Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. It’s a name Square Enix would be proud of, but before you go thinking some Japanese guy made it up by combining “Revenge” and “Vengeance” and nobody had the sense to tell him it was a stupid name, know that it’s a word that’s been used before. Metal band Soulfly, for…
Fumito Ueda, the driving force behind both Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, has confirmed that he is no longer employed at Sony. Having joined the company in 1997, and until recently overseeing his own development team at Sony (Team Ico), Ueda’s departure is a blow to Sony’s home-grown talent stocks, what with him being…
Remember how last month we looked at some of the better examples of the unlicensed NES/Famicom clones that walked the earth during the 1980s and 1990s? One towered above all others like a colossus in terms of how successful it was, and that was Russia’s Dendy console. It’s my personal favourite of the bunch. Not…
I’m going to tell you a secret. My favourite racing series of this generation has been neither Gran Turismo nor Forza. It’s been Codemaster’s Dirt series. A new game in the franchise should be cause for joy, then, but, well. Hrm. The next game isn’t Dirt 4. It is, as GameSpot describes it, “an arcade-style…
One of the first games I played a ton of on the iPhone was Paper Toss, a simple little title where you had to throw paper in the bin while accounting for the blow of an office fan. That was years ago, though, and since then iPhone games have gotten bigger, bolder and slicker. So…
The Dark Mod is a modification that turns PC shooter Doom 3 into something a little more akin to what fans of the Thief series are used to. More men in armour, less monsters in closets. While it’s been out for a while, it recently received a big update, and in promising news may get…
You can tell there’s a competition on at the moment for a Lilith look-a-like, because cosplaying circles are suddenly swamped with people dressed as the Borderlands star. We’re featuring two Liliths in this week’s gallery, in fact. Everyone else, though, is an assortment of men and women from the world of video games. And maybe…
He is Arthas Menethil. The Lich King. Scourge of Azeroth and star of his own World of Warcraft expansion. And today, courtesy of Chinese artist Chao Yuan Xu, also a nice new wallpaper for the WoW-loving gamer’s desktop. Arthas Menethil, the Lich King [DeviantArt, via Coolvibe]
Clay, a company that specialises in “innovative digital media experiences”, built this table covered in buttons for an exhibition that kicked off in London last Friday. It’s called the “Periodic Table of Swearing”, and took all this to build: It’s constructed from over 100 buttons, CNC’ed and laser cut MDF, direct to media printing, over…
On Friday, artist Zac Gorman thought aloud “I think it’d be cute if Sonic ran like an idiot”. He accompanied this thought with a cute little animation. The internet did the rest. A bunch of other artists and Tumblr users agreed, posting Sonic running like, well, an idiot. And you know what? He is cute.…
For the next 7:06, if you have any appreciation of how hard it is to come up with rhyming verses off the top of your head, any at all, prepare to be blown away. Hi. Welcome to Soundtrack. Tonight, we’re looking at Freestyle Rapping In the early 1990s, some students at the University of California…
In saying the next Command & Conquer game is coming from “BioWare”, it seems EA is hoping a little of gamer’s good will towards the RPG powerhouse will rub off on the game. Instead, unless Generals 2 is amazing, it’s probably going to backfire. How? When people think “BioWare”, they think of the Canadian developer…
Over the weekend, the Spike Video Game Awards were held. While you would have seen a few people get up on stage, there were a lot more people in attendance. Lots of developers, yeah, but lots of celebrities as well. Ever wonder just who among those celebrities scores an invite to a free meal and…
I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first Darksiders game, but even I’ll admit, that’s a pretty snappy tagline for its sequel. This trailer was released over the weekend. It’s short on gameplay, but long on soft focus and dripping blood. Darksiders 2 is out on PC, PS3 and 360 sometime in 2012.
“The Spike Video Game Awards are not everyone’s ideal version of a video game award show, and complaining about them has become an annual event, like the show itself.” Totilo wrote that over the weekend, and I agree 100%. Complaints over the show and its format are getting as tiring as the show itself, so…
Hot damn. I know it’s just a pre-rendered trailer, and I know the song is corny, but this 1:47 of Transformers action spoke to me more as a Transformer fan than Michael Bay’s three films put together. It’s the Spike Holiday Video Game Advertising Extravaganza Spike Video Game Awards trailer for the upcoming action game…
Having teased such an announcement earlier in the week, at tonight’s Spike VGAs skate legend Tony Hawk made it official: after a short hiatus in 2011, his series will be back in 2012 with Tony Hawk HD And it sounds pretty great. Rather than risk screwing everything up with a new game like the last…
The Spike VGAs aren’t about awards. They’re about trailers. Here’s one for the new Hitman game, Absolution Absolution is due on PC, PS3 and 360 in 2012.
It appears the trailer for the next Metal Gear game, Metal Gear Rising, has leaked ahead of the Spike Video Game Awards. If it’s real, it contains an interesting little conclusion. The trailer ends with the revelation that Rising , which has long been out of the public eye, is now being “produced” by Hideo…
MineToys, equipped with a 3D printer and a desire to take your money, is an outfit that’s able to take your Minecraft avatar and build an action figure out of it. A 6cm figure will cost you $20, while the larger 12cm figures will set you back $50. 3D printers may look magic, but they…
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