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Call of Cthulhu Interview
Here's a link to an interview with Dennis Cheng, Bethesda's producer for their H.P. Lovecraft-based game, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. I know it's an interview with Dennis Cheng because that's the first question they ask him. Whatever happened to interviews telling you about the person before the interview starts? Is that really an interesting interview question to some people? "What is your name and what is your job title?" I'd blame Ultima IV for bringing kids up this way, but none of them ever ask the interviewees about their health, just their name and job. More »
Playstation 2
What wondrous times we live in, when not only we can play a game by stomping, but now we can also simultaneously hook up a camera to the PS2 and catch coconuts, or wave our arms around to clean off a simulated dirty screen, or (as seen above) simply add a new element of rhythm to our stomping.
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DDR Extreme Includes Bonus EyeToy Extremeness
What wondrous times we live in, when not only we can play a game by stomping, but now we can also simultaneously hook up a camera to the PS2 and catch coconuts, or wave our arms around to clean off a simulated dirty screen, or (as seen above) simply add a new element of rhythm to our stomping.
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Xbox
Microsoft has decided to extend the deadline for entering Ninja Gaiden's second Master Ninja Tournament to August 9th, the day that the Hurricane Pack, a big ol' free content download for the game will be available.
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Ninja Gaiden: Master Ninja Tournament 2 Entry Deadline Extended
Microsoft has decided to extend the deadline for entering Ninja Gaiden's second Master Ninja Tournament to August 9th, the day that the Hurricane Pack, a big ol' free content download for the game will be available.
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Sammy Studios Video Tour
Take a tour of Sammy Studios, the Carlsbad, California division of pachinko kingpins Sammy Corporation. More »
Final Fantasy XII Screenshots
Say whatever you want about the series, but Final Fantasy always makes for some nice screenshots, and GameSpot has 25 new ones from the game's battle mode.
Final Fantasy XII Screens [GameSpot]
Say whatever you want about the series, but Final Fantasy always makes for some nice screenshots, and GameSpot has 25 new ones from the game's battle mode.
Final Fantasy XII Screens [GameSpot]
In Brief
EVO 2K4
It's not the biggest professional gaming competition— there's only $20,000 prize money available across nine tournamentss— but it's got over a thousand entrants anyway, coming to Cal Poly this weekend from all over the world. They're fighting game masters, competing for the top spot in games all the way from grand-daddy Super Street Fighter II Turbo to youngblood Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution. More »
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A New Doom 3 Trailer, etc.
Doom 3 is going to be at G-Phoria, G4/TechTV's gaming awards show which takes place this weekend. Those of you not in L.A.— and those of you in L.A., but frightened by G-Phoria's guests of honor, Carmen Electra and her melon-headed guitar man Dave Navarro— can instead have a look at this new trailer for Doom 3, which starts out with some scenes from the pre-opening-of-the-hellgate part of the plot and ends with some new action scenes. More »
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Knights of the Temple Demo
Hey, kids! Want to play a demo for a game that's not out in America and has no American release date? Well, TDK Mediactive PR folks think you do, because they told everyone about it. And now I'm going to tell you about it, because PR is like herpes— when you get it, you just don't care whether or not you give it to someone else. And taking a daily pill is too much hassle.More »
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Your Chance to Play an MMG Before It Gets Cancelled
The Massively Multiplayer Game Saga of Ryzom is open to anyone all this weekend, after which it will go back to its select group of testers. More »
Xbox
Meet Mikael Labat. He's the Art Director for the upcoming Prince of Persia 2. Don't worry, he's a lot better at directing art than he is at directing what goes on above his neck, as you'll see from the great-looking environments in this video.
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Prince of Persia 2 Video
Meet Mikael Labat. He's the Art Director for the upcoming Prince of Persia 2. Don't worry, he's a lot better at directing art than he is at directing what goes on above his neck, as you'll see from the great-looking environments in this video.
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Mobile
It's a real-time strategy game for the Zodiac! According to GameSpot's review, there doesn't appear to be anything that sets this apart gameplay-wise from, say, 90% of RTS games from Command and Conquer onward, but the game apparently does have "a surprising amount of unit variety". Still, it's an actual game for your Zodiac, one that mixes well with the stylus, and you can skirmish against people over Bluetooth.
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Warfare Incorporated
It's a real-time strategy game for the Zodiac! According to GameSpot's review, there doesn't appear to be anything that sets this apart gameplay-wise from, say, 90% of RTS games from Command and Conquer onward, but the game apparently does have "a surprising amount of unit variety". Still, it's an actual game for your Zodiac, one that mixes well with the stylus, and you can skirmish against people over Bluetooth.
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Top Ten Game Rentals
For the week ending July 25th. Rentrak only needs five days to tell you which games were rented the most. Suck that, NPD! More »
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I Prefer to Report on Actual Releases and Here's Why
As I said in a couple of posts back, Kotaku prefers to tell you about stuff you can actually go out and get. I skipped over some news earlier in the week about a demo for Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault being released on Friday. These pre-announcements are a waste of time. Especially when the day before the thing they announced earlier in the week was going to happen was scheduled to happen, they instead say that it will be a little while longer. More »
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Delayed
Citing a lack of desire to compete with Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 and Halo 2, THQ has pushed back the release date of the Chernobyl-themed FPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R., which pisses me off because that means I will have to type S.T.A.L.K.E.R. awkwardly for an even longer amount of time before it's released and then some months later drops out of the news. More »
Playstation 2
Kotaku isn't going to be linking to plain jane previews very often unless it's a really slow news day or, as in this case, the game is particularly eye-catching. Most games just don't distinguish themselves in preview, and we prefer to show you things you can actually have now.
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Alien Hominid
Kotaku isn't going to be linking to plain jane previews very often unless it's a really slow news day or, as in this case, the game is particularly eye-catching. Most games just don't distinguish themselves in preview, and we prefer to show you things you can actually have now.
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Super Hardware Guide for Doom 3
Hardware supersite HardOCP goes further in depth than last week's Doom 3 benchmarking report, this time presenting screenshot comparisons of the game's various visual quality settings, more benchmarks across the board from the minimum specification computer up to the top end, and an explanation of all the configuration settings. More »
Playstation 2
OK, so ports are nothing special a lot of the time, but hey, this one has value added...kinda.
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Viewtiful Joe Coming to PS2
OK, so ports are nothing special a lot of the time, but hey, this one has value added...kinda.
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