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Which Consoles Do American Kids Want To Buy This Week (And Beyond)?
Reseach firm Nielsen has hit the streets and found out what American kids are after this holiday season (and the few months beyond). Unsurprisingly, video game hardware is high on the list. Asked which “big ticket” (so, expensive) pieces of electronics kids aged both under and over 13 were looking at buying, consoles and peripherals…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2010 -
Report: Elder Scrolls V Is A Direct Sequel To Oblivion
According to a report on Eurogamer Denmark, Elder Scrolls developers Bethesda are already hard at work on a fifth episode in the storied role-playing series. “[Our] source not only confirmed that the game is in current production, but also spoke briefly about the content — with fantasy-sounding phrases like Dragon Lord, something with The Blades…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2010 -
The Soundtrack To The Botanical Apocalypse
It only took two years, but there is now a Plants vs Zombies soundtrack available to purchase. That is, should you wish to pretend your working hours are being spent throwing peas at the undead instead of pushing a pencil. The entire soundtrack was composed by PopCap’s Laura Shigihara, who in addition to her duties…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2010 -
Movie Debuts On PS3 Same Day It Hits Cinemas
Mubi, the new film service for the PS3 that we’re quite big fans of, ran an interesting test over the weekend: showing a movie the same day it was out in cinemas. Granted, it wasn’t a Hollywood blockbuster. It wasn’t even an English-language film, which shouldn’t be too surprising given Mubi’s slant towards foreign cinema.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2010 -
Black Ops? More Like Black Oops!
Here we were, pointing out everything Call of Duty: Black Ops got wrong (and right!) with its use of history, when one of the more obvious flaws was staring us all right in the face. Black Ops’ cover, as you can see above, features a man holding two pistols. Seems innocent enough, but according to…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2010 -
Ding, Dong, Farmville Is Dead (Well, It’s Not #1)
It’s finally happened. After an amazing fifteen months spent atop the Facebook application charts, Zynga’s Farmville has been knocked off its perch. At one stage Farmville — a game adored by its players and despised by everyone else — was clocking up 84 million users a month, making it not just the most popular game,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2010 -
Charting The Wii’s Decline In The US
2007 was the year of the Wii. So was 2008. But 2010? Not the Wii’s year, especially when you look at the console’s decline in the United States over the course of the year. This chart, provided by Gamasutra and based upon US retail sales figures, shows a console in decline, its sales down by…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2010 -
Microsoft Bringing Cross-Platform Apps To The 360?
It’s since been edited to remove all mention of Microsoft’s home console, but earlier today, the Redmond software giant was advertising for people to come help work on Silverlight stuff for the Xbox 360. What does that mean? Silverlight – Microsoft’s in-house rival to Adobe’s Flash – is of course already used on the Xbox,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2010 -
After Toy Story, Disney Want To Tell A Video Game Story
A few years back, Disney was working on a movie called “Joe Jump”, the tale of an outdated video game character who’s able to find his way into new titles. It had been presumed scrap, but no, it’s not! A report on the LA Times says that the film now has a new name –…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 23, 2010 -
Microsoft Will Not Be Taking Kinect “Hackers” To Court
When people first started talking about messing around with the insides of the Kinect, Microsoft played bad cop, making legal threats. Thankfully, things have calmed down since then. A few weeks back, Microsoft said – in response to a “bounty” being offered to the first person to “hack” Kinect – that it would “work closely…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2010 -
Show Some Brotherly Love For This Assassin’s Creed Art
Now that the game is on store shelves and impressing people’s pants off, Nicolas Collings — an artist at Ubisoft — has been able to share some of his work from Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. Men, women, faces, weapons, armour…there’s a nice variety of content on display, all of it showing just how many polygons go…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2010 -
Kinect Can Turn You Into Star Wars Kid
Star Wars Kid, one of the internet’s earliest celebrities, had to do his lightsaber combat the hard way. Now, with Kinect and a computer, anyone can look like the world’s biggest Star Wars nerd. Using a hacked Kinect, Yankeyan has rigged up this basic tool that can track a user wielding a wooden stick and,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2010 -
This Guy Can Finish Myst Faster Than I Can Make A Cup Of Tea
I can’t remember if I ever even finished PC adventure game Myst. There was just so much sitting, and thinking, and doing nothing. This guy, he’s finished Myst. And he’s done it in under two minutes. Don’t believe me? Check the clip above, which clocks in at around 1:45. The guy has click madness, so…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2010 -
Let’s Dress Like It’s The End Of The World (And We’re Playing STALKER)
GSC Game World, developers of the cult PC shooter series STALKER, think there are people out there who would like to dress like someone who scrounges around in post-apocalyptic wastelands. So they’ve come up with an official line of STALKER clothing! You can’t buy any of these yet – GSC are just in the “prototype”…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2010 -
NSFW: Snake’s Behaviour In The Field Has Been Erratic (At Best)
It says a lot about the Metal Gear Solid series that the best description of its follies I’ve ever seen comes from an Irish comedian. The man on stage is Dara O’Briain, who as you can see, is such a big fan of the Metal Gear series (and plenty of other games!) that he devotes…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2010 -
You Too Can Play Video Games In A Virtual Aircraft Sitting In Your Driveway
You don’t need to spend tens of thousands of dollars if you want to own your own flight simulator. You can just do what this guy did and build your own! Matt Thomas built this rig, called the Moving Axis AirCraft Simulator (MAACS), in a way that sounds astonishingly simple when you consider what’s been…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2010 -
Green, Orange DSi Consoles To Go On Sale This Week
Interest in the Nintendo DS is drying up as people await the arrival of the new 3DS. Which means Nintendo has to resort to an old trick to keep shifting units: release handhelds in new colours. We’ve been passed this retail listing from Best Buy, showing some of the chain’s Black Friday deals. Alongside a…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2010 -
How A Game Controller Can Change The Way You Work
We’ve seen Kinect do some pretty interesting things these past few weeks, but ironically, the most exciting thing we’ve seen so far is simply using the camera to control Microsoft’s Windows 7. Here you can see Wolfgang Herfurtner, boss of “multitouch and gesture computing” company Evoluce, use several Windows 7 programs using nothing but his…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 20, 2010
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