Imagine waking up one morning and reading a Kotaku story that reads something like:
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We've seen leaked images of the PS4 controller. We've seen Sony people hold the PS4 controller in their hands. But not until our intrepid Kirk Hamilton hustled into the Sony area of the Game Developers Conference today have we been able to see the PS4 controller... in the wild?
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It’s ironic that I once wanted games to be validated by my mom so badly, since now I give her worrisome glances as she cycles through her reality TV programming. I think we all have that one game that we think will be the game which shows our moms how glorious, beautiful, and life-altering our hobby is. There will be curbstomps that speak to the soul like Camus and rocket launchers that set fire to the heart like Stendhal. We all have those moments, and it’s unfortunate that we don’t all move past them.
Even grown journalists, in their 30s and beyond type embarrassing flowery dedications to games like Journey or Proteus , throwing a temper tantrum for their parents’ attention and affection through garish prose. I won’t name names, but you don’t have to look far for these examples -- I have no doubt we may have run a few on this website.
With all of this mind, I sat my mom down with me as I played through the first two hours of BioShock Infinite . The goal wasn’t to usher my mother into the world of “meaningful” (ugh) videogames, but to see where games stand with her now and what my feelings are toward her feelings.
As it turns out, BioShock Infinite isn’t a 10/10 in my mother’s eyes, but I can hardly care.
I'm not quite sure how I feel about the look of Final Fantasy V on iOS. I mean, original character designer Kazuko Shibuya returned to polish up her original designs and make everything all pretty for the game's mobile debut, so in a way this is true to her vision. On the other hand, it looks like the entire game was squeezed through an emulator filter. Hmm.
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Today at the Game Developers Conference, Sony senior staff engineer Chris Norden gave a presentation designed to introduce the PlayStation 4 to developers. The talk was mostly technical, but they shared new details about the PS4, including how the augmented reality features will work.
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Sound crazy? The idea comes from the Game Developers Conference, during an "Indie Soapbox" where developers took the stage to talk about indie game development. Ben Foddy, who is behind the ever-ridiculous QWOP, had some out-there ideas about how people pay for games--but that's what makes them rad.
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If there's been on criticism of Halo over the years, it's the relative sameness of the experience.
Earlier today during a discuss of the new enemy designs in Halo 4 , Scott Warner of 343 industries mentioned that some of their main inspirations for the development of the Promethean units were highly advanced, amorphous foes.
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has shown off gameplay footage of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which he also revealed the earlier footage of Ground Zeroes was part of.
The Phantom Pain will be an open world game, but the new footage is taken from the opening tutorial section which Kojima describes as being, “more on rails”.
Opening in a hospital, it transpires that Snake has been in a coma for nine years, and as a result has lost the use of his legs temporarily.
A fellow patient, who’s voice actor sound suspiciously like Kiefer Sutherland, helps you to escape the hospital as an unknown enemy attacks it. Snake’s movement is laboured, and the Fox Engine pulls off some wonderfully naturalistic animation. Characters’ faces, too, look excellent.
At first, the enemy only seems to be military, but in fine Metal Gear fashion, things soon take a turn for the supernatural as a floating child ascends through the ceiling and a burning man exits an elevator and approaches the player amid an inferno.
A trailer shown just before showed all manner of theatrical bombast, too, within which flaming horses, helicopters, cigars and motorbikes abound.
You can see the first images of the section in motion in our gallery – it’s all taken from gameplay and running on a PC. Full trailer below:
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