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These Guys Want Half A Million To Prove That People Still Love JRPGs [UPDATE]
If MonkeyPaw Games raises $500,000, they’ll know that gamers still love JRPGs. The publisher, previously responsible for bringing Japanese role-playing games like Alundra and Vanguard Bandits to the PlayStation Network, is launching a Kickstarter campaign to prove that the beloved genre ain’t dead yet. Tomorrow, MonkeyPaw (and partner Gaijinworks) will kick off their Kickstarter to…
By Jason Schreier Published March 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedGaming Provocateur Aiming to Raise $1 Million for Humanitarian Aid
Athene is quite a character, for a player. He rose to a certain kind of internet fame thanks to World of Warcraft, declaring himself the World’s Best Paladin. After leaving WoW, he moved on to Starcraft II and in recent months, he’s taken to League of Legends He’s provocative and potty-mouthed (the video above contains…
By Kate Cox Published March 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Are Massively Multiplayer Games Too… Massively Multiplayer?
What’s better, a game with thousands of complete strangers, or one in which up to 100 of your closest friends can play together whenever they want at their own pace? Commenter IncrediBurch makes a compelling argument for the latter in today’s massively multiplayer edition of Speak Up on Kotaku. I think MMO’s try too hard…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
One-Word Video Game Reviewers Pass Some Harsh Judgements
Imagine you’ve only got one word to describe Mass Effect 3, a game that hundreds of thousands of people have been waiting for. Tough decision, huh? Well, on one new website, most people are using the word “shit” to describe Bioware’s sci-fi threequel. Which one would you use? It’s pretty clear that One Word Reviews…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Barack Obama Locks Up The Maple Story Vote, Cluelessness Takes Second
Barack Obama has triumphed over both ignorance and the Republican primary field, in an unofficial and moderately alarming poll of players of the cartoony multiplayer online video game MapleStory We will not pass judgment about 47.79% of respondents saying that Obama is the candidate who has left the most favorable impression of them. We will…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Panel Discussion Half-Dozen: Six Comics That Will Make You Thing About Your Place in the World This Week
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Magic Sex, Underwater Vomit and Heart-Punching: Why Defenders #1-4 Works
Every so often, Panel Discussion will take a look at a graphic novel or a run of comics that executes particularly well. This is Why It Works. I’d lost a little bit of faith in Matt Fraction. The Portland-based writer won me over years ago with his brilliant superspy series Casanova, which deconstructed and re-assembled…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Great Scott! Panel Discussion Starts Now!
Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this.
By Evan Narcisse Published March 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Gamers Send BioWare 400 Cupcakes
Proving once and for all that cupcakes are the solution to all of life’s woes, a group of BioWare fans has organized a shipment of 400 delicious pastries to the Mass Effect creator’s office in Edmonton, Canada. Their goal is to protest Mass Effect 3‘s controversial ending by giving everyone at BioWare diabetes trying to…
By Jason Schreier Published March 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Average Xbox User Is Online For 84 Hours Per Month, Gaming For About Half Of It
The Xbox 360 is perhaps the country’s most beloved current generation gaming console, with millions of units sitting in millions of living rooms entertaining millions of gamers. But for all that the 360 is the platform of choice for players to devour blockbuster and indie game titles alike, its biggest draw may be for watching…
By Kate Cox Published March 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedHow To Three-Star The Hell Out of Angry Birds Space
It’s almost an inherent quality to want to 100%, perfect, full-star, whatever you want to call it, for each game. Especially when the tasks are fairly simple ones, like those many mobile games employ, it’s hard to fend off that desire to achieve perfect completion. Angry Birds Space is no exception. In fact, developer Rovio’s…
By Tina Amini Published March 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedHollywood Director James Gunn Chokes Up Because of Lollipop Chainsaw’s Zombie-Killing Cheerleader
Gory grindhouse horror movies. Bubblegum pop. The mish-mash of these elements makes it impossible to look away from upcoming action game Lollipop Chainsaw. It’s a balance that the title’s creators need to get just right but James Gunn and Goichi Suda think they’re on the right track I had a chance to sit down with…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedAnarchy Online Puts on a Fresh Face After 11 Years
Perhaps the most compelling and original science fiction setting in massively multiplayer online gaming, Funcom’s Anarchy Online has been in operation since June of 2001. About time for a facelift, wouldn’t you say? Let’s take a look at the changes being made to this elder statesman of the sci-fi MMO scene. To the layman it…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo 3DS Is Now One Year Old. And It Doesn’t Suck.
Happy birthday, 3DS! It’s been a rollercoaster of a year for Nintendo’s glasses-free 3D gaming handheld, which was first released on March 27, 2011. In the 366 days since it first hit America’s grubby hands, the 3DS has been the subject of both admiration and derision, both high highs and low lows. And although at…
By Jason Schreier Published March 27, 2012 - Uncategorized
Get a 320GB PS3 for only $10 More than the 160GB Model
Today, Amazon is listing the 320GB configuration of the PlayStation 3 for $259.99 (free shipping). That is only $10 more than the 160GB model, and $40 less than the next best price you’ll find anywhere. [Dealzon]
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedTurn-Based Role-Playing Fans Find a Safe Haven in Chaos Rings II
Final Fantasy fans seeking to relive the glory days of the series when enemies were on one side of the screen and waited their turn have a new champion on the iPhone in Square Enix’s Chaos Rings II. As with Chaos Rings and Chaos Rings Omega before it, Chaos Rings II is a turn-based role-playing…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedEvery Half-Life Fan’s Worst Nightmare
The moment all Valve and Half-Life fans have been waiting for might be revealed at this year’s E3, predicts YouTube user aekime. But will it be the big reveal everyone is sitting on the edge of their seats for? At least Gabe will apparently make the most amazing entrance ever. Fair warning: This video is…
By Tina Amini Published March 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedHorrible Food and Video Games Used to Date Back in the 80s
Video game historian Patrick Scott Patterson writes, “Anyone who claims video games cause child obesity might had more of a case in the 1980s.” Here’s more than eight glorious minutes’ worth of commercials that explain why we were fat in the 1980s. Video game food tie-ins are alive and well today, of course. The difference…
By Mike Fahey Published March 27, 2012 -
UncategorizedLaugh Through 16 Minutes of This Bubsy Collection Review
Have you ever played a Bubsy game? If you have, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the lackluster controls and odd bobcat mascot who talks… a little too much. If you haven’t, JonTron is here to warn you to keep it that way. Leave your 90s gaming memories untarnished by this platformer. I wouldn’t normally recommend 16-minute…
By Tina Amini Published March 27, 2012