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Here Is A Real Press Release For Real Products
FREE BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT INSPIRED GELATO LANDING IN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE Batman: Arkham Knight joins forces with N2 Extreme Gelato to release trilogy of frozen flavours in celebration of hotly anticipated release. Sydney, Australia – 22nd June – To celebrate the release of Batman: Arkham Knight, this Wednesday, 24th June, fans will be treated to…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2015 -
On Power Fantasies, Armor & Change In League Of Legends
Here’s a cool post by Riot’s Michael Maurino on the thinking that goes into women’s character/armour design in League of Legends in 2015. We as artists at Riot have different ways we interpret power fantasies. We express it in different way. All of them are valid I feel. Whether that’s Riot Zeronis making extremely badass…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2015 -
The Problem Of Games Being Art, But Also Products
Tale of Tales, who most recently released the excellent Sunset—but who were also behind games like The Path and The Endless Forest—have decided to stop making and releasing commercial (in the most literal sense, as in available for sale) video games, announcing the news with an honest and confronting blog post that anyone involved with…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2015 -
Hasbro Keeps Milking ’80s Transformers Nostalgia For All It’s Worth
As a wise ape robot once said, “the seeds of the future lie buried in the past.” This weekend at Botcon Hasbro revealed its upcoming Transformers releases for 2015 and early 2016, and its filled with familiar faces. If you seen the barren shelves at toy outlets across the country, then you know the Transformers…
By Mike Fahey Published June 21, 2015 -
Our First Fleeting Glimpse Of Tales Of Berseria In Motion
Certainly our first look at sole female protagonist Velvet’s hair in action. We get several shots of Velvet in Bandai Namco’s brief teaser for the PlayStation 3 and 4 game, along with some gorgeous environments and ship sailing the shiny seas. Having played every North American Tales of release thus far, I keep waiting for…
By Mike Fahey Published June 21, 2015 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Man In The Moon-Mask
One of the creepy highlights of Square Enix’s 2015 E3 press conference, now a major Kotaku ‘Shop Contest subject. Why is he wearing that mask? Why isn’t everyone wearing it? Video game director Taro Yoko is responsible for the wonderfully dark and twisted Drakengard series and its Nier spin-off (soon to be spin-offs), so as…
By Mike Fahey Published June 21, 2015 -
The World’s Most Advanced Gaming Mouse (Trailer)
How epic can a trailer for a gaming mouse get? This epic. During E3 last week, Razer introduced the latest version of its Mamba gaming mouse, an incredibly popular product in gaming circles as well as one of the few gaming mice you’re likely to find at a Walmart—the truest test of niche hardware penetration.…
By Mike Fahey Published June 21, 2015 -
Should I Import That Damn Persona 4 Dancing Game? Update: Nope.
I’ve been driving myself crazy over this game for months. In five days it’s released in Japan for the Vita, a format without region locking. I’ve been starting at Play Asia for an hour. Send help. I used to import a lot of games from Japan back in the day. Most of the games I…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2015 -
So, About That Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Coverage
Like thousands of other Final Fantasy XIV players I was awake at 5 a.m. Eastern on Friday morning to take my first steps into the game’s first major expansion. Then I realized Heavensward wasn’t quite like other MMO expansions. Most MMO expansions are level-based. If the new content is for players level 50 and above,…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2015 -
The First Five Minutes Of Shenmue, Finally The Prime Game In A Trilogy
It’s been five days since the Shenmue III Kickstarter campaign was announced and it’s already approaching the $3.5 million mark. What kind of game inspires such rapid fundraising? This one. The original Shenmue was released in North America in 2000 for the Dreamcast, a system that video gamers loved passionately and video game makers largely…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2015 -
Man Spends Six Years Crocheting One Super Mario Bros. 3 Map
Norwegian computer programmer and skydiving champion Kjetil Nordin put over 800 hours of work into researching and crocheting this lovely recreation of the map for Super Mario Bros. 3 World 1. Redditor Buttermynutsspent several minutes making it into this equally lovely GIF. Anyone with basic crochet skills and a whole lot of free time can…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2015 -
The New Hitman’s Creative Director Is Saying All The Right Things
On the last day of E3, I checked out the newly announced Hitman game, which is simply called Hitman. I also spoke with IO Interactive creative director Christian Elverdam, and he had some heartening things to say. Most Hitman fans agree that 2006’s Blood Money was the pinnacle of the series, and that game came…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 20, 2015 -
The First All-Female Transformers Combiner Team Revealed
“All I want to do/is see six robots turn into/a giant woman.” Hasbro’s Fan Built Combiner poll culminates in the creation of Victorion, the most together combiner team Transformers has ever seen. Revealed yesterday in a USA Today exclusive, Victorion is two race cars, two helicopters, a motorcycle and a rescue truck combined together into…
By Mike Fahey Published June 20, 2015 -
Keeping The Final Fantasy VII Remake And Shenmue III Secret
Adam Boyes, head of third-party developer relations at PlayStation, told me at E3 that he’s known about Square’s Final Fantasy VII remake for a year. It was a fun secret to keep. “Our publishers take us through their slates,” he said, recalling a meeting with Square from earlier last year. “When he said ‘FFVII remake’,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 19, 2015 -
Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Editions Are Driving People Nuts
UPDATE 6/23 3:05 PM: The Fallout 4 Pip Boy Edition is back in stock at Gamestop, for all available platforms. Update 2: Walmart also has it for the PS4 and Xbox One. It wasn’t long before the collector’s edition of Fallout 4 was sold out everywhere. It’s incredible. On Sunday, Bethesda announced a special edition…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 19, 2015 -
My E3 Hype Died Quickly This Year
I was really excited about this year’s E3. At first. It’s the end of E3 day one, and I’m looking back on all the news the press conferences brought us. Fallout 4, Fallout Shelter, Dishonored 2, Doom, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Unravel, Tacoma, Hololens, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Last Guardian, Horizon, Uncharted 4, Shenmue III,…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 19, 2015 -
The Winners & Losers Of E3 2015
Another year, another E3. Time to hand out some virtual awards. If you read Luke’s excellent (and hilarious) posts from earlier this week—here’s day zero, here’s day one—you already have an idea what we thought of this year’s show. But our excellent production team has put together a slick summary of the E3 that was…
By Patrick Klepek Published June 19, 2015 -
League And Dota 2 Are Both Becoming A Bit More Like Heroes Of The Storm
Heroes of the Storm has only been out of beta for a few weeks, but it seems like Blizzard’s newly-minted MOBA is already having an impact on Dota 2 and League of Legends—the two reigning kings of this idiosyncratic and enormously popular game genre. Earlier this week, Riot revealed that it’s planning to remove debuffs…
By Yannick LeJacq Published June 19, 2015 -
The Story Behind Uncharted 4‘s Press Conference Snafu
Sony decided to close out its E3 press conference this year with Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. After a brief cutscene played, Nathan Drake was supposed to start moving through a crowd…but he just stood still…for a long time. That’s when co-director Bruce Straley started panicking. If you read my E3 demo piece from last…
By Patrick Klepek Published June 19, 2015 -
The Funniest Things That Can Happen In Fallout Shelter
Turns out, things can get pretty silly when you’re stuck inside a vault for most of your life. Who would have thought? Fallout Shelter has been out on Apple devices for almost a week now, and players are sharing all sorts of awesome shenanigans that they encounter or create while playing. We’ve rounded up some…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 19, 2015