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Rumor: Mad Max Game With Just Cause 2 Developers?
Wondering where that Mad Max game had got to? It may have gone to Sweden, to guys who specialise in large worlds and explosions. According to a report on Eurogamer, Avalanche Studios – the team behind Just Cause 2 – is working on the game, which should be an adaptation (or at least companion) to…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2010 -
New Bulletstorm Media Kicks You In The Face With Its Giant Feet
What is it with Epic games and GIANT BOOTS? Does everyone in the dark, gun-riddled, post-apocalyptic future suffer from severe orthopaedic ailments? And if so, who makes them? Was Marcus Fenix once a cobbler?
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
I Like This Team Fortress 2 Mod’s Pepper Sauce!
This is such a great idea I can’t believe this is the first I’m hearing of it: it’s a Team Fortress 2 mod where one team plays as a team, and the other team plays as Saxton Hale. That’s about the gist of it. The Red Team plays as normal, the Blue “Team” is a…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
The Game Menus Of The Future Will Be In 3D
We know games are going 3D, but did you ever stop to wonder what would happen to game menus? Scaleform are some of the development community’s unsung heroes, responsible for the user interfaces and menu systems for many of today’s biggest games. In this clip, they demonstrate how those menus will look runing in 3D,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
Happy 121st Birthday, Nintendo!
Irrational Games was founded in 1997. Lucasarts in 1982. Sega in 1940. Each of those three companies may feel like old-timers relative to their field, but they’ve got nothing on Nintendo, which todaycelebrates its 121st birthday Yes, it was on September 23, 1889 that Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a company that at the time specialised in…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
(LEGO) Thor Is Here!
While Blizzard and LEGO continue to sleep on what would surely be a trillion-dollar industry, it’s left to fans to come up with their own brick-based creations based on Starcraft II. This amazing Thor was put together by the talented Sven Junga, who has left no detail unattended in recreating Starcraft II’s most Austrian of…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
In This Case, Video Games ARE Art
Artist Jon Hansen walked into a second-hand store, saw a pile of awful Thomas Kinkade rip-offs, and had an idea: to make them better. By adding some Street Fighter. And Space Harrier. They’re part of a larger series called “Cross-Cultural Contamination”, which also stars Godzilla and Cobra Commander. So, yeah. Awesome. You can even buy…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
Woman Charged With Using WoW “To Entice An Underage Person Into Sexual Activity”
Angie L. Jenkins told a boy she played World of Warcraft with that she was 21. She’s actually 35. He told her he was 20. He was actually 15. You know where this is going. After meeting in 2009, the pair developed a relationship that began online, moved to phone conversation and ultimately ended with…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
See Super Street Fighter IV’s New Boys In Action
Yun and Yang, the two new characters in the Japanese arcade release of Super Street Fighter IV, are going at it in this gameplay footage. We know, their opponents aren’t fighting back; it’s training room stuff, designed to show off the pair’s moves, especially their ultras. Ultras, artwork and images of Yun & Yang in…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
These Dreamcasts, They Are Glorious
Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah Artist Torsten Rachu likes to airbrush stuff, consoles included, but even his finest work on current-gen systems pales in comparison to what he’s doen with four Dreamcasts. Long gone the console may be, but seeing a full-body Jet Set Radio piece on one of the old beasts…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
Photography Returns To Dead Rising
When Frank West departed at the end of Dead Rising, so too did the game’s amusing photography mode, which is absent from Dead Rising 2. Now that Frank’s back in Dead Rising 2: Case West, so too is the picture-taking. In an interview with Dead Rising 2’s Rob Barrett, Eurogamer asked about the possibility of…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
How They’re Trying To Sell Dead Rising 2 In Japan
Dead Rising may not be the hit in Japan it is overseas, but Capcom’s ads for the home market are better than anything we’ve seen in the West for the game. The first clip is the ad itself. The second is an out-take, posted only because that song is so damn catchy.
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
Reviews
Mass Effect 2: Lair Of The Shadow Broker Review: Like The Goon, Only In Space
Finally. Having gotten closer and closer with each subsequent piece of downloadable content, with Lair of the Shadow Broker BioWare has delivered Mass Effect 2 players some DLC that, if you’ve finished the game, has some real point to it. With the exception of the recent Overlord pack, most pieces of ME2 downloadable content have…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2010 -
This Is Noisy
To: Brian From: Luke Last year, I moved into a brand new house in a brand new suburb. Pros: everything in the thing was brand new. The cons? The suburb is a work in progress, a point which came screaming through my bedroom window this morning at 6am when the block next to mine, empty…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2010 -
Bringing Dead Rising 2’s Dirt Bike To Life
British firm Head First, not content with designing the front cover for the upcoming Dead Rising 2, figured a more enjoyable way to commemorate the game’s release would be to build a replica of protagonist Chuck Greene’s dirt bike. This involved taking a real dirt bike, stripping it back to its bare bones, repainting everything…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2010
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