Crytek and EA unleashed the highly anticipated sequel to Crysis last week. While waiting for it to become available Down Under, I found myself reading numerous reviews about the game. Most were highly positive, while informal observations from bloggers and PC gamers noted that Crysis 2 has departed from some of its predecessor’s gameplay essentials…
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SNAPSHOT | OSAKA, JAPAN: These “Potetong” are actually recommended for use while gaming as well as computing. (Photo: Brian Ashcraft) Wake Up, Kotaku Xbox 360’s “New Disc Format” Is A 1GB Storage Boost So, Microsoft is testing a “new disc format”. The more fanciful of you are thinking that means “Blu-Ray”. The more sensible and…
While Hollywood is working on a new Silent Hill motion picture, a group of Silent Hill fans are finishing up The Confined. Heavily inspired by Konami’s horror game series, The Confined features a character that was originally created as a haunted house character last Halloween. The film’s creator, Nathan A. Quattrini, decided to carry over…
Not everyone can stomach 3D like a pro. Some gamers might feel dizzy or even ill. According to British tabloid The Sun (yeah, I know), “HUNDREDS of furious gamers have slammed Nintendo’s new 3DS console – for making them feel ill.” Nintendo’s UK office is denying this, reports website MCV. “We’ve had zero calls on…
Nike Dunk sneakers get a Pokémon make-over. [via Flickr via Pimp My Kicks via GameFreaks]
Shigesato Itoi, who’s perhaps best known in Japan as a copy writer and TV personality, already said that there will be no Mother 4. Making Mother 3 was no easy task. That doesn’t mean there still isn’t hope – however faint that might be. In an upcoming issue of Japanese magazine “Brutus”, there’s a four…
Most of this new Battlefield 3 trailer consists of lighting effects and people being shot. What’s got me interested, though, is the fisticuffs in the middle. That looked like some kind of fancy, scripted quick-time-event scenario. In a Battlefield game. Given these trailers are from the game’s singleplayer campaign, that shouldn’t surprise you, but this…
Microsoft’s research team in Cambridge has published a paper outlining several ways the speed and accuracy of Kinect can be improved. Lucky Kinect is also made by Microsoft! The team’s research does not build on Kinect’s existing technology; rather, it strips it away at the base level and replaces it with a new way of…
Final Fantasy Tactics. X-Com. Shining Force. All games that do turn-based strategy very well. If you have an iPhone or iPad, add Hunters to that list. Developed by Rodeo Games – made up of guys who have worked Sony, Criterion and Lionhead – Hunters is a turn-based squad combat game that takes a venerable old…
Hey, Farmville fans. When you log on and plant seeds, you’re not actually enjoying a game. You’re stuck in what’s called the “Sunk Cost Fallacy”. What is the “Sunk Cost Fallacy”? The You Are Not So Smart blog explains: The Misconception: You make rational decisions based on the future value of objects, investments and experiences.…
Dated for June, Child of Eden is the upcoming rhythm action game from Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the game designer responsible for the classic shooter Rez. The actors in the trailer appear to be wearing white gloves – something that Mizuguchi’s done in the past when showing Child of Eden’s Kinect version at gaming events. This makes…
Mike Rose, who runs indie gaming hotspot and Kotaku favourite Indiegames.com, has written a book called “250 Indie Games You Must Play”. Note that it’s not “250 Indie Games You Must Play Before You DIE”, so there’s no rush. Some of these games, you will have played. Some you may have just heard of. But…
Starting January 1, 2012, groundbreaking will commence on a new Nintendo R&D center in Kyoto. Nintendo is pouring over USD$15 million into the new facility that will house over 1,500 employees. The site is adjacent to Nintendo’s current headquarters (pictured) and previously housed a golf center, which Nintendo had bulldozed in 2008. The goal is…
Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D may not be the most original game on the 3DS, but it’s certainly shaping up as one of the best-looking. And yes, what you see there is a Resident Evil game letting the player move around while aiming their weapon. It seems to slow you down when you do it, but…
So, Microsoft is testing a “new disc format”. The more fanciful of you are thinking that means “Blu-Ray”. The more sensible and well-connected are thinking it’s something a little more realistic. Tech gurus Digital Foundry claim that, according to “a highly placed development source”, this new disc format is simply the same old Xbox 360…
The first Crysis was, and remains, something of a benchmark for PC hardware nerds. Because the second Crysis was also made for consoles, though, some of those aforementioned nerds are angry. And justifiably so! I mean, look at these numbers, put together by PC specialists Rock, Paper, Shotgun. They clearly show that, because this game…
While AR Games might be the 3DS’s holy shit moment, there are plenty of holy shit moments to go around. Final Fantasy has its own on the iPhone. New app Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy AR allows folks to downloaded AR models of Final Fantasy XIII’s Lightning, Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud, Warrior of Light from the…
Console launches are normally times for absurdity, but this report coming in from the UK – of GAME staff popping down to their local supermarket to buy 3DS units – is something else. Eurogamer has got hold of documentation sent to employees of GAME, a major specialist retailer in Europe (and Australasia) at the time…
Large breasts and video games are not strangers. But apparently, sometimes breasts are not large enough? Sometimes they need a little help? The latest downloadable content for Xbox 360 game The Dream Club Zero is doing just that. The newly released DLC offers players an array of costumes like a “Fox Mask” or a “Samba…
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