Ever since the release of Microsoft’s new dashboard the other week, some unlucky users have been unable to get their consoles back online, something the company is promising to “resolve … as soon as possible”. “We have recently identified an Xbox Live profile data error that results in Error Code ‘801540B7’ for a small number…
Japanese publisher Capcom will next year open a bar in Tokyo’s bustling Shinjuku. It’ll be a sort of cultural and public relations outpost for the company (which is actually based in Osaka), as alongside food and drinks based off Capcom properties it’ll also host public events. The bar, which is called…Capcom Bar, opens on January…
In the pouring rain on April 11, 1993, Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna raced into history with one of the greatest performances of his career. In treacherous conditions, he held off a spirited challenge from arch-rival Alain Prost to take a famous victory, one of the last he would savour before his tragic death…
Custom LEGO builder Brandon Bannerman doesn’t wait for due process to take its course, he makes his own damn LEGO. And this week he’s made this wonderful little Gordon Freeman. It’d look great with that last set of Half-Life LEGO we saw, give those Combine someone to chase after. You can check out more pics…
To celebrate the launch of video game Star Wars: The Old Republic, publishers EA flew teams of Jedi and Sith into New York City’s Times Square to face off. Then they shipped (or paid the subway fare?) for a whole bunch more. The pace of the action is a little…slower than we’re used to in…
Developer Trion Worlds has sent emails out to its subscribers warning them that accounts for its MMO Rift – which some people think is a damn fine game – have been compromised by “unauthorized intruders”. While Trion says that “there is no evidence, and we have no reason to believe, that full credit card information…
Red vs Blue | Belgian artist Olivier Couston tackles both sides of Team Fortress 2’s Pyro Networking: How a Shooter Shoots I’m going to lean out of the window here and share some knowledge I gathered about a very complex topic I had no idea about a few months ago. Why am I doing that?…
The latest Humble Indie Bundle, which offers farcical bang-for-buck, has been for many a great way to get a load of great games for a reasonable price. Sadly, for others, it’s been a way to try and scam a very lucrative competition. Right now, Steam is running a frequent competition whereby it “raffles” off free…
You know why the PlayStation took off in the mid-90s? Because it was cool. And nothing on the PlayStation was cooler than WipeOut The futuristic racing series, created by Psygnosis, was fast and fun, but what really helps the franchise stand out is its unique approach to visual design. Rather than going cartoony or realistic,…
Portal 2’s Wheatley did not win an award at the Spike VGAs. Mildly disappointing, but then, given the Spike’s themselves are mildly disappointing, I’m not losing much sleep over it. Eeexxcccceeepppptttt for this. Being a virtual character, Valve had to make his acceptance speech in advance. Just in case he actually won. He didn’t, but…
Months have gone by and we never got a single good look at the Game of Thrones RPG in motion, and suddenly, not one but two trailers appear. You’ll see Mormonts, you’ll see the Wall, you’ll see a Red Priest, you’ll see Varys and you’ll see a lot of men with enormous necks and enormous…
Gameplay as cinema? Sure, it can work, especially when it’s as entertaining as Run, a short clip put together by YouTube user JackFrags. While captured in-game, this isn’t raw, live gameplay footage. Those aren’t competitive opponents he’s up against (in case you couldn’t tell by the Stormtrooper-like accuracy and reflexes on display. Everyone you see…
Want to sign up for Planetside 2’s beta? Well, go sign up right here. [Planetside 2]
The man the world knows as Aphex Twin, and who his mother knows as Richard David James, is a British electronic artist who is kinda famous for face-shattering tracks like Come to Daddy Which, you know, aside from having an awesome video, I’m not that big a fan of. What I am a big fan…
Remember back in May, how we showed you that footage from the US military’s new “video game” simulation suite? Well, it’s back. And it looks more amazing than ever. To recap, this is the Dismounted Soldier Training System (DSTS), a new simulation tool for the US Army. It’s cost the government nearly $60 million to…
Here’s a new trailer for 2K’s upcoming Spec Ops: The Line. Hrm. I dig the setting, and the sand could be a neat gimmick, but everything else, hrm. Did anybody ask for Uncharted x Modern Warfare? Anybody? Hrm.
Years and years ago, when the design team for what would become Star Wars: Old Republic was first sitting down to plan a video game, they knew they were going to make an MMO. Hopefully a Star Wars one. But just in case they couldn’t, they had to have some backups. And those backups will,…
Don’t get your hopes up, but there’s a website on the internet with a giant Half-Life 3 logo on it that’s been doing the rounds today, tugging rudely on people’s heartstrings. It’s slick, it goes to the trouble of adding copyright notices and the essential “small logos” that lend credibility to the site, but come…
Winter is Coming | And it is adorable. By Renaud Forestie This Might Actually Be The Official Zelda Timeline Since the series began, Nintendo has been coy on whether there’s an official timeline for The Legend of Zelda. They’ve said there is one, locked away in Nintendo HQ, but the fact it’s never been shared…
Not with a bang, but several bangs. Then a whimper. And a succession of people just standing around, awkwardly, wondering what they’d done with the last eight years of their lives. As you’re probably aware, last weekend the plug was pulled on Star Wars Galaxies, the long-running, mildly-popular but ultimately disappointing MMO that had managed…
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