Members of Nagoshi Studio, posing for the camera and not working on a smartphone puzzle game. image: NetEase anus leaving SegaToshihiro Nagoshi set up a new Tokyo studio called Nagoshi Studio. Earlier this year, owners NetEase Games described the wholly-owned subsidiary, stating it “develops high-end titles for worldwide release, with a primary focus on the ...
Screenshot: Triple Topping / Kotaku There exists within the indie gaming world a vocabulary that few can capture faithfully. It’s that bespoke patois that can be found in A Night In The Woodsin Oxenfreein A Short Hike. None sounds the same as the other, and yet all have that same cadence, a truthfulness about their ...
Screenshot: The Pokemon Company / Kotaku Like so many Pokemon games Pokemon Legends: Arceus encourages players to catch lots and lots of Pokémon. It even incentivizes you to catch tons of the same creature, in order to obtain shinies and to fully complete its enhanced Pokédex. And this time around, instead of storing all those ...
image: Nintendo Switch owners can finally chill for a minute. the first Nintendo Direct of 2022 has been revealed, and it’s taking place tomorrow, February 9. The lengthy presentation will “mainly” cover games coming out in the first half of the year, so news about Breath of the Wild 2 might be a long shot, ...
image: OlliOlli World The first two OlliOlli games were great, but developers Roll7 have really outdone themselves with the third entry in the series, OlliOlli World, which is out this week. While the first two games had a crisp, clean art style, the third game has turned into a living cartoon, with gorgeous character design ...
Resident Evil 4 is a landmark for gameplay, not storytelling. Screenshot: Capcom/Steam For a while now, there have been persistent rumors that Capcom is remaking Resident Evil 4. The Osaka-based game company has already remade other RE games, so these lingering rumors don’t seem that far-fetched. Plus, the fan made Resident Evil 4 HD mod ...
image: The Wandering Band When the Nintendo switch launched in 2017, it promised to marry console-quality games with the convenient portability of a handheld device. For the most part that promise has borne out, changing how we play games in ways both big and small. It’s certainly made air travel less tedious. Look, before we ...
image: Capcom / RE4 HD Project Resident Evil 4inarguably one of the greatest games of all time, is now playable with full high-definition textures, enhanced 3D models, and revamped lighting courtesy of the Resident Evil 4 HD Project. Almost eight years in the making, Resident Evil 4 HD Project was a massive undertaking that saw ...
screenshot: youtube In November 2021, a team of fans at Zelda spent 64 reverse engineering 2 years on the projectrevealed that they had painstakingly recreated the entirety The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Now, just a few months later, we’re getting a good look at one of the main goals of this project: a ...
photo: Nintendo / Kotaku A YouTube channel that uploads video game soundtracks Reportedly over 1300 copyright blocks were sent in one day. This news isn’t shocking when you know Nintendo’s track record of fan creations and communities, but it’s still a frustrating situation given that much of the music that’s being removed from YouTube still ...
