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Traveller’s Tales are the masters of the brick. Their LEGO creations deliver not just fun gaming experiences, but those magical sort of games that you can enjoy alone, with friends, or with children. I’ve been a fan since LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game hit in 2005. Now, six years and twice as many LEGO…
The Bard’s Tale, the highly enjoyable action role-playing game that launches today at the App Store, has a long, storied history—far longer and storied-er than your average iOS game. The first Bard’s Tale was a well-loved 1985 computer role-playing game, whose protagonist was, appropriately enough, a singing Bard. That alone set it apart from most…
Paradigm Shifts? Cinematic Action? Sounds pretty but what does it all look like? You’ll get to see some of the features that I discussed in my hands-on preview of Final Fantasy XIII-2 in the new teaser released today by Square Enix. Will these features change the way you approach the game when it hits in…
Getting Ready | NORTH BEND, WASH: Nintendo of America readies stock for the holiday season. (Photo: Ted S. Warren | AP) Reviewing Chun-Li’s Giant Plastic Thighs (and Ryu’s Giant Veiny Feet) Square Enix’s first two Street Fighter IV figures, based on series “heroes” Ryu and Chun-Li, have just hit shelves. Part of the company’s Play…
If Yoda and Darth Vader were happy enough to appear on SoulCalibur IV‘s box art , you can bet SoulCalibur V would not shy away from its Assassin’s Creed guest star. As previously posted, SCV will feature the lethal stylings of Assassin’s Creed character Ezio. The game will be out in Feb. 2, 2012 in…
Survival horror game Resident Evil 4 was set in Europe—okay, Spain. RE5 was set in Africa. And the inevitable RE6? The game has not yet been officially announced, but Capcom mentioned it to Kotaku in the past. And Capcom producer Masachika Kawata is even hinting that the game might not be survival horror. So what…
Do not trust FedEx with your deliveries. I had shipped out a NES coffee table to someone who bought one, and upon receiving it, they ignored the “This side up” stickers and delivered it on it’s side. They also had stacked a large and very heavy box on top of it, tweaking the table inside.…
Glitch, the casual MMO that’s the work of the creators of Flickr and Katamari Damacy, launched with a ton of promise! It also promptly turned out to be a bit rubbish. So rubbish that its developers are “unlaunching” it. Wonderfully, that’s the term they’re actually using, dragging Glitch back into beta with a promise to…
As far as Street Fighter gamers get, they don’t come much bigger than Daigo Umehara. He endorses fight sticks and has his own t-shirts. And here, he’s profiled on Japanese TV. This is a best-of collection, with Daigo footage you’ve probably seen before. There’s also a page from a Famitsu article from 1998 with a…
Square Enix’s first two Street Fighter IV figures, based on series “heroes” Ryu and Chun-Li, have just hit shelves. Part of the company’s Play Arts line, they’re big, they’re detailed and they’re a little on the expensive side. But are they any good? They’re certainly heavy, that’s for sure. Standing just over 20cm each, these…
When is a game being sexist? When is a game not being sexist? They’re tricky topics to wade through with words. Like most things in life, it’s easier with a picture. It’s a rough guide, and applies more to fantasy games than, say, a puzzler, but you can make do! When is it sexist? [Reddit]
OK, so that first Jonah Hill x Sam Worthington Call of Duty ad was…OK. A little cheesy, a little much, but OK. Their newer, second commercial is much better. Less effects, less bombast. Just two dudes from different sides of the tracks hangin’ out, talking tactics. It drags in parts, and Hill’s leaner face is…
Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo 5 is getting an update. It’s called Gran Turismo 5: Spec II Spec II is Gran Turismo 5 with the Online Update Ver.2.00, a free update which was released in October, included on the Blu-ray disc. Spec II also comes with a product code so that players can download the “Complete…
Artist Robert “DoomCMYK” Mangaoang, who we’ve featured here previously, certainly knows the fastest way to the bottom of my heart: by having the crew from Adventure Time engage in some Skyrim cosplay. Once available as a print, this image now sadly only exists on the internet, but that’s OK. We can still enjoy it. Adventure…
Army of Two is a 2008 co-op third-person shooter that allowed one player to control one of the mercenaries, while the other player controlled the second. A sequel followed—Army of Two: The 40th Day—in 2010, and it was more of the same. The next game could be different. The unannounced third entry in the series,…
The beta for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive went live yesterday. Know what that means? Yup! People filming themselves playing it then uploading it to the internet so we can all see. The footage is from the tweaked update to classic map “Dust”. It’s…Counter-Strike all right!
Sure looks like it! This new Nendoroid figure, from Japan’s Good Smile Company, will be out next year. Pre-orders are already kicking off, though, and you can get one for around USD$35. Looks great, doesn’t he? The accessories are a nice touch.
The West might have been won with the Winchester. But Japan was ruled with the katana. It’s not simply what the gun is to Americans, the sword is to the Japanese. It’s much more, and then some. As master swordmaker Korehira Watanabe said in the above Esty documentary, the katana can express the soul and…
Did you see the first Japanese Vita commercial? It was nuts. There’s a new PS Vita commercial for the U.S., and, surprise, it’s totally not crazy. The “coming soon” trailer is actually straightforward and easy to follow. There’s this thing called the Vita. It has buttons and thumbsticks and a camera and video games. Got…
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