Tatsunoko vs Capcom is coming to the West. Hurrah! That’s enough cause for celebration, but more corks may need to be popped if the game makes its way over with some online multiplayer. The Japanese version of the game shipped without it (you could only play against other humans on the same console). Which may…
While cosplay can often be an amateur, stinky affair, sometimes people put a little more effort into it. This gallery – of some Mirror’s Edge cosplay – is one of those times. The work of Jesse James Allen and his crew, it shows Faith (played by Yen Ryder) doing the kind of thing she does…
As we’ve seen, Capcom’s swine flu contingency plans are in full effect. Step 1 was stockpile hygeine kits. Step 2? Stop executives from travelling overseas. Mega Man creator and all-round Capcom pin-up boy Keiji Inafune was due to appear at the Nordic Game Conference in Malmö, Sweden this week. Was. Instead, his ticket has been…
Lunar: The Silver Star is getting another remake, and has been rebranded Lunar: Harmony of Silver Star. In addition to the new name, the game’s got a new look as well. These screens are, sadly, tiny, but should still give you an idea of how the updated visuals are shaping up.
They’re a passionate bunch, those Metal Gear fans. So when series creator Hideo Kojima throws up a simple flash page, you can bet they’ll go absolutely bananas. In the wake of the site being updated with a naught but a single countdown clock, the flashing of the number “5” (or the letters “S”!) and some…
It never rains J. It pours. Fresh from his honorary nod at Boston University, Dr. Allard has now been spotted as one of the inventors of a revolutionary new Microsoft “magic wand”. In a patent that surfaced last week (but was submitted in 2007), J Allard is listed as one of five inventors on an…
And you thought that it was only Team Fortress 2’s Scout that was moonlighting as a cleaning product salesman. Nun unh. The Heavy is too. And he’s just as enthusiastic.
You may have heard the term “procedurally-generated” tossed about recently when we’ve been discussing Love, or Introversion. Want to know what it means? We could tell you, but it’s easier to just watch this video. Pixel City [via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]
The North American store got a free, subsidised copy of Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic yesterday. Are Europeans and Australians so lucky? Short answer: no. They got nothing of the sort. What PAL users did get, though, is…well, not much. Our highlights (note: your highlights may differ) include Buzz! Junior: Ροpοtάκιa eν dράseι…
Man, I remember reading about this game in Edge a few years back and thinking “they will never get this to work”. And they haven’t, as The Crossing has been put on hold. The game, by Arkane Studios, promised to blend single & multiplayer gaming, by making real humans your faceless opponents in a singleplayer…
Those wanting to build their own take on the zombie apocalypse are being well looked after today, with Valve announcing an open beta for Left 4 Dead’s software development kit. If you jump to the “tools” tab in Steam, you’ll see it available for download. Contained within are “modified versions of the same tools” used…
Whether you think the new Tony Hawk skateboard controller is a disaster-in-waiting or a stroke of mould-injected genius, you’ll want to know how it works. And Tony Hawk himself has offered some clues. “The board controller is a marvel of new technology”, he says in full-blown PR mode, before continuing. “[It] responds like a real…
While tower defence games have seemingly been done to death, there’s still room for innovation in the genre. Like the kind that PopCap Games’ Plants vs Zombies provides. Plants vs Zombies is to tower defence what Nintendo’s Advance Wars is to turn-based strategy: a game stripped of everything but the raw tactical essentials, then pumped…
Excitebots is a sequel (of sorts) to Excite Truck, itself a sequel (of sorts) to Excitebike. It was published by Nintendo, on the dominant Nintendo platform. And it had SUPER SANDWICHES. So what happened? It could be that it was rubbish, but then, Mike thought it was OK. It could be that it looked boring,…
The silliest, the biggest, the baddest Wolfenstein of them all, the original Wolfenstein 3D, is due for a release over Xbox Live Arcade, a product page on the service’s website has revealed. No press releases, no bullet points touting potentially upgraded HD graphics, no mention of screen borders for the 1992 classic. Just a product…
Mmm mmmhhmmm. Who doesn’t fresh-baked love cookies? Nobody, that’s who, especially when they’re giant cookies baked in a perfect representation of Noby Noby Boy‘s space-faring Noby Noby GIRL. What makes this cookie extra-special is not the fact that baked treats are always extra-special. No, what makes it extra-extra-special is that it’s not the work of…
If your Xbox 360 is looking a little drab – and you’re not adverse to spending money on tarting it up – then hey, this new Crackdown theme might be just the thing you’re into. It’ll be available for download tomorrow, and will cost you 240 MS Points (USD$3). A ridiculous price for a theme,…
As we’ve seen, while they tried to put a brave face on, April was fairly forgettable for Microsoft and Sony. But Nintendo? Well, Nintendo have something to crow about. The DS alone sold over a million, outselling every other competitor’s console, portable and handheld, combined, with the new DSi contributing a mighty 827,000 of those…
April 2009 was down on April 2008, across the board. Cause for concern, yes? Not if you’re Microsoft, who are just pumped at the Xbox 360‘s “rate of growth” and “resilience”. The 175,000 Xbox 360s sold in April represents a drop of 7% from this time last year, leaving the company to try and focus…
With their consoles occupying the bottom three spaces on April’s hardware charts, and sales down across the board, you’d think it would be tough seeing the bright side of life for Sony. For you and me, it would be. While a drop to $99 spurred the old PS2 into life, resulting in a handy 38%…
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