Last year’s Mortal Kombat reboot was never released on console in Australia, because it exceeded the country’s MA15+ rating. Without an adults-only rating Down Under, the game couldn’t be put on shelves. With the game getting a later release on the PlayStation Vita, though, publishers Warner Bros. figured they’d try their luck and re-submit Mortal…
This is from Dan Pinchbeck, writer of PC indie story/thing Dear Esther, while giving a presentation at GDC earlier today. For reference, the full quote is below: Of all the turds in the pipe, this is the granddaddy. Games are not too expensive. If you go to the store to buy granola and accidentally buy…
While it’s unfortunate to still have to be writing this in 2012, when most games have their multiplatform houses in order, it seems that the PS3 version of Mass Effect 3 has a lot of trouble sticking to its assigned 30 frames-per-second. As a video on Eurogamer shows, while both game suffer from slowdown when…
There’s a touch of the macabre to seeing it laid out like this, I grant you, but for the most part the effect of seeing an original PlayStation and its controller stripped bare and put on display is just lovely. Things Organized Neatly [Tumblr]
It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another instalment of grown men playing competitive, mostly awful arcade classics for nothing but internet fame. In tonight’s episode, the boys are facing off on Alpine Ski, a Taito game first released all the way back in 1981. Which kicks their ass like only a senior citizen of…
Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski, speaking at a GDC panel earlier today, gives some practical advice to the fledgling developers of tomorrow. It may not mesh with the corporate views of his employers, necessarily, but it’s sound advice regardless. (Top photo by Mark Davis | Getty)
When EA first showed off the new SimCity, it didn’t show a snip of gameplay footage. It was all idealised, stylish stuff. Leaving many to wonder, hey, what does this game actually look like. Well, it looks like this! At another GDC talk, this time about the game’s Glassbox engine, Maxis show a ton of…
This. Needing an accessory for her steampunk Chell costume, DeviantArt user batman-n-bananas set about building a steampunk Portal gun. The results of which are here, and which are damn impressive. Like all the best models, it’s made of the remains of many random, strange things. Like teapots, pianos, hair gel pots, antique clocks, an old…
Sounds like “some” customers of online retailer Newegg who pre-ordered a copy of Mass Effect 3 didn’t get what they paid for. They got a game, delivered on time, only it was...Madden 12 An email sent by the outlet reads: We’re contacting you today regarding your recent purchase of the Mass Effect 3 Xbox 360…
Artist Ricky Linn has, in a fit of excitement over the release of Mass Effect 3, drawn these great little homages to the cast and crew of the Normandy. Given the art style and their original dimensions, I thought it was only fair to resize them into wallpapers. One for your desktop, the other three…
Swedish artist Johan Wahlbäck works for SouthEnd Interactive, the guys behind last year’s delightful ilomilo. But you won’t find any art for that cute little game here. What you will find are a stack of awesome pictures of men with swords, men with bigger swords and other images associated with bludgeoning and stabbing, some of…
Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson says a lot of things. Some of them interesting, others regrettable. As with most humans! This, about piracy, is one of the former. I’ve always found it interesting that it’s usually independent developers, those whose livelihoods are most closely associated with the success of their games, that are always the…
Usually, when a studio is developing a new game, it has top men working on it. Top. Men. But Ubisoft’s upcoming Rainbow 6: Patriots is a temporary exception, as four of its top men have reportedly been “removed” from the project. Not fired from the company, just removed from this game. Those men are Creative…
According to a report on CVG, a Game Developers Conference session with No More Heroes creator Goichi Suda (pictured) got a little strange yesterday when a homeless man (not pictured) joined Edge for an interview. “There were plenty of drinks flowing at the event so nobody took much notice that this second ‘journalist’ was heavily…
Sebastián Vargas has a fetish for tiny things. Tiny PlayStations, tiny Game Boys,you name it, if it’s a tiny video game console, he’s got it. These are Japanese gashapon pieces, all of them for old consoles and handhelds, all photographed wonderfully by Vargas. If you like tiny things as much as he does, check out…
If you care about the history of video games, at all, and would like to hear from one of the founding fathers of the medium (who is, remember, a total badass), then please, watch this video interview with Ralph Baer. At times it’s fascinating. Inspiring, even. There’s one point, though, where I actually teared up.…
So, after a decade working almost exclusively with Microsoft for Xbox consoles (and occasionally the PC as well), Lionhead founder Peter Molyneux has called it quits, and will soon be joining British start-up 22 Cans (or Twenty Toucans, if you prefer). It’s a sad day for Microsoft, who bought Lionhead in 2006, but as we’re…
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This is augmented reality, but not as you know it. Usually, AR in video games is a tedious gimmick, reliant on either incredibly simple, overlaid images or specially-made cards being placed in specially-designated positions. But Sony’s PlayStation Vita can now do proper, three-dimensional AR all on its own. No tricks, no cards. All it needs…
So, the upcoming Medal of Honor is still trying to say it’s authentic while showing Call of Duty-esque blockbuster moments. Some things will never change, but some things do, like a lot of the trimmings and context of this reboot’s sequel. In a nice nod to the fact video games are enjoyed by people living…
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