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Snatcher Inspires a Radio Drama
Hideo Kojima is making a Snatcher inspired radio drama called Suda51’s Sdatcher. It will be overseen by Kojima, written by Goichi Suda (No More Heroes) and scored by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill). That’s…neat? Influenced by Blade Runner, cyberpunk adventure game Snatcher was originally released in 1988. Originally called “Project S”, the radio drama idea was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 8, 2011 - Culture
The Manly Video Game Art of Ville-Valtteri Kinnunen
Barbarians. Knights. Tribal warriors. All very manly men with their armour and swords and scowls, all very much a speciality of Finnish concept artist Ville-Valtteri Kinnunen. Now employed at BioWare, Kinnunen has worked on games like Dragon Age 2, Age of Conan and the criminally under-appreciated Warhammer 40K: Squad Command Working on a Conan property…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis is How Games are Made (and It’s Beautiful)
Making video games is an incredibly lengthy, detailed and technical process. It would be impossible to visualise all the code that goes into one without being some kind of omnipotent being. Unless you’re watching this video. Put together by LittleBigPlanet developers Media Molecule, this is a “code swarm”, a graphical representation of the work of…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Monkey Island Remakes Coming Back Once Again
The high-def remakes of Lucasarts’ first two Monkey Island games are being combined in the one box and sold at retail. Included as a sweetener will be concept art, soundtracks and, best of all, material from an abortive attempt at making a Monkey Island animated movie.
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mad Catz’s Video Games Are Xbox 360 Bound
Mad Catz doesn’t just make video game controllers. It also makes video games! Video games like War Wings: Hell Catz. Mad Catz revealed this week that it will be publishing video games on the Xbox 360. So there you go!
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 8, 2011 -
UncategorizedSony is Making a Bollywood Sci-Fi Game for the PS3 (and PS2)
A Sony development team in the UK is working on a game adaptation of upcoming Bollywood sci-fi flick Ra.One The film, which stars Shah Rukh Khan, will see its game appear on both PS2 and PS3, the latter as a downloadable PSN title. Players can take control of Ra.One, the movie’s hero, or G.One, who…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
One Piece in Restaurant Form
This summer, Universal Studios Japan is hosting two nerd-friendly events. One is life-sized Monster Hunter monsters. The other? The second is a One Piece-themed restaurant. This summer, USJ eatery Lombard’s is being turned into Sanji’s Pirates Restaurant as part of USJ’s One Piece Premier Summer that includes a live action show where Waterworld is usually…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Might Send you Demos, Even if you Didn’t Ask for Each One
Since the dawn of time, game demos have been a largely proactive experience. You hear about them, and you have to go out and get them yourself. Nintendo might have a better idea. During a recent Q&A session with investors, company president Satoru Iwata said, “When Nintendo would like to ask users to try a…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2011 -
UncategorizedEVE Online Thinks It’s “Real”
After a little, let’s say, negative publicity of late, EVE Online developers CCP have released this trailer as a reminder of why people play the game in the first place. Well, OK, one of the reasons. Back-stabbing and political intrigue don’t make for great trailers, though.
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2011 -
UncategorizedCould Bloodrayne III: The Third Reich be Uwe Boll’s masterpiece?
Vampire Hitler attacks Rayne, the sexy young half-vampire heroine, in a crazy-pants dream sequence from Bloodrayne: The Third Reich. Yes, Uwe Boll’s World War II epic is out on DVD, and it’s chock full of crazy. Although to be fair, I’m not sure there’s anything in this movie that’s quite on the level of the…
By Charlie Jane Anders Published July 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Here is Fourteen Minutes of BioShock Infinite Gameplay Footage
It wasn’t shown to the public at the time, but at E3 last month there was a BioShock Infinite demo that blew people’s socks off. You may now watch that demonstration. Below you’ll find the entire fourteen-minute demonstration, which kicks in at the second “chapter” (around 4:20 in). You can read our complete BioShock Infinite…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Gap Between Game and Movie Violence
The House of Blue Leaves fight scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol. 1 is one of the most gruesome scenes in the entire picture. When it was released in the U.S., the scene was in black and white to tone down violence. When it was released in Japan, the scene was in living color…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 8, 2011 -
UncategorizedLet’s Watch Solid Snake Read Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Well, technically, let’s listen, since the video features only the voice behind Snake (David Hayter) and not the game character’s digital self. You will really want to skip straight to the Hamlet passage itself, which begins 5:00 in. It’s a fair effort by Hayter given he’s both in character and taking the piss, but it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is This Where Gears of War 3 Was Leaked From?
Months ahead of its release, Epic’s Gears of War 3 has been leaked onto the internet, a security breach so severe law enforcement has gotten involved. Maybe, though, the cops won’t be needed. A French developer has told the world about this site, which is currently hosting a range of Xbox promotional material for the…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallRemembering the Great, Last Ninja
Today, we’re looking at The Last Ninja. The first “badass” game I ever played, and still one of my all-time favourites. The Last Ninja was first released in 1987 on the Commodore 64, and was developed by Hungarian outfit SoftView and legendary 80’s studio System 3. It was, and remains to this day, one of…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2011 -
UncategorizedDetroit Muscles in on Driver: San Francisco‘s Fleet
More than 120 licensed vehicles, modern makes and classic models, populate the world of Driver: San Francisco. The City by the Bay was the scene of the greatest car chase in cinema history, Dodge vs. Ford, so the fleet reveal for Ubisoft’s action racer naturally genuflects to American automotive pride. Driver: San Francisco releases Aug.…
By Owen Good Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Great Unwashed
Hello there, Kotaku readers. It’s perfectly safe to enter the waters of tonight’s open thread. The non-video game related discussion is just fine, so dive in for some stimulating conversation and maybe a link or two. We’re slowly building our San Diego Comic-Con schedule here, kicking off a month of travel for yours truly. Somehow…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 7, 2011 -
UncategorizedTake a Good Hard Look at Planetside 2
The countdown has ended and Sony Online Entertainment has pulled back the curtain on Planetside 2, the sequel to the ambitious 2003 massively multiplayer online first-person shooter. While we’ll have more on the new game tomorrow morning, from the assets alone you can easily determine that the three factions from the original game – Terran…
By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2011 - Uncategorized
Activision’s Bringing A New James Bond Game to Comic-Con
Superhuman fare X-Men Destiny, Spider-man: Edge of Time and Prototype 2 will get special attention from publisher Activision at this month’s San Diego Comic-Con. The mega-publisher has one (possible) reveal planned for the show, teasing a “new 007 game” for the annual nerd gathering. Activision offers no additional details in its Comic-Con event invite, but…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 7, 2011
