Tecmo is bringing motion controlled jubblie juggling to Ninja Gaiden Σ 2. We’ve seen what men look like playing with the special feature. But we really haven’t gotten a good look at it in action. And look at them — in action. We’re not quite sure what to make of this. Nobody really is. In…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Flight Really enjoyed the last Kotaku event I went to — always enjoy meeting readers, shooting the shit. Looking forward to Monday’s event, seeing people I haven’t seen in a while, meeting people I’ve never met. Good times, good times. I just know waking up Tuesday morning is gonna be…
Characters from SNK’s The King of Fighters series are appearing in a bullet hell style shooting game. The title was originally announced for Xbox LIVE, but its also coming to Japanese arcades this winter. Looks like, well, a shooter. Though, connoisseurs will want to know if this lives up to something from CAVE — heck,…
Team Ico’s eagerly anticipated upcoming PS3 title The Last Guardian has an English title. There must be a reason for that. Turns out, there is. Yasuhide Kobayashi, the VP of Sony’s Japan Studio, said at the DICE Summit Asia that the game was given an English title so it would appeal to the US and…
Besides arcade games, the Amusement Machine show has booth companions. They’re here to pass out info about said arcade games, help explain things. You know, be companions. So helpful. Today, the press day of Japan’s Amusement Machine Show kicked off, and Kotaku Japan was on hand to check things out. More pics in the link…
Last Ranker is an upcoming PSP game from Osaka-based developer Capcom. And boy, has Capcom ever assembled a team of talent for this title. The game’s scenario is being penned by Kazushige Nojima co-wrote Final Fantasy VII and scribed Final Fantasy X. Famed game composer Yoko Shimomura (Street Fighter II, Parasite Eve and the upcoming…
Maybe not better — the game’s already great — but better. "Yakety Sax", too. 癒し動画 「バトルフィールド1943 ロコロコ」 [オレ的ゲーム速報＠刃]
He loved it. The MGS creator was tickled pink. No, he was ticked octocamo pink. According to Siobhan Reddy from LBP developer Media Molecule, “In fact, when we were in the US late last year we were introduced to Kojima and he told one of the level designers that he loved the design of the…
Persona 3 is coming to the PSP as Persona 3 Portable. This time around the game’s hero is a heroine. Previously, we posted the game’s opening. Persona 3 Portable will be released in Japan on November 1.
You can’t make Natal games by yourself. Maybe you can, but Microsoft can’t. That’s why the company is hiring more people. Microsoft Game Studios is looking for artists, audio staff, devs, engineers and producers to be based at its Redmond, Washing HQ for upcoming Natal games. Since August, the company has posted 18 Natal job…
Next Monday we are having a Kotaku event in Shibuya, Japan. I will be there. Crecente, Totilo, McWhertor and Tim Rogers will be there as well. Other people, too! But how do you find the damn place? The Tokyo Kotaku Party will be held at Shibuya’s Trump House. There is no cover, and our event…
Actor Ernie Hudson might be best known for his role of Winston Zeddemore in the sci-fi comedy franchise Ghostbusters. But there is much more to the man that that. There’s Pokémon. Here, Hudson tells website Everything is Terrible! about his Pokémon card game strategy — just to make our heads exploded, we think. What, is…
Nintendo DS title Scribblenauts has players solve puzzles by writing words. The game has a database of tens of thousands of words — writing words causes objects to appear on screen. So what happens when you write “sambo”? You get what appears to be a watermelon. The word “sambo” is in the 22,802 wordlist we…
Games, that’s what. But what games? We’re less than a week away from this year’s Tokyo Game Show. Let’s have a look at what games will be on display: Bayonetta (PS3/Xbox 360) Puyo Puyo 7 (DS/Wii/PSP) The House of the Dead: Overkill (Wii) Chin Sports (Wii) Super Monkey Ball Athletic (Wii) J LEAGE Make a…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: And Then There Were Three I was going to write the sound hammers make when hitting something, but I couldn’t figure out if it would be “bang bang” or “dong dong” or “boom boom” or what. I think it would be “don don” in Japanese or maybe even “ton ton”.…
Nintendo Seal of Quality is going out on its own. The Kyoto-based company is splitting its quality control branch off into its own, separate company. The name of this Nintendo company is the appropriately named “Mario Club“. Contract employees and part-timers will see work conditions improve, and contract employees will become full-time, full-fledged Mario Club…
Game designer Phil Fish showed off his upcoming game Fez at the Austin Game Developer’s Conference. It was the first live demo of the game. Fish walk through some of the features we’ve seen before (2D game rotating through 3D space). However, game site Kombo reports that Fish did touch briefly on the plot line…
The Xbox 360 version of SNK’s 3D arcade fighter Samurai Spirits: Sen (aka Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny) has been dated for Japan. The game will be out December 10 and priced at ¥7,140 (US$78). It will feature new characters and online support. Developed by Tenchu developer K2 LLC, Edge of Destiny was released in…
Some men like boobs, some don’t. Ninja Gaiden Σ 2 has bouncing boobs in the game. This is probably what said men look like watching breasts go up-and-down up-and-down. Don’t miss the old man in the bathrobe with the glass of red wine. He’s relaxing.
There were a ton of games scheduled for this December, then then a big chunk of them moved to early 2010. Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot thinks those games will move again. Titles like Heavy Rain, Bioshock 2, Red Dead Redemption and Bayonetta were all moved to 2010. “We now have a situation where there are…
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