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Kinect Makes This Music Video Sing
There are no post-production effects added to this video, everything, happening on singer Olga Bell’s face is happening in real-time, we’re told. How did they do it? (And not blind Bell’s singer in the process?) With a Kinect hack of course. Zach Liberman writes on the Vimeo landing page for this video that they used…
By Brian Crecente Published July 22, 2011 -
Google Says Game “Stream” Coming to Google+
We’ve heard rumblings that some form of, perhaps social, gaming was coming to Google+ but it hasn’t really been verified officially until today. Found today under a description of the service’s streams is this nugget: “If you’re looking for updates shared from games, check out your Games stream.” The link for Games Stream send browsers…
By Brian Crecente Published July 22, 2011 -
Two More Shots of Modern Warfare 3 Emerge
It looks like, if Google Translate can be believed, that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 got a recent outing in Munich, giving press there a chance to go hands on with the game, and releasing two new screenshots from the game. The presentation involved checking out the game presented on a 65-inch television in…
By Brian Crecente Published July 22, 2011 -
Retro Game Master Episode 5: Clock Tower
In this fifth episode of Retro Game Master, our game-testing everyman, Shinya Arino, faces off against Clock Tower Clock Tower was released for the Super NES in 1995. Loosely based on Dario Argento’s movie Creepers, Clock Tower is a point-and-click game that has players controlling the movements of orphan Jennifer Simpson as she tries to…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011 -
Happy Birthday Old Man
KENYA – Ernest Hemingway (who was born on this day in 1899) at a fishing camp, his hand and arms burned from a recent brushfire; his hair singed from recent plane crashes. (Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.) I’ve Seen Battlefield 3 on PS3 Firsthand. It’s…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011 -
Live at Comic-Con’s Kinect Star Wars Panel
LucasArts’ Craig Derrick and Kinect’s Jorg Neumann sit down with USA Today’s Mike Snider to discuss new gameplay from the Kinect-enabled Star Wars game. The panel is said to include new details about the game include an all-new mode. The duo are also supposed to be “unveiling an exciting announcement,” according to the official panel…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011 -
Is This What A Belgian Super Mario Bros. Would Look Like?
The video game version of The Adventures of Tintin isn’t always a platformer, but when it is it feels a lot like a richer, more complex version of the old Super Mario games I love to play. Working your way across the screen as the titular Tintin, down the screen, up the screen, from a…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011 -
Battlefield 3’s Operation Metro Delivers Multiplayer Mayhem
We had a chance to check out the Playstation 3 version of Battlefield 3 earlier this week. We also spent more time playing through the game’s Operation Metro mulitplayer map. Here’s a quick run through of a single, segmented-map in the game’s multiplayer. Operation Metro, we were told, was designed to look a bit like…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011 -
I’ve Seen Battlefield 3 on PS3 Firsthand. It’s Spectacular.
The last time I saw Kevin O’Leary he had a beard. A tier-one beard. These day’s he’s wrangling press for Battlefield 3. Right now he’s walking me behind a curtain on the second floor of a New York City ballroom to a Playstation 3 set-up on a back room television. They won’t allow me to…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011 -
The Mech-Flying Insanity of Starhawk in Motion
I was a big fan of multiplayer-only third-person shooter and vehicle combat game Warhawk It had a goofy, endearing art style. It had some wonderful, huge maps and of course it had those awesome hover-to-jet Warhawks While Starhawk certainly has its own distinct flavor, there’s a lot of the better bits of Warhawk I see…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011 -
Starhawk’s Monster Pistol Gets a Real World Appearance
PewPewPew – This replica Starhawk gun was being shown off under a plexiglass case at Sony’s New York event today. (Photo by Brian Crecente) Wing Commander-Inspired Space Combat Game In the Works A team of Austin developers are working on a new space combat sim inspired by the likes of Wing Commander, Star Wars: TIE…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011 -
Blowing Up The Statue of Liberty in 2011’s Twisted Metal
Twisted Metal 2’s Statue of Liberty Easter Egg returns in the Twisted Metal due out later this year. For those of you who missed out on the 1996 game’s hidden destruction, the game lets you attack the Statue of Liberty from any rooftop, eventually knocking her robe off to reveal a thin or heft version…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011 -
They Want to Make Space Combat Games Fun Again
Space combat sims, much like their terrestrial flight sim counter-parts, aren’t quite as popular as they used to be. It’s been more than a decade since we’ve had a solid Wing Commander, Star Wars: TIE Fighter or Descent: FreeSpace come to computer gamers. Long enough for some, even some of the folks who make those…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011 -
Rope Rescue: Call It Cut the Birds, or Maybe Angry Rope
I saw a Chillingo game at Electronic Arts’ fall preview event last night that featured colorful, cartoon birds in peril and ropes that could be cut. It wasn’t a sequel to Cut the Rope or Angry Birds, but it certainly—perhaps accidentally—seems to be riding on the coattails of those two massive iPhone gaming hits. In…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011 -
Anomaly Warzone Earth is One of the Hottest iPad Games Yet
We loved, loved Anomaly Warzone Earth when it came to the PC. What’s to stop us from loving this backwards tower defense game when it hits the iPad and iPhone? Due out in the coming weeks, Anomaly Warzone Earth is an anomaly of a tower defense game. Instead of controlling the placement of towers, creating…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011 -
Full Body Burnout Crash Is More Fun Than It Sounds
Burnout Crash seems to be a wonderful party game, the sort of title you pop on and pass and play with a group of rowdy friends. That it includes Kinect support only makes the experience better. All three of Burnout Crash‘s game modes have you controlling a car viewed from above. You’re high enough up…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011 -
The Next Big Racer From the Folks Behind Trials HD
Racing—real racing—is all the line, finding the best approach to a turn, the best route through a curve and into a straight away. iPhone and iPad game DrawRace 2 is also all the line: tracing arcs with your finger along the race course as quickly as possible without marring your route with a bad turn…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011 -
Is It Wrong That This Game Makes the BP Oil Spill Fun?
The latest diversion from the people behind cute, addictive iPhone games like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope has you fighting an evil conglomerate (initials BP) accused of mining the earth’s riches and destroying the environment. In Blopster you control a cartoonish bit of red liquid tasked with cleaning up after a sloppy and greedy…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011 -
Wing Commander-Inspired Space Combat Game In the Works
A team of Austin developers are working on a new space combat sim inspired by the likes of Wing Commander, Star Wars: TIE Fighter and Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War Seamless Entertainment tells Kotaku that they hope to reinvigorate the dying space combat simulation genre with SOL: Exodus, a game that will have players…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2011
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