Meet Scott Maxwell: Star Wars Fan. Gamer. And, Oh Yeah, He Drives a Rover on Mars.

Some people have cool jobs. And then there’s Scott Maxwell, who has one of the best gigs on two planets. He’s one of the people who drives the Curiosity Rover on Mars. How do you get that job? What’s it like? And how does it compare to all the sci-fi and video game fantasies we’ve…

New Book Lets You Look Inside the Dragon Age Universe

Whether you love or hate what BioWare’s done with their fantasy action series, most people who’ve played the Dragon Age game would have to admit that they’re filled with impressive art and design. A new book from Dark Horse Comics will provide glimpses of the all the artwork that goes into making Dragon Age feel…

Mass Effect 3’s Best Action Hero Is Getting His Own Comic

“This one doesn’t have time for your solid waste excretions.” If you’re like me, you “watched” every gripping minute of Blasto 6: Partners in Crime, the film featuring the first Hanar Spectre inside Mass Effect 3. The rules-breaking renegade did whatever the hell he wanted in pursuit of justice, even if it meant smashing up…

Zaxxon Returns with an Ordinary Escape

There had never been anything like Zaxxon when it released. At the time, kids considered it the first 3D game, even if it achieved that look through isometric projection. Still, it communicated sophistication, technology and, to an 8-year-old, difficulty. Sega resurrects its space shooter franchise with Zaxxon Escape but, unfortunately, it’s neither a return to…

The Drama Of Life In the UNSC Continues In This Live-Action Halo Webseries

The second episode of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn picks up after the first, and delves farther into the trials and tribulations of Hastati Squad. The visual reminders of Battlestar Galactica do hang around, as we follow the group of young cadets adapting to the requirements of their military life. And we get a glimpse…

Harvey Smith Has Mixed Feelings About Whether There Should Be A Dishonored 2

Have you played Dishonored yet? The folks who made it wrote out a great deal of lore to flesh out the game’s steampunky, alt-fiction, whale-filled world. So it stands to reason that they might want to make a sequel. But designer Harvey Smith isn’t sure. Speaking to me in an interview last week, Smith said…

Mass Effect 3‘s Omega DLC will be out on Nov. 27, will be “double”-sized and cost $15, according to a Eurogamer report

New iPhone Game About Foxconn Draws Attention to Worker Suicides

In a Permanent Save State is not meant to be particularly fun. It’s a serious game, by artist Benjamin Poynter, following the imagined stories of Foxconn employees who committed suicide The conditions for workers at the Chinese factories where iPhones, iPads, and nearly all gaming consoles are made continue to stay in the headlines, with…

Report: Blizzard Considered Putting Diablo On Game Boy

Blizzard considered making a game called Diablo Junior, ShackNews reports. Not to be confused with the Whopper Junior. Or Carl’s Jr. According to David Craddock, an author who is writing a book about Diablo creator Blizzard North, the team considered bringing Diablo to the Game Boy after the release of Diablo II “Following Diablo II‘s…

Ubisoft’s huge GoG catalogue is 60% off this weekend. There’s bound to be something in there for pretty much everyone.

Sumioni and Razor Salvation Enter the Tegra Zone

The quad-core Tegra 3 chip gets a little more love this morning with the addition of Acquire’s demon-painting action game Sumioni and turret shooter Razor Salvation from Blowfish. When last I played Sumioni is was on the PlayStation Vita, and the gesture-based ink demon magic should translate quite nicely to Tegra 3-powered Android devices. Hell,…

Guillermo Del Toro and Grant Morrison Announce Their New Comics in Battling Accents

Yesterday at New York Comic-Con, one of comics’ best writers and a true movie-making visionary told the world what their new comic-book series were about. Too bad no one could understand them. Just kidding! Every word from Grant Morrison and Guillermo Del Toro was perfectly intelligible. Exciting, even! During a press conference held at the…

It appears that Eastern European copies of Dishonored are restricted in several ways. Buyer beware.

Maybe an HD Zelda Game Could Look Like This?

Despite the depth-of-field effects, this isn’t a statue. It’s a 3D model of Link, done by games artist Chris Brincat It is now also near the very top of my wish-list as to what an HD Zelda game should look like on the Wii U. Though ideally such a game would ditch the fairy. Link…

Here’s Where Gangnam Style Didn’t Hit It Big

A pop sensation. Over four hundred million YouTube views. Number one on the charts in multiple countries. PSY and his tune “Gangnam Style” are a global sensation. But are they? There’s at least one country where the tune never really caught on: Japan. Online in Japan, stories have appeared, wondering why the country isn’t into…

After stating that Mario Wii U was “full 1080p HD”, Nintendo now says it’s just “high definition”.

Behind the Scenes of the Live-Action Ace Attorney Movie

When the Ace Attorney live-action movie was released back in February in Japan, I called it the best video game movie ever made. When it came out on Blu-ray in August, I watched it a few times, reaffirmed that it was an excellent movie, and gave it a prominent place on my video shelf. Last…

DJMax Technika Tune is a Music Game Tailor-Made For the Vita

Last generation’s PSP was a bastion of great music games with titles like Lumines and Project Diva—in addition to re-releases of classics like PaRappa the Rapper and Gitaroo Man. However, one music series has been often overlooked, despite having some of the best music games around: DJMax. Why has it been snubbed? Probably because of…

Famed for Masturbation Toys, Tenga Has a Different Product for Japanese Arcades

While Tenga made its name with its self-pleasuring aids, it’s bringing something slightly different to game centers: a pillow that, um, looks like one of its self-pleasuring aids. This 25cm “Tenga Throat Cup” cushion is dubbed as “big size” and large enough for you to stick your hand in and rest your head on. Just…

Watch As Japan’s Biggest Virtual Idol Takes Taiwan By Storm

Proving that she is an international sensation, virtual idol Hatsune Miku performed her first live show in Taiwan to sold-out crowds less than a week ago. This was part of a tour celebrating her fifth birthday that also visited Hong Kong for the first time the week before. But the most interesting thing about this…