Year after year, Level-5 is one of the biggest draws at the Tokyo Game Show. Except this year. Level-5 will be at TGS, but it’s most likely to be a meeting room, instead of a huge booth like in year’s past. Instead, Level-5 is holding its own event, “Level-5 World”, in October in Tokyo. “I…
Another attendance record for Gamescom. This year’s show drew 275,000 visitors, organizers stated in an official release.
The Nintendo 3DS gets flack for not having a killer line up. And so far, it doesn’t. That flack is largely deserved, but it’s flack that will, over time, disappear. But until that happens, dig in Japanese 3DS owners. As 2ch pointed out, here are known release dates for titles between August and November: •…
Game designer Xander Davis recently started a new game design show on YouTube called “THINK TANK!” (his caps, not mine), where he sounds off on game design. Davis most recently did the UI art for Transformers: War for Cybertron and is currently working on a new CryEngine 3 action role-playing game. In the above episode,…
Namco Bandai established a start-up with Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA to make social games. Dubbed BDNA, the company’s funded by Namco Bandai (75 percent) and DeNA (25 percent). DeNA makes the popular “Mobage” titles in Japan. [IT Media]
Upcoming title Warhammer 40,000 gets a a handful of short trailers that should loop in newcomers and get old hands excited. The trailer is heavy on heavy armor, big weapons, bad guys, and blood. But even though, this is a third-person action game, it doesn’t feature a cover system, which has quickly become a standard…
Well, Professor Layton‘s creator, that is. Level-5 honcho Akihiro Hino is penning the new Gundam cartoon series, Mobile Suit Gundam Age Since Hino is known for his talky games like Professor Layton, there was a rumor that the Gundam in Age would actually talk. Hino called this a “misunderstanding”, and he added that the mecha…
Jenga and endless Jenga clones are popular enough in Japan for Mario to get into the mix. Called Super Mario Balance Block, the game is a spin on Jenga and has players use a Mario pointer to push the blocks out—there are also question blocks and mushrooms. But, like with standard Jenga, knock over the…
Japanese TV already has already seen upskirts (both failed and successful), but here we go, once more with feeling. This fall, Love Plus, that popular love simulator from Konami, is getting a 3DS version called New Love Plus. It has new features. Some of those new features, like the ability to stare at your Love…
In 1999, a thirty-one year-old voice actress under the name Suzuka Yuna voice one of the lead characters in Japanese erotic computer game Triangle Heart 2 In 2000, she voiced the sequel, and during the following decade, she launched a reasonably successful voice acting career. But by summer 2011, she was arrested for murder. Yuna,…
Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Portable is the portable version of Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai. It’s a PSP game. It was originally a light novel, and Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, which means “I Have Few Friends”, follows a mixed Japanese and British boy at a Catholic school having a hard time making friends.…
If you purchased the first edition of No More Heroes Red Zone Edition, you got some special content, such as the ability to move the camera around in a “Forbidden Viewer Mode” as well as four types of beam katanas. Starting on August 23, the content will available on the Japanese PSN for ¥1,000 (US$13).…
Q-Games is working on PixelJunk: Sidescroller, the latest PixelJunk title. The game’s gameplay looks bright and old school The game is as much about shooting stuff as messing with liquids. It will be out on the PS3’s PlayStation Network later this year. You can download it then. You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of…
Like that new Star Fox 64 3D footage? How about some new Star Fox 64 3D screens! Star Fox 64 was originally released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997. Star Fox 64 3D is a 3DS version of the title that was developed by Q-Games. It was released in Japan this past July, and it…
When Half-Minute Hero designer Kenichiro Takaki set out to create a 3DS game, there was one thing he wanted to see. Make that two. Boobs. And that’s pretty much what you get with boobs-and-ninja game Senran Kagura! Here’s the game’s opening animation, and it’s pretty much what one would expect: boobs! Senran Kagura goes on…
Rayman Origins features a battle of good versus evil, as well as some colorful platforming and puzzle solving. The game will be out this November on the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and 3DS. Next year, it will be released on the PS Vita. The game is a return to Rayman‘s 2D roots—his origins, if you…
In Never Dead, you can rip off your head and then throw it. In real life, you cannot do this. Well, at least I don’t think you can. In real life, you can listen to Megadeth, and if you are buying NeverDead, you’ll be doing just that because the band wrote the game’s theme song,…
Book of Memories is a lot of things apparently. One thing it is not is a traditional Silent Hill game. Goodbye psychological horror! Hello, ahem, co-op action. Previously, Kotaku posted the game’s screens You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking…
Make that Dues Ex themed guns and accessories, eight in all. There’s the Machina, the Diamondback, the Purity Fist, the Widowmaker, the Short Circuit, the Company Man, the Nanobalaclava, and Deus Specs. Simply pre-order Deus Ex: Human Revolution here, and get these TF2. More info and images in the link below. Team Fortress 2 Manno…
Satoshi Inoue is a comedian. That’s what has made him famous. But recently, he’s becoming better known for something else: An insane number of hours spent in Monster Hunter Monster Hunter is a series of games in which the object is to, well, hunt monsters. The games are popular in Japan, but less so abroad.…
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