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American McGee’s Little Red Riding Hood
While American McGee’s Spicy Horse Games is busy at work on the new Alice game, some of the team have enough spare time left over to release cool little iPad applications like Akaneiro. It’s mostly a straight-up storybook, taking the classic tale of Red Riding Hood and transplanting it in fuedal Japan. It does have…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Persona 2: Innocent Sin Getting Remake
Game developer Atlus is bringing PlayStation 1 role-playing game Persona 2: Innocent Sin back for the PSP 11 years after its original release. As noted by website Siliconera, one big gameplay change is the ability to see the demons’ emotions. This, it seems, will simplify in-game negotiation. Macross Frontier anime studio Satelight will handle the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 27, 2010 -
UncategorizedI’ve Always Wanted To Slam Dunk A Baby
And now, thanks to Happy Wheels, I can live the dream. Happy Wheels is what would happen if ExciteBike was run by Jackass, only instead of drinking horse juice and punching each other in the balls, they were losing limbs and endangering the lives of small children. The game’s running on a browser, so you…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
God Of War Developer Wonders Why People Make PSP Games
On November 2, PlayStation Portable game God of War: Ghost of Sparta hit stores. But its developer, Ready at Dawn, is already questioning the rationale for creating PSP games. Don’t blame the hardware, blame piracy. Ready at Dawn’s Ru Weerasuriya talks to game site VG247 about the PSP’s piracy problem. According to the game designer,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Lots Of Footage Of People Playing Real 3DS Games
While we’ve seen plenty of screenshots and trailers for Nintendo 3DS games, one thing we’re short on is quality, real-time gameplay footage. Let’s fix that! We’re of course limited by the fact the 3D doesn’t work through a monitor, and that these are some pretty shaky shaky-cam shots, but they’re better than nothing! There are…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Wonderswan Developer Making Xbox 360 Game
Back in 1999, Bandai launched its own portable gaming system, the WonderSwan. That bird’s day has flown, but a WonderSwan developer is now developing a new Xbox 360 title. In 2001 and 2002, Kanagawa-based Qute Corporation worked on a hobby development kit for the WonderSwan called WonderWitch. Save for an online game, the studio has…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Apple Tried To Buy Halo’s Creators
Guess Apple boss Steve Jobs had a very good reason for being upset at Microsoft’s purchase of Halo creators Bungie: according to a former Bungie staffer, Apple had itself been on the verge of buying the now-famous developer. Former project lead Tuncer Deniz has told Develop that Bungie’s big cheese had, around the turn of…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010 -
ReviewsReview: Costume Quest
Costume Quest is a short, easy game that plays like Final Fantasy on training wheels. And it’s the best game Double Fine has ever made. Costume Quest is a role-playing game in which you take control of a group of kids out on a Halloween rescue mission. They may be small, but the game’s hook…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010 - Uncategorized
Fear This Creeper Costume On Halloween
To gamers of all sizes, well computer gamers of all sizes, there is nothing more frightening to behold than an unexpected Creeper. When I opened the email from reader Supermarioman with a this picture of the Creeper he made of cardboard and tissue paper I nearly flipped out of my chair. Imagine the unsuspecting parent…
By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Night Of The Lepus
Great. Now the nightly off-topic thread is infested with zombies. *And* it’s a trap. Guess you better get in here and help talk the rest of us through it. Speaking of zombies, Robert “Doom CMYK” Mangaoang frequently points me to his zombified creations on Twitter, which are gory and good, like this undead Admiral Ackbar.…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Store Update: We’ve Got A Tango Down
Blacklight: Tango Down and Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare may be the most exciting new additions to the North American PlayStation Store, but no other piece of content has a name as great as Z.H.P.: Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman. New demos abound this week, with small samples of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, Majin…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Meet The PlayStation Phone
Sony has finally done it. They’ve mated a Sony Ericsson cell phone with a PSP, spawning this… the PlayStation Phone. Don’t call it the PSP2, please. That’s something else entirely. Engadget has first pics of the PlayStation Phone prototype, hopefully just its ugly duckling stage, with the gadget blog saying it’s “headed into the market…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2010 -
UncategorizedGet ‘Derezzed’ With Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy Music
Robotic French duo Daft Punk will be spinning the deadly discs of Tron: Legacy‘s digital soundtrack. They’ll also be making a cameo in Disney’s sequel to the original Tron. Get a sneak peek at both, right now.
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
No More Heroes Finds Paradise ‘Exclusively’ On PS3
The further adventures of Travis Touchdown are coming to the PlayStation 3. No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise is coming to the PS3 in North America, bringing PlayStation Move support along with it. This time, it will be Konami who’s responsible for publishing Grasshopper Manufacture’s high-res port of the Wii original. They’ll do so in North…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Many, Many Deaths Of PC Gaming
Join us for a nostalgic look back at a decade of waiting for PC gaming to die. PC gaming isn’t dying. It’s just that over the past decade the industry has changed, and those changes haven’t always been easy for traditional PC game producers and players to understand. We used to go to computer stores…
By Mike Fahey Published October 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
Halloween Approaches
To: Ash From: Crecente Do you dress up for Halloween? Do your kids? Does your wife? Nowadays just Tristan dresses up for Halloween in our house, which makes me a bit sad. I really should get back into the habit, it’s fun. We had some neat PC-themed stories today for our PC Gaming Week, including…
By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
F.E.A.R. 3’s Bullet Hole Cookies!
This plate of cookies, complete with bloody bullet holes, was spotted at the offices for the game developer behind F.E.A.R. 3, Day 1 Studios. We’re told these iced delights were created by “the girlfriend of one of the designers.” Fettell never looked so happy.
By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2010 - Uncategorized
PC Gaming Week Confessional, Crecente Edition
We are all over PC gaming this week, but what do we know about PC gaming? Each day, one Kotaku editor will reveal their PC gaming knowledge and share some memories. Yesterday you read about Totilo’s experiences, now it’s my turn. Are you a PC gamer? Yes? Deep down I am a computer gamer, but…
By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2010