been getting up to. The result? Well, you’ve been mostly exploding yourself to death, basically.


October 4, 2010
News

Just Cause Movie Gets A Screenwriter

A Just Cause movie, which we got wind of a year ago, now has a screenwriter and another producing partner, signaling that we’re a step closer to an action-movie video game adapted into a video game action movie.