It’s said, sometimes unfairly, that most modern games are little but varying shades of brown and grey. That’s an accusation that could never, ever be levelled against upcoming co-op game Trine 2 Like the first, it’s an explosion of colours and lavish art design, which these new screenshots for the game show off to great…
Pulling off a good Little Sister cosplay is tough! Go too far one way and you’ll look creepy, go too far the other way and you’ll try and look sexy and end up being even creepier. This one, though, nails it. Taken at this year’s Otakon, and snapped by photographer LJinto, they’re everything that’s awesome…
Well, you can’t! What you’ll soon be able to do, though, is the next best thing, which also happens to be something the iPhone excels at: play a game that’s paying tribute to Wind Waker, but isn’t actually Wind Waker The game in question is called Oceanhorn, and while the game’s hero certainly looks familiar,…
Aww, I thought we were done with this, publishers? Charging for cheat codes was the craze sweeping the nation in 2007-2009, until even EA, who helped start the trend, realised it was a little beyond the pale. Guess Capcom never got that memo! The Japanese publisher has released a piece of downloadable content for Dead…
If your Christmas gift guide needs an entry in the “stuff that sounds stupid at first but then you quickly realise it’s amazing” section, ThinkGeek’s talking Cave Johnson portrait should do the trick. Officially licensed by Portal creators Valve, the portrait measures 15 1/2″ x 11 1/2″, and comes packed with thirteen phrases (the actual…
As part of a study before people are actually sent to Mars, a team of volunteers spent 520 days locked inside a fake spaceship. To see if they could all stay alive and not, you know, kill each other. It was mission success, as the six men – three from Russia and one each from…
World of Warcraft may never truly die. People still play the first Everquest, after all. But it will inevitably lose its place as the biggest MMO on Earth, and that day is now a little closer following the release of the game’s latest set of subscription numbers. Since May, the number of people playing World…
In 1987, Durell Software released a game called Saboteur II: Avenging Angel. Don’t worry if you haven’t played the original Saboteur, because no prior knowledge will be required for this post. What will be required is an appreciation for awesome game settings and even awesomer box art. Both Saboteur games were designed by Clive Townsend,…
Charles Martinet has done a great job voicing Mario over the years. But part of that great job is that his lines are usually short. Mario is too busy jumping to launch into lengthy monologues. So Nintendo’s decision to have Martinet do Mario for over five minutes in this commercial is a strange one. I…
For all the awesome art found in video game production—so awesome we run this regular feature on it—not too many publishers go to the trouble of releasing big, fancy coffee table books showing said art off. Which is a shame! So it’s nice seeing Disney do just that with the better-late-than-never release of The Art…
So far only revealed for the European market, this black with gold trimmings 3DS handheld is being released by Nintendo to commemorate the franchise’s 25th anniversary. It’ll be out in Europe on November 25, and includes a copy of Ocarina of Time 3D You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected].…
No, it will be decided by…look, just watch this until around 1:10, OK? This is an actual commercial for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, due out in 2012 on, well, pretty much everything. In case you can’t tell by the tone, or beneath the helmets, or by the 1:10 mark, it’s been put together by the…
Did you build model planes as a kid? I did. F-14s, F-4s, F-18s, even the odd Mig-29. For a kid I like to think I did OK, gluing wings together and painting garish camo patterns on everything, but after seeing these models I feel despondent Polish modeller Andrzej Ziober is a master. A planesmith. And…
The good news is I get to use this picture. The bad news, pasted from the press release, is as follows: In a historic deal, SEE Games, an entertainment company publishing digital and online games tied to major licensed Hollywood franchises, and ZQGame, a leading publicly-traded Chinese online gaming company, today announced an innovative strategic…
There are a lot of big, big games out (or coming out) about now. Which is great if you’re loaded with cash. But sucks if you’re broke. Never mind! Not all good games have to be paid for. Take Stealth Bastard for example, a free PC game that’s about light, dark, stealth and blood. Taking…
MMO specialist website Massively claims that, according to a “tipster”, Blizzard’s John Staats has been laid off. Who is John Staats? Only the senior level designer of the company’s next big MMO, the successor to World of Warcraft Staats (pictured), who has worked for Blizzard for a decade, been described as a “hero of the…
The accidental release of a beta for Mass Effect 3 over the weekend is the least of BioWare’s problems at the moment. More worrying is the fact the game’s story has leaked online. We’re not talking a few clips or scraps of info. We’re talking big chunks of the game’s plot, packed to the rafters…
Insider blog MS nerd, which has been right on a few things coming out of Microsoft HQ from time to time, reckons it has some info on the next Xbox console. Currently codenamed “Loop”, the site says the console will have a single main processor that’s joined by “assistive cores” for “graphics, AI, physics, sound,…
Activision’s Call of Duty franchise occupies a fascinating place in the gaming landscape. It is the world’s biggest-selling annual series, yet each year offers only incremental improvements. It is beloved by millions, yet derided by many as well. Its production values bring out the best in video games, while its online multiplayer community often brings…
Anyone who has played Deus Ex: Human Revolution and looked in the kitchen of star Adam Jensen would know that the man has a…taste for breakfast cereal. So it stands to reason that, with the events of the game all neatly tied up – a game built on making the tough call – Jensen’s toughest…
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