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‘A Co-op Submarine Roguelike In A Verne-Inspired Undersea Universe’
In fact, it’s a co-op roguelike “created under the mindset of having friends scream at each other.” Sounds fun! We Need To Go Deeper is a four-man multiplayer, somewhat FTL-like game based around exploring the deep sea, searching for treasure and trying not to die in the process. Well, FTL-like in the sense that there’s…
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Nintendo plans to introduce new gaming hardware in emerging markets, including China. “It would be difficult to enter those markets if we didn’t create something new… For the mass market you need to provide something that most of the middle class can afford,” president Satoru Iwata told Reuters
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: A Brief Q&A With the Creative Mind Behind Child of Light • Indie Is My New Triple-A • Anime No One Watched: SKET DANCE • Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy: The TAY Review • Rockmandash Reviews: Muv-Luv Extra & Alternative TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…
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Loading Human, the motion-controlled VR dream simulator for PC, is now on Kickstarter. Untold Games aims to collect $30,000 for their game, which has transitioned from Unity to Unreal Engine 4 (with pretty results, as seen in the vid above) and is now also approved for release on the PS4. Check out the campaign here
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Nintendo Reports a Loss of $457 Million, 3DS and Wii U Both Fall Short
Nintendo has published their numbers for the most recent financial year, and sadly, they’re not doing all that well. The company ended up with an operating loss of 46.4 billion yen, or $457 million, for the fiscal year ending in March, managing to move 590,000 3DS units and 310,000 Wii U units in the last…
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Fan Film Trailers Show A War-Torn Half-Life Earth
The pair of trailers are for a Half-Life short called “The Fall Down Of Evolution.” Created by Turkish director and VFX artist Tiber Ergür, it will tell the tale of a young soldier as he tries to survive the Combine invasion of Earth during the Seven Hour War—but for now, all we have is two…
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Sci-Fi Indie Platformer Wants To Be The Next Flashback
This one’s also inspired by Heart of Darkness and Another World—with the latter serving as inspiration for Flashback itself. You could say it’s a game inspired by a game inspired by Another World. But that would sound silly. The Way (no relation to the similarly-named classic RPG Maker Game) tells the story of a space…
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Player Housing + Hoverboards = An Awesome MMORPG Skatepark
Wildstar, the upcoming sci-fi MMORPG, doesn’t really take itself seriously. So even if you look at it as part the lore and setting, this skatepark just… belongs. Cerqua used Wildstar’s player housing system to build this spectacular skatepark, called the Galaxy Hoverpark, during the game’s last beta weekend. As you can see in the video…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Closure: What You Need To Know • Why I Love Visual Novels So Much, And How I Got Into This Insane Genre • Gameplay, Story, And You: The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts • Seven Quick Reviews TAY Classic—TAY Open…
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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: My Stepson Plays Video Games On “Easy” • What Video Game Features Would Improve Your Everyday Life? • Short Experiences in Terraria, Hotline Miami, and The Lone Survivor TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
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MDugarchomp is an appropriation artist from Boston with a penchant for Pokémon and modernist painter Charley Harper Her latest big project, a trio of posters, depicts the Generation I starter Pokémon and their evolutions. If you wanna see more, check out the rest of her stuff at Tumblr, Etsy and/or deviantART Appoképriation [Etsy, via r/pokemon]…
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This is Codemancer, AKA Programming 101: The Game. Basically, it’s a turn-based fantasy game designed to teach how programming works to kids or, well, pretty much anyone, with a combat system based on writing simple programs. It’s on Kickstarter, but it’s already funded, so expect to see it on PC in July next year.
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If I were the Doctor, I’d surrender too. Not even escaping to the Starbound universe could save the Doctor from the Daleks, who will hound him until either he or they are exterminated. (Redditor StarbounderBR is the one responsible for this fantastic build.) EXTERMINATE! [Imgur, via r/starbound] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every…
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Nearly Three Minutes Of Mario Kart 8’s Antics
Nintendo’s latest trailer for their upcoming kart racer gives us a glimpse at the various pretty new tracks we’ll race on, the items we’ll annoy opponents with, and… damn, that boomerang looks super irritating. The trailer landed alongside Nintendo’s big 36-minute Mario Kart 8 Direct, which you can seehere. It’s significantly heavier on the information,…
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Watch All Of Nintendo’s Mario Kart 8 News, Right Here
Nintendo has just dropped a new, over thirty minute long Nintendo Direct talking exclusively about the much-awaited Mario Kart 8. Segments are dedicated to new items and tracks, in addition to details about the game’s online multiplayer modes. Two brand new characters are also revealed: heavyweight driver Pink Gold Peach, and lightweight driver Baby Rosalina.…
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A Spectacular Deus Ex-Inspired Level, Made With Unreal Engine 4
I wonder if the next gamewill look anything like that. The picture up there was snapped by a certain Wiktor Öhman: 3D artist, CMO at Swedish game development tool maker Quixel, and creator of this splendid-looking futuristic office environment inspired by Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Öhman first posted about his creation over at the Polycount…
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