You might quibble with exactly how important British writer Naomi Alderman says video games are, but if you’ve ever felt that games don’t get their due by the public at large, here’s a verbal salvo to keep handy: It’s a curious fact that, though videogames are now the world’s largest entertainment industry in financial terms,…
The Sunday Times reports of a plan by the Scottish prison system to raise “literacy” and “numeracy” skills among its prison population by giving the inmates access to Nintendo DS systems. The program would be tested in a small number of prison libraries and would involve literacy experts working with the prisoners. Prison officials note…
Duke Nukem Forever is dead and gone (I think.) Its possible successor on the great video game milk cart of missing games, Alan Wake, is on the verge of release. So what, then, is the New Duke Nukem Forever? Here are some candidates: Black Mesa First Inklings: This fan-made re-creation the original Half-Life using development…
The Apple Tablet is still just a unicorn, a publicly unseen beast of questionable evolutionary logic, but research group Flurry Analytics claimed yesterday to spot its presence at Apple headquarters and detected a heavy amount of gaming on the thing. In a blog post on Sunday, Flurry’s vice president of marketing, Peter Farago, announced that…
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All the games we reviewed in the past week were not called Dark Void. Just two of them. VVVVVV Micro-review: AAAAAAH!!! In which Michael McWhertor “got at least two of the jokes.” Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth Micro-Review: Something M2 Whipped Up In which Mike Fahey objects to the game’s use of giant eyeballs. Pocket God…
Is there a fundamental difference between the character voices we expect to hear from a 2D game and a 3D game? The makers of the Assassin’s Creed II DS game thought so. As a final curiosity regarding the Assassin’s Creed II Discovery for iPhone that we’ve been covering this week, I had to share the…
We already knew that EA believes March’s Battlefield Bad Company 2 poses a threat to Activision’s Modern Warfare series. In terms of multiplayer, they’ve made the case. For single player, they’re finally getting specific. Here’s the game’s new single-player trailer (again): Developers from EA’s DICE studio, longtime makers of the Battlefield series, told Geoff Keighley…
News this week of free-for-some downloadable content plans for Mass Effect 2 generated confusion about who will have to pay for what. Answers are emerging, including more free content and a $15 cost for used-game consumers who want it all. The main element that has puzzled gamers is The Cerberus Network, which was announced on…
Yesterday Kotaku reported about the latest attempt to give players joystick control of a character in an iPhone game, without blocking too much of the screen. Today, check out five videos that show five approaches to dealing with the problem. Assassin’s Creed II Discovery‘s Two-Directional Slider Dungeon Hunter‘s Virtual Analog Stick Zenonia’s Virtual D-Pad Mega…
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An image wasn’t all they had to say. Two weeks since the posting on the Internet of anonymous complaints about working conditions at its San Diego satellite, the development studio most famous for Grand Theft Auto addressed those charges. The company did so by addressing a reader question on Rockstar’s official website. “Unfortunately, this is…
Show of hands. Who has heard of the video game Dancetown? You know, the video game that National Public Radio reports might better whip you into shape than Wii Fit. NPR’s Morning Edition, the radio show I wake up every morning, got around to covering a study we covered in November that shows people can…
Just in case the Metal Gear Solid games were seeming conventional to you, the next one will include singing weapons. The late May PSP game Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, which so impressed me at the Tokyo Game Show last year, will have so-called AI weapons, publisher Konami announced today. Better to have them explain…
I’m just about done looking back at 2009 and just about done playing 2009 games. So I’m ready to share my fifth-annual list of my favorite in-game moments from the past year. These are not the 10 best games of 2009, nor are they ranked in any special order. They are 10 sometimes spoiler-y great,…
There’s a big problem with video games on Apple’s iPod Touch and iPhone. There’s no joystick to control them with, no directional pad to press. Just glass to touch and a device to tilt. At last, there’s a strange solution. Prepare to welcome to the world the two-directional virtual joystick, a virtual slider rendered on…
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It could have happened to any man with any console. But for Chris O’Brien, newspaper columnist, it happened with the Wii. The father of two bought his kids a Wii for Christmas, but returned it. Too many hidden costs. The San Jose Mercury News columnist recently explained the sticker shock that had him returning his…
It may have sneaked out early, in apparently unfinished form, but the iPhone take on Assassin’s Creed II will finally be out in February. Since last week, I’ve been playing it. It’s Sonic-y. Assassins’ Creed II Discovery was developed by Ubisoft and Griptonite Games, as both a DS game (released last fall) and now as…
Sonic, Star Wars, Free Realms and Starcraft comics, all sprung from video games, hit comics shops in North America today. Click each thumbnail for more information. Free Realms #5 (of 12) Written by JS Lewis. Drawn by Oliver Nome. Summary Via Wildstorm Entertainment: Darkthorne reveals a dangerous secret that could threaten the stability of the…
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