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Resident Evil Composer Admits to Being a Fraud
Mamoru Samuragoch* has been called “Japan’s Beethoven.” Even as he went deaf, Samuragoch continued to compose scores for video games like Resident Evil and Onimusha. This week, he revealed that he used a ghost composer. A gifted musician, Samuragoch had a degenerative hearing condition that left him completely deaf by age 35. However, as AFP…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2014 - Kotaku East
A Brief History of Chinese Game Consoles
China and video games have a long and ridiculous history, but in the age of the internet, it’s a story that’s yet to be completely put together. And so, here at Kotaku, we will try to make sense of the history of consoles in China. Stay awhile, and read? One of the earliest game consoles…
By Eric Jou Published February 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Starbound Studio Possibly Working on a New “Open-World Pirate Game”
On Starbound’s official site, Tiy, Chucklefish Games head honcho and lead developer for the side-scrolling sandbox RPG, shared the team’s plans for Starbound, Chucklefish themselves, and their upcoming second game. Yes, there’s gonna be a second game. No, it won’t affect Starbound’s beta at all. Tiy mostly talks about Starbound’s future in the news post—specifically,…
By András Neltz Published February 5, 2014 - Kotaku East
The Curtain Opens on a Special Final Fantasy 3DS XL
Aw, look at that! They’re all singing. How adorable. Upcoming 3DS game Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call is the latest entry in the Final Fantasy-themed music game series. To mark its April 24 release in Japan, the game is getting a special 3DS XL. No word yet about a Western release for the game or…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
“No, Uplay will not be featured in South Park: The Stick of Truth.” Obsidian Entertainment, on whether Steam users would have to use Ubisoft’s online platform to play the game. They later clarified that on PC, Stick of Truth would be “a Steam game, with Steam achievements,” and that “Uplay was not integrated at all.”
By András Neltz Published February 5, 2014 - Kotaku East
Behold, Hello Kitty-Branded Martial Arts Armour
You are looking at kendo armour covered in Hello Kitty. That’s right. Kendo armour. Hello Kitty. Go figure. When you think of kendo, you think of tough people, smacking each other on the head with bamboo sticks. You don’t think of Hello Kitty. Not that people practicing kendo would actually wear this—at least, we hope…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2014 - Culture
The Future Is A Dark And Angular Place
Vang Cki is a concept artist based in Paris, who has worked for clients like Guerilla Games (Killzone). His robot, exosuit and weapon stuff is great, but I love how he’s also included “blueprint” shots of his designs as well. You can see more of Vang’s work at his personal site and CGHub page To…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2014 - Uncategorized
Dragon Age Now Has A Cosplay Guide, To Make Dressing-up Easier
Dragon Age is one of the more popular series on the cosplay circuit, but being a fantasy series, its outfits can be a little complex. So developers Bioware are doing the swell thing and making guides, so that when people want to cosplay as Dragon Age folks, they get it right First up is Morrigan,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 - Uncategorized
John Carmack Left id Software Because Of Virtual Reality
It was a bit of a shock when John Carmack, who co-founded the company, leftDoom creators id Software in November. Until now, we didn’t really know why. Turns out that the reason he and the company he helped build parted ways was because of virtual reality, specifically the Oculus Rift headset. And the fact id’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 - Uncategorized
Someone, Please Make A Proper Sports RPG
For the last few years, most major sporting games have had a mode that pits you as a single player progressing through their career. These can be fun, but damn it, they’re not enough It doesn’t take much stripping back to view these modes as role-playing games. You build a character, you name them, you…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 - Uncategorized
Game Walkthroughs Should Be Taken Out Of Context
Game walkthroughs, when viewed as a whole, are incredible useful things. Take them out of context, though, and boy, there’s some weird stuff goin’ on. Game Walkthroughs is a bot that crawls Gamefaqs and just…lifts sections of text. At random. What that leaves us with is a Twitter account that reads like the ramblings of…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 - Uncategorized
LEGO Spaceship Is Seven Feet Long, Took Four Years To Build
The UNSC Spirit Of Fire, a ship from the Halo series, would be 2.5km long if it were a real thing. But it’s not. So all we’ve got instead is this “tiny” model. Mark Kelso spent four years building this monstrosity, which is based off 3D models and had the insane goal of not just…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 -
UncategorizedIf Only The Phantom Menace‘s Galactic Senators Weren’t Incompetent
For all their posturing and pronouncements and cool floating podiums, it sure can be hard to take Star Wars‘ Galactic Senate seriously. The latest video from How It Should Have Ended tackles The Phantom Menace, and scores some fair—if fairly easy—points. Is the horse dead? Yeah, probably. Is it still worth kicking it around from…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 4, 2014 - Uncategorized
Critics Of Felicia Day’s Hairdo Don’t Even Know What She Looks Like
Actress Felicia Day cut her hair a few months ago—this is a thing people noticed, naturally. And thanks to comments and social media, anyone can throw in their two cents about her new look. Thing is, sometimes, those two cents are hilariously misguided and wrong. The picture above, for example—which was blogged by Felicia Day…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 4, 2014 - Uncategorized
Leave Flappy Bird’s Creator Alone
Flappy Bird has come out of nowhere to be one of the biggest mobile gaming hitsof our age. That kind of instant success is normally cause for celebration, but when you consider all the attention he’s suddenly getting, spare a thought for the game’s developer, Dong Nguyen. He’s taken to Twitter today to say “Please…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 - Uncategorized
Your PC Must Be This Tall To Play Titanfall: Today Respawn’s Vince Zampella tweeted the minimum PC specs for the game: 64-bit Windows 7/8/8.1, AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz or Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processor, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 4770 or GeForce 8800GT GPU with 512MB VRAM.
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 4, 2014 -
UncategorizedFour Reasons To Love Bravely Default
Four heroes. Four special moves. Four musical anthems that play during those special moves. 1. Tiz’s Theme – “You Are My Hope” Genre: Celtic Disco Solo Instrument: Penny Whistle Adjective: “Driving” 2. Agnès’ Theme – “Wind’s Direction” Genre: Magical Waltz Solo Instrument: Violin Adjective: “Sparkly” 3. Ringabel’s Theme – “Love’s Vagrant” Genre: Vaguely Argentine Solo…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 4, 2014 -
UncategorizedYouTube Arguments Sound Absurd When Re-enacted By Grown Men
Okay, the fact that YouTube comments can be the worst is no secret. But few things highlight this fact as well as the excellent series by Dead Parrot does—re-enacting the not-so-intellectual conversation using two dramatic actors is hilarious. This time around, you’ll find the commenters quoted ponder important questions like: can one be racist toward…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 4, 2014
