Sony’s released a slew of games on the PlayStation Store. This update is a whopper! Loads of content, loads of games, loads of loads. To mark the launch of the PSPgo, there are over a hundred new PSP games that are available as well as PSP minis. Here’s the rundown, courtesy of the PlayStation.Blog: Updates…
The Japanese population is shrinking. That doesn’t have much to do with video games, now does it? Or does it? BBC newsperson Robin Lustig has a post up titled “Is Japan a dying nation?” Here’s the rub and the game connection in his piece: I’m no social psychologist, so I wouldn’t dare to come up…
When some violent games are released in Japan, they don’t make it to The Land of the Rising Sun with all their violence intact. So red blood might be changed to green blood and the ability to kill innocent people might be cut out all together. The blood-free Tokyo Game Show trailer for the Japanese…
With Resident Evil 5: Alternative Edition, Capcom is bringing RE5 to the PS3 with new content and PS3 Wand controls. Starring Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield, the new mission is another 2 hours of content and takes place three years before the main plot line of Resident Evil 5. The updated version of RE5 will…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Uncharted 2: Beaten! Luke Plunkett is getting married — to another person, even. Congrats! Wonderful happiness. Delightful. We are overjoyed for Mr. Plunkett and the soon-to-be Mrs. Plunkett. Fantastic good vibrations all around!! Because Luke is getting married, he is, like most married people, going on a honeymoon. He’s going…
Dubbed “Osu! Phoenix Wright“, this home-made PC rhythm game takes its cues from the Elite Beat Agent rhythm games — with some added Phoenix Wright and awesome. There’s Queen, too. Queen makes everything better. Osu! [Official Site via GoNintendo via GameSetWatch]
Next Spring, Capcom is bringing Super Street Fighter IV to game shops. It, however, won’t be bringing the game to arcades. “So, unfortunately, I’m sorry to say to arcade fans out there: there won’t be an arcade version of this,” Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono told website GamesReactor. I think a lot of people…
This December, Final Fantasy XIII will hit Japan on the PS3. The release date is December 17 — so how long would players need to finish the game? A week? Those who can barrel through the title on the quick might want to pre-order the ¥7,980 (US$88.88) title through retailer TSUTAYA by September 30. That’s…
As an addendum to our feature on booth companion uniforms, here are more photos that examine the outfit close-up. There are bonus photos of the outfits the male staffers wore as well.
Besides being used in robotics, stepper motors were sued to read and write floppy discs back in the day. They can also be programmed to make noise — musical noises. Here, three stepper motors have been programmed to play the Super Mario Bros. theme song. *applause* The Super Mario Bros. theme song, played by 3…
Heroine Kaine in the upcoming Cavia-developed, Square Enix-published RPG NieR is a male-female character that gives players the best of both worlds. This latest screenshot is revealing a little too much, some claim. Various Japanese sites are stating that this Kaine screen shows off the character’s areola. Embarrassing enlarged screenshot below. Breasts in gaming have…
Capcom’s newly announced Super Street Fighter IV features not only favorites like Dee Jay and T. Hawk, but a new character as well. A new character like South Korean fighter Juri. There is a reason for Capcom including a Korean fighter, it seems. Producer Yoshinori Ono explains that while making the arcade version, the president…
Next January, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, the animated film based on the Professor Layton puzzle games, will be released in Japan. To hold everyone over until then, here are images from the flick. The movie will be produced by Japanese studio TOHO and will get an entirely new story drafted by Level 5…
Part of the charm of Fat Princess is how bloody drenched violence is contrasted with cute characters and cake. That charm, it seems, does not translate to the Japanese market. The game, retitled Pocchari Princess (“Cubby Princess”) for The Land of the Rising Sun, is getting a domestic Japanese release on the PSN and the…
Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man, X-Men, the Hulk and the Fantastic Four, among many other characters, is no spring chicken. He’s 86 years-old. But if he was a youngster, would he go into comic books? “If I were young now and I wanted to do stories,” Lee told The Guardian, “I would very much want…
While we knew that there would be yet another Resident Evil movie, it wasn’t official-official. Now it is. Website ShockTillYouDrop report that the Screen Gems and Constantin Film have officially announced that production on Resident Evil: Afterlife has kicked off in Toronto, Canada. The film will be shot entirely in 3D and directed by Paul…
“They look cute,” says 20-something-year-old Takahiro Yamaguchi. “So cute.” He’s spent a good chunk of his day taking booth companion photos. “It’s not just how the girls look,” he explains, “but what they’re wearing. That’s what I’m taking pictures of.” Every year there are two shows at the Tokyo Game Show: the games that are…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: More than 1 Billion Served A billion — the mind boggles. I wonder how many words I’ve written since I’ve been writing at Kotaku. I wonder how many of them have been spelled correctly. :/ ……………..So last week I was in Tokyo. This week I am not, I am home.…
Remember L.A. Noire? It’s the 1940s-era detective game developer Rockstar first announced back in 2006. We’re not still hearing much, just rumblings of things to come. On the official Rockstar site, there is this blurb: “While we have yet to announce a definitive release date, L.A. Noire is coming along quite splendidly, and we’re going…
The Japanese box art for upcoming PS3 exclusive Uncharted 2 has been revealed. But how does it stack up with the European and North American box art? The Limited Edition Uncharted 2 box art on the left will be released in Europe (and North America, for that matter!), while the box art in the middle…
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