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Finally, The Glorious 27-Minute Stop-Motion LEGO Halo Film You’ve Been Waiting For
We’ve been eagerly anticipating this unofficial mash-up of LEGO and Halo for more than two years Initially promised for an early 2010, the Battle of the Brick, a 27-minute LEGO Halo movie, finally premiered today on Gametrailers We’ve been following Alex Kobbs, and his impressive LEGO Halo works, for nearly half a decade. So grab…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
A Dozen Reasons To Hate Call of Duty Games
Call of Duty is reviled among a vocal group of gamers. When they read that the latest iteration of the series is selling well, or is well reviewed, or is being played by a lot of people, they seem to take it personally. That’s always baffled me. So on Twitter today I asked the 13,500…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
Nearly a Quarter of A Million People Are Playing Skyrim on Steam Right Now
The nifty Steam Game Stat tracker shows that about 210,000 people are currently playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. That’s compared to the distant second place Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which hit a peak at 78,000 or so players today. [Thanks Kent]
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
The Continued Popularity of Call of Duty’s Two, Three and Four Year Old Games
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s record-breaking, first-day sales are impressive, but almost more impressive is the life these Call of Duty games seem to have online. This morning I hopped online to see how the past four year’s worth of Call of Duty games were doing online. Yes, people still do play the original…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
Bethesda Working on Skyrim Graphics Problems on Xbox, Advises Not Installing Yet
If you want to get the best graphics out of your Xbox 360 play-through of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim you may want to hold off on installing it to your console’s hard drive. At least for now, developer Bethesda says. Early reports of graphic issues with the almost universally beloved role-playing game led the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
THQ Maintains It Knows Exactly Where All Its Dildos Are
THQ denies reports that they have mislaid 25 four-foot purple dildos destined for the Netherlands and France as part of a promotion for their open world, tongue-in-cheek video game Saints Row: The Third. Inside Gamer PC , citing several sources, first reported on rumors of a pallet of the three-pound sex toys, each affixed to…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Shatters All Sales Records, Nears Half a Billion Dollars in Day One Sales
More than 6.5 million people bought copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in North America and the United Kingdom in the first 24 hours of its release pulling in more than $400 million, Activision said today That makes it one of the largest entertainment launch in history, with sales of more than $400…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
MW3 Sex?
AT LEAST IT’S NOT TEAM JUGGERNAUT –Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson tweets out about prepping for the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Steam Hacked, Valve Investigating Possible Credit Card Theft A message sent just now from Valve Corporation head Gabe Newell says credit card numbers and other personal information were inside a database…
By Brian Crecente Published November 10, 2011 -
Real Bullets To Kill Real Zombies, Get ‘Em Before It’s Too Late
You might think you’re ready for a zombie uprising, but I bet you’re wrong. Sure, you’ve got the survival guides, the canned goods, the power generator, water and concrete slab shelter. But do you have a crate or two of Hornady’s Zombie Max bullets? No? Well then you’re fucked. Anyone who’s watched a half a…
By Brian Crecente Published November 10, 2011 -
Report: Zynga Demands Stock Back From Employees, Threatens to Fire Them
The man behind monster hits FarmVille, Mafia Wars and CityVille is scrambling to reclaim some of the stock options he handed out to long-time employees, the Wall Street Journal reports Citing several employees, the Wall Street Journal article says Zynga CEO Mark Pincus and a cadre of executives decided last year that they needed to…
By Brian Crecente Published November 10, 2011 -
Activision Hands Out a Free Month to Paying Members of Call of Duty Elite As Outage Continues
Call of Duty Elite remains basically down and out three days after the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Activision said today they will be extending all one-year paid memberships to the service by 30 days to help make up for the outage. They are also extending the ability to sign up as…
By Brian Crecente Published November 10, 2011 -
Avoid Speed Traps, Downed Trees, Traffic Jams And Level Up While You’re Doing It
Waze isn’t a game, not really, but I can’t help using it like one. My wife gets viciously car sick when I drive, maybe because of how I drive. So she does a lot of the driving in our family, which leaves me with a lot of time to help her navigate and play games…
By Brian Crecente Published November 10, 2011 -
The Formula To Skyrim’s Success
MATHMATICAL! –Game Informer executive editor Andrew Reiner explains via a picture on Twitter how he figured out his Skyrim score. Here’s the Tube Terror in Modern Warfare 3 That’s Freaking Out the Brits Depictions of terrorist attacks on London’s Tube are just one of the ways military shooter Call of Duty courts controversy in this…
By Brian Crecente Published November 9, 2011 -
Call of Duty’s Elite Service Still Broken, But Getting Better
Elite, Call of Duty’s answer to stat tracking, community building, help guides and original videos, remains mostly unusable nearly two days after the service’s official launch. But teams are working around the clock on fixing the problems, Activision tells Kotaku “We are being challenged by a response beyond any of our expectations on day one,”…
By Brian Crecente Published November 9, 2011 -
The History of Call of Duty in 45 Minutes
As with Battlefield, Call of Duty has a long history of games. The first in the series came out back in 2003. This excellent video from GamerSpawn takes us from that first Call of Duty, through the launch of Modern Warfare up to this month’s release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Sit back…
By Brian Crecente Published November 9, 2011 -
Here’s the Tube Terror in Modern Warfare 3 That’s Freaking Out the Brits
Depictions of terrorist attacks on London’s Tube are just one of the ways military shooter Call of Duty courts controversy in this year’s blockbuster Modern Warfare 3 game. Decried for being in “incredibly bad taste” by the UK’s Mediawatch campaign, the Call of Duty series has for years depicted graphic and shocking moments in fictionalized…
By Brian Crecente Published November 9, 2011 -
An Epic Marvel Cosplay Shoot
Marvel Cosplay –Photos from the photo shoot with Cosplay Photographer Jay Tablante and cosplayers Yaya Han, Riki Le Cotey, Megan Marie and Marie Claude Bourbonnais as seen over on Marvel Should You Buy Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3? Yes. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the Madden of this generation, a video game…
By Brian Crecente Published November 8, 2011 -
Yes, We’re Getting Another Call of Duty Next Year
It’s sort of a no-brainer, what with the rocketing success of the Call of Duty franchise. But Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick confirmed today that not only will 2012 see the release of Diablo III, but also a new Call of Duty game. Is it the game Sledgehammer was said to be working on before…
By Brian Crecente Published November 8, 2011 -
Gamer Thwarts Teen Gunman’s Attempt to Steal His Copy of Call of Duty
A 27-year-old man fought off an armed teenager in a dark parking lot when the would-be robber demanded his copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 at gunpoint, Kansas City police say. The 18-year-old was arrested earlier today after following a customer from a GameStop. When confronted by the teen, the 27-year-old fought for…
By Brian Crecente Published November 8, 2011
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