http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com/tag/dead rising http://kotaku.com/tag/dead rising Chalk this up as Japanese developer minutia, but Keiji Inafune, creator of Dead Rising and Onimusha, pulled a muscle in his calf while playing tennis. Recovery will take a month. More »
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First there was Frank, then there was Chuck. Now, in the next Dead Rising, there's Rick, a mechanic holding out against the zombie apocalypse in Los Perdidos. That is according to an unnamed source speaking today to Siliconera. More »
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With an entire shopping plaza / casino / amusement park at his disposal, one would think Dead Rising 2 Off the Record's Frank West could come up with something better than a cardboard helmet. More »
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Capcom has teamed up with those magical people at Gaikai to deliver a 30 minute timed demo of Dead Rising 2 that runs in your Java-enabled web browser. Ain't technology a thing? More »
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Aww, I thought we were done with this, publishers? Charging for cheat codes was the craze sweeping the nation in 2007-2009, until even EA, who helped start the trend, realised it was a little beyond the pale. Guess Capcom never got that memo! More »
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The original Dead Rising featured a full set of Mega Man armor and a functional Mega Buster. Well, if Capcom's bringing back Frank West, why not bring back a Mega Man costume? So they did, with a twist. More »
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Capcom makes all of my zombie killing dreams come true this weekend as they reveal the all-new sandbox mode for Dead Rising 2 Off The Record at PAX, finally setting players loose into the undead apocalypse with no timer to hold them back. More »
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Dead Rising's Frank West is a photographer. He's covered wars, you know. Not only that, he's taken snaps of a zombie outbreak. Who better to learn camera tips from? More »
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Well, it's a social game. But that's not unexpected—Keiji Inafune already said he was working on a social game. More »
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Though complicated and convoluted, Portal 2 takes one solid idea and runs with it until the very end. In today's Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Fernando Jorge wonders why more games can't follow in Portal 2's footsteps. More »
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Turn off your computer sound. Right now. This clip's audio quality (and picture quality) is horrid. However, it does show off a special attack, the likes of which gaming has never seen. More »
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Animator Lee Hardcastle made this short, which was shown last night at Cannes Film Festival. You might be familiar with Hardcastle's last short, Chainsaw Maid 2. He even once did a music video in Mario Paint. More »
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"I was all bloody," Keiji Inafune said recently. The game developer, best known for titles like Dead Rising and Mega-Man, was recalling a time before he made video games, the time he was in junior high school, growing up in one of Japan's toughest areas and getting punched. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5802208&view=rss&microfeed=true Former Capcom developer Keiji Inafune said recently at Ritsumeikan University that there was a time his old studio had a rule that 70 or 80 percent of games were sequels and the rest new games. New games weren't usually approved—something Inafune hinted to Kotaku in 2006 when he said Capcom rejected both Dead Rising and Lost Planet. [ファミ通] More »
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Hyperdimension Neptunia, a game that should have been more exciting, is getting a sequel. With very young girls. And Keiji Inafune. More »
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Dead Rising games have always been difficult, but gamers haven't always been happy about that. What's a fair way to make a game tough, and what isn't? With each new Dead Rising release, the game creators at Capcom have been tweaking their answer and reconsidering what players want. More »
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There's a difference between dead and lifeless, as this iPhone port of Dead Rising unfortunately demonstrates. More »
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Lemme tell ya, I have, that game was called "my third marriage." Hey-oooo! But seriously folks, the ESRB summary for Dead Rising 2's DLC mentions a wieldable sex toy. I thought that was the paddlesaw! Bang, pow, zoom ... More »
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Zombie horror game Dead Rising was inspired by George Romero's zombie horror films, like Dawn of the Dead. But that wasn't enough! Former Dead Rising producer Keiji Inafune made his first — and last — film for Capcom, Shibyou Osen DEAD RISING. More »
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Keiji Inafune of Mega-Man and Dead Rising fame made no secret that he hated his job. Late last week, the game designer finally left Capcom, a company he worked at for 23 years. The developer's Osaka headquarters says why. More »
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When Keiji Inafune leaves Capcom, his blog leaves the internet, it seems. Late last week, the famed game producer stated he was leaving Capcom and Capcom subsidiary Daletto. His blog won't be up for posterity. More »
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Capcom spent the week and a half following Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune's resignation from the Japanese developer reassigning producers to his games and reorganizing the company, Capcom told Kotaku today. More »
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Guess Capcom legend Keiji Inafune wasn't kidding around when he said he hated his job : the Capcom exec said today he's leaving the company he's been with for 23 years at the end of the month. More »
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Keiji Inafune produced Dead Rising, which is influenced by George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. It wasn't just that classic horror flick that inspired the creation of Dead Rising. More »
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At last, a meeting of masterminds at Comic-Con New York. That's Keiji Inafune, creator of Capcom's Dead Rising series, and none other than Bruce Campbell, the iconic actor of The Evil Dead and other pillars of the zombie-film genre. More »
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In a recent interview, Capcom's Keiji Inafune (of Dead Rising and Onimusha fame) talks about the impossible, doing the impossible and how that makes game developers grow as people. He also says he hates his job. More »
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Dead Rising is headed to the iPhone for the holidays, bringing with it the ability to beat up zombies with a wide assortment of objects, but not, it seems, the ability to separate zombie limb from zombie body. More »
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In the last couple of years, Keiji Inafune (Dead Rising, Mega Man) has become a somewhat controversial figure in the Japanese game industry. That's what happens when you say things like the Japan makes "awful games". More »
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If you have played any of Hideo Kojima's games, you have probably noticed the "A Hideo Kojima Game" title card. Other game designers have started using this type of crediting. The MGS creator, however, contests that he actually means it. More »
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When Frank West departed at the end of Dead Rising, so too did the game's amusing photography mode, which is absent from Dead Rising 2. Now that Frank's back in Dead Rising 2: Case West, so too is the picture-taking. More »
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Dead Rising may not be the hit in Japan it is overseas, but Capcom's ads for the home market are better than anything we've seen in the West for the game. More »
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British firm Head First, not content with designing the front cover for the upcoming Dead Rising 2, figured a more enjoyable way to commemorate the game's release would be to build a replica of protagonist Chuck Greene's dirt bike. More »
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A blurry "photo" that's appeared on Dead Rising 2's Tape It Or Die blog shows the game's protagonist Chuck Greene getting a little help from a journalist who has been known to cover wars. More »
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And it's like zombie horror game Dead Rising, but with a samurai. More »
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At last year's Tokyo Game Show, Capcom's Keiji Inafune (Mega-Man, Dead Rising) famously declared that the Japanese game industry was "finished". It was a wake-up call. But Japan, he says, still slumbers. More »
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Greene's Hardware in Seattle has a special on katanas this weekend - two for $309.99. You can also find values on dynamite and mayonnaise. What the hell is this? A pretty awesome Dead Rising 2 community event at PAX. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5625875&view=rss&microfeed=true Good news, everyone (in Europe and Australasia)! Dead Rising 2's release date in these regions has been brought forward to September 24. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5609962&view=rss&microfeed=true The first three episodes of Zombrex Dead Rising Sun, the movie inspired by Dead Rising and directed by Mega-Man creator Keiji Inafune, is now available on Xbox Live for free. More »
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That's what Dead Rising 2 co-producer Shin Ohara reckons, anyway. More »
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At Comic-Con, a trailer was shown for the upcoming TV adaptation of the brilliant comic series The Walking Dead. Nearly every scene shown is lifted directly from the comics. Except for one, though it still looks familiar. More »
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