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Vice City Meets 2011 In Vice City Rage
The last we saw of Grand Theft Auto IV mod Vice City Rage, it was looking a little…empty. A few months on and the team behind the overhaul of the 1986 2002 classic have made some good progress. Star Tommy Vercetti is now in the game engine and sticking to the ground, meaning the building…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 -
Whoops, You Might be Playing An Unfinished Version of Dead Island
Those who have been among the first to download zombie game Dead Island from Steam have been finding things a little odd. A number of features/cheats like no-clipping, which normally aren’t available automatically in games, are just a button press away. And there may be a very good, very funny reason for this. People digging…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 -
The New, Cheaper PSP Isn’t For You (Unless You’re a Kid!)
And if you’re a kid, you shouldn’t be reading this. You should be outside, getting some exercise. Making friends. Skipping rope Still with me? Awesome. So, Sony has a new model of the PSP for Europe that makes a lot of sense: it’s €99/£89, and at that price, it’s something you could pick up on…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 -
If the Original Deus Ex Had Been More Like Human Revolution…
If you think the kind of people who say “games were better in the good old days” are bad, they’re even worse when they’re talking about PC games. Except, on rare occasions like this, they actually make a decent gag out of it. This clip blends the original Deus Ex, which is eleven years old,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 -
Whoops, 3 Million Copies of Dirt 3 Just Went Missing [Update]
Publishers Codemasters and graphics card manufacturer AMD have been running a promotion lately whereby purchasers of a card got a free copy of excellent racer Dirt 3. That offer has now been, uh, slightly expanded. It seems Codemasters had the reserved download codes for the promo – estimated at around 3 million copies of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 -
Ni No Kuni Is Looking Beautiful In This New Trailer
Here’s a new trailer for the upcoming Ni No Kuni for the PS3. The more I see of this game, the more I clench my fists, grind my teeth and try and will it into already being out. And in English. While the DS version was released last year in Japan, it’s the sexy PS3…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 -
Japan Gets Official Uncharted 3 Control Pad
On November 2, the same day the game is released, Japan will be getting this fancy, limited edition DualShock 3 bearing the colours and livery of upcoming action game Uncharted 3 Featuring a two-tone colour scheme with khaki up top and brown down below, the pad also comes with a “map” motif across the surface.…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallThere Has Never Been A Good Akira Game
It’s one of the defining works of modern popular culture, and features plenty of stylised, graphic action. So why is it nobody has ever made a good game out of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira? It’s not for want of trying, that’s for sure. There have been three (well, maybe five, but we’ll get to that later)…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 -
Halo, BioShock, Dead Space as 16-bit Heroes
Artist Michael Myers was brought in by t-shirt team High Score Society to design a range of gear in which modern video game heroes were rendered in a stylised 16-bit-ish form. The results? Wonderful. He did five designs in all, one each for BioShock, Gears of War, Killzone, Dead Space and Halo. You can check…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 -
What? A PC Developer Who Actually Understands DRM?
In recent years publishers like Ubisoft, 2K and EA have done a great job pissing off paying customers with systems aimed at preventing piracy. Which, uh, is counter-productive! Especially when PC pirates are able to easily circumvent said measures. So it’s great seeing Christofer Sundberg, from Just Cause developers Avalanche, speak a little common sense.…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 -
This Halo Helmet Looks Good Enough for the Movie They’ll Never Make
The way it’s looking there’ll never be a Halo movie. Ah well! So long as regular humans keep making killer props like this, we’re free to imagine our own. Which is always for the best, because then, they never end up sucking. This helmet was submitted to MAKE magazine by creator Tsabo Tsaboc over the…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 -
The Lovecraftian Crysis Game (Well, Mod)
Thanks to Adam over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun for pointing out The Worry of Newport, a Crysis mod that turns the tropical shooter into a slow, moody traipse through a drab seaside village. Which looks cooler than it sounds. Set in and around the town of Newport, it’s all about exploration. And listening, as the…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 -
If 1992 Had Limited Edition Consoles…
We started to see limited edition consoles pop up regularly in the late 1990s. They’re of course commonplace now. In the early 90s and before, though, they weren’t really around, which is where Ricepuppet’s console customisation service comes in handy. He sells commissioned consoles, bearing the theme of the purchaser’s choice. Want a Hello Kitty…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 -
Culture
Sister…This Storyboard Artist Has a Twin Sister…
That Darth Vader line has always creeped me out a little. This stuff, though, featuring a pair of storyboard artists working in the games industry, does nothing of the sort. After I ran that Crysis 2 art last week, I was contacted by Trudi Castle, another artist who worked on the game. Unlike the static…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 -
Get Ready for Valve’s “Meet the DOTA Heroes”
Valve’s series of “Meet the…” videos for Team Fortress 2 are some of the smartest, funniest clips this industry has ever seen. So it shouldn’t surprise you that the company is looking at doing something similar for the upcoming DOTA 2 “There are a lot of heroes in DOTA 2—105 so far, and we’re gonna…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 -
Dead Space? It’s For Kids!
Dead Space’s Isaac is normally running around in the dark scared out of his mind. Here, he’s just a kid. Kickin’ it on the playground. Maybe with an imaginary friend. Note I said imaginary friend, which is good times. Not imaginary dead girlfriend. Which is bad times If the style looks familiar, it’s another giant-headed…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 -
Battlefield 3 Has Magical Tanks
I didn’t notice this during my time with the game last month, because I was either rolling along blissfully or exploding disgracefully, but EA’s upcoming Battlefield 3 has magic tanks. And they are magic, because they’re capable of doing something no actual tank has ever been capable of: healing themselves. Yes, in Battlefield 3 tanks…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 -
European Retailer Stops Selling Busted Old 360 Consoles
Two of Europe’s biggest games retailers, Game and Gamestation (the latter owned by the former), have stopped selling old models of the Xbox 360, according to a report on Eurogamer While Game told the site that this was simply due to a focus on new hardware, a more likely reason came from a contact at…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 -
Deus Ex Was, at One Stage, Meant To Be Even Bigger
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is, by today’s standards at least, a pretty big game. It took me around 35 hours to finish it. But did you know at the planning stage it was meant to be even bigger? Much of your time spent with the game is running around its two “hub” worlds, the streets…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 -
Poster Says Battlefield 3’s Xbox 360 Version Comes On Two Discs
A Japanese promotional poster for the upcoming Battlefield 3 contains a few extra details we weren’t aware of before. Like, say, the fact the Xbox 360 version of the game will ship on two discs. That’s all the info that can be gleaned from the pic, so there’s no idea just what content is spread…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011
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