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Let This 12-Minute Video Sell You On Virtue’s Last Reward
I wrote a bit yesterday about Virtue’s Last Reward, the fantastic adventure game that has been keeping me up every night for the past week and a half Today publisher Aksys released the English version of an animated 12-minute intro video created to show off the new visual novel, which is out for 3DS and…
By Jason Schreier Published October 19, 2012 -
This Dishonored Skin For Minecraft Is Pretty Damn Impressive
It’s tough to get really excited about Minecraft mods these days, but I have to admit this one got me. You can get the mod right here. And the map here Minecraft – Dishonored Mod [YouTube via PC Gamer]
By Jason Schreier Published October 19, 2012 -
The BioShock Infinite board game sounds pretty neat. Lots of stories, cards, dice, figures, and all that jazz.
By Jason Schreier Published October 19, 2012 -
How To Fix The Best RPG Series On The Planet
Suikoden is a video game series about destiny. About fate. About people who fight against near-insurmountable odds to accomplish things that shouldn’t be possible. So in a twist of morbid irony worthy of The Twilight Zone, this wonderful RPG series has spent the past 15 years embroiled in its own battle against fate, its own…
By Jason Schreier Published October 19, 2012 -
Yep, You Can Now Play A Game Where Mitt Romney Catches Women In A Binder
I don’t know what’s funnier about this new flash game: The concept, the garbled English header, or the fact that there’s an advertisement for Mitt Romney’s campaign on the right. Let’s just say all of the above.
By Jason Schreier Published October 19, 2012 -
The Creators Of Quest For Glory Want To Make A Western Version Of Persona
Will we ever get enough of Persona? The concept might sound bizarre—hardcore RPG meets lighthearted school simulator?—but the results are spectacular. It’s a winning formula, which might be why Corey and Lori Cole, the husband-and-wife team that created the classic Quest for Glory series, are using it for their brand new video game. A video…
By Jason Schreier Published October 19, 2012 -
The Game That’s Keeping Me Up All Night
Last Tuesday, I went to bed at around 10:30pm, hoping to get a decent amount of sleep. Maybe I’d wake up early, go for a run before breakfast. You know, try to be a human being Then I started Virtue’s Last Reward By 3am, I was shivering under the covers, jabbing my thumb at my…
By Jason Schreier Published October 18, 2012 -
The Next Game From The People Behind The Witcher Is Called Cyberpunk 2077
We’ve known for a while that CD Projekt Red, the folks who make those great Witcher role-playing games, are making a new sci-fi game. Previously codenamed “Cyberpunk,” it now has an official title. Cyberpunk 2077 It also has a new official website Here’s CD Projekt Red on their new cybery, punky game, which is based…
By Jason Schreier Published October 18, 2012 -
It’s Like Dungeon Keeper, But Uglier
Okay, I have mixed feelings about A Game of Dwarves, a new strategy-sim game that the folks at Paradox will release on Steam next week. On one hand, it looks like a lot of fun! You run a dungeon full of dwarves, sending them off to train and defend and research and mine and do…
By Jason Schreier Published October 18, 2012 -
Bravely Default Is Killing It In Japan. Hey Square Enix, Time To Bring It Here.
People in Japan like Bravely Default. They really like Bravely Default According to new numbers from Japanese sales tracker Media Create (as reported by Siliconera), Square Enix’s latest 3DS RPG moved 141,529 copies during its first week on the marketplace. There’s even talk of a sequel As Siliconera points out, Bravely Default beat out its…
By Jason Schreier Published October 18, 2012 -
An Insider From One Of Those Cold, Calculating Mega-Publishers Is Back To Answer Your Questions Again [UPDATE: Interview Over]
Back in July, we brought in an anonymous insider from a large video game publisher to take your questions and talk about the state of gaming as he sees it. He had some oft-terrifying, always-illuminating thoughts to share about the industry—”Gamers are absurdly entitled, but I think they got there because we ask so much…
By Jason Schreier Published October 17, 2012 -
The Wii U Version Of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Won’t Come With Elite
Call of Duty Elite will be free when Black Ops II launches this November, but Wii U players won’t be able to get their hands on it just yet. Activision told Kotaku today that Call of Duty‘s digital network will not be available on Wii U when BLOPS2 launches for PC and consoles next month.…
By Jason Schreier Published October 17, 2012 -
The Artist Behind Final Fantasy Just Wants To Draw Cute Girls
While speaking with Yoshitaka Amano, the legendary designer who created art for almost every game in the Final Fantasy series, I asked him about his dream project. Would he want to work on a direct sequel to Final Fantasy VI? Maybe a Dragon Quest game? Some sort of crazy Chrono Trigger spinoff? “Something with cute…
By Jason Schreier Published October 17, 2012 -
This Quirky Puzzle-Platformer Sure Looks Delightful
Looks neat, doesn’t it? This is Dokuro, a new puzzle-platformer by Game Arts (the Japanese dev behind games like Lunar). And it’s out for Vita today. Here’s Antonio Cara, community associate at Dokuro publisher GungHo Online, talking about the new game on the PlayStation Blog: As you progress through the treacherous castle, you are gradually…
By Jason Schreier Published October 16, 2012 -
Here’s The Video That Convinced Microsoft To Pay For Mark of the Ninja
You might wonder why Microsoft decided to publish Mark of the Ninja, an independently-developed 2D stealth game that looks and plays like very few other games out there. Today Kotaku can reveal the pitch video that Ninja developers Klei Entertainment showed Microsoft in late 2010 to get them to fund the game. You can watch…
By Jason Schreier Published October 16, 2012 -
The Reason This Game Was Rejected From The App Store Is ‘Nonsense’
Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh wanted to release his free game Don’t Look Back on the iOS store. It was reviewed by Apple’s people today. Then rejected, according to Cavanagh. Here’s what the developer tweeted this afternoon: Here’s the screenshot he linked: So remember, it’s totally okay to clone Mario or Torchlight or Canabalt or…
By Jason Schreier Published October 16, 2012 -
New Skyrim Patch Suggests That DLC Will Bring The Game Back To Morrowind
Skyrim‘s next DLC could be taking us back to the world of Morrowind, the third game in Bethesda’s popular RPG series. Eagle-eyed Elder Scrolls fans have dug through the files for patch 1.8, which Bethesda released yesterday for PC, and found all sorts of clues that could hint at future content for the game. One…
By Jason Schreier Published October 16, 2012
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