The white and pink models of the Nintendo 3DS, already out or announced in other regions, will be released in Europe on November 18.
Morning, Day of the Tentacle fans! Here’s a little something readers David and Sarah Cousens (of the excellent Cool Surface) whipped up to brighten up your Tuesday. If it brightens it up too much, well, you shouldn’t have come this far. It’s Day of the Tentacle fan art we’re talking about here. It was always…
OK, so I’ve got a bit of a thing for Guild Wars 2 art. It’s a gorgeous game, shoot me. But before you do, you should check out both this concept art and, in a neat twist, some trailers made out of concept art. Horia Dociu, who worked as an artist on Half-Life 2, joined…
When you think about it, Duck Hunt is a pretty scary game. Get past the blue skies and cheery art design and that’s one evil dog lurking in the bushes. Something this horror movie based on the Nintendo classic knows only too well. The Hunt is the first of G4’s promised trilogy of short horror…
Some of gaming’s most cunning foes have been computers. Think GlaDOS from Portal, or Shodan from System Shock 2. At least part of what makes them so memorable is that their artificial intelligence is brought to life by a cold, calculating, female voice. Friendly artificial intelligence usually skews female as well. Anyone who’s played Deus…
British artist Andrew “Bones” Jones is a man after my own heart. In his works paying tribute to the video games of yesteryear, you won’t find much Mario or Mega Man. You’ll find Wing Commander, Zombies Ate My Neighbours and old Amiga games. In the gallery above you’ll see some amazing digital paintings by Jones,…
There’s still some life left in the old PlayStation Portable, Sony announcing yesterday that a new bundle including a PSP-3000, 2GB memory stick, Cars 2 and FIFA 12 for $160.
This piece of fan art showed up on the Facebook page of Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson overnight. It is blocky. And strangely erotic. I know the painting it’s based on, Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, is not erotic in the slightest. It’s about God giving life to man. Which is what this picture is…
There’s an achievement you can get in Gears of War 3 that can be earned by playing a piano 2000 times. That’s a lot of button pressing, so LEGO builder Guy Himber set to work on a less strenuous solution. He built this LEGO rig that would both hold his 360 controller and press the…
It’s been a big month for PC games, and things are about to get even bigger, so if you’ve been lazy and forgotten to update your graphics card drivers, you’re going to want to fix that. Between big games having issues (RAGE) and even bigger games just being…big (Battlefield 3), both AMD and Nvidia have…
The first Battlefield game, Battlefield 1942, was released in 2002. Nearly ten years ago! Yet while it was the first game to bear the branding that lives on to this day with Battlefield 3, depending on how you look at it, it’s not really the first game in the series. That honour goes to a…
The Syndicate of 1993 was a strange beast, part strategy, part action. The Syndicate of 2012 is all action, leaving those who preferred the strategy of the original wanting. And yet there is hope, no matter how small, in the following comments from EA’s Jeff Gamon, who told Eurogamer, “The original was such a classic.…
As usual, there was a lot of great cosplay on show around the world last week, but I’d like to specifically point out the Samara (Mass Effect) in the image above. Yes, that’s cosplay. Not a screenshot. The reason it looks so close to the “real” thing (and why this is so awesome) is that…
This Thursday night, what looks like an entire night’s programming on NBC is going to involve TV show characters dressing up for Halloween. And StarCraft is getting some love. Towards the end of the above clip you’ll see The Office’s Dwight Schrute wearing, of all things, a Sarah Kerrigan outfit (the star-turned-villain-turned-spoiler of the StarCraft…
Iain Andrews’ site Steam Postcards has long been my wallpaper supplier of choice. Why? Because he plays games and takes screenshots that aren’t the kind of thing you’d find in a magazine or popular internet video game website. He instead takes, well, postcards. Scenic shots of the background, or the walls, or the sky, or…
Shadowrun Online, the upcoming browser-based interpretation of the classic role-playing game, launched with a single, rather nondescript screenshot. So here’s three more to pad things out. OK, so one of them is an art shot of a shotgun, but the other two are most helpful, showing things like corpses, combat and the briefest hint of…
It’s been a while since World War II games were much good. Been a long time since they were “the thing”. In recent years only series like Il-2, Red Orchestra and Men at War have been keeping the Nazi-killing dream alive. Yet it was with a little excitement I sat down with Unity of Command,…
To recap, Battlefield 3 on Xbox 360 and PS3 has an optional HD texture install. The game’s developers DICE have said that without this, the game looks “standard def”. But why take their word for it when you can see the difference yourself? The video above compares the game running first with the pack installed…
Now, granted, this gimmick doesn’t just use Kinect. It uses a fancy clear display and Kinect to achieve the effect. But what an effect it is. This clip from Microsoft’s research wing shows a user gently fondling and cupping some balls in a 3D space. Even though he’s looking through a 2D screen and his…
Some people think this year’s big PC releases, particularly the “next gen” Battlefield 3, will spur around $1 billion in sales of PC hardware. Having just spent $1300 on PC hardware, I can see why. The last all-new PC I bought was in April 2008. There wasn’t a big game on the horizon then or…
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