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crisis core: final fantasy vii

My Shin-Ra Electric Power Company ID Card

As you might have read earlier, I attended last night's launch of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII at Sony's Metreon Center in SF. While the lucky first hundred people got t-shirts, and some even won some great raffle prizes, anyone was allowed to go up and get their complimentary Shin-Ra Electric Power Company ID card. Being firmly in the "anyone" crowd, I stepped up to claim what will sure to be a valuable money maker on eBay some day. They snapped a quick photo and then we got to wait about twenty minutes while the thing processed and Voila... we were presented with our nifty prize in a little labeled envelope. As you can tell from my photo, I am an employee not to be trifled with.

8:40 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By fdemarco
8,317 views, 77 comments

Latest by mind in rewind: @beeporama (brian.j.parker): Whoa. How did I miss that? Oh well, at least I have a Team Zissou Intern t-shirt. more »

launch party

Launch Parties From Coast to Coast

Tomorrow (Wed.) will see the Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword launch party at the Nintendo World Store in New York City from 2pm - 6pm. The game's producer and director Yosuke Hayashi will be on hand to sign autographs and met and greet the crowd. If you purchase the game there you will be granted one of those nifty Dragon Sword Ninja styli. There will also be demo stations set up around the store so you can try before you buy.

Also, as I reported last week, tonight is the launch party for Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII at the Sony Metreon Center in San Francisco. The event goes from 6pm - 9pm and space is limited to 200 people.

And if that's not enough for you, our own Crecente will be attending and telling you all about his adventures at the Tecmo event in New York. Launch events, ho!

11:00 AM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By fdemarco
680 views, 13 comments

Latest by FallenAzrael: This is what I get for not F5ing all day. By the time I read this article and posted this comment, the Ninja Gaiden party was OVER. What REALLY kills me, is that my girlfriend works for Delta and can fly more »

industry news

Kuju Comes To America

One of Europe's leading independent game development companies is making the move to the U.S., as Kuju Entertainment announces the opening of Kuju America, they're first studio outside of the UK. The website for the new studio features a British flag emblazoned United States, coupled with the exclamation (warning?), "The Brits Are Coming!" The studio is located in beautiful San Francisco, convenient to a large pool of development talent as well as Kotaku weekend editor Flynn DeMarco.

Jonathan Newth, Corporate Development Officer of Kuju Entertainment, commented "The US, and San Francisco in particular, is a natural choice for our first non-UK studio. It's a hotbed of development talent, home to many leading publishers and some of the leading US games press.
Ah, so they've heard of Flynn! Excellent! Kuju America is already hard at work on their first title, which I'm sure they'll tell Flynn all about when they're ready.

Kuju America [Official Website]

8:20 AM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Mike Fahey
643 views, 14 comments

Latest by redneon: Oh, and let's not forgot SWOS. But that probably wouldn't be as much of a success overseas. more »

art

Video Game Inspired Mural: Now With Unicorns!

Whilst trudging through the rainy streets of San Francisco looking for an apartment, I decided to stroll down Clarion Alley in the Mission. I always like Clarion. It was a bit skeevy but people had decorated the whole thing with murals and it was always fun to head down there and have a little solitary street art time. Imagine my surprise when I turned the corner and the alley, still completely janky, was filled with people checking out the art. Seven years really changes things apparently. But, as I continued down I happened to see these two great video game inspired murals painted on two side by side garage doors. Personally, I prefer the first to the second (which you can see after the jump). It really makes me want to know when someone is going to make the shooting rainbow unicorns game. More »

6:00 PM on Sat Jan 5 2008
By fdemarco
4,050 views, 40 comments

Latest by CybaDelic: @ThisCharmingMan: Sorry, my bad ;) have a look here -http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease. Looks like the deer aren't directly affected but are being culled because of it. "Thin out their Numbers" :( more »

returns

Back in the Saddle

Well, I am finally back after my two weekend hiatus.That makes three full weeks since I have roamed the hallowed halls of Kotaku Tower. Thankfully, Ash swept my room in my absence and fluffed the straw on my cot so I would be comfortable upon my return.

It was an amazing trip across the country and between the stops at Graceland, catching sight of a 72oz steak, a 4lb hamburger and the Liberace Museum, I even managed to see some video game related things . Arcades in truck stops, game stations in fast food joints and the Spike VGAs, not to mention the myriad video poker machines in Vegas. Sure, you could argue that those aren't video games, but Xbox LIVE has Texas Hold 'Em which is basically the same thing. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Reporting to you live from my favorite cafe in San Francisco, I will be bringing you some of the stories from the road mixed in with the regular enormous dearth of news there always is on the weekends and especially around the holidays. Hopefully there will be something in there that will interest you.

I never really thought I'd miss writing twenty four articles a weekend, but damn it's good to be back

9:30 AM on Sat Dec 15 2007
By fdemarco
750 views, 23 comments

Latest by //shaunomacx//pirate king: welcome home flynn!! im lookin forward to more road trip stories, that one about the lady and the wii was very heartwarming and im so happy that you managed to make her christmas. :) more »

celebrate

Final Fantasy Celebrates 20 Years

If you're a Final Fantasy fan and reside in the San Francisco Bay Area, your dreams of going to a party celebrating the 20th anniversary of the long running franchise have just come true. More »

4:00 PM on Sat Jun 9 2007
By fdemarco
1,369 views, 22 comments

event

Halo 3 Impressions

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gallery

The Golden Compass Shown Off

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electronic arts

EA Here I Come

I'm heading off to Electronic Arts' Summer Preview in a bit here in San Francisco. More »
microsoft

Virtual Earth Not Exactly Global

ETech (short for "Emerging Technology") was going on for the last couple of days in San Diego (my brother just came back and commented on how "expensive" everyone looked). Microsoft sent their man, Dr. John Curlander, to present the technologies that made Virtual Earth, an application used to show 3D models of real cities. More »

9:40 AM on Fri Mar 30 2007
By Kim Phu
913 views, 17 comments

night note

Night Note: Still Haven't Found What We're Looking For

To: Crecente
From: Ash
Subject: Lost And Found More »
gd06

Gamer's Day 06 Here I Come

Sometime between taking off from Little Rock National Airport and landing at Denver International Airport I've managed to catch a vicious head cold, as in can barely hear vicious. Thank God for Dayquil. More »

6:09 PM on Wed Oct 18 2006
By Brian Crecente
33 views, 15 comments

michael jackson

The Common Themes of the Dreamcast

Courtesy of Game Set Watch comes this amazing gamer's thesis: A List of Common Themes in Dream-Cast Land. It's wonderful: what are these themes, these elusive metaphors? What Freudian aspects cast surreally upon them? According to Dreamcast Junkyard, they are the following: More »

10:40 AM on Thu Aug 17 2006
By brownlee
124 views, 7 comments

katamari

San Francisco Katamari March Photos

If you couldn't make your rotund way to last weekend's Katamari Damacy march in San Francisco, affixing to your sticky girth a potpourri of Americana as you rolled across the nation's highways, Kodak is hosting a beautiful gallery of photographs. Not that there was any doubt, but it looks like gaming geek paradise. Did anyone end up going? I envy you. How was it? Give me a report in the comments. - Florian Eckhardt More »

8:40 AM on Mon May 22 2006
By brownlee
114 views, 3 comments

brain age

Brain Age Invades San Fran Streets

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