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There’s A Second Penny Arcade Game (Only This One’s For Tables)
I’ve never been the biggest fan of Penny Arcade’s “spin-off” works, but the recent Lookouts comic series (or at least attempt) was awesome. So it’s even more awesome to hear that the fantasy world is getting its own “hybrid role playing and board game experience”. Here’s the synopsis from the game’s creators, Cryptozoic Entertainment: The…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011 -
Mega Man Universe Is Totally Canceled
Mega Man Universe was supposed to be out this year on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. It won’t be. Capcom, the game’s developer, is shutting the title down and ceasing development. Mega Man Universe has been canned. In an official release, Capcom says the game is being canned for “various circumstances”. It is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 31, 2011 -
Digital Idol And Real Pin-Up Girl Blended In Pixels
Even though she’s performed in concerts, Miku Hatsune is an entirely virtual creation. Pin-up model Risa Yoshiki, however, appears to be real! In the latest issue of Japanese tabloid Weekly Playboy, both idols, 2D and 3D, come together. Here’s how the promotional video for the photoshoot explains it: Beyond the limits of science, she came.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 31, 2011 -
Is EA Cooking Up A New Ultima Game?
Ultima IV, an oldie-but-goodie role-playing game from one of the PC’s most revered franchises, has been available for free since 1997. And nobody gave a hoot. Then, yesterday, EA suddenly gives a hoot. A number of sites hosting free (or flash) copies of the game – first released in 1985 – have been ordered by…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011 -
From Chernobyl To Sony’s New Handheld
The whole world watched as an explosion took the roof off Fukushima 1. The situation is far from resolved. Thankfully, the crisis at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant now appears to be stabilizing. Deactivating the reactors, however, could take decades. For game developer Alexey Menshikov, it brought back memories of something close to Kiev, where…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 31, 2011 -
Please, THQ, Stop Stealing Assassin’s Creed Developers
Patrice Désilets, the former creative director behind the Assassin’s Creed series who left Ubisoft for rivals THQ last year, was not alone in making the move. He brought others with him. So many that THQ has had to go get a court order. Désilets left Ubisoft in May and announced his new role at THQ…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2011 -
Sony’s MMO Makers Close Three Studios, Lay Off One-Third of Workforce
Sony Online Entertainment, makers of D.C. Universe Online and Free Realms, closed three studios and will lay off nearly a third of its workforce, Kotaku has learned. Word began spreading when George Broussard, best known as the co-creator of Duke Nukem Forever, tweeted earlier this evening that SOE was seeing layoffs and “studio closure is…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2011 -
PlayStation Emulator Yanked from Android Store — Foreshadowing PS Phone’s Release?
ZodTTD’s PlayStation emulator is on the Android store. The soon-to-be-released PlayStation Phone is an Android device. Can you guess the punchline here? Available for nearly six months, now PSX4Droid has been judged by Google to have a “content violation,” and poof, off it goes. ZodTTD, via Twitter, said he’d been working like hell on an…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2011 -
What Are You Eating?
Normally, we have an open thread every Tuesday with a theme. This Tuesday, the theme was… wait? What the hell happened to last night’s open thread? Dammit!! To make up for that oversight—sorry, I was at Insomniac’s Community Day in Hollywood—we’re running this themed Tuesday on a Wednesday. So, I have a question: what are…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 30, 2011 -
This Is Going To Be Epic: Too Human Creators Gear Up For Legal War With Shooter Giant
Gears of War’s success was built on broken promises and the neglected developers who helped fund the creation of that game, a 2007 suit from the developer of the disappointing Too Human alleges. According to documents obtained by Kotaku, that long-simmering legal feud between game maker Silicon Knights and Gears of War developer Epic Games…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 30, 2011 -
Flick Football Takes to the Air with Pocket Passer
Full-scale, console-style football has been a technical success on the iPhone but many, myself among them, find it prohibitively complex for such a small screen, using multitouch. Other developers have found stronger success breaking the game down to singular acts. To Backbreaker’s Tackle Alley, a running game, we can now add Pocket Passer for all…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2011 -
Get An Amazing Cockpit View Of Gorgeous Mech Shooter Hawken
The absolutely stunning Hawken looked almost too good be true when we saw its first trailer. Surely, nine guys couldn’t create a first-person mech shooter that looks this sharp, could they? With Hawken’s newest trailer, this one with actual gameplay, I’m starting to believe. Adhesive Games, the independent developer of Hawken, calls this latest look…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 30, 2011 -
NBA Jam Won’t Update Rosters for Console Versions — but Does for iPhone’s
Earlier this month, EA Sports made it official that anyone expecting updated rosters on NBA Jam was SOL. That’s for the console versions. The game’s iOS version just got a roster tweak today, in time for the soon-to-begin playoffs. That means Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups, my go-to-duo on all platforms, aren’t balling for the…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2011 -
Pac-Man Championship Edition Is Coming To The Nintendo 3DS
The not-so-hot-looking Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions for the Nintendo 3DS is more than originally meets the eye. The 3D game will also include versions of Pac-Man Championship Edition, Galaga Legions as well as the original Pac-Man and Galaga, both tweaked with stereoscopic visual tricks. [Andriasang]
By Michael McWhertor Published March 30, 2011 -
Madden NFL 12 Said to Include Concussions to Present a Safety Message
Remarkably, Madden NFL 12 will depict players suffering concussions, according to the president of the NFL Players’ Association, but apparently in a manner that reinforces the seriousness of the injury and the message that playing through one is not a good idea. In a tweet first reported on by Gamasutra, George Atallah, a senior official…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2011 -
Goodbye, So Long…
Fini | This has, since the site’s beginning, been my office.. (Photo by Me) Bedtime Stories Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City’s First Teaser Shows Off Fast-Paced Zombie Slaughter Undead creatures swarm, bullets fly, and gas stations explode in this action-packed first look at Slant Six Games’ Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. More » Is Crysis 2…
By Brian Crecente Published March 30, 2011 -
EA Sports and Major League Baseball Reconnect on Facebook
It’s not the return of MVP Baseball, the long lost and lamented Major League Baseball title that went into exile after 2005, but EA Sports has gotten back on the field with MLB in World Series Superstars, a Facebook game rumored to be in development that launched by surprise today. World Series Superstars plays the…
By Owen Good Published March 30, 2011 -
Star Wars iOS Games Get Stay Of Execution
Just a day after we reported that one iPhone/iPad Star Wars game would be pulled from iTunes by Friday — and just hours after we received confirmation that all Star Wars iOS games would be yanked — we’ve learned that all of these games will be kept on iTunes after all. “All Star Wars apps…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 30, 2011