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Final Fantasy V Coming To The PlayStation Network
Square Enix announced today that Final Fantasy V, the Super Famicom game that didn’t make it to the states until 1999’s Final Fantasy Anthology for the PlayStation, is in development for the PlayStation Network, enhanced by exclusive CGI cut scenes.
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2011 -
How the Playstation Helped Shape the Most Interesting iPad Game of the Year
It all started with a song, an instrumental created with a Playstation by Canadian musician Jim Guthrie, it seems. Speaking to NOW Magazine, Guthrie explains how he went from days creating music for Three Gut Records to working with a team of five on what would become iPad gaming darling Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery –…
By Brian Crecente Published April 4, 2011 -
If You’re Scared Of Spiders, Bees, And Ticks Do Not Play This Game
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon is a simple shooter that raises one of life’s great questions: Which is worse, giant-sized bugs or normal-sized bugs? Spiders terrify me. When I think of evil, they’re the first thing that comes to mind. I’ve been told all my life how they help regulate the insect population and are…
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2011 -
The Fighter Rolls 20s In Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale
Watch the Fighter class hack and slash his way through the forces of evil in the latest trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale, bringing the pen-and-paper role-playing module model to Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network, and PC later this year.
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2011 -
Crysis 2‘s Manhattan Vs. Real Life Manhattan
When a great-looking video game imitates a real life place, how close do the two get? Compare the downtown Manhattan of Crysis 2 to the real thing and you’ll see what happens when just one real intersection, where State St. meets Bridge St. down in the financial district, becomes a video game battlefield. The real…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 4, 2011 -
See The First Spectacular Trailer And Amazing Screens For Spider-Man: Edge Of Time
In order to help the Amazing Spider-Man save the future, Spider-Man 2099 has to save the past. That’s the kind of convoluted story you get when you start messing with temporal physics, but who cares when it looks this good? Activision and developer Beenox of Shattered Dimensions fame showed off Spidey’s latest time-twisted adventure this…
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2011 -
Battlefield Play4Free Pulls The Trigger On Open Beta
The war between the United States and Russia escalates today as EA’s browser-based shooter Battlefield Play4Free enters open beta, allowing gamers everywhere to enter the fray with the default equipment or pay to play the tricked-out way. Signing up for an EA account and a quick download is all it takes to get started in…
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2011 -
Edge of Time Gallery
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2011 -
Casey ‘The Zangief Kid’ Gets His Own Video Game
Casey is a real kid who used a pro wrestling move to teach a school bully a dangerous lesson. And now a Brazilian game developer has created a simple web game that lets you take a few punches, like Casey did, before pummeling scrawny bullies. Warning: Our expert play-tester lost interest in Zangief Kid The…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 4, 2011 -
What Music Stirs Your Ancient Gaming Memories?
In today’s edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Arok_Lazarus wonders what music transports us back to the games we used to play. So I’ve been listening to a lot of Queen lately again. It has also been bringing up lots of gaming memories for me. Back when Star Wars: Battlefront II came out my best…
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2011 -
Big-Headed Caveboys And Infinite Adventures In This Week’s Nintendo Download
While we patiently wait for the 3DS Virtual Console to arrive, Nintendo continues to deliver fresh new and old content to the Wii and DSi, with the ginormous cranium of Hudson’s Super Bonk headlining this week’s offerings. Yes, North America finally gets a Virtual Console release of Super Bonk, the side-scrolling caveman platformer that hit…
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2011 -
This Robot Dog’s Ugly is Only Skin Deep
It looks more organic than robotic. The four legs march under the barrel chest of the robot, snapping up two at a time in perfect precision. But when Boston Dynamic’s creation, BigDog, is pushed, or it walks across ice, it suddenly looks very much alive as it stumbles to correct itself, and succeeds. Designed to…
By Brian Crecente Published April 4, 2011 -
Long Lines In Akihabara To Donate To Quake Victims
STAND UP | TOKYO, JAPAN: “Otaku” celebrities like voice actress Aya Hirano collect money for quake victims. Small talk, handshakes, etc. were not permitted. (Photo: Koepota) Wake Up, Kotaku Anonymous Targets Sony, Warns Of Penises Stuck In Hornets Nests Militant hacker group Anonymous has launched a campaign against Sony, citing the Japanese company’s “unforgivable offense…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 4, 2011 -
Max Payne 3 Developers Learned All About Brazil
Upcoming action game Max Payne 3 is set in Brazil. Rockstar, the folks making Max Payne 3, are not a Brazilian studio, so that meant one thing: research. The game’s art director, Rob Nelson, tells Edge magazine that the team put as much research into Sao Paulo as the original Max Payne developer did with…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 4, 2011 -
The Puzzler That Made Arcades More Fun, 7th Guest More Maddening Hits iPhone, iPad
There are many devious puzzles in 90’s classic, and often infuriating, computer game 7th Guest. So you may not have noticed that when the puzzler made its way to the iPhone and iPad it was missing one particularly teeth-grinding one. The original Microscope game in the 7th guest used a custom built AI engine that…
By Brian Crecente Published April 4, 2011 -
New Super Mario Bros. Arrives In A New Setting
New Super Mario Bros. Wii is making the jump from the Nintendo Wii to arcades, and trading Wii Remotes for joysticks and jackpots. Dubbed Super Mario Bros. Wii: Coin World, the game is being reborn as a four player “medallion game”. Medallion games are arcade games in which players try to hit the jackpot and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 4, 2011 -
Nintendo Is Taking May Off, It Seems
April showers might bring May flowers, but they sure as shit don’t bring games in Japan. The release schedule for the Wii, DS and 3DS is looking shockingly barren. According to Nintendo’s Japanese site, there are only two DS games getting released in Japan in May: Treasure Report, Red Stone DS and Nakayoshi Kids: Oshigoto…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 4, 2011 -
Big Time Gangsta Takes Back The Portable Streets
Fresh out of prison and back on the streets, it’s time to gather your gang and reclaim your ugly, run-down, drug plagued neighborhood block-by-block. Glu Mobile is so gangsta. Big Time Gangsta for the iPad and iPhone takes the formula established in Facebook games like Sony Online Entertainment’s The Agency: Covert Ops, strips out the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 4, 2011 -
PixelJunk Shooter? No, PixelJunk Signed Shooter Shirt
Kyoto’s Q-Games, the studio behind PixelJunk and a whole host of wonderful titles, is auctioning off a signed ThinkGeek t-shirt for “Play for Japan”. The whole PixelJunk staff autographed the shirt! Auction ends on April 10 and all proceeds will go to the American Red Cross. More info in the details below. Play For Japan:…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 4, 2011