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Ico Creator Fumito Ueda Wants To Do a… Zombie Game?

You might know Fumito Ueda for his two excellent and massively popular adventure games, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. He is currently busy (and has been busy for a long, long, long time) working on a spiritual successor, The Last Guardian. But what comes after that? Zombies, apparently. Ueda recently described his plans for…

Wing Commander is once again complete. With today’s release of Wing Commander: Armada on GOG, each and every title from the classic space sim series has now been modernized for today’s PCs. Well, except for Wing Commander Arena. But it’s probably better that way.

The Japanese voice track and lip sync animations will be available as DLC for the English version of Lightning Returns The pack, per the latest announcement from Squeenix, will be free to download for two weeks after release, after which time it becomes paid DLC. Above is the newly-released “special effects” trailer.

Elves Make the Best Flight Attendants

Middle-earth is spilling over into New Zealand. Again. Air New Zealand is back with another excellent Middle-earth-themed commercial, showing a day in the life of an airport where people get busted for smuggling mithril gear, dragons selfishly occupy hangars with all their gold, and elven employees are routinely discriminated against for their looks. I mean,…

Decades of Horror Game History, Condensed into Three Gory Minutes

I love this, but where do I go to complain about the lack of System Shock 2? NOTE: This video is NSFW. It is also not for the squeamish. Lotsa gore in here, folks. The short was created by a UK-based three man group to accompany their Kickstarter for a documentary series about horror video…

11 Minutes of Lightning Returns: FFXII For Your Viewing Pleasure

The fine folks over at Japanese news site 4Gamer.netmanaged to get their hands on the shortly-releasing Japanese version of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. So, of course, they immediately went and captured some footage for the rest of us. So without any further ado, above’s eleven minutes of gameplay from the next Final Fantasy. 4Gamer…

Probably The Weirdest Sandbox Game I’ve Ever Seen

It’s called UemeU (pronounced “You Me You”). It’s currently in development for PC. And, uh… I’m not entirely sure what it is. I mean, I see that you’re supposed to build stuff with it. The video shows the developers building a bare-bones version of Erebor from The Hobbit. But it’s not just building, there’s modelling…

Why on Earth Do Action Figures Need Trailers?

This is a great-looking Sonic diorama, make no mistake. It’s just… why is there a trailer? The inappropriately energetic rock music, the silly effects, the weird-as-hell vibration—ugh. The video does have “informative” in its title, and I’ll give it that, it is a rather informative video. But you can get all the same info from…

Kingdom Under Fire II Is Still on the Way. Honest!

RTS-MMO hybrid Kingdom Under Fire II has been in development for a long time. A long, long time. So long, in fact, that some people might be giving up hope—well, don’t. We’ve got some news for you. At South Korea’s G-Star gaming convention, Korean news site inven (via tipster Sang) managed to snag an interview…

“I feel terribly sorry that I have kept my audience waiting for such a long time.” Fumito Ueda, creator of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, talking to Edge about The Last Guardian and its various delays

Shadowrun‘s Berlin Expansion Lands in January, Adds… Quicksaves?!

Well it’s about damn time Yep, a save-anywhere function will be patched into indie RPG Shadowrun Returns around the time its newly-revealed, so-far-only-teased expansion lands, as perthe latest announcement on the game’s Kickstarter. We were fairly annoyed at the game for not having a quicksave feature, so of course, this is excellent news. Look at…

Let’s Compare The New Zelda to its 22-Year-Old Ancestor

Link to the Past has aged quite well, wouldn’t you agree? What we have here is a direct, side-by-side comparison of the new handheld Zelda game, A Link Between Worlds, and its predecessor, the now almost 22-year-old Link to the Past, courtesy of The Bit Block. There’s a stark difference, to say the least, but…

Final Fantasy X & X-2 Out for PS3 on March 18

Squeenix has revealed the Western release dates for of their upcoming HD remasters for FFX and FFX-2 Both North America and Europe will be getting the games in March next year, on the 18th and on the 21st, respectively. In Japan, the compilation is still set to release in late December. We also have two…

The Ragnarok Creator’s New Game Will Have 80 Classes. Eighty.

Hakkyu Kim, who a long, long time ago created the crazy popular MMORPG Ragnarok Online, recently took the show floor over at South Korea’s G-Star convention to talk about his new game, Tree of Savior—a game that will no doubt drive altoholics insane with its huge amount of classes. According to Korean news site inven…

If Pokémon Were a Musical Set in College

Oh my, would that be awesome. This insanely catchy musical number is the product of a labor of love between several YouTubers, Pokémon fans, and talented singers, and shows us what a real-life Pokémon University would look like. Or rather, what a Pokémon-themed, actually watchable High School Musical would look like. Quite a step up…

Legolas Meets His Ultimate Enemy… The Friend Zone

Alas, poor Legolas All he wanted was to be a happy couple with Freckles Tauriel. But nope, “brother she’s never had.” Truly awful. The Brotherhood Workshop, responsible for the excellent LEGO version of The Hobbit’s trailer, this time went more a more focused short about Legolas’ love life… or lack thereof. To be fair, he…

Here’s an Unsettling 8-Bit Horror Game. Sleep Well!

This is Survival Horror Story: Catequesis, an 8-bit horror game with religious undertones. It’s… pretty scary. Above we have the newest trailer for SHS, which, as you might recall, stars Daniel, a boy trying to rescue his girlfriend. As you can see, the game is aiming for a good, dark atmosphere rather than graphical fidelity.…

Watch Dogs Comes to Life in a Wildly Impressive Fan Flick

For me, watching this is like seeing Watch Dogs’ trailer for the first time again Seriously. This fan film is as good at hype as the trailers. We have the group Infectious Designer (whom we featured before) to thank for this awesome, awesome flick, which depicts a typical day in the life of Watch Dogs’…

Need a PS4? Buy One at Sony’s NYC Launch Party

New York City Kotakuites, take note. The Standard, High Line hotel in Manhattan, previously home to the big PS4 review event, will be the site of Sony’s official PS4 launch party in NYC. There will be shenanigans. And actual PS4s—444 of them, in fact. Sony’s just announced that starting at midnight on Friday, people with…

The Assassin’s Creed movie just can’t catch a break. After being pushed back from its original release date of May 22, 2015 to June 19, the movie has once again been delayed by almost two months, to the 7th of August, 2015.