I primarily use my iPad for video games, but I realized recently that it could be perfect for reading comics, something I enjoy doing. But then I tried to buy some. Comics have been for sale on the iPad since Apple’s tablet first went on sale half a year ago. I remember the Marvel Comics…
One of several clichés of modern military first-person shooters lamented by the jokers at Cracked. Oversimplifying? Sure. But you try telling these screenshots apart. The full graphic is at Cracked.com
Not since the Terminator had to decide what to tell the janitor knocking on his door has a movie icon had such excellent choices of what to say or do next. What should Toy Story’s Woody do here? [UPDATE] The dialogue wheel in this drawing is a riff on the same system used in the…
Killzone 3 looks like an impressive first-person shooter, but I sense some apathy out there. FPS games… there are so many of them. This trailer helps. Last month, Killzone’s head creator Herman Hulst was in New York, showing me part of the game. He told me we’d get to know more about the enemy Helghast…
If you have a new Mac or fancy getting one that runs Mac OS X v10.6.6., you can get a free app store on it, as of today. It’s got more than 1000 apps, Apple says. Which games? I took a tour of the Mac App Store today, which you watch in the clip atop…
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Fable Coin Golf was the oddest of the games Microsoft showed in Las Vegas today, all slated to come to the Windows Phone 7 … (you know, Microsoft’s answer to the iPhone.) Check out the reel of upcoming games. Some neat stuff there. The only other thing we know about Fable Coin Golf is that…
We’ve been wondering what Avatar Kinect is. Now we know. It’s a way to use Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect sensor to slip us into a Matrix of avatars hanging out together in the virtual world. They showed it in Vegas today. Remember, the Kinect is a hands-free system and it’s already been able to make…
At CES today, Microsoft said that people with the Kinect sensor hooked up to their Xbox will be able to use the controller-free device to control Netflix and Hulu starting this spring. Meaning: choosing/playing movies and TV with a wave of the hand. No remote.
There’s no glasses free 3D PSP coming yet, but Sony just showed that they will be making camcorders and cameras that show 3D images without the need for glasses. Sony’s not shunning glasses-free 3D, which Nintendo is bringing to us for gaming this winter. At CES 2010 out in Vegas, Sony just showed a 3D…
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John Cena not your idea of an ideal pro wrestler? And Dhalsim is? No to HHH, but yes to Blanka? Street Fighter fan “jim784m” made this Street Fighter version of pro wrestling using the character creation tools in WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011. Anyone with the game can download it and wind up with many…
How long would you wait until a video game showed off its best idea? How much good would you enjoy in order to reach something great? Lost In Shadow demands six hours to get itself ready. Lost In Shadow is a Wii-only side-scrolling platforming game. You play as the shadow of a boy, running and…
Lost In Shadow’s official launch trailer. For Comparison, number 1: Echochrome ii For Comparison, number 2: Shadow Physics
Millions of people have played Super Mario Bros. We’ve run, jumped and some even used the game’s special shoe. How’d we learn how to play it? How does this game teach so much with so few instructions? Game designer Radek Koncewicz recently broke down the way the game’s first world teaches players 30 fun things.…
How to recognize a faked screenshot of a video game back in the 90s, as seen in NextGen magazine, via The Fort90 Photo Dump. Some of those impossibilities sure are possible now.
Out in Las Vegas for CES 2011, our guys have spotted the En-V. It’s sort of a car. It’s a vehicle made by GM. Our friends at Jalopnik have wondered if it is The Pac-Man Like Future of Urban Travel. It sure is odd. So’s CES, the year’s biggest tech and gadgets show. Microsoft and…
Last month, we started wondering what a video game Mt. Rushmore would like. Into it would be carved not the faces of U.S. Presidents, but the heads of four gaming icons. We liked the idea of a mountain that featured the titans of 2010 video gaming. That made us realize that the mountain itself had…
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When I misheard a friend’s iPhone game recommendation, I wound up accidentally buying Colorblind. Today, Kotaku’s iGame of the Day is the game my friend was actually recommending: Colorbind Colorbind is a puzzle game that has you drawing ribbons over circles. That’s as complex as it needs to be. You’ll see. You can download the…
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