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It’s Time for a War Game that Respects the Geneva Conventions
Despite its inherent brutality, war has rules. Laws of war have been around in one form or another since Biblical times. They govern the treatment of prisoners of war, the expediency of death on a battlefield. Could they, should they also pertain to the depiction of virtual war in video games? That’s the question the…
By Brian Crecente Published December 5, 2011 -
Here’s Why Former Presidential Candidate Herman Cain Was So Obsessed With A Pokémon Song
If one didn’t know better, it would be easy to think one-time presidential candidate Herman Cain is a gamer. His tax plan seems to be ripped straight out of SimCity and his go-to inspiration quote comes from a Pokémon movie. What gives? GQ recently ran an amazing interview with Cain, who this weekend officially suspended…
By Brian Crecente Published December 5, 2011 -
O Christmas Tree
O Christmas Tree | PAWLING, N.Y.—A Christmas tree lighting at dusk in the Hudson Valley of New York. War Crimes in Video Games Draw Red Cross Scrutiny One of the world’s largest and most respected humanitarian groups in the world is investigating whether the Geneva and Hague conventions should be applied to the fictional recreation…
By Brian Crecente Published December 2, 2011 -
How To Unlock Call of Duty’s Robotron-esque Dead Ops on Your iPhone or iPad
Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies is a fun, slick iPhone and iPad game in its own right, supporting both single player and multiplayer marathons sessions of first-person shooter survival against hordes of zombies. But the game’s Dead Ops Arcade mode is almost more fun. The weird thing is, you have to do a little…
By Brian Crecente Published December 2, 2011 -
Cover Of Skyrim Theme Will Send A Chill Through Your Bones
There are plenty of musical takes on Skyrim’s many beautiful songs, but this is my favorite of the week, sung by the talented, and bilingual, Malukah from Monterrey, Mexico. It’s a touch on the echoey side, but I’m still loving it and I bet you will too. If you do, you can even mod it…
By Brian Crecente Published December 2, 2011 -
Parents Who Want to Play With Their Adolescent Son
The great things about playing video games is how it gives you a chance to spend a little time with your child in their environment. That doesn’t mean gaming should replace throwing a baseball, playing a little one-on-one basketball or building models, but sitting back and letting your child take charge in a fictional world…
By Brian Crecente Published December 2, 2011 -
War Crimes in Video Games Draw Red Cross Scrutiny
One of the world’s largest and most respected humanitarian groups in the world is investigating whether the Geneva and Hague conventions should be applied to the fictional recreation of war in video games. If they agree those standards should be applied, the International Committee of the Red Cross says they may ask developers to adhere…
By Brian Crecente Published December 2, 2011 -
XCOM‘s Development Presses On, Says 2K—With One Less Studio
Earlier this week, 2K Games announced that its Canberra, Australia studio was being shifted from helping with development of XCOM to working on Bioshock Infinite. The news led some to wonder if XCOM was in jeopardy of being postponed or canned. But 2K Games tells Kotaku that the reboot is still in development at 2K…
By Brian Crecente Published December 1, 2011 -
A New Challenger Approaches
Mario Kart 7 | Totilo and I both had our 3DS in the office today, look what I picked up through Street Pass. Jokes Fly Faster Than Arrows in the Goofy-Yet-Epic Bard’s Tale The Bard’s Tale, the highly enjoyable action role-playing game that launches today at the App Store, has a long, storied history-far longer…
By Brian Crecente Published December 1, 2011 -
Say Goodbye to Skyrim’s Majestic Backwards Flying Dragons
They were… bizarre… while they lasted: Dragons in full flight, breathing fire, swooping, all backwards. The glitch that put some of the creatures in reverse is being fixed next week, so if you want to witness the beauty of a backwards mythical creature in the wilds of The Elder Scroll V: Skyrim, you might want…
By Brian Crecente Published December 1, 2011 -
Starting Next Month You Will Get the Tools To Reinvent Skyrim on PC
Starting next month computer Skyrim gamers will have access to the same development tools used by Bethesda Games Studio to make The Elder Scroll title. “We want to thank everyone reading this for playing our game and supporting all it tries to do,” according to the post on the official Bethesda Blog. “We wouldn’t have…
By Brian Crecente Published December 1, 2011 -
Guess Which Game Still Isn’t More Popular Than Call of Duty
Battlefield 3 couldn’t do it and neither could Skyrim it seems, Call of Duty, two Call of Duty games actually, remain the most played games on Xbox Live for the week of Nov. 21. Yes, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim isn’t even an online game, but Major Nelson’s weekly list counts all games played on…
By Brian Crecente Published December 1, 2011 -
Blackwater Video Game Criticism Leads To Threats Against Congresswoman
Attorneys for the founder of infamous private military company Blackwater are threatening to sue a member of congress over statements she made during an interview about the PMC’s bizarrely self-aggrandizing video game Blackwater Rep. Jan Shakowsky was galled at the idea that Blackwater, a company she says has become synonymous with the misconduct of private…
By Brian Crecente Published December 1, 2011 -
Should You Buy LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7? Yes.
Traveller’s Tales are the masters of the brick. Their LEGO creations deliver not just fun gaming experiences, but those magical sort of games that you can enjoy alone, with friends, or with children. I’ve been a fan since LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game hit in 2005. Now, six years and twice as many LEGO…
By Brian Crecente Published December 1, 2011 -
I Can’t Stop Playing This Game
Junk Jack | At some point I will be writing this up, but for now I just need to enthuse about my latest iPhone addiction: Junk Jack. It’s a little bit Minecraft, a little bit Terraria Infinity Blade II Improves one of the iPad’s Best Games We hear from some quarters that video games that…
By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011 -
Three Guys, 18 Million Blocks, One Unbelievable Minecraft Video
It’s just two minutes and twenty-two seconds of black and white video. In it we see a play-through of classic 80s Game Boy title Super Mario Land. Pretty bland stuff, until you hear how it was created. The YouTube Minecraft Super Mario Land in Stop Motion video is the culmination of more than 500 hours…
By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011 -
Fund Chocolate Dice For Delicious Games of D&D
Funding video games is great and all, but lets not forget table top gaming, especially when it involves dice you can eat. Actually all this is, is funding the creation of dice you can eat, but that’s enough for me. This Kickstarter will help back the production of chocolate and sugar 4, 6, 8, 10,…
By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011 -
Report: The Last Guardian Creator Leaves Sony
The man behind beloved games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, and one of the lead developers of upcoming spiritual sequel The Last Guardian no longer works at Sony, according to a rumor reported by Eurogamer today. Fumito Ueda is completing work on the game as a freelancer, according to Eurogamer‘s Japanese video game development…
By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011 -
Why Arcade Punching Bags and Alcohol Don’t Mix
Two Florida brothers were arrested earlier this week after getting into a drunken brawl over an arcade punch bag machine, the Delco Times reports. The brothers, drunk and angry at a Pennsylvania tavern, got into a dust up with several regulars playing a punch bag arcade game. One of the brothers asked a patron to…
By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011
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