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UncategorizedWould You Kindly Let Me Play With This Awesome BioShock Nerf Gun
Dead serious: I would pay real money to own a Nerf gun that looked like this. The gun, made by DeviantARTist AjlDesign, uses a modified Nerf Maverick to channel the awesome might of a Big Daddy. As you can see in the video above, it’s a heck of a little thing. AJDesign has put up…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
First Look at the 3D Graphics of Ace Attorney 5
Upcoming game Ace Attorney 5 is slated for the 3DS. Since the game is headed to Nintendo’s glasses-free 3D platform, it will take advantage of that feature. What’s more, the game’s graphics, which have always been 2D, are going to be 3D. This is a complete change for the Ace Attorney series. So the characters—even…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Here’s Another Kojima-Ordered Look at Snake, to Prove He’s Not a Geezer in Ground Zeroes
Metal Gear fans thought they were getting Old Snake a second time after viewing the 10-minute in-game demonstration of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, which series creator Hideo Kojima said was a misperception created by backlighting. Still, people continued to press the issue. So Kojima asked an artist to remove the goggles from this promotional…
By Owen Good Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Ace Attorney 5 Is Coming To The U.S. [UPDATE]
Update: Capcom has confirmed to me that Ace Attorney 5 is indeed coming to the U.S. Here’s their statement: Capcom is planning to release Gyakuten Saiban 5 (Ace Attorney 5) in the West. We’ll have more news soon. A Capcom representative also clarified that they use “West” to refer to both the U.S. and Europe.…
By Jason Schreier Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Zynga Thinks You’ll Like FarmVille 2. I’m Not So Sure.
“What does a re-imagination of virtual farming look like?” Something of a silly question on its face, and yet one that Zynga vice president of games Tim LeTourneau is fond of asking. Then again, what does a re-imagination of virtual farming look like? Do you farm on the moon? Must you plant crops while defending…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Minecraft Is The United Nations’ Newest Tool For Solving Real-World Problems
Minecraft has become an extraordinarily popular tool for gamers worldwide to create anything they can imagine, if in a blocky kind of way. Now, it’s going to become a tool for the United Nations. Mojang announced Block by Block today, a program they will be running in collaboration with UN Habitat. The idea is to…
By Kate Cox Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Just In Time for the NFL’s Kickoff, it’s Tecmo Super Bowl 2013
New England’s Rob Gronkowski is the “cover” star for Tecmo Super Bowl 2013 a fan-made, free mod of the NES all-time classic NFL game that puts the modern game and all of its stars and uniform colors into the old Tecmo Bowl structure. The ROM is available for download now. Its rosters are current as…
By Owen Good Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
EA Says They’re Not Killing Single-Player Games
Pop quiz: name the video game company leader that said the following: “I have not green lit one game to be developed as a single-player experience. Today, all of our games include online applications and digital services that make them live 24/7/365.” That’s EA Games President Frank Gibeau. His remarks—culled from promotional materials for an…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedTen Minutes Of The New Paper Mario Is Not Enough.
Few video game series are as consistently delightful as Paper Mario, Nintendo’s charming set of plumber-themed RPGs. Paper Mario: Sticker Star, out this fall for 3DS, looks to be no exception. It’s funny, weird, and quite charming. Now take my thoughts with a grain of salt, because the demo I played last weekend at PAX…
By Jason Schreier Published September 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedZelda Violinist Rocks The Game of Thrones Theme
Violinist Lindsey Stirling has gained a ton of well-earned renown for (among other things) her truly epic rendition of the Legend of Zelda music, a performance immortalized when Olympic gymnast Elsa Garcia Rodriguez Blancas used it during her floor routine Now, Stirling has teamed up with vocalist Peter Hollens (with whom she recently collaborated on…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Guild Wars 2, Log Two: Five Things I Have Not Done In Tyria
My adventures in Guild Wars 2 continue. I’ve logged in nearly every day for the past few weeks, if only for a few moments. I remain enamored of the art, and in my sessions I nearly always feel like I accomplished something. I tend to like play sessions about 60 to 90 minutes long, it…
By Kate Cox Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Stalemate Against Piracy In PC Gaming Doesn’t Help Anyone. It’s Time To Let It Go.
The PC’s biggest asset, for users, is its amazing flexibility. The modern computer is both a tool and a toy, a generalist device customizable to nearly any needs. With the barest amount of prodding, comparatively speaking, it can be, and do, anything the user wants. The PC’s biggest liability, to games publishers, is its unpredictable…
By Kate Cox Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
This Gorgeous Wooden PC Makes Me More Jealous Than Zen Things Should
This PC case mod is a few years old, but that doesn’t make it any less gorgeous. It’s been easy for me to miss, because I speak approximately ten total words of German, and two of them are extraordinarily impolite. This PC, called Project Zen, was designed to emulate classic and subtle Japanese styles. If…
By Kate Cox Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
FarmVille 2 Launches Today. Here’s What’s New.
FarmVille 2 will launch today on Facebook and adds a number of new wrinkles to the tried-and-true social game’s formula. Here’s what’s new in FarmVille 2: 3D Camera – Thanks to the power of Flash 11, Farmville 2 is in 3D. It’s still an isometric game, and you can’t manipulate the camera, but it looks…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedYes, It’s About A Farting Cat. It’s Also The Funniest Game Trailer I’ve Seen In Ages
It can’t be easy to drum up excitement for your super-simple, cat-fart-oriented casual game. And yet the folks behind Fart Cat have done just that with this trailer, which is easily the funniest game trailer I’ve seen since the last funniest trailer ever, the one for Super Time Force Just watch it, already. I hope…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Why The Gears of War People Decided to Make Fortnite Less Dark
There are things that go bump in the night in Epic Games’ next title. Fortnite is like many games put into one, but at its crux it’s a survival, building game. So when the monsters start coming out, you’ve hopefully constructed some safe ground to defend against them. But when the team was first sketching…
By Tina Amini Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Home Just Got a Lot Weirder
For some reason, Metal Gear publisher Konami will now let you buy these horse heads/”masks” in the PlayStation 3’s virtual world, Home, for 99 cents a pop. We’ve got a Home avatar modeling them here in this animated GIF. You’re welcome! Yeah, nothing strange about this at all. Nope. PlayStation Home: Out Of This World…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Ten Things You Should Know About Skyrim‘s New DLC
Skyrim‘s latest downloadable content is all about houses. Big houses, small houses, brown houses, and… well, they’re all kind of brown. Out this week for Xbox 360, Skyrim‘s Hearthfire puts you in charge of your very own dream mansion. You’ll get to collect lumber, mine ore, craft nails, and build a house from the ground…
By Jason Schreier Published September 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedMarvel’s Avengers Initiative Is Almost The Strongest Portable Game There Is
So, maybe Marvel’s console game portfolio is a collection of hits and misses. But Avengers Initiative sure makes it seem like the House of Ideas wants their portable releases to be a different story. Avengers Initiative will be very familiar to anyone who has played Chair Entertainment’s Infinity Blade title. Players will be controlling the…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 5, 2012