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Meet Garry, The Guy Who Re-Made How We Re-Make PC Games
Garry Newman has one of PC gaming’s better-known first names — and one of its best grassroots success stories. He may have flubbed his one job interview with Valve, but the man behind Garry’s Mod is doing alright and has some thoughts about modern modding. Newman is set up in Walsall, England, He’s 28 and…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 29, 2010 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
There are only a few days left in October to talk about video games. Seize the moment. Talk about them here. Good work, reader KindaGamey, on today’s TAY image. Folks, we need new art for November. Submit paintings that are old (public domain, please) to #TAYpics. Something that looks good. Nothing too busy. I’ll pick…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 29, 2010 -
CEO At BioShock And GTA Publisher Take Two Stepping Down
Ben Feder, CEO of Take Two Interactive since 2007, will be stepping down from his post at the end of the year, the publisher of Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, BioShock and Carnival Games revealed this morning. Feder is leaving so he can pursue plans to travel in Asia with his family for an…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 29, 2010 -
StarCraft Legal Tussle Over TV Rights Brewing
StarCraft II may be popular in the U.S., but not the way it and its predecessor are in South Korea, where TV networks so badly want to air matches that a legal battle with Blizzard Entertainment could be heating up. StarCraft-maker Blizzard Entertainment, the Korea Times reports, isn’t happy with the continued attempts by Korean…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2010 -
Razer’s Ironclad Mouse Mat Put To The Test
Remember the time you first tried a PC gaming mouse mat? Not a mouse pad, a mouse mat. I remember it like it was half an hour ago. I tried one that was sandblasted for elite PC gamers. Let us celebrate elite mouse mats with this quick video test of the $60 Razer Ironclad Elite…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2010 -
Enslaved Goes 3D And Gets New Single-Player Add-On
The makers of this month’s enjoyable Enslaved: Odyssey To The West will offer a $10 downloadable expansion to their game soon. It will let people play the game in 3D. And it will let us play as horny fatman Pigsy. “Pigsy’s Perfect 10,” as the expansion is called, puts players in control of the comic…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2010 -
The Biggest Sports Stars In The World Shill For Video Games
L.A. Laker Kobe Bryant shows up to a game Tuesday in the Call of Duty: Black Ops Jeep. L.A. Galaxy star (not for long) David Beckham played EA Sports Active 2.0. Only in L.A. Only if game companies pay them?
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2010 -
50 Deaths In Donkey Kong Country Returns, In One Sitting
Donkey Kong is the anti-Kirby. While death is nearly impossible in the charming, cozy Wii side-scroller Kirby’s Epic Yarn released this month, gravity and spikes murder Donkey Kong often in November’s Donkey Kong Country Returns. The mistake was my complaint. I had told Nintendo officials that I couldn’t get a good impression of their games…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2010 -
New Uncharted (Novel) Confirmed For Fall 2011
Who knows if we’ll have an Uncharted 3 to play a year from now, but at least we can be certain that we’ll have a new Nathan Drake adventure we can read. The first Uncharted novel hits next fall. Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth will be written by Christopher Golden, an author whose novels include The…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2010 -
Standalone 320 GB PlayStation 3s Going On Sale
Sony started selling 320GB PlayStation 3s bundled with the new PlayStation Move controller last month, but promised another option. Today, the company says the 320GB systems are now shipping to retailers. They’ll cost $350. Move-bundled units run $400; 160GB units go for $300.
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2010 -
We Have Kinect, Home Testing Begins
I possess this box. In this box was an Xbox 360 Kinect and games. Courtesy of Microsoft, Kotaku is now a gaming news outlet that can be the controller. We have Kinect. One is hooked up to my TV. The Xbox 360 Kinect launches on November 4. As an agreement for getting the device early,…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010 -
BioShock 2 PC DLC Uncanceled
Looks like someone at 2K Games had a little leftover resurrection potion from whatever they used on Duke Nukem Forever because the formerly dead downloadable content for BioShock 2 on PC is alive. It’s coming. Viva PC Gaming Week! Over on the 2K forums, 2K Elizabeth spreads the news that BioShock 2’s PC patch as…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010 -
Lots Of New Looks At Dissidia 012[Duodecim]
Character art. Screen shot galores. Pre-rendered scenes. If you were feeling wistful about Final Fantasy fighting game Dissidia 012[Duodeicm], fret not. You can see a lot of the 2011 PSP game, with new images from the house of Final Fantasy, Square-Enix.
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010 -
The People Who Made GoldenEye Were Almost Purchased By The People Who Are Making GoldenEye
Rare owned by Activision? Could have been! Giant video game company Activision, who are publishing a Wii homage to GoldenEye next month, were thisclose back in the day to buying Rare, the studio behind the original 1997 Nintendo 64 first-person shooter, according to an interview in Develop. Former Microsoft executive Ed Fries, who was instrumental…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010 -
This Nintendo Chair Would Have Improved My Childhood
I had as joyful a youth as anyone could have. My childhood included a Nintendo Entertainment System. But, man, imagine if my childhood included this Nintendo Super chair. Surely, the Nintendo Chair would have enhanced my experience of Nintendo’s classic games? Surely, this is not the most sturdy video game peripheral ever designed. Who cares?…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010 -
The Wii Game That Was Briefly Mistaken For An Xbox 360 Game
The sharp-eyed gamer, the jaded gamer and the snob gamer will not mistake the screenshot of Conduit 2 atop this story as an image of an Xbox 360 game. “That’s a Wii game?” they will sneer. “Figures.” You can sneer at Conduit 2. You can roll your eyes. It is one of those Wii game…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010 -
Load “Talk Amongst Yourselves” ,8,1
You can talk about video games right here, folks, as you can in Talk Amongst Yourselves every day. You can even talk about games that weren’t on the Commodore 64, if you insist. Reader KindaGamey is responsible for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics
By Stephen Totilo Published October 27, 2010 -
The 3DS Makes For A Great Periscope
I want 3DS games like Steel Diver, games that aren’t from familiar franchises and aren’t just the side-scrolling submarine adventures I thought they were. Watch as the game turns the 3DS into a motion-sensitive virtual periscope. The system seems to be using the 3DS’ motion sensors to allow the user to rotate where they stand,…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2010 -
I Can Explain This
Uh. Well. That’s me on the right in the crown. Standing next to my virtual wife. On the other side of the bed, that’s MTV Multiplayer writer Russ Frushtick. We’re testing … co-op, yes, co-op in Fable III. The affair ended poorly (scroll to the italicized part).
By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2010
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