Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - Page 2

Magna Carta 2 Debut Trailer

Here’s the first trailer for Softmax’s 360 JRPG Magna Carta 2. It was announced at Microsoft’s press event in Tokyo today that the game will be out in Japan on August 6.


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Fantastic Scrolling Arcade Shooter Coming To Xbox 360

Once again proving itself the shmup console of choice, the Xbox 360 is getting a port of Cave developed arcade shooting game Mushihime-sama Futari. Yes, that game.


Tekken 6 Punches Out New Trailer

It’s Tekken 6, it’s from Namco Bandai and it’s here to ask you a very important question: What do you fight for?


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Stephen Fry Doing Voice Work For ’2nd Edition Of A Video Game’

Warning: this comes from Twitter. If you’re sick of hearing about Twitter, well, you have been warned. Anyway. Stephen Fry is spending the day doing voice work for a game.


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SNK Making Fighting… Shmup Game (Bwah?!)

Best known of its King of Fighters fighting games, SNK Playmore is releasing a fighting-meets-shooting game for Xbox LIVE Arcade. It’s currently sporting the temp title of The King of Fighters Sky Stage.


Team Fortress 2 Patch Hints At New Headgear, Huge Gameplay Changes

The most recent Team Fortress 2 update brings with it updates that may radically change the way we play the game, including the fascinating—but still unannounced—addition of headgear to classes. Oh, it gets much better.


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PlayStation Gamers’ Day: Why I Was Absent From Kotaku Today

Sony held day one of its pre-E3 PlayStation Preview days today, an event that consumed a day’s worth of posting for this Kotaku editor. Honestly, though, playing new games all day was better than posting.


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Right Now, Microsoft Showing 31 Games For Japan

day in Tokyo, Microsoft is holding its spring 2009 press conference. Xbox Japan boss Takashi Sensui announces that 31 titles for Japan will be covered.


Ninety-Nine Nights II Is Dark, Fiery And Smokey

Xbox 360 title Ninety-Nine Nights is getting a sequel with the clever temp title Ninety-Nine Nights II. As you can tell by these screenshots, the game’s visual hook is equally clever: light and dark.


This Is How You Get Me Interested In A Transformers Game

I didn’t want anything to do with the last Transformers game, partly because I’d heard it was awful, but mostly because it featured “movie” Transformers. Which are terrible, spindly things.