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Watch Mass Effect 3’s Different Endings, See What all the Fuss is About
OK, just in case this needs spelling out, this will contain ENORMOUS SPOILERS. It’s essentially all spoilers. But if you’ve already finished the game, or more importantly have not, will not and still want to see what all the ruckus has been about, read on! This isn’t a definitive guide on how to achieve them.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2012 -
Genius Turns Job Application Into Lucasarts Adventure Game
German Marius Fietzek wants a job at Tim Schafer’s Double Fine, who are getting to work on a brand new graphic adventure game. To apply, he didn’t just send in a letter. He made a video game. Fietzek’s effort, done almost perfectly in the style of an old Lucasarts adventure game (ie where Schafer and…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallIn Which Jennifer Aniston & Matthew Perry Teach us About Windows 95
An oldie, to be sure, even by this feature’s standards, but still a fun watch. Especially when you notice it was put together by GT Interactive, the company which would later try to pass itself off as Atari
By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallThere is a Fighting Game Based on Les Misérables
Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel Les Misérables is a literary giant. You’re probably also familiar with its long-running theatrical adaptation, which has been treading the boards for over thirty years now. But have you ever played the Les Misérables video game? You really should. Especially since it’s a 2D fighting game. The game is called Arm…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2012 -
Total Recall Starts Now!
For the next hour, we’re looking at the history of video games.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2012 -
Oh God, a Kanye West Video Game
Kanye Zone may look, play and sound like a cheap flash HTML5 game, and…well, it is. That doesn’t stop it being a perversely addictive thing. I don’t even like the guy’s music, but then, maybe that’s the genius behind it. The aim of the game is to stop Kanye getting into his zone. Keep him…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2012 -
This Weekend, Play Star Wars: The Old Republic For Free
BioWare’s galactic MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic normally costs money to play, but not this weekend. And by “weekend” I actually mean Thursday through Monday, because as EA rightly assumes, if you can’t afford a subscription, you might not be doing much on Friday anyways. Beginning Thursday, March 15 at 12:01AM CT and running…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2012 -
Mass Effect 3’s Director Didn’t Want you to Forget the Game’s Ending
Casey Hudson, the Director and Executive Producer of Mass Effect 3, has spoken with Digital Trends about the game’s controversial ending sequences, and how it was BioWare’s intent all along to “polarise reaction”. “I didn’t want the game to be forgettable, and even right down to the sort of polarizing reaction that the ends have…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2012 -
Charitable Donations Don’t Give you the Right to Ask For Changes to Mass Effect 3 [Update]
Note: This post contains mild spoilers There is a group of people on the internet asking for changes be made to the way Mass Effect 3 ended. They are serious. They are so serious, in fact, that they’ve attached themselves to the Child’s Play charity in the hope this makes them appear less “angry or…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2012 -
There are “No Plans” for More Sonic Episodes
Sonic the Hedgehog’s dalliance with episodic gaming seems to have been a bit of a dud, with Sega revealing that after Episode 2 ships the publisher has no plans for more episodes. In an interview with Digital Spy, Sonic Team boss Takashi Iizuka said “We are looking forward to hearing the feedback from the users…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2012 -
When is a Video Game Not a Video Game?
Games designer, author and all-round very smart man Raph Koster has written a rather interesting piece on his personal site laying down some framework for just when you can call something a video game (or a game in general) and when you can’t. Spurred on by the likes of Dear Esther, which I thought was…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallHell is a Dennis Hopper Video Game
Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller was a PC adventure game released in 1994. It’s OK if you’ve never heard of it, or can’t remember it. Actually, no, it’s not OK. Because you really should know as much as you can about a video game that didn’t just star Dennis Hopper, but Grace Jones as well. Hell,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012 -
Double Fine’s Adventure Game Will Have the Longest Credits Sequence of All Time
If you even thought about giving money to Double Fine’s Kickstarter project for a new adventure game, you’d have seen that the minimum contribution to get a reward was $15. That got you a copy of the game when released, so it wasn’t a bad deal. Here’s where it gets cool, though; while the $15…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012 -
Bomberman, the Team Fortress 2 Edition
A pair of Team Fortress 2 modders have taken the game’s bones, a bunch of angry Scottish men and the classic Hudson game Bomberman and turned it into something wonderful Their TF2 mod, called TF2 Bomberman, keeps the original game’s core principles of bombs and a maze while putting you in control of Team Fortress…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012 -
An Enormous, Amazing Monkey Island Tattoo
Reader Jonathan Hansen, who we actually featured a couple of years ago for his awesome “classic” art, thought we’d be interested in seeing his new Monkey Island tattoo. Given the scale and the subject matter, you’re damn right we’re interested. This flesh-based epic took over three years and fifty hours in the chair to complete.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012 -
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This Wonderful Mass Effect 3 Art is Full of GIANT SPOILERS
Matt Rhodes is one of my favourite concept artists in the business. Why? Because his style, using bright, colourful cartoon characters for games that are often very dark and serious in tone, is a breath of fresh air in an industry where a lot of art ends up looking exactly the same. We’ve featured his…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012 -
It’s Insane How Many People Read Gaming Wiki Pages Every Month
Signalling just how radically the way we read and learn about video games has changed over the past decade, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales now says he has the world’s biggest network of gaming sites on the internet. Which is a bit of a stretch; unlike his commercial rivals, Wales’ Wikia system for games – which…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012 -
There Won’t Ever be Another Mojang Game Called Scrolls
While Minecraft developers Mojang have put a legal dispute with Elder Scrolls publishers Bethesda (well, Bethesda’s parent company Zenimax) to bed, the settlement has come at a slight cost: there won’t ever be another Mojang game called Scrolls The terms of the settlement mean that the trademark Mojang has for the game won’t cover any…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012
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