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Here’s How Game Soundtracks Got Recorded Back in the Day
Old-school heads out there may remember Iron Helix, a sci-fi CD-ROM game that did survival horror in the FMV format that was all the rage then. If you played it, you’ll remember how the music tweaked your nerves with a tense layering of synthesizer chords. Well, composer Peter Stone’s uploaded a video that details just…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 24, 2011 -
This is Blizzard DOTA’s Character-Packed Trailer
It’s a Blizzfan’s wet dream come true as iconic characters from various universes take armies into battle against each other in Blizzard DOTA. While it’s known that Blizzard’s working on a MOBA-style game, no one would’ve predicted that it was going to look anything like this. Watch the trailer that accompanied the announcement here. You…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 21, 2011 -
Admins Will Control What’s Unlocked on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s Dedicated Servers.
From the Twitter of Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling: To clarify Unranked Dedicated Servers on PC. Admin has full control of unlocks. Can unlock all or fully customize whats unlocked in #MW3- @fourzerotwo via Twitter You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 21, 2011 -
Warhawk Players Get Elite Private Beta Access for Starhawk Next Month
If you were one of the players of Warhawk—the spiritual predecessor to upcoming action/strategy hybrid Starhawk— Lightbox Interactive knows that they owe you one. Many members of the Warhawk team from developer Incognnito wound up at Lightbox Interactive, with another chance to iterate on the some of the massive action mechanics that they explored in…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 21, 2011 -
The Surprising Stories That Connect Batman: Arkham City to Arkham Asylum
At the end of 2009’s Batman: Arkham Asylum, all’s well: the Dark Knight’s triumphant, the Joker’s downed and Gotham City’s still a safe, intact place. How, then, do we get to the starting point of that game’s newly released sequel, where all the craziness of the asylum gets dropped smack dab into Batman’s stomping grounds?…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 21, 2011 -
Hulu Plus Coming Soon to Wii, Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo’s just announced that the popular video streaming service will be hitting its best-selling home console and it latest handheld by the end of the year. The move puts Hulu’s premium, subscriber offering on all three major home video consoles now, with the service having debuted on the PlayStation 3 last summer. While the basic…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 21, 2011 -
Should You Buy Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One? Yes.
Let’s get this out the way first: going through the PlayStation 3 exclusive Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One in single-player isn’t much fun at all. The one AI partner you get while playing solo tends to move slow and All 4 One has clearly been built as a multiplayer-first experience, from the menus to…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 19, 2011 -
Let’s See Your Nerd Weddings, Kotaku
A few days back, I did a story on this not-a-wedding picture whose title riffed on the iconic special move from Street Fighter. That got me thinking about geek wedding, geek proposals and geek romance. And, as if the internet were reading my mind, messages and pictures about all of the above have been floating…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 19, 2011 -
How That Mario Bathroom Got That Way
Want to know how reader Liatte–-a lawyer and aspiring Lego artist—made her room of necessity themed around Nintendo’s iconic plumber? She’s been kind enough to answer a few questions about her Mario tribute bathroom and how she got it that way. “The bathroom’s looked like this for about 8 months. I did it entirely myself,…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 19, 2011 -
Dig the Warp Pipes in This Super Mario Bathroom
Reader Liatte sent in pics of her Mario-adorned throne room and while I want to make all kinds of scatological jokes—King Poopa, Going to World 1-2; go ahead, make up your own—but I’m really just jealous. My happy place [IMGUR] You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 19, 2011 -
The World’s Best Donkey Kong Players Throw Down in The Kong Off
The Kong Off from Scott Cramer on Vimeo Has any game has as much celluloid devoted to it as Donkey Kong? First we had Seth Gordon’s brilliant The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Then we got the feature short Dr. Kong about Hank Chien, the guy who unseated Steve Wiebe to become the…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 19, 2011 -
Eve Online Developers CCP Laying Off 120 People
Best known for the massive online game Eve Online, Icelandic company CCP has been steadily ascending its profile over the last few years, as they moved from that ambitious sci-fi virtual world to other projects like Dust 514, the in-development, PS3-exclusive shooter that ties into their MMO and new franchise World of Darkness But, just…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 19, 2011 -
New Battlefield 3 Trailer Shows Off Multiplayer
Finally, the chance to watch DICE’s shiny Frostbite 2 engine get put through its paces in nearly two minutes of multiplayer mayhem. The clip showcases action from all the multiplayer maps shipping on the disc. The game’s massive destructibility looks like it’s going to radically change the experience of online warfare. One minute you’re in…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 19, 2011 -
Star Wars Machinima A Clone Apart Returns, Reminds Us of Battlefront
What a wretched, wonderful fictional construct the Star Wars universe has become. While many people hate how George Lucas’s fiddling continues to dilute the memories of the folks who love it most, the Skywalker saga remains a rich playground for all kinds of comedy or tragedy. Three years ago, the crew at Illusive Entertainment created…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 19, 2011 -
Being Heroes? Pfft. Ratchet & Clank Want to Stay Up Late and Play Video Games.
Everybody’s favorite lombax-and-robot duo returns to the PS3 in an all-new, co-op focused adventure this week. Here’s the opening cinematic sequence from the game, showing off the trademark humor that Insomniac’s known for bringing to the Ratchet & Clank games. The interview sequence at the beginning reminds me of this classic bit from the beloved…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 18, 2011 -
Grand Slam Tennis 2 Swings Both Ways (DualShock and Move, That Is)
Tennis games and I have a weird relationship. It was an ancient, LCD handheld tennis game that taught me the fundamentals of tennis scoring. Numbers? Then words? Then words that are numbers? Huh? Then, when I started playing video games, tennis became my favorite sport to play in digital form. The combination of reflexes, response…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 18, 2011 -
Watch Kinect Power the Future of Touch-Based Interface
The whole deal with Kinect is that it’s supposed to free you from touching things. But a new implementation might have you being more in touch with the physical world than before. What you’re looking at is an experimental prototype created by Microsoft Research labs designed to make any surface a touch surface. It uses…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 18, 2011 -
This Secret of Mana Rap Will Make You Wistful
There’s nothing like old-school JRPGs to make you nostalgic, and this rap about the plucky lads from Potos tuugsa at the old heartstrings. But, what this really needs is a video. Can’t be too hard to mock up SNES-era graphics along with this track, right? [Thanks, tipster Larry] You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 18, 2011 -
Playing with Fire Wants to Crowdsource the (First?) Good Video Game Movie
Even though many directors clearly play video games-Zack Snyder, Guillermo Del Toro and Christopher Nolan come to mind—and acknowledge them as a creative enrterprise, there still hasn’t been a film that compellingly channels the appeal of the medium. Author/critic Harold Goldberg, animator Bill Plympton and artist Dave Lowery thinks it’s because gamers themselves are missing…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 18, 2011 -
Which Game Is the Best Match for This Steampunk Xbox 360 Controller?
As a trend, steampunk may be yesterday’s fad. And, while this custom controller—created by the folks at MorbidStix— apparently been around for a while, it just popped up into view again. I love the combination of a real-life mechanical act—unlocking the controller with the key-to open up digital worlds. It’s a nice metaphor, almost like…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 18, 2011
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