Microsoft is going to give amateur and professional programmers expansive tools to program its Xbox 360 sensor system for Windows 7 computers this spring, according to details dropped to our friends at Gizmodo. Translation: Better Kinect computer hacks coming soon!
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I’ve written about Slam Bolt Scrappers before. It’s got a weird name, but it has merited my attention — and yours. I picked it as one of my two favorite unreleased games from last year’s PAX Eat gaming convention (the other was Monday Night Combat). I’ve tried hard to explain it. But the game is…
We do our best to tell you about wonderful iPhone and iPad games that have just been released, but we don’t often get a chance to play a batch of good ones early. At an event in New York City I got to try a lot of February and March iOS games from EA and…
I’ve got to play more Flash games, because, earlier this week, I was that guy who’d never heard of Internet phenomenon Fancy Pants Adventures and thought I was seeing a brand-new Xbox Live Arcade game. Nope, Brad Borne, developer of the Flash hit Fancy Pants Adventures told me as he was handing me an Xbox…
Older gamers worry, with years of justification, that the games they can play today are less complex than the games they played yesterday. Another person’s streamlining is their selling out. They see a game developer saying “simplification,” they hear “over-simplification.” They don’t want their games dumbed down. That river of anxiety is flowing past Dragon…
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We had stories that would make PC gamers happy today, and stories that made PC gamers mad. Plus a double-dose for fans of boxing and a single shot for aficionados of medieval torture devices. All that and a heavenly body. That’s a good mix. If This Is How PC Gaming Will Live, Maybe It Should…
What’s more exciting about a Sims game set in medieval times than the olde-fashioned opportunities that miserable era affords players for putting virtual human beings in uncomfortable positions? I’m not being ghoulish. Many people play The Sims as virtual torturer or tormentor. They put Sims in door-less rooms and watch them go crazy. They link…
In the second scene of Fight Night Champion, the most unusual boxing game EA has ever made, you’re getting beat up in a prison bathroom. You’re a guy named Andre Bishop, and you’ve just beaten a neo-Nazi-looking guy fair and square in a bareknuckle fight in the middle of a ring. Prisoners in orange jumpsuits…
Felicia Day, star of the Internet series The Guild, will also be the star of Dragon Age: Redemption a web spin-off to the dark fantasy Dragon Age series that will debut this summer. She also has a huge crush on Thane, the dying green alien from Mass Effect 2 (“He is not a lizard man!”…
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There are games you can play in a very loud nightclub, with public relations people hovering, reporters sharing the couch, notebook in your lap, distractions everywhere and yet you can tell: This game is very good. I played the first few minutes of Portal 2 yesterday in such a setting. Wow. This could be a…
You might describe the downloadable PlayStation 3 games in the PixelJunk series as “artsy,” “old-school” or even “very good.” They’re like 21st century Atari games. But would you expect a commercial for the next one, PixelJunk Shooter 2, to feature a man drinking his sorrows away? Until they get to the eggplant part, this spot…
The IBM super-computer Watson that obliterated its human competition on the trivia show Jeopardy last night has one more chance to humiliate the species tonight. Game designer Frank Lantz, however, believes we can strike back at Jeopardy-winning machines. “It’s all about the buzzer,” Lantz wrote on Twitter. “Watson has some kind of built in buzz…
My weekly round-up of comics returns. Today’s installment features more comics than ever, including one starring Silver The Hedgehog. Perfect! Comics You Should Consider Buying Deadpool Max #5: Because Kyle Baker draws some of the most energetic comics out there and David Lapham writes some of the most cleverly inappropriate ones. Doom Patrol #19: Doom…
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Old games were difficult in stupid ways. This video — full of NSFW language — confirms this fact. The poor guy who tries to get through this 1982 Atari and Colecovision game previously struggled through the disturbingly similar QWOP. Let there never be another video game like this. Smurf Rescue Gameplay and Commentary [YouTube]
Toy Fair is a rather large test tube of possible fun. It’s been held, in recent years, at the massive glass-walled Jacob Javits Center in New York City, inside which there’s a swirl of new toys and that popular foreign substance we love here: video games. There are many ways in which we can measure…
In 2006, before Kinect and maybe even before Wii, gamer Niel de la Rouviere decided to make a motion-controller for Quake III. He says he was bored; I say that Niel de la Rouviere, armed with masking tape, was efficient. He uploaded a video of his makeshift contraption to YouTube yesterday. I’m impressed that it…
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