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The World’s Biggest Games Show Isn’t In Germany. Not Any More.
For a few years now, Germany’s GamesCom event has boasted it’s the largest public gaming show on Earth, with attendance figures besting those of the former champion, the Tokyo Game Show. Well, both those events just got taken down a peg. At the Asia Game Show in Hong Kong last week, 472,000 people went through…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2011 -
New Zelda Toys Look Lovely
While we’re still waiting for proper, new Zelda action figures, Japan keeps getting Gashapon (capsule toy) pieces, continuing with this new line celebrating three very distinct eras of the franchise. There are six figures in all, with a Link and a Zelda from each.Ocarina of Time (the childhood characters), Phantom Hourglass (so, Wind Waker) and…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2011 -
Red Fang: Wires
Beards, pop and rock n’ roll. That’s Red Fang in a nutshell. Formed in 2005, and coming out of Portland, Oregon, Red Fang have put out two albums, and are currently signed to metal specialists Relapse. You can bang your head if you like, but what’s great about these guys is the poppy flavour running…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2011 -
Rock Band Now Has a Twenty-Minute Song
Because Rock Band’s existing library just isn’t punishing enough, Harmonix will be releasing Rush’s epic 2112 as downloadable content for the game over the next week. The thing here is that, while the song is split into seven “acts”, and available as separate tracks accordingly, if you buy the complete song pack you’ll get the…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2011 -
Man Hacks Skylanders, Gets Nasty Letter From Activision
To pass the time, hacker Brandon Wilson – who normally messes around with graphics calculators – decided a few months back he’d take a look under the hood of Activision’s Skylanders action figures, see what makes them tick. After playing around with the figure’s RFID bases, he collected his research and stored it in a…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2011 -
Sonic 4: Episode 2 is Already Changing Stuff
After a decidedly lukewarm reception to the first instalment in its planned episodic series, Sega is already wheeling out the changes for Sonic 4: Episode 2 For starters, you’ve already got a sidekick. Tails will be in the game. As for bad guys, Metal Sonic will also be in the game. Sega also says that,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2011 -
CultureGame Artists Create Their Ultimate Characters
Every year, give or take a few months, the best video game artists from around the world get together and submit entries in a competition called Dominance War. The aim is to create the ultimate character. Not replicate someone else’s, but come up with their own, then model and render it (or in some cases…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2011 -
How to Cook Your Own Grand Theft Auto Burger
Grand Theft Auto’s famous Cluckin’ Bell chain of restaurants have a mainstay menu item called the Fowl Burger. Looking like a filthy chicken burger, costing only $1 and regenerating health makes them magical. So magical it’s worth trying to prepare your own, in the real world. Website Gourmet Gaming, who we’ve featured before, have the…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2011 -
This Man is Keeping the Spirit of WipeOut’s Original Look Alive
Xander Davis is a game industry artist and graphic design fan, who after seeing the recent feature we ran on WipeOut and The Designers Republic dropped us a line. In addition to his industry stuff (he’s working on Darksiders II at the moment), Davis is setting up his own site called Alternareal, which he calls…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2011 -
These Might Have Been the 50 Most Torrented Things On the Internet In 2011
Torrent site Kat.ph has opened its databases to the download specialists at TorrentFreak, sharing with them the 50 most commonly searched terms for torrent downloads in 2011. While it’s not perfect, and doesn’t include other major Torrent indexes like Pirate Bay, it’s as good as we’re going to get, and with Kat.ph one of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2011 -
The Best Video Game Trailers Of 2011
With an onus on spectacle and selling you on a mood, instead of a stage or actual footage, video game trailers have become an artform unto themselves. That being the case, we thought we would, as usual, look back on some of the year’s best. These aren’t necessarily the trailers for the best games (though…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2011 -
Winter Is Still Coming
Winter Is Coming | Ned Stark’s second career is much safer. Available on Ript 2011, a Year In Disappointment Throughout 2011, we’ve been blessed with some extraordinary games and some memorable events. But life is not all ups. For every up there must be a down, or in this case, a downer. These are, according…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 28, 2011 -
The People (Well, Mugshots) of Skyrim
Artist Darwin Yamamoto, whose video game portraits made November just that little bit more special, has completed another set, this time specifically for the game of the minute, Skyrim In this series, each of the game’s races are represented. Some as normal citizens. Others as porn stars in plate armour. getdarwin’s Skyrim [Flickr, via Rampaged…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 28, 2011 -
The Great Nintendo Family Portrait
Artist Luis Carrasquillo sent us this amazing piece to share, which includes just about every major Nintendo hero (or hero appearing on a Nintendo console) there’s ever been. At 4000x, it’s only wallpaper for the more hardcore among you, so for everyone else, it’s like a Where’s Waldo/Wally. Only, with Marios everywhere. If you want…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 28, 2011 -
CultureSome of the Prettiest Game Trailers In the Business
Blur Studios. You may have heard of them before (like in this feature we ran on them last year), as they’re responsible for some of the biggest and best cinematic video game trailers around. So it’s cool today that we get to look at some of the work of Heikki Anttila, CG Supervisor at the…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 28, 2011 -
There’s Already an Ocean Marketing Comedy Video
Boy, the internet works fast these days. It’s barely 24 hours since the whole Paul Christoforo/Ocean Marketing thing blew up and already there’s surprisingly enjoyable comedy videos of the mess available. Warning: this is a little NSFW
By Luke Plunkett Published December 28, 2011 -
Battleduty Modernfield 3 is a Real Thing, Costs $0.99
Battleduty Modernfield 3. It’s a game, sort of, that you can play. Barely. It’s also pretty damn great. Taking the whole “trolling of copyright” thing on the iPhone to a hilarious new extreme, this parody title takes static screenshots of both Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3, overlays a crummy gun and adds some “pew…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 28, 2011 -
Man Plays Dance Dance Revolution For Over 16 Hours, Lives To Tell the Tale
While most people spent yesterday sleeping off food hangovers and trying not to do any real work, 17 year old Alexander Skudlarek from Rochester, Minnesota was getting letters from the Guinness Book of World Records confirming he now has the title for “longest video games marathon playing Dance Dance Revolution”. He actually set the record…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 28, 2011
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