Remember Me might have a future after all. [Update] Dontnod Entertainment—the developer for the Capcom-published action game has filed for bankruptcy, according to various French video game news sites has entered judicial reorganization. The timing's a bit weird, as Remember Me has just been announced as one of the…
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I wasn't sure that I was going to write about the race of Remember Me's heroine because I wasn't sure there'd be anything to write about. And after having played the game, I can say that Nilin's ethnic make-up plays no part in the world-building of the new Capcom adventure.
Remember Me's creative director talks about the game's female protagonist, who caused some publishers to lose interest.
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A video game about memory manipulation. Simple Minds' hit 1985 single. A pairing of Capcom's Remember Me and "Don't You Forget About Me" seems so stunningly obvious that a tweet from writer Jordan Garland must have come from the collective unconscious of us all:
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One of the oddest parts of Remember Me, which I checked out on Tuesday and liked, was this bit at the very end of my hour-long demo. As Nilin made her way through the game's second level, the malls and apartments were all playing ads for this famous bounty-hunter dude who, surprise surprise, turns up at the end as a…
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The futuristic, memory-remixing action game Remember Me captured our attention when it debuted last summer, and I've been curious to play it ever since. A game about a kickass lady memory-thief who lives in a dystopian future-version of Paris? Sounds good to me.
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After yesterday's preview event, Capcom sent along some cool new concept- and landmark-art from their upcoming adventure game Remember Me. I was impressed by my time playing the game, but I didn't have time to include all the art, so I thought I'd toss it up here. Take a gander, and check out some of our past galleries
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Frenchman Paul Chadeisson is a concept artist who has worked on games like Shootmania, card games like Star Wars Galaxies and cartoons like Tron: Uprising.
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Capcom's big GamesCom surprise, futuristic action game Remember Me, has one of the most fitting titles in recent memory, given the fact it was actually first unveiled last year. With, of all things, concept art.
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Last year, my favourite "game" of GamesCom had the working title Adrift. Set in a desolate, bleak vision of a future Paris, it was all about the trading of memories and some very sexy concept art.
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Why, right here of course, in the latest instalment of Fine Art, Kotaku's daily look at the concept art of video games.
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Look out! It's a special Gamescom edition of Fine Art! And when we're talking about Dontnod's Adrift, fine is the optimal word.
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Warning: the "game" I saw today wasn't much of a game at all. All I saw was some concept art, all I heard were some basic outlines of gameplay and a very detailed description of the game's universe.
