My very favorite video game show of the year, Germany’s wonderful Gamescom, kicks off in less than two weeks. Don’t forget, this is the show that not only is open to everyone who pays to get in, it also features beer and takes place in a very pretty city. Here’s a quick run-down of the…
In this seventh episode of Retro Game Master, our game-testing everyman, Shinya Arino, faces off against The Mystery of Atlantis The Mystery of Atlantis was released by Sunsoft for the Family Computer in 1986. In it, players control a boy named Wynn as he explores the mythical land of Atlantis and fights to defeat and…
To celebrate today’s Quakecon kick-off a slew of id Software games are on deep discount over on iTunes. Here’s the run down: Wolfenstein 3D Classic Platinum is now available on sale for $.99 (was $1.99) DOOM Classic is now available on sale for $1.99 (was $6.99) DOOM II RPG is now available on sale for…
QuakeCon is Live – Our own Joel Johnson is stalking the halls of this year’s QuakeCon. Here’s a pic of the first to show up. (Photo by QuakeCon) One of the iPhone’s Biggest Games Slices Out a Sequel There are a handful of iPhone games that pretty much everyone who owns an iPhone has. Cut…
Bethesda said today that once the RAGE Facebook page reaches 100,000 “Likes”, RAGE HD for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch will be available for free for one week. Like them on Facebook
The Defense of the Ancients genre seems to be heating up. Last week Heroes of Newerth went free to play. Earlier this week we learned that Valve’s DOTA 2 will be playable at Gamescom and now comes news from League of Legends Unveiled this morning, Riot Games’ League of Legends is getting a new game…
Strogg!!! – Strogg recently beheaded from Fahey’s Quake cake. (Photo by Michael Fahey) Requiem For An iPhone Game Free running through a dream, leaping over crates, running along walls, dashing through gaps, Requiem is a slightly marred look at what Mirror’s Edge could have been on the iPhone. In Requiem you play a boy lost…
For a time, years, whenever a person talked about a first-person shooter they called it a Doom Clone. Such was the power, the influence of one of the first, first-person shooters, the proto-FPS. But in establishing an entire genre, Doom also planted itself firmly in history, becoming a game that even its savvy creators seem…
Perhaps lost this morning amidst the excitement of confirmation that Gearbox is indeed making a new Borderlands, is that the role-playing shooter will be shown off at Gamescom and PAX Prime later this month. We’ll be there. Will you?
Free running through a dream, leaping over crates, running along walls, dashing through gaps, Requiem is a slightly marred look at what Mirror’s Edge could have been on the iPhone. In Requiem you play a boy lost in a nightmare world chased by a raging bull, collecting stars on his way to a pegasus read…
Not A Summer of Gaming for Totilo – Totilo wasn’t a big fan of this summer’s gaming offers. Here’s what was sitting at the top of his desk pile. (Photo by Brian Crecente) The Traveler’s Guide To Quakecon QuakeCon isn’t just a celebration of all things id Software (and a touch of Bethesda) it’s also…
QuakeCon isn’t just a celebration of all things id Software (and a touch of Bethesda) it’s also one of the longest running bring-your-own-computer gaming events in the world. Oh and this year, on top of the keynote, the panels, the gaming rigs, there’s a chance to get your hands on Rage If you’ve never been,…
Rage opens with a glimpse of a fictional future once considered possible. Apophis, a very real 885-foot-in-diameter, planet-killing asteroid named after the Egyptian god of darkness and chaos, rumbles, like a collapsing mountain, slowly into view. Dreadful in its approach, the planetoid lumbers, unstoppable, through Neptune’s rings on its apocalyptic approach to Earth. In the…
This week on Retro Game Master The Kacho takes on the side-scrolling platformer The Mystery of Atlantis The Mystery of Atlantis was released by Sunsoft for the Family Computer in 1986. In it, players control a boy named Wynn as he explores the mythical land of Atlantis and fights to defeat and ancient evil. The…
Jun, Carter and Kat Fit For Your Nostril – Halo minimates. (Photo by Diamond Select Toys) Are Gaming’s Biggest Portables Becoming Its Smallest Niche? Last week’s drastic, surprising price drop for Nintendo’s 3DS gaming portable brought turmoil not just to the last major dedicated gaming hardware company in the world, but also the notion of…
Despite a push by tens of thousands of fans to revive recently canceled Capcom game Mega Man Legends 3, the Japanese developer tells Kotaku that they have no plans to resume development. “We are aware of the fan created Facebook page requesting that we resume development of Mega Man Legends 3,” Capcom spokesman Brian Keltner…
Our own Michael McWhertor spent the better part of a day last week meeting with Blizzard and playing through a healthy chunk of Diablo III What did he find out? Plenty. For instance, Blizzard is going to require gamers to stay online at all times to play their game. There will also be an auction…
Last week’s drastic, surprising price drop for Nintendo’s 3DS gaming portable brought turmoil not just to the last major dedicated gaming hardware company in the world, but also the notion of portable gaming. While fans of Nintendo worry what impact the nearly one-third price drop on such a new piece of hardware will have on…
Tickle Me Nurses – Elmo gets some Silent Hill treatment at Comic Con. (As Tweeted by @DanRyckert) The Gunstringer is Almost the Most Fun I’ve Had with the Kinect, Fruit Ninja Kinect The Most I’ve finally got a reason to reconnect the Kinect to my Xbox 360. It’s been nearly four months since I moved…
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