Today in Tokyo, Fukuoka-based developer Level-5 held its annual press event. Kotaku Japan was in attendance as Level-5 revealed a handful of new titles. But what new titles? Before that, Level-5 presented previously revealed games. Several features were discussed for the Nintendo DS version of Ni no Kuni, including how the book, the “Magic Master”,…
Earlier this morning THQ confirmed that Patrice Désilets, the former creative director behind Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series, was forming a new studio in Montreal for them. Désilets emailed an open letter to Kotaku to explain why. – Ed. Montréal, October 2010 Hello everyone, As you may know, last May, I made the difficult decision to…
Phoenix Wright meet Professor Layton. Capcom’s lawyer is going to appear in a game with Level-5’s famous puzzle-solving sleuth. Today in Tokyo, Level-5 revealed a Professor Layton and Ace Attorney crossover Nintendo 3DS game currently titled “Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney”. Ace Attorney creator Takumi Shuu will be working on the title, and the game’s…
Upcoming PlayStation 3 racer Gran Turismo 5 may have been delayed again, but it’s the game’s technical performance, and not its punctuality, which has the series’ creator Kazunori Yamauchi asking for your forgiveness. Well, not really asking. More like begging “Our engineers complain every day: ‘Isn’t it enough that it’s in 1080p? Does it have…
When Australia is mentioned in the same breath as video games, most people’s first thoughts are of something negative. Something unpleasant. So let’s meet an Australian politician who’s one of the good guys. His name is David Bartlett, Premier of the Australian state of Tasmania. That makes him the equivalent of, roughly, a US state…
Aki Toyosaki is a voice actress and a pop singer, perhaps best known for schoolgirl rocker anime K-On! She’s a gamer, too, and she’s got discerning taste. In Japan, Western games are not big sellers. People play Japanese games, which is totally fine! It is Japan. And while Western games might not be as popular…
We told you this back in June, but it’s today been made official: Patrice Désilets, the former creative director of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series, has joined rival publisher THQ, and will be setting up a new studio in Montreal. Désilets had been with Ubisoft for 13 years prior to his departure in June, during which…
In Dubai, customs officials successfully blocked an attempt to smuggle over 48,000 counterfeit PlayStation games into the country. The value of the seized phony goods? Over US$1.3 million. Emirates News Agency WAM reports that Officials located the games in “cartoon boxes” and that the shipment originated from an Arab port. As website GamePolitics points out,…
When someone says “it’s a game of cat and mouse”, this isn’t what they’re talking about. Though it probably should be. This clip, by Marcus Blättermann and Susanne Wohlfahrt, is the Street Fighter of the animal kingdom. And in the animal kingdom, the term “balanced roster” doesn’t really apply. [Creature Combat IV, thanks Phil!]
The dead walk the earth in the the zombie add-on for Red Dead Redemption, Undead Nightmare. While zombies are tres passe, Rockstar thinks it can put an original spin on them. Here’s why: “With Undead Nightmare, we have long wanted to find a way to make zombies interesting, and one of the ways that we…
Although it’s filmed entirely within Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV, don’t expect this piece of machinima – called Mastermind – to be about guns, hookers or push-ups. It’s more Heavy Rain than Liberty City, with its slow pace and…strange outlook, and while it’s far from exciting, it’s still professional enough to warrant a hearty round…
Yesterday, a list of naughty words that can be entered in Pokemon: Black and White surfaced. Some of the words might be easy for Westerners to understand why they are considered offensive. Other words, less so. Like with most languages, Japanese has an array of colorful terms for bodily functions and genitalia. That doesn’t mean…
Bulletstorm is an upcoming shooter that will have the words “Epic Games” and “Electronic Arts” on the front of the box. Which means not only men with guns, but action figures, too. Oh, and giant feet. Grayson Hunt is the star of the game, and also the subject of this figure, designed by NECA and…
Exploring death in dreams. Upcoming role-playing game “Catherine” is the latest title from Persona developer Atlus, and it looks to be anything but typical. The title features anime from Studio 4C (Mind Game, Tekkon Kinkreet, etc). This isn’t Studio 4C’s first venture into gaming; the company has worked on titles like Rogue Galaxy and Lunar…
Since “Basically Everyone” is, well, basically everyone, that’s all of our signatures on that thing. Considering the timing of the delay, thanks for keeping it so civil! As seen on This Is The Internet, via Gamefreaks
Fallout: New Vegas’ First DLC Will Be Xbox-Exclusive Comment by: meteora3255 Nominated by: Joe Why is this making everyone so angry. Back in my day we had a console war that many didn’t survive. And right after that another. There were third-party exclusives that each side fought tooth-and-nail to defend. There was no crying, this…
Being a place where fools and money meet, World of Warcraft is as prone to scammers and swindlers as anywhere else on this planet (or any other planet). This handy chart shows just how prone it is. From power-levelling to gold scams, it’s an informative scroll for anyone who’s ever wondered what kind of money…
The Mother series, known in the West as Earthbound, are some of the best games to ever grace a Game Boy. They’re so good, in fact, that Nintendo of America wants nothing to do with them. Despite years of asking, demanding and then begging for the third game in the series – never released outside…
Beating the computer at Starcraft can be tough enough as it is, but let university programmers at the AI and it becomes almost invincible The AIIDE 2010 StarCraft AI Competition, held last week at the University of California, pitted 28 teams against each other in a battle to produce the toughest artificial intelligence. There were…
What did I do during my week-long vacation? Nothing much, but it’s the topic that will kick off tonight’s open thread in which we smarmily question “How is this news?” My days off from Kotaku—minus having to write up a Castlevania: Lords of Shadow review and field a few calls from EIC Brian Crecente—were uneventful…
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