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There’s Only One John Marston Action Figure
Rockstar doesn’t do action figures. There have been none made for Grand Theft Auto, none for Bully, none for Rockstar Table Tennis. So fans have to step in, do it themselves. This Red Dead Redemption custom was made by Deathlimbo, out of an old – would you believe it – Remy (from Street Fighter) figure…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 8, 2010 -
The PSP Phone That Plays Mario, Zelda
It says a lot about how hideous Sony’s rumoured PlayStation Phone prototype is that a Chinese knock-off using the PSPgo as a template is a more desirable piece of hardware. Unmei Q5 doesn’t just look like the PSPgo, its external case essentially is a PSPgo, down to the illegally-used logo, d-pad and face buttons. The…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2010 -
Kinect Could Have Been On The Mac Instead Of The Xbox
Kinect is the Xbox 360’s Great Wavy Hope in the battle for the home entertainment market. Did you know, however, that the device could have easily gone to Apple instead? Inon Beracha, CEO of PrimeSense – the firm providing much of the magic behind Kinect – has revealed that back in 2008, when he was…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2010 -
The British Library, Preserving Books And…Video Games?
The British Library, which catalogues every book published in the UK for posterity’s sake, is keen to start keeping copies of old video games, too. “The games publishing industry recognizes the value in preserving their computer games and many in the industry that I’ve talked to could relay horror stories about old material disappearing or…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Ken Is Suddenly More Interested In Sweaters Than Fireballs
By slaterman23, as seen on Gamefreaks
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
New Battlefield Game Lets You Blow Up Crap For Free
As expected, EA today revealed a new game in the Battlefield series, and as expected, it’s part of the publishers Play4Free line of PC games that let you, well, play for free. Battlefield Play4Free pits the forces of the United States and Russia against each other in a 32-player online combat game for the PC…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Lame iPhone Joke Turned Into Actual Video Game
Back in August, obnoxious PSP spokesboy Marcus Rivers went to town on iPhone gaming, the ad team mocking up a crummy mobile game called “Lame Castle”. It’s no longer a mock-up. Bradley Johnson, formerly of Crystal Dynamics, tells Gamasutra “my buddy sent me an e-mail with a link to a PSP ad and wrote, ‘We…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Conquer World Of Warcraft With Tanks And Spearmen
We’re surprised it’s taken this long, but somebody has finally gotten around to recreating World of Warcraft’s land of Azeroth in PC strategy game Civilization V. It’s not some kind of fancy total conversion of the game or anything, so don’t expect new units or rules customised for World of Warcraft players. Considering Civilization V…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Halo’s Spartans Are Not Made, They Are…OK, They’re Made
Popular Halo web series Red vs Blue just got a little more real, with this veritable army of real-life Spartan suits built to honour the machinima Back in 2007, Shawn Thorsson and his friends thought it’d be a hoot if thy could go trick-or-treating dressed as the characters from Red vs Blue. Now, in 2010,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Half-Life Fan Movie: Pretty Kids, Explosions Aplenty
Here’s a new trailer for Beyond Black Mesa, a fan-made Half-Life movie that makes up in enthusiasm and polish what it lacks in subtlety and Gordon Freeman. There’s a little too much kung fu and pretty young people running around for it to feel truly authentic. Half-Life 2’s world is a bleak, decaying one, after…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
New Batman Comic Influenced By Batman Video Game
Comics God Grant Morrison’s latest work is Batman, Inc, a future-corporate re-imagining of Gotham’s Dark Knight. One of his key inspirations for the series? Last year’s Batman: Arkham Asylum video game. While Morrison’s respect for the medium – and even its role in getting Batman, Inc off the ground – are well-known, it’s still a…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Why Gran Turismo Games Are Always Late
Gran Turismo 4 was meant to be out in 2004. Wasn’t out until 2005. Gran Turismo 5 has been delayed twice now. Why, then, can’t developers Polyphony Digital get a game out the door on time? It comes down to past experience, when a game shipped last millennium as “finished” scarred series creator Kazunori Yamauchi…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
Hack Kinect, Win $2000
DIY hardware champions adafruit industries want somebody to come up with a set of open source drivers for Microsoft’s Kinect, so anyone can run the thing on all kinds of different computer systems. There’s a reward. Of $2000. Here’s the challenge, as thrown down on adafruit’s website: What do we (all) want? Open source drivers…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010 -
See Kinect’s Thousands Of Points Of Invisible Light
Kinect works by projecting infared light throughout the room it’s situated in. Under normal circumstances, it’s invisible, but switch to night vision mode and you can actually see the dots floating around your living room. Kiwi reader Cullen sends us this footage that, while a little tough to make out at first (he’s having to…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 4, 2010 -
360 Gets Old-School Role-Playing For A Buck
“West” is a new indie game for the Xbox 360 that looks right up the alley of anyone who has ever played (and enjoyed) games like Pokemon or Mother It of course lacks the polish of those top-down, role-playing Japanese classics, but then, you can’t get them for $1 on an Xbox console, either. West?…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 4, 2010 -
Dead Space 2, You Are Creeping The Hell Out Of Me
Everything I’ve seen so far of Dead Space 2 has been about making the game bigger, more expansive, more explosive. Not much on whether the game’s gotten any creepier. Well, this trailer is pretty freakin’ creepy. Dead Space 2 will be out on PC, 360 and PS3 in January 2011. Click to view
By Luke Plunkett Published November 4, 2010 -
Video Game Ads Were Better In The 1930s
One of the best things about early 20th-century transportaton was the advertising. Cruise ships, airlines and car companies all used bold, iconic ads to sell their vision of the future. It’s a vision that transfers easily to classic video games. IGNs art team whipped up this line of ads showing how video game vehicles would…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 4, 2010 -
Five Games That Were, And Should Be Again
Wolfire, the charitable types developing kooky PC action game Overgrowth, don’t just make games. They imagine what it would be like if people went and remade someone else’s old games, making them as awesome in 2010 as they were originally. Wolfire’s team has posted examples of five classic games that “could still be milked, along…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 4, 2010 -
In Two Years, Gears Of War Might Chainsaw A Phone
Donald Mustard, creative director of Chair Entertainment (Shadow Complex), sees a bright future for gaming on a mobile phone. One so bright that in 2-5 years we’ll be playing Gears of Wars on something that fits in our pockets. Chair, who are currently working on Infinity Blade for the iPhone, say that at first doing…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 4, 2010
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