It’s been discussed before, but now it’s official: smash hit zombie survival mod DayZ is being turned into its own game. Dean Hall, the mod’s creator, will be overseeing the game as project lead, and it’ll be published by Dean’s co-workers (and ArmA creators) Bohemia Interactive. Hall says the game will “follow the Minecraft development…
Dragon Quest X is the newest game in the immensely popular Dragon Quest series. It is also the series’ first MMORPG. While the prologue of the game (the first two hours or so) is a strictly single player affair, the game soon opens up into a massive online world. But as Dragon Quest X is…
So Namco Bandai is making the new Smash Bros. games. Know what that means, don’t you? There’s a really good chance Namco characters will pop up in Smash Bros Tales director and producer Yoshito Higuchi tells The Official Nintendo Magazine that he would totally be happy if Tales characters appeared in Smash Bros. Of course…
Computers are an important part of our lives. They have transformed the way we lived. Right now, we are living in the future. But what did that future look like in a 1960s Japanese children’s magazine? Like this. In 1969, Shonen Sunday published a series of articles called “Computopia”. They depicted how computers would be…
While doing our Kotaku East live stream of Dragon Quest X last week, the most common question I got was “What is the battle system like when you’re in a group?” Well, at that time, I was just starting out and had yet to get a full group going. However, since then I have spent…
Sony trademarked two new games: Rain and Until Dawn. Go ahead, imagine the trailers IN YOUR MIND.
One of the staples of MMORPGs is the ability to choose the race of your character in addition to his or her class. In this, Dragon Quest X is no different. There are six playable races in DQX. Some of these are completely new, others are found in thousands of different fantasy works. However, one…
It’s August. For Japanese otaku, the month means that the biannual Comic Market, AKA “Comiket”, is right around the corner. The event is an opportunity for amateur and pro manga artists to sell their limited edition, self-produced creations. In the last few years, cosplay has become a bigger part of Comiket. It isn’t just the…
Dragon Quest X now has twice the servers after Square Enix added servers 21-40 earlier today. Level up!
Spotted at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu, the most important Shinto shrine in Kamakura, here is a paper lantern that features an Evangelion Unit-08, the latest Eva unit slated to appear in upcoming anime Evangelion 3.0 Evangelion 3.0 director Hideaki Anno drew this Eva Unit-08 as part of the shrine’s “Bonbori Festival” (“bonbori” is a Japanese lamp with…
Ask any anime fan, and they’ll tell you: cartoons in Japan are different from their localized counterparts. Last night on Japanese TV, the issue was explored for the Japanese viewing public, who was surprised to learn that English language versions of anime are edited. The show was Sekai Marumie! (世界まる見え！ or “The World Exposed!”), which…
Once a cute little shop with a blog, Attract Mode has been reborn (after a lengthy hiatus) as a “video game collective”, made up of “game makers, film makers, designers, artists, and journalists”. If you need more specific information, some of the people lending a hand include artists Cory Schmitz and Maré Odomo, indie developers…
When you think of an RPG, you think of dragons. Loot. Fireballs. Goblins. Worlds where entire ecosystems change every two miles. Basically, a whole load of stuff that’s make-believe, and despite the frequent “medieval” setting, about as far from actual history as you can get. So an in-development RPG at Czech studio Warhorse, which is…
Let’s say you want to play a Submarine game. No harm in that, it’s a classic genre. You could just sit in front of a monitor. Maybe, if you were feeling up for it, slip on some headphones. Which is fine, but it’s a little pedestrian. Especially compared to these guys, who built a replica…
Artist Wes Talbott combines two of his – and, well everyone’s – favourite things with this imaginary poster for imaginary Zelda LEGO. I look at this, and the more I look, the more it feels like a real thing. Then I look away, and remember it’s not, and I get upset. I should really blame…
Is this a dream? Am I lying in a coma somewhere imagining this is the trailer to a game I fantasised about throughout my childhood? No! It’s Starship Corporation, a game where the design of big spaceships (and “planetary installations”) isn’t just something tacked on, it’s what the entire game is about. Players are tasked…
Athletes still do a pretty poor job in commercials in the 21st century. So as you can probably imagine, in the 1970s, they were terrible This Atari clip from 1978 featured baseball star Pete Rose, football legend Pelé and…Don Knotts. OK, so Don did just fine, but he was an actor, not a sportsman. 1978…
What kind of developers have the peanuts to rip off Jackie Chan not once, but twice, at the same time? Taito have the peanuts, that’s who. This image is from Silent Dragon, a side-scroller Taito released in 1992. The blue dude on the left may look familiar to anyone who’s seen Jackie Chan’s awesome Big…
Stephan Martiniere is a long-serving concept artist who has worked on some of the biggest (or best) movies of the past fifteen years, from the new Star Wars movies to Fifth Element to Tron Legacy. He also served as art director on id’s 2011 shooter Rage (Stephen interviewed him a few years back about the…
While official statues based on Diablo III restrict themselves to more presentable characters, fan-made pieces are free to go after anyone they want. Like, oh, Azmodan, the Lord of Sin. It was built by master craftsman (and Art Director for Blizzard’s Diablo III: The Book of Cain) Jason Babler, and stands 17″ tall. Oh, and…
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