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New Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Costumes In Action

1:20PM Michael McWhertor | Tecmo recently updated the Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 cast’s wardrobe, offering style savvy ninja masters new, sometimes inappropriate attire for Ryu, Momiji, Rachel and Ayane. If you didn’t download the pack, here’s a revealing look at what you’ve been missing. More »
News

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Gets Fashionable DLC

12:00PM Mike Fahey | Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 gets a little bit dressier next week, when a new costume pack goes up for sale on the PlayStation Network. More »
News

NBA Unrivaled Dunks On XBLA This Week

7:20AM Mike Fahey | Looks like we spoke too soon. Right after we posted this week’s Xbox Live Arcade offering, Tecmo slips out a press release announcing a Wednesday release for arcade baller NBA Unrivaled. More »
Culture

Tecmo Shows How You Put Boobs On A Wall

3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | For the launch of Ninja Gaiden II, Tecmo released a series of viral-type ads. Here’s how they made them. Fascinating.
Media

First Footage Of Tecmo Koei’s New Game

8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | As leaked yesterday in the upcoming issue of Japanese mag Famitsu, Tecmo Koei is hard at work on Fist of the North Star for the PS3 and Xbox 360. More »
News

Tecmo Koei Bringing Fist Of North Star To PS3/Xbox 360

7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | The post-apocalyptic martial arts manga Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) is coming to the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 as Hokuto Musou. More »
Features

Should A Game Demo Work In A Pirate-Themed Nightclub?

6:00AM Stephen Totilo | If something goes wrong when you, a video game producer, try to show a trio of Kotaku writers a DS game, should you blamed the pirate-themed nightclub you’re standing in? Or should you blame a questionable staple of game design? More »
Culture

Know The Likes And Dislikes Of Your Tecmo/Koei Producers

5:00AM Stephen Totilo | One guy likes buying toilet paper. Another says he never drives on the same road twice. But were you also wondering which Tecmo producer can walk like a zombie? More »
Culture

Booth Check: Koei Tecmo

10:00AM Brian Crecente | Last night Koei Tecmo through a little party at the Hotel New Otani. They introduced all of their developers and pointed out that in the US they are called Tecmo Koei, but in Japan they are called Koei Tecmo. More »
Hands On

Hands On With Tecmo’s “TPS” Quantum Theory

7:00AM Michael McWhertor | Announced last year as Tecmo’s stab at a “TPS”, PlayStation 3 game Quantum Theory drew immediate comparisons to Gears of War, partly because of its heavily armoured and beefy protagonist Syd and its cover system. Those comparisons were mostly fair. More »