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First Image of Brand New Square Enix RPG. Do You Give a Hoot?
Square Enix is working on a brand new role-playing game that isn’t Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest. Pointing that out makes it sure seem like Square Enix only makes FF and DQ. It doesn’t. The new role-playing game is an action RPG and is apparently aimed at Westerners. If you are a Westerner, well, what…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 2, 2011 -
These PS3 Ads Built a Real Holodeck. It’s Amazing.
You know Star Trek’s holodeck? If not, here is Star Trek’s holodeck. Anyway, once the property of science fiction, some advertisers have actually built one for a PlayStation 3 commercial. As you’ll see, there is no post-production work being done on the footage. All the effects are being done in the room, using 3D projection…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2011 -
Great, Now You Can Pay a Subscription to Play Tetris
Electronic Arts has figured out a way to make peopLe pay indefinitely for the privilege of playing Tetris. A 99-cent version of the classic puzzler just went live on the iOS store but, obviously, you’ll want more than the seven Tetrominoes that buck buys you, right? Right? Well, good news, there’s now something called the…
By Owen Good Published December 1, 2011 -
Xbox Live’s UFC Pay-Per-View Support Arrives Dec. 20
Announced back in September, pay-per-view fights in the mixed martial arts UFC series will be available Dec, 20 via Xbox Live, Microsoft said today. Fights will be served through an application that becomes available on that date; the events themselves are not free, an account-holder must still purchase it. However, when viewing them on Xbox…
By Owen Good Published December 1, 2011 -
Hoping Each Time That His Next Leap Will Be The Leap Home
Hello all, and welcome to yet another late-night Kotaku open thread. The week is drawing to a close, and we have a brief chance to breathe after Thanksgiving and before Christmas (or, you know, Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Festivus, or whatever you may observe). Here, as always, are some conversation-starters for your perusal. “The Worst…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 1, 2011 -
Why Modern Warfare 3 Remains an Un-Game
Republished from Rock, Paper Shotgun. Last Wednesday Kotaku republished (with permission, of course) my review of Modern Warfare 3′s single player campaign. A review in which I described it as an “un-game with a core of nastiness”. This caught the attention of Kill Screen’s Brendan Keogh, who wrote a riposte to my piece on the…
John Walker | Rock Paper Shotgun Published December 1, 2011 -
Augmented Reality NBA App Makes You the King of Someone’s Driveway
An NBA-branded augmented-reality game released today for Android and iOS devices, promises to make you the King of the Court at any number of real-world basketball locations around you. So far I’m the King of a neighboring cul-de sac and a Wendy’s parking lot. King of the Court, by Ogmento, is free to play (but,…
By Owen Good Published December 1, 2011 -
NFL Blitz‘s “Cover” Also Put Up to a Fan Vote
Though not a retail release, the January reboot of NFL Blitz will still have a cover star, following a fan-voted campaign taking place during the Spike Video Game Awards next weekend. The candidates for the downloadable game (on Xbox Live and Playstation Network) are the Atlanta Falcons receiver Roddy White, the Baltimore Ravens running back…
By Owen Good Published December 1, 2011 -
Fez Tantalizes Us With Another “Long Screenshot”
Fez, which is going on four years in development, was delayed to “early 2012” way back in September, so at least this luxurious long shot of the perspective-switching indie platformer isn’t some oblique way of saying “BTW, it’s been pushed back again.” That we know of. Still, put in headphones and listen to this. Sounds…
By Owen Good Published December 1, 2011 -
XCOM‘s Development Presses On, Says 2K—With One Less Studio
Earlier this week, 2K Games announced that its Canberra, Australia studio was being shifted from helping with development of XCOM to working on Bioshock Infinite. The news led some to wonder if XCOM was in jeopardy of being postponed or canned. But 2K Games tells Kotaku that the reboot is still in development at 2K…
By Brian Crecente Published December 1, 2011 -
A Cardboard Marcus Fenix Must Pay for a Seat on the Bus
A student in Milton Keynes, England paid a full bus fare for Marcus Fenix. No, really. Carrying home a life-size cardboard display of the Gears of War protagonist, Liam Sheridan was told by the driver his monthly bus pass didn’t cover his companion. Sheridan, 17, was thus charged £1.80 for a full adult fare on…
By Owen Good Published December 1, 2011 -
A New Challenger Approaches
Mario Kart 7 | Totilo and I both had our 3DS in the office today, look what I picked up through Street Pass. Jokes Fly Faster Than Arrows in the Goofy-Yet-Epic Bard’s Tale The Bard’s Tale, the highly enjoyable action role-playing game that launches today at the App Store, has a long, storied history-far longer…
By Brian Crecente Published December 1, 2011 -
Ocarina of Time‘s Forest Temple and Zora’s River Remade in Minecraft
We’ve seen so many things remade in Minecraft over the past year or so, but this one is still worth sharing. YouTube user RedAshMason had gone ahead and made Zora’s River, The Forest Temple, and even a fair bit of Hyrule Field as originally seen in the famous Legend of Zelda game Ocarina of Time…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 1, 2011 -
Pink Chocobos and the Phoenix Down Woman of My Dreams in the Latest Final Fantasy XIII-2 Screens
Oh Chocolina, with your modest demeanor and your adorable Phoenix Down outfit; who cares what the other 27 new screenshots have on them, as long as you’re here with me. I don’t know wehy Square Enix decided that a Vegas showgirl was the appropriate choice for a shopkeeper in Final Fantasy XIII-2; I’ve stopped asking…
By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2011 -
World of Warcraft‘s Deck Building Game Delivers the Joy of Cards Without the Pain of Collecting
Coming this spring from Cryptozoic Entertainment, World of Warcraft: Clash of Champions is 423 cards worth of tabletop raiding fun for two to four players in one sexy $45 box. The deck building game has saved my wallet. See, I love card games, and I love the colorful artwork and unique rules of trading card…
By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2011 -
Say Goodbye to Skyrim’s Majestic Backwards Flying Dragons
They were… bizarre… while they lasted: Dragons in full flight, breathing fire, swooping, all backwards. The glitch that put some of the creatures in reverse is being fixed next week, so if you want to witness the beauty of a backwards mythical creature in the wilds of The Elder Scroll V: Skyrim, you might want…
By Brian Crecente Published December 1, 2011 -
Yoostar in MTV is Worth One Drunken Night of Playing
It’s not everyday that three men dressed like Zach Ryder walk into your apartment at two in the morning. Drunk and looking to play some Xbox, I turned them to my awesome new copy of Yoostar in MTV. This is what came out of that night.
By Chris Carolan Published December 1, 2011 -
Man Mods Etch-A-Sketch to Work With Nintendo Controller
Have you ever wanted to control an Etch-A-Sketch with a Nintendo controller? Probably not, but it’s pretty awesome. Watching this video, I tried to imagine all the uses this device had, but most of them were drawing boxes. I’m sure somebody will come up with something better then that.
By Chris Carolan Published December 1, 2011
