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February 07, 2012
Legend of Grimrock Developers Make Their Game Accessible to All Gamers with Limited Accessibility
When someone on the Legend of Grimrock's commented and asked about clickable on-screen arrow navigation for the upcoming Indie dungeon crawling game, developers said they had no plans to make said feature. When they found out that the comment came from a gamer with limited movement, they changed their plans and made it possible for people like the commenter (who goes by the handle name of HarpoonIPA), who uses a mouth stick for typing and gaming.
Legend of Grimrock is an old-school dungeon exploration game from developer company Almost Human (who
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January 27, 2012
Shiro Suzuki Thanks Resident Evil for Making Him Live So Long
Shiro Suzuki, a famed actor and broadcaster in Japan, loves to play Resident Evil games a lot. Kotaku and many other sources found out that he was a gamer when he told them that he discovered gaming over fifteen years ago. However after all those years, the Resident Evil series (or Biohazard as the Japanese call it) continues to be his favorite to this day.
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January 27, 2012
Capcom Releases the Latest Details on its Latest Sequel for the Resident Evil Series
With the recent announcement and trailer for Resident Evil 6 during Capcom's big 15th anniversary event in Japan, fans thought that would be all the details they would be getting for now. However, Capcom delivered even more information about the game beyond the trailer. It seems Leon will be joined by a new female protagonist named Helena Harper, while Chris Redfield's partner remains unknown at this time.
In addition, the trailer had a huge snarling beast which has been
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January 21, 2012
Bioshock Infinite's Difficulty Will be Increased by Early Choices in Its 1999 Mode
Today's gamers crave choices, choices on how they go and progress through the game, the choice of how their characters look, feel, and act, and many other different choices. But I remember a time when choices were non-existent. Irrational Games thought the same way too and decided that their upcoming title Bioshock Infinite, is going to do the same too with their "1999 Mode" (as stated in this Kotaku article).
In 1999, Irrational Games released System Shock 2, a game where you picked
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January 19, 2012
Namco and Capcom Teases Pac-Man as a Playable Character in for the Vita's Street Fighter x Tekken
Just recently, thanks to the news from Joystiq, Capcom released a new trailer for their upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken game. The trailer basically goes over the confirmed characters as well as showing a few new ones like Tekken's Paul Phoenix Xiaoyu and as well as Street Fighter's Vega and Balrog (or Balrog and Mike Bison if you follow the Japanese version of Street Fighter). However, that's not the big news right
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January 19, 2012
Assassinate in the Mediterranean with the Assassin's Creed: Revelations - Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack
Fans of Assassin's Creed: Revelations will be glad to know that in the next weeks, there will be more multiplayer maps for you to explore. The Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack extends the AC: Revelations multiplayer experience by giving you an additional six multiplayer maps. Each of them will be introducing new ways to assassinate anyone through various terrain and hideouts of places like Jerusalem and Constantinople.
So if you're
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January 19, 2012
Sorry, No PS4 at E3 This Year
Despite all the predictions and speculations, Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Corporation have come out and denied that the Playstation 4 will be unveiled at at this year's E3 in June. According to SCE's Andrew House (found here at this article on Kotaku) stated the following:
"I don't think we're contemplating talking about anything to do with future console iterations at this point."
Sony's Kaz Hirai followed up with a similar statement:
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January 12, 2012
Silent Hill HD Collection Puts Silent Hill 2 & 3 in Eerie High Definition
Time to return to Silent Hill on March 6th, as Silent Hill Re-Mastered Collection combines both Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 to the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3 for the first time ever. These classics will be remastered in high definition graphics. So you can experience the fairly terrifying journey through the fog covered city of Silent Hill. You can find more information about the re-release of these two games at this Gamespot page
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January 11, 2012
You Cannot Get Rid of the PS2. It Will Continue to Go on in Sales
The Sega Dreamcast, the Nintendo Gamecube, that gaming console Apple released but no one bought, they all have gone the way of the dodo bird. No one is buying them except for video game collectors from second hand stores or booths at flea markets. However, one console is still being sold today and at a healthy number as well. Sony's Playstation 2 is still being sold well around the world. And while its numbers aren't as strong as its earlier days, it's enough to bring notice to everyone.
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January 07, 2012
South Korea Has Some Issues with Diablo III's Auction Mechanics
In South Korea, Blizzard games are huge. And when I mean huge, I mean it's their national sport. In other countries, soccer or baseball is broadcast over the airwaves. In South Korea, it's Starcraft. While Starcraft has its following in the country, Diablo has its own in Korea and throughout the world.
However, the country's governmental Game Rating Board could delay Diablo III's launch. According to The Korea Times, the reason is because of Diablo III's in-game virtual auction and how sensitive the government