The actual standalone game DayZ, not the ArmA II mod DayZ, was supposed to be out by now. It’s not, of course, and won’t be for a little while, but if you’d like an update on how it’s going, creator Dean Hall has posted this ten-minute video. A note: this is “raw, unedited…pre-alpha footage, so…
The PC version of Battlefield 4 has been either broken or down for many people all weekend long, after the game’s servers came under a denial-of-service attack A notice on Battlelog’s main page (since replaced by a PS4 server warning) read “We are currently experiencing attacks on our infrastructure that is impacting online gameplay on…
If you’re just waking up, or just joining us, the next generation is upon us. Well. Some of us. The PS4 went on sale in North America at midnight, and there’s already news. Which you can catch up on right here. The Last of Us Story DLC Is A Prequel Featuring Ellie New Uncharted Announced…
Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant just did something pretty awesome. In attendance at a Dallas Best Buy store for a PS4 midnight launch, the NFL star walked up and bought five consoles for those waiting in line. So, you know, if you too live in an area with an NFL team, keep your eyes peeled.…
It’s OK, Crusader Kings IIisn’t for everyone. I get that. But I’d like to think we can all at least find common ground and enjoy the game’s patch notes, which continue to be the very best Having earlier fixed such glaring errorsas “If married, women now fool their husbands about the parentage of children born…
A Roomba in the Austrian village of Hinterstoder has, according to its owner, woken up from being powered down and hurled itself upon a working stovetop, incinerating the device and leaving naught but a pile of ashes behind. Helmut Kniewasser, one of the firefighters attending the blaze, has the story (courtesy of the Daily Mail).…
The guys at Bluraren’t the only studio making top-shelf commercials for the video game business. The team at visual effects outfit The Mill have worked on loads of them as well, including some of this year’s best and most prominent. The video below is the studio’s showreel for the year, and while it contains footage…
Picture this as a very intimate cage-fight, or an even more intimate snuggle between colleagues. Up to you. German site PCGames has gotten hold of both an Xbox One and a PS4, and doing what the internet wants them to do, put them next to each other. And on top of each other. There’s a…
Don’t go overclocking this LEGO graphics card. It’ll melt into a puddle of rainbow goop. Builder Nick V even made an accompanying specs sheet for it: >>PowerBuild CRLMRM IRON HD 1640 9IB 64-bit HNSL DVD Extreme x32 HD Ready ABS Support Video Card Get ready for the latest development in plastic-based video card technology! The…
Kevin Aymeric works at Japanese anime powerhouse Production IG, but prior to that he helped out on Ubisoft’s gorgeous Rayman Legends. He got the OK from the publisher to release his artwork from the game earlier in the week, and wondered if we’d like to share it. Um. Yes Kevin is just one of the…
I never grew out of that childhood thing where giant vehicles are just the best. So when I saw images of this thing today, I nearly lost it. On Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be destroying over six tonnes of ivory goods, seized over the years in violation of an illegal trade.…
Last year’s version of divorce simulator Football Manager contained an interesting hidden secret: there was code inside that let the developers track the IP of everybody who pirated a copy of the game. Speaking at the London Games Conference, attended by MCV, the results the developers disclosed are fascinating. Over ten million copies were passed…
Microsoft’s Larry Hryb has posted a short clipshowcasing how long it takes an Xbox One to boot up from a Kinect voice command. I timed it at 13.3 seconds. That’s going from the moment he stops talking to the point where the dashboard pops up ready for user input, which seems to me the most…
You can’t judge a game by its cover. You can, however, judge a game cover by its cover. With the growing importance of digital sales and preorders, what’s actually on the front of a game box is in many ways becoming less important than it once was, since it’s not the main thing driving sales,…
Epoch was a really good shooter for the iPhone (and, later, other platforms). Well, it’s now got a sequel, and it’s availableon the App Store.
Poöf is a game that’s a little bit platformer, a little bit tower defence. The whole thing held together with mountains of golden dog shit. As you can see in the video above, one of the quirks of the game is that the dog you’re controlling can take a dump, which acts as a barrier…
You know mobile game Temple Run? Dude runs in a straight line forever, jumping over stuff, sometimes moving sideways. That, people, is enough to get a game a major Hollywood movie deal. Well, that and millions of dollars in sales. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gravity producer David Heyman – who also produced all the…
Strike Vector, you just keep on looking better and better each time I see you.
Titus Lunter is a concept artist who has worked for clients like Sony (Killzone), Ubisoft, Wizards of the Coast and Rebellion. You can see more of his work at his personal site (thanks Suzanne!) To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper),…
The new PlayStation app, which unlike the last one actually does a ton of cool stuff, is now live on the App and Google Play stores.
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