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All’s Quiet In This Week’s Nintendo Download
The Nintendo 3DS launched yesterday, which means everyone at Nintendo was too busy playing with it to release more than a couple of WiiWare demos and a pair of DSiWare games in this week’s Nintendo Download. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Nintendo download so barren. Demos of Dark Rage and the second…
By Mike Fahey Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
AMD Calls Out NVIDIA on “Fastest Graphics Card” Claim
AMD says they want NVIDIA to put their money where their mouth is and prove that the NVIDIA GTX 590 really is the world’s fastest graphics card. Of course AMD believes their recently released Radeon HD 6990 is the world’s fastest graphics card. I hope this throw down involves sharks or something else bitey. [AMD…
By Brian Crecente Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Pros and Cons of Early 3DS Ownership
Being a fan of technology and gee-whiz gadgets can take its toll on your bank account and your faith in innovation at times. Often the hype preceding the latest bit of new technical wizardry doesn’t live up to the gadget itself, or early adopters of new technology find themselves the owners of obsolescence, failures or…
By Brian Crecente Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Arcade Gaming In The Least Likely Of Places
SNAPSHOT | OSAKA, JAPAN: Some supermarkets are for shopping, but this one is for gaming. (Photo: Brian Ashcraft) Wake Up, Kotaku Dynasty Warriors Studio Vandalized With “Shit Game” Graffiti Koei, the Yokohama-based game company best known for Dynasty Warriors, was recently vandalized. The studio’s offices were graffitied with red spray paint. The First 3D Pin-Up…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Confirmed for this Winter
First unveiled last year as a Kotaku rumor, Resident Evil: Raccoon City was made official this morning by Capcom, who verifies the new take on the survival horror series hits the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this winter. As rumored, Resident Evil: Raccoon City will take the franchise in a new direction, having players take…
By Brian Crecente Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
If Konami Makes Big Changes, This Game Creator Will Quit
Game maker Hudson is now fully enveloped by Konami. And Konami is firing people and canceling games Akira Sakuma (not pictured) created the Momotaro Dentetsu series of train themed board game-style video games for Hudson. Sakuma works freelance, but notes in a recent blog entry that he’s sixty years old. As someone who’s sixty years…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
What The Hell’s With The Flood Of 3DS Fishing Games?
In late spring and early summer this year, the Nintendo 3DS will be inundated with one thing in Japan: fishing simulators. In late May, one fishing game will be released on the 3DS. After Super Black Bass: 3D Fight hits the 3DS on May 26, three more titles will hit the 3DS in Japan the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedPutting The Strip In Akiba’s Trip
Set in Tokyo geek mecca Akihabara, Akiba’s Trip is crawling with vampires who are dressed as geekdom’s typical inhabitants. It’s up to 18 year-old kid to figure out why his friend has gone missing and save the area from those pesky vampires. How to kill them? Strip off their clothes. See, their clothes protect them…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Grasshopper Game To Leap Out For Quake Charity
Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio behind No More Heroes, is about to release a new iOS game called Frog Minutes. All proceeds from the upcoming game will go to the Japanese Red Cross, the company says in an official release. Frog Minutes will be released this Wednesday.
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
These Video Game Masterpieces Are Nothing But Text
What if, instead of action figures and comic books, our favourite video games inspired classic, dog-eared works of literature instead? These images by A. J. Hateley show us just such a scenario, taking some fairly random games – a little Half-Life 2 here, a little Deadly Premonition there – and basing torn old books on…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedIt’s Master Chief vs Samus In A 16-Bit Battle To The Death
The long-in-development Card Sagas Wars, a super-deformed fighting game based on the MUGEN engine, is a place where fighting game dreams come true. In this case, for those who have dreamed of seeing Master Chief take on Samus, Raving Rabbids and…Tingle? MUGEN is a free 2D fighting game engine (and originally a customisable 2D fighting…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedTake A (Virtual) Seat In The Crowd At A Korean StarCraft Tournament
This is Eemma, a Swedish student with a camera. And if you’ve ever wanted to know what it’s like to go and see professional StarCraft players face off in Seoul, she’s your gal! Shot in a quaint “virtual tourist” style, this isn’t a video showing you what the matches were like. What strategies were used.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Little Kid Tricked Out Of His PSP
Twenty-six year old Takanori Osanai didn’t have a job. He didn’t have a permanent address. But he apparently had a plan to steal PSPs. “My goal was to sell the PSP I swindled away,” Osanai told authorities in Omiya in Saitama Prefecture, which is outside Tokyo. On March 23 at around 2:15pm, Osanai approached a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dynasty Warriors Studio Vandalized With “Shit Game” Graffiti
Koei, the Yokohama-based game company best known for Dynasty Warriors, was recently vandalized. The studio’s offices were graffitied with red spray paint. “Shit game”, “die”, “garbage” and “divine retribution” were spray painted on the front of the building. There is speculation online that the graffiti is related to the most recent Dynasty Warriors. However, Japanese…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Handcuff Yourself For Extra Battery Life
The Universal Gadget Wrist Charger sports a 1,500mAh 5.5V rechargeable lithium ion battery that comes with nine different adapters to charge a whole host of portable devices like the iPhone, the PSP, the DS Lite and the DSi/3DS. The bracelet has LED lights to gauge battery life and weighs only 82 grams. It can be…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedIf This Is The Future Of Space Games, Sign Me Up
For all its political intrigue and gorgeous player models, EVE Online is still, like all other MMOs, a little stale. This concept trailer shows how developers CCP are planning on spicing things up a little. To complement the EVE Online MMO, a first-person shooter called Dust 514 is due for release sometime in the next…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Even Street Fighters (And Tekken!) Are Helping Japan’s Quake Victims
In a cute piece of national solidarity, Osaka-based Capcom has released a pair of supportive wallpapers for Japanese (and other!) fans to help parts of Japan get back on their feet following the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
3DS Turns Up Used In Spades
While the West is just getting the Nintendo 3DS, which went on sale over the weekend, the console has been available in Japan since February 26. As evident by this story, used 3DS handhelds are not in short supply. All of these used 3DS handhelds are available slightly cheaper than the price for new units.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2011