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This Might Be the Second-Best Metal Gear Toy We’ve Ever Seen
The best, of course, being 3A’s Metal Gear Rex. But since that looks as expensive as gold-plated gold with diamond chunks, this Cyborg Ninja slots comfortably into second place. Still a work in progress, as you can see by the fact he’s not fully assembled, Cyborg Ninja will be part of Square Enix’s Play Arts…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2011 -
Starhawk is the Sequel to Warhawk. There are Transforming Fighters.
It’s been one of the worst-kept secrets in video gaming, but tonight it’s been made official: there is a sequel in development for PS3 exclusive Warhawk, and it is called Starhawk The game made its debut on GameTrailers TV earlier this evening, and is described by series boss Dylan Jobe as, predictably, “bigger and better”.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2011 -
How Working at the ESRB Can Be the Best Job in the World
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board used to manually assess the content of the games it was awarding a classification to. Now, computers do most of the work. Which must be a bummer to anyone hoping to get a job there. A story appearing on Slate yesterday, written by Jacob Rubin, outlines his time in a…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2011 -
The Ghost of a Cancelled Video Game Lives On In a…LEGO Game
Last year, there were two Pirates of the Caribbean games in development, one called Armada of the Damned, the other a LEGO title. The former was sadly cancelled, but in a neat twist, its music lives on in the LEGO game. Disney’s John Vignocchi said earlier today that while the LEGO game has 15 songs…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2011 -
Deus Ex Website Hacked, Customer Information Stolen
According to a report on KrebsOnSecurity, the public websites for upcoming sci-fi title Deus Ex: Human Revolution and that of its publisher, Eidos, have been hacked, and a ton of information and code stolen. Using logs from the alleged culprit’s chatroom, KrebsOnSecurity says that among the data lifted were 9000 resumes, personal information from around…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2011 -
Portal 2’s Wheatley Found it all “Exhausting”
Actor Stephen Merchant, who put in a masterful turn as Portal 2’s Wheatley, found giving life to the crazy little metal ball a lot tougher than his roles in front of the camera. “I have to say, I found the entire thing really exhausting” he told MTV. “More than anything I’ve ever done before because…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2011 -
CultureTotal Recall
The Day the Secret Service Raided a Role-Playing Game Company
Steve Jackson Games is a company well known for its tabletop RPGs and card games. An innocent enough trade, then, so why in 1990 were its offices raided by the United States Secret Service? It wasn’t because SJG’s products were somehow illegal, or that the company was peddling counterfeit currency. It was because, at the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2011 -
Classic Movies Look Better as Pixel Art
Artist Andy Helms has been going bananas these past few weeks, churning out amazing pieces of movie-inspired pixel art at a breakneck pace. A Fistful of Dollars, The Goonies, The Lord of the Rings, Inception…all covered, all recreated in adorable pixel art, all here for you to enjoy with your morning coffee. While some are…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
New Alien Game Coming From the Guys Who Make…Total War
British studio Creative Assembly, best known for its work on the Total War franchise of PC strategy games, is currently developing a game based on Ridley Scott’s original 1979 horror masterpiece. Aside from the fact it’s being developed “for consoles”, there’s little other information available at this time, though more details should pop up later…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
1970’s Science Fiction Comes to Life In Thunderbeam
Thunderbeam is an upcoming indie adventure game for the iPad that blends 70’s science fiction, 70’s anime, a rad soundtrack and Prince of Persia. Which sounds great Actually, let’s back up. It uses the rotoscoped animation style of Prince of Persia. In terms of gameplay, the dev team cite influences like Maniac Mansion, which is…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
New Hitman Games Links with Movie, Stars a Carradine
The latest game in the Hitman series, Absolution, is taking the series in a slightly different direction than longtime fans may be used to, as publishers Square Enix seek to tie the games in with the upcoming movie. “We’ve designed a more stylized, more serious, and darker game this time around in both the story…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
This One Goes Out to Fans Of Out of This World
Or, as I knew it, Another World. This indie demo is for a game called Concurrence, and while this particular section has been put together for a competition, a full game is in the works. You play a man (Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, it seems) who wakes up on an alien planet and has to find…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
Playing Space Invaders with 480 Sneakers
Converse’s “The Canvas Experiment” was just that: take a 4m x 5m canvas, put 480 pairs of Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers on it then play a game of Space Invaders Admittedly, it sounds better in theory than it looks in practice, the “screen” making things pretty tough to see, but then, you can make…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
The Flight Is Like Rez, Only with Less Vibration
Swiss indie developer Tobias Baumann, who made the awesome Dopplescope, is currently working on a new project called The Flight, which is a shooter that uses music as bullets. While the general premise is one that’s been used a few times before, The Flight still looks cool in that it’s basically Rez, only instead of…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
Square Enix Just Cancelled a Bunch of Games
Square Enix has cancelled multiple in-development titles, according to the company’s latest financial forecast. These games were binned as the company is “introducing a tightened selection standard regarding title lineup to strengthen the revenue base of the Company’s digital entertainment segment”. The name/franchise of the cancelled titles was not disclosed. [Square Enix]
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
Nintendo, Your Piracy Protection Isn’t Working
Earlier this week, Nintendo pushed live an updated piece of firmware for the DSi. It was aimed at stopping piracy. Less than a day later, however, flash cart manufacturers had already found a way around it. It took flash cart (cartridges allowing the use of homebrew and/or pirated software) producer R4iDSN less than 24 hours…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
So, Nobody Is Buying PS1 Games On The PlayStation Phone
The big selling point of the Xperia Play, Sony’s first mobile phone to run its PlayStation Suite of handheld games, is the fact users can download PS1 games. So it’s a little weird that nobody seems to be doing that. Because the games are available on the Android Marketplace, it’s easy to see how many…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011
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