Inspired by Minecraft, Zelda, Diablo and more…capable of melting the heart of our own Luke Plunkett (actually, the guy already worships The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker)…and just all-around amazing-looking… This is the game codenamed Cube World. It’s being made by a mere two people and will be out for PCs eventually. It can be…
Another day, another beloved video game gets cloned by an iOS developer out to make a quick buck. The current victim is Nintendo, a company that is seeing their lovely 3DS game Super Mario 3D Land pilfered by the creators of 3D Cartoon Land Safari Naturally, the everyday Joes and Janes who review games in…
Twitter was invented 9 1/2 years after the first Nintendo 64 washed up for sale on American shores. That was fortunate for the N64, because, as we re-learned last week, Twitter exists to vivisect any and all video game news—and to make it all seem rather crappy. But what if people could Tweet about the…
Last year, I praised the Facebook game Lucky Space, a space-mining strategy game, for being a) more complex than the average Facebook game and b) fun. Then I forgot to keep playing it, and at some point, perhaps recently, the game was yanked from Facebook? Why? (And isn’t that weird?) The answer may well be…
One of these screenshots above is from New Super Mario Bros. U. The other is for New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Move the slider back and forth to compare. Can you tell which is which? Try this set, too. How about this one? And finally… The Wii U image is the first shot in all…
The next Ratchet & Clank game may be the first important Ratchet & Clank game in many years. The new Ratchet, Full-Frontal Assault, is a modified MOBA or DOTA, and if you don’t know what that means then you may be unaware of one of the hottest genres of video games in the world. Two…
The new Wii is called the Wii U. It’s coming out in America on November 18 and will cost $299, not counting hidden costs. Nintendo blasted out a ton of news about it today. But they didn’t tell us everything. Here’s What We Know It’s $299, for the basic version that includes the console (which…
I just want to say that we don’t need two New Super Mario Bros. games in the span of four months. I just want to say they should look more different. I just want to be a grouch, but, actually… this game looks lovely! Is your heart not melted yet? Then watch this gameplay demo.…
I will not speak ill of the Nintendo Wii, even though others have done so for years. My Wii was a very good gaming console. A weird one, yes. It somehow managed to be popular while remaining niche. Its games were fun, but, often a bit ugly. Its best games came out in the middle…
There are still no full-fledged Metroid games on the horizon, but Nintendo’s top sci-fi series will at least be featured in one the main attractions of Wii U launch game Nintendo Land. The newest issue of Game Informer reveals that the collection of HD Nintendo-themed mini-games will include Metroid Blast, a fleshed out version of…
Only the biggest Nintendo fan could name all the Kirbys featured on the back cover of a special booklet that’s packed in with copies of Nintendo’s new Kirby’s Dream Collection for the Wii. The Collection comes out next week, but you can take the quiz now. Here are all the Kirbys: Try to name the…
Here is a new video game trailer. It starts with an attempt to be serious, with an expression of a desire—presumably by some unseen game creators—for a video game to mean something. Yes, it starts with gravitas … joke gravitas, we’ll soon find out. That lasts about 30 seconds, because in the context of this…
Freddie Prinze, Jr. reprises his role as Mass Effect 3 super-soldier James Vega in this December’s animated movie Mass Effect: Paragon Lost. The first trailer hit in July. The new one here intensifies the action. Paragon Lost tells a story about Vega and his squad of special forces as they fight against the Collectors. The…
Hear the head of this site yammer on about 10 weird gaming topics in the new Insert Credit podcast: My Neighbor Totilo
If you had a job as a video game reporter, you’d not be able to inhale and exhale your way through a day without sniffing the excitement powerful people in the gaming industry have for “free to play” games. These are games that are free for anyone to start playing but then require you to…
After two weeks of careful study, I have determined that Super Hexagon is the bullriding of video games. It may not look it. It may look and sound like an old Atari game that fell through a timewarp and re-emerged on the iTunes store today. But it is, in fact, an experience that will break…
Sony will release a boxed set of all three console Killzone games on October 23 for $40, the company revealed today, saying the first one, which was made for the PlayStation 2, will be getting a 720p upgrade. This is just the latest in PS3 bundles. Previously, Sony has sold God of War, Ratchet &…
For some reason, Metal Gear publisher Konami will now let you buy these horse heads/”masks” in the PlayStation 3’s virtual world, Home, for 99 cents a pop. We’ve got a Home avatar modeling them here in this animated GIF. You’re welcome! Yeah, nothing strange about this at all. Nope. PlayStation Home: Out Of This World…
There are at least two timelines on the Internet that put the major Super Mario games in chronological order, as if they happened to one guy named Mario who has been living an extraordinary life. These timeline don’t present Mario as a real man. The people who make these timelines aren’t that free-thinking. But the…
Nintendo’s big fall Zelda “Symphony of the Goddesses” concert will be touring through the following cities, according to a press release the game maker just sent out: Sept. 15: Toronto; Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Sept. 22: Minneapolis; Orpheum Theatre Oct. 12: Dallas; AT&T Performing Arts Center Oct. 18: Boston; Wang Theatre Oct. 25:…
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