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Midweek Moneysaver: Hell, Yes, We Still Have a Midweek Moneysaver
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, nor a prolonged datacenter outage, stays the couriers of Dealzon from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Forty-one savings, bargains and deals from the height of the fall release calendar await you below in this week’s Tumblrsaver! Software • Yesterday’s release Assassin’s Creed 3…
By Owen Good Published October 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
Scary Games And I Do Not Get Along. I’ll Stick With The Cuter Side of Halloween.
Tonight, Halloween night, isn’t just for trick-or-treating or parties and dances. It’s the perfect time of year to turn down the lights, turn up the speakers, and play the hell out of a scary game. Except that horror games and I, well, we don’t mix well at all. I don’t do spooky and scary. The…
By Kate Cox Published October 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
Well, This is a Weird Excuse For Not Having Women in Your Video Game
The brutally enjoyable Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is set in, duh, medieval times. If one was to ask the developers of the game why you can’t play as a female soldier, the answer should have been “because there weren’t any”. But when a fan asked the question of Steve “Tibberius” Piggott, boss of developers Torn Banner,…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedPersona 4 Golden‘s New Battle Music Rules
The advance press copies of Persona 4 Golden for the PSVita unlocked yesterday, and I’ve been playing the game it with every free hour I’ve had since then. The soundtrack, by Shōji Meguro, is so good I can’t stand it. The Vita version also has a bunch of new stuff from the original PS2 game,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedOne Does Not Simply Frequent-Fly Into Mordor
Created by Air New Zealand and WETA Workshop, the folks who do all sorts of production design for The Hobbit, which comes out in just a month (!), this might be the best air safety video I’ve ever seen. Watch out for a Peter Jackson appearance, too.
By Jason Schreier Published October 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedNeed for Speed: Most Wanted Has Great Cutscenes
In my review of Need For Speed: Most Wanted, I mentioned how the game has these wicked-cool little videos that play before every race. There are a lot, and they’re great. I grabbed one to give you a sense of what I’m talking about. I particularly love how none of the in-game events start out…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Hurricane Warning from 1996, Still Unheeded
“Here. Right here,” he said, almost triumphantly. “He said it would be right fucking here.” I was a reporter for The Daily News of Jacksonville, N.C. He was the science writer for The Charlotte Observer, back when a newspaper that size could staff such a position. It was Sept. 6, 1996, the morning after Hurricane…
By Owen Good Published October 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
Damn, Guys… You Are Sporting Some Impressive Halloween Costumes
Click to view When Evan asked you all to share your Halloween costumes with us, you did not mess around. I’m blown away by the originality of some of these, and the extensive detail on a lot of these. You should all be very proud, and excited to show them off this Halloween night.
By Tina Amini Published October 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedBash Zombie Heads in with a Wrench in The Dead Linger
One of the cool things about PC gaming is the opportunity to get in on interesting games before they’re even finished and try them out. Many of us started playing Minecraft back when it was far from the polished experience it is today-there’s just something cool about poking around in an unfinished game. But even…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
Seven Reviewers Love Zooming Around In Circles In Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Do you have a strong desire to go fast? A veritable need for speed, perhaps? Reviewers worldwide have raced madly through a Fairhaven mainly devoid of normality, but chock-full of cars, cops, and crashes. Even the single-player in Need for Speed: Most Wanted is an asynchronous multiplayer and the rules of both is “go fast”…
By Kate Cox Published October 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
I Just Got the Hurricane Sandy Edition of a PS3 Game
I’ll be honest: I never really dug Guerilla Games’ Killzone titles. They never really lived up to the Halo-killer hype that accompanied them and never stood out from the FPS landscape in a way that, say, Insomniac’s Resistance games did. Killzone 3 didn’t get very high marks from me. But this waterlogged Killzone Trilogy will…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedCreate and Share Your Own 3D Browser-Based Games with Gameglobe
Gameglobe is a place where everyday folks like you and me can play, create and share unique 3D games (like that one up top) with people all over the world. Square Enix and Bigpoint have just launched the site’s open beta, so it’s game on for everybody. Just head over to Gameglobe.com, sign up for…
By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedAssassin’s Creed III’s Multiplayer Isn’t Evil. It’s Just Pretending.
As good as the the single player portion of Assassin’s Creed III is, the designers of the game’s multiplayer deserve credit for crafting one of the year’s best gaming jokes-and for maybe getting the last laugh. They’ve taken some of the most obnoxious things about modern gaming, and they’ve twisted them. In fact, they’ve damn…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedJalopnik Updates
jalopnikupdates: This Amazing Time Lapse Video Shows Sandy’s Assault On New York And The Moment The Lights Went Out A camera on top of 2 Northside Piers shows New York before Sandy rolled in, its destructive approach, and the sudden loss of power as the storm surge flooded lower Manhattan. This is the best angle…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 31, 2012 -
UncategorizedLink’s Not the Only One Who Plays the Ocarina
Sure, Link was okay at ocarina, but he was just a little kid. It’s pretty fun to watch someone who can really play the thing. Here’s ocarina diva Cris Gale playing the Koume and Kotake/Twinrova Theme from Ocarina of Time. You can find about more about Gale at her website, and get her album on…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
Epic Kids Are a Paragon of Mass Effect Cosplay
These three kids are Preston Thorne’s, technical support manager for Epic Games, and they showed up at Dad’s office costume party in full Mass Effect regalia. Cliff Bleszinski, formerly of Epic, retweeted this out earlier with a “WOW,” and I concur. The stroller outfitted as the Normandy probably qualifies as a fifth cosplayer, but little…
By Owen Good Published October 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
This Halo iPhone Game Feels Like A Parody Of Itself
There are tacky advertisements. And then there’s Halo 4: King of the Hill Fueled by Mountain Dew (actual name), a new promotional iOS game that asks you to go to the store and scan in bags of Doritos and bottles of Mountain Dew in order to play. Let me repeat that. You have to scan…
By Jason Schreier Published October 31, 2012 - Uncategorized
How Do You Spell Addiction? L-E-T-T-E-R-P-R-E-S-S.
Word games? I love ‘em. Give me a jumble of letters and a grid and I’ll go to town. One great thing about the advent of smartphones is how they’ve ushered in a major re-think of the word game DNA. So, last week, when a neighbor mentioned that a new iOS word game was spreading…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 31, 2012
