There’s A New SimCity Game Coming To Mobile

Looking very much like the mobile counterpart to last year’s troubled city building simulator, SimCity Build It has been announced by EA as “an all-new SimCity game like you’ve never seen before.” There are so many ways this could go wrong. Three screenshots and very little concrete info is what we get with the announcement…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: The TAY Review • TAY Explores Games: Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy • Game of The Week — It’s Not Comic Book, It’s “Graphic Novel.” [Comix Zone] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Troy Baker And Nolan North Together In The Shadow of Mordor

If I wind up picking up a copy of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, it will be because of these two men right here. Well, mostly. I’m a fan of Monolith Productions, despite some recent missteps, and I’m no stranger to the setting, so there’s some pull there as well. But the main draw of the…

The New Godzilla Movie, Retold As a Weird 16-Bit Game

CineFix is back with their old school video game reconstructions of movies. This time they processed the story of this year’s Godzilla, and it turned out to be a strange mixture of Metal Slug and SNK’s King of Monsters On thing is sure: there’s more Godzilla in this one than there was in the movie.…

What Would a Dreamcast be Like in 2014?

Fifteen years ago, the Dreamcast launched in North America, five weeks before hitting the UK. D.R.E.A.M.C.A.S.T. It was a games console. No, it was nothing like the PlayStation 2. Yes, it was really called Dreamcast, even in the UK. This post originally appeared on Gizmodo UK It was revolutionary, and we’re not just saying that…

Why NPCs Always Have The Same One-Liners

Dorkly has the answer in their latest comic about why all the NPCs in various stores act weird and repeat the same sentences over and over again. It’s absolutely not because their AI is simple. Check out more Dorkly comics here. Why RPG NPCs Always Repeat Themselves [Dorkly] To contact the author of this post,…

First Look at Sherlock Holmes in the New Ace Attorney

London’s super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, will be making an appearance in the upcoming newAce Attorneygame, Ace Attorney: The Adventures of Ryunosuke Naruhodou According to his character description in this week’s Weekly Famitsu, Holmes is, “The most famous detective in the world. His unparalleled observation and deductive skills see not only the ‘truth’ but sometimes go…

In Japan, Burger King Has a Black Cheese Burger

The black buns? We’ve seen those before. But why, Burger King, why black cheese? Why? NariNari reports that Burger King Japan is rolling out another “Kuro Burger” (“Black Burger”), with buns made from bamboo charcoal, an onion and garlic sauce made with squid ink, beef patties made with black pepper, and black cheese, which is…

Giant Minecraft Map Has 10 Different Game Modes

Minecraft has a genre of maps, called Complete The Monument or CTM, where you have to collect a set of items while overcoming various challenges, be that defeating bosses or getting through an obstacle course. In Diversity 2, there’s ten challenges to beat—and each of them is wildly different. Diversity 2, as its name shows,…

Thugs Rob Store, Humiliate Staff, Then Upload it to YouTube

Two thugs in Japan’s Osaka area have learned that not paying for your light cigarettes is a heavy crime, and that crime doesn’t pay, especially if you upload your footage of you committing the crime onto YouTube. This post originally appeared on Japan Subculture Research Center Osaka Prefectural police arrested Goh Nakamura, 39, and Fumiaki…

Report: Notch “Unlikely” To Stay At Mojang After Microsoft Sale

In addition to a reportyesterday claiming Microsoft was in talks to buy Swedish developers Mojang, Bloomberg now saysthat according to “a person familiar with Microsoft” Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson will in all likelihood step aside from the company once the sale goes through. This source says that the deal was first discussed a few…

More Sailor Moon Lingerie Than You Can Shake a Moon Stick At

Japanese lingerie company Peach John is once again releasing another set of Sailor Moon inner wear. This time, they comes with little skirts. As previously mentioned, Bandai first introduced its official Sailor Moon “costume bra set” last December. Here are the upcoming sets, which are priced at 7,538 yen (US$71) and will be released next…

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