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Not So Fast: The New PS3 Won’t Need HDMI for HD Gameplay
Good news, good news: Turns out that leaked GameStop memo about the new PS3 was real, but it was also wrong. While Sony is indeed quietly rolling out a new PS3 model (it’s called the CECH-3000 series), that model won’t force you to use HDMI out to play video games in HD. HDMI will only…
By Brian Crecente Published July 13, 2011 -
Call Of Juarez: The Cartel Multiplayer Has Plenty of Drug Dealers and Cops, but Not One Horse
I’m still trying to absorb the fact that after making my favorite of the Call of Juarez games, developer Techland decided to shift the entire franchise from the old west to modern times and make it about drug dealing. But I adjusted. At least it will deal with a very real modern problem in a…
By Brian Crecente Published July 13, 2011 -
Resistance 3: Shoots and Ladders
The nondescript opening scenes of Resistance 3 seemed to me to fit the game: Everything is brown, bland, boring. But as I fight my way from Oklahoma to St. Louis my take on the game changes, drastically. A game that starts off with dull firefights through the ruins of a mid-west town’s city center surprises…
By Brian Crecente Published July 13, 2011 -
Dark Souls Is Only Kind To Be Cruel
For a guy who can’t seem to survive two minutes in the foreboding, swords-and-dungeons world of Dark Souls, I must seem unnecessarily worried about how difficult the game will be. Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls’ predecessor, was as much known for its brutal level design and lack of save points as it was its unique approach…
By Brian Crecente Published July 13, 2011 -
Medal of Honor
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry looks at family members during a ceremony awarding him the Medal of Honor at the White House July 12, 2011 in Washington, DC. Petry, who received the medal for his courageous actions during operations in Paktia, Afghanistan, in May 2008, is the second living, active…
By Brian Crecente Published July 12, 2011 -
More Glimpses at the Game of Thrones Computer Game
Due out this summer for the PC, A Game of Thrones – Genesis includes a single player campaign written under the supervision of author George R.R. Martin. These four new images gives us a look at the Targaryen army during a siege, the brothers from the Night’s Watch on patrol near Castle Black, the Tyrell…
By Brian Crecente Published July 12, 2011 -
Playing Through The Cowboys & Aliens Video Game
There’s not a whole lot of story in Absolution Training Ground, a Hogan’s Alley take on upcoming movie Cowboys & Aliens, and you can pretty much unlock all of the weapons on your first play through, but it’s still kinda fun. You can check the game out for yourself over on the official page for…
By Brian Crecente Published July 12, 2011 -
Electronic Arts Buys Maker of Bejeweled and Plants Vs. Zombies
Electronic Arts is in the Plants Vs. Zombies business it seems, announcing today that they have picked up PopCap Games for what could total more than one billion in cash and stock. “EA and PopCap are a compelling combination,” said EA CEO John Riccitiello. “PopCap’s great studio talent and powerful IP add to EA’s momentum…
By Brian Crecente Published July 12, 2011 -
Is Sony Quietly Removing a PS3 Feature?
A tipster sends us rumored word (and image) of an incoming replacement model for the 160GB Playstation 3 which brings with it a change in the way some people will hook the console up to their HD television. The new “K” chassis, which Sony will begin shipping to retailers this week, will require customers to…
By Brian Crecente Published July 12, 2011 -
This Thursday Retro Game Master Takes on Solomon’s Key
This week on Retro Game Master The Kacho takes on puzzle shooter Solomon’s Key Released for arcades in 1986, Tecmo’s Solomon’s Key was brought to the Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, Atari ST and other consoles. In the game, players maneuver Dana through 50 or so maze-like rooms on the hunt for a key…
By Brian Crecente Published July 12, 2011 -
The Best Death Metal Song About Demon’s Souls Sung By a Shadow of the Colossus Band You’ll Ever Hear
This is a death metal song about painfully-hard PS3 game Demon’s Souls, sung by a band apparently inspired by Shadow of the Colossus. I think that’s all you need to know. OK, if you want to know more here goes: The band is called Wanda and The Colossus and the song is called Sticky White…
By Brian Crecente Published July 12, 2011 -
Night Patrol
CAMP MERCURY, IRAQ – Marines embark on risky night patrols around their base in one of Iraq’s most dangerous zones to prevent attacks and keep insurgents at bay. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images) PipClock Has You Duck-and-Covered in Case of Apocalypse With the exception, maybe, of VATS calling out your headshots, our modern mobile devices…
By Brian Crecente Published July 11, 2011 -
The Pea Shooters and Samurai of the Wii’s Rhythm Heaven
We checked out the upcoming Wii version of music-infused Rhythm Heaven at E3, but we weren’t able to let you listen to it because it’s was so loud. This time around we’re in the relative quiet of Nintendo’s New York offices, where Stephen Totilo tried his hand at stabbing peas with a fork and slicing…
By Brian Crecente Published July 11, 2011 -
Nearly Six Minutes of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
This is like no Resident Evil game you’ve ever played: You run, you gun, you eat through boxes of ammo. In Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City the creep dead are less an inevitable death and more a tactical weapon that can turn on you. Wound an enemy deeply enough, or be wounded enough, and they…
By Brian Crecente Published July 11, 2011 -
The Reinvention of Literature
There’s something seemingly scandalous, irreverent about Simon Meek’s notion of “playing through” novels like Crime and Punishment or Wuthering Heights But in practice, Meek’s work transforming the world’s great literature into something experienced on a gaming console is more akin to performance art or theater than it is video games. Meek seems to want to…
By Brian Crecente Published July 11, 2011 -
From Katamari Damacy to Glitch: Keita Takahashi Discusses His Newest Imaginings
Keita Takahashi, famed Japanese game designer and creator of surreal games like Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, has signed on to help the co-founder of Flickr create a new sort of massively multiplayer game Glitch, in development since 2009, has players inhabiting a world created by the imaginings of 11 god giants. The still-in-beta…
By Brian Crecente Published July 8, 2011 -
Flight Control to…
Blast Off | Space shuttle Atlantis is seen as it lifts off from NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A at 11:29 a.m. EDT. The launch of Atlantis on the STS-135 mission, is the final flight of the Shuttle Program. (Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls) The Xbox 360 Is More Powerful than the Space Shuttle’s Flight Computer…
By Brian Crecente Published July 8, 2011 -
What’s Next for the Creator of Katamari Damacy?
Computer gaming start-up Tiny Speck today announced that they have hired Katamari Damacy developer Keita Takahashi to work on their fittingly unusual massively-multiplayer game Glitch The news was revealed today on Tiny Speck’s official Twitter account and blog “Keita Takahashi, the creator of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy has always been a hero to…
By Brian Crecente Published July 8, 2011 -
Flipping, Shifting, Zombies and Non-Euclidean Geometry Make Up the Best of PAX Indie Offerings
Each year a panel of game industry experts grant free floor space at Penny Arcade Expo to ten indie games they deem worth of the attention. This year the panel picked through 100 titles to settle on these ten, the PAX 10. Some might look familiar if you keep an eye on the indie scene,…
By Brian Crecente Published July 8, 2011
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