AJ Glasser

How Do You Eulogize A Video Game Character?

Those of you following along with Telltales Games’ episodic adventure, Tales of Monkey Island, knew this was coming. The rest of you may want to sit down. Guybrush Threepwood, that lovable swashbuckler with an addiction to item-hoarding, has gone to the big pirate ship in the sky. Or Davey Jones’ Locker — or whatever nautical…

Check Out Girl Han Solo And Other Old Republic Characters

Now that we’ve got all eight classes out in the open, here’s how each of them look. I defy you to differentiate between the Jedi Consular and Knight purely on visuals.

Star Wars: The Old Republic Preview: The Space Inquisition

All eight classes of Star Wars: The Old Republic have been revealed, leaving me only one question: What the hell is a Sith Inquisitor? I get that they’re supposed to be a more badass version of a Sith Warrior with different ranged abilities. But if that’s the case, wouldn’t all players playing as Sith Warriors…

Merry X-mas: Get The Witcher For $20

You know what, I think I can get behind this Advent Calendar thing if it means I get free and/or cheap stuff every day between now and the 25th. Today’s tantalizing holiday prize is The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut. Direct2Drive is having a 24 Days of Christmas sale which today slashes The Witcher’s price…

Voice of Roxas Tweets Kingdom Hearts PSP Localization

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep hits Japanese PlayStation Portables January 9, but so far Square Enix has been mum on a US release date. Luckily, American voice actors sometimes Twitter their exploits, which gives us KH fans some hope. Jesse McCartney, the voice behind Roxas in Kingdom Hearts II and the recent Kingdom Hearts: 358/2…

Modern Warfare 2 To Benefit War Child Charity

If you love Modern Warfare 2 like I do, want to donate your time to charity like I do and live in the United Kingdom like I don’t, check out this charity called GAME for Good. On the 5th and 6th of December, Activision will donate money for each person that logs onto an online…

PC Game For Autistic Kids

Vision Audio Inc. has created a PC game that will help kids with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) cope with their disability and develop sensory processing skills. For those of you who might not know, ASD (sometimes oversimplified as “autism,” the most severe disorder on the spectrum) is a neural disorder that makes it hard for…

Here Are Your FIFA 10 Ultimate Team Screens

To go with its announcement that FIFA 10 sold more than 4.5 million units so far this year, EA also announced that downloadable content FIFA 10 Ultimate Team is on its way in February 2010. The DLC is priced at 400 Microsoft points for Xbox Live and has yet to receive a price listing for…

FIFA 10 Sells “More Than” 4.5 Million Worldwide

Based on internal figures, EA says FIFA 10 has sold 4.5 million units worldwide since it’s launch in early October. This is in addition to FIFA 10 being the fastest-selling game ever, mind you. Besides that, the company also announced that the first downloadable content pack, FIFA 10 Ultimate Team, will be available in February…

Here’s Your Daily Dose Of Bayonetta

Time cliches are one of the joys that movies, books and games get to savor when they market their use of time travel. That pleasure has now been extended to bullet time games in Bayonetta’s latest trailer. Witch Time is what they call bullet time in Bayonetta. In the strictest sense of the gameplay term,…

Super Monkey Ball 2 iPhone Preview: Hollaback Monkeys

Anyone who played Super Monkey Ball for the iPhone probably isn’t thrilled to hear about the sequel hitting the App Store today. But before you say “this shit is bananas,” know that Sega completely redid their approach to the game. First, they got rid of the 2D sprite monkeys and replaced them with 3D monkeys…

British Tennis Star Possibly Dumped Over “Seven Hours A Day” Gaming Habit

I guess even celebrities can be broken up with over video games. The Telegraph reports that British tennis star Andy Murray got the boot from his old lady over “seven hours a day” PlayStation 3 binges. The split between Murray and Kim Sears was confirmed Sunday when Sears didn’t show up to watch Murray play…

Backbreaker Going For Broke

I can’t imagine how scary it is for a developer to pitch a football video game when their name isn’t EA Sports. I imagine a room full of people going dead silent before someone says, “You mean like Madden?” That may not have been what developer NaturalMotion went through while pitching Backbreaker to publisher 505…

Can You Solve This Professor Layton and the Demon Flute Puzzle?

Chris Kohler over at Wired’s Game Life blog has gotten himself deep into a copy of Professor Layton‘s next out, Demon Flute, which was released in Japan last week. Here’s a tiny taste of the puzzles we can expect. Kohler’s translation of the puzzle reads: The four photographs below were taken in the same place.…

Dress Up Your Wiimotes With New Super Mario Bros Wii Bundle

We’ve seen a Black Friday deal or two about Wiis being bundled with New Super Mario Bros. But this is the first I’ve seen of a New Super Mario Bros. bundle with Wiimote static clings. The $69.99 spotted on Amazon.com comes with four Mario static clings, a large t-shirt and a plastic lunchbox. Oh, and…

Crytek Games that Never Were, Have Yet To Be

Maciej Kuciara, Art Director/Concept Artist at Crytek, posted these spiffy pics to ConceptArt.org forums and we’re re-posting some of them here because they smack of Frank Frazetta… and awesomeness! Find the rest here. And for the record, no, these aren’t Crysis concept art sketches. I think the ninja chick should’ve tipped you off if nothing…

Cyber Monday GameStop Robbery

Of all the shopping-heavy days in the year, two robbers in Maplewood, Missouri picked Cyber Monday as the likeliest day to do their “shopping” at GameStop in person. With a weapon. St. Louis news service KMOX News reports that two mean armed with a handgun held up the Maplewood GameStop in Maplewood Commons at about…

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter Dated… Sort Of

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter comes out sometime in early 2010, Croteam and Devolver Digital announced today. I was going to make a pun, but the title of the game sort of precludes puns. The First Encounter hit Steam in the last week or so and is due on Xbox Live Arcade very, very…

Arcade Impressionism

Not to set the ghost of Claude Monet after me, but I’ve always thought of Impressionism painting as lazy. It’s like you want me to do all the work trying to figure out that this is Donkey Kong. But I have to admit that there’s a moment of “Ah-ha!” when you finally figure out an…

Two Worlds Lets You “Play” An Advent Calendar For Prizes

Again, I have to use my Jewish status to explain why I have no idea what an advent calendar is. Sounds pretty silly, though — a calendar that only covers 80% of a single month out of the year? Meshugge! But I’m to understand you get things when you use an advent calendar. Little things…