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I’m Commander Shepard, And Mass Effect 2 Has A Release Date On PS3
The Mass Effect series will be making its first, long-awaited appearance on the PlayStation 3 in 2011. Question is, just when will it be out? BioWare has revealed that PS3 owners itching to get their hands on Commander (or Commanderette) Shepard and save the galaxy will only have a few more weeks to wait, with…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 10, 2010 -
This Was Supposed To Be The Day Australian Gaming Grew Up
But it’s not, after a lengthy meeting between government officials earlier today wound up without, as was expected, an adults-only video game rating being introduced. Bummer! Ever since video games were first certified for classification in Australia, there has been a maximum rating of MA15+ available for titles, because in the 1980s it was believed…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 10, 2010 -
Hey, PS3 Thieves, Don’t Punch Women In The Face
Look, crime is a part of life. Some people are jerks and will try and steal things. But there are limits, and punching a female Radio Shack employee in the face just to get a PS3 is stepping over those limits. Excuse the “armed robbery” jokes from the Fox pundits, who eventually get around to…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 10, 2010 -
This Amazing Deus Ex Trailer Will Need Some Popcorn
This is a new cinematic trailer for next year’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It’s, uh, pretty great. You’ve seen some of the sequences before in previous clips, but much of it is all new, and is looking incredible. Not from a gameplay standpoint, as you see precisely zero in-game action over the space of five…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 10, 2010 -
Black Ops Has Probably Already Outsold Your Favorite Video Game
Call of Duty: Black Ops was released a month ago today. In that time, it has already sold more copies in the USA than games like Ocarina of Time, Super Mario Kart and Halo 3. Looking for specifics? That’s 8.4 million copies sold. In just the United States. Of course, it helps that the game…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 10, 2010 -
Far Cry Piracy Case Walking The Plank
Earlier this year, the US Copyright Group filed a lawsuit against 4,577 people it accused of pirating the movie Far Cry, a big screen adaptation of a 2004 PC shooter. In December, things aren’t going so well. A District Court judge has ordered that the case can only apply to defendants who lived in the…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2010 -
This Space Marine Footage Feels Like A Punch In The Face [Update]
We were tipped this trailer earlier today, which looks like it serves as a promo reel for Australian CG studio Plastic Wax. It’s for/from the upcoming Warhammer 40K game Space Marine, and it enjoys a spot of the ol’ fisticuffs. Plastic Wax are specialists in computer-generated animation with a long resume in the video game…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2010 -
Don’t Feel Guilty About This Fighting Figure
A fighting game character with wings made out of life and death? Sounds like good material for an expensive action figure! This piece is Dizzy, a character from 2D fighting game series Guilty Gear. Available in April 2011, she’ll cost you around USD$115 from a toy importer (the figure is from Japan). She’s a little…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2010 -
NSFW: PlayStation Move, A Furry Animal And Unspeakable Horrors
When I reviewed EyePet last year, I really put the game through its paces. Being a kids game, though, that’s where I drew the line. These guys? I don’t think they even have a line. A clip – which is very unsuitable for work/small children’s eyes – featuring a blow-up doll and a children’s game…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2010 -
This Is Not A Single Zelda Screenshot
It is hundreds of screenshots, composited into recreations of artwork featuring the two stars of Nintendo’s famous adventure series, Link and the Princess Zelda. These screenshot mosaics were made using shots from every single Zelda game ever made. Yes, even the handheld ones, and yes, even the new ones, and yes, even the awful CDi…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2010 -
These PC Games Love It When You Talk To Them
While controlling shooters on the PC is made easier by the precision of the mouse, that’s not enough for some people. Some people want it even easier than that. For them, there is the Dragon Gaming Speech Pack. It’s a piece of software that allows people to issue commands to supported games using their voice,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2010 -
Kinect Just Filed A Minority Report
So many Kinect hacks have teased a “Minority Report” style interface. Picked at its edges, approached it with half steps. This clip shows it’s not only possible with Microsoft’s new camera, it’s possible right now Using Kinect drivers for Linux, some kids from the Robot Locomotion Group and Learning Intelligent Systems teams at MIT have…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2010 -
Resident Evil Is Still The Best-Looking Thing On The 3DS
There’s a reason Capcom is so keen to show off its Resident Evil games on the 3DS: they’re far and away the most visually impressive titles we’re yet to see for Nintendo’s new handheld. Sure, these are screenshots – which can never be trusted as 100% faithful representations of a final product – but there…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2010 -
Cypress Hill “Singer” Suing Grand Theft Auto, Claims He’s The “Real” CJ
Michael “Shagg” Washington, a “backup singer” with rap act Cypress Hill, has decided in 2010 to sue Grand Theft Auto developers Rockstar for a game they released in 2004. Why? He reckons he’s the star of GTA: San Andreas. Washington, who says he only just heard about the game from his nephew, is basing his…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2010 -
Video Games Are Not Art, They Are…Cars
Sounds nutty. But let me explain! So much of the tired old argument that “video games are art!” is based upon a direct comparison of this medium to another. Comparing the emotions, characters, setting, art style and soundtrack to that found in film, television or to a lesser extent comic books. Those things are (usually,…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010 -
EA Won’t Be Making Games For Offline Loners Anymore
If you’re the type of gamer to shun online interactivity and retreat into your own little video gaming world when you play, you won’t like what EA Games’ boss Frank Gibeau has to say. Chatting with trade site Develop, Gibeau says “I volunteer you to speak to EA’s studio heads; they’ll tell you the same…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010 -
Resistance 3 Wishes You Were Here
Resistance 3 is giving off a very Half-Life 2 vibe, with the tattered remnants of humanity fighting a war of survival against an alien oppressor. So why does everything look so bright and cheery? This collection of concept art and screenshots for the upcoming PS3 shooter show an America overrun, the evil Chimera practically victorious…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010 -
Space Marines Aren’t Fans Of The Clean Kill
Space Marine — the upcoming action game set in the world of Warhammer 40,000 — has a taste for a bit of the old ultra-violence if these new screens are anything to go by. I mean, there’s blood. There’s shooting things in the face. There’s more blood. There’s a chainsword in the guts. There’s even…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2010
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