The critically-acclaimed 1997 adventure game, to be ported by French developer DotEmu, will be released later this year for iOS devices. Creator Jordan Mechner announced the news on his blog today. [Jordan Mechner]
Games like Tetris and Donkey Kong would be so much better with current-gen sound effects, wouldn’t they? Sound designer Jake Kaufman sure thinks so. He’s made this video to show off what old-school games would sound like if they were made today. It’s… unique. ULTRA NEXTGEN AAA Sound Design [YouTube via Reddit]
When game developer Chris Yee heard that Christchurch Cathedral was set to be demolished, he decided to rebuild it. In a video game. The cathedral, which was partially destroyed in an earthquake that hit the New Zealand city of Christchurch on February 22, was then slated for demolition. To commemorate it, Yee decided to rebuild…
Last night, Obsidian’s Chris Avellone tweeted an interesting detail about his roleplaying game Fallout: New Vegas “[Fallout: New Vegas] was a straight payment, no royalties,” he said in response to a fan question about the game’s financial success. “Only a bonus if we got an 85+ on Metacritic, which we didn’t.” Metacritic, an aggregation website…
Game reviewer Jeff Gerstmann, who parted ways with GameSpot five years ago after publisher Eidos took issue with his review of Kane & Lynch, has returned to his old stomping grounds. GameSpot parent company CBS purchased Gerstmann’s website, GiantBomb, today. GiantBomb will still exist as an autonomous publication. [Justin.TV]
Highly-anticipated hack-and-slash game Diablo III will be out for PC and Mac on May 15, developer Blizzard said today in a press release. You can pre-order the game on Blizzard’s website right now. The third game in the Diablo series, Diablo III will be available both in retail stores and digitally via Blizzard’s website for…
Obsidian’s ill-fated ‘North Carolina‘ game was slated for the next Xbox and published by Microsoft, according to sources familiar with the project who spoke to Kotaku today. Yesterday, after almost seven months of development, Microsoft cancelled the project, our sources said. Obsidian consequently had to let go of 30 people, as reported by several outlets…
This is the back of the box for Konami’s latest survival horror game, Silent Hill: Downpour, which came out yesterday for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Spanish translation reads: “¿quien puede parar la luvia?” This means: “Who can stop the rain?” Except it’s not “luvia.” It’s lluvia. Two Ls. Like Capcom before it, Konami…
Obsidian has let go approximately 20-30 people, Joystiq reports. Kotaku has also heard from multiple sources about the layoffs, which affect both an unannounced project and the developer’s upcoming South Park RPG. [Joystiq]
Using a Nintendo 64 emulator and a Logitech DFGT steering wheel, YouTube user welovelordtaco has beaten Goldeneye 007‘s Facility level in spectacular fashion. I don’t know why anyone would ever consider using a steering wheel to play a first-person shooter, but hey, we all have our hobbies. Goldeneye 007 Facility Challenge With A Steering Wheel…
Gaming magazine Game Informer put up an interview with Capcom Senior Vice President of strategic planning and business development Christian Svensson on its website yesterday that’s well worth reading. They talk a lot about several topics, including upcoming survival horror game Resident Evil 6 and the power of crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Svensson also had a…
Brian Fargo had given up. He’d spent the better part of the past decade pitching a game idea to publishers, only to be met by indifference and rejection. While he pitched and tried to sell his game, business executives would stare at their phones, texting. Barely paying attention. It was infuriating. The idea was for…
Like many of BioWare’s games, Mass Effect 3 is chock full of optional reading materials about its history and characters. It’s interesting, but it can be a chore to read on your television. Enter Mass Effect 3 Datapad, a free app that publisher Electronic Arts released today for iPhone and iPad. It’s designed to complement…
inXile is trying to raise $900,000 for the sequel to the 1988 post-apocalyptic RPG. We’ll have more details on this project tomorrow morning. [Kickstarter]
Meet Ellwood “Bunky” Bartlett. He’s a practicing Wiccan, a retired accountant, and the winner of Maryland’s Mega Millions jackpot, which netted him $42 million back in 2007. He also wants your money to help make a game. Using crowdfunding site Kickstarter, Bartlett is asking for $1.1 million to create Your World, a massively multiplayer online…
Well, you won’t like some of them when they’re angry. Check out this silly video created by animation group RedMinus to see what happens when you spend too much time teasing the goldfish Pokémon Goldeen. Goldeen Loves Guitar (Pokemon) [YouTube]
Many gamers panicked this morning when their Gamerscores—records of everything they’ve done on their Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles—zeroed out. Microsoft says not to worry. They’ve resolved the issue. “For those experiencing Gamerscore issues, please sign out and then back into your profile to resolve,” the company said on its @XboxSupport account. The account has…
GameStop has shut down rumors that a new Donkey Kong game is headed to Nintendo’s 3DS, telling Kotaku that display cases for the alleged “Donkey Kong 3D” were not official. “The displays were not supplied by Nintendo and have been taken down,” a GameStop representative told me this morning. “It’s definitely not in the system…
Capcom will bring a new Onimusha game to browsers this summer, it said Friday in a press release. Onimusha Soul, to be released “for PCs and smartphones,” will be out on June 28 in Japan. Here’s how the developer describes it, as translated by Capcom’s official website: “Onimusha Soul” is a Sengoku simulation RPG based…
What if controllers had feelings? What if every time you yanked a power cord, your console started to scream? What if your games could cry? By now you must have seen Peter Molydeux, the fake Twitter account that parodies legendary game designer and Fable creator Peter Molyneux, who recently left Microsoft to start his own…
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