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They’re Selling Comics On The iPad The Wrong Way
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 6, 2011 -
The Snow Cliché, And The Rest Of The Modern Combat Eye-Rollers
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
By Stephen Totilo Published January 6, 2011 -
If Toy Story Was Made By The Mass Effect People
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 6, 2011 -
New Killzone Trailer Shows Grand Spectacle, Desperate Struggle Of Sci-Fi War
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 6, 2011 -
These Are The First Video Games In The New Mac App Store
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 6, 2011 -
Fable Golf Game, Game Room Games Are Going To Be On The Windows Phone 7
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
Avatar Kinect Is A New Xbox Live Gold Perk And A Fancier Chatroom
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
Wave Your Hands To Use Netflix On Xbox This Spring
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.
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
Sony’s Doing Glasses-Free 3D Too
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
The Best Rock The Post Office Delivered
To: Luke From: Stephen What you may have missed from the day crew CES 2011 Can Only Get More Impressive After This Some StarCraft Player Has The Best Girlfriend Ever Review: ‘Lost In Shadow’ And The Six-Hour Wait For A Wonderful Eureka Doctors Say The 3DS Is Safe, Potentially Beneficial To Children PLUS… CES keynotes…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
What If Street Fighter’s Best Wrestled For WWE?
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
ReviewsReview: ‘Lost In Shadow’ And The Six-Hour Wait For A Wonderful Eureka
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
How Super Mario Bros. 3 Works
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.…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
CES 2011 Can Only Get More Impressive After This
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
A Video Game Mt. Rushmore
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 5, 2011 -
Colorbind Is The Excellent iPhone Game I Meant To Buy
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 4, 2011
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