Posts tagged kotaku
Pokemon, as a 2D Fighter
0Now, we don’t normally post a lot about fan-made games around here, but this case deserves a bit of special attention. The premise here is plain and simple, turn Nintendo’s money-printing Pokemon franchise into a 2D fighting game. While this might have been done before in countless Mugen mash-ups, this one looks like it was built with a decent amount of effort. It shows, since the quality of the animation, though a little janky at times, does look quite good. The actual fighting looks fun for a doujin game; it utilizes assist characters, and has some semblance of a combo system. You can get the game through here and even view a tutorial for it here.
Source: [Kotaku via Topless Robot]
Homeland Security Jumps in the PSN Outage Issue
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It seems that the PSN breach has gotten the attention of the US Homeland Security. Reports are coming in from Kotaku and Joystiq that Homeland security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) is “working with law enforcement, international partners and Sony to assess the situation.”
The Department of Homeland Security is tasked to protect the United State’s critical infrastructures. So at first glance the PSN breach, doesn’t seem warrant a look into by the said agency. However DHS seems that looking into the breach seems to be connected to a bigger possible problem.
PSN Outage: Day 6- Updates, Speculations and More Waiting
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Image Courtesy of Joystiq
With the Playstation Network still down and the fear of personal information or credit card numbers being stolen by this “external intruder” still up in the air, another update has cropped out in the game scene.
This new bit of news comes from a PSX-Scene moderator, “chesh” that this recent PSN outage is due to a custom firmware modification for the PS3. According to Chesh, this firmware named “Rebug” enabled users to log into PSN as though they are doing it from a developer console.
Last Nail in the Coffin: Sony Stops PSP GO Production
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The PSP Go, Sony’s latest “handheld” device after the PSP and before the NGP had been receiving negative reviews. Post unit release sales had been floundering with reasons varying from the unit’s exorbitant price to players not liking the design. However, recent buzz on the PSP Go has surfaced which say that Sony finally pulled the plug on the device. Reports from both Kotaku and Joystiq finally confirmed that Sony closed the coffin shut for the unit.
SOE Closes Studios, Discontinues The Agency
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Sony Entertainment Online finally confirms on both kotaku and joystiq that they have closed down three studios in Seattle, Denver and Tucson, laid off 205 people and cancels their highly delayed spy MMO, The Agency. According to the statement, this move was to streamline the company’s global workforce and to reduce cost.
Capcom Cancels Mega Man Universe
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In the latest Kotaku post, Capcom officially announced that Mega Man Universe has been cancelled. The reason behind the move is still vague with Capcom only stating that they scrapped the game due to “various circumstances”.
How’d You Like to Get Married During the Zombie Apocalypse?
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Zombies, love them or hate them, as a gamer you gotta get used to them. With the popularity of the zombie genre at an all time high (or at least stabilized somewhat) it’s no surprise that a lot of aspects of “unzombified” stuff will have their version of it one way or another (heck zombies have now invaded our classic literature).
Now even a post nuptial photoshoot have tackled the genre, and the more epic bit is that it’s “left 4 dead” inspired.
Dragon Age 2: Preview- IGN, Classes-Kotaku
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With the clock for the release of Dragon Age II nearing by the day, clips were already released in the intarwebs in preparation for gamers to get into the world of Dragon Age once again. In this second installment, you are put into the shoes of Hawke. What we have right now are two clips showing two diff. DA2 related features.
[RUMOR]PSP2: Okay This is a Joke Right? (I Sooooo WISH IT IS)
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Okay, the rumor mill is abuzz with the current image of the supposed look of PSP2. This is taken from Kotaku Japan. This leak is pretty dubious since this is not a high resolution image which isn’t Sony’s thing. So yeah everything is STILL under speculation. Though If this is actually it, here’s a few thoughts that I have in mind:
