The history of video games. Let’s not look back in anger, OK?
With Fuss Cupcakes in the news today, having been contracted to bake then send 400 cupcakes to Mass Effect 3 developers BioWare, one man sat down with the company’s wares to try them out. The final verdict? “It was pretty damn delicious”. Take that, BioWare! Just how good are the Mass Effect 3 protest cupcakes?…
Over the past few weeks, hackers from Wololo.net claimed to have exploited code found in two downloadable PSP games, allowing for the playing of homebrew games on the system. Those two PSP games were Everybody’s Tennis and MotorStorm: Arctic Edge, the latter of which was shown off with a hacker playing the PC version of…
The Department of the Navy is looking very closely at used video game consoles. Only, they don’t want to play them. They want to crack them open and steal all the information on overseas users they can get their hands on. To that end, the Department has contracted a company called Obscure Technologies to go…
If our gripping gameplay footage of the title from last year’s Gamescom wasn’t enough, here’s an advertisement for the upcoming Farming Simulator 2012 for the Nintendo 3DS. Not that I looked that closely at the pic, but it does creep me out a little that his red underpants seem to be Photoshopped on. UPDATE –…
Video games are meant to be fun. Social networks are supposed to bring us together with friends. Sadly, not everything goes according to plan. Screenshots of Despair exists to catalogue the more depressing side of the modern internet: empty friends lists, nobody sharing anything, the fact you have won absolutely nothing Click through for a…
In the late 1980s, a line of bootleg Star Wars figures was released in Turkey called Uzay. What’s so great about these figures isn’t the fact they’re horrible copies of the originals because, given the time, the toys themselves weren’t that bad. What makes them so great is the packaging. It’s just bananas. The Imperial…
Prop-builder and artist Ryan Palser, whose Portal turret wowed the internet last year, returns with a replica Gears of War weapon so real you’d think you could play a minigame just to reload it quicker. It’s a Digger Launcher from the third game in the series, and Palser worked on it alongside his wife Dena.…
In over fifteen years working as an artist in the video game industry, Joseph Sanabria has been in the employ of companies like Obsidian, THQ and Rockstar. For those developers, he’s produced art for games such as Terminator 3 and, awesomely, the Neverhood series. Most recently, he served as art director for Fallout: New Vegas,…
While Nintendo has yet to release the full specs for its upcoming Wii U, you can guess by its launch lineup that its capabilities are probably in line with the Xbox 360 and PS3, something Vigil Games are now backing up. “So far the [Wii U] hardware’s been on par with what we have with…
Part of me wishes they still made video game commercials like this. Less sanitised cinematics, more FUCK YOU COMPETING COMPANY. It’s childish and brash, sure, but also a lot more fun.
3D artist Toni Bratincevic goes back to the early 1990s and absolutely nails it. Or, he nails it if you were playing Amiga or PC games at the time, anyway.
If you’ve never seen 1979’s Starcrash, boy are you missing out. It’s basically a collection of awful special effects, Flash Gordon-style pulp science fiction and a lot of attractive women in small bikinis and thigh-high boots. Of all the bad Star Wars clones that emerged in the wake of George Lucas’ classic, this was one…
The Revolutionary War setting of Assassin’s Creed III means that, tricorn hats aside, there’s little tying the game to another of people’s favourite historical periods, the age of pirates. That hasn’t stopped Ubisoft from bringing the two together anyway. Announcing the game’s fancy collector’s editions, curiously available in Europe, Australasia, Asia and the Middle East,…
At EVE Online’s recent FanFest gathering, a panel got real unsavoury real fast when senior EVE players began not only mocking another player reportedly displaying suicidal tendencies, but encouraged others to do the same. During a panel last Thursday, one moderated by a CCP employee (the developers of the game), a presentation/Q&A gets awkward when…
I am not Michael Fahey. I do not understand the appeal for grown men of My Little Pony, a franchise my little sister thought was rubbish when she was nine If you are Michael Fahey, though, you may go bananas for this custom My Little Pony Xbox 360, with hand-etched plexiglass, paint scheme and fancy…
Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is taking the old zombie stereotype in a different direction, substituting hordes of ravenous flesh-eaters for…a global population that’s been infected by some kind of fungus and now looks really gross. While we’ve seen the monsters before, this statue of one was posted on Twitter over the weekend by…
This piece by artist Maskull Lasserre takes the impending demise of the printed computer manual quite literally, pressing a number of old pieces together and then carving a skull out of it. Morbid, but also quite lovely. [Maskull Lasserre, via Boing Boing]
Nerfenstein – more boringly known as Aesthetic Nerf Mods Australia – takes regular old Nerf guns and, with a little customisation and paint work, turns them into replica weapons based on those found in video games, movies and comic books. Replica weapons you can shoot a kid in the face with and not feel that…
As bizarre as it seems to be thinking of a proper Assassin’s Creed game appearing on a Nintendo console, it’s going to happen later this year when Assassin’s Creed III is released on the Wii U. Leading many people to wonder, how’s it going to take advantage of the console’s unique control pad? The latest…
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