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UncategorizedWow, Look At All The Final Fantasy Spinoffs
This week’s biggest Tokyo Game Show news was Final Fantasy XV—hey, it’s alive!—but while we were all gawking at bromantic road trips, Square Enix showed off a bunch of other Final Fantasy spinoffs that are worth at least a little attention. Let’s go through them all. Above: a new look at the Monster Hunter-ish Final…
By Jason Schreier Published September 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
I Wish I Could Tell You D4 Was Amazing, But…
D4 is like a bizarro-world version of Heavy Rain, a weird mixture of the mundane and the insane – but it’s got a lot of problems. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK You play a bubblegum-chewing detective with the ability to delve into the past by touching objects, whose wife was killed two years…
Keza MacDonald Published September 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
Get Up Close and Personal with the Original Doom‘s Pixels
Now you can take the opening area of Doom wherever you go. As long as you have a web browser, that is. A coder/artist that goes by the username P_Malin recreated an interactive embed of the first environment from Id Software’s iconic first-person shooter using Shadertoy. His recreation lets you move around the environment and…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Tokyo Ghoul: The Ani-TAY Review • Which Game Characters would help you Move House? • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: The TAY Review • Import Preview: Super Smash Bros. For 3DS • Azure Striker Gunvolt: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.
By András Neltz Published September 19, 2014 -
Kotaku EastWatch Us Go to TGS’ Resident Evil Shooting Range
Resident Evil Revelations 2‘s isn’t the only Resident Evil booth on the floor of the Tokyo Game Show 2014. There’s also a Resident Evil-themed airsoft gun shooting range. So join me, fellow Kotaku author Toshi Nakamura, and an airsoft gun replica of the iconic Samurai Edge pistol as we see just how good I am…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published September 19, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Moment When a Diablo III Player Reaches #1
Alkaizer is one of the best Diablo III players out there, sitting at the number one spot with his Barbarian on the Season 1 leaderboards and now—as this video proves—he has claimed this position with his Crusader as well. Pretty cool for a solo player. In this segment, you can watch him clear a Rank…
By Gergo Vas Published September 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
EVE Online‘s Hurricane Cruiser, Turned Into a LEGO Beast
It couldn’t be easy collecting all the necessary bricks for this giant LEGO battlecruiser, but it’s totally worth the effort. Dinklebob‘s creation was inspired by EVE Online‘s “Hurricane” ship, and the extra tiny drones are the best part: Here are some WIP pics: And the final version from different angles: Lego Hurricane [imgur, via r/eve]…
By Gergo Vas Published September 19, 2014 -
Uncategorized15 Minutes of Gameplay from the Borderlands Creators’ Next Game
Want to see for yourself if Battleborn is going to be different from Borderlands? Feast your eyes on this hefty chunk of gameplay footage from Gearbox Software’s next game, then. In the clip above, you’ll see a bunch of Battleborn‘s playable characters in action during a runthrough of the same co-op mission shown to press…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 19, 2014 -
UncategorizedThe Wasteland 2 Intro Will Never Beat Fallout’s
Wasteland 2 comes out today, and the question on many an OG CRPG gamer’s mind is: “How does it compare to Fallout?” I’ll have a fuller answer to that soon, but there’s an elephant in the room that must be addressed first. Come on, Brian Fargo: where is my Ron Perlman? If you don’t understand…
By Yannick LeJacq Published September 19, 2014 -
Kotaku EastYour Favorite Anime Characters Duke it Out In This New Fighter
At the Tokyo Game Show 2014 today, I spent some time with Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax—a fighter that sports characters from popular anime Sword Art Online, The Devil is a Part Timer, Accel World, Black Bullet, and The Irregular at Magic High School, among others. Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax is a fast 2D fighting game…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published September 19, 2014 - Kotaku East
Scalebound is Platinum Games’ First Stab at Fantasy
Platinum Games’ new Xbox One exclusive game, Scalebound, has dragons and dragon riding. For creator Hideki Kamiya, it’s a bit of a dream come true. “When I was in high school, I really enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy games like Sorcerian on my computer.” Kamiya recalled in an interview. “For some reason I’ve never had…
By Toshi Nakamura Published September 19, 2014 - Kotaku East
One Novel Thing about Japan’s Big Xbox One Exclusive
Psycho-Pass is Japan’s big Xbox One exclusive. I was expecting a rather standard text-based adventure game – your typical wall of words broken occasionally by a choice selection. What I got, however, was a very cool look at how the game will use real world tech. Tokyo-based game maker Mages has long been pushing the…
By Toshi Nakamura Published September 19, 2014 -
Kotaku EastHands On with Square Enix’s New Streaming Service
Dive In is an up coming game streaming service for some of Square Enix’s most popular games to iOS and Android devices. Today at the Tokyo Game Show, I tried out the service on an Android pad. Let’s see how that went. For my time with Dive In I had the choice of playing Final…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published September 19, 2014 - Uncategorized
Some of the Coolest Game Merchandise You Can and Cannot Buy
The Tokyo Game Show isn’t only about games. There is also an entire hall filled with goodies for sale. Game companies also are showing off future products that will be out at a later date as well as TGS exclusives. Let’s have a look!
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 19, 2014 -
Kotaku EastBravely Second is Exactly What You Want It to Be
Bravely Default is a darling of a JRPG that hearkens back to the Final Fantasy games of yore—and one of the best games the 3DS has to offer. From playing the game’s demo, Bravely Second seems like simply more of the classic JRPG gameplay you know and love. The Tokyo Game Show demo was rather…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published September 19, 2014 -
UncategorizedOne Of The First People To Buy An iPhone 6 Dropped It On TV
Australian Jack Cooksey was the first person in Perth to get a new iPhone, making him one of the first people in the world to get a new iPhone. So he was interviewed on TV. And it all went wrong. Struggling with the lid of the box, and no doubt nervous at being the subject…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 19, 2014
