What would happen if Dragon Quest’s most famous slime encountered Final Fantasy’s most famous bird? Yuji Horii, father of Dragon Quest, must know the answer. “Maybe Slime hops onto Chocobo,” Horii told Kotaku last week through a translator during an interview tied into the U.S. launch of Dragon Quest IX on the Nintendo DS. “Would…
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Everyone is entitled to a secret identity, it seems. That’s the lesson that Blizzard learned last week when they unveiled a new set of rules that would have stripped anonymity away from those posting comments in the forums for the developer’s popular games like World of Warcraft and the upcoming StarCraft II. Blizzard’s Real ID…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft I dunno about you, but I always feel so refreshed on Monday. Ready to hit the ground running! WATCH OUT!! (Yeah, I know this song is about crying on Monday and all that jazz — still a good tune!) What you missed last night We Have A Winner Nvidia Launches New…
Fullmetal Alchemist animator Satoshi Kubo has publicly stated on Japanese social networking site Mixi that he refused to work on a Super Robot Wars project. He cited the involvement of a certain staffer for the reason why. A Super Robot Wars project? Does that mean a new one? As website Anime News Network points out,…
Hayao Miyazaki is the greatest animator alive. And he does not like the iPad. Noted for Studio Ghibli classics like My Neighbor Totoro, Miyazaki has stated that he rarely watches TV, does not own a computer or a fax and doesn’t even own a DVD player. Instead of e-mail, he writes letters. He also makes…
Oh dear. This whole “3D” thing could have a little more trouble getting off the ground if research by Britain’s Eyecare Trust is on the money. “3-D technology relies on our eyes’ ability to work together as a co-ordinated team to achieve an accurate perception of depth,” the report says. “However, more than one in…
Earlier models of the Nintendo DS are awash in a sea of pirated games. The upcoming 3DS? It might be a tougher nut to crack. That’s according to THQ, anyways, whose executive VP of global publishing Ian Curran told CVG, “What excites me even more [than 3DS games] is that there’s technology built in that…
Konami has kicked off its Love Plus tour. As seen on はちま起稿 This second photo leads me to believe the pics are either staged are hamming it up for the camera — at least let’s hope so!
Coma is a flash game by Thomas Brush, in which you…well, just wander around a world exploring and helping people out. It’s beautiful. It looks beautiful. It sounds beautiful. And while it’s of course limited by the fact it’s a flash game with barely any controls, it stretches this about as far those limitations allow.…
The Wii was an easy sell. Nintendo showed the Wii Remote and that players could swing it around. Simple! Ditto for the Nintendo DS. It has a touch screen, and there is a stylus. Clear as day. The Nintendo 3DS is another ball game altogether, because it isn’t something that you can show directly on…
One Life Left, probably the best podcast coming out of Ol’ Blighty, is back after a lengthy holiday. It’s return episode is a solid 7/10.
“BUY ACTION FIGURE” may not have been written across the side of a building during the latest Splinter Cell game, but for die-hard fans it should have been, given the impending release of a new, plastic tribute to Sam Fisher. Based on his likeness in Splinter Cell: Conviction, this figure by NECA isn’t quite ready…
God Eater, Namco Bandai’s Monster Hunter clone, is popular in Japan. So popular that it recently had its own festival in Akihabara, complete with some cosplayer lady. Something is missing… Oh, right. A LARGE SWORD. So there you go! Monster Hunter also has had its own festival in the past. So a God Eater festival…
There are a lot of Mortal Kombat games that should never have been made. This one at least had the foresight to be cancelled before it saw the light of day. It was called Mortal Kombat: Fire & Ice (sadly, not pictured above), and was a co-operative game starring Scorpion and Sub-Zero, similar to 2005’s…
This summer, like the summer before it and the summer before it, will see Wonder Festival. What’s the big deal about Wonder Festival? Well, do you see this figure of Samus from Metroid? Do you like it? Wonder Festival, AKA Wonfes, is figurine event. Some of the figurines will be like this Samus one. Some…
This Zelda clip is pretty primitive! Pretty childish, too. You may cite these as reasons for not liking it, but then, you’d be missing the point. This collection of tiny animated flicks reminds me of bad European stop-motion from the 1970s. It’s got the same charm; lifeless eyes, stilted animation, weird, sometimes slightly unsettling plotlines.…
The Nintendo DS’s design was influenced by the dual LCD clamshell Nintendo Game & Watch. But what influenced that? Over on Nintendo’s official site, company president Satoru Iwata talked to Makoto Kano, one of the designers on the Game & Watch. Iwata asked if there were any electronics that folded up like a laptop in…
And by “affordable”, they don’t mean “cheap piece of crap”. They mean (or at least claim) “bang for your buck” for the serious gamer on a budget. Nvidia today took the wraps off the GeForce GTX 460, designed to be the the company’s first real mass-market card built to support DirectX 11. Priced at $199,…
Daigo Umehara, yes that guy, has won the Evo 2010 Super Street Fighter IV championship title. In the grand finals, Daigo defeated player EG Ricky Ortiz 3-1. Coming in third, fourth and fifth were players Inflitration, Mike Ross and “Vangief”. In 2009, Daigo won Evo 2009 Street Fighter IV championship title after beating U.S. champ…
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