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CultureTotal RecallGeorge Washington & Ben Franklin, as Seen by Video Games in 1993
Two of America’s founding fathers, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, will be starring in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III. It’s not, you know, their first time in a video game. They’ve been in plenty, some serious, some less so, but my favourite in both cases is 1993 adventure game classic Day of the Tentacle, in…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012 -
Culture
How to Look Like C-3PO. Or Mark Hamill. Or a Stormtrooper.
Collector Jason Liebig has uploaded six of the greatest Flickr images you’re likely to ever see: cereal box scans that include giant masks for some of the main characters from Star Wars From a Canadian cereal cash-in (the cereal itself branded C-3POs) dating all the way back to 1984, there were six in all, for…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012 -
CultureTotal Recall
Science Proves Old Video Games Were Super Hard
Sitting down with a bunch of old games in the Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon and Metroid franchises, Belgian scientists have proven beyond all doubt that those games are way hard. To showcase their work, they’ve written a scientific paper outlining their findings. Greg Aloupis from the Free University of Brussels…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012 -
Total Recall Starts Now!
Let’s go back in time. To the 90s. Maybe even the 80s, if we’ve got the juice.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012 -
Why Mass Effect 3’s Ending Was So Damn Terrible
There’s an almost universal outrage at the moment over the ending of Mass Effect 3. After playing a series for what’s usually over 100 hours, people are very upset at the manner in which the trilogy wound down. And they have every right to be. But not for the reasons I see so many putting…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012 -
My, Shepard, How You’ve…Changed
Reader Sgt.LulzJager has kept the same female Commander Shepard model across all three Mass Effect games. That’s a lot of time spent with the same character. So it didn’t take long for him to notice something different about her in Mass Effect 3 Beside a few tweaks to her face, he didn’t make any changes…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012 -
The Witcher Developers Abandon DRM Forever
The developers behind The Witcher series are done with DRM for its PC games. Seriously. It says that no game the company releases going forward will have any kind of DRM whatsoever. “Every subsequent game we [release] will never use any DRM anymore, it’s just over-complicating things,” CD Projekt Red CEO Marcin Iwinski said during…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012 -
Magic Card Freakouts are the Best Kind of Freakouts
Internet comedian Francis, who by now has his nerd shtick almost perfected, leaves his webcam and bedroom behind and takes to the streets for a Magic Card tournament. Before you ask, yes, there’s a gif available. Buzzfeed is one step ahead of you on that one Francis Plays Magic the Gathering [YouTube, via BuzzFeed]
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012 -
First Look at Art From the Mass Effect Animated Film
In addition to a Dragon Age anime, EA and BioWare also have a Mass Effect anime in the pipeline. It’s been pretty low-key until now, but at SXSW we’ve finally got our first look at the project. Sadly, it’s not a trailer, or even finalised art, but what we do have is concept art for…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012 -
There was a Portal Gag in Tonight’s Simpsons Episode
The Simpsons in 2012 is a largely irrelevant force. Still, from time to time it at least tries to appear relevant. Which is why, in tonight’s episode, there’s a fairly obvious Portal reference. While Portal 2 came out almost a year ago, these shows aren’t exactly made overnight, so I guess this is timely? It’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012 -
The Many Unused and Unseen Faces of FemShep
Before the default female Commander Shepard received her very public and slightly drastic makeover, artists had to come up with a ton of ideas on just what she could/would look like. While those designs were eventually whittled down to six, which were voted on by fans, artist Jason Chan (who we’ve featured on Fine Art…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012 -
Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kicks Pac-Man in the Face
If you play Pac-Man by running around controlling a yellow blob eating pellets and either chasing or running away from ghosts, you’re doing things the hard way. Chuck Norris doesn’t do things the hard way. He does them the Chuck Norris way. Y esto pasaría si chuk fuera pacman…[Random Weas!, via Gamefreaks]
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012 -
You Can’t Look Forward to Mass Effect Blowjobs, Apparently
This is an excerpt from the official livefeed last week of the line outside a GameStop in Los Angeles. All these guys are waiting for Mass Effect 3 One of those guys is Harley Morenstein, star of Epic Meal Time. Harley is understandably excited at the possibilities inherent in a BioWare game. Less excited is…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2012 -
First Angry Birds Space Gameplay Footage
Here’s an entire level of the upcoming Angry Birds sequel, Angry Birds Space. No promo music, no fast cuts, just some unedited, proper gameplay footage. That name about sums it up. Shame they couldn’t call it Pigs in Space instead.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2012 -
Kotaku East
Two of the Rarest, and Coolest, 3DS Handhelds Around
These aren’t just glossy white 3DS units. They are, for Metal Gear fans, two of the coolest pieces of merchandise they will ever lay their eyes upon. Those sketches were drawn directly onto the handhelds by long-time series artist Yoji Shinkawa. The signature on the right? It’s the John Hancock of series creator and boss…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012 -
It’s Like a Multiplayer Shooter, Only Set in the 15th Century
This is the first proper trailer for War of the Roses, a multiplayer combat game from Fatshark and Paradox. Come for the bows and medieval countryside, stay for the man who gets stabbed in the head not once, not twice, but thrice. It’s due on the PC later this year.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012 -
WoW’s Lich King is “Only” 19″ Tall in the Real World
In October, Sideshow will be releasing this enormous statue of World of Warcraft’s Arthas, better known to everyone who doesn’t play World of Warcraft as The Lich King. Standing 19″ tall and weighing twenty pounds, he’ll cost you $350 and should be available at your favourite comic store or online retailer.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012 -
Culture
Fable’s Concept Art is Like a Giant Storybook
Emrah Elmasli is a Turkish concept artist who now resides in the UK, where he’s done a ton of concept art for the last few games in the Fable series. Here’s a selection of his contributions, mostly taken from Fable III I’ve also thrown a few more in from some of Elmasli’s other work, for…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012
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