I should cosplay in honor ofKingdom Hearts 3Dbeing playable at next month’s Tokyo Game Show. Keyblade, belts and all. No. Not really. Man, if I did that, I’d want to be impaled by a key blade. Still, I’d like to check outKingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, so it’s good to know that it will be in the Square Enix booth at TGS. Tetsuya Nomura told Dengeki PlayStation that it would be there, saysAndriasang....
It’s confirmed —God of War‘s Kratos will appear as a fighter in the upcomingMortal Kombat. Well, if you get the PlayStation 3 version, of course. The inclusion was officially announced at the Spike VGAs tonight, complete with a reveal trailer that has Kratos butting his head into a fight between series favorites Scorpion and Sub-Zero.
The latest developer diary forDante’s Infernodoesn’t do anything for the crowd who are whining about the game’s wobbly connection to its 14th century source material. Wake up:Dante’s Infernois a brawler. Brawlers don’t deal with the acknowledgment and rejection of sin. They deal with fighting and monsters. Below the fold you can watch the diary. Initially, the developers discuss Virgil’s epic. Then they talk about the good stuff: Limbo, monsters, hell in general, and other disgusting things....
With a name like Victor Fries, life could have gone a few ways for the scientist with the unfortunate surname. He could have spent his life working dead-end fast food jobs, when a botched store robbery leads to a horrible deformity and drives him to a life of crime as the nefarious Mr. Fries. But that’s not how it happened at all. In the Batman universe, Fries is driven insane by the death of his wife in a cryogenic accident that also leaves the doctor unable to survive outside of a sub-zero environment....
[Backlogis the ongoing quest to ridConrad Zimmerman’scollection of unfinished games. As voted on by the Destructoid community, Conrad plays each game from start to finish live onDestructoid’s Twitch.tv channelevery weeknight at 8pm Pacific] We’ve been dropped into the pit of the Centipede, who seems not at all pleased to see Alice. It’s interesting, in a way. The exposition for the classic arcade gameCentipedeis that you’re a little elfish dude with a magic wand, fighting the centipede and other bugs in a magical mushroom forest....
We’re very close to the conclusion ofMadWorldand we’ll absolutely see its end tonight. The mysteries of Jack and the competition will be brought to light. Or we’ll all be left scratching our heads at a brilliant, bloody mess. You can hardly go wrong either way. Come tune in to Backlog right now. I’ll be hanging out, waggling my injured arm for your amusement. Plus, the conversation is usually pretty rousing on a Friday so you’ll want to hang out for all the fun going on in the channel’s chat room....
WhenMajin and the Forsaken Kingdomwas announced for November, I shed a single tear for the poor game. In a period where games are scrabbling to avoidBlack Opslike rats deserting a sinking ship, this humble little game is standing its ground. Producer Daisuke Uchiyama is confident that it isn’t suicide. “Our goal forMajinwas to deliver a game where both casual and core players can take a break from games that involve shooting/blood/violence,” he states....
The absolutely lovelyMana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemyis set to come to our PlayStation 2’s late next month, thanks toRPGbringer-overerNIS America. Before it has even landed here, Japan gets word of a PSP port, and it’s scheduled to release at about the same time. According to Japanese retailerGamestar, this port comes by way of Idea Factory, and will contain a large volume of extra content.Siliconerareminds that the PSP port for the firstMana Khemiacame with a two player mode and extra alchemy ingredients....
After all the controversy last week about BioWare’s Facebook contest to pick the “Femshep” forMass Effect 3′s advertising and promotional materials, I was surprised to see the vote was actually still ongoing. Starting today, you canvote on which hairstyleyou want to see on the new female Shepherd. Sophie Prell’s original on Destructoidresulted in quite a bit of discussion about whether having the appearance of the female Shepherd was actually a good thing....
While nothing will ever be as adorable asThe Aging Gamer’s Mega Man outfithe made for his son, the hoodie above does come close in the department of being awesome. It’s also probably a lot easier to put on and start Pew-Pewing withe the greatest of ease. The hoodie is sadly only a concept designed by bmansnuggles andposted tohis deviantART account. It doesn’t look like he will be making any for public consumption....
A few days ago, we talked about how greedy Microsoft used theModern Warfare 2price hiketo sneak in a price raise of its own, adding an extra £20 to the cost of an Xbox 360 Arcade and piling a few extra quid onto a number of accessories. Microsoft won’t admit that it’s just being a greedy, parasitic bitch, insteadtrying to contrive a reasonfor raping the British consumer. “We are making modest increases on the Xbox 360 Arcade console as you can see,” snivels Xbox Europe boss Chris Lewis....
Microsoft has a thing for trying to corner other peoples’ markets, it seems. Not content to bullrush the games industry in the first place, then desperately grasp for some of Nintendo’s fanbase, Microsoft is nowlooking to rival Steamby distributing PC games online. Games for Windows LIVE general manager Chris Early confirms that MS will be offering a digital distribution platform via the Games for Windows LIVE Marketplace. The Marketplace will offer demos, videos and additional game content, something which Early claims that you “can’t do today on a PC....
I’m glad that the last half decade has shown a sort of shift of acceptance for things like videogames and geek culture, and I’m just as glad that some creative people have the balls and brains to create these weird hybrid devices. I definitely have enough geek pride to rock either one of these modified mobile phones, but I could see how they wouldn’t be for everyone. Gizmodo features two different frankenphones, with each featuring some kind of game functionality....
