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Dominate the World by Shooting at Everything in Hybrid
The Xbox Live Summer of Arcade will be upon us soon, and one of the games coming with it is Hybrid, a multiplayer shooter from 5th Cell. I had a chance to see Hybrid in action at E3 this week, and while the frenetic combat in a tiny map (the smallest one the game had…
By Kate Cox Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedWatch Me Vacuum Ghosts In Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon
Here’s some gameplay we shot of Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, the sequel to 2001’s hit GameCube title, during E3 this week. The controls take a little concentration to master, but so far, Dark Moon seems just as clever and interesting as its predecessor. Check it out! (Video shot and edited by Chris Person.)
By Jason Schreier Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Microsoft: ‘You Do Not Want’ an Xbox Smash Bros. Clone
Sony PlayStation will soon have a Smash Bros. clone, a game called PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale that lets its most famous characters beat each other up. Why? Because it was a great idea when Nintendo first let Mario, Link, Samus and the rest of its best heroes beat each other up. Surely, Microsoft should join…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedRest in Peace, Rande, the Best Friend a Game Journalist Could Ever Have
In May of 2006, months before I started writing for Kotaku, my then girlfriend and I went to the pet store to buy her a kitten. There were cages filled with various mewling beasts, fluffy, bright-eyed animals eager to find a good home. And then there was Rande. I didn’t like him at all. A…
By Mike Fahey Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedWario Shows Us Some Creative Things The Wii U Controller Can Do
Leave it to Mario’s evil doppelganger to demonstrate the innovative potential of a new piece of hardware. As you can see from this video we shot of Game & Wario at E3 this week, Wario and his friends do a nice job showing off some of the unique ways you can use the Wii U’s…
By Jason Schreier Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Kingdom Hearts Director Wants To Add Pixar
Buzz Lightyear as a Kingdom Hearts character? Could happen. Longtime Kingdom Hearts veteran and co-director of the upcoming Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance Tai Yasue told me at E3 this week that he’d love to take Sora and Riku through the wonderful worlds of Pixar’s films. As a collaborative project between Square Enix and…
By Jason Schreier Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Guess Which Hotly Anticipated Games This Fancy Art Belongs To
Long before the artwork in big-deal blockbuster games get turned into polygons or texture maps, it can start as pencil drawings or oil paintings. Dev studios use these pieces as inspiration to help them focus on the worlds they’re trying to craft or look at them after the fact to remember where their creative journey…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
E3’s over. And yet it lingers! You probably want to talk about all the new hotness on display over the last week. Who can blame you? Well, this is the place. Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedWhen Super Smash Bros. Meets Soccer, Barabariball Happens
E3’s said and done and Nintendo didn’t even offer up so much as a teaser for a new Smash Bros. game. And, Sony, well, they’ve got their All-Stars Battle Royale thing coming soon. But one indie creator’s taking the multi-tiered madness of the mash-up fighting series into an intriguing sports-tinged direction. A steady queue of…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow Unreal Engine 4 Will Change The Next Games You Play
A couple of months ago a game developer who works on a very well-known video game walked out of a secret demonstration of Epic Games’ new Unreal Engine 4 and told me it was the most impressive thing he’d ever seen in his gaming career. The Unreal Engine tech doesn’t just run games made by…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
Press Your Face Up to These Unreal Engine 4 Images
You gotta stop and smell the roses. In video games, that means taking a break and noticing walls, dirt, doors, and vegetation—you know, the inconsequential things. It’s in these things that you can see how realistic a game’s graphics are. Epic Games released showed up a tech demo for its new tech, the Unreal Engine…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2012 -
UncategorizedMeet the Next Generation of Graphics: Unreal Engine 4
Epic tonight gave the world its first look at Unreal Engine 4, the skeleton that – if this generation of hardware is anything to go by – a lot of your next-gen games are going to be built around. Company president Mike Capps has told Spike that Epic has a “couple” of next gen games…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2012 -
Kotaku EastHow To Blow $2 Million on a Crappy Looking Cartoon
The Legend of the Hero is a new animated Chinese film aimed at kids. Online in China, it has people talking. But they’re not exactly saying nice things. The movie apparently cost the equivalent of roughly US$1.9 million dollars to produce—something that is even flooring people in China. In comparison, the average 90 minute animated…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
No Gold at the End of This Rainbow
These days, most Nintendo-published video games are eventually released across the planet. But every once in a while, a game slips through the cracks. Thus it’s more than a little ironic that Captain Rainbow, a game about Nintendo characters who have slipped through the cracks, is one of these Japan-only titles. But did Captain Rainbow…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Dropping F-Bombs, Chinese College Student Style
Sometimes words don’t translate. Sometimes they’re not used correctly. And then other times, they are dead on. A group of students from Jinan University, one of China’s oldest universities, posed under the school’s arch. Some held their degrees. Others held stuffed animals. One group had a sign regarding one class, which read, “You Fucked My…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
The Old-School Nintendo Stars of Captain Rainbow
Captain Rainbow is a Wii adventure game centering on a Power Ranger-style superhero who has come to Mimin Island looking for a magical star that will be able to reignite his popularity. However, he’s not the only person who’s come to this island in search of a second chance. Everyone else on the island is…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published June 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Dragon Quest X Boxart Is Classy and Cool
Via Amazon, the official boxart for Dragon Quest X has made its way online. I like it! And I’m not alone. However, reading through Japanese forums and websites, there are also those who don’t seem exactly bowled over. Screw them! DQX looks cool.
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2012 - Kotaku East
Tokyo’s Tower Milk Shake Is Not a Bong. It’s a Bank.
Mmm! Who doesn’t love milk shakes? And giant towers? And drugs? Burger joint Lotteria decided to blend both with a 1/1000 scale, 2-foot high, ¥2,800 (US$35) vanilla shake. And when you are done slurping it, the shake can be used as a piggy bank and hold ¥100,000 (US$1,259) worth of ¥500 ($6) coins. Just remember…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2012 - Uncategorized
In-Game Floating Glitches Made “Real”
You’ve seen it: game character driving around in invisible cars or riding invisible horses. They’re glitches, and before they’re patched, they’re funny. While not necessarily the intent, a playful series of photos by Chinese artist Zhao Huasen look like real world glitches. Commuters float on invisible bikes through the streets. The pictures are from a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2012