![Card-Based H-Game Princess Waltz Confuses My Sensibilities [Maximum Risky]](/images/news/44486.jpg)
JAST USA has just released the English version of popular Japanese hentai game Princess Waltz, which combines anime sex with card-based strategy battles in a way that has me very confused.
Eroge, hentai...
Impressions
Three Things I Liked About X-Blades [Impressions]
![Three Things I Liked About X-Blades [Impressions]](/images/news/47313_l.jpg)
The last game in the world I expected to like anything about is X-Blades – it’s a blatantly sexist, shallow anime rip-off with a paper-thin plot.
But it turns out that this blatantly sexist, shallow anime rip-off game does a few things so well that I can almost overlook the sexism, the shallowne... Read more
Jump Festa 2009: So I Played Dragon Quest IX [Dragon Quest Ix]
![Jump Festa 2009: So I Played Dragon Quest IX [Dragon Quest Ix]](/images/news/45796_l.jpg)
I played Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS this weekend at the Shueisha Jump Festa event in Chiba. Then I felt The Fear and got the hell out of there. Here's what I remember.
Jump Festa is primarily an event for the fans of the various comic series that appear in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. I knew... Read more
Godfather II Multiplayer: An Offer I Could Have Refused [Impressions]
![Godfather II Multiplayer: An Offer I Could Have Refused [Impressions]](/images/news/45586_l.jpg)
My first impressions of Godfather II were tinged with the heady optimism that comes from starting a new job at Kotaku and with the forbearance I have for games in pre-alpha.
Now, five months later and following a real hands-on with the multiplayer, I can say the honeymoon is over.
Godfather II’s multiplayer... Read more
See also
![The Chase is on for February [Impressions]](/images/news/41309.jpg)
For whatever reason, I wasn’t allowed to talk about this game for months. I was almost scared they’d scrapped it for some bizarre legal reason (since The Chase is the name of several different movie...
![Big Bang Mini – Indie Game Success Story? [Impressions]](/images/news/37526.jpg)
Developer Arkedo Studio got off to a rough start in their career with Nervous Brickdown – the game scored well enough but nobody really played it (except in Japan). With their sophomore effort, Big Bang...
![Space Puzzle Bobble Hands-On Impressions [Tokyo Game Show 2008]](/images/news/36827.jpg)
Taito has dragged Bub and Bob out to solve another Puzzle Bobble conundrum, one that can only be unraveled by launching bubbles from a cannon in the hopes of more match three puzzle gameplay. Space Puzzle...
![Hands On: What’s Cooking? With Jamie Oliver [Impressions]](/images/news/31873.jpg)
Looks like Atari came a little late to the Cooking Mama cash-in party. Stuff like Cooking Academy and Happy Cooking Coach is hitting shelves a whole month sooner than What’s Cooking? With Jamie Oliver...
![Fable II's Knothole Island DLC Hits Next Week [Fable II]](/images/news/47354.jpg)
Fable II's Knothole Island hits Xbox Live worldwide on Jan. 13 for $10 (800MP). And the expansion isn't coming without gifts. Even gamers who don't purchase it will get some freebies next week.
Knothole...
Knothole...
!["How Do I Change The Color Of SoulCalibur Female Underpants?" [Maximum Risky]](/images/news/47340.jpg)
This is serious stuff. Very serious. An interoffice Namco conversation regarding changing panty colors for the Dreamcast version of SoulCalibur. No, really.
According to the individual who supplied these...
According to the individual who supplied these...
![Sony To Bring In-House Racing Studios Together [Sony]](/images/news/47336.jpg)
Sony have two in-house racing developers. Evolution Studios, who do MotorStorm, and SCEE Liverpool, who do WipeOut. Seems a bit silly having two teams doing the one genre, doesn't it? Does to Sony.
In...
In...
![No Men Allowed (For A Long Time Now...) [Purikura]](/images/news/47332.jpg)
Girls only. Japan's Asahi Shimbun has an article about how Japanese arcades are banning men from sticker picture machines. Why'd they do that?
According to the piece, "A growing number of arcade operator...
According to the piece, "A growing number of arcade operator...
![Sony Pictures Dates Ghostbusters Game [Sony]](/images/news/47317.jpg)
The release date for the Ghostbusters game has been announced by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in a Ghostbusters Blu-ray movie release — accidently announced, maybe! Doh.
A Sony Pictures pre...
A Sony Pictures pre...
![The Kinetics of Pinball [Pinball]](/images/news/47291.jpg)
The man behind such pinball greats as Fun House, the Addams Family and The Twilight Zone, Pat Lawlor, recently sat down with Gamasutra to discuss the history and design of pinball games.
The interview...
The interview...
Jan 7 EGM, RIP
If you're following the sale of 1up.com and the mass layoffs that ensued on Tuesday afternoon, you'll likely soon be reading a bunch of blog posts and goodbye letters from the dozens of displaced staff...
![Rock Band Branded Memory Cards Come to the Wii [Ces09]](/images/news/47186.jpg)
SanDisk today unveiled a Rock Band branded 2GB memory card for the Wii.
The SD cards will sell for $13 a pop and are set to hit the U.S. this spring. With songs taking as much as 50 megs each and the...
The SD cards will sell for $13 a pop and are set to hit the U.S. this spring. With songs taking as much as 50 megs each and the...
[The Independent Games Festival finalists are now revealed, and there's a whole bunch of extremely interesting, innovative titles jockeying for contention again this year.]
The 2009 Independent Games Festival...
The 2009 Independent Games Festival...