Looks like Ubisoft is bringing more Rayman to the portable gaming arena, with a rating for Rayman for Nintendo’s DSiWare recently levied by Germany’s UnterhaltungssoftwareSelbstkontrolle ratings board. Man, that’s a long word. What else do we know about Rayman DSiWare? Nothing. But at least the listing indicates that Rayman, not those vile Rabbids, will be…
Welcome to Bobby Kotick’s nightmare, a world in which Guitar Hero controllers could be rendered useless, a world in which video games can be played by monitoring muscle actions. A brave new air guitar future! In reality, this technical demonstration of muscle-computer interfaces, as shown at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology,…
Cool your importing jets, patient PlayStation 3 owners. Silicon Software and From Software‘s blocky retro adventure game 3D Dot Game Heroes is coming to North America, hopefully bringing the Best Loading Screens Ever with it. Says who? Says the official PlayStation Twitter account, writing today “No need to import – 3D Dot Game Heroes for…
Turn 10 ups its driving game with Forza Motorsport 3, the self-proclaimed “definitive” racer of this generation, a sim that strives to let the more casual racing fan into the fold with a series of options that are noob-friendly. Sure, it has pretty much everything one would expect from a serious driving game, ensuring that…
That footage of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 being played in the third person? Totally legit. The external camera view, a surprise late addition from Infinity Ward, is limited to the game’s multiplayer mode. How limited? IW explains. “3rd Person is a new playlist mode in Multiplayer,” Infinity Ward’s creative strategist Robert Bowling told…
The developers of iPhone beat ’em up Tap Fu have taken a look at the piracy percentages on their recently released game and, man, are they a black belt caliber kick in the balls. On day one, according to Neptune Interactive, the number of illegitimate copies of Tap Fu submitting high scores to the game’s…
THQ’s latest grappler, WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2010 looks like it may have a glitch that could leave your WWE superstar embarrassingly pantsless, as shown in the above, potentially NSFW video that features virtual ladies sans underthings. Reader Nathan was on the unfortunate receiving end of that glitch, resulting in a user created WWE “diva”…
Number None, the developer behind swell time-manipulating platformer Braid, is getting into the motion control business, actively seeking a developer to do “very interesting work with full-body motion tracking,” according to a new job listing. That update to the official Braid web site, as spotted by the one man team of Superannuation, is hiring someone…
It says so right on the recently released, still unofficially finalized box art, meaning your copy of God of War III could very well look different. Placeholder though it may be, it’s both attractive and subtle. Perhaps too subtle. Rarely do we see North American games veering from the standard box art path. But considering…
There’s a new Nintendo DSi coming. And it’s coming this year to Japan, boasting a larger 4″ screen and… well, a larger 4″ screen, according to a report from the reliable Nikkei news service. According to that report, which appeared in the Nikkei newspaper and has since made its way online, the price for the…
It is not too late to do a very serviceable Ness impersonation this Halloween, thanks to Fangamer, creators of the Earthbound inspired “Awesomeness Combo Pack,” complete with shirtness, hatness and yo-yo-ness. Like most things Fangamer made—the Mother 3 Handbook, for example, or their sundry t-shirts—this Earthbound-ish get up comes with any number of unique pins,…
Nintendo has announced, via the Nintendo Week show on the Wii’s Nintendo Channel, Excitebike World Rally for WiiWare, a 2.5D update to the 1985 NES classic. Expect the WiiWare game to hit virtual shops on November 9. According to the announcement video, Excitebike World Rally will support motion control and classic style controls, feature online…
Add Netflix to the list of everything that the PlayStation 3 does. Next month, PS3 owners who are also Netflix subscribers can enjoy thousands of movies and TV shows from the comfort of their consoles. According to the official announcement, which confirms speculation that Netflix streaming would come to a console that isn’t the Xbox…
Resistance 2, Insomniac Games’ follow-up to PlayStation 3 launch title Resistance: Fall of Man, reviewed better than the original sci-fi first person shooter. So why is Insomniac so bummed about reception to that game? The developer’s senior community manager James Stevenson tells Videogamer that it was the long-running fan reaction to Resistance 2 that weighed…
Any Sega fan worth his or her salt would gladly take up smoking and/or arson as a passion, now that lighter maker Zippo is making Sega Genesis and Sega Saturn lighters in collaboration with Banpresto. Don’t expect to see too many of these classic Sega consoles lighting up butts. They’re only available for order until…
Gearbox Software’s shooter-RPG hybrid is an addictive blend of loot hunting and cooperative play. Now that the game is in the hands of a larger audience, we wanted to see how well the game holds up in the real world. When we played Borderlands for our review, the number of people playing numbered in the…
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Sony’s revamped PS3 marketing campaign has won us over, thanks to the efforts of unexpected console mascot Kevin Butler, VP of whatever the job requires. Tapping into the power of a good montage, SCEA’s latest spot is its best yet. Sure, it could use a little more footage from games that aren’t Uncharted 2: Among…
PC gamers still planning on picking up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may want to take a look at the Steam version, which is getting full Steamworks integration, including Steam achievements and Steam Cloud support. The achievement stuff is just delicious candy, really, but the Steam Cloud support is nice. That server side storage…
Movie rental company Netflix may be expanding its internet streaming of movies and TV shows beyond PCs, set top boxes, internet ready TVs and Xbox 360s. The company revealed yesterday it was adding another well-adopted platform to its service. Netflix wouldn’t name the device it planned to add to its arsenal of stream-ready electronics, but…
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