Kirk Hamilton

A Game About Life, Death, And Eating Your Elders

It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. Or, you know, a baby-eat-grandpa world. At least, that’s the world envisioned by Tasty, Tasty Grandpa, an in-development iOS game from Grapple Gun Games The setup is simple—you move forward on the treadmill of life, and can eat anyone who’s older than you. But as you eat, you grow,…

From the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Touch Arcade has got a goofy demo video of the in-development Turbo Dismount, Secret Exit’s follow-up to their falling-down-the-stairs game Stair Dismount. Things have gotten… significantly more involved.

A Retro Video Game Exhibit To Make Your Inner Collector Green With Envy

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the Videogame History Museum has a cool exhibit set up showcasing old and rare video games and video-game collectibles. The VGHM tends to turn up at events like GDC and E3, and it’s always fun to go through their exhibit and check out the most interesting, obscure…

The People Behind The Witcher And Cyberpunk Are Making Two ‘Smaller’ Games To Support One Of Them

The folks at CD Projekt Red aren’t just busy working on The Witcher 3 and their new Cyberpunk game—according to a corporate report posted to their site last week, they’re also planning to release a mobile game and two smaller games tied to one of their products. Here’s a translation, provided by CD Projekt, which…

Tips For Playing Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon

The paranormal puzzle-fest Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon came out yesterday for the 3DS. Patricia gave the game a good review, and I’ve spent the past couple of weeks playing it as well. Now that it’s out in the wild, I thought I’d gather some tips for those who are just starting out. Here are some…

Blonde Twins Playing Doctor Who Music On Harps While Teleporting Through A Forest

This performance of the Doctor Who Theme is by Harp Twins Camille and Kennerly, and is a follow-up to their most recent sensation, Blonde Twins Playing Iron Maiden On Harps While Standing In A Ruined Brick Building (h/t Anita)

If you’re at PAX East, consider swinging by our own Jason Schreier’s JRPG Panel, Saturday at 10AM in the Naga Theater.

The Cosplay of PAX East, Day One

The first day of PAX East brought all manner of delightfully geeky, creative costumery to the Boston Convention Center. Our reporters at the event have been snapping as many photos as they can, all while keeping up with the hustle and bustle of one of the biggest video game conventions in the world. Here are…

This nifty-looking iPhone app breaks down all of Ni no Kuni‘s collectable familiars in a helpful guide.

Here’s Our First Look At Diablo III Running On PS3

Here’s the first sizzle-reel trailer for the PlayStation 3 version of Diablo III, which looks… well, about how you’d expect Diablo III to look, running on a PS3. The button assignments seem like a natural fit for the game, lending some credence to that theory that the game was designed with consoles in mind from…

Rock Band‘s Final Downloadable Song Is Absolutely Perfect

Back when I was in high school, we had the same DJ at every school dance. His name was Ben Skirvin, and as he was a DJ at a local radio station, he went by the handle “Swervin’ Ben Skirvin.” Not exactly the coolest DJ name of all time, but hey, it was southern Indiana…

Quentin Tarantino’s Movies, If They Were Classic Paperbacks

Long have I been contemplating a QT marathon, and this illustration from Sharm Murugiah, which re-imagines the famous filmmaking foot-appreciator’s oeuvre as classic Penguin paperbacks, is gonna tip me over the edge. It’s been ages since I last watched Jackie Brown, and I only saw Inglourious Basterds the once. I recently re-watched Kill Bill Vol.…

Get A Load Of This Criminally Cool Red Dead Redemption Monopoly Set

There are several cool video-game themed Monopoly sets out there, but I’d be hard-pressed to think of a cooler one than this homemade Red Dead Redemption set put together by Redditor inspirermeg From the imgur description: This was a 2-week project at school, so though I’m happy with the result – I wasn’t able to…

Sony has announced a partnership with Unity that’ll let the popular dev tools work with their platforms, including PS4.

Kickstarter says that game campaigns have raised more than 100 million dollars combined. That’s a lotta bucks!

This Gears of War: Judgment easter egg won’t teach the Locust to play guitar, but it will turn them into Bucketheads.

Far Cry 3, Re-Imagined In Grand Theft Auto IV

This combination of mods for Grand Theft Auto IV makes the game look more or less like last December’s Far Cry 3, and this machinima shared by RyderPL completes, or at least continues, the illusion. It’s… well, let’s say the motion capture in Far Cry 3 is a touch above what GTA IV‘s game engine…

VentureBeat breaks down the story of a woman whose tweet at a conference got a guy fired, then was fired herself

The Most Incredible, Improbable Video Game Trick-Shots

Earlier this week, I was messing around with video game bows and arrows for an article I was writing on the subject. Shooting arrows, lighting stuff on fire, blowing up aliens… you know, research. One of the games I was writing about was Skyrim, and while playing, I captured the video above. Actually, I accidentally…

The release date’s in the coffee, Zach: Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut will arrive on PS3 on April 30.