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To get into character for 1982's Tron, Jeff Bridges became quite the video game fiend. But it was fun with a purpose. The actor reminisces about playing Battlezone, a vector-graphics tank shooter loosely similar to the film's fictitious "Space Paranoids." More »
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Why sit at your computer working all day long when you can head over to the new Atari.com and play Yars Revenge all day long? More »
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When he's not busy maintaining an amazing personal arcade in his home, Luca City Arcade's Peter Hirschberg is apparently spends his time developing retro games for the iPhone. More »
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This week's Xbox Live Arcade offerings are brought to you by the letter B! Something old and something we hope you'll really like are coming your way, in the form of the arcade classic Battlezone (400 Microsoft points) and Rocky & Bullwinkle (800 Microsoft points). One is a fast-paced collection of microgames featuring classic cartoon characters from ages past, and the other is vector tank combat with redone graphics and all-new Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Capture the Flag modes! Both utilize the Xbox Live Vision Camera for added functionality, so now it's up to you to figure out which is which. Good luck and godspeed! More »
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According to one writer, seven games parented the genre of the multiplayer FPS. Halo and Call of Duty: Not on it. Ed Borden reasons they did not add gameplay innovations, merely perfected the themes. That's up for discussion (and why I'm posting it, of course), but a fair point. More »
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Serious games are an increasingly prevalent, albeit not necessarily increasingly popular, type of videogame. One of the most prominent players in serious games has long been the military, with their significant investments in training games of their own, as well as advertising and cross-over games like America's Army and Full Spectrum Warrior. More »
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Atari sends word of their surprisingly robust E306 line-up which includes a Playstation Portable version of BattleZone, the new Alone in teh Dark and a game based on Luc Besson's upcoming animated film Arthur and the Minimoys. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=171872&view=rss&microfeed=true We don't know where this came from, but it's pretty funny. A small group of stones as they might theoretically be rendered in videogames from Asteroids to Zelda. And there's space for you to provide your own! Seriously, if you have any idea where these came from, let us know. We like to give credit where it's due. More »
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