Cinco Barnes has gone F-ing crazy and declared war on high prices!!! To celebrate their one year anniversary iPad, iPhone and android MMO Pocket Legends has made their “premium content” free, granting access to premium areas including a bunch of castles, crypts, swamps and sewers. Free ends on May 4, so get to it.
Sex slavery, human trafficking, detention camps: The next big Facebook game forgoes farming and city building to explore concepts of universal human rights, violence against women and a future America stripped of civil liberties. Loaded with actors from shows like LOST, Alias and 24, America 2049 is part live-action video game, part human rights activist…
Here’s our first look at Call of Duty: Black Ops’ Escalation map pack, due out next month for the Xbox 360 and some later time for the PC and PS3. The map pack will run you 1200 Microsoft points ($15) like the first map pack. This video walks us through what to expect from this…
Unveiled today, Alienware’s M14x starts at under $1,200, weighs less than seven pounds and can keep you gaming for up to six hours on one charge. The M14x may be the perfect fit for those of you who thought Alienware’s 11-inch laptop was a bit to tiny for gaming on the go. This new laptop…
Shortly after games began to flood the channels of Apple’s iTunes I asked a developer friend of mine why the ESRB weren’t rating the games headed for the iPhone and iPad. The answer? It would cost too much for developers and the Entertainment Software Ratings Board would drowned in the sheer volume. Earlier this week…
I love Adventure Time, but I sort of hate Pokemon. I’m so conflicted. Click on the image to view full size.[Reddit, thanks Taggart451]
DISARRAY | New York, New York: My new, temporary desk in Gawker HQ. (Photo by Crecente) The Mother of All Motherboard Shoot-Outs Chipset delays aside, Sandy Bridge has been one of the most anticipated and impressive releases we’ve seen from Intel in recent years. The first wave of processors have demonstrated superior efficiency as they…
Yes, a bowling ball for your PS3. Take that Dude.
Screen-Free Week seems to be going guerrilla, calling not just for folks to avoid using their TVs, game consoles and computer screens this week, but to turn off other people’s televisions. Today kicks off the week of screen-free time, hosted by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. What would you and your family do with…
Prey 2, as we expected, will be a very different sort of game then the original. Gone is the conflicted Native American hero. Gone too is the linear gameplay of the original. Instead Prey 2 will drop you into the shoes of US Air Marshall Killian Samuels as he becomes an off-world bounty hunter in…
The Front Door | My new home, sweet home in the great state of New York. (Photo by Me) Bedtime Stories This Robot Dog’s Ugly is Only Skin Deep It looks more organic than robotic. The four legs march under the barrel chest of the robot, snapping up two at a time in perfect precision.…
The future of airborne gaming may include a full-sized monitor, surround sound and plenty of legroom, if you’ve got the cash to drop on a plush, “Not For Wimps” airline seat. The seat, designed by Contour Aerospace and Factorydesign, is among the future design concepts being shown off at the Aircraft Interiors Expo at the…
It all started with a song, an instrumental created with a Playstation by Canadian musician Jim Guthrie, it seems. Speaking to NOW Magazine, Guthrie explains how he went from days creating music for Three Gut Records to working with a team of five on what would become iPad gaming darling Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery –…
It looks more organic than robotic. The four legs march under the barrel chest of the robot, snapping up two at a time in perfect precision. But when Boston Dynamic’s creation, BigDog, is pushed, or it walks across ice, it suddenly looks very much alive as it stumbles to correct itself, and succeeds. Designed to…
There are many devious puzzles in 90’s classic, and often infuriating, computer game 7th Guest. So you may not have noticed that when the puzzler made its way to the iPhone and iPad it was missing one particularly teeth-grinding one. The original Microscope game in the 7th guest used a custom built AI engine that…
Bronze | The Pony Express, immortalized in this statue found at the Colorado state line, lasted a bit more than a single year. (Photo by Me) Bedtime Stories These New Shots From Skyrim Are No Laughing Matter There’s nothing funny at all about the latest screenshots from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, unless you count…
We checked out one pricey Final Fantasy game, a neat GameBoy camera emulator, discovered a game that reminded us of Final Fantasy Tactics, X-Com and Shining Force, flicked footballs and played a PC MMO on an Android tablet. It was a week of Gaming Apps that saw the start of an examination of games not…
With Blizzard reluctant to nail down the release of Diablo III, Dungeon Siege III is increasingly looking like the computer game that will be satisfying my clicky dungeon brawler itch this spring. Here’s a look at Lucas, one of the game’s four playable characters. Clicky!!!
This is no Eve Online, nor is it meant to be. It’s Vendetta Online, a 7-year-long space massively multiplayer online game now playable on Android tablets. While there is much that separates the twitch space combat, and NPC alien infested outer limits of Vendetta from the purely player driven machinations of Eve, one can serve…
Fini | This has, since the site’s beginning, been my office.. (Photo by Me) Bedtime Stories Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City’s First Teaser Shows Off Fast-Paced Zombie Slaughter Undead creatures swarm, bullets fly, and gas stations explode in this action-packed first look at Slant Six Games’ Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. More » Is Crysis 2…
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