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Phantasy Star Online 2 Is Coming to the PS Vita
Sega producer Satoshi Sakai announced today that PC title Phantasy Star Online 2 is headed to the PS Vita. It will be possible to play PS Vita version on the same server as the PC version and, according to Sakai, it will use “exactly the same data”. Thus, players can take their PC characters and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2012 - Kotaku East
Is This Okay? Or Is Sega Being Insensitive?
Japan is turning its attention to the one-year anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. The tragic disaster not only destroyed lives, it took them. Last spring, Yakuza: Dead Souls (then, it was called Yakuza: Of the End) was slated for a March 17 release. Out of respect for the earthquake victims, the game was pushed…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2012 - Kotaku East
Metal Gear Solid: HD Edition Dated for PS Vita
Today, Sony revealed that the PS Vita version of Metal Gear Solid: HD Edition will be released in Japan on June 28. The game features HD versions of Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 The PS3 and Xbox 360 version were released last fall in Japan; the Western release included Metal Gear…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2012 - Kotaku East
Dead Rising Creator Working on a “Totally New” Game. It’s for PS Vita.
Keiji Inafune, best known for Mega Man and Dead Rising, is working on a “totally new game” for the PlayStation Vita. In a recorded message from a gentleman’s study, Inafune, wearing a brown leather jacket, stated that the title is very much “Inafune-style”, adding, “We’re making a really amazing game.” Inafune said he couldn’t reveal…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2012 - Kotaku East
If One Piece: Pirate Warriors Is Always This Crazy, I’m In!
In recent years, the Dynasty Warriors series has found new life by merging its signature gameplay with popular anime; first Gundam, then Fist of the North Star, and now One Piece. But is One Piece: Pirate Warriors just more of the same old hack-and-slash we’ve come to expect, or is there some treasure buried just…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published March 9, 2012 - Kotaku East
Two of the Rarest, and Coolest, 3DS Handhelds Around
These aren’t just glossy white 3DS units. They are, for Metal Gear fans, two of the coolest pieces of merchandise they will ever lay their eyes upon. Those sketches were drawn directly onto the handhelds by long-time series artist Yoji Shinkawa. The signature on the right? It’s the John Hancock of series creator and boss…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012 -
Kotaku EastThis Is How You Bring a Manga to Life!
There are a lot of surprises in One Piece: Pirate Warriors but none are quite as impressive as how good the game looks. Much like Sega’s Valkyria Chronicles, the entire game is rendered in a cell-shaded art style, with all the shadows made to look as if done via a colored pencil. The result is…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Next Xbox Won’t Have a Disc Drive? [Update]
As Kotaku revealed last month, work has begun on the next Xbox. It’s codenamed “Durango”. Today, website MCVUK reported a source revealed that the next Xbox apparently won’t have a disc drive. Instead, according to MCVUK, the next Xbox “will offer compatibility with some sort of interchangeable solid-state card storage, although it is not known…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2012 - Kotaku East
From Okami to Stripper Poles, She’s Got It All
Say hello to Taiwanese cosplayer Ajo. The cosplayer often appears at Taiwanese game events, cosplaying her heart out. She’s a big Dissidia Final Fantasy fan and loves the anime Panty ＆ Stocking with Garterbelt. Recently, Ajo uploaded a batch of Okami pics in which she is Amaterasu personified. Check out her work, which includes Okami,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2012 - Kotaku East
Japanese Games “Just Suck” Target Speaks Out
Earlier this week, game designer Phil Fish (above), best known for Fez, set off a firestorm. During a Q&A after documentary Indie Games: The Movie, a Japanese game designer asked Fish what he thought of modern Japanese games. Fish gave his honest opinion—rather bluntly. “Your games just suck,” Fish infamously said. But who was that…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2012 -
UncategorizedIt’s Like a Multiplayer Shooter, Only Set in the 15th Century
This is the first proper trailer for War of the Roses, a multiplayer combat game from Fatshark and Paradox. Come for the bows and medieval countryside, stay for the man who gets stabbed in the head not once, not twice, but thrice. It’s due on the PC later this year.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
WoW’s Lich King is “Only” 19″ Tall in the Real World
In October, Sideshow will be releasing this enormous statue of World of Warcraft’s Arthas, better known to everyone who doesn’t play World of Warcraft as The Lich King. Standing 19″ tall and weighing twenty pounds, he’ll cost you $350 and should be available at your favourite comic store or online retailer.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012 - Culture
Fable’s Concept Art is Like a Giant Storybook
Emrah Elmasli is a Turkish concept artist who now resides in the UK, where he’s done a ton of concept art for the last few games in the Fable series. Here’s a selection of his contributions, mostly taken from Fable III I’ve also thrown a few more in from some of Elmasli’s other work, for…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
No, a Smaller Screen Does Not Mean you can Release a Banned Video Game
Last year’s Mortal Kombat reboot was never released on console in Australia, because it exceeded the country’s MA15+ rating. Without an adults-only rating Down Under, the game couldn’t be put on shelves. With the game getting a later release on the PlayStation Vita, though, publishers Warner Bros. figured they’d try their luck and re-submit Mortal…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
How Game Value is Like Six Boxes of Horseshit
This is from Dan Pinchbeck, writer of PC indie story/thing Dear Esther, while giving a presentation at GDC earlier today. For reference, the full quote is below: Of all the turds in the pipe, this is the granddaddy. Games are not too expensive. If you go to the store to buy granola and accidentally buy…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012 - Uncategorized
Sadly, Mass Effect 3 on PS3 Has Some Problems
While it’s unfortunate to still have to be writing this in 2012, when most games have their multiplatform houses in order, it seems that the PS3 version of Mass Effect 3 has a lot of trouble sticking to its assigned 30 frames-per-second. As a video on Eurogamer shows, while both game suffer from slowdown when…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012 - CultureTotal Recall
A PlayStation in Pieces Looks Strangely Beautiful
There’s a touch of the macabre to seeing it laid out like this, I grant you, but for the most part the effect of seeing an original PlayStation and its controller stripped bare and put on display is just lovely. Things Organized Neatly [Tumblr]
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallWho Would Have Thought Skiing Down a Mountain Would be so Damn Hard
It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another instalment of grown men playing competitive, mostly awful arcade classics for nothing but internet fame. In tonight’s episode, the boys are facing off on Alpine Ski, a Taito game first released all the way back in 1981. Which kicks their ass like only a senior citizen of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2012
