Kill them all, Peter. Screenshot: Marvel / Anime Nyan / Kotaku If there was a video game that perfectly embodied the edgy, sexually charged machismo of Marvel Comics Ultimates era, it would be the forgotten 2005 Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfect. Miracle nemesis, made by former StarCraft: Spirit Developer, Nihilistic Software, is a grim ...
A PlayStation 1 demo kiosk in Tokyo’s Akihabara in 1998. photo: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP (Getty Images) The first PlayStation was released in Japan on December 3, 1994, and video games have not been the same since then. It’s hard to underline the impact of the PlayStation. Graphics and sound were cutting-edge for their time. ...
image: Nintendo In 2019 the source code for Super mario 64 has been reverse engineered resulting in all sorts of wonderful mods and even ports to systems like that Dream cast and Playstation 2. It is now Ocarina of time Turn around. As VGC report, the dozen members of the Zelda 64 Reverse Engineering team ...
picture: Digital foundry On the E3 2000, Solid metal gear 2 necessarily stole the show when the first real-time gameplay material was shown on the PlayStation 2. It looked Incredible back then, but time goes on incessantly, and after 2021 it’s obviously not that incredible, with some of the technical tricks used at the time ...
The PlayStation 2 is a great console, but has one annoying flaw: it is not portable. So a YouTuber, IngwerOfOz, decided to fix this blatant design deficit, creating a handsome handheld console he called the PS2 Eclipse. Yesterday Ginger uploaded a video presentation all the work that went into making a portable PS2. As he ...
PS2 game boxes were completely unremarkable because they looked like any other plastic case available at the time, from Xbox games to DVDs. But an earlier design that Sony ended up abandoning was a lot more interesting. Earlier this year Phil Salvador wrote a fantastic piece about The obscuritor via Hock Wah Yeo, a designer ...
Gif: Syscom / Midas Interactive / Kotaku I am not a speedrunner. In fact, I’ve never loved a video game enough to try and speed it up until recently when I found the oddity of the PlayStation 2 X-treme-Express. But after nearly a week of watching my last-minute promising attempts fizzle out and my affection ...
The picture shows the Nintendo Switch version of Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD remaster.Screenshot: Square Enix Final Fantasy X-2 was originally released in 2003, but that doesn’t mean a sequel to the legendary PlayStation 2 game is impossible. When speaking to Weekly Famitsu, Producer Yoshinori Kitase, director Motomu Toriyama, writer Kazushige Nojima, and character ...
Pictured: 2.5 megabytes of colorful vintage game memory.picture: Simon Lock The original PlayStation wasn’t the first video game system to use removable memory cards for game saves, but it certainly made the idea mainstream. Lots of people amassed little piles of things as PS2 rolled around, in a variety of styles and colors. And now ...
picture:: Microsoft / Kotaku / Almond only ((Getty Images) You may know them as Brood X or Brood 10, or the Great Eastern Brood. For most people, they’re periodic cicadas – insatiable insects that emerge from their subterranean sleep every 17 years to fuck each other to pieces. In the last week or so, Brood ...
