In the latest Dragon Quest X trailer, there’s a train. It has several headlights and a curved shaft, and it looks like a train in another game. You can see it above. A similar train appeared in 2003’s Sakura Taisen ~Atsuki Chishio ni~. It was spotted by Japanese netizens, and it looks, well, like the…
This summer, two Pokémon flicks (one for Black and one for White) were released in Japan. Pokémon the Movie: White—Victini and Zekrom will be released this December on 300 theaters. The other one’ll get a limited release. [AnimeNation]
Here’s a new, long trailer for the upcoming real-time strategy game based on George R R Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series of novels. It’ll be out on PC on September 29. Sadly, being based on the books (and a sort of prequel at that) and not the TV show, there’ll be none of…
Thought I’d try something a little different with today’s Fine Art. Instead of showing the art of a video game, I thought I’d show off some of the art of video game artists. Which aren’t always the same thing! On the night of Friday, Sept. 23, Vigil Games—developers of the Darksiders series—will be hosting a…
Lee Wei Chen, a design student at Kingston University, has come up with an arcade cabinet that washes your clothes. Which is also a washing machine that plays games. ‘I realised that the skills I had developed in the virtual world were useless in the real world. I wanted to make them useful,’ Chen says.…
Level-5’s Ni No Kuni was easily my “game of the show” for 2011’s Tokyo Game Show. It’s the first game I ran to on opening day, and it’s the only game I went and played twice If my impressions and some off-screen footage weren’t enough to convey how good this game looks, here’s 13 minutes…
Dark Souls, the spiritual successor to bastard hard Demon’s Souls, was released today in Japan. There are reports of it selling out at select shops. There are also reports of game-killing bugs. For some gamer, during online play the game either won’t progress from the main screen or freezes up. From Software, the game’s developer,…
Next year, the Tokyo Game Show will be held slightly later than this year’s. The 2012 Tokyo Game Show will run from Sept. 20 to Sept. 23, with the first two days being business days. The last two are public.
Given the nature of the game, and the financial realities of 21st-century game development, you should all be expecting Diablo III to appear on a console at some stage. So try not to let the following statement from Blizzard’s Jay Wilson freak you out too much. Because it’s for the best! “One of the reasons…
Not because it looks bad. It looks great! But all that flashing, and bright lights, and flashing. Argh! I sadly didn’t get a chance to play Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena at last week’s Tokyo Game Show, when it was playable, but the guys from Kotaku Japan did and said it was surprisingly…
Budding game artist Ed Chee (Monkey Island 2 Special Edition) will be displaying some of his works in an exhibition to be held in Toronto early next month. What makes this cool is that all the paintings were done not in paint, but on a Nintendo DS. Using the DS’ Colors! program, Chee has drawn…
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is Valve’s retooling of the classic team-based first-person shooter Counter-Strike. Today, Valve revealed that the game will include “Arsenal Mode”, which is based on the popular Counter-Strike: Source mod “Gun Game”. Valve is working with the Gun Game creators to create Arsenal Mode. “We are excited that Valve reached out and is…
Fab Style isn’t just a fashion game. It’s a management sim. There’s pink. And hearts. The game’s even got Prince Charming. Players try to make the numero uno fashion boutique. Attending fashion school sharpens players’ fashion savvy as well as their manners. Don’t know how to hold a wine glass correctly? Play this game! It…
Don’t have Sword & Sworcery yet? What the hell’s wrong with you? Actually, put that question on the backburner. For now, just get the game. It’s only $0.99. For today. Because it’s Autumn Solstice. You’ll understand once you get it.
Sony’s new PS3 terms of service are designed to stop the company being hit with class-action suits, and having to front juries, which care about little things like the right of the consumer over the operations of multi-billion dollar corporations. So how did the company get away with legally including a “don’t sue us” clause?…
Nintendo 3DS game Senran Kagura unabashedly features boobs. Which is exactly why the game’s advertising campaign also features, you guessed it, boobs Ample pin-ups like baby-faced Chiaki Kyan are playing through the game in promotional clips. Kyan is part of the busty idol troupe created for the game. Kyan is famous for her love of…
I’m not normally a man to carry around regret, but last week, I didn’t get a chance to play this game. The lines, as we’ve told you, were too damn long. But if ever Square Enix were going to make a game that spoke directly to my heart, it would be this. Army Corps of…
Late this spring in Kyoto, an 8-year-old kid left his gaming pouch in the restroom at his local supermarket. The pouch contained a portable game machine and some games. When he and his parents went looking for the pouch, it was already gone. You’ve heard this story a million times. Someone leaves something behind, some…
Valve boss Gabe Newell has a history of replying directly to emails from the public, so there’s a good chance this exchange with an impatient Half-Life fan is for real. Either way, there’s a definite chance that it’s great. If anyone else wants to give it a show, maybe try a sonnet. Or an epic…
Sony will be releasing an Uncharted 3 hardware bundle in the US that includes the system and a game. Mercifully, Japan’s hideous Uncharted 3 controller is nowhere to be seen. It’s just a straight-up black console (320GB) with a straight-up, single black DualShock 3. Alongside that and the game the bundle will also include a…
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