Evidence of Rockstar Games reissuing crime thriller L.A. Noire later this year in the form of a “Complete Edition” has reportedly been spotted by Eurogamer Czech. That apparent re-release and the PC version of Team Bondi’s game are supposedly slated for November. Eurogamer cites its Czech counterpart in its report on the arrival of L.A.…
Cammy and Chun-Li settle their differences in this ass kicking Street Fighter illustration by Fung Kin Chew. Fight! Cammy and Chun-Li by Fung Kin Chew (deviantART) (Twitter) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission. Cammy and Chun-li by…
Ahhh, the weekend. The perfect time to build up ones poison resistance, fight flying fire-breathing spiders and climb down the rickety architecture of Blighttown. I am, of course, talking about playing more Dark Souls this weekend. What else? How about the Xbox 360 version of Dark Souls? Seriously, almost nothing—not even the Diablo III beta—will…
I’m now 24 hours into Dark Souls, the successor to 2009’s brilliant and challenging role-playing game Demon’s Souls. I have, of course, died many times in my struggle to become un-undead. I have killed a half-dozen of its major demons, explored deeply its open world, but have just barely begun to scratch its hard surface.…
The Katamari Damacy series just keeps on keepin’ on with one more entry, this one for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Katamari Amore is hitting iOS next week and arriving with a guest appearance from fellow Namco mascot Pac-Man Amore is the second Katamari game for iOS, following 2008’s I Love Katamari. It boasts…
Canadian artist Laura Bifano blends the organic and the pixelated in her series “Menagerie,” an exploration of 8-bit beasts with all the geometric detail of Minecraft and Cubivore fauna. Bifano says of the series of polygonal animal paintings that it was “inspired by my love of nature and classic video games.” Prints of the “Menagerie”…
Diabolical Pitch, if you haven’t been keeping up, is the horror baseball game for Kinect conceived by the oddballs at Grasshopper Manufacture. Kotaku saw it at Tokyo Game Show last week, but here’s your first official trailer for the most curious Kinect game. As you can see, you and a friend can battle hordes of…
Last we heard, From Software’s Demon’s Souls, the PlayStation 3 role-playing game with incredibly innovative online features, would keep its North American servers going until at least October 6, 2011, the game’s second birthday. Today, publisher Atlus says it plans to keep the Demon’s Souls online party goin’ into next year. “While it comes at…
Greetings, Kotaku readers. Can we interest you in some music-themed conversation tonight? May we ask… what are you listening to these days? Even if it’s video game soundtracks, this open thread full of off topic conversation is where it’s at. I’m in need of some fresh music suggestions, since all I’ve been listening to for…
The men responsible for YouTube’s most enjoyable video game moments (Real Life Mario Kart, Aimbot, First Person Mario, The Rocket Jump, etc.) are working on their most ambitious project yet. It’s called Video Game High School and you might help it get made. Hell, you might even appear in it. If you have way too…
Please, do not forget that this November’s Assassin’s Creed: Revelations has a multiplayer component—just like last year’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood—in which you’ll have ample opportunity to stab others in the back, eviscerate them from the front or take them out at the legs. What else can we learn from this all-too-short look at Assassin’s Creed:…
Japan’s love affair for all things Dragon Quest is clearly on display this week, as sales of the Dragon Quest Collection—or if you prefer its Japanese name Famicom & Super Famicom Dragon Quest I, II, III—crack a quarter million. Not too shabby! The first three Dragon Quest games for the Famicom and Super Famicom stuffed…
After a few hours offline, Sony’s PlayStation Network is back in working order. Sony tweets “If you encountered issues logging in today, try logging in now. Apologies for the inconvenience!” PS3 owners, you good to go?
GENZOMAN created one hell of a cover illustration for Screw Attack Magazine‘s Anniversary issue. Check out the alternative piece w/ full text here Related Rampages: Fantasy Street Fighter | Zelda (More) Metroid by Gonzalo Ordonez Arias / GENZOMAN Via: svalts Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s…
For the better part of the day, PlayStation 3 owners have been unable to take their consoles online via Sony’s PlayStation Network, a seemingly unplanned network outage that the company says it’s “working hard on restoring.” PlayStation Network service appears to have been interrupted early on Wednesday morning, with functionality still not restored. The company…
Kotaku people! Now that Tuesday is coming to a close, we’d better send it off formally with some off topic conversation. That’s what tonight’s open thread is for, you know? That and delicious, deadly eggs. That pic of fried egg skull comes courtesy of PopCap Games, or so I’m told, and has made me astonishingly…
While some of my colleagues may not be fans of the first Final Fantasy-based rhythm game for the Nintendo 3DS, I continue to hold out hope for Square Enix’s Theatrhythm Final Fantasy It’s not that I’m a Final Fantasy fan or obsessive about its music. It’s that I just love a good touchscreen-based rhythm game,…
The further animated adventures of Dirk the Daring, Hanna-Barbera’s 1984 Dragon’s Lair cartoon, is now available on a two-disc DVD set, thanks to Warner Bros. It’s early ’80s animated Dragon’s Lair fun, only without the rote memorization! [WBshop via EGM]
It’s a big week for old games on the North American PlayStation Store. Resident Evil 4, Saints Row 2 and even Altered Beast are new to PlayStation 3 owners who prefer to buy their games over the internet. But it’s not all re-releases and rehashes on PSN this week, with Cubixx, Bolt and Burnout Crash!…
EA hasn’t made it official yet, but odds are pretty damn good that there’s going to be a Dead Space 3. And the above video may represent our first scant look what the next Dead Space will be. The source of that possible proof of Dead Space 3‘s existence—in logo and concept art form—comes from…
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