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Ignoring iPhone, 3DS and Vita Hype, Valve Doesn’t Want to Make Portable Games
Nintendo is catching a lot of heat these days for refusing to make games for the iPhone, but one of the other elite video game companies, the forward-thinking makers of Portal, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2, Valve Software isn’t just shunning iPhone. Valve shows no interest in making portable games at all. Not for iPhone.…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dead Island Devs Push Back DLC, Refocus Energy on Bug Squashing
Dead Island‘s expansion packs, both announced and not, may be hitting later than planned as developers refocus their energy on fixing the game, Deep Silver tells Kotaku “Right now the Dead Island development team’s priority is working on fixes and updates across all platforms so that we can take care of all of the fans…
By Brian Crecente Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
What a week: Nintendo 3DS conference, Sony Conference, the TGS. There’s lots of news and I’m sure you guys have lots to say about it. Or you don’t… In that case, just speak whatever comes to mind because it’s talk amongst yourselves time. Cheers to Cleesox for today’s image. Want to have your TAYpic featured…
By Nick Partyka Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Tokyo Game Explosion Day 1: Final Fantasy XIII-2, Gold Vitas and… Good 3DS News!
We’ve got a guy who speaks Japanese and one who speaks Australian tearing through Tokyo Game Show, eyeballing Hideo Kojima, playing the prettiest PlayStation 3 game they’ve ever seen, and soaking in all the news from Tokyo Game Show 2011. Here is all the top news from the last 24 hours of TGS… PS Vita…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Holding Out Against a Hero
You see the icon, you read the name, you boot it up, you think Tiny Heroes is about deploying a diminutive unit to plunder the gold from the dungeon laying out there before it. Wrong. In this game, you are a goblin, and your job is to marshal your resources to keep the Tiny Heroes…
By Owen Good Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Isn’t Your Father’s Panzer Dragoon
Project Draco is the latest title from the designer behind Panzer Dragoon The game is a sci-fi yarn in which humans colonized an unnamed planet inhabited by dragons. The humans are able to befriend the dragons and control them. Enter Project Draco The game is a Kinect rail shooter, but promises 180 degrees of freedom.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dead Island Nears 2M
Buggy, but fun hack-and-slash zombie role-playing game Dead Island shipped more than a million copies to stores in the first few days of release and expects to send out 2 million globally by the end of week, the publishers say. Of course, these aren’t sold to gamers numbers, but it is still pretty impressive.
By Brian Crecente Published September 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedDo You Know Whose Voice Haunts This Game?
Haunt is the latest title from Masaya Matsuura, the designer best known for Parappa the Rapper Haunt is an Xbox Live title for Kinect. It’s set in a haunted house with players fending off ghosts and shining a flashlight down creepy hallways. It’s not scary, and it’s kid friendly. For gamers, Haunt has a special…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedI Think I Just Played the Prettiest Game On the PS3
What determines somebody’s “best-looking” game on a system is a subjective thing. Some will prefer clean lines, others copious effects. Me, I can do without either if a game just has great art Level-5 and Studio Ghibli’s Ni No Kuni on the PS3 has amazing art. Given the contributions of Japan’s most storied animation studio,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Tokyo Game Show Shook by a Small Earthquake
This afternoon, just as the Tokyo Game Show was grinding to a halt for the day, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan. There were no immediate injuries according to early reports The quake was 140 miles east of Tokyo, and the quake was felt at the Makuhari Messe, where TGS is held. The press…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Square Enix’s Tokyo Game Show Booth Is…Look Out, Giant Chocobo!
As you’d expect, Square Enix’s booth at this year’s Tokyo Game Show is one of the biggest and most popular, even on this first day, which should be quiet. Which it wasn’t. At least at the place where you could play Final Fantasy games. Also on-hand were some Western games that Square Enix is helping…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Three Out of Four Online Marriages End in Divorce, Says Korean MMO
MapleStory, the South Korean sidescrolling MMO (above), allows players to get hitched if they so choose. Sadly, many of the unions are not parted by death but divorceā€”20,344 out of 26,982, to be precise. Nexon, the publisher of MapleStory recently released the figures. Getting hitched runs a $25 in-world fee but splitting up doesn’t incur…
By Owen Good Published September 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedPole-Dancing Is Not Subtle Marketing, Tokyo Game Show
The Tokyo Game Show has never been averse to showing a little flesh to get attention for a game or publisher. That said, it’s normally done as tastefully (and politely) as barely-clothed ladies hawking entertainment products can hope to be. Something these guys seemed to not give a shit about. WARNING: This might be NSFW?…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
GTA IV Overtakes San Andreas in Lifetime Sales [Correction]
Grand Theft Auto IV, released in 2008, has just now overtaken its predecessor, 2004’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in total sales, says the top boss over the GTA brand. [Corrected at bottom of story.] Grand Theft Auto IV moved more than 2 million copies between March and now, according to figures cited by Strauss…
By Owen Good Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sony’s Tokyo Game Show Booth, In Living Colour
Can’t make it to the Tokyo Game Show to check out Sony’s massive, Vita-heavy booth? No, probably not. The next best thing to being there, then, are these pictures of the place! While there were plenty of playable PS3 units on station, as far as branding went, this year’s booth was all PlayStation Vita, the…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedConfronting the Eternal Question: Why Don’t Video Game Heroes Pee?
Note that I said “confronting.” I can’t say “answering” because that presumes there is a good reason for the absence of urinal faculties in Ryu, Mega Man and Princess Peach. And when we get to the end of this video by Gameboyardee, we are left with even more questions. t’s best to just think of…
By Owen Good Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s a Gold PlayStation Vita! (And a Red One, a Blue One, A Green One…)
Giving us a taste of the inevitable future, Sony is showing off at this year’s Tokyo Game Show what the PlayStation Vita looks like in a range of colours that aren’t its standard black. Those colours range from glossy red to sky blue to what I can only describe as “Pimp’s Coinpurse Gold”. The two…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
New PlayStation Network Terms of Service Include a No Suing Sony Clause
Have you agreed to the new PlayStation Network terms of service yet? If you have, then you’ve agreed not to take Sony to court or participate in a class action lawsuit against the company. You really should read things before you sign them, even digitally. Today Sony Network Entertainment America transfers its online services to…
By Mike Fahey Published September 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Chance to Play Through Dead Island’s Pre-Story?
This is sort of known, but I thought still worth talking among you fellow (few?) Dead Island fans. In this screenshot of the game’s menu we see three bits of unlockable content. The Ripper Mod is the weapon blueprint you get with a pre-order of the game. The Bloodbath Arena is a $10 downloadable pack…
By Brian Crecente Published September 15, 2011
