This is a common question Westerners have. Japanese characters in anime, manga and video games, they say, “look” Caucasian. That is all a matter of perspective, no? In a post titled “Why do the Japanese Draw Themselves as White?”, blogger Julian Abagond argues that the Japanese do not draw themselves as white. Rather, Westerners (Abagond…
Kotaku has learned that the expected job cuts at Lucasarts will be taking place today, with up to 30% of the company’s internal developers to be let go.
Hello, what’s this? A new action-RPG that’s also very easy on the eye? Please, Supergiant Games, continue. Get a load of all those colours! The game is called Bastion, and Supergiant is a new indie developer made up of a few ex-Command & Conquer guys. It’s due out in 2011 for both PC and consoles.…
Oh dear. It’s not just Spaniards who won’t be able to control Kinect with their voices when the peripheral launches. It’s everyone who doesn’t live in the US, Mexico or United Kingdom. Eurogamer has confirmed with Microsoft that when Kinect is released in November, no languages from mainland Europe will be supported. So if you’re…
There’s not a whole lot you can do with the EyePet at this point to make it the sort of game I’d want to play. Adding Move does give the video game toy a bit more depth and a whole lot of sizzle, but it’s all still being applied to a game that looks increasingly…
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 gets a healthy helping of motion controlling when the Move releases later this month. I took the motion patch for the golfing game for a spin early today and was quite pleased with how the new controller works in the classic golf title. To use Move controls you just go…
A free patch will allow Heavy Rain players to control the game with a PlayStation Move wand in one hand and either a Navigation controller or DualShock 3 in the other. So how will you find Jason? Watch.
Starcraft II sold a million copies in its first 24 hours on sale. Not bad, but not as great as the last new Blizzard game to be released. How’d it do, then, in its first month on sale? Better. Blizzard just revealed that the real-time strategy smash has sold over three million copies worldwide since…
The light gun game, like the fighting game, has enjoyed a revival over the past few years. And while there is no light gun Street Fighter IV, the tech in the Wii Remote, and now in the PlayStation 3 Move, raises hopes that the genre will continue to charge ahead. The debut original light gun…
You hear talk about games that are “not for you.” You try to keep an open mind. You play Gears of War; you play de Blob. You enjoy both. But here, at last, a game that’s not for me. TV SuperStars is a loud gameshow game that has all the glitz of the British TV…
We’ve already been drooling about Echochrome ii here. Kind of unsightly. But look at this video I shot of the demo version of this upcoming PlayStation 3 Move game and tell me I should stop. Echchrome ii comes from Sony’s Japan Studio. Based on the menus shown in the demo version of the game, it…
The first Valkyria Chronicles game was set in an alternative version of Europe in the year 1935. Could this Japanese teaser site with “Code 1935” in its URL be for Valkyria Chronicles 3? Sega has apparently registered “valkyria3.jp”, leading many to believe that the Japan-based game company was working on another entry in the Valkyria…
Last week: I had no desire to paint music using a PlayStation 3 motion controller. This week: I yearn to play the full version of Beat Sketcher. Remember that game name. Until I found it lurking as an extra demo on my review copy of PlayStation Move games Kung Fu Rider and Start The Party,…
High Velocity Bowling first hit the Playstation Network back in 2007, but later this month it’s getting an update, adding Playstation Move support to the bowling game. Unfortunately, the Move gameplay I tried out seems to be a bit buggy, with the bowling game losing the controller multiple times during a swing of my arm…
If it wasn’t for the fact that it appears to be an -ahem- expansion of Wii Sports Tennis, the most notable aspect of Ubisoft’s Move version of Racquet Sports would be that its characters look like Xbox 360 Avatars. It’s possible this game is one big inside joke. But it’s also possible that it can…
Ever wanted to play an MMO where you are not a druid, or an elf, or a mage, but a TANK? Then World of Tanks is for you. The game, by Wargaming, lets you drive pretty much every significant tank of the mid-20th century, as you join a team of tanks to go off and…
Firemint’s ultra-popular iPhone game, Flight Control, is also Move compatible on the Playstation 3. I spent a bit of time with it and was delighted to see how fun and easy it was to quickly draw precise flight paths on the game’s top-down map of the landing strips. Controls were snappy, providing a bit of…
The most futuristic thing you can do in video games so far this year is to play Start The Party. Start The Party is -yawn- a party game, a -groan- mini-game collection. Oh, but it’s motion-controlled. Wait! Don’t run away. After years of camera-based video games that didn’t work under normal lighting conditions… after years…
Kayo Satou, aka “Kayo Police”, has not only been called one of Japan’s best Street Fighter IV players, but also one of Japan’s best-looking Street Fighter IV players. She has revealed that she is transgender. Last night on Japanese television show Majotachi no 22ji (Witches’ 10pm), Kayo came out as transgender. The program often shows…
Playing with blocks never gets old, especially if you’re using a motion-control enabled Playstation 3 to do it. But is the block-building puzzler a step above the colorful and fun Boom Blox for the Wii, or just a pale version of the Electronic Arts classic? Let’s have a look. Loved Controls: The level of detailed…
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