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CultureTotal RecallBefore There was Nathan Drake, There was Pitfall Harry
The third game in the Uncharted series is out this week, and will once again bring to the fore the adventures of a man in sloppy clothing climbing all over stuff while stealing priceless artefacts. Which takes me back. Not the the first two Uncharted games. Way back. To the series that tipped its hat…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2011 -
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Uncharted Territory
Uncharted 3 releases for the PS3 on Tuesday, along with GoldenEye 007: Reloaded, Sonic Generations and The Lord of the Rings: the War in the North. Batman: Arkham City and Gears of War 3 get downloadable content. Tuesday • GoldenEye 007: Reloaded (PS3, 360) • Sonic Generations (PS3, 360, PC) • The Lord of the…
By Owen Good Published October 30, 2011 -
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Sunday Comics: Liar, Liar, Abs on Fire
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Oct. 24.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Oct. 28.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
By Owen Good Published October 30, 2011 -
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Take This Lollipop… If You Dare
Are you ready for Halloween? Have you gotten scared by anything recently? Perhaps a little creeped out that somewhere in the dark corners of your neighborhood, there sits a silent stalker in a white, blank mask, waiting… waiting… waiting for you to be alone? I think about what used to scare me as a kid…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 28, 2011 -
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Capcom Wouldn’t be Capcom Without Akiman’s Amazing Art
Japanese artist Akira Yasuda, better known by his pen name Akiman, is a legend in the video game art world, being responsible for more classic images, posters, box covers and characters than we’ve got space to share. So we’ll keep things brief, and just focus on some of his more memorable works. Akiman worked at…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Best Street Fighter Movie Starred…Jackie Chan?
You’ve seen the bad of the Street Fighter craze of the early 90s. Now see the good. No, not good. Amazing In this clip, from 1993 movie City Hunter, we see martial arts superstar Jackie Chan take a bit of a beating. After which he starts seeing things. Namely, characters from Street Fighter II. Then…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2011 -
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The Pretty Ladies, Mutants & Busted Old Cars of RAGE’s Wasteland
Today’s Fine Art features two men who worked on RAGE, id’s recently-released desert shooter. One helped design (and build) the game’s cars. The other, the game’s mutants. Both somehow found the time to draw pictures of pretty ladies as well. Which, given the amount of tiny shorts on display in this post-apocalyptic wasteland, shouldn’t be…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallSee how 1993’s NBA Jam was Made (and Sold to the NBA)
We rarely get to see the process by which a video game is pitched to a publisher, even today in an age of developer diaries and all-access marketing. It’s even rarer we get to see how a game was pitched all the way back in the early 90s. Yet that’s what we’re getting a look…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011 -
CultureThis Guild Wars 2 Art Can’t Stand Still
OK, so I’ve got a bit of a thing for Guild Wars 2 art. It’s a gorgeous game, shoot me. But before you do, you should check out both this concept art and, in a neat twist, some trailers made out of concept art. Horia Dociu, who worked as an artist on Half-Life 2, joined…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 25, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Game That Started the Battlefield Series
The first Battlefield game, Battlefield 1942, was released in 2002. Nearly ten years ago! Yet while it was the first game to bear the branding that lives on to this day with Battlefield 3, depending on how you look at it, it’s not really the first game in the series. That honour goes to a…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 25, 2011 -
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Love is a Battlefield
Battlefield 3 releases on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on Tuesday. Other titles include Kinect Sports Season Two for the 360 and Kirby’s Return to Dreamland on the Wii. Downloadables this week include Daytona USA on XBLA and PSN, a free table for Pinball FX 2 and The War of the Worlds on Xbox 360.…
By Owen Good Published October 23, 2011 -
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Sunday Comics: Subjective Objective
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Oct. 17.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Oct. 18.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…
By Owen Good Published October 23, 2011 -
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This Week in the Business: ‘Wii U is Not Quite Next Generation.’
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Wii U is not quite next generation.” – Michael Pachter, Wedbush Securities analyst, talks in a new Q&A about the Wii U, Microsoft vs. Sony, NBA 2K12, and how Xbox Live TV might be a competitive edge against Sony. QUOTE |…
James Brightman | IndustryGamers.com Published October 21, 2011 -
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An Ode The Candy That Just Won’t Quit
In our still-young Snacktaku series, we have been focusing mostly on new snacks. The exotic, the colorful, the strange and the bizarrely delicious. But for my first Snacktaku, I felt like before I venture into the new, I should first discuss the classic snack that is nearest and dearest to my heart: Milk Duds. I…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 21, 2011 -
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Where Are They Now? Diseases That Killed You in Oregon Trail
You have died of dysentery. These are five words familiar to anyone who has attempted to caulk a wagon and ford rivers en route to the Willamette Valley. Oregon Trail not only taught generations of kids about Western migration in 19th-century America, it also familiarized them with various strange-sounding diseases. Let’s catch up with some…
Laura Turner Garrison Published October 21, 2011 -
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This Beautiful Art is From…Call of Duty: Black Ops? Huh?
Yup. And don’t look so surprised. There’s more to the Call of Duty series than military hardware, moustaches and door hinges The environments in which the games take place are rarely 100% authentic, which means someone had to dream them up. In this case, it’s artist Michael Zimmerman, who takes us on a tour of…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 20, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallWhen Street Fighter met GI Joe, the World Suffered
The year was 1993. Street Fighter was one of the biggest things on the planet, and venerable toy franchise GI Joe…wasn’t. In an effort to boost Joe’s sales, Hasbro figured creating action figures based on Street Fighter would be a really good idea! It wasn’t. Between 1993 and 1994, Capcom and Hasbro teamed up to…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 20, 2011 -
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The Spies, Soldiers and Sexy Ladies of Splinter Cell: Conviction
Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Conviction lived two very public lives. The first had Sam Fisher looking like the sexiest homeless man on the planet. That version was binned. The second version, the one that was actually released, was more “traditional”. This art, from Ubisoft’s Bruno Gauthier Leblanc, is of this second Sam Fisher. And loads of…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 19, 2011 -
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Vietnam was Hell, not a Series of Green Corridors
Vietnam is a war that still looms large in the American psyche, both in terms of its impact on modern history and its portrayal in popular culture. Yet for all the protests, rock n’ roll and classic films that came out of the war, good Vietnam video games are hard to find. This is mostly…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 19, 2011