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Here’s Dishonored’s Swashbuckling New Trailer
I’m not normally one for excitement over games, but whenever I see the world artist Viktor Antonov (Half-Life 2) has helped create for this game, I can’t help it. Especially since I’m a sucker for a good sea shanty. Bethesda and Arkane’s shooter will be out on PC, 360 and PS3 on October 9.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2012 -
What a Real Fallout Town Would Look Like
The style of the Fallout universe is dictated by two things: the fact it’s an apocalyptic wasteland and the way it pays destructive homage to 1950s Americana. Fallout fans might want to take a look at this brilliant gallery, then, because it shows what an actual 1950s American town would have looked like if it…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2012 -
I’ve Been Playing the Bastard Son of Minecraft and Halo
StarForge is quite the thing. Fire it up and you think it’s a shooter. Run around and you find there’s nothing to shoot. Go to switch weapons and…oh. Oh See, StarForge isn’t really a shooter. It’s a shooting sandbox. You’re dropped in a randomly-generated world with not just a gun, but an invisible space shovel…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallUnboxing an Atari Computer From 1983
Continuing my dust-covered crusade against modern unboxings, here’s another vintage unboxing, in which an Atari 800XL from 1983 is transferred lovingly from the packaging to the outside world. The 800XL was essentially a cheaper and nastier version of the Atari 800, albeit with fancier packaging. It couldn’t even run some Atari 800 programs natively, requiring…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallThis Man Stole $318,000 From Namco Before the Cops Caught Him
In 1985, Namco America employee Steven Drake was arrested by police and found with $32,000 cash on him, with even more hidden in the trunk of a car parked at San Francisco airport. Turns out he’d been buying up gold coins from South Africa and Canada using Namco’s money. The scoundrel. In total, Drake siphoned…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
Get an Early Look at the E3 Showroom Floor
E3 doesn’t kick off until next week, but already teams of workers are hard at it, putting up all the flashy booths and stalls and screens that beam three days’ worth of unrelenting video game marketing to your computers and attendee’s eyeballs. Some NeoGAF members are sharing pics of the showroom floor under construction, as…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
DOTA 2 Will be Free, But You Can Buy Hats
It’s been sort of known for a while now, but today Valve came out and specifically stated that DOTA 2 will be free-to-play. And just like Team Fortress 2 these days, the company will make its money back not from game sales, but from hats. There’ll be a DOTA 2 Store available at launch (actually,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
Looks Like the Next Big Star Wars Game Stars Boba Fett
The same GameTrailers spill that leaked the announcement of a Castlevania Lords of Shadow sequel also mentions a new Star Wars game called 1313 As we expected when a site was trademarked by Lucasarts, 1313 strongly suggests this is a Boba Fett game, since Boba’s use of the CT-1313 is about the only significant time…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
Castlevania Lords of Shadow Gets a Sequel
Konami’s Castlevania reboot (of sorts), Lords of Shadow, will be getting the sequel treatment, a slip-up on GameTrailers has revealed. An episode summary for tonight’s show, which will also feature the debut of stuff we already knew about (like a new Star Wars game), mentions Lords of Shadow 2 as one of the titles getting…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
First Dead Space 3 Screenshots Stand Shoulder to Shoulder
These images “leaked” by All Games Beta supposedly give us our first proper look at the upcoming Dead Space 3, ahead of a more official outing over the coming days. They depict a pair (I’d say one of them is Isaac Clarke but his face is so everyman I can’t be sure) engaging in some…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
Whatever You do, Don’t Buy Counter-Strike on the iPhone
Just in case you weren’t put off by the lack of any kind of mention of Valve Software, advance warning of the game’s arrival or the complaints demanding their money back, if you see a game called Counter Strike on the App Store, don’t spend $2 on it. Unless you enjoy being ripped off by…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
Dear Santa, Please Send me This Ikaruga Model, Thanks, From Luke
Japanese collectible company Kotobukiya will soon be releasing this small, 6″ version of Ikaruga’s Hitekki Genkei fighter. It’s a model kit in the truest sense of the word: while it comes pre-painted, it also comes entirely disassembled, meaning you not only have to put its 200 pieces together by hand, but glue most of them…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
Play a Game as a Medieval Islamic Ruler. For Once.
Given the fact most big games are made by Westerners for Westerners, we don’t often get the chance to assume the role of a serious, proper Islamic (or even Middle Eastern!) character. And no, Ubisoft, a fairy-tale, clichéd ideal of a Persian Prince doesn’t count. So it’s awesome seeing Paradox give Crusader Kings II players…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
Culture
Beautiful Video Game Art, All the Way From China
Tonight, we’re checking out the portfolio of Chinese artist Ming zhu Yang, who works for Gameloft’s pre-production studio Redsteam. Specialising mostly in character art, you can see more of her stuff at her personal site. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or so you can save them as wallpaper), right-click on them…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
Find Your Way Around DayZ With This Real, Paper Map
One of the things that makes zombie survival sim DayZ so difficult is that players start the game without a map. Even later on, getting hold of one can be tough. Without a map, you can’t see where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, you have trouble finding other survivors. Sure,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
Meet the Best Halo Figure I’ve Ever Seen, and it was Made by Magic
Well, it was made by a 3D printer, but I refuse to call them “machines”. If you can put materials into something, press a button and out the other end comes entire things, that to me is magic. Dark magic. This Halo figure is being shown off on the webpage of the Objet Connex500, a…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallA Fascinating Look at the Factories Where Old Video Games Were Made
Mommy, where do video games come from? They come from factories, dear, factories like these, from the 1980s. This awesome video shows the factory floor at companies such as Midway, Atari and Taito, where vintage arcade classics like Pac-Man were put together, while also giving us a glimpse behind the scenes of Nintendo circa 1988.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
Sony Thought About Making the PS4 a Download-Only Console
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sony “considered but ultimately rejected” plans to make its next home console – code-named Orbis – a download-only device. The fact it even thought about such a move shows not only how far digital delivery has come in the six years since the PS3 first launched, but also shows…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012 -
CultureTotal Recall
All I Ever Wanted, Konami, Was a Little Congraturations
It’s perhaps not as famous as other hatchet jobs on the English language perpetrated by Japanese developers in the 1980s, but it’s one of my favourites nonetheless. This is from the MSX version of Salamander, which you may know as Life Force, a shmup first released in 1986. He just…he just doesn’t look that happy…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012
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