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10 Jul 2010Cave, famous for its insane bullet hell shmups, is taking full advantage of the reduced risk of self-publishing downloadable games. Following the worldwide iPhone release of Espgaluda II, Cave’s Makoto Asada announced that the company is planning to release the 1999 shmup Guwange on Xbox Live Arcade worldwide. In a separate post, Asada showed some [...]
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2 Jul 2010We’re hard-pressed to call a book full of concept art for Alien Breed: Impact created by clearly talented artists “kinda nasty,” but, well, part of it features images of gross bugs and stuff. More to the point: gross alien bug things.
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Let’s not spoil anything. Instead, let’s just say that Square Enix’s CGI work for Deus Ex: Human Revolution is really paying off. You should watch the trailer above right now. And then watch it again. Now that you’ve done that, we’ve got some actual news: It looks like Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been confirmed [...]
Dream.Build.Play is a competition where semi-pro and indy game developers are asked to create innovative video games for Xbox 360 using XNA Game Studio. This year the four winners got their piece of $75,000 in cash as well as the opportunity for their game to show up on XBLA. Microsoft says that there were over [...]
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29 Apr 2010Listen, we love atmosphere. Don’t get us wrong, if someone was making a list of websites that liked moody, atmospheric advertising, Joystiq would be right there at the top. With a bullet. We watched that Gears of War “Mad World” ad and thought “Hmm, not enough atmosphere and pensive reflection.” That said, the two-minute-and-thirty second [...]
Note: This footage is best viewed in high definition. Click ‘HD’ to enable it. Halo fanatics will finally get their hands on Halo: Reach when the multiplayer beta, included with the purchase of Halo 3: ODST, is activated next week. You’ve already read our impressions but now you get to see some of the action, [...]
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15 Feb 2010While we at Kotaku have known Xbox Live has been coming to Windows Mobile for a while now, it appears that later today, Microsoft will finally get around to officially unveiling the project. Some lazy security at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona (due to open later today) has allowed these shots to get out, [...]
Microsoft’s experiment in casual game creation, Kodu, is now available in preview form online. PC gamers can download the “Technical Preview” version of the game right here, which features a revamped UI sporting mouse and keyboard controls. Microsoft also added other tweaks, enhancing the “move” verb (allowing for scripted camera movements), “streamlined terrain editing tools” [...]