Today’s Best Trailer For A Tweedpunk Video Game

Kotaku friend and Rock Paper Shotgun co-czar Jim Rossignol is moonlighting as a video game developer at a studio called Big Robot. Occasionally he updates us about the progress of his team’s PC/Mac/Linux game, Sir, You Are Being Hunted. Happily, this is never awkward, because our friend’s procedurally-generated open-world game continues to look fantastic. Sir,…

Worms Facebook Is Now In Closed Beta

Remember Worms? That great old PC action game that’s been released and remade quite a few times over the past couple of decades? It’s coming to Facebook, and you can apply for the beta right here

Uncharted 3‘s Multiplayer Will Soon Look Very Different, If You Like to Experiment

Most of the changes in the big new patch for Uncharted 3 include the things you’d expect: new items, new taunts, balance tweaks, etc. A lot of it is goofy. But this… this shot here is a look at the new “block mesh maps” that will be added, post-patch, to the game’s Lab, the experimental…

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Chell Explores The World Outside of Aperture in This Gorgeous Short

We featured a work in progress last week, the beginnings of a music video looking at Chell’s life after Aperture. Zachariah Scott has finished his work now, and sent the new link along to us. “After Aperture” is a slow, meditative, thoughtful look at Chell from outside the first person perspective. What exactly does one…

LittleBigPlanet Karting Crosses the Finish Line in November

The coolest kart racer we never knew we wanted fires the starting gun on November 6, when creative types begin flooding the PlayStation Network with crazy tracks for the crazy racers of LittleBigPlanet Karting When ModNation Racers was first announced I was certain I would never need another kart racer for my PlayStation 3, but…

What In The World Is Final Fantasy? A Beginner’s Guide To The Biggest RPG Series On The Planet

Maybe you’ve heard of Final Fantasy. Maybe you’re familiar with some of the basics: shiny crystals, giant swords, dead Aerises. Angry teens. But you might not know much more about Square Enix’s massive set of role-playing games. They can be intimidating to newcomers, chock full of strange gameplay systems and confusing nomenclature. How can you…

DayZ is Officially Being Turned Into a Standalone Game

It’s been discussed before, but now it’s official: smash hit zombie survival mod DayZ is being turned into its own game. Dean Hall, the mod’s creator, will be overseeing the game as project lead, and it’ll be published by Dean’s co-workers (and ArmA creators) Bohemia Interactive. Hall says the game will “follow the Minecraft development…

Making Dragon Quest into an MMO

Dragon Quest X is the newest game in the immensely popular Dragon Quest series. It is also the series’ first MMORPG. While the prologue of the game (the first two hours or so) is a strictly single player affair, the game soon opens up into a massive online world. But as Dragon Quest X is…

Don’t Be Surprised if Tales Characters Appear in Smash Bros.

So Namco Bandai is making the new Smash Bros. games. Know what that means, don’t you? There’s a really good chance Namco characters will pop up in Smash Bros Tales director and producer Yoshito Higuchi tells The Official Nintendo Magazine that he would totally be happy if Tales characters appeared in Smash Bros. Of course…

Here Is the Future Computer World Japan Predicted in 1969

Computers are an important part of our lives. They have transformed the way we lived. Right now, we are living in the future. But what did that future look like in a 1960s Japanese children’s magazine? Like this. In 1969, Shonen Sunday published a series of articles called “Computopia”. They depicted how computers would be…

Dragon Quest X Plays Like a Co-op Final Fantasy XII

While doing our Kotaku East live stream of Dragon Quest X last week, the most common question I got was “What is the battle system like when you’re in a group?” Well, at that time, I was just starting out and had yet to get a full group going. However, since then I have spent…

Sony trademarked two new games: Rain and Until Dawn. Go ahead, imagine the trailers IN YOUR MIND.

The Playable Races of Dragon Quest X

One of the staples of MMORPGs is the ability to choose the race of your character in addition to his or her class. In this, Dragon Quest X is no different. There are six playable races in DQX. Some of these are completely new, others are found in thousands of different fantasy works. However, one…

Who Needs Manga When There’s Cosplay?

It’s August. For Japanese otaku, the month means that the biannual Comic Market, AKA “Comiket”, is right around the corner. The event is an opportunity for amateur and pro manga artists to sell their limited edition, self-produced creations. In the last few years, cosplay has become a bigger part of Comiket. It isn’t just the…

Dragon Quest X now has twice the servers after Square Enix added servers 21-40 earlier today. Level up!

Paper Evangelion Lantern Lights Up a Japanese Shrine

Spotted at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu, the most important Shinto shrine in Kamakura, here is a paper lantern that features an Evangelion Unit-08, the latest Eva unit slated to appear in upcoming anime Evangelion 3.0 Evangelion 3.0 director Hideaki Anno drew this Eva Unit-08 as part of the shrine’s “Bonbori Festival” (“bonbori” is a Japanese lamp with…

When Anime Boobs and Baby Dingalings Must Be Changed

Ask any anime fan, and they’ll tell you: cartoons in Japan are different from their localized counterparts. Last night on Japanese TV, the issue was explored for the Japanese viewing public, who was surprised to learn that English language versions of anime are edited. The show was Sekai Marumie! (世界まる見え！ or “The World Exposed!”), which…

Hey, Go Check Out The New Attract Mode, OK?

Once a cute little shop with a blog, Attract Mode has been reborn (after a lengthy hiatus) as a “video game collective”, made up of “game makers, film makers, designers, artists, and journalists”. If you need more specific information, some of the people lending a hand include artists Cory Schmitz and Maré Odomo, indie developers…

This RPG Will Star History, Not Orcs and Monsters

When you think of an RPG, you think of dragons. Loot. Fireballs. Goblins. Worlds where entire ecosystems change every two miles. Basically, a whole load of stuff that’s make-believe, and despite the frequent “medieval” setting, about as far from actual history as you can get. So an in-development RPG at Czech studio Warhorse, which is…