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The Future Meets The Past: Playing N64 Games In Virtual Reality
Reader Chris, who was kind enough to share with us some footage of Skyrim running on the Oculus Rift, has been kind enough to humanity to build Nintendo 64 game support for the virtual reality headset. He’ll be opening a beta in July, but for now, check out some footage of N64 games like Goldeneye,…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2013 -
Red Dead Redemption Movie Is Looking Just About Perfect
A group of fans are putting a Red Dead Redemption movie together, and smartly, they’re not doing the obvious. They’re instead drinking from the same inspirational well as the series’ developers (especially from the first Red Dead), combining a love for Spaghetti Westerns and a bit of the old ultra-violence into something that’s as much…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2013 -
The History, And Evolution, Of The Star Wars Logo
It’s one of the most iconic logos in all of pop culture, right up there with – ahem – Disney’s branding, but for the longest time, Star Wars enjoyed a mish-mash of logos and title fonts, a mess that, believe it or not, wasn’t locked down by Lucasfilm until the last minute. Changing names from…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2013 -
Screw Racing, This Driving Game Is About Getting Stuck In The Mud
One of the best things about driving games on the PC is that they’re not all about racing sports cars. There’s stuff like Euro Truck Simulator. And now this, Spintires, which is basically a game about trying to keep trucks on the road on some of the world’s worst roads. It’s a hardcore all-terrain simulation,…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2013 -
For $900,000, They Want To Build A Crysis Suit For FPS Gamers
This is far from the first idea for force feedback clothing we’ve seen over the years, but it is the most ambitious. What you’re looking at here is the ARAIG Exoskeleton (As Real As It Gets). It’s made up of three layers (a hardware decoder, undersuit and exoskeleton), and is designed to accurately provide feedback…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2013 -
A Sports Game Metal Gear Fans Should Keep An Eye On
This brief, teasing video is for Konami’s upcoming Pro Evolution Soccer 2014. It’s a bigger deal than this clip is making it out to be, though, as it’s going to be the very first game released on the publisher’s new Fox Engine. The same thing that’ll be powering the upcoming Metal Gear games (though Pro…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2013 -
The World’s Most Boring Viking Game Is A Blast
There’s a point, maybe around an hour in, where you might feel a little disappointed with The Old Gods, a new Viking expansion for epic strategy game Crusader Kings II that was released this week. When you think Vikings, you think looting, pillaging, beards, fire, axes, mayhem. Yet this expansion delivers almost none of that.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2013 -
Culture
Blurring The Lines Between Video Game Concept Art & Cosplay
Justin Murray, a concept artist who worked on Injustice: Gods Among Us, sent us some pics of his contribution to the game. But he didn’t just send the art. He brought it to life. With cosplay. Teaming up with his girlfriend Jia Jem, Murray went down to the same Chicago locations they shot scenes from…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2013 -
When A Star Wars Hotline Broke AT&T
If you suffer under the yoke of AT&T, and enjoy tales of their suffering, this will cheer you up: back when Empire Strikes Back launched, an automated call-in line designed to market the movie broke part of the network. How? This was 1980, and the technology for that sort of stuff just wasn’t there yet.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2013 -
Darksiders III Sounded Great. Pity It’ll Never Happen.
The Darksiders series isn’t really dead. Nordic games owns it, and will presumably do something with it. But the series as we knew it, developed by Vigil Games, may as well have died earlier this year when Vigil went off and joined Crytek and left Darksiders behind, where no major publisher on Earth wanted anything…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2013 -
Why The Xbox One Is The “Blackest Black” A Black Can Be
The Xbox One is not just black. It is “liquid black”. There’s an element of marketing fluff behind this, of course, and the console’s design team are not short on marketing fluff, but behind all that, there’s some interesting reasons for the decision. No, really. Here’s an excerpt from a design piece on Microsoft’s new…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2013 -
EA’s Getting Rid Of All Online Passes, Not Just For New Games
Earlier this month, publisher EAmade the decision to stop offering controversial “online passes” with its upcoming games. It’s now getting rid of them for its older games, too. A new FAQ on EA’s site explains the move, saying “we are in the process of eliminating Online Pass requirements from existing EA games. This process will…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2013 -
The Story Of An Indie Game’s Life (And Impending Demise) On Steam
There are literally thousands of games on Valve’s Steam service, and a growing number are small, independent titles. You’ve probably never even heard of many of them, but for the tiny teams (or sometimes individuals) behind them, their success or failure can be literally life-changing. Take Lunar Flight, for example. The game, developed solely by…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2013 -
Even If You Hate Angry Birds, You Gotta Admit These Toys Are Great
Hasbro will be selling this bulk pack of Angry Birds action figures as a Comic-Con exclusive. On 364 days of the year, I would rather drink poison than buy Angry Birds action figures, but boy, roping vintage Star Wars packaging into the mix sure does change things. While they’re technically individual figures, they’ll be sold…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2013 -
Zombie Game Commercial Banned For Showing Suicide
Get a good look at that clip up top, Australians, because you won’t be seeing it on your TV screens ever again. Following complaints from members of the public, Australia’s Advertising Standards Board has banned the advertisement for Dead Island: Riptide, mostly on the grounds that it uses “images which are strongly suggestive of suicide”.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2013 -
Hey, The Oculus Rift Can Be Used For Movies, Too
Let’s not pretend the Oculus Rift is just for games, people! There are a ton of other uses for the pioneering virtual reality headset. Like this one, which lets you virtually watch a movie. At the cinema. Which isn’t as stupid as it sounds. The easy way out would just be to play a movie…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2013 -
There Are Tributes, Then There’s This Ghostbusters Minecraft Tribute
I know, I’m as over the “something made out of Minecraft” videos as you probably are, but this one’s a little different. It’s a Ghostbusters rollercoaster ride. Just…watch it. Railbusters – A Minecraft Roller Coaster [YouTube, via Kotaku AU]
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2013 -
Culture
When A Spartan Meets A Wildling
Jan Ditlev Christensen is a Danish concept artist who works at IO Interactive, the developers behind games like the Hitman series. Prior to that, he worked at Deadline, where he worked on games like the Watchmen prequel and the cancelled Faith & A .45 You can see more of Jan’s work at his personal site…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2013 -
Remake Of 1995 Game Remakes 1995 Box Art
There are “remakes” of classic old games that throw out what’s often the most nostalgic part: the box art. Then there is Rise of the Triad. The 2013 remake of the cult PC shooter from 1995 might be making radical changes to the game itself, but it’s stayed faithful to the iconic cover art, copying…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2013
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