Minecraft – Pocket Edition hits the Android Xperia Play today exclusively for $6.99 with later Android versions hitting in the near future. The best part? Staying true to their roots, the game’s first version is an alpha build. The first version, Alpha 0.1, will focus on the “creative aspects of Minecraft,” The folks at developer…
Ms. Galaga – Spotted this Galaga Ms. Pac-Man machine right outside the gate for my flight to London. The spirit of video gaming is calling me. These Orangutans Play with iPads Orangutans, it turns out, love the iPad and its games just as much as some humans do. A budding program at the Milwaukee County…
Orangutans, it turns out, love the iPad and its games just as much as some humans do. A budding program at the Milwaukee County Zoo is working to place iPads into the giant, gentle palms of their orangutans. Two of the zoo’s orangutans already look forward to weekly sessions with an iPad. They even have…
Gamescom – It’s coming… next week. Gamescom 2011. We’re leaving Monday, feet on the ground Tuesday. See you there? Why You Need to Play Age of Empire Online… And Believe My Lies Be warned: I am a strident fan of classic computer real-time strategy series Age of Empires and when finally given the opportunity to…
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe says they’ll be providing a live video stream of their press conference at Gamescom next week. Of course we’ll be on hand too covering it from the floor. You can catch the stream ( Tuesday 16 August 2011 at 19:00 CET / 18:00 BST / 03:00 Sydney (Wed) ) on the…
Be warned: I am a strident fan of classic computer real-time strategy series Age of Empires and when finally given the opportunity to play a new take on the game I will go to great lengths to make sure it sticks around. Usually that wouldn’t be a problem. But Age of Empires Online’s survival faces…
Electronic Arts tells Kotaku that they will be streaming their Gamescom press conference live on EA’s Gamescom site. The conference takes place on Tuesday at 4 p.m. local (German) time. Which works out to… um… one second… 10 a.m. eastern, 7 a.m. pacific.
As seen on the door of a Philly fire station. [Thanks RPerdue]
Hotly anticipated Kinect game Steel Battalion Heavy Armor will be making a brief, private appearance at Gamescom next week. Expect to read all about it the day before the show kicks off next week. And, yes, so far it remains a Kinect-enabled game.
A Swiss police association is calling for a ban on The Darkness II because the game includes moments of police being shot and killed, a Swiss newspaper reports. “Politicians, game producers and sellers have been advised that such games be immediately removed from circulation,” according to The Swiss Christian Police Association. “When police in England…
The much anticipated, for us at least, turn-based strategy in-browser game Jagged Alliance will be hands-on at Gamescom next week the developers tell us. To celebrate they’ve released this new trailer. Jagged Alliance Online is the “modern version” of the classic Jagged Alliance turn-based strategy game. In it players take control of a group of…
After some delays, and some uncertainty about Move support, developer Tetsuya Mizuguchi himself takes to YouTube to confirm the game’s release and show us how it will work with Move. Oh! One more thing. It’s also going to work in 3D. Expect your mind to be blown on Sept. 27. Of course, you can still…
The PS3 God of War: Origins Collection brings Ready at Dawns two wonderful Playstation Portable games to the PS3. But you can’t just dump them over from portable to console and expect them to look good. These games have been remastered in full HD. That means both games went from 480 x 272 resolution and…
Today is the last day for current Nintendo 3DS owners to register for the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador program. Just connect your Nintendo 3DS to the Nintendo eShop by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time to receive 20 free downloadable games.
In this eighth episode of Retro Game Master, our game-testing everyman, Shinya Arino, faces off against S.O.S. S.O.S. was developed by Human Entertainment for the Super NES in 1994. In the game, which was inspired by both the book and movie The Poseidon Adventure, players must escape the sinking ship Lady Crithania. The game has…
Much Rocking and Beards, No Cake – Jonathan Coulton rocked it on our roof today. Why? Because that’s how he rolls. Might want to check your roof. Maybe he’s rocking it there too. He’s like the Santa of rocking it. A Hardcore Triber Tells You Why Tribes: Ascend is So, So Close to Being Transcendent…
Aaron Biber, 89, stand with his hands out, eyes downcast, looking at what remains of the barber shop he’s run for 41 years in London. “Everyone knows me around here – I have been here since the 1970s – but now I will probably have to close because I haven’t got insurance and I can’t…
Earlier this week we posted a picture of Dawasi “Tommy” Tawodi checking out the world of Prey 2. Turns out that single image won’t be all we’re seeing of Tommy in the sequel to the game in which he originally starred. “He’s a character that you encounter many times throughout the game,” Human Head’s Chris…
Sifteo, those tiny motion-aware game playing blocks we first spotted at CES, hit this September for $150 a pack, the company said today. The toy blocks turned new game platform works with both the PC and Mac and will launch as a set of three Sifteo cubes, a charging dock and a USB radio link…
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