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Sony Hoping to Make Firmware Updates Less Torturous On Vita
The bane of Sony’s current systems is the way in which they update their firmware. They’re updated often, and tie the system up while they do it, meaning impulsive gaming sessions sometimes become boring installation sessions instead. It’s a problem the company is looking to fix with the release of the upcoming PlayStation Vita. Speaking…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2011 -
A Gears of War 3 Figure to Close out the Trilogy With
It’s been a long road – five years long, if you can believe it – but the Gears of War franchise can finally take a breather with the end of the third game in the series. To celebrate, toy company NECA is releasing this “Journey’s End” version of Marcus Fenix. If Marcus ever got an…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2011 -
This Indie Game is Giving me Flashbacks of, Well, Flashback
Gunpoint is a game where you’re a secret agent-type guy, who has to break into high security facilities by either jumping around and sticking to walls, shooting at people and, most importantly, rewiring the entire place and its security system. It’s an indie title that’s the work of games writer Tom Francis, along with artists…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2011 -
Get a Little Half-Life, Day of the Tentacle in Your Magicka
There’s a new piece of downloadable content for PC co-op shooter (spellcaster?) Magicka called the “Gamer Bundle”. Normally I don’t look twice at a pack offering mere player skins, but these are no mere player skins. The three new robes for your wizards are heavily inspired by three of the best PC games ever made.…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2011 -
See Arkham City’s Batman Without his Mask On
Maybe this is a spoiler for the game, I don’t know, but DC is releasing three more Batman: Arkham City action figures later this year, and one of them features the game’s hero looking a lot more Bruce Wayne than Dark Knight. Joining the two figures revealed earlier this year, these three —Bruce Wayne, Robin…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2011 -
Capcom Kills Off Resident Evil’s Blind Bimbo
Earlier this month, Capcom surprised a lot of long-time Resident Evil fans by including a character in a trailer for the upcoming Revelations who didn’t really fit the aesthetic of the universe. And by that I mean she had a stupid haircut and ridiculous cleavage Dislike for the character was almost unanimous, but it turns…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2011 -
There Will be no Female Shepard, Seth Green or Video Game Stories In the Mass Effect Movie
Answering questions that they didn’t have time to answer during Comic-Con a few months back, the producers of the upcoming Mass Effect movie have posted a few bits of extra info on the project on the website of film company Legendary Pictures. While dating back to last month, the blog was updated in silence, so…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2011 -
Red Orchestra 2 is a Fitting Tribute to the Battle of Stalingrad
I’ve been playing Red Orchestra 2 for the past few days, and every time I boot it up, I get a strange feeling. Like I’m playing through the ghosts of video games past. Which, considering the game takes place on a virtual representation of a battlefield where nearly one million men lost their lives, is…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2011 -
My Horse is Nintenhorse In all but Name
NaturalMotion, best known for its Euphoria engine (GTAIV, Red Dead Redemption) and its own titles like football game Backbreaker, has recently released something a little tamer. It’s called My Horse. In which you look after a horse. Think of it as Nintendogs, only with…well, horses. Oh, and microtransactions. The first thing you notice is that,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2011 -
CultureThe Beautiful Blizzard Paintings of Mathias Verhasselt
Mathias Verhasselt works at Blizzard. As a concept artist, yes, but he also does one of my favourite things in both cinema and games: Matte paintings. These are the exquisitely-detailed images that movies use for static, artificial backdrops and scenery, but you may not know that game trailers and cinematics use them as well (though…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2011 -
Work at Nintendo for 20 Years and You Get More Than a Gold Watch
A Reddit user who says his dad works at Nintendo of America posted this image yesterday of a commemorative gift given to the man after twenty years service at the company. Seems the guy in question is Jerry Danson, Senior Manager of Systems and Engineering, who first joined Nintendo in 1991. The image has since…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2011 -
Remember, Sony’s Shitty New Terms of Service Don’t Apply to Everyone
Sony’s new PlayStation Network terms of service, which basically exist to try and stop the company being taken to court by disgruntled users, aren’t exactly popular in the US. If you’re from Europe or Australia, though, relax: They don’t apply to you. A Sony spokesperson has confirmed with Kotaku Australia that across the territories governed…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2011 -
Making Zelda a Little More Japanese
Despite being developed entirely by Japanese men and women, The Legend of Zelda has always had a more Western aesthetic. Something this wonderful fan art seeks to address. French artist Gerwell has reimagined some of the series’ main characters for a fantasy project of his, and in this project, there are less belts, heavy leather…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2011 -
Mass Effect’s Sexy Star is Hopelessly Addicted to Angry Birds
Yvonne Strahovski is known as both a model and TV actor, but really, around here she’s Mass Effect’s Miranda Lawson. And that’s it. Or it was until today, as she’s now known as Mass Effect’s Miranda Lawson and “lady who talks about Angry Birds so much it’s a little strange”. In an interview with Collider,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2011 -
See All of Capcom’s TGS Stage Presentations (DMC, Dragon’s Dogma, Resident Evil, etc) In the One Place
Since you weren’t at the Tokyo Game Show, you would have missed Capcom’s lineup of stage presentations, held as part of the company’s enormous (and awesome) booth. While they were light on news, they’re heavy on live gameplay demonstrations and clips, so if you feel like seeing footage of DMC, Dragon’s Dogma, Asura’s Wrath, Resident…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2011 -
Valve Beta Leaks, Contains DotA 2 Info (and Creepy New Intro)
There’s a closed , very private beta going on at the moment for Valve’s upcoming click simulator DotA 2. Or, at least it was private: one of the participants has apparently leaked the client data onto the internet, spilling all kinds of information on the game. Among the content currently out there are character icons,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallThis Star Wars Game Was So Bad They Should Have Made More Of Them
Over the past thirty years there have been plenty of memorable Star Wars games, from the Super Star Wars series to X-Wing to Jedi Knight to Battlefront. They’re all classics, not just awesome adaptations of a movie franchise but awesome games in their own right. Star Wars: Yoda Stories is not one of those games.…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2011
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