What would happen if Dragon Quest’s most famous slime encountered Final Fantasy’s most famous bird? Yuji Horii, father of Dragon Quest, must know the answer. “Maybe Slime hops onto Chocobo,” Horii told Kotaku last week through a translator during an interview tied into the U.S. launch of Dragon Quest IX on the Nintendo DS. “Would…
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…40 hours, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii told Kotaku today. Why 40? Why not 30 or 50? “It just sounds like the right number,” Horii said through a translator in an interview with Kotaku at Nintendo’s New York office today. “No particular reason.” Horii is the creator of the Dragon Quest role-playing game series, one…
The man with the Lazer Tag guns had to go to catch a flight. Otherwise I’m sure we would have been zapping each other. Nevertheless, yesterday was my chance to bring up the topic of Battle Tag to someone who works for Ubisoft and ask: Huh? Chris Grandjean, Ubisoft PR man at a New York…
The PlayStation Move, like a Wii Remote bolstered by Motion Plus is supposed to tolerate people who stop pointing the controller at the TV. I accidentally completed a successful test of that yesterday. I was trying Ubisoft’s upcoming PlayStation 3 version of Racquet Sports, swinging through some tennis volleys with a company public relations person.…
Does this look like a Kinect game to you? An Xbox 360 game that has you doing some body-puppetry of an avatar on your TV? Well, it is the Kinect game I played yesterday. This is a screenshot of Motion Sports, a Ubisoft launch game for the Xbox 360 Kinect that takes a peculiar route.…
Creators of games for the Nintendo Wii have often demanded of their players a controller-waggling vigor that has them jostling the Wii Remote like a man in rush to shake ketchup from a glass bottle. Enough of that. Yesterday I tried a new Wii game that so easily could have required players to do that…
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The Halo Fall of Reach novel set up the fiction for this September’s Halo Reach game. The writer of the new Halo Reach comic teased some new insights into the making of a Master Chief. Here is Halo Fall of Reach: Boot Camp writer Brian Reed talking to Newsarama about the first issue of the…
On Sunday Saturday, New Yorkers will be able to buy Dragon Quest IX early and do other Dragon Questy stuff. Visitors of the Nintendo World Store in midtown Manhattan will be able to see Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii. The first 30 DQIX-purchasing fans can even get a Horii autograph. Other people can take Dragon…
We’ve been hearing about all kinds of big, exciting games in the last few weeks, all seemingly on the horizon. But they’re not all coming out that soon. Let’s face reality and sort the 2010 games from the 2011s. Some of the following 2011s are set to come out in early 2011. But they are…
Another arcade shoot-em-up on the Xbox 360? This one lets you warp your Galaga-style spaceship from the bottom of the screen (shooting up) to the top (shooting down). Crossfire is in the Xbox Live Indie Games channel for $3. I’d write you folks some impressions, but I only played it briefly last night. Good first…
There are four new expansions coming from Rockstar Games for the hit Western Red Dead Redemption. One of them will bring zombies. Plus… new animals? Red Dead Revolver characters? Anti-griefing somethings-or-other? Rockstar outlined the four new paid expansions to Red Dead Redemption today, promising the next one for August and the following downloadable packs in…
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The first details we saw about Dragon Age 2 were not shocking. New game, new hero. The second batch of details? Consider the eyes of Kotaku raised. Over on the official Dragon Age 2 webpage, we’ve got ourselves some sequel details to ponder: * Embark upon an all-new adventure that takes place across an entire…
Florida police charged James “Jimmy” Davis in the gruesome murder of former Thundercats writer Stephen Perry (pictured here), who went missing from his Florida home in May and was reported dead later that month. Authorities found Perry’s arm and torso in two separate locations since the writer’s disappearance and today charged Davis with first-degree murder…
How many pounds has the lead developer of Kinect game Dance Central lost while making the game? Listen to today’s Kotaku Talk Radio, now available for download, to find out. Kasson Crooker, Harmonix project lead for the Kinect-exclusive Xbox 360 game Dance Central, joined me for today’s show, touching on everything from Dance Central’s music…
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees played games with a fan in Times Square yesterday as part of a Madden NFL 11 commercial shoot. Real gaming emotion here? Or acting for the commercial? PIC: Natalie Behring/AP Images for EA SPORTS
We toil each month to show you which Wii games get played the most by Wii owners. But which games do people buy or rent and then… ignore? We’ve got some winners (losers) for you here. We may need to qualify this list with a few asterisks, but based on stats reported on Nintendo’s official…
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