I should have been playing more Gears of War 3 Friday night. I had an early copy. But I tried Driver: San Francisco I should have been playing Gears of War 3 most of Saturday afternoon, but I felt the irrepressible urge to do something else: play more Driver: San Francisco I got some Gears…
You don’t need controllers to use Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect. That’s the point of the thing. You don’t need a controller. You certainly don’t need an inflatable boat. But to play this winter’s Cabela’s Big Game Hunter: Hunting Party, you’re going to need a special Kinect gun. It comes bundled with the game. How does…
Right now, 17,889 people are playing Gears of War 3‘s campaign on an online-connected Xbox 360, according to the in-game stats we’re looking at with our advance copy of the game. The game comes out on September 20. It’s the 19th here in America and in Europe, the two biggest markets for the game. Technically,…
Silly me. I thought the main draw of Kirby Mass Attack would be Kirby Mass Attack. Nope. The main mode of what I assume is Kirby’s final game on the sunsetting Nintendo DS—the mode that gave this game its name—is a decent experiment in controlling 10 pink puffballs at once in a side-scrolling adventure. The…
Indiana Jones’ next video game will be on Facebook. He’s going to appear in Adventure World, the actually pretty good quest game from Zynga, makers of FarmVille. It’ll happen some time this October, according to a Zynga blog post
Hard-working professionals (who usually stand on two feet) are paid to sound like dogs and, now horses in the video game series The Sims 3 Pets. Today, we present footage of some of their work. We also present a twist in the world of video game animal sounds: for this October’s The Sims 3 Pets,…
I recently travelled to the Cappadocia region of Turkey to get away from work and to enjoy the area’s amazing, exotic geography. Hundreds of rock formations called “fairy chimneys” fill the terrain. In the early morning, dozens of hot air balloons take to the sky. And on the main drag in the town of Göreme,…
In the middle of New York City, in the back of one crazy truck, pro wrestling icon Shawn Michaels promised me he could show me the newest Cabela’s hunting video games in one take. He did and even fielded my questions about why he hunts with grace, all in a single video you can see…
Nintendo is catching a lot of heat these days for refusing to make games for the iPhone, but one of the other elite video game companies, the forward-thinking makers of Portal, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2, Valve Software isn’t just shunning iPhone. Valve shows no interest in making portable games at all. Not for iPhone.…
We’ve got a guy who speaks Japanese and one who speaks Australian tearing through Tokyo Game Show, eyeballing Hideo Kojima, playing the prettiest PlayStation 3 game they’ve ever seen, and soaking in all the news from Tokyo Game Show 2011. Here is all the top news from the last 24 hours of TGS… PS Vita…
I’m back from a vacation in Istanbul where the wonders of an iPad and a Wi-Fi connection allowed me to download and read all of last week’s 13 big new DC Comics series. I’ve got mini-reviews of all of the first wave below, but also some other other recommendations about the best new comics to…
This November Assassin’s Creed: Revelations sends series hero Ezio to 16th-century Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, Turkey. Earlier this month I took a plane to Istanbul, mostly for vacation, but also to check out some of the sights we’ll see—and climb—in this next Assassin’s game. Istanbul is amazing. I suggest you go. But for now,…
Grant Theft Auto IV. Red Dead Redemption. L.A. Noire. For the last few years every console game from Rockstar Games has been a big deal, creatively and commercially. Next up: Max Payne 3, whose debut trailer hit today and you can see right here. GTA is Rockstar’s baby. Red Dead and L.A. Noire were the…
Anomaly: Warzone Earth HD is the rare kind of iPad game that feels like it was improved by Apple’s tablet. I have not played this tactical war game—reverse tower defense, if you know or understand what the means—on a computer. So maybe I shouldn’t be saying this. But I have played games like it, with…
Here’s the brand-new trailer for Lonesome Road the next big expansion to the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC epic Fallout: New Vegas In this one, publisher Bethesda summarizes: ” You are contacted by the original Courier Six, a man by the name of Ulysses who refused to deliver the Platinum Chip at the start of…
We got a visit from the Kirby ice cream truck today, part of Nintendo’s promotional push for September 19’s Kirby Mass Attack, which just might be the last Nintendo-backed DS game. Maybe. (UPDATE: No. There’s a new Prof. Layton coming out next month.) But today was a not a day for eulogies. It was a…
Some people think that the 3DS’ new second-circle-pad add-on is ugly. They mock it. They deride it. But maybe the 3DS “slide pad” is a beautiful homage to one of history’s greatest video game box-art optical illusions. You see a slide pad. I see Pierce Brosnan’s extended jowl on the cover of Nintendo 64 classic…
The first act of Gears of War 3 is impressively muscular and surprisingly graceful, a role model for shooter fans that proclaims from the crowd of so many gun-wielding peers that this is how a blockbuster action game should begin. I’ve only played the first fifth of the storyline mode of Epic Games’ mega sequel,…
Bejeweled 3 is an excellent video game. Normal people play it on computers. But special people—people who work at PopCap, the studio behind the Bejeweled series—get to play it on a massive touch-sensitive TV right in the lobby of their headquarters. Lucky them. Giant Bejeweled 3 Touch (my name for it) is irresistible, as my…
I was in Turkey for the past week. Saw some sites. Hung out with cool people. Went in a hot-air balloon. Stayed in a cave hotel (in this cave room). And I went to some museums, including Istanbul’s Pera Museum, where I checked out a great exhibit of student art. There was this one painting…
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