Valve has been keeping track of the people currently playing the beta for Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Not just who’s winning and who’s losing, but really interesting stuff, like where everyone is standing when they pull the trigger. The result of that kind of data-tracking is this glorious map (of de_train), showing exactly where players…
This new trailer for Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel, sits us down with David, an earlier model of the androids which populate later movies in the series. If you think he’s a little creepy, well, he should be! Most people remember Bishop from Aliens, the “good” robot, but man, Ash from Alien was bananas
There were 296 games released for the Nintendo 64 in North America. Which is hardly any, I know. But it’ll still seem like a lot when you sit down and watch this movie which collects footage from every single one of them. I always forget StarCraft came out on the N64. Man, those were the…
In 1980, Bally released a pinball machine called Space Invaders. It was about as shameless a rip-off as you could hope for, as despite the opportunity to lift iconic imagery from Taito’s arcade classic of the same name, it instead stole designs from Ridley Scott’s 1979 movie Alien Given that was over thirty years ago,…
Bravest Warriors is an upcoming animated series from the creator of Adventure Time, Pendleton Ward. It’s about some kids being heroes in space. It’s also got the most awesome video game system I have ever seen Yes, Adventure Time fans, more awesome than Beemo. Sorry. In this test footage from the series (so excuse the…
To celebrate the PC release of iOS smash Sword & Sworcery, there’s an “Iwata Asks” (oknotreally) about the game over on its official site. Once you’re done reading that, you may well notice the astonishing new wallpaper featured on the site. Above is a 1920×1080 version. If you want the 2048×1536 original, head to the…
Mercifully, The Legend of Zelda series has never the opportunity to be ruined by Hollywood. Perhaps in celebration of this (or maybe just because he thought it would look cool), artist Marinko Milosevski has drawn these posters. There’s one for Ocarina, one for Majora’s Mask and one for Wind Waker. And at the site below,…
DC’s line of Mass Effect figures were fine, I guess, but this upcoming batch of three toys from Square Enix, all of them based on Mass Effect 3, look much better. Available in August, the three available will be Commander Shepard (Male), Garrus (duh) and Ashley. Interestingly, Ashley’s face sculpt from the front makes her…
Your Final Fantasy VII experience begins with its haunting score, and your Tuesday is about to begin with this A cappella cover of Nobuo Uematsu’s The Shinra Corporation It should be less intimidating since it’s being performed by two dudes and not an evil corporation, but somehow, it ends up being just as oppressive. Maybe…
Part of the beauty of PSN game Journey is the fact there’s nothing to the world. There’s you, another person, some flying carpets and…something else. And that’s it! No back-story, no expanded universe, no codex Let’s imagine, though, just for a moment, that Journey was indeed weighed down with things like that. With the mundane.…
True story: in 2003, I very nearly failed a whole bunch of university courses, which in Australia is a very difficult thing to do. It wasn’t because I was drinking too much, or partying too hard. It was because of Animal Crossing The GameCube original destroyed me. Housemates would come back from a day’s hard…
Internet superstar Tom Scott (who we were only talking about a few weeks back) wanted to play some mini-golf for his birthday. So he had a course built. One incorporating elements of Minecraft, Portal and…Wheel of Fortune? There’s even one where you control a labyrinth with a Wii Remote’s nunchuk. The Portal hole is a…
Late last year, artist Erling Løken Andersen thought it would be a nice idea to set up a website for his Fallout fan art. It was lovely art, coming in the form of posters based on those found on the walls in Fallout games, and in a nice touch, Andersen even uploaded incredibly high-resolution (and…
It’s not often I come across a game I’ve never even heard of putting this feature together, but that happened yesterday with Road Prosecutor. Which means, yes, I’d never heard of its arcade original Road Blaster either. Man, I wish I had. All these years I’ve wasted without having seen this clip. So, first things…
A report on website Cult of Mac claims that, in addition to Apple’s widely-expected foray into the world of TV sets later this year, the company will also be trying its hand (again) at the video game console market. The site’s sources say that “Apple is working on a television set with an iTunes-integrated touch…
As people pretty much already guessed, the upcoming DLC for EA’s latest SSX title is retro-themed, with a “TRICKY inspired” track, throwback characters and even some old music. [SSX]
A few weeks ago I took a look at the iPhone version of classic board game Ticket to Ride. It was great, albeit practical only for a single user. The fancy new iPad edition is much better. Recently enhanced to take advantage of the latest iPad’s retina display, Ticket to Ride now uses the same…
Responding to an earlier report on website Startup Grind, which claimed between 500-1000 employees would be laid off soon, EA has said “There are no lay-offs as such, we always have projects growing and morphing”. More at the update in the original story
I mean, what’s the point? I hide in tanks to stay away from guys like this, but the more they level up, the more tools they get to pry me out and do terrible things to my corpse. Seriously, if you play Battlefield 3 – or even can appreciate a skilled player of first-person shooters…
Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, a masterpiece of both comedy and propaganda, is rightly regarded as one of the most important motion pictures ever made. Meaning it’s well worth watching in its own right. If you’re put off by all that black and white, though, maybe ease yourself in with some Team Fortress 2 machinima?…
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