Not too surprisingly, it was a pair of Pokémon games for the Nintendo DS that sold better in Japan than anything else. Also not shocking is that the top ten games are dominated by titles for Nintendo platforms. Pokémon Black and White moved nearly 4.5 million copies in 2010, followed most closely by New Super…
Square Enix’s next Final Fantasy fighting game for the PSP will, at the very least, have some very handsome cinematics stuffed onto a UMD, as proven by the latest Japanese trailer for Dissidia 012 [duodecim] Final Fantasy. See new contenders and old favorites from Final Fantasy games new and old in the newest trailer for…
Adult dating sim My Girlfriend Is The President, the loli-political erotic adventure that piqued our curiosity last year, is getting an official release in English, so non-Japanese speakers can see what it’s like to “date” schoolgirls-of-state and alien ships. JAST USA will release a localized version of this erotic game curiosity for the PC in…
Blazing your way through the original Quake from 1996 in less than 60 minutes might not impress hardened speed run enthusiasts, but what about doing so while also nailing 100% completion in Quake on its hardest difficulty? That’s what the Quake Done Quick team has done in this speed run that’s almost too fast, burning…
Doctor Robotnik (Eggman) gets a realistic overhaul in this killer illustration by Great-OHARU. Sonic is in for quite a disturbing surprise! I am the Eggman by Great-OHARU 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.
Uncharted developer Naughty Dog has teased us with small doses of its latest, perhaps greatest PlayStation 3 game, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, but today there’s even more gorgeous, chateau-burning in-game action to savor. In all-new video, Nathan Drake and his mentor Victor Sullivan attempt to escape the confines of a flaming, dilapidated French manor, showing…
Sean Galloway threw down an excellent collection of Street Fighter character illustrations in his unique style. Related Rampage: Ironlad to the Rescue Street Fighter Busts by Sean Galloway (deviantART) (Facebook) (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.
How’s everybody holding up under the weight of all that snow? We’re talking to you, northeastern Kotaku readers and everyone else who wants to join in on some off-topic conversation. Things are cool and comfortable here in Florida, where blizzards tend not to happen. It’s a little frosty, but nothing tough video games media types…
The Wii release of Super Meat Boy is looking grim, but resourceful Super Smash Bros. Brawl hackers find a way to get the blocky man of meat into Nintendo’s beat ’em up. There’s not much meat to this clip showing off the Brawl hack, via Destructoid, but it goes to show you that Kirby is…
Brutal Legend makers Double Fine wish you a happy holiday, with visions of Stacking and Costume Quest under the tree, plus possible hints about the next two downloadable games coming from the developer’s “Amnesia Fortnight” project. Any guesses?
The first three months of 2011 are full of Musou flavor, courtesy of Dead or Alive and Dynasty Warriors publisher Tecmo Koei. It might also squeeze in a pair of Nintendo 3DS games, right around the 3D handheld’s launch. Tecmo Koei has at least three games arriving in North America by the end of March,…
A prototype version of The Legend of Zelda—or Zelda no Densetsu, if you’re a Famicom owner—has been released by the folks at The Lost Levels forums, a Nintendo curiosity that offers an early look at the NES classic. This version of the original 8-bit Legend of Zelda was for the Famicom Disk System, the add-on…
What would be the necessary ingredients for a Duke Nukem movie? Alien invasions, scantily clad women, cigar smoking and action hero swagger, all of which are on display in fan film The Duke: Fate of Humanity. Directed by Finnish filmmaker Paul J. Helin, The Duke: Fate of Humanity is a “nod towards the toughest bad-ass…
If you found Golden Sun: Dark Dawn for the Nintendo DS under the Christmas tree this weekend and found your familiarity of the previous two Game Boy Advance games and their characters a bit rusty, this family tree may help. Nintendo breaks down the relationships between Golden Sun, Golden Sun: The Lost Age and the…
Turns out the story of a fighting game can be worth something, as illustrated by Israeli television series “Hasamba 3 G.” In this snippet from the show, spotted by SDTekken, the Mishima clan from Tekken get name-dropped for laughs. Remember kids, when you need to bluff your way out of electroshock torture, knowledge of a…
Capy, makers of Critter Crunch, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes and Sword & Sworcery, wish you a happy holidays with plenty of presents puked under the Christmas tree.
Threequels dominate Japan’s video game sales charts this week with the latest Monster Hunter, the latest Gundam game and the latest soccer RPG from Professor Layton game makers Level 5 sitting atop the list of newest bestsellers. Nothing could dethrone current champ Monster Hunter Portable 3rd for the PSP, which moved another half-million copies to…
Can’t put this one off any longer. It’s time to try (and quite possibly fail miserably doing so) to play some NBA 2K11. Here’s why that’s going to be a problem… The extent of my video game basketball experience is a few games of NBA Jam played during my part-time arcade job and a few…
Don’t let the farting, the peeing of pants and the tossing of cookies let you think that Russian doll adventure game Stacking is just about sophomoric humor. There’s depth to this downloadable game, layers to this tale of a pint-sized chimney sweep. Double Fine Productions founder Tim Schafer calls the gaseous characteristics of Stacking the…
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