Last week on a podcast, Microsoft’s Brian Hall mentioned “the new Xbox” while discussing products that his company will be releasing in the near future. But Microsoft now says he wasn’t actually talking about the new Xbox. Up until now, Microsoft has refused to confirm what we all know: there’s an Xbox 360 successor en…
No more distractions. It’s been four years since the last real Persona, and the people behind the RPG series want to release a fifth one. Speaking in this week’s issue of Famitsu, as translated by Andriasang, Atlus exec Katsura Hashino said the team has submitted illustrations and made progress on Persona 5. No word on…
Last week, we showed you the trailer for A Fistful of Rupees, the Zelda/Western mash-up directed by YouTube film group The Game Station. Here’s the full thing. Above is Episode 1 – The Wisdom. Episodes 2 and 3 are below. Enjoy. Episode 2 – The Power Episode 3 – The Courage
Over the weekend, the PC rerelease of Final Fantasy VII accidentally went live. People who bought the game found themselves unable to actually play it. To apologize for the mistake, Square Enix has told Kotaku that the company will offer refunds and free copies of the game to anyone who bought it early. Here’s the…
Remember Worms? That great old PC action game that’s been released and remade quite a few times over the past couple of decades? It’s coming to Facebook, and you can apply for the beta right here
Maybe you’ve heard of Final Fantasy. Maybe you’re familiar with some of the basics: shiny crystals, giant swords, dead Aerises. Angry teens. But you might not know much more about Square Enix’s massive set of role-playing games. They can be intimidating to newcomers, chock full of strange gameplay systems and confusing nomenclature. How can you…
Just a fake video made by a fake version of Peter Molyneux who says it’s the fake reason he left fake Microsoft. Enjoy. (via @petermolydeux)
THQ has cancelled work on horror game Insane and given all rights back to film director Guillermo del Toro. The company announced the news in an investor call today. Insane, originally slated as a trilogy, was first announced by THQ and del Toro back in 2010. Del Toro had been working on the series with…
Here’s video footage from what the folks at gaming archive website Nintendo Player say is an unreleased, R-rated prototype of the old Super Nintendo game NBA Jam According to Nintendo Player’s staff, who say they got the R-rated cartridge from an anonymous source, NBA Jam voice artist Tim Kitzrow taped some explicit lines as a…
After dodging many, many questions about the Xbox 360’s successor, Microsoft has finally confirmed what we’ve all known for years: there will be another Xbox. Windows Live general manager Brian Hall mentioned the new console to The Verge in a podcast last week “We did this- we’ve had Hotmail for- and operated Hotmail for about…
You’ll be able to play new versions of some old games on your PlayStation 3 soon. New collections of God of War, Infamous, and Ratchet & Clank are all coming to PS3 on August 28, Sony said today. They’ll be available “starting at” $30, Sony says. Update: Sony’s Cristian Cardona has taken to the comments…
Here are some fresh QuakeCon screenshots from Doom 3 BFG Edition, a remastered version of Doom 3 that will be out in October for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Although developer Id has promised that they’re all working full-force on Doom 4, we might not see much of that for a while. So at…
You’d think that the Konami Code would be a well-known part of pop culture these days, even if you’re not a gamer. It’s everywhere I’ll take that $7,000, BTW, since that guy clearly doesn’t want it. Thanks in advance.
Yesterday, I ran an op-ed asking the people who make and publish video games to talk more, to be more willing to answer gamers’ questions, to communicate rather than wrap themselves in a blanket of cold, corporate silence The piece triggered quite a few passionate reactions. Some agreed with my piece. Others spoke out against…
We are obsessed with numbers. We lap them up. We get immense pleasure out of watching digits decrease and multiply as we peer over bank accounts and scales and Vegas roulette tables. Japanese role-playing games feed off this obsession, pelting us with giant numbers like we’re targets at a carnival game. Over the course of…
A week full of bad news just got way worse for the people who make FarmVille: EA is suing them for copyright infringement. In the lawsuit, EA says Zynga’s The Ville “copied and misappropriated the original and distinctive expressive elements” of their game The Sims Social This isn’t the first time someone has accused the…
For sports fans, there’s nothing more powerful than superstition. Sometimes we wear the same worn-out jersey every Sunday. Sometimes we put good luck charms in our sneakers. And we never, ever, ever say something that might inadvertently jinx our favorite players. Unless we’re John Madden, who passionately declared in an interview with the Detroit Free…
Speaking at QuakeCon today, Id’s John Carmack said they’re hard at work on first-person shooter Doom 4 and it will be “done when it’s done.” He added that Id had shut down its mobile division—previously responsible for phone-based versions of games like Doom and Wolfenstein—to free up more staff for AAA games like the next…
Skyrim‘s Dawnguard downloadable content is out on Steam right now, Bethesda’s Pete Hines announced at QuakeCon today. You can buy it for $19.99. The PlayStation 3 release is still up in the air, Bethesda added on its blog today, because the company isn’t satisfied with how it’s running: We are not satisfied yet with Dawnguard’s…
Earlier today, game designer Ramiro Corbetta was kind enough to stop by Kotaku‘s offices and show us his new baby, Hokra. It’s a simplistic, one-button take on a sports game: you and a partner compete against two other players to get a ball into a goal and keep it there. It’s also quite fun, especially…
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