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more about #io9 Sarcasmancer: Fascinating read. I agree with your 2 hour and 10 minute deadline for super cool RPG and FPS plot point policy. I'm a little bit nervous about the ba... more » Friedhamster: How many people read all of what you write Tim? I get the feeling it's like... 5% from looking at the comments. I'm pretty new here but since that C... more » Random J: Cool read!! It made me think "Oh God...this game is going to suck..." at one point. But after I read the whole thing: I just had to admit "This is ho... more » LEOpirate: I cannot tell if Tim Rogers' verbosity is being used for good or evil: to act as a metaphor for how bloated the game's story is, or to show off his in... more » Friedhamster: I'm tempted to import. more » zeroshark: I really, REALLY enjoyed reading that. The world is lacking in intelligent, almost-but-not-quite pretentious humour, and Tim has brought it shining in... more » ryancoke: good writing Tim! more » totalnewbie: Good article. I think you made your point perfectly when you talked about how it's a good game but doesn't draw you in like FFVI did. I feel quite s... more » Covertghost: Kotaku needs to let you post reviews more often Tim. more » Master Update Exception: One of the best things to ever happen to Kotaku Tower was letting Tim in. If there's ever an article he's written, even if the subject is over somethi... more » skaven: Please Tim... I ask kindly. No more using the word 'lol' in your articles/stories. I can tell you like to use a very conversational tone with your epi... more » Gaff: As another "Real Adult" on the wrong side of thirty I'm actually excited that Square Enix trimmed the fat off this entry in the Final Fantasy series. ... more » bangbangblah: This sounds like a video game version of "The Road." But in all seriousness, it sounds like a lot was inspired by Crisis Core. This lack of towns is ... more » TrueCrime: So I clicked on this thinking, "Great! Someone at Kotaku has played through enough of FFXIII to tell us what the game is like!" Then I realized, "Oh, ... more » excel_excel: Well done Tim, brilliant article. Looking forward to XIII a lot more now! more » Pretty Sneaky Sis: That was a monster of a read, Tim. I'm looking forward to this game a lot, but it's hurting my soul to know there's no such overworld or no "town" dow... more » Soniking: Fantastic preview. You cleared up a lot of what I was asking about the game. Although when you look for answers sometimes you end up with more questi... more » Friedhamster: Tim, what does it feel like having over 62,000 people look at and read your article? Or that over 600 have commented. more » ForkInSocket: Great review for anyone who wasn't a zygote 15 years ago. FFVI and Chrono Trigger were special games, and this review captured some of that. I think... more » expansionsss - the jaded gamer: If theres no overworld map, its not a good FF, IMO. more » -
#impressions
Final Fantasy XIII Impressions: 15 Years Later, 25 Hours In
Well, I've played twenty-five hours of Final Fantasy XIII in the past few days, and the one thing I can say with confidence is that I sure have played twenty-five hours of Final Fantasy XIII in a few days. -
#interview
Spector Tells Us How Disney Epic Mickey Will Challenge Gamers
When Disney Epic Mickey hits the Wii next fall it won't rely on the console's latest technology to deliver its visionary experience. More » -
#feature
What Makes A Video Game Scary
How can a video game be scary? Unlike horror movies where you're stuck watching some hapless victim succumb to scary stuff, video games empower players to fight back. Or at least run away. It's October. Time to identify horror-gaming's essentials. More » -
#comiccon09
MMO Makers Market The Genre's Future
At the "The State of the MMO" panel at Comic-Con, five massively-multiplayer devs weighed in on the positive changes coming to the genre, lacing as much marketing into their answers as humanly possible. More » -
#feature
Kotaku's 2009 Summer Reading List
Summertime is here, and it's time to hit the beach, splash in the waves, and bask in the sun with a little ultra-portable gaming, courtesy of Kotaku's 2009 Summer Reading List. More » -
#kotakuroboto
The Three (Or More, Or Less) Laws Of Gaming AI
It's pure fantasy. Robots won't ever actually rise up and go to war with humanity. You know why? Because the robots of the future will be governed by Asimov's three laws of robotics. More » -
#theinternetstrikesback
BioWare Lifts Filter On Gay, Lesbian Star Wars Discussion, Issues Apology
Yesterday, members of the official Star Wars: The Old Republic asked developer BioWare to "rethink" its policy on filtering the words "gay" and "lesbian" from posts. The official moderator response was not exactly... elegant. More » -
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#hollywood
Liveblogging The Chun-Li Movie
On Friday, Hollywood flick Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li opens in theaters across the United States. We were given a screener copy of the movie by the movie's distributor. Lucky us! More » -
#multiplatform
Dead Rising 2: It's Real And It's Spectacular
We were pretty sure that Dead Rising 2 video was real on Friday, now we're positive, with Capcom officially announcing the game coming to PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. More » -
#impressions
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Preview: A Bloody Good Time
Has as good stand-alone Wolverine game finally been made? I tried out an early hands-on demo tonight of X-Men Origins: Wolverine at Activision's pre-New York Comic Con press event to find out. More » -
#impressions
New Wolfenstein Features Otherworld
What's this? A new Wolfenstein game? Yeah, apparently I didn't get the memo. Activision brought the game, simply titled Wolfenstein, along to their press event in NYC last night and showed off the latest build.
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#finalfantasyxiii
The Guns, Beauty and Cities Of Final Fantasy XIII
Here are a collection of still shots from the newly released Final Fantasy XIII trailer, giving you a closer look at some of the characters and enemies featured in the video. More » -
#prototype
Prototype Comic Launches on April Fools Day
Details for the upcoming Prototype comic book mini-series just hit DC Wildstorm's website.
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#starwarsbattlefrontiii
Here's Star Wars Battlefront III's Sith Kenobi
Oh man, oh man, oh man. This has got to be the coolest looking Obi-Wan Kenobi I've ever seen. More » -
#rumor
Leaked Star Wars Battlefront 3 Gameplay Footage
More leaks springing from the now dead in the water Free Radical, it seems. More » -
#whiteknightchronicles
White Knight Chronicles: The Box Art, The New Screenshots
It's a bumper White Knight Chronicles media update! Not only do we have a copy of the game's sublime box art, but a bunch of new screenshots as well. More » -
#theforceunleashed
New Campaign, Characters Coming to The Force Unleashed
LucasArts plans to release new characters and a new single player campaign set in the Jedi Temple as downloadable content for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed in coming months, Force Unleashed executive producer Haden Blackman told Kotaku. More » -
#theforceunleashed
The Force Unleashed Hits September
The Force Unleashed hits the U.S. on Sept. 16, Southeast Asia and Australia on Sept. 17 and Europe on Sept 19., LucasArts announced today. More »
