In Real Life

There’s No Wedding Proposal Like A Final Fantasy Wedding Proposal

When Seth Hay arrived at the “Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy” concert last weekend in Toronto, he was met with a lovely surprise. His girlfriend, Cheryl Murray, had bought him tickets to a meet-and-greet with legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu and conductor Arnie Roth. After the show, they would get to hang out with the duo, a prospect that Hay said had him “very geeked out”.


March 7, 2012
In Real Life

‘Make Love Games, Not War Games,’ Says Former First-Person Shooter Creator

Enough with the war video games, says Marin Hollis, former chief creator of the great first-person shooter GoldenEye and now one of the ambitious handful of people at the Digital Romance Lab.


PC

Love Is Still One Of The Prettiest Video Games, But Now It’s More Violent

“Have you met Eskil Steenberg?” I ask this question a lot when I go to the Game Developer’s Conference, an annual gathering of more than 15,000 game developers here in San Francisco. You’ve got to meet Eskil, I tell my fellow reporters. The guy is amazing.


February 21, 2012
In Real Life

Can You Catch All The Puns In This Adorable Pokémon Love Song?

“I wrote a love song using only Pokémon puns”, reads the Reddit entry for YouTube user HelloIamDanica’s pocket monster-stuffed ukulele ballad. There are several words in that sentence I would normally avoid, but her music has moved me, and I think it could move Mewtwo.


January 17, 2012
In Real Life

More Triangles In Games! Love-Triangles, That Is.

I was disappointed with Uncharted 3 for a number of reasons. Certainly one of those reasons was that the game had bizarre difficulty spikes and could be kind of a dick sometimes. But another, possibly bigger reason was that while Uncharted 3 generally mirrored the pacing and story-arc of Uncharted 2, it lacked one of my favourite things about its predecessor: chemistry. Specifically, the romantic chemistry born of the love-triangle between Nathan Drake, Chloe and Elena. More love-triangles in games, please!


September 15, 2011
PC

Three Out Of Four Online Marriages End In Divorce, Says Korean MMO

MapleStory, the South Korean side-scrolling MMO (above), allows players to get hitched if they so choose. Sadly, many of the unions are not parted by death but divorce — 20,344 out of 26,982, to be precise.


August 13, 2011
PC

Notch’s Wedding Means You Can Give A Free Minecraft To Your Soulmate

Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson is getting married tomorrow (which may be today come to think of it. Anyway…) and in celebration of such, he’s giving out a free copy of the game to all who buy it.


May 17, 2011
News

Mass Effect Fans Worry That Expanded Gay Options Will Create Inconsistencies, Alter Canon

Mass Effect developer Casey Hudson’s announcement less than a day ago that same-sex romances would be given fuller and more explicit articulation in Mass Effect 3 has unsurprisingly ignited a spark among many followers of the franchise.


April 26, 2011
PC

World Of Warcraft May Be The Future Of Online Dating

Dating sites are always looking for a method of matching people up with dates they’ll actually like in real life. But World of Warcraft may already have found it.


April 25, 2011
In Real Life

When Your Favorite Game Is Proposing Marriage, The Answer Is ‘Yes’

She said yes. You’re dying to know, and Kotaku can confirm that for you now. Even though her marriage proposal came from a smart-aleck robot and contained references to herpes and, well, the big A, last night Tora told Ben yes, she will marry him,