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Gamer Husband: Free To A Good Home
A frustrated Utah woman listed her Call of Duty-playing husband on her local Craigslist as free to a good home, “if acceptable replacement is offered will trade.” “I am selling my 22 year old husband. He enjoys eating and playing video games all day. Easy to maintain, just feed and water every 3-5 hours. You…
By Brian Crecente Published November 21, 2011 -
Did Prince Harry Attend Minecraft’s DeadMau5 Vegas Party?
Britain’s Prince Harry may have found himself at Saturday night’s raging MineCraft party, the wrap-up blow-out featuring Deadmau5 playing at Wynn Hotel’s XS night club. The Las Vegas Sun’s Robin Leach reports that Harry and his entourage were spotted rolling out of the XS at 4 a.m. Sunday morning. MineCon wrapped up Saturday night with…
By Brian Crecente Published November 21, 2011 -
Max Payne 3’s Collector’s Edition Runs $100, Includes Twin-Gun Wielding, Suit Wearing Payne
May Payne 3’s Collector’s Edition is so limited that you’re going to have less than two months to pre-order it. Rockstar today rolled out the details of a $99.99/£99.99/€109.99 collector’s edition of Max Payne 3. It comes with a copy of the game, a set of prints, a bullet keychain, classic multiplayer character pack of…
By Brian Crecente Published November 21, 2011 -
These Are A Few of My Favorite 2011 Games
With the holidays rounding the bend and the big shopping season about to kick off, now’s a great time to start thinking about what to buy that gamer in your life, be they casual, hardcore or even a once-a-year player. Here’s a quick guide to this year’s bumper crop of video games. This isn’t meant…
By Brian Crecente Published November 21, 2011 -
A Live Action Minecraft Wedding Proposal
Reader Matt writes in to tell us how he proposed to his girlfriend up on the big stage at MineCon, getting the wonderful folks at Mojang to play along in getting his future wife up on stage to pop the question. Congratulations guys, here’s to a lifetime of friendship, love and coop gaming. From Matt:…
By Brian Crecente Published November 20, 2011 -
Skyrim Teaches Adorable Little Girl About Bullying
This 3-year-old girl is about to learn a tough life lesson: Never attack a villager in Skyrim or the guards will come and get you. That or, don’t be a bully. One of those. In the video the little girl gets annoyed when a villager tells her she has to leave. “NO!” she screams. Then…
By Brian Crecente Published November 19, 2011 -
Are These the Best Modern Warfare 3 Players in the World?
There appear to be at least two Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 players in the world who have essentially leveled up 800 times each. Eight hundred times. The Call of Duty games have something called Prestige Mode. It allows a player who has reached the higher online level in the game’s multiplayer to give…
By Brian Crecente Published November 18, 2011 -
Minecraft is Out! Go Get It Dammit!!
Minecraft is out. Yes, finished and out and on sale. So get to it. Go buy yourself a copy right this damn minute. It’s $26.95. In the picture above you see Markus “Notch” Persson literally throwing the switch to make his game live during MineCon in Vegas just moments ago. The convention also saw the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 18, 2011 -
GameStop Alone Sold 600,000 Memberships to Call of Duty’s Elite Service
Call of Duty Elite’s launch was rocky, Activision tells us, missteps were made, but we’ve never had any sense of just how many paying customers it might have attracted, until now. During their third-quarter earnings report yesterday, GameStop spilled the beans on just how many people picked up the paid version of the community-building, stat-tracking,…
By Brian Crecente Published November 18, 2011 -
Minecraft Scores Perfect First Review, Game Selling at One Every Five Seconds
Minecraft is meant to come out today, but Eurogamer already had a chance to play through the game and… beat it. That’s right the retail version of Minecraft has stats, buffing and an endgame with poetic pay off. It also is a game that warrants a perfect score from the reviewer Alec Meer. Anticipation for…
By Brian Crecente Published November 18, 2011 -
The Rise of Minecraft, The Coming of MineCon
Minecon, the celebration of all things Minecraft, kicks off today at 10 a.m. in Las Vegas (that’s 1 p.m. Eastern). What better way to celebrate than with an infographic highlighting all of the game’s many achievements. Did you know, for instance, that game creator Notch quit his day job on his birthday? Or that Minecraft,…
By Brian Crecente Published November 18, 2011 -
A New Kurtz For a New Sort of Darkness
Spec Ops: The Line | I played a couple hours of 2K Game’s Heart of Darkness-inspired shooter Spec Ops: The Line today. This image, showing lead Captain Walker in Dubai, was released to herald the coming of a new trailer next week. Our write up will be coming then too. Call of Duty Pulls In…
By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2011 -
Look It’s Minecraft Playing on an iPhone… Sorta
Minecraft – Pocket Edition, released for Android back in August, has finally made its way to the iPhone today. Keeping with the company’s long history of never actually finishing the popular mining game, the iPhone version is listed as alpha build 0.1.2. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth getting, just that it’s a work in…
By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2011 -
The Glorious Guts of Rockstar’s Max Payne 3
In this “design and technology video,” Rockstar takes a dive into the mechanics and game design choices behind the upcoming action shooter’ Max Payne 3’s targeting, movement, animation and enemy intelligence. This is a video about the guts of design, the things that the developers use to try and eek a little innovation out of…
By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2011 -
It’s Going to Take a “Couple of Weeks” to Make Call of Duty Elite Fully Functional, Says Developer
It wasn’t the numbers that knocked Call of Duty: Elite on its ass the day it went live, it was the questions. Speaking with Kotaku earlier this week Daniel Suarez, vice president of production at Activision, walked us through how one of the most experienced online gaming companies in the world was blindsided by the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2011 -
Call of Duty Pulls In More than Three-Quarters of a Billion Dollars in Five Days, And Other Insane Numbers
Following in the footsteps of the last three Activision military shooters, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 had a record-breaking, money-printing first five days, pulling in more than $775 million in worldwide sales, Activision reports. “With $775 million of sales of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in its first five days, Call of Duty…
By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2011 -
Zynga Temp Accused of Stealing $100K in Merchandise
Police on Tuesday arrested a Zynga temp who is accused of stealing $100,000 worth of merchandise and equipment from the company behind casual games FarmVille, CityVille and Mafia War, the San Francisco Examiner reports. Keith Brown, 21, of San Ramon was arrested Tuesday at the company’s San Francisco headquarters, according to District Attorney’s Office spokesman…
By Brian Crecente Published November 17, 2011 -
Lovecraftian Cover Art
Majicka | A glimpse of the cover art for the upcoming Magicka “The Stars Are Left” expansion tweeted out by Magickagame Skyrim Lands 50 Perfect Reviews, Will Likely Earn More than $450M at Launch The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim garnered more than 50 perfect reviews and it looks like it also sold a lot of…
By Brian Crecente Published November 16, 2011 -
The Otherworldly Beauty of Skyrim in 170 Stop-Motion Screenshots
This under-two-minute video shows off a dozen or so beautiful settings in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim sped up to capture the game’s passing of days, animals and weather. Never mind the spectacle of combat, of fantasy creatures and encounters, this alone is reason enough to go out and buy this game. The video was…
By Brian Crecente Published November 16, 2011
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