Meet Amy Demicco. She’s wearing the coolest dress in Boston this weekend at the PAX East convention. Her dress is made almost entirely out of playing cards for Magic: The Gathering. She estimates that she’s got about 800 cards in this ensemble, mostly in the helmet. Check out the video above and she’ll explain why…
We’ve gone and given Talk Amongst Yourselves its own blog. And you could be one of its authors. Madness! More info here
On November 6, 2012 a profoundly simple game called Curiosity was officially launched on iPhones, inviting people to chisel away at a massive cube composed of millions of blocks. Players from around the world started poking at the cube. There was a stupendous prize inside that would take players, working in unison, ages to unlock.…
Capcom now believes the app needed for Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate‘s 3DS-WiiU cross-saving will be available Friday.
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The ability to transfer save files across Wii U and 3DS versions of the new Monster Hunter series failed to go live on the game’s North American launch day yesterday, despite being featured in the main trailer for the game. Gamers in North America can merrily play through the Nintendo console and portable versions of…
The acclaimed 2011 Deus Ex: Human Revolution is getting a director’s cut edition of the game for Wii U. The thing people hated most about that game? It’s getting fixed, along with some other improvements. Details from the publisher’s morning e-mail announcement: The Director’s Cut offers a full slate of Wii U GamePad features including…
When professional reviewers prepare to review books, movies, or video games, there’s a basic understanding that the reviewer won’t spoil everything. The reviewer will hold back some details, for the pleasure of their readers or audience. But something you might not know is that game reviewers—ourselves included—don’t always pick what we hold back. We often…
If you gave me five, seven or even 10 guesses about who outgoing EA CEO John Riccitiello’s favorite character on HBO’s acclaimed show The Wire was, I’d have gotten it wrong. The Wire ran for five seasons. It was a show about class and crime. Its cast was an ensemble of cops, crooks and the…
Our sister site Gizmodo on TV? This seems like a great idea. Better than Deadspin: The Movie or a Kotaku opera, yes? Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers is a real TV show. It’s on BBC America tonight. Give it a look, will you? It’s on after Top Gear tonight at 10:20 ET/PT, 9:20pm Central
I like God of War: Ascension. It’s a violent video game. I’ve got nothing against that. I like a lot of violent video games. I “get” where a lot of in-game violence comes from: games need to feel interactive; letting me control one character and eliminate another from the screen is still the most easily-comprehended—and…
Nintendo executives have many reasons to keep their games off of iPhones and Androids and to only let them play on Nintendo hardware. But what about the creators of a new Nintendo video game? They’ve got reasons, too. Last week, I asked some of the Japanese and Canadian creators at Nintendo and Next Level Games…
In a move that probably won’t affect you, Nintendo is making some changes to its presence in New York City. Don’t panic! Their Nintendo World Store near Rockefeller Center in midtown is sticking around. No changes there. But the company’s Park Avenue offices, where I participated in a transcontinental video-conference interview with the creators of…
Stop holding your breath for an official offline mode for the new SimCity. It doesn’t seem like you’ll be getting one, perhaps ever. In a detailed blog post addressing concerns about server usage and the new game’s always-online connection, Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw refined her studio’s position and offered a thank you to players…
Here’s an image hyping Battlefield 4, sent to us by a tipster on the same day that Battlefield publisher EA confirmed that the game will be shown in San Francisco on March 26. We haven’t been able to confirm if the image is real, but it’s got the same downpour motif as EA’s invitations to…
Some time during the three-plus years the Nintendo 3DS video game Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon was in development, the game’s main development team in Canada received a visit from Shigeru Miyamoto, the lead creator of The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. Miyamoto, who works primarily out of Nintendo’s headquarters in Kyoto, has famously…
SimCity lead designer Stone Librande acknowledged some of the problems his team’s game has with roads and traffic today and promised that some tuning fixes are on the way. From a new blog post on the game’s website: We understand that when cars always take the shortest route between point A and point B there…
The delightful new Wii U game Lego City Undercover has a bunch of Nintendo Easter eggs. I found a few of them during the 22 hours and counting that I’ve played the game. The one in the video here is my current favorite. If there are better Nintendo easter eggs hiding in the game—where does…
It’s an excellent, brand-new year-one Wii U game. It’s simultaneously safe for kids and yet more or less Lego Grand Theft Auto—with you as a cop rather than a crook. It’s the best Lego game of the 10 I’ve played, though it’s not going to win any awards for progressive game design. And it’s got…
There’s a Trophy in the new PS3 game God of War: Ascension that rewards you for scoring a thousand-hit combo. Imagine the bloody combat artistry required to win this accolade! Imagine using the game’s wonderfully-varied arsenal of combat maneuvers. Or imagine the (possible) glitches players can find to earn this Trophy through just one tedious…
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