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Taco Bell Blames Vita Contest Debacle on ‘Technical Issues,’ Enrages Misled Winners
More than a week after informing PlayStation Vita contest winners that their entries were invalid, fast food corporation Taco Bell has told them that it messed up, blaming “technical issues” for the confusion. The misled contestants, who were told they won PlayStation Vitas on or around January 30, will all enter a “separate drawing” to…
By Jason Schreier Published February 22, 2012 -
Horror Game Amnesia Scores A Terrifying Sequel
Gaming site Joystiq reports that it will be called Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. It will feature a wealthy industrialist who is haunted by dreams and disaster following an unfortunate trip to Mexico. [Joystiq]
By Jason Schreier Published February 22, 2012 -
This Pokémon Rap Is Hot Like Charmander
I know. You’re skeptical. “Another Pokémon rap? This is going to be terrible,” you’re thinking. But this video, released yesterday by game TV channel The Game Station, is surprisingly awesome. (Except for that last line about masturbation. That part is super-awkward.) It’s worth watching, if only so you can go up to people and say…
By Jason Schreier Published February 22, 2012 -
Nintendo Teases 3DS Owners With Thoughts Of New Zelda
Check out what Nintendo’s Eiji Aonuma, best known for directing and producing multiple Zelda games, just sent 3DS owners via Swapnote, the system’s text and picture messaging application. “Hello, this is Aonuma, Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda producer,” he says in the note. “Did you enjoy The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D? Thanks to…
By Jason Schreier Published February 22, 2012 -
Dillon’s Rolling Western Pops Up On 3DS eShop Today
Surprise! Nintendo has released the action slash tower-defense game a day early, it said during a video conference this morning. You’ll find Dillon’s Rolling Western in the 3DS eShop for $10 right now. [Nintendo]
By Jason Schreier Published February 22, 2012 -
Final Fantasy Creator’s Wii RPG Finally Headed to North America
Nintendo is partnering with publisher Xseed Games to bring Wii RPG The Last Story to North America this summer, it said today during an online broadcast The Last Story, directed by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, has received rave reviews in Japan. Though the game will make its way to European shores this week, Nintendo…
By Jason Schreier Published February 22, 2012 -
Notre Dame Basketball Player Quits Skyrim, Becomes a Star
Surging college basketball player Jack Cooley doesn’t attribute his recent success to some sort of miracle or an act of God. Nor does he blame nonsense like “hard work” or “dedication.” Nope — he did it by quitting video games, according to an article published last week by The Chicago Tribune “Never get Skyrim,” Cooley…
By Jason Schreier Published February 21, 2012 -
Mass Effect 3 DLC Pops Up Early on Xbox Marketplace, Spoils Plot Point [UPDATE]
A listing on the Xbox 360 marketplace may have inadvertently revealed one of the first pieces of downloadable content for upcoming sci-fi role-playing game Mass Effect 3 — and spoiled a plot point from the game. Warning: Minor spoilers about the nature of one of the game’s DLC packs follow. Mass Effect 3: From Ashes,…
By Jason Schreier Published February 21, 2012 -
New Modern Warfare 3 Prestige Levels Hitting Xbox 360 Today, PS3 Next Week
The latest Call of Duty will get 400 new ranks and 5 new prestige levels for Xbox 360 today and PlayStation 3 on February 28, Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling said today. PC users got’em last week. [Robert Bowling]
By Jason Schreier Published February 21, 2012 -
Rumor: This Could Be A Teaser for a Cancelled Strider Game
Before its demise, gaming studio GRIN was working on new entries in the Bionic Commando and Strider series, Spanish gaming website Anait Games reported today Anait Games says the above trailer, found on the website of Spanish animation studio 23 Lunes, is actually a teaser for the cancelled Strider game, which Capcom had reportedly commissioned…
By Jason Schreier Published February 21, 2012 -
Fight Trolls With Towers In Towers N’ Trolls
Gamers’ reactions to tower defense games tend to go one of two ways. In one camp you have the devotees, the strategy junkies who need no excuse to set up towers and traps on their phones or desktops. In the other you have the haters, people who would rather do laundry or gouge out their…
By Jason Schreier Published February 21, 2012 -
This Video Makes the World of Amalur Seem a Lot Like the World of Warcraft
This video, released today by British site Zoomin.TV, shows us a side-by-side look at the world of recently-released Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and popular online game World of Warcraft. The two of them do seem to share some similarities when stacked up like this — some of the forests, deserts, and giant tree ramps (!)…
By Jason Schreier Published February 21, 2012 -
New Skyrim App Brings ‘Free-To-Play’ To Cartography
The folks over at Prima Games have released an app for iPhone and iPad that allows you to explore and interact with Skyrim‘s entire map, developer Bethesda said today on its blog. Unlike Dragon Shout, the independently-created Skyrim map released last fall for iOS, this map will not be entirely free. Though you can snag…
By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2012 -
Why I’m Not Okay With Sony Ditching PSP Discs
Last summer, I bought a copy of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable for the PSP. I’d heard nothing but fantastic things about Atlus’s role-playing game slash high school simulator, and I figured it’d be a good opportunity to bolster my RPG street cred. A few months later, when I finally opened the game, it…
By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2012 -
How To Turn A Bunch Of Beige Blocks Into The Legend of Zelda‘s Link
This time-lapsed video of YouTube user thorkon’s Zelda-themed building blocks is truly awesome, the type of intricate creation that must have taken many, many hours to put together. But now we can add Link to the ever-growing list of game-themed computer cases that thorkon, aka 8-Bit Builder, has been modding and constructing for a while…
By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2012 -
Rift Breaks World Record For Virtual Love
Love was in the air in the world of massively multiplayer online role-playing game Rift last week, where players set a Guinness World Record for most in-game marriages in a 24-hour period. Rift tallied 21,879 marriages between 9am PST on February 14 and 9am PST on February 15. Assuming nobody decided to shack up with…
By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2012 -
MechAssault Creator Playing With Robots Once More
Day 1 Studios, the development studio behind MechAssault and F.E.A.R. 3, will release a new mech game called Reign of Thunder, it said today. There’s no info on platforms or a release date for the game, which sure looks a lot like MechAssault. All we know is that it stars giant robots attacking one another…
By Jason Schreier Published February 20, 2012 -
Introducing ‘Random Encounters,’ Your Weekly Destination For All Things JRPG
There’s a little Lego figure standing next to my computer screen. It’s a miniature depiction of Darth Maul, from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and he’s holding a double-sided lightsaber. Sometimes, when I’m trying to think, I’ll take that lightsaber and snap it in and out of Darth Maul’s outstretched little Lego hand. Everything about…
By Jason Schreier Published February 17, 2012 -
Canabalt Creator Diving into The Hunger Games for iOS
Adam Saltsman, the man behind games like Canabalt and Gravity Hook, has signed on to develop an action game based on the popular Hunger Games book series. It will “go along with” the film, which releases this March. [Adam Saltsman]
By Jason Schreier Published February 16, 2012
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