When game designer Kazunori Yamauchi was a 15-year-old, he came up with an idea for a game he’d love to make: a racing game with with real cars and real physics. In 1997, he finally released that game, Gran Turismo, on the PlayStation. “I’ve always liked racing games,” Yamauchi tells Top Gear. “When I was…
Imageepoch, the Japanese role-playing game developer known for the Arc Rise Fantasia series and the salacious Criminal Girls, is working on its first PS3 game. But, it’s not only a PS3 game. Dubbed Chevalier Saga Tactics, the game is also headed to smartphones and PCs (as a browser game). The title was unveiled today in…
It’s sadly “just” pixel art, but were this a DS or flash game, we would be all over it. By Balamoot
If you ever looked at 2009’s incredible replica Portal gun and thought “ooh, I’d like that”, now’s your chance to put your money where your mouth is. Custom replica specialists Volpin Props, whose amazing work we’ve featured before, are putting one of these babies up for auction as part of this year’s Child’s Play charity…
Back to the Future will take players back to Hill Valley with Marty McFly and Doc Brown. It’s hard to know if the game will get up to 88 miles per hour, but these latest batch of screenshots look promising, future boy. In Back to the Future: The Game, players will solve puzzles, collect items…
At first glance, this may look like just a simple play on a tired old gaming meme. But we’re not in the business of single glances. Look closer This A1-sized poster is made up of 2,050 layers of text, each bearing the name of a video game, game company, character or platform. To get an…
Sony doesn’t have employees in its R&D division. It has wizards. And those wizards are working on all kinds of 3D tech. Such as? In an interview with Develop, Sony’s Mick Hocking runs through what Sony is working on beyond 3D on televisions. Sure, many companies are working on 3D for portable devices, Hocking concedes,…
Ninja Theory’s Enslaved may not have been one of 2010’s more memorable games, but these custom action figures built in its honour are some of 2010’s more memorable pieces of fan art. Designed and built by Hugo, they take a number of different comic book pieces, a lot of custom sculpting work by the artist…
Not just the character per se, but the game itself! Platinum Games, the developer behind the pistol-heeled action game has released early development footage. How has the game changed? No, how have her outfits? Originally, the game had slow down effects, which were later removed. Also, “Witch Time” is triggered by landing certain combos. Even…
Either bored or flushed with cash (or both!), the gang at web comedy site Rooster Teeth decided to do a little office remodelling. Turn their office door into a safehouse from zombie shooter Left 4 Dead. It’s the kind of thing that could easily be half-assed, and thus easily look dreadful, but these guys went…
Thanksgiving means family. But for Pikachu, it means being dragged through Manhattan as an inflatable balloon. And this year he’ll be accompanied by some Pocket Monster cohorts. According to MSNBC, Pikachu will be joined in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade by Reshiram and Zekrom from the Pokeémon Black and White. The balloons will be 14 feet…
We’ve seen some truly astounding things being done with Microsoft’s Kinect motion-control camera in the month since its release. It’s a shame, then, that none of them have had anything to do with video games. From 3D-mapping to robot programming to manboobs to advanced user interfaces, Kinect has shown it has the potential to revolutionise…
There’s no denying that the cars in Gran Turismo 5 look fantastic. The game’s developers are pushing the realistic racing sim closer and closer to photo-realism. The game’s dogs, however, need some work. When GT5 designer Kazunori Yamauchi said that Gran Turismo 5 might have “too much” detail, he wasn’t talking about man’s best friend.…
There have been plenty of games that feature both playground physics and destructible environments. The awful Fracture and the lovely LittleBigPlanet come to mind. Tiny & Big, though, is taking both features to a whole new level. An episodic game for the PC, the first instalment is called Grandpa’s Leftovers. The game is a platformer…
Without a doubt, Love Plus is more than a love sim. It’s captured the imagination of Japanese players, spawning erotic game and porno parodies and now what some are calling a straight-up rip-off. Japanese network game site Gree is launching a new schoolgirl sim called Hime Koi (above). These types of games are a dime-a-dozen…
Here are some shots of the Lexus LF-A concept car. Your task: sort out which ones are photographs, and which ones are screenshots from Gran Turismo 5. OK, so it’s not the hardest thing in the world to do (answers can be found by clicking through the gallery), but boy oh boy, is this game…
What if Sonic the Hedgehog was not just a speedy mascot with a long list of furry sidekicks, but more like Mario, a loner with occasional superpowers that could let Sega’s mascot fly, drill through solid ground or become a laser? Sega’s Sonic Colors for the Wii explores the possibility of a Sonic the Hedgehog…
Think playing Gears of War on the scoreboard at Texas Stadium was impressive? It’s got nothing on this guy, who may have splashed out $15,000 to play a PC game on a screen that’s 820 feet long We’re not sure what the game was – it appears to be a Chinese World of Warcraft knock-off…
As is customary, there will be several new game reveals during this year’s Spike TV Video Game Awards. This is one of them, for a game that may (or may not!) be called “The Planet”. Really, we only know it’s a game because this is the VGAs. And I only call it “The Planet” because…
What say we spend our evening (or whatever time it is in your neck of the woods) sharing in the joys of off-topic conversation, whether it be about video games, Nicolas Cage, Spider-Man or a time traveling DeLoreans. Or pets. A new addition has come to Kotaku Towers West (South), the Los Angeles headquarters of…
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