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Sleeping Dogs, Kingdom Hearts Discounted For Square Enix’s Black Friday

Sleeping Dogs for $30! Dead Island for $10! Kingdom Hearts 3D for $20! Like everyone else in the world, Square Enix is holding a Black Friday sale this weekend. From tomorrow through Monday, you’ll be able to buy a bunch of their games online at some decent discounts. Here’s the promo image (looking super pixelated…

When Your Job Involves “Painting Exposed Buttocks To Look Covered By Latex”

The video game industry isn’t all fast cars and trips to Japan. For every studio head basking in the glow of media attention there are 100 developers lower down the food chain whose job can be a little more mundane. Like the guy/guys/gals who had to paint some butts for a trailer. Speaking with GI.biz,…

Hitman: Absolution‘s Overheard Dialogue Is Goofy, Great

Far be it from me to only harp on Hitman: Absolution’s less admirable qualities. The game is also frequently funny, and often very well-written. The overheard dialogue is often worth sticking around and listening to, and the crowd chatter is among the most convincing I’ve ever heard in a game. (The game itself is a…

One of the Greatest Mobile Music Games Goes Free-to-Play

Experimenting with new ways to make folks pay for their iOS games, Square Enix releases Groove Coaster Zero, injecting new songs and adapting a free-to-play model to Reisuke Ishida’s original musical masterpiece Groove Coaster Zero takes the fine selection of tracks from the original game, drops in a selection of new free and premium tunes…

Square Enix’s Galaxy Dungeon is a new iOS/Android card battle game that features female mecha.

It’s Final Fantasy XIII, But with Drunken Sex Talk

Binge drinking. Jerking off. Squids. It’s just another wild night in the world of Final Fantasy That’s because someone, let’s call that person a genius, decided to combine screenshots from Japanese role-playing games Final Fanatasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2 with Texts from Last Night. Texts from Last Night, of course, is a website that…

Final Fantasy XIV Will Get Marriage, But Not Gay Marriage (At Least For Now)

When Final Fantasy XIV relaunches as Final Fantasy XIV: Let’s Pretend This Game Didn’t Happen A Realm Reborn in the near future, the people behind it plan to add a whole bunch of new features. One of those features, to be added in a future patch, is marriage. The traditional version, with men and women…

Hitman: Absolution: The Kotaku Review

Hitman: Absolution is a wickedly smart, darkly enjoyable video game, one that’s as generous to players as its protagonist is merciless to his victims. You’ll stab, strangle and shoot your way through level after level, sometimes grimacing, sometimes scowling, sometimes laughing. When all is said and done, you’ll probably need a shower. To play Absolution…

Hitman: Absolution‘s Game Director Is Answering Your Questions Live [Interview Closed]

The next Hitman title is just around the corner, releasing this coming Tuesday. We all know what Conan O’Brien thinks of the title, but maybe you’re still curious about the stealth game that approaches. How many ways can you stalk and kill people? Can you tell me more about those difficulty levels? What is Contracts…

Report: Japanese Employees Vent Online About Square Enix

Last year, there were unconfirmed reports that Square Enix’s Tokyo headquarters was a dark place to work. This latest report doesn’t sound nearly as bad as those. Doesn’t sound like rainbows and sunshine, either. NicoNico News points to comments made on Japanese employment site Career Connection. The site aims to help jobseekers find out more…

We Didn’t Ask For This: Sinister Director To Helm Deus Ex: Human Revolution Movie

The movie based on the third Deus Ex game, announced this summer, now has a director: Deadline reports that it’ll be Scott Derrickson, the guy who directed… the supernatural horror movie Sinister (62% on RottenTomatoes). And… the supernatural horror movie The Exorcism Of Emily Rose (44% on RottenTomatoes). I guess someone must have asked for…

Watch The First Few Minutes Of Hitman: Absolution While Conan Makes Fun Of It

Oh, Conan. You surely are the clueless gamer, but you manage to make some of the best commentary regardless. Clueless Gamer: Conan Reviews “Hitman: Absolution” – CONAN on TBS [YouTube]

Sleeping Dogs Is Getting A New Downloadable Island

Hopefully in the hustle and bustle of the big fall releases, everyone hasn’t lost sight of Sleeping Dogs, the little Hong Kong open-world crime game that could. At least, I still play the game off and on while rotating between others. Square Enix is hoping you haven’t forgotten, too, as they’re releasing yet another chunk…

Final Fantasy XIV Ends with Cinematic Bangs and Server Whimpers

Here’s the end of Final Fantasy XIV, Square-Enix’s MMO getting a reboot in the form of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Fittingly for a flawed endeavor—one Square-Enix officially apologized for—the last day didn’t go so well for some users. A glut of traffic is to be expected whenever you’re bringing down an MMO—who doesn’t…

Former Square Honcho Calls Square Enix a “Complete Failure” with “No Vision”

With Square Enix posting losses in its latest earnings, former Square Co. boss Hisashi Suzuki thought this would be good a time as any to kick the company while it is down. Via Twitter, Suzuki didn’t hold back, claiming that the total value of publicly traded stock is not higher than it was before Square…

Mass Effect Toy Turns Commander Shepard Into Sparkly Burns Victim

Aaarrgghhhh my eyes These Play Arts Mass Effect figures looked so good when we first saw them! And while all the production copies of other Play Arts figures I’ve looked at here on Kotaku previously have been just fine, something’s gone very wrong with Commander Shepard, who between initial prototyping and being boxed for sale…

Making An Open-Ended Game For A Linear Audience

The Hitman series has long been about choice-bald-headed 47 was set loose inside a semi-sandbox with a target or two, and players could come up with any of a number of ways to do away with them. That style of play is becoming increasingly uncommon, at least in mainstream AAA console games, at least in…

This New Bravely Default Sure Has Some Crappy Art

It really, really does. Shame because so much of the art for the 3DS game is stunning. This newly announced Bravely Default isn’t for the 3DS, however. It’s a free-to-play browser game called Bravely Default: Praying Brage The game’s main illustrator is Square Enix’s Akihiro Yoshida, who worked on Bravely Default. Yoshida’s work is fantastic.…

Create and Share Your Own 3D Browser-Based Games with Gameglobe

Gameglobe is a place where everyday folks like you and me can play, create and share unique 3D games (like that one up top) with people all over the world. Square Enix and Bigpoint have just launched the site’s open beta, so it’s game on for everybody. Just head over to Gameglobe.com, sign up for…

These Guys Really Want Bravely Default To Come To The West

I am all for the campaign to keep talking about the wonderfully-titled role-playing game Bravely Default: Flying Fairy until Square Enix decides to localize it outside of Japan. It looks fantastic, by all reports it’s a great game, and people are buying it! Win-win. So it’s good to see fans organizing to start their own…