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Let Us Make Science, No Matter The Cost!
Rarely does a game with such a boring name and such a boring premise turn out to be so damn addictive. SpaceChem is a puzzle game that appears initially frightening, heavy on scientific terminology and symbols, but persevere and you’ll soon find it’s one of the more polished and addictive puzzle games in recent memory.…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2011 -
Rock Band Rocks Harder With Real Guitars
I haven’t played guitar since university, and haven’t done science since high school, so the particulars of this are lost on me. What I do know, though, is that rigging up a real electric guitar to play Rock Band is awesome. This isn’t a fancy controller made exclusively for Rock Band, it’s a real, honest-to-goodness…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2011 -
Check Out The Inside Of A 3DS
Now that we know Nintendo 3DS units go walkabout from their Chinese manufacturing facilities, it was only a matter of time before one showed up that had been torn apart like it had been set upon by wild dogs. It’s rare to see an unreleased piece of hardware so…exposed like this, so technophiles and hardware…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2011 -
Team Fortress 2 Is Art
Art student Christopher Wyant found a novel way to exhibit his works for a university project: display them as objects in a game of Team Fortress 2. To give his exhibition a little extra punch, Wyant inserted pictures of his ceramic works into the online shooter as stencils, took screengrabs of them, then posted those…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2011 -
Sorry, You Can’t Buy Your Way Into E3 Anymore
For the past few years, there’s been a tidy little black market operating around the fringes of E3 for those who wanted into the trade-only event but didn’t have official tickets. That market is now under threat. Sorry! The Electronic Entertainment Expo, held annually in Los Angeles, is in many ways the centre of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2011 -
Want To Buy Your Own Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Cabinet?
Super Street Fighter IV is officially available in arcades in Japan and…that’s it. If you’d like to import your own, then, you’ll need to know where to look. Oh, and bring money While some enterprising (and wealthy) arcades in the West have a cabinet or two on display, there are many who simply live too…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2011 -
You’ve Probably Never Been This Close To Princess Zelda Before
Normally, the art of cosplay is best served with pictures. Movies only show up the costume’s inadequacies. But this Zelda gear is so good it looks better in motion. Filmed at Youmacon, held late last year in Detroit (which explains why things look like a GT5 photo mode shoot by the end), it shows a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2011 -
It’s China’s Second-Biggest Video Game (Sort Of)
Until April, visitors to New York’s Museum of Modern Art will be able to check out “Long March: Restart”, which is basically one of (if not the biggest) video games you’ll ever play. Not in terms of the scale of the game itself; it’s a 2D platformer, not an expansive role-playing game. But it is…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2011 -
Spend A Day In The Shoes Of The Nintendo Faithful
Thousands of Nintendo fans turned up at the company’s 3DS showcase over the weekend, among the first to ever get their mitts on the new handheld. You weren’t among them, but after watching this video you could pretend you were! It was shot by Aussie David Turnbull (site here!), who labelled the vid “The Unnecessarily…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2011 -
Grand Theft Auto Becomes Cinema In This Epic Creation
“The Trashmaster” takes the art of turning a video game into cinema and delivers an astonishing 88 minutes film. While we’ve seen similar Grand Theft Auto IV-related projects recently, we’ve never seen one run for that long, nor have one that took over two years to put together. Sadly, while it looks great, with lots…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2011 -
Ocarina Of Time’s 3DS Footage Has One Goron Mighty Pleased
Screenshots are great and all, but sometimes you need to see a game moving to really get a good impression of it. Even when it’s shaky-cam footage of a remake of a game that came out in 1998. This footage was shot over the weekend at the Nintendo World event in Tokyo, and gives us…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2011 -
The 3DS Will Not Be Banned In China
The Xbox 360 is banned in China. As is the PlayStation 3. In fact, most consoles are banned in the world’s most populous nation, with the exception of a select few. Like the Nintendo 3DS. As it has with previous pieces of hardware — like the DS — Nintendo has been able to secure a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2011 -
The Best Game Review You’ll See All Day
Even if you’ve never played Super PSTW Action RPG – and it’s a good bet many of you haven’t – you should still watch this review of the flash game. And yes, I said watch, not read. Newgrounds user RicePirate has compiled a typographical video – complete with astounding voice work – bringing a “review”…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2011 -
From Muskets To Jokers, These Were My Favorite Gaming Moments Of 2010
I had many fond memories playing my way through 2010, but none were as fond as these. In no particular order or preference, below you’ll find my favourite gaming moments from 2010. Some make the list because of their entertainment value, others the satisfaction I derived from getting there, while others still are here because,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2011 -
Star Fox, Paper Mario & Mario Kart Are All Lookin’ Good On The 3DS
It’s funny, we got so used to seeing DS games for so long that it started to feel like all Nintendo handheld games for all time would look like N64 games. That’s certainly not the case. This off-screen footage, taken over the weekend at the Nintendo World event in Tokyo, shows three of the 3DS’…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2011 -
Baby It’s Cold Outside (So Wear A Fallout Helmet)
If you’re going to try and survive a post-apocalyptic wasteland, you may as well do it in style. This hand-made, custom helmet is a pretty good replica of that worn by Fallout’s Brotherhood of Steel, down to the weathered appearance and working headlamp. It’s the work of artist Josh Jay. Motorcycle Helmet of the Apocalypse…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2011 -
Grand Theft Auto’s Carjacking Spreads Its Wings
Fed up with stealing cars from inside his own game, Grand Theft Auto IV “hero” Niko Bellic has begun to pinch them from everyone else’s. These sketches — the work of Australian artist Patrick Brown — show Bellic hijacking the trademark rides from Halo, Avatar, Tron and Red Dead Redemption. Something tells me that while…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2011 -
But Which HDMI Cable To Buy For My Console?
If you’re serious about gaming in high definition on a console that’s attached to a TV set, then you’ve probably heard that you need to have a HDMI connection. But just how big a difference does this fancy cable make? Technical experts Digital Foundry sought to find out, pitting four HDMI cables — a cheap…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2011 -
You Can Now Bring The Real World To Minecraft
Putting together an impressive Minecraft creation just got a whole lot easier, with a Kinect hack able to transform data captured by the Xbox 360’s camera into landscapes in the game. Nathan Viniconis has figured out a way to take the depth and colour data Kinect is able to pick up from a 3D space…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2011
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