The Killzone card game is not official. A fan made it, and now you can play it. The game was created by a person who goes by the name pineapple1. He/she writes to Kotaku that “I’m a big Killzone fan. And I also was a big fan of Eye of Judgment. After Sony pulled the…
Susan Orlean has written wonderfully about an orchid thief and sundry other topics, but she’s avoided video games. Hadn’t played one since Pac-Man. Somehow, she got a Kinect. She likes it for what it’s not. (Hint: What it actually is.) In a December piece for the New Yorker, she describes her brave dip into video…
The Wii is for your grandma and my nephew. It’s for rugby players and talk show hosts. It’s also for burlesque dancers, according to this Wii commercial. Nothing wrong with that. Just… an unexpected angle, Nintendo. Nintendo Real Stories – Wii – Burlesque [Vimeo]
Exploding red barrels are a video game cliché. The people making the video game Bulletstorm wanted exploding barrels in their game, but they dreamed to make their barrels green. Then they woke up. Well, before they woke up, they put green barrels in their game. And they tested their game on real human beings. Here’s…
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For a while, it seemed that Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: The Fate of Two Worlds could fit into current Marvel Comics continuity. Not that that’s important, despite comics readers (including me) caring a wee bit too much about continuity sometimes. The game and the comics seemed to be lining up okay. Captain America and Magneto,…
Rockstar Games still takes some of the best screenshots in video games, so even if their next game L.A. Noire isn’t great — or even if it is — their shots of it will look fantastic. The faces of Detective Phelps and his on-the-beat cronies look great in this new quartet of new screens from…
I ask my friend to recommend me an iPhone game. He tells me that Colorbind is interesting, maybe excellent. I nod. I go to iTunes. I download Colorblind. I think it’s great. I compliment my friend’s good taste. Wait. Colorbind? Today I’m showing you the best gaming mistake I made in 2010. This is Colorblind,…
Angry Birds is still the hottest game on the iPhone and iPad, at least when you look at our weekly ranking of top-grossing games on the platforms. What can knock off these birds? Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com) $0.99 32…
I finished more than 50 video games in 2010. I did not plan to. But here’s the list. As I’ve done for each of the past four years, I’ve assembled the list of games I started playing for fun during the preceding year — some 195 of them — and then bolded the ones I…
This video by Vimeo user David Ghent shows what it looks like when New Year’s (Eve?) is mixed with alcohol, Xbox 360 Kinect motion gaming and some PlayStation Move — all in a room that’s not that big. And here I was expecting an injury or two. New Years time lapse [Vimeo]
In the video game war against video game cannibals, as depicted in next month’s Bulletstorm, extreme measures are required — or at least rewarded. The straight-faced official U.S. video game ratings board describes a bunch of them. This is the description on the Entertainment Software Ratings Board’s website for the M-rated (meaning for players 17…
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Motion control neither revitalized nor ruined video games in 2010, the year when finally everyone was doing it. You could find motion control games everywhere, joysticks and buttons be damned. It wasn’t all bad. But much of it was wild. How much arm-waving did we all do to control video games this year? How many…
Students at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program weren’t trying to make video games when they found ways to use a rocking chair or two buckets full of water as controllers. They didn’t make games. They made tech art that I want to play. While I scoffed at the inflatable rubber boat that I recently…
Gather round the tree and talk about video games. Are we a day early? No big deal. Credit to reader buckyboy2009 for the festive image. Submit your best take to #TAYpics
Greg LoPiccolo didn’t have to leave his office in a brick building near Boston this year to see how two of the biggest trends in the last half-decade of video games were playing out. There were doubters outside. Inside? In the offices of Harmonix Music Systems, the place where the hit Rock Band games are…
The video game Deus Ex is wishing us a happy holiday. Though I believe it’s more of a Merry Christmas message here. It’s the hat that gives it away.
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