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Total Recall Starts Now!
The history of video games. Let’s not look back in anger, OK?
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
Culture
A Review of Mass Effect 3’s Cupcakes
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?…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
Sony Killing PSP Games to Prevent Vita Piracy?
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
The US Military Wants to Hack Foreign Game Consoles, Steal User’s Information
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
Nearly-Nude Men are Selling Nintendo 3DS Games
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 –…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
The Saddest, Loneliest Screenshots in the World
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
Batshit Crazy Fake Star Wars Figures are Cooler Than Real Ones
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
This Gears of War Gun is Terrifyingly Real
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.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
Culture
Fallout: New Vegas Isn’t as Dangerous on Paper
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,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
Wii U “On Par” With 360, PS3 (So Far) Says Darksiders Developer
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Star Warsploitation Film That Deserved a Crummy Atari Game
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2012 -
There are Pirates in Assassin’s Creed III (Well, Sort of)
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,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2012 -
Reportedly Suicidal Player Laughed at, Then Trolled at EVE Online Gathering [Update]
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2012 -
A My Little Pony Xbox 360. Just in Case you Needed One.
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2012 -
Argh, the Bad Guys in The Last of Us Look Just Horrible
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2012 -
The Art of the Death of the Manual
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]
By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2012 -
Awesome Lady Turns Nerf Guns into Video Game Guns
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2012 -
How Assassin’s Creed III Will Work on the Wii U
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 26, 2012
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