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Reckoning‘s Launch Trailer Should Prompt Much Chest-Beating
You can’t help but feel the inspiration watching this Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning launch trailer. The diehard voice-over does well to remind viewers that once this game drops on Feb. 7, fate will be theirs to write.
By Pierre Bienaimé Published February 1, 2012 -
Ubisoft Trailer Shows Off Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc in HD Remake
Ubisoft is bringing you an HD-remastered version of Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc, last generation’s 3D platforming title. Fans of the original game will enjoy a new look for the mascot, brought to life in 720p and a lush 60 frames per second. Remastered audio, 15-20 hours of gameplay, and 9 stand-alone mini-games are also in…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published February 1, 2012 -
Open Your Mind to Syndicate‘s Chip-tastic Ways
In the bleak corporate future of Syndicate, an intracranial DART 6 chip brings you before the “gateway into ultimate consciousness.” This infomercial oozes Snow Crash-esque fiction, and know that in-game, you can toggle this augmented reality on and off. It coats your environment in a weird topographical aesthetic, highlights friends and foes through walls, and…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published February 1, 2012 -
Halo: Helljumper Touches Down with First Episode
“Hey, you ever feel just a little strange? That we’re hopping around all these planets and humans are the only intelligent life forms out here?” Halo: Helljumper, the fan-made web series centered on marine culture in the Halo universe, begins before contact with the Covenant. These greenhorns won’t be finishing the fight. They’ve only just…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published February 1, 2012 -
Doom, Lemmings and Super Mario, Together For the First Time
Check out this student-made Flash advertisement for… an iPod skin? We’ll take it! Mario and Luigi cope with an invasion straight out of Lemmings and Space Invaders before reinforcements from everyone’s favorite Mars-bound marine. Things get 3D, and decidedly less innocent. Creator Rohan Liston’s website is still under construction, but we hope to check in…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published February 1, 2012 -
Legendary Battlefield 3 Stunt Re-Created On Film
Check out this awesome video of a Battlefield 3 tour de force made (to seem) real. Battlefield 3 fans may remember the original in-game stunt, in which a fighter pilot leaps from his cockpit and then shoots down an enemy jet with a rocket launcher before landing safely back in his jet. (Rumor has it…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 30, 2012 -
8-Bit Muse Cover? Sword & Sworcery Tribute? You Decide.
Despite what you may think after watching this trailer, this is not actually an ad for an upcoming iPad game. No, it’s a student project by Jherin Miller, who has brought this trailer for a fictitious game alive via Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. Fans of Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP may be disappointed to…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 26, 2012 -
Play The Villain in Dead Island‘s Ryder White DLC
Check out the trailer for Dead Island‘s first significant piece of DLC, which is due out on February 1st. Gamers will take on the role of Ryder White, the antagonist from the original experience, who dramatically crash-lands on the island. Emphasizing Ryder White’s conflict between executing military orders and finding his wife, the trailer promises…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 26, 2012 -
Gears of War Creators Are Giving the ‘Dudebro’ Thing a Rest With Fortnite
Epic Games makes macho games that feature manly men. Gears of War, for example. But they’re also making Fortnite, a game their lead game designer, Cliff Bleszinski, tells G4 should help the studio’s shed the developer’s “dudebro” image just a bit. But what’s it like? “Lots of games say they’re about survival but they’re more…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 23, 2012 -
Modern Warfare Meets Team Fortress Meets… Real-Life Slingshots
I don’t know about you, but when I have slingshot-paintball-fights with my friends, I generally wish they could be a touch more video-gamey. Filmmaker Andrew McMurry agrees, putting together this a live action film that that weaves normalcy with a convincing digital overlay to give things a distinctly video game feel. Four friends dash into…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 23, 2012 -
The Many Ways to Stay Alive in I Am Alive
Ubisoft’s “Encounters” trailer for I Am Alive has what seems to be the protagonist giving advice on life in a dog-eat-dog world. “People more than dust are the most dangerous thing you’re going to encounter,” and the ways to deal with them are numerous. I Am Alive clearly rewards players for the use of cunning…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 18, 2012 -
This Yakuza: Dead Souls Trailer is a Feeding Frenzy
SEGA’s new trailer for the zombie-ridden Yakuza: Dead Souls skips the foreplay of human connection and solidarity. The shambling hordes come first, picking their way through Tokyo’s red light district with a hunger for human flesh… and bone marrow, and organs, and brains. Fans of splatter-house gore will enjoy gameplay footage of what seems like…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 18, 2012 -
Google Maps Becomes A Video Game
Coming to Google+ Games in February is what appears to be a virtualized marble balance game with a theme more grounded than what you’d find in your average dentist’s waiting room; you’ll be tilting your way through the streets of our own world. The ad above above demonstrates the concept for the game-ified maps service,…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 16, 2012 -
Check Out This Amazing Gears of War Pistol Made Entirely of Paper
Some time ago we shared the papercraft wonder that was Leo Firebrand’s Fallout 3 homage: the laser pistol. Paper (and some papier-mâché for the gun handle) alone yielded a believable piece of the post-apocalypse. Firebrand has taken his gun-smithing to another level with the Snub Pistol used by Gears of War‘s Marcus Fenix and his…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 16, 2012 -
This 8-Bit Atari Homage Takes the ‘Cake’
If you can steel yourself for a post-modern jumble of space exploration and robotic sing-song, Upside Down Cake’s “Star Strike” offers a neat walk through Atari antiquity. Some of these games certainly deserve the homage. Fun facts about a few of these games: Space Invaders caused an actual coin shortage in Japan, Berzerk was the…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 12, 2012 -
2K Sports Opens Doors on MLB 2K12 Million-Dollar Challenge
2K Sports is offering a cool million to the winner of a public, 8-person Major League Baseball 2K12 tournament… this April. From the MLB’s Opening Day on April 4th (definitely learned something just now) to the end of that cheerfully prank-filled month, athletes (read: gamers) will be clawing their way to the top of the…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 12, 2012
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