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One Video Game Outlet Managed To Crack The Top 20 U.S. Magazines
Print is dying to the tune of a 5.6% drop in magazine sales in the United States for the first half of 2010, but one video game mag is still going strong. What game publication is able to hang with the Good Housekeepings and Woman’s Days at the newsstands? Game Informer, that’s what. According to…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 9, 2010 -
StarCraft II’s Zombie Apocalypse Mod Looks Like A Winner
We’ve already seen plenty of creative StarCraft II mods change the real-time strategy game into racers, side-scrolling shooters and more. But modder Mads Lund’s injection of futuristic, zombie apocalyptic, third-person shooting may be the most promising. This is Lund’s “Ruins,” a StarCraft II modification using the game’s Galaxy Map Editor tools to create something very…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 9, 2010 -
The Wait For Ninja Gaiden Creator’s Next, Devil’s Third, Is A Long One
We got a look at Tomonobu Itagaki and Valhalla Game Studios’ next title, Devil’s Third, earlier this year, but we won’t actually play it for a long, long time. The game’s publisher says it expects Devil’s Third to hit the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as late as March 31, 2013. That’s the end of…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 9, 2010 -
THQ Back In The Business Of Losing Money, May Drop Annual UFC Games
After a long, money and talent-bleeding period, publisher THQ had a pretty damn good last year. The Darksiders and Red Faction maker thanked UFC Undisputed and Red Faction for that. This year is not off to the same great start. THQ lost $30.1 million USD this past quarter, thanks to slower sales of this year’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 9, 2010 -
PlayStation Plus Subscribers Get PixelJunk Racers 2nd Lap 1st
Hardcore PixelJunk brand fans may have a convincing reason to become PlayStation Plus members as of now. PlayStation 3 owners who subscribe to Sony’s premium service will be the first to get access to PixelJunk Racers 2nd Lap starting Tuesday. That’s not a sequel, but an upgrade to the original PixelJunk Racers. Developer Q-Games has…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 9, 2010 -
Super Scribblenauts Has Vomit & Corpse-Eating Carnivorous Bikes, Still Safe For Kids
What innumerable whimsical scenarios can Scribblenauts players generate like some sort of god in the sequel? How about knife-wielding murderous computers, flaming snowmen and flesheating bicycles? That’s just the tip of the iceberg in the still kid-friendly Super Scribblenauts. That animated assault and the setting on fire of Christmas trees is just the type of…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 9, 2010 -
First Screens Of Tony Hawk: Shred Show Its Shredding Side
Tony Hawk: Shred will put your Tony Hawk: Ride skateboard controller to use, once again, later this year, letting players skateboard and snowboard while balancing on pricey plastic peripherals. This is what Tony Hawk: Shred will look like. Pro skater Tony Hawk was the first to leak details on the next game in the long-running…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 8, 2010 -
See Halo: Reach’s Final Toy Warthog, Ghost (Figures Sold Separately)
McFarlane Toys ensures that no Halo fan will want for Halo: Reach action figures this fall. Nor will they starve for bad-ass plastic Halo vehicles in which to stuff the entire Noble Team. It’s gonna be all “Boooosh!!” and “Pew-pew-pew!!” Joining the Halo: Reach action figure line-up will be the famous UNSC Warthog—with Light Anti-Aircraft…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 7, 2010 -
Boba Fett? Boba Fett?! Boba Fett Shoes?!?!
Screw it. It’s Friday. It’s late. Let’s dispense with the video game chatter and start talking about everything but. Join us, readers new and old, in this open thread. You know, for a minute there, I actually considered possibly owning some Boba Fett-themed Adidas. But I’m fairly positive I’m too old to pull those off.…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 6, 2010 -
Machinarium Maker Offers Amnesty To The 85% Of People Who Pirated Their Game
The people who made the beautiful adventure game Machinarium estimate that only about 5-15% of the people who played their game actually paid for it. They don’t seem too pissed. In fact, they’re offering those thieves a sweet deal. Amanita Design is now selling Machinarium for the paltry sum of $5 USD to anyone and…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 6, 2010 -
Is This The Next Chapter of Castlevania: Harmony of Despair?
It looks like the recently released Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is set to expand (and soon) with a new downloadable chapter and at least one Belmont ready to join the team. A user on the GameFAQs forums posted what appear to be early details on the first add-on for Konami’s Xbox Live Arcade game, which…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 6, 2010 -
Splinter Cell’s Director Sneaks Into LucasArts
The man who made Splinter Cell and designed Far Cry 2, Clint Hocking, has found a new home after leaving Ubisoft earlier this year, one of two recent high profile departures from the developer. Looks like he’s now at LucasArts. Hocking’s landing at the house of Star Wars games comes via Ubisoft community developer Kimi…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 6, 2010 -
Three New Peeks Into The Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Baseball star turned game developer Curt Schilling and his team at 38 Studios are hard at work on Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, perhaps the strongest looking role-playing we’ve ever seen from a professional athlete. And while I’m sure some of you are thinking “What about Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 6, 2010 -
Get Your War On With Operation Flashpoint: Red River Next Year
Codemasters follows up last year’s realistic tactical shooter Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising with an all-new entry due in 2011. Operation Flashpoint: Red River will let players visit scenic Tajikistan to experience an “epic campaign.” What else? Red River will, according to its official announcement, “include a deeper narrative-led campaign, streamlined inventory and control system, a…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 6, 2010 -
How Much Would You Pay For Quake Live ‘Pro’?
The makers of free-to-play shooter Quake Live are putting a price on the web-based shooter, offering both “Premium” and “Pro” subscription options for FPS fans. The good news is that you still don’t have to play to play Quake Live. Yes, Quake Live will still be free-to-play, should you choose that option, but id Software…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 6, 2010 -
Samurai Heroes Help Sony Win This Week’s Japanese Hardware War
What sells PlayStation 3s in Japan? Samurai soldiers with rock hard abs and great hair, that’s what. See the impact that Sengoku Basara 3 had on Sony’s current generation console? Strong sales of Capcom’s war game helped moved the PS3 from fourth place to second, more than doubling sales of the console in Japan. With…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 6, 2010 -
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Hopefully, Battle.net will be up and operational all weekend, for I plan on playing enough StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty to dwarf a Battlecruiser. OK, so I’m not sure how gameplay equates to ship size, but let’s move on. Despite having played through the single-player campaign and enjoyed loads of multiplayer, I still have challenges…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 6, 2010 -
Is This How Microsoft Will Fix Kinect’s Couch Problem?
Microsoft’s forthcoming Kinect camera controller for the Xbox 360 plays better with standing humans than it does with couch potatoes. Microsoft says it’s still “calibrating” Kinect for seated players and may accomplish that with a little help from Amazon.com. The Xbox 360 maker may have turned to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to make Kinect’s depth-sensing…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 6, 2010 -
The Alderaan Trail Is Littered With Imperial Entanglements, Bad Motivators
Dysentery may be a thing of the past, but bad R2 motivators and fully operational Imperial space stations are a real threat on The Alderaan Trail. Part of Matt Marchini’s brilliant Star Wars homage, as seen on Picasa, via BoingBoing
By Michael McWhertor Published August 5, 2010
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