Brian Crecente

Dig These Minecraft Pads

Joining a host of t-shirts and fridge magnets born of a Minecraft licensing deal are these foam pickaxes and sticky notecubes. Now you can wear a Minecraft Union shirt and smack around a block notecube with a faux pickaxe while you kill time waiting for the game to finally launch. The notepad, which shows damage…

Tomb Raider Hopes to Recreate a Gaming Icon

Don’t think of Tomb Raider as an origin story, think of it instead as a sort of metaphorical creation myth, a game that won’t redefine just who Lara Croft is, but also the world in which she exists. Gone not only is her over-sexualized physique, two guns and ponytail, but also her past, her way…

The Key

There Is No Key | Nintendo says the virtual key to a new world of downloadable content is in my hands. (Photo: Crecente) Negative Duke Reviews Could Lead to PR Shitlist [Update] A third-party public relations firm tweeted last night that they would be “reviewing who gets games next time and who doesn’t” based on…

Go Biking With Rockstar Games

The 38th annual Harlem Skyscraper Cycling Classic kicks off on Father’s Day at Marcy Garvey Park. The annual event, presented by Rockstar Games, is the place to be if you’re in the New York area and are into that sort of thing. Take pics if you go!

Prey 2 Steeps in ‘Alien Noir’ Visuals and Red Dead Redemption Gameplay

Prey 2 had me at intergalactic bounty hunter. I don’t need to know how they tie this blending of Red Dead Redemption and Blade Runner into the original Prey, (you’re an air marshal on a plane spotted in just a few minutes of the original game). I don’t need to have new catchy phrases like…

Negative Duke Reviews Could Lead to PR Shitlist [Update]

A third-party public relations firm tweeted last night that they would be “reviewing who gets games next time and who doesn’t” based on the bad reviews pouring in about Duke Nukem Forever “Too many went too far with their reviews… we r reviewing who gets games next time and who doesn’t based on today’s venom.”…

jDome

LOS ANGELES, CA | A gamer plays a war game on the jDome during the Electronic Entertainment Expo on June 7, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. More than 45,000 people are expected to attend the annual three-day convention to see the latest games and announcements from the gaming industry. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Hitman…

Kinect Star Wars Adds a Sense of Misplaced Gravitas To Jedi Fights

I didn’t give Brooks Brown, Lucast Arts community manager, much time to dig into the Kinect-enabled Star Wars game before I began peppering him with questions. “Is this the entire game?” I asked. Turns out what we saw on stage, two guys controlling (or trying to control) jedi as they work their way through a…

Hitman Absolution Promises an Evolution in Agent 47 Kills, Skills and Personality

The most interesting thing about Hitman Absolution isn’t its new disguises or ways of killing people with a bit of cord. It’s not the decision to open the historically stealthy game up to a bit of action gameplay. It’s the insight the game’s mechanics are meant to give us into a character we’ve long controlled…

Gearbox Dev Beatboxes His Way Through a Duke Nukem Party

Say what you will about Gearbox’s Duke Nuke Forever, but it sounds like their community party was, as the kids used to say, “Off the hook.” Here we see Randy Pitchford, Gearbox co-founder and CEO, beatboxing up on stage to celebrate the imminent release of a game most thought would never see the light of…

Tanks For the E3 Memories

LOS ANGELES, CA | A World War II Sherman M4A3 military tank is on display promoting the World of Tanks from developer Wargaming.net outside of the Los Angeles Convention Center during Electronics Entertainment Expo on June 7, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Backbreaker‘s Team Checks In Again With Icebreaker In…

Fallon Kicks Off Gaming Week Tonight With Modern Warfare 3

Video Game Week kicks off on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon tonight on NBC with the help of Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling who will be playing Modern Warfare 3 with writer and actor Simon Pegg. Not into Call of Duty, even if it’s being played by the guy who helped pen Shaun of the Dead?…

The Single Greatest Trailer For the Greatest Games of E3

Can you imagine if this was one game? One shooting, stabbing, jumping, running, driving, flying master piece of gore, politics, character growth, feminism and dude-brotopia? It could never happen, but for a bit more than three minutes Polygamia managed to mash together all of the games of E3 into this one singular video event. Enjoy…

Hitman Absolution In One Sexy Brochure

Hitman Absolution was one of many of the games I saw at E3 that impressed me not only with its new take on an old formula, but in the new story it was trying to tell and the character it was trying to refresh. Here’s a look at the sleek brochure the IO Interactive was…

Hitman

Watch Me Fail at Super Mario 3DS Over and Over and Over and Over and…

Super Mario 3DS is a wonderful, difficult, though not too surprising, Mario experience. It delivers the joy of maneuvering Nintendo’s titular Mario through a colorful world of moving blocks, anthropomorphic enemies, power-ups and coins. It even seems to lean a bit on the 3DS’ ability to deliver 3D imagery without the need for glasses. Many…

These Postcards Are Lousy With Midichlorians

I found these eight postcards at Lucas Arts’s E3 backstage meeting room, a place that was also home to a tiny museum and playable copy of Kinect Star Wars. Enjoy.

The Force Post Cards

The Big Games, Big Gadgets, Big Surprises of E3

The promise of uncompromising gaming on the go, a sexy new console from the makers of the Wii and a robust line-up of must-have, must-play games topped this year’s celebration of all things gaming in Los Angeles last week. This year’s E3 kicked off early last week with a look at what the makers of…

Here Are Four Pokemon For Your Free PokeDex 3D App

This week Nintendo released Pokedex 3D, a 3D Pokemon viewing application that you can download for free on the 3DS’ eShop. They also were handing out Pokemon Augmented Reality Markers at their booth. Each of the four we grabbed are supposed to show different Pokemon on your 3DS when you use the app to scan…