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This Four Year-Old Kid Lets us Relive the Magic of Star Wars All Over Again
After so many decades, so much merchandise and so much tinkering, it’s easy to forget just why so many people fell in love with Star Wars as a kid. It’s because of moments like this. Watch, as four year-old Faris is treated to his first viewing of Empire Strikes Back, the film’s spoiler having been…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011 -
Remember, Those Downloadable PS2 Games Don’t Have any Extra Stuff
There are PS2 games coming to the PlayStation Store. An inevitable, if unfortunate turn of events. And just to be clear, these are PS2 games through and through: no remastering, no fancy updates, nothing. I mean, that seemed fairly obvious yesterday (given the nature of the announcement and the means of delivery), but there are…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011 -
Zombie Luigi is Trying to Bite Mario’s Face Off
Custom toy creator KodyKoala, who you’ve seen here once or twice (or thrice!) , is back with another great piece based on the Mushroom Kingdom. And it’s a Mushroom Kingdom gone bad. Luigi has eaten a zombie mushroom and turned flesh-eater, depicted here trying to eat his brother’s face off and wear his guts for…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011 -
Xbox Live Brought Down by “Human Error”
Earlier this morning, at around 9am Pacific, Xbox Live went down for a little while. What’s interesting is not the downtime itself (it was brief), but the cause: human error. A Microsoft statement issued later in the day reads: The root cause of this outage was human error. A change resulted in an interruption to…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011 -
This Week’s Cosplay Stars Deus Ex, Mass Effect, Zelda and Adventure Time
Regular Fancy Pants posts have been on a little break for a while as we recharged from a glut of events like PAX and the Tokyo Game Show. We’re back as usual this week, though, and it seems the time off has worked wonders Why? Because for sheer quality this might be the best we’ve…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011 -
Kinect Could Automatically Control What you can Watch On Your 360
A Microsoft patent, filed in March 2010 but only publicly released last week, is called PARENTAL CONTROL SETTINGS BASED ON BODY DIMENSIONS. It’s about using tech like Kinect to automatically restrict content on a PC or Xbox depending on who (or what) the camera sees in the room. Basically, it would use a camera (Kinect…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011 -
Go Behind the Scenes of Portal With This Aperture Science Documentary
These kids (and adults!) have invested what looks like a ridiculous amount of time and energy creating a documentary on Portal’s Aperture Science. Not a short five-minute web clip. Like, a 21-minute documentary. Don’t worry, it’s not serious. It’s not a Valve neckbeard convention agonising over easter eggs and links to Half-Life 2. It’s just…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011 -
Bloody Roar 5 In Development [Update]
It’s not like the world was clamouring for it, but here we have it regardless: there’s a new Bloody Roar game in development. It’ll be the first in the animal-punching series since Bloody Roar 4 in 2003. UPDATE – And, it was a hoax. Nothing to see here!
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011 -
“Rare” PS2 Games Coming to the PlayStation Network [Update]
I’ve been dreaming for a while now of picking up a PS2 game I already own, putting it in my PS3 and having it work. Ever since my launch console died that’s been totally out of the question, so I guess I’ll have to settle for the next best thing. Sony has launched a new…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011 -
Mass Effect 3 Including Multiplayer After All?
For what feels like forever, there’s been talk of something in the Mass Effect universe turning up soon that features multiplayer. Some say it’s a standalone expansion, some say it might be nothing Whatever it is, over the weekend it reared its head again: once in the form of an upcoming feature for Xbox World…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011 -
Japanese Ghost Town Haunted by Old Nintendo Consoles, Porn
Ghost towns aren’t just found in the Western United States. They’re everywhere. Even Japan, where they’re slightly more interesting than usual, because they’ve got dirty old video games (and dirty old video cassettes). Nichitsu was, like old American ghost towns, a settlement based on gold mining. Named after the company which owned the mines (and…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011 -
We Few, We Happy Few…
Gabrielle Salonga, who’s had it up to here with internet commenting system fanboys, shows that it’s neither red nor blue (green?) that matters. It’s the space between. 1 Oct [Game On] You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011 -
Super Cult Tycoon 2: Deluxe Edition is Free to all Believers
Playing as a mayor, or a President, or a Captain in a strategy game gets boring after a while. You’re always the straight guy, the man in the suit, the uniformed leader burdened with responsibility. How refreshing it is, then, to play Super Cult Tycoon and take charge of a crazy cult leader. Built in…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011 -
Finally, Play a Battlestar Galactica Game That does What the Show did Best
It’s a sad world we live in when the best Battlestar Galactica games available are a rather dry MMO and some fan-made mods Yet like the crew of the Galactica we’ve got to make do with the world we’re left with, no matter how cruel and unfair it is. So today, let’s make the most…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallBefore They Were Superstars: BioWare
Canadian developers BioWare are known today for blockbuster series like Mass Effect, Dragon Age and the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic We don’t care about those today. Today, for our younger/newer readers that may only know them for those franchises, we’re going back to 1995, where it all began. Unlike most (I’d be tempted…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011 -
Culture
Some Concept Art From The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
If you buy the expensive collector’s edition of the new Elder Scrolls game, you’ll get a 200-page art book full of designs and sketches showing how a video game world was born. If you’re cheap and just want to see some of the art, well, you’d better look here then. There are four excerpts from…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 30, 2011 -
The Greatest Commercial Ever for Games That Sadly Never Existed
When Italian TV wants to go all out and make an awesome commercial, it goes all out In this clip for Fox Italy’s retro channel, The A-Team meets Pac-Man, Wonder Woman meets Mario and by the time it’s done basically every iconic video game and TV show from the 70s and 80s has bashed heads,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 30, 2011 -
We Can Only Hope Mirror’s Edge 2 is as Cool as This Video
Biting Elbows, an “indie punk rock” band from Moscow, are obviously big fans of DICE’s Mirror’s Edge, because this video to their track The Stampede is a three-minute love letter to the game. It starts a little slow, and beyond the first-person stuff doesn’t give much away early on, but the first time you see…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 30, 2011 -
Meet Your 2011 Big Buck Hunter World Champion
Of all the niches in video gaming, there are few I find more fascinating than players of the arcade version of Big Buck Hunter Why? Because I normally associate it with smoky saloons, men who have killed things and the stench of spilled bourbon, three things that normally (at least together) don’t go with video…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 30, 2011 -
Do You Like Darksiders Enough to Spend $500 On This Statue?
Remember that Darksiders statue that was first unveiled all the way back in July 2010? It’s finally finished and ready to ship. In Q4 2011. For fans of the game (rich fans, at least), it looks to be worth the wait, both War and his trusty steed Ruin looking great, especially with all those badass…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 30, 2011
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