While previous Professor Layton games have featured mostly static, two-dimensional puzzles, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask has more interactive, 3D fare. Which is appropriate, since it’s on the 3DS. THREE DEE. Miracle Mask is out this Sunday.
Or at least one goat. And a boat. And a world map! And lots of other delightful, charming content that the Paper Mario series is known for. Paper Mario: Sticker Star is out for 3DS on November 11.
At E3, Reggie casually mentioned (to Kotaku) that the newest Fire Emblem game will be coming to North America Thank god for that: footage from the game is looking wonderful. Fire Emblem: Awakening is out for 3DS in early 2013.
This is Shove Pro, a new game that is hitting iPad and iPhone this November. It… well, I think I’ll just let this silly trailer speak for itself.
2012 has been rough for the company behind FarmVille. Zynga has lost a total of $160 million during the nine month period from January to September 30, 2012, the company said in an earnings report today This includes a loss of $52 million over the past three months. Yesterday, Zynga laid off 150 staff and…
It comes full circle! What is it with Nintendo and Penelope Cruz, by the way? Do they have some sort of Penelope Cruz commercial quota to hit this year? Genuinely curious.
In a very unusual move, Capcom is releasing a free Resident Evil 6 patch in mid-December that will unlock the Ada Wong campaign—previously available when you beat all the other campaigns—for players right away. The new patch for the maligned horror-survival game will also offer new camera and subtitle options. Here’s Capcom: Capcom is pleased…
Yesterday XSEED Games released Orgarhythm, a hybrid real-time-strategy rhythm game that looks more than a little strange. If you’ve got a Vita, you can buy it on the PlayStation Network for 30 bucks. There’s a launch video above. And here’s XSEED PR’s description of the game: In Orgarhythm, players are tasked with protecting their god…
Late Saturday night, I finally finished Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, the game that’s been keeping me up every night for the past two weeks. I clocked 26 hours and 20 minutes. It was fantastic. As I played, I had been bugging Kirk non-stop. “Dude, you’ve gotta play this. You will totally love this game.…
Here’s a new trailer for the Vita remake of Persona 4, which Atlus will release on November 20. Anyone buying a Vita just for this? I’d totally consider it if I didn’t have one already.
On March 7, Apple announced the iPad 3. “Look how shiny it is!” Apple’s executives preached to a crowd full of cheering fans and press. “Retina display! Brand new graphics! You want one!” The pitch worked on me, and I bought one right away. Sure, it cost $600, but between the spectacular resolution, the impressive…
Surprise! Apple today announced a brand new fourth-generation iPad that will be significantly more powerful than the last one. Showing off the new hardware’s specs at a press conference today, Apple’s Phil Schiller said it will have a ten-hour battery life and significantly more powerful graphics than the iPad 3, which was released in March.…
I’ve written before about how RPGs parallel football in many ways, and how the ebb and flow of an NFL game mirrors traditional turn-based combat. So it was vindicating to see this great 1UP interview with Hiroyuki Ito, a veteran game designer and one of the engineers behind many of Square’s Final Fantasy games, all…
Today marks the release of lovely little adventure game Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, and if you think that’s a silly name, you’re not alone. For decades now, Japanese developers have whipped up a great number of video games with titles that seem more than bizarre to Western audiences. As an unabashed fan of Japan-made…
Aksys has confirmed that Amazon customers can now re-order Virtue’s Last Reward and get the pre-order bonus.
Found at The Atlantic, here’s a Pac-Man-themed kart racer cruising down a 600-meter track. Taken in Hong Kong, China during the amateur Red Bull Soapbox Race on October 14, this great picture is part of a larger Atlantic post that documents some scenes from China in 2012. People are going crazy over Pac-Man and his…
Isaiah-Triforce Johnson, who is actually named Isaiah-Triforce Johnson (I’ve seen his passport!), has made a name for himself as the first person to buy just about every piece of Nintendo hardware in recent history. He was the first to buy the Wii and the first to buy the 3DS. Now he wants to be first…
A pre-order mix-up has left a number of gamers upset at both retailer Amazon and Aksys Games, the publisher behind the great adventure game Virtue’s Last Reward On September 14, Amazon promised to ship the above rubber watch as a bonus to anyone who pre-ordered Virtue’s Last Reward, which is out tomorrow for 3DS and…
An advertisement in the official Borderlands 2 strategy guide says that the popular shooter series will come to iPhone and iPad by the end of October. The ad, first discovered by a Gearbox forum poster (and confirmed by Kotaku this morning), announces Borderlands Legends, an iOS game that “will blow your mind.” Here’s the full…
Japanese horror game Corpse Party pleased (and creeped out) a lot of Americans when it came out for PSP last fall—the morbid, horrifying adventure game is also surprisingly delightful. So it’s great news to hear that publisher XSEED Games is also localizing the sequel, to be digitally released for PSP this winter. Perhaps this is…
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