Kotaku: xenosaga

You Got KOS-MOS In My Tales Of Hearts

Mike Fahey — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:40:00 MST

Recently released in Japan, Namco Bandai's Tales of Hearts for the Nintendo DS features a slew of support-character cameos, including everyone's favorite gnosis killing machine, KOS-MOS.

Hearts features cameos from a wide variety of Namco Bandai's characters from previous Tales games, but KOS-MOS here comes straight from the ill-fated Xenosaga series, which towards the end featured some of the best cutscenes of any RPG anywhere, but little else. KOS-MOS jumps into play, showering your enemies with bullets before jumping back into the support character limbo off-screen. Poor KOS-MOS. Her time came too soon.

You Got Xenosaga In My Tales of Hearts! [Siliconera]

Xenosaga Figure Is 8" Of Hair, Norgs

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:20:00 MDT

Time for a Xenosaga figure. This one’s android Kos-Mos, from Episode III, and she’s brought to us by Sideshow Collectibles. Scheduled for release early next year, she’s going for USD$80, and stands just over 8” tall. Connoisseurs of Xenosaga, pointy hair and battle-ready cleavage will not be disappointed.

Xenosaga's KOS-MOS Gets Inappropriate Bikini Variation

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:30:37 MDT

Remember that scene in Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra when you and KOS-MOS went to the beach for a picnic and she packed a lunch and she was wearing that tasteful yet aesthetically fitting bikini and it was the best day ever? No? Really? Maybe that was from a fanfic I wrote.

No matter, as ALTER, makers of cute anime and video game character things readies this bikini clad KOS-MOS for the Xenosaga freak in you. Sure, it's total pandering, but you have to know your market. We call it the "lonely market." Importer NCS is taking pre-orders and we're accepting clicks into the gallery below.

Xenosaga Coming To A North America Near You

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:00:05 MDT

Anime Xenosaga is finally making its translated way to North America with a proper DVD release this way. Based on the PlayStation 2 RPG by the same name, Xenosaga is a sci-fi yarn that follows a scientist and his battling android babe KOS-MOS out to save mankind. Originally, the animation appeared on Japanese TV back in 2005. The release will consists of three DVDs with the first volume getting a September 11th release. Good to know. Brian Ashcraft

Xenosaga Release [ADV Films]

First Look At Wii Disaster

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:40:35 MST

Announced at E3 2006, Nintendo's upcoming Wii title Disaster: Day of Crisis has been kept under wraps (visually) since. Developed by Monolith Soft—famous for RPGs Baten Kaitos and Xenosaga—Disaster is marketed as "a panic-inducing survival game" which will see our hero Ray attempting to reclaim a nuclear weapon while avoiding a number of natural disasters.

This single screen features the promised (new word alert!) "roaring pyroclastic flow" and heaps of crotch pointing. It also gives us a good indication what "gripping visuals" means at the Nintendo marketing department. Still no word on a release date, but we'll assume it will occur sometime in the future. Michael McWhertor

Yasunori Mitsuda Performs At PLAY! Chicago Gig

brownlee — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:26:23 MST

Excellent news for our Windy City readers. Yasunori Mitsuda, the composer behind the soundtracks to Chrono Trigger and Xenosaga is going to be performing some of his works for the national PLAY! concert series in Chicago on May 27th.

As usual when Japanese men are held in deific awe by Westerners, the producer of the event uses the painful Miyage-like "Mitsuda-san" honorific to identify the accomplished game composer. That's okay, we've all made jerks of ourselves when gushing about artists we love. Quoth PLAY!'s producer: "To have Mitsuda-san come to the US for our premiere in Chicago is a dream come true. My hope is that the fans will come out and show their appreciation for the distance he has traveled to celebrate with us."

We hope so too... game composers are all too often overlooked as accomplished musicians. Any venue that allows their works to be appreciated by a larger audience thrills us. Go buy a ticket and show Matsuda he's appreciated if you're in Chicago in late May.

Yasunori Mitsuda's Music Joining PLAY! [1UP]