Final Fantasy Tactics. X-Com. Shining Force. All games that do turn-based strategy very well. If you have an iPhone or iPad, add Hunters to that list. Developed by Rodeo Games – made up of guys who have worked Sony, Criterion and Lionhead – Hunters is a turn-based squad combat game that takes a venerable old…
Hey, Farmville fans. When you log on and plant seeds, you’re not actually enjoying a game. You’re stuck in what’s called the “Sunk Cost Fallacy”. What is the “Sunk Cost Fallacy”? The You Are Not So Smart blog explains: The Misconception: You make rational decisions based on the future value of objects, investments and experiences.…
Dated for June, Child of Eden is the upcoming rhythm action game from Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the game designer responsible for the classic shooter Rez. The actors in the trailer appear to be wearing white gloves – something that Mizuguchi’s done in the past when showing Child of Eden’s Kinect version at gaming events. This makes…
Mike Rose, who runs indie gaming hotspot and Kotaku favourite Indiegames.com, has written a book called “250 Indie Games You Must Play”. Note that it’s not “250 Indie Games You Must Play Before You DIE”, so there’s no rush. Some of these games, you will have played. Some you may have just heard of. But…
Starting January 1, 2012, groundbreaking will commence on a new Nintendo R&D center in Kyoto. Nintendo is pouring over USD$15 million into the new facility that will house over 1,500 employees. The site is adjacent to Nintendo’s current headquarters (pictured) and previously housed a golf center, which Nintendo had bulldozed in 2008. The goal is…
Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D may not be the most original game on the 3DS, but it’s certainly shaping up as one of the best-looking. And yes, what you see there is a Resident Evil game letting the player move around while aiming their weapon. It seems to slow you down when you do it, but…
So, Microsoft is testing a “new disc format”. The more fanciful of you are thinking that means “Blu-Ray”. The more sensible and well-connected are thinking it’s something a little more realistic. Tech gurus Digital Foundry claim that, according to “a highly placed development source”, this new disc format is simply the same old Xbox 360…
The first Crysis was, and remains, something of a benchmark for PC hardware nerds. Because the second Crysis was also made for consoles, though, some of those aforementioned nerds are angry. And justifiably so! I mean, look at these numbers, put together by PC specialists Rock, Paper, Shotgun. They clearly show that, because this game…
While AR Games might be the 3DS’s holy shit moment, there are plenty of holy shit moments to go around. Final Fantasy has its own on the iPhone. New app Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy AR allows folks to downloaded AR models of Final Fantasy XIII’s Lightning, Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud, Warrior of Light from the…
Console launches are normally times for absurdity, but this report coming in from the UK – of GAME staff popping down to their local supermarket to buy 3DS units – is something else. Eurogamer has got hold of documentation sent to employees of GAME, a major specialist retailer in Europe (and Australasia) at the time…
Large breasts and video games are not strangers. But apparently, sometimes breasts are not large enough? Sometimes they need a little help? The latest downloadable content for Xbox 360 game The Dream Club Zero is doing just that. The newly released DLC offers players an array of costumes like a “Fox Mask” or a “Samba…
Starting April 1, 2011, Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima will be a Vice President and Corporate Officer at Konami! [via Konami]
Because Zynga is promoting a new FarmVille expansion, FarmVille: English Countryside, that’s why.
Now this isn’t fair. It’s hard enough for Indie games on the Xbox 360 to be noticed as it is, let alone when crazy gamers are knocking out their only real way of getting in the spotlight: a game’s ratings. Microsoft is currently “investigating a possible misuse of ratings” affecting a number of titles on…
After Irem outright canceled Disaster Report 4, rumors swirled that the studio would no longer be releasing new copies of previous Disaster Report games. Disaster Report 4 was to be Irem’s first PS3 game. The fate of the studio’s second PS3 game seems equally grim. Steambot Chronicles 2 (aka Poncotsu Roman Daikatsugeki Bumpy Trot 2),…
According to Will Wright (SimCity, The Sims, etc.), his new company, Stupid Fun Club, doesn’t seem to be recognized by the E3 game expo. Wright tweets, “So apparently the E3 folks decided my new company (The Stupid Fun Club) isn’t in the electronic entertainment industry….” Wright says E3 is refusing to let his art director…
In 1987, Mike Tyson starred in Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, a Nintendo boxing game that featured over-the-shoulder pugilism. Now, in 2011, Mike Tyson stars in Mike Tyson – Main Event, a boxing game that features over-the-shoulder pugilism. Only now, there’s no Nintendo. This new game is made by RockLive, and is, yes, a Punch-Out clone for…
In the days following the Tohoku Earthquake, Japanese people across the country began doing what they could for the relief efforts by rolling up their sleeves and giving blood. Just days after the quake hit, the Japanese Red Cross blood donation centers were running at a surplus. “People seem to feel the need to do…
Phil Fish, co-creator of upcoming indie game Fez, will be releasing his game on Xbox Live Arcade. And maybe the PC and PlayStation 3 as well. But the Wii? Um… “Right now we’re only concentrating on XBLA, which makes the most sense for us at the time”, Fish tells Destructoid. “PC and PSN would also…
Displaying content in 3D is the main draw for the new Nintendo 3DS. So will Nintendo’s next home console follow suit? Don’t hold your breath. “I think at Nintendo, we realize that any sort of goggle-type 3-D technology was not going to work,” Nintendo’s Hideki Konno told CNN. “In order to make 3-D technology viable…
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