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A $1 Video Game for People who Hate the Xbox 360’s New Look
Do you have an Xbox 360? Have you booted it up recently and had a bunch of ads tumble at you, like so much luggage in an overhead compartment after a turbulent flight? Have you, perhaps, had trouble finding what you were looking for in the new improved Xbox 360 dashboard? Pity game developer Nathan…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 22, 2011 -
John Carmack is Down on 720p, Wants 1080p for Next-Gen Consoles
Today’s high-end gaming consoles can play games in 1080p resolution, but many Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games still run at 720p or less. The average person may not see a difference, but the graphics-minded co-creator of Doom does. Yesterday, the legendary programmer Tweeted: Targeting 1080P for next gen consoles brings pixel precision back to…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 21, 2011 -
Nose-Pinched, The Wall Street Journal‘s Entertainment Blog Names Skyrim The Year’s Best Game (Wired Loved it Too)
The Wall Street Journal‘s Adam Najberg likes playing some video games, which gives him a leg up on some of his colleagues, one of whom “despises all of them.” (The love and hate is explained in this WSJ clip.) He’s picked Skyrim as Game of the Year. “No detail was too small for the developers…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 21, 2011 -
What’s a Better Video Game Goal than a High Score? Your Approval.
I’ll try any video game, because any video game might have the year’s best idea in it. I’ve played a game called PixelJunk 4AM, and one idea in it is among the most marvelous I’ve encountered in 2011. It’s an idea that can spread to more games, an idea that feels right for the way…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 21, 2011 -
Hearings on Controversial Internet-Regulating SOPA Delayed to 2012
The fate of the Stop Online Piracy Act, which is not yet the law of the land in the United States, won’t be decided until next year. The House Judiciary Committee has postponed further debate until Congress returns from its winter break, according to the Washington Post The act, commonly referred to as SOPA, will…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 21, 2011 -
Meanwhile in World of Warcraft…
How did World of Warcraft‘s creators counter today’s launch of rival MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic? They didn’t, unless you count all these “hot fixes” they just activated. One of them: “Algaefin Rockfish no longer swim in schools.”
By Stephen Totilo Published December 20, 2011 -
The new Popeye World Record is 3,023,060
Brooklyn’s Ben Falls is the new world record holder in the 1982 Nintendo arcade game Popeye, according to the score-tallying folks at Twin Galaxies. He scored 3,023,060 points. Previous record holders managed barely more than 1 million.
By Stephen Totilo Published December 20, 2011 -
Today, Microsoft’s Hype about the Greatness of the Xbox 360 is True
The subject line of an e-mail I got yesterday declared, without punctation, that “Xbox 360 is Home to the Most Anticipated Games of 2012”. At first, I snickered and sneered. Sure, it is. Or will be. Or whatever. Because it’ll have that sure-fire Nintendo classic, that…. oh, wait, I realized, there’s not much on the…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 20, 2011 -
Portal 2 is Games Radar‘s Most Favorite 2011 Video Game
Their readers thought the best video game of 2011 was Skyrim, but the editors of Games Radar have picked Portal 2. It’s their top game of the year. The readers’ second favorite game was Batman: Arkham City. But the editors? They didn’t pick a second-favorite. The don’t do silver medals at Games Radar GAME OF…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 20, 2011 -
Transformers Timeline Just Might Reveal the Next Two Transformers Games
The official timeline for the non-movie Transformers that have been starring in a series of video games confirms a bunch of things. It confirms that Megatron is not a good robot. It confirms that next year’s Fall of Cybteron game involves a battle between space-bound Autobots and Decepticons. It also confirms that these Transformers will…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 20, 2011 -
Not Exactly an Energon Cube
Not exactly an Energon cube | More swag, this time for next year’s Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Everything You Need to Know about Japan’s PlayStation Vita Over the weekend Sony unleashed the next evolution of portable gaming on Japan, and Kotaku was there. Here’s our complete coverage of the Japanese PlayStation Vita launch, from queuing…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 19, 2011 -
If Transformers: Fall Of Cybertron Looks as Good as This, No One Will Complain
Concept art is a guess, a hope and sometimes an unintended lie. Remember that today as you look at the concept art for next year’s Transformers: Fall of Cyberton, the 2012 follow-up to Activision and High Moon Studios’ impressive 2010 Transformers game War for Cybertron People who grew up with the original Transformers—people like me—will…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 19, 2011 -
Alleged Iranian Spy ‘Confesses’ that U.S. Video Game Company is CIA Propaganda Tool
When Iranian state TV aired the alleged confession of a homegrown spy on Sunday night, Amir Mirza Hekmati’s recitation of supposed wrongdoings included the standard claims of working as mole for the American Government along with a less common twist: that he’d supposedly worked for a video game company that was secretly trying to warp…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 19, 2011 -
Batman: Arkham City is E Online‘s Game of the Year
What’s our game of the year? We’re not telling… yet. But E Online has gone with Batman: Arkham City. Portal 2 was second. Uncharted 3 came in third. Breaking the pattern, The Elder Scrolls V came in fourth, not fifth. Top 10 Games of 2011 [E Online]
By Stephen Totilo Published December 19, 2011 -
How to Get 10 Awesome Free GBA Games on Your 3DS, If You’re an ‘Ambassador’
Did you buy a 3DS back when it cost $250, then watch the price drop $80 and take Nintendo up on their offer to give you 20 games as an apology? If so, then you can get the second half of that apology right now. All you need to have done before today was register…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 17, 2011 -
The Problem With Women’s Armor, According to a Man Who Makes Armor [UPDATE]
Ryan, aka “Jabberwock” makes armor. He therefore knows more about armor than I do and maybe more than you do. He has noticed, as you might have, that the armor that some female characters wear in video games, comics and movies is ridiculous. Some of it is not. Well, what can he tell us about…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 16, 2011 -
These Game Developers Are *Gasp* Proud of their Instruction Manual.
The people at Matrix Games think video game instruction manuals are cool. Forgive them for not knowing any better. They didn’t get the memo that instruction manuals are over. I think Sony sent that memo. Or maybe Nintendo did. Or was it Ubisoft? Well, no one gave the Matrix people a memo, so here we…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 16, 2011 -
This Week’s Best Gaming Apps Weren’t All about Moonshine-Running
In the land of cell phone games and gaming apps, no idea is too good, too bad or too stupid to base a game off of. You can make a game about throwing birds around. You can make a game about jumping up (that’s the whole game). You can make a game about making games.…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 16, 2011
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