Sad news for fans of games like Rez, Lumines and Space Channel: Q Entertainment’s Tetsuya Mizuguchi (pictured) has stepped away from active game development. Seems since the release of Child of Eden in 2011, he’s been pursuing studies, and while he’s still employed at the studio he helped found, Q Entertainment’s director Nobuhiko Shimizu says,…
As the game title itself emphasizes, moral choices regarding sacrifice is Soul Sacrifice. Magic is not cast with spells or mana, but with sacrifices. You have two sets of three different kinds of magic that are constantly available to you to fight with, but every time you cast it, you must make an offering. Meaning…
Assassin’s Creed Utopia for iOS is a new take on the world of Assassin’s Creed. As previously mentioned, you build a 17th century colony and watch it develop right up to the American Revolution. And best of all, it’s pretty damn good. At my hands on at the Tokyo Game Show, the city building elements…
You go to PAX Prime, you want autographs from all the top developers attending. But then it occurs to you – autographs are a little bit rubbish. Why not, instead of just asking for signatures, get them to draw a dragon instead. Yes – this is true genius at work. When Michael ‘Ventron’ Ventnor went…
Noticeably absent from Sony’s press event yesterday was The Last Guardian. The game was first announced in 2009. Since then, fans have been waiting for the finished title to emerge. It hasn’t. Development has not exactly been smooth. The game’s creator, Fumito Ueda, has left Sony, but is contracted out to finish this title. There’s…
Mega Man fans, if this doesn’t show you how little Capcom now thinks of its once-great franchise, you aren’t just living in Denial, you’re the town mayor. This is the first trailer for Rockman X Over, the iOS game the publisher is using to “celebrate” the character’s 25th birthday. The only way this is a…
At Tokyo Game Show 2012, Hideo Kojima revealed the latest trailer for Metal Gear Solid Rising Revengeance. In the new trailer, 3 new enemy bosses are revealed. View each image to see who they are. The new trailer also shows Raiden’s slicing combat system in action, as well as his hacking of an enemy drone.…
Nintendo 3DS title Monster Hunter 4 will be out next March in Japan. It will have online multiplayer.
The last big Metal Gear for a phone was 2009’s Metal Gear Solid Touch. It was…look, I’ll be kind and say it was serviceable. Only three years later we’ve come quite some way. Thanks, advancing mobile phone technology! I don’t know how this is going to play, but I imagine Metal Gear fans will be…
For a game developed by a tiny studio making what’s essentially a digital board game, Armello has one hell of a debut trailer. There’s no gameplay in it, none at all, but Melbourne animation house 12 Field are to thank for the clip above. Armello is about four houses vying to seize the throne from…
On this table are 21 handhelds, including the Vita, PSP and just about every flavour of Game Boy, DS and 3DS there is/was. The test, conducted by Andy Robertson at Family Gamer TV, is simple. Start them running, and see which one runs the longest. It’s not entirely scientific, as it’s slightly unfair to compare…
Announced last year, Professor Layton VS Ace Attorney is a Level-5 and Capcom crossover between the two logic-based series. Kotaku was on-hand today at the Tokyo Game Show to try the first playable demo of this highly anticipated game. The demo was actually split into two parts, one following Phoenix Wright and the other following…
While it’s not quite as nice as that Rivendell diorama from last month, this giant, custom-built LEGO Hobbiton set is still worth downing a few frothy pints over. Depicting the setting up before Bilbo’s big birthday bash, the real highlight is Bag End, whose roof can come off to reveal a meticulously detailed interior, full…
A demo of Capcom’s Monster Hunter 4 on the 3DS was up for play at the Tokyo Game Show, and here’s how the 15-minute gameplay was. They provided me with 3 different quests with a ranging difficulty of easy, medium and hard, and a premade set of armor for each of the special weapons in-game.…
For those who like their gaming media and news a little less Japanese in origins today, here. A new trailer for Halo 4, showing off all the guns and weaponry that the Covenant – who you’re still fighting, in some small way – are packing in the game.
We knew the peripheral was coming to Nintendo’s new handheld, but until today we hadn’t seen what it looked like. Now we have. Yup. Still hideous. Pricing and release date are TBA. Accessories [Nintendo, via Go Nintendo]
Today at the Tokyo Game Show Kotaku was able to experience 15 minutes of tense courtroom drama with the first playable demo of Ace Attorney 5 In the demo, Phoenix finds himself defending a young girl accused of bombing a courtroom with a bomb hidden in a stuffed animal. Also involved is the younger brother…
Unity CEO David Helgason has revealed that his company, whose light-weight engine is becoming increasingly popular in both the mobile and PC gaming worlds, has been licensed by Nintendo for use with the upcoming Wii U. The engine is being optimised for Nintendo’s latest console, and while it’s become surprisingly powerful in recent times (see…
Fresh from the TGS showroom floor, here’s some gameplay footage of upcoming 3DS title Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney Apologies for the noise, but, you know, this place gets busy
Level-5 tells Kotaku that none of its TGS games are confirmed for a Western release.
Mode
Follow us
