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Radiant Historia Gets a Re-Release in March
Radiant Historia released in North America more than a year ago for the DS and quickly distinguished itself as a top-flight JRPG. Trouble is, Atlus didn’t print enough copies to satisfy demand. Case in point: A new copy is now listing for $105 on the used-games brokerage Glyde. Well, fans who missed out the first…
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“This is Crap,” Sony’s Chief of Development Said, After First Playing Demon’s Souls
We’ve heard (as far back at 2010) Sony admit that it blundered big time by not publishing Demon’s Souls in North America. Now we know why they passed. Shuhei Yoshida, Sony Computer Entertainment’s head of product development, told Game Informer that he played two hours of the game as it was close to final, and…
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Take the Official Tour of the PlayStation Vita
After posting its official unboxing teaser video on Thursday, Sony yesterday published this 12-minute guided tour of the system, explaining all of the features and benefits of the PlayStation Vita, with Guy Longworth, PlayStation’s chief marketer, and John Koller, who is the boss of PlayStation’s handheld division. The PlayStation Vita launches in North America on…
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This Skyrim Mod Literally … Well, See For Yourself
This is an update to the Portal Core Space mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and it references the Meme Who Must Not Be Named. But it does so quite hilariously—and loudly. Turn your volume down before playing. It’s not NSFW, just loud. I especially like “Search Joke •Empty.” The Most Literal, and Best,…
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March Mass-ness is Sooner Than You Think
There are eight days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training in baseball. More importantly, there are 24 until Shepard, Alenko and Liara report for duty in Mass Effect 3. Pre-order deals on the sci-fi epic RPG already are out, along with savings and credits on this week’s UFC Undisputed 3 and Twisted Metal…
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Wired Controllers Blamed in Attempted Murder
Cops in a northeastern Pennsylvania community booked a man on attempted murder charges, saying he tried to strangle his wife with “a video game cord.” Either he was playing with wired console controllers from a generation ago, or the guy went and grabbed the Xbox 360 brick to choke his spouse. Either way, on Tuesday,…
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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Fleeing from the NeverDead tyranny, the last Battlestar, Goodlactica, leads a rag-tag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest to a shining planet known as UFC Undisputed 3 THQ’s mixed martial arts simulation landed on my doorstep today. Much as I’d like to spend time with Gregethor, my do-over mage in Skyrim (currently level 12, enrolled…
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The Roof, the Roof, the Roof is Not on Fire, Says Konami
An image circulating Twitter earlier today seemed to imply a Konami office building in Japan was burning. It most certainly was not, a spokesman told Kotaku. Reading into Japanese Twitter users’ feeds, it appears this “strange smoke” might be only building steam. All is well.
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This Mass Effect 3 Misspelled “Renagade” Console is Up for Grabs [UPDATE]
EA has put a “Mass Effect 3 Mission Command” app on Facebook, through which fans can unlock some Avatar items and possibly get chosen for early access to the game’s upcoming beta. There’s also a big sweepstakes opportunity to win one of two custom Xbox 360s, painted in the game’s Paragon and Renegade themes. EA…
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Concentrate All Firepower …
Concentrate All Firepower on that LEGO Star Destroyer | The assembly of an enormous Executor-class Star Destroyer, in LEGO. It’s 50 inches long, 3,152 pieces. (via Geeks are Sexy) Your Guide to the New Kotaku Network Starting on the evening of February 12, Kotaku will begin to offer scheduled programming. Your listings are at left.…
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Alternate-Reality Intrigue is the Key to The Hacker‘s Charm
Partly for nostalgia, but definitely on its own merits,The Hacker is my favorite mobile game, so far, of 2012. The first rejected password on that green monochrome screen took me back more than 25 years to Activision’s Hacker on the Commodore 64, a game that had no real instruction manual, just that opening screen. LOGON.…
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Super Meat Boy Being Rebuilt for Touch-Screen Mobiles
Despite the fact its creators have railed against the quality of iPhone games, and openly trolled consumers on the iTunes store by selling a parody game for $350, Super Meat Boy is being rebuilt to be playable on touch-screen mobile devices, the game’s two-man team said in a Twitter conversation today. Yes, that could mean…
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Call of Duty Population Explodes to 40 Million Users, Half Coming From Modern Warfare 3
Activision today said its Call of Duty franchise has more than 40 million monthly active users across all of its titles, half of that coming from the latest release, Modern Warfare 3 What’s more, there are 7 million users in the game’s Call of Duty: Elite online service, 1.5 million of them as paying annual…
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“LEGO Minecraft Micro World” to be Unveiled Next Week
The LEGO Minecraft concept that passed approval with LEGO’s petitioning board has a name and has a reveal date. It won’t be at Toy Fair this weekend, but it will be at LEGO World Copenhagen on Feb. 16. The set’s model name is 21102 LEGO Minecraft Micro World.
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ReviewsNeverDead: The Kotaku Review
At E3 in June, I watched Konami’s Shinta Nojiri play NeverDead and struggle to reassemble his dismembered, immortal hero just to dispatch what looked like the game’s run-of-the-mill enemies. These people have a real problem on their hands, I thought to myself, if they think that’s anyone’s idea of fun. For nearly two years we’ve…
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A Picture Worth Eight Thousand Dollars
Tim Schafer Made $8,000 While This Photo Was Taken | At D.I.C.E. 2012, Al Lowe, the creator of Leisure Suit Larry, met up with Double Fine’s Tim Schafer, whose studio had a pretty good day raising money for its next project. Al is helping with the remakes of the original Leisure Suit Larry games. (Photo…
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Kinect-Enabled Shouts and Dragon Mounts: Will Skyrim‘s ‘Game Jam’ Experiments Ever See the Light of Day? [Updated with Video]
At D.I.C.E. 2012, Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard just showed an amazing highlight reel of mods the studio built into The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim during a week-long “game jam” after the game’s release. Features like mounted combat, a lycanthropy skill tree, and one enormous mudcrab, the width of the horizon, were all shown. And…
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PSN Update Shows Vita Titles Discounted Between $3 and $5
The most recent PlayStation Store update has quietly delivered five PS Vita titles—discoverable by search—that show the digital versions costing between $3 and $5 less than their retail versions. Uncharted: Golden Abyss is listed for $45; it’s $50 at retail. Modnation Racers: Road Trip comes in at $27 ($30 MSRP). Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational…
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What Will Skyrim‘s Boss Say as D.I.C.E. 2012 Opens? Watch Here.
Todd Howard, the game director for Bethesda Game Studios (The Elder Scrolls, Fallout) is the keynote speaker opening the D.I.C.E. Summit, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ annual conclave in Las Vegas at 9:30 EST. Howard’s address, whose livestream, courtesy of GameSpot, is embedded below, will cover “Why We Create, Why We Play.” Update:…
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