Turn-based battles and tiny sprites are for children. Those who grew up on Pokémon and are now a little more, well, grown up, deserve something more violent This custom fan-made game may not have the world’s slickest front-end, but those character animations are to die for. Well. Faint for. If you want to play it…
Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio behind No More Heroes and the upcoming Shadows of the Damned, is working on a Neon Genesis Evangelion game for the PSP. It’s not your typical Eva game. The game is based on Rebuild of Evangelion, a remake of the original Evangelion. It’s a rhythm game that will incorporate action, music,…
Having been the property of companies like THQ and Majesco, the publishing rights to cult platformer Psychonauts are now back where they belong: with Double Fine, the people who actually made the game. That’s according to a slightly premature tweet from a Double Fine employee, at any rate, who after dropping the info says that…
While the 3DS finally did move a million units in Japan, the Wall Street Journal points out that its sales are far below expectations (the earthquake didn’t help). More in the link. [Japan Real Time]
According to a report from Kyodo News, citing official Japanese government documentation, Sony Computer Entertainment knowingly delayed telling the public about the extent of an attack on its PlayStation Network so as not to “bewilder” its customers. The report, submitted to the Japanese government and obtained under a freedom of information request, says that SCE…
In 2008, Asami Sakurada (above, red beret) was unknown. She spent that September dressed as an Xbox Event companion at the Tokyo Game Show. Even in early 2010, she was doing booth companion work, appearing at AOU arcade show in the Konami booth. But by late 2010, she had a huge fan base, TV appearances,…
Some specific details on the graphics chip powering the upcoming Wii U console have been reportedly obtained by Japanese site Game Impress Watch, who say that while it’s running on “old” hardware, it still packs more of a punch than its current competition. While the exact name and nature of the Wii U’s GPU are…
Last month, there were reports that an “unnamed Electronic Arts studio” already had new Xbox hardware sitting on its desks. EA swiftly denied the rumours, but now another British source is saying almost exactly the same thing. What makes this particular report interesting is that the source in this case is alleged to be from…
Iron Chef, a Japanese cooking show that began in 1992, has quite the cult following in certain Western countries thanks to years of dubbed episodes and re-runs. It wound up in 1999, however, leaving talismanic host Takeshi Kaga needing a new gig. And he found one in Pokémon If you’ve never seen it, Iron Chef…
Kotaku readers! How are you? Would you care to join us in tonight’s open thread of random chitchat and maybe even some video game conversation to end your day? This is the off topic thread in which to do it. So let’s do it! Since it’s Tuesday, we like to have a theme to these…
Gears of War‘s developers certainly didn’t invent “Horde Mode.” But Epic Games, creator of Gears, is lucky in that every other game developer who copies their popular multiplayer mode gives the studio credit for it when showing off their own take on Horde. Gears of War 3 design director Cliff Bleszinski is the one that…
You may have missed your chance to purchase shooter Crysis 2 on anything but EA’s new Origin service, the re-branded EA Store that aims to go head-to-head with the likes of Valve’s Steam platform. Crysis 2 has been yanked from Steam, with EA saying it’s now available “only on Origin.” Well, sort of. While Steam…
I’ve never killed a man. Team Ninja leader Yosuke Hayashi says he’s never killed anyone either. Despite that inexperience, he is confident that his next game, Ninja Gaiden 3, accurately explores what it means to stick a Japanese sword into another man’s body and extinguish his life force. “For us, we’re Japanese developers, we know…
LOS ANGELES, CA | A gamer plays a war game on the jDome during the Electronic Entertainment Expo on June 7, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. More than 45,000 people are expected to attend the annual three-day convention to see the latest games and announcements from the gaming industry. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Hitman…
Now that Nintendo has revealed the Wii U, it needs to snatch up a bunch of Wii U domain names, lest some squatter claim WiiUMusic.com (or worse). No surprises here, but they’ll perhaps lessen the shock of a Wii U Play or Wii U Sports in our future. [Nintendo World Report]
The North American PlayStation Store update has arrived. We’re back in the swing of things, with new games, new add-ons for games you already own and things to buy cheaply with your PlayStation Plus account. Perhaps the most notable new entry is Outland, the Ikaruga and Metroid inspired platformer-adventure from developer Housemarque. It is not…
LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation Vita does neat things with Sony’s new hardware, adding double touchscreen controls and gyroscopic tilt tricks to now familiar Sackboy jumping and swinging. But the Vita take on LBP is capable of more. Media Molecule showed us the non-traditional platforming things Sackboy and LittleBigPlanet game creators can do with the next…
On the final day of E3, Kotaku intern Michael Epstein and I were running on fumes. I couldn’t hold a camera still and he couldn’t z-target. Nevertheless, we endeavored to play all three parts of the E3 2011 demo for this year’s big Wii game, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Please forgive the shakes;…
Publisher Electronic Arts is making a big move in the online retail space, revealing its new digital distribution effort and Steam competitor Origin earlier this month. But the company still believes in brick and mortar—enough to open up its own retail stores, one of which will launch later this year. Chris Erb, VP of brand…
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