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Oh The Weather Outside Is…Ice
If the weather outside is frightful, there’s a good chance Victor Fries is out there somewhere. Sony Online Entertainment reveals the DC Universe Online look for one of Batman’s most tragic villains, and I’m not even counting the movie appearance. Cryogenecist Victor Fries dedicates his life to saving his wife Nora from a rare disease,…
By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed II Spoiler Talk With Patrice Desilets
Yesterday’s Kotaku interview with Assassin’s Creed II creative director Patrice Desilets covered a lot, but it did not reveal his thoughts on some of the more surprising and controversial parts of ACII. That’s in this post, which is all spoiler. OK. If you’re this far into this post, then I assume you have finished Assassin’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
How Long Did The Family Go Without Japanese Food?
To: Totilo From: Ashcraft RE: What Is This, A Movie Site? A week, it seems! Before we arrived in Texas, all Mini-Bash talked about was being able to eat pizza and hamburgers and drink Coke. And after maybe two days of that, he started saying he wanted to drink green tea and eat Japanese food.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
No, Not A Kasumi Figure, An Ayane One
Kasumi, Kasumi, Kasumi. When talking Tecmo’s fighting series Dead or Alive, it seems like it’s always Kasumi. But she isn’t the only DOA girl. There’s also her half-sister, Ayane. Figure maker Kotobukiya has another Dead or Alive figurine to add to the heap. This ¥7,800 ($85) figure will be out April 2010. You can buy…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Week In Comments
Mod Tools Coming For Modern Warfare 2? Comment by: RawrSpoon Nominated by: deanbmmv Imagine you really love Megadeth. Like, really really love them. As a metalhead, you enjoy their music very much. You, along with your fellow metalheads propelled them to heights by listening to their music and purchasing their albums. It’s all good. One…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Behold! Some Person’s Nintendo Theme Christmas Tree
As sent in by reader D.Funky!
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tetsuya Nomura Working On Two Unannounced Titles
Talk about a busy guy. Tetsuya Nomura worked as main character designer on Final Fantasy XIII, director and designer for Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and ditto for Final Fantasy Versus XIII. We forgot Final Fantasy Agito XIII! He’s character designer for that, too. In the most recent issue of Famitsu, Nomura reveals that he…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy XIV Features Robust Character Creator
Square Enix’s upcoming MMO Final Fantasy XIV features a character editor that can be described as robust — with emphasis on bust. The creator allows for a variety of skin tons, eye colors, lip colors, hair colors and styles, tattoos, facial scars as well as waist, hip and bust size. Of course, these sorts of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Japanese Retailer Won’t Buy Back Xbox 360s?
In Japan (like in many places in the world!), there is a strong culture of selling back used games and hardware. Japan especially is quite good about keeping instruction manuals and boxes in pristine shape as many who purchase gaming goodies do so with intent to sell back in the future. For retailer TSUTAYA, the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
NSFW: NieR, A Cheeky Comparison
There are two versions of action game NieR: NieR Gestalt for the Xbox 360 and NieR Replicant for the PS3. But what’s the difference? While based on the same universe, the games will have different stories. Also, the in-game butts are not the same — after close inspection, they are slightly different! That’s AI-controlled partner…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Erotic Game Comments On Erotic Game Controversy
In the wake of the Rapelay controversy, Japanese erotic games have come under intense scrutiny. The Ethics Organization of Computer Software in Japan banned the sale of games with forced sexual situations after an outcry in the Western press over Rapelay, a niche game released a few years back. Some game adult game developers have…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mistwalker Delay New Game Announcement
Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy and head of development studio Mistwalker, was planning to announce his new game this year. Those plans will have to wait. “I was planning to announce my new project within this year but it’s a little late,” Sakaguchi blogs. Sorry about that. I imagine announcement will be starting around…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gundam Christmas Tree — The Video!
Located on the second floor deck of the Akihabara UDX building in Tokyo, this is it, the Gundam Christmas tree. The 16-foot tree is decorated with over 60 Gundam models and strung with red, white and blue lights that twinkle pure awesome. Gundam Christmas Tree Akihabara UDX [Otaku2]
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
First Look At Japanese Poster For Tekken Movie
Back in early November, Kotaku posted the first Tekken movie sales art. It’s now late December, and time to post the movie’s Japanese poster. Funny how that works. No, not really. The movie is set in 2039, when fighters from around the world compete in the Iron Fist Tournament and centers around character Jin Kazama,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dark Void Goes 8-Bit In DS Version
Capcom’s Dark Void won’t just be appearing on the 360, PC and PS3; no, it’ll also be appearing on…the Nintendo DSi. In a marketing move for the main title, Capcom will be releasing Dark Void: Zero, an 8-bit interpretation of the game similar to the recent Mega Man 9 “demake”. It’ll hit the DSi Shop…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
British Sales Charts: A Whiite Christmas
In the penultimate holiday season charts, there was only going to be one system dominating the top 40. And it’s not the Xbox 360. Not the PS3, either. No, it’s the Wii, which looks set to enjoy its fourth successive Christmas atop the British charts. Fourth. I mean, come on. Mario Kart in the top…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gran Turismo Creator Completes 25-Hour Car Race
Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of the Gran Turismo series, has earlier this month completed a 25-hour endurance race at Thunder Hill Raceway, California. Yamauchi is of course no stranger to racing cars, but still. That’s quite an achievement. I get antsy driving for 25 minutes. He of course didn’t drive the entire 25 hours all by…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Fall And Fall Of Duke Nukem Forever
The latest issue of Wired has a great piece by Clive Thompson on the death of Duke Nukem Forever, and the development studio it took with it. There’s little real news in the piece – after all, the demise of both DNF and 3D Realms has been well-documented – but not everything has to be…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Command & Conquer 4 Trailer All About…Harvesting Tiberium
“Our community loves harvesting Tiberium”, enthuses C&C4 producer Raj Joshi in this 5-minute long gameplay demonstration. Do you, community? Really? Video Games | Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight | Exclusive Tiberium Developer Diary HD XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii
By Luke Plunkett Published December 22, 2009