Many people love Nintendo DS role-playing game Dragon Quest IX, but Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is, well, obsessed? This is his DS, which he showed me today. I snapped two pics. Click the images to enlarge them. I told him he probably passed this DS around and had other people beef up his…
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Maybe the assassins are the bad guys? I’ve played the Assassin’s Creed games as thoroughly as I scrape the bottom of a bowl of vanilla pudding. I’m up on the lore, I’ve unlocked hidden movies and I’m waiting for more information about how Marco Polo was involved in the generations-spanning conflict between the brotherhood of…
The company that let us play The Secret of Monkey Island in our browser and just started letting people play a sort of Guitar Hero on Facebook is shutting down. The company also owns the Torque engine which is used in many independent web and disc-based games. The engine is now up for sale. Word…
You’re a giant video game company. You’ve released StarCraft II this year, and Call of Duty: Black Ops is selling ridiculous amounts. Your first name’s Activision, last name’s Blizzard. You have a plan for the future and, today, you shared. What we’ve got here is the text from a slide shown today by Thomas Tippl,…
The chairman of the company that puts out everything from Civilization to BioShock to Grand Theft Auto explains why he’s never rushed to try to turn his top series into the next World of Warcraft. For that, we are thankful. This was the beginning of Take Two chief Strauss Zelnick’s response to a question at…
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About 5.6 million people bought copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops in North America and the United Kingdom on Tuesday, when the game went on sale. That makes it the largest entertainment launch in history. And Black Ops is not just a popular game. It’s a very popular game. More popular than Modern Warfare…
George W. Bush has a new book out. Dick Cheney has a new video game. But the latter is not an official product and does the strangest things with its source material. The Cheney game is called CheneyStar. It is sold for download for a dollar on the Xbox 360, in the Indie Games Channel,…
The creator of Mario and Donkey Kong explains why the plumber was better-suited to star in so many games than the ape. A win for the little guys out there. Donkey Kong Jr. was created to solve this problem, Miyamoto tells Time’s Techland. Smaller heroes were better-suited to the 8-bit era of the Nintendo Entertainment…
In the classic boxing movie Rocky II, Rocky Balboa learned to beat better fighters by chasing a chicken. As an instrument for simulating face-pummeling and rib-cracking, Fighters Uncaged — the first Kinect fighting game! — is only slightly less ridiculous. Fighters Uncaged is a fighting game played in the spacious part of your living room,…
The Rocky II chicken scene! Fighters Uncaged official trailer Comparison 1: The Wii does motion fighting… Wii Sports Boxing Comparison 2: The PlayStation 3 does motion fighting… The Fight Lights Out
When Chris Bringhurst is bored at his job at a call center in Utah, he dreams of what video game characters would look like if they were in a Mega Man game. Simpler, blockier, and often cooler. He sketched 100 of them earlier this fall and just revealed a grander 200-character collection to website PikiGeek.…
This is the first-ever direct sequel to a previous installment of Talk Amongst Yourselves — to yesterday’s of course. Admire the seamless continuity, then please talk here about video games. Reader KindaGamey is responsible for today’s image. You can be responsible for tomorrow’s. Just submit one to #TAYpics, following the rules listed at the top…
C.R.E.A.M. is not the best Wu-Tang Clan song. Can we agree on this? The best is Protect Ya Neck, which is part of a Wu-Tang Clan downloadable song pack some of you can rap to today. Protect Ya Neck is one of four songs from members of the famous East Coast hip-hop crew being added…
This is Ghosts ‘N Goblins online, by Korean developer Seed 9. It’s coming to South Korea in 2011. Yay for South Korea, but what about the rest of the world? We’ve contacted publisher Capcom to find out if this game has any chance of being released outside of South Korea and will let you know…
The future that we see in science fiction promises that we will soon be able to trash our Clappers and start activating our favorite household electronics with our voice. But there are limits today. Blame Earth. Microsoft’s new Kinect audio and visual sensor, when plugged into an Xbox — which is plugged into your TV…
First there was Donkey Kong, but then there was Diddy Kong, Cranky Kong, Lanky Kong, Dixie Kong. It continues. This month, we get Super Kong. He’s like Donkey Kong but with silver fur and a blue tie. He’s here to help. This month’s Wii game Donkey Kong Country Returns, which lets players control Donkey and…
The staircase at the Nintendo World Store tells the history of Super Mario. Well, make that the selective history. This staircase, cool as it is, could use some Super Mario World 2. Also, if Super Mario Galaxy 2 is on the top step, no more Mario games ever, right? Bummer. I shot this video during…
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