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Scrolls Is Going Alpha Today. Here are the First Details.
Scrolls, the upcoming game from Minecraft developer Mojang, is entering alpha today. Yes, that means that Mojang is sending out alpha codes for players; however, before it does, the studio gave a rundown of how the codes will be sent out and what the alpha includes. According to Mojang, the alpha codes are being sent…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2012 - Kotaku East
Here Are A Couple Of Companions For Your Journey Into The World Of Soul Sacrifice
In Soul Sacrifice, players take on the role of an imprisoned servant awaiting imminent death who must fight their way to freedom by wielding the magic of sacrifice. Apparently pulling out your spine and wielding it as a sword is too dangerous to do alone. Two companion characters have been announced for the game: A…
By Toshi Nakamura Published July 5, 2012 - Kotaku East
Thieves Led Cops on a Comic Book Car Chase
On July 2 at around 2:20pm, three young men in their twenties allegedly stole 98 comic books from a video rental store in Sendai, Japan (at Japanese video stores, manga are often available for either rent or purchase). The total value of their alleged pull was ¥56,000 or US$702. The trio escaped in a small…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2012 - Kotaku East
July 4 Had a Different Meaning in Japan: All You Can Eat Fried Chicken
Japan loves KFC. The fast food chain is somewhat of a cultural institution in Japan: whether that’s Christmas dinners or baseball superstitions. It’s no accident that Japan digs The Colonel so much: the boneless Japanese dish chicken karaage resembles fried chicken. In Japan, KFC is a tad upscale for fast food—it’s pricier than McDonald’s, but…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2012 -
Kotaku EastNamco Bandai Announces New JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Game, But Not Before Confusing The Hell Out Of People
Namco Bandai recently posted a teaser site for a new Japanese game “All Star Battle” (not to be confused with Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale) which featured a daily countdown and an image that slowly revealed itself. People anxiously waited, wondering what the reveal might be. Finally, the full image was revealed to show an image…
By Toshi Nakamura Published July 5, 2012 - Kotaku East
So, There Might Be a New PS3
According to a Federal Communications Commission filing, there appears to be a new PlayStation 3 on the horizon. The model numbers are CECH-4000A and CECH-4000B; the current model number is CECH-3000. Thus, this new model would usher in the 4000 seres. The FCC label position on the CECH-4000 PS3 is different. While the filing does…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2012 - Kotaku East
From Androids to Fighters, This Lady Does It All
Meet Akatsuki Tsukasa. She’s a Taiwanese cosplayer, who is starting to make a splash outside her homeland by catching the attention of Japanese cosplay blogs like Asagawo In her homeland, Akatsuki appears at tech and game promotional events. She’s also done traditional fashion modeling. But it’s her cosplay that Akatsuki is best known for. Colorful…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2012 -
Kotaku EastAren’t Foreign Last Names Strange? Ha. Ha. Ha.
Sony’s latest PS Vita commercial is set in a junior high classroom and features “an exchange student with a mysterious name”. The exchange student’s name is Permetalpower Velersmiku (ペルメタルパワ ベラーミク). It’s more of a mystery why a 40-something year old man is an exchange student, but that’s not what is on display here. Having a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedRemember the 80s With a Neon Pink Baseball Bat to the Face
This is Hotline Miami. It looks like the most gruesome 1980s action movies come to life, only instead of coming to life wearing bandanas and grenade belts, it’s wearing hot pink and a pulsing soundtrack. It’s also sporting one hell of a logo. Hotline Miami is the work of indie dev Jonatan Söderström, aka Cactus,…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2012 - Culture
Crytek Concept Art Includes More Battlefront III Images
Chris Matthews is a senior artist at Crytek UK, the studio formerly known as Free Radical (Timesplitters). The art you’re about to see, then, has not only some Crytek stuff such as Crysis, but also some art from the developer’s cancelled Battlefront III project. Just to tug at the heartstrings a little more Having been…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedArmA III Drives Straight Through My Heart
Have I gushed about ArmA III lately? OK, fine, have I done it today? No? Then let’s continue. Here’s another of the super-realistic military sim’s E3 videos, which are new for most of us since practically none of us saw the game at E3. Remember, this is a sandbox game. Those hills in the distance…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow to Train For a Fighting Game Tournament Ass-Kicking
EVO 2012, the world’s biggest fighting game tournament, is about to go down. And poor Woolie, Woolie has drawn Daigo Umehara in the very first round. Daigo is only the most acclaimed Street Fighter player of all time Rather than despair, Woolie has embarked on a training regime that would put Rocky to shame, in…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Good, Old-Fashioned Game About Space Conquest
They’ve never really stopped trickinling out since the genre’s heyday in the 1990s, but it’s been a while since people could get truly excited about a space-based “4X” (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) strategy game on the PC. So it’s cool seeing people get excited about Endless Space. The game, out now on Steam, promises…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
THQ Gets Rid of Devil’s Third, Itagaki’s Studio Now Owns it
Last we heard, Devil’s Third – the latest game from Ninja Gaiden mastermind and badass Tomonobu Itagaki – was on hold as publishers THQ looked to offload it. Well, now they’ve offloaded it, giving all rights back to the developers, Itagaki’s Valhalla Studios. “THQ confirms that the company will not be publishing Devil’s Third,” a…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Ubisoft Responds to Accidental Email Leak
A few days after the emails first went out, Ubisoft has responded to its accidental leak of around 500 fans’ email addresses with…another email. While a “sorry” might have been appreciated, all users received was a short message that read: Dear User, Ubisoft takes privacy matters seriously. Recently we discovered some users’ email addresses were…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedMetroplex is Still the Best Thing About the New Transformers Game
That’s not to degrade the rest of the game, which is due out this fall. It looks just fine. It’s just a testament to how glorious Metroplex is. I mean, transforming into a fighter jet or a truck is cool, I guess, but transforming into a city? That’s how you get stuff done. This isn’t…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Dude Gets Kidnapped in DayZ, Tweets the Whole Thing [Update]
The best thing about zombie mod DayZ is that, because there’s not much to do in the thing aside from kill/avoid zombies, people are left to their own devices. Some like to roam solo. Some like to team up and stay alive. Others like to gang up and kidnap other players. Aussie writer Adam Ruch…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Thinks the Wii U is Pretty Much an Xbox 360
It’s not only that Pro Controller that reminds Microsoft of its Xbox 360. The graphics do, too. “I think their Pro Controller makes a lot of sense with the platform they’ve built,” Microsoft’s Phil Spencer told website Games Industry. “They are building a platform that is effectively a 360 when you think of graphical capability.”…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 4, 2012