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Why Didn’t You Buy a Wii U?
Did you get a Wii U over the weekend? Good for you! You go enjoy that. This question is for those, like me, who did not. I’m curious as to why you didn’t go line up and get one at launch. Are you waiting for more games? Better games? A price-drop? Different colours? Or have…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 19, 2012 -
What The Wii U Looks Like Naked
PC Perspective, the same guys who tore a couple of Wii U consoles up on launch night, did so while taking some very nice pictures at the same time. So if you’re sick of all these glossy press shots showing the outside of the Wii U, here are some glossy shots (and video) showing what…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2012 -
Don’t Lose/Break Your Wii U, Because Your Nintendo Network Account is Tied to it
In the past six years I’ve been through four Xbox 360 consoles and three PlayStation 3s. Which has been a pain, but each and every time I’ve been able to simply transfer my existing system account to the new console through the magic of the internet. You’d think that would be something Nintendo could manage…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2012 -
Guy Reckons He’s Accessed Miiverse Debug Mode by Accident, Can See Other People’s Messages
NeoGAF user Trike claims, after messing around with the Wii U’s Miiverse, that his console suddenly allowed him to access the service’s debug/admin options. As you can see in the pictures posted above and below, he appears to have access to screens that let him monitor users, reset their passwords and even delete… something (whether…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2012 -
Report: Wii U Cracked Open, System Memory and Speed Revealed
Nintendo, like many hardware manufacturers, was cagey about the final specs for the Wii U, choosing not to reveal the system’s overall memory prior to release. Now that the Wii U is out, though, it hasn’t taken long for someone to tear one apart and do the detective work themselves. The crew at PC Perspective…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2012 -
Man Accused of Hacking an MMO, Then Stealing the MMO, Then Building His Own Clone
Dutch national Anil Kheda, 24, has been indicted by US Federal authorities for hacking an online game, bringing it down, stealing its code then setting up a cloned rival. It’s alleged Kheda attacked the online PC game Outwar (a text-based browser MMO) a few years back, at first knocking it out of action for a…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012 -
Relive The Horrors of the Original Xbox Live Dashboard
Microsoft’s Larry Hryb has been digging through the archives in honour of Xbox Live’s 10th birthday, and has come up with a few dusty old relics. Above and below, you’ll find images of what the first, original Xbox Live dashboard used to look like. And you thought the current dash is bad. While it sort…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012 -
Yes, it is Off-Putting When There’s an Achievement for “Staring at a Woman’s Tits”
Rock Paper Shotgun points us towards this great video by OXM, on the subject of women in video games. It starts a little slow, but bear with it. By the time you get to Mass Effect’s “dicks in a cupboard”, you’re well on your way. I wouldn’t often say a video I post here is…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012 -
My Favourite Black Ops II Moment Was When a Hollywood Legend Gets His Dues
There are a number of Hollywood stars lending their talents to Black Ops II. Sam Worthington returns as Mason, for example. The only thing Worthington provides, though, is his voice. Others got to be in the game. You might recognise Admiral Briggs as Tony Todd, while Harper bears a resemblance to his voice actor, Michael…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012 -
Wife Leaves Game-Addicted Husband Who Spends 25 Hours a Week Playing… Second Life
No, you didn’t just wake up from a bad dream of the future and find yourself safely back in 2006. It’s still 2012, and an Australian man who still plays Second Life has seen it cost him his marriage. The 51 year-old man, who “cannot be named for legal reasons”, saw his 33 year-old wife…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012 -
Star Wars Action Figures Inducted Into the Hall of Fame. Let’s Celebrate With Awesome Pictures.
Because there is a hall of fame for everything you can put in a hall, there is of course a National Toy Hall of Fame in the United States. Which this week has inducted perhaps the most popular figures of all time into its ranks. From a rocky beginning in 1977, when not enough figures…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012 -
This Grand Theft Auto Movie Doesn’t Just Work, It’s Incredible
This is RISE, a Grand Theft Auto-inspired short film by director Gevorg Karensky. Whatever quality and budgetary limitations you might think this has because it’s “fan made”, you go right ahead and throw them out the window. If this is what Grand Theft Auto VII looks like on my ValveBox TVPC, then the future might…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012 -
Skyrim, Smooshed Into Teeny Tiny Little Planets
Drawing on some awesome photography work, Dutch artist midhras has taken three of the biggest video game worlds around—Skyrim, Fallout 3 and RAGE—and condensed them into tiny little planetoids. It’s like Super Skyrim Galaxy. You can see some here, but the whole collection is at the link below. Planetesimals [midhras, via Save Room Mini Bar]
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012 -
Your First Dragon Age 3 Screenshot is Tiny, Blurry
BioWare revealed the first screenshot for the upcoming Dragon Age III yesterday at… the Bradford Animation Festival in England. It was only shown for a few seconds, but according to this report on Eurogamer that was long enough for an attendee to grab a shot. As you can see, Dragon Age III will feature both…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2012 -
Black Ops II’s Ending Sure Was Terrible (For Me)
Stephen made a great point earlier in the week when he compared Black Ops II to, of all things, Mass Effect. The way the game is punctuated with moments that can re-shape an entire experience with a single decision is an unexpected and welcome move for a series that’s so often criticised for being little…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012 -
Over 100 Million Friendships have Been Made Over Xbox Live (And Over 200 Billion Achievement Points)
Amidst all the back-slapping and high-fiving going on at Xbox Live today, Microsoft released a statistic related to the service that I found pretty interesting. Seems that since Xbox Live’s inception in 2002, over 100 million friendships have been made. 122,265,266 at time of printing, to be exact. No word on how many friendships were…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012 -
Because Your Day Needed to Start With a Team Fortress 2 vs Godzilla Movie
Master Source Filmmaker user Zachariah Scott returns once again with an amazing piece of work, this time crossing the world of Team Fortress 2 with that of Godzilla It’s… look, I’m starting to think Zachariah Scott isn’t one man, and that he’s instead a complex computer program nestled beneath Valve headquarters, devoted entirely to designing…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012 -
Yup, the Secret Nintendo Song is in the New Animal Crossing
Kazumi Totaka, a sound designer and musician at Nintendo, is responsible for one of the sweetest traditions the company has in its arsenal: Totaka’s Song, a ditty he first composed in 1992 and which has featured in every game he’s worked on since While the song has appeared in many games, it’s perhaps best-known for…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012 -
Bring me the Head of Mass Effect’s Mordin Solus
My Mordin died a rather pathetic, and entirely unintentional death at the end of Mass Effect 2. Seeing as a little plaque on the Normandy is hardly a fitting tribute to a “man” of so many talents, I might look into this bust for a memorial instead. Priced at $40 and being sold from BioWare’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012 -
The Furious Scribblings of a Games Writer, Mid-Review
Apologies for getting a little inside baseball here, but I figured it was worth it. Games writer Taylor Cocke has started up a site called Fuck This Stupid Game, where notes taken while reviewing (or previewing) video games are displayed in blessed isolation. I’m sharing them here because I feel his pain. I’ll never say…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2012
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