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Origin Of The Species
As seen on Ript
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 -
The Bible Is Now An MMO
I’m willing to give this game a chance, because when you put the whole religious side of things in a box, the Old Testament – with its plagues and pestilence and pillars of salt – is pretty badass. The Bible Online is a new massively-multiplayer online game from German outfit FiAA, and will – over…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 -
BioShock Loses Court Case Over Its Internet Home
You’d think that the URL www.bioshock.com would take you to the official site for 2K’s BioShock series, but no, it does not. And after the publisher lost a recent court ruling, it probably never will. The domain is currently owned by Name Administration Inc., a company that specialises in…purchasing domain names then sitting on them.…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 -
The Games That Made Me
In this line of work, I’m continually reminded of how big a part games like Castlevania, Mega Man and Contra played in raising a generation of gamers. Which is funny, because I never played any of them. Being raised in Australia, where the NES never really played as dominant a role as it did in…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 -
First Mega Man Online Trailer Isn’t Screwing Around
And here we were thinking Mega Man Online, the Korean MMO being worked on by Capcom and Neowiz, would be a pedestrian affair. Seems the pair have something a little more epic in mind. At least, they do in this teaser trailer for the game, which owes as as much to something like Akira as…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 -
What Do The Buttons On The PlayStation Controller Mean?
The buttons on PlayStation controllers have always been a bit of a mystery. Why those weird colours? Why those wacky shapes? PlayStation designer Teiyu Goto explains. Goto, who designed not only the PlayStation but the PS2 and PS3 as well, has told Japanese magazine Famitsu that it was all about keeping it simple. “That was…pretty…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 -
The 288,945 Most Popular Websites On The Internet
Earlier this year, Alexa sat down and compiled a list of the top 1,000,000 websites in the world. Listing those sites would be good reading, but looking at a picture of the most popular ones is much cooler. Nmap have run a script that gathered the 288,945 most popular websites from that list, stuck their…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 -
Playboy Gets Into The Online Gaming Business
Playboy has had enough of letting people simply license games based on the magazine and its bunnies, today revealing a deal with online developer Bigpoint to host games on the magazine’s website. The first of these games, due out later this year, is called Poisonville, which as you can see by the trailer is a…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 -
Could You Play Modern Warfare 2 Without Killing Anyone?
And I don’t mean in singleplayer. I mean multiplayer. Because Glen McCracken is doing just that, trying to reach the maximum level 70 in multiplayer without killing a soul. How the hell is he going to do that? He uses a riot shield, and gets his XP from grabbing flags in the game’s Domination mode.…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 -
Fallout: A Post-Nuclear PC Casemod
Fallout casemods for the Xbox 360 are great, but you can do so much more with a PC. Reader Ryan passed this along when he saw the Xbox 360 mod we posted the other day, saying he thought we’d be interested in it. Well yes, Ryan, we are interested in it.
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
The SNES & Genesis Never Looked Better
Or, for that matter, did the NES, until Ozcan got his hands on them. He’s customised the three consoles to amazing effect, the graffiti stylings giving the machines a fresh look without ruining the design of the actual casing. I’m glad to see that it’s not actually a Genesis, either, and that ol’ Doc Robotnik…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
Fight Begins Online, Continues With Fisticuffs And A Knife
Late last week, two men from New York got into a heated argument while playing a PS3 game online. Normally, that’s where the beef would end, but in this case, it was only the beginning of hostilities. Eric S. LaChapelle, 24 (left), had been playing an undisclosed PS3 game online against Corey J. Chalich, 18…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
Rumor: $50 Million Video Game Cancelled
You may have already deduced this in light of the complete absence of marketing for the game in recent months, but CVG report that long-in-development-hell, ex-Midway game This Is Vegas has finally been put out of its misery. Yes, the open-world game that nobody ever wanted, never looked remotely interesting and never looked like it…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
Why GameStop’s “Store Of The Future” Is Anything But
Having trialled them in select regions for almost two years now, GameStop last night officially opened their “store of the future” in Palo Alto, California. Get a good look, because it’ll soon be the past. The concept store, a prototype of the kind of changes the mega-retailer will be rolling out to its 6000 stores…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
Metal Gear vs Modern Warfare vs Internet Memes
War has changed. Where once the stars of Modern Warfare and Metal Gear fought mercenaries and other bad men, today they are taking on…internet memes. The crew from the Metal Gear x Modern Warfare spoof video we featured last month have, in their downtime between a second and third episode of their crossover tale, decided…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
Capcom Promises: No More Racist Games!
There were some that perceived Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 to be a racist game. Not in intent, perhaps, but certainly in its imagery and execution. Well, Capcom have certainly learned their lesson! Capcom’s senior PR manager Melody Pfeiffer has told Gamasutra “Since the RE5 controversy, we have become much more aware of how important it…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
The Day Before Halo: Reach’s Invasion
The Halo universe is famous for explosions and the colour purple. But pregnant British women? Never seen one of them in a Halo game before. This is yet another live-action trailer for Halo: Reach, showing the lives of some of the citizens of Reach the day before the Covenant invasion. They’re OK, but Microsoft, the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010
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