From a Japanese game developer saying that the Japanese industry was “finished” to lower attendance, last year’s Tokyo Game Show was disastrous. This year can only go up. Hopefully. This year’s TGS is the 20th Tokyo Game Show, and organizers have announced “a new midterm vision of becoming ‘The No.1 Information Network in the Asian…
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Call it Project Mercury, and as of today, call it an EA game. The epic role-playing game that won’t — confirmed! — be called The Adventures of Curt Schilling has a home and a whole lot of mystery around it. Last week, top people involved in Project Mercury briefed Kotaku on the news being made…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: GDC: Day Zero Mini-Bash has started to write complete sentences. So this afternoon he drew pictures of flags from different countries and then wrote a sentence or two stating what they were famous for. When he got to America, he asked me. I said “baseball, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, hamburgers,…
There are many PSP colors. Loads. And apparently, there will be one less. According to a Japanese retail blog, the “bright yellow” PSP-3000 will not longer be shipped to shops. Released in 2009, it seems that the color is one of the least popular PSP-3000 colors, if not the least popular. That probably means it…
The 2010 World Cup draws near, and that means one thing: football. OK, two things: football, and an EA Sports football game cashing in on the World Cup. World Cup 2010 is essentially FIFA 10 with a focus on national teams, the reduction in available sides hopefully compensated for by an increase in polish and…
There are strings on the newly-unveiled Power Gig guitar, which is coming, with a brand-new music game to video game systems this fall. But you won’t have to be Jimi Hendrix to play it. In advance of this week’s Game Developer’s Conference, Kotaku had the opportunity to witness a live demonstration of the guitar controller…
With Mac computers the flavour of the week, Battlefield developers DICE are not ones to be left off the bandwagon, saying that they’re “currently investigating” bringing Battlefield Bad Company 2 to Apple’s platform. DICE’s Karl Magnus Troedsson said as much yesterday, Tweeting “We’re currently investigating the possibility of making BFBC2 available on Mac”. Pretty clear,…
At last night’s launch event for Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada showed up with a Fal’cie symbol from the game tattooed on his hand. He tweeted that he “probably” would not be able to return to Japan. Wada, of course, was being lighthearted. The tattoo, of course, is fake. It appears in…
Like previous God of War games, God of War III has sex mini-games. Because a mini-game is pretty much what sex is, isn’t it? The scene takes place in Aphrodite’s Chamber, and was almost cut. “It was more a debate between me and several of the story writers,” God of War III director Stig Asmussen…
It’s not often we’re told how much a company spends making a video game. So when Sony discloses how much coin was spent developing God Of War III, we’ll note it down. According to John Hight, from Sony’s Santa Monica studio, the blockbuster cost USD$44 million. With the average cost of producing a current-gen game…
This is a video guide on how to look like Miranda, one of the stars of sci-fi adventure Mass Effect 2. Not how to dress like her. How to actually look like her. Leigh Ann, from Charisma +2, is the star here, showing the game’s female fans (or the obsessed male fan with a patient…
The Xbox 360’s online service Xbox LIVE is available in 26 countries. Poland is not one of them. The service is available to other European Union countries, but it is not officially available to Polish gamers. (Those with broadband connections and American credit cards can apparently get online.) Polish gamers are claiming that as a…
Later this month, Mass Effect 2 players will get access to the Hammerhead hovertank, along with five new missions for the game. Here’s what the new toy looks like in action. It’s certainly more nimble than the Mako, your vehicle from the first Mass Effect, and the way those levels look custom-built around it is…
Now that role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII has been released in the West, gamers are looking forwarding to the next Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy XIV. Those who want to get into the beta, read on. Know that you must be willing to part with money and purchase the PS3 version Final Fantasy XIII. Players can…
Robert Bowling, community manager for Modern Warfare developers Infinity Ward, has returned to his Tweeting ways after a week’s well-deserved silence And it’s straight back to Call of Duty PR work, too, with the revelation that since its release late last year over 25 million people have played Modern Warfare 2 across the Xbox 360,…
From the co-creator and designer of Black comes Bodycount, Codemasters’ newest shot at “genre-defining gun play” for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, a game you might have already heard a few peeps about. Designed by creative director Stuart Black, Bodycount promises both “jaw-dropping devastation” and an “exhilarating sensory overload of action,” according to the…
World of Warcraft, the world’s most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, is available on the PC and on the Mac. It is not available on home consoles like the PS3 and the Xbox 360. And it probably won’t be. “I think there’s a lot of reasons,” World of Warcraft lead producer J. Allen Brack…
Not only is Seattle Mariners’ superstar Ichiro one of Japan’s greatest baseball players, he’s also one of the most talented big leaguers today. He also likes to unwind like the rest of us — by beating up virtual palookas. In a recent interview, he explained his lack of sleep. The right fielder had spent the…
Spanning three excellent, bloody titles, Sony’s God of War trilogy has finally come to an end with the release of God of War III. But did you know there was originally an end after the end? Speaking with GameTrailers, Senior Producer Steve Caterson says in response to questions of whether any content from the game…
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