Homefront’s version of the “second American Revolution” will pit U.S. citizen against North Korean invader, restoring freedom to our nation’s White Castles, Hooters and gas stations with a feel-good bloodbath. Kaos Studios’ take on a North American invasion is looking pretty damn good, full of grim violence and spectacular destruction. It’s due for the PlayStation…
Publisher Activision is getting out of the Hero business. That means no new DJ Hero and Guitar Hero games (at least for 2011), but it also means no new downloadable songs for the games it has already released. The official “Guitar Hero Franchise Update FAQ” breaks the bad—but not wholly unexpected—news that after the release…
…instead of Shigeru Miyamoto, it would look something like this, a blend of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, in which Link, Zelda and… err, Tingle go looking for love. Created by the same team behind the equally great God of War indie movie and Inglourious Plummers, this Legend of Zelda…
Even though their biggest competitor in the rhythm video game genre is now essentially dead, the people who started the Guitar Hero franchise say they were saddened to hear that Activision had put the seminal music game to sleep. Harmonix Music Systems, who created the original Guitar Hero, call the discontinuation of Guitar Hero and…
The next game in Q Games’ great and quirky Pixeljunk series arrives on the PlayStation Store March 1. What’s new in PixelJunk Shooter 2? Lots! Why not read our preview? Or ask Q Games yourself at the PlayStation.blog
Jonathan M. Guberman, creator of the previously featured Automatypewriter—a typewriter that plays Zork—is working on a new project, a playable, fully mechanized Pac-Man cabinet. This is our first peek, the Pactuator, a hand-cranked, fully geared Pac-Man. Guberman calls the Pactuator “the first (visually interesting) part” of his mechanical Pac-Man remake, which he calls Pac Machina.…
The soothing sounds of Clint Mansell will accompany BioWare’s Mass Effect 3 later this year. Who’s that? The longtime Darren Aronofsky collaborator who’s scored films like The Fountain, Black Swan and Requiem For A Dream. Mansell’s work can also be heard in sci-fi fodder like Duncan Jones’ excellent Moon and the big screen adaptation of…
Tonight’s open thread is brought to you by fennel. Let’s all thank the great bulb for hosting this semi-nightly post where off-topic conversation thrives. After a hard day of dealing with the death of Guitar Hero and the threat of even more Call of Duty, let’s all take a moment to share better, more enlightening…
Nintendo’s most loyal fans in the United States will be able to get their hands on the company’s Ball, the Club Nintendo exclusive re-release of the 1980 Game & Watch portable. It’s the latest Club Nintendo reward. Club Nintendo of Japan gave out Game & Watch Ball hardware way back in 2009, a recreation of…
We recently took issue with Brøderbund’s video game controller that required no physical contact, the U-Force. This forgettable, flaky Nintendo Entertainment System controller, almost universally despised, has been mastered by one man, who uses his U-Force with rare mastery. That man is Joe McKenna, maybe the best U-Force practitioner we’ve ever seen. His sister, Karen,…
The underrated fighter Rain shows what he’s got in this excellent Mortal Kombat fan art illustration by Luciano Fleitas. Finish him! Bring it by Luciano Fleitas / demitrybelmont (deviantART) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.
The Wii’s original role-playing game The Last Story has been knocked from its first place perch in Japan by the legal powers of Capcom’s Gyakuten Kenji 2, the latest game in the portable Ace Attorney series. The combined powers of Miles Edgeworth, Macross, White Knight Chronicles and Dragon Ball made for a top ten full…
The people who publish Call of Duty have been talking about their plans to bring more players into the online multiplayer fold, specifically targeting Asian players. Today, Activision finally divulged some details on its Chinese Call of Duty plans. Activision plans to follow the model made successful by countless MMOs and first-person shooters targeted at…
There will be no skateboarding games, no music games coming from Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero publisher Activision in 2011. That means no DJ Hero 3 to play and no Tony Hawk games to stand on this year. And, oh yeah, no Guitar Hero games
PlayStation executive mascot Kevin Butler unwittingly re-tweets the PlayStation 3’s private cryptography key, the key that opens the system up to piracy and homebrew programs, after Twitter user Travis “exiva” La Marr taunts the VP of PlayStation Stuff. Butler’s tweet was quickly scrubbed from his account, marking at least the second time the fictional exec…
Publisher Activision has just added a few more games and maybe one more development studio to its kill count. A now partially confirmed report says that the mega-publisher has axed the Guitar Hero franchise, killed its True Crime reboot and fired much of Freestyle Games. Update: Activision confirms that Guitar Hero and True Crime: Hong…
It’s a big week for the North American version of the PlayStation Store, with new additions like Stacking and Explodemon, plus old favorites like Plants Vs. Zombies and Pocket Fighter, new to PSN today. Plenty of demos complement the new downloadable games, including trial versions of Hoard and Tetris. PlayStation Plus subscribers get a single-player…
Tonight’s open thread falls on a Tuesday. And Tuesdays now carry revolving themes. In tonight’s open thread, let’s talk about what we’ve been watching, whether on TV, at the local cineplex or on stage at an off off off Broadway show. Have a buried Netflix streaming gem you’d like to share? Some network broadcast favorite…
Project M, the Super Smash Bros. Brawl hack that injects more of what you loved about Super Smash Bros. Melee into its Wii sequel, has been released in demo form. This is your opportunity to answer the question “Why not just play Melee?” for yourself. The demo release of Project M packs in just 14…
Microsoft’s Kinect may get its first taste of hardcore flavor—made a little bit softer—in the form of an on-rails Gears of War shooter, pictured above, said to be in development for the Xbox 360. According to sources claiming to be familiar with the project, the previously rumored Gears of War Kinect project is indeed real.…
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