It’s hard to untangle whether it’s a media creation or born of the competitive natures of gaming and business, but according to at least one newspaper the war between Activision and Electronic Arts continues to simmer. “With Star Wars EA is taking aim at Activision’s World of Warcraft game,” the Wall Street Journal reports. It…
A while back, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts started up their Guru lecture series where greats from the world of film- and television-making would speak on their inspirations and insights from each medium. Now, BAFTA’s a clever outfit, one that’s given out awards to video games for the last eight years. Impressive,…
Winter is Coming | And it is adorable. By Renaud Forestie This Might Actually Be The Official Zelda Timeline Since the series began, Nintendo has been coy on whether there’s an official timeline for The Legend of Zelda. They’ve said there is one, locked away in Nintendo HQ, but the fact it’s never been shared…
Not with a bang, but several bangs. Then a whimper. And a succession of people just standing around, awkwardly, wondering what they’d done with the last eight years of their lives. As you’re probably aware, last weekend the plug was pulled on Star Wars Galaxies, the long-running, mildly-popular but ultimately disappointing MMO that had managed…
Should you ever feel the need to propose to that special someone in the middle of a game of Team Fortress 2, you can now do just that, after developers Valve added an official wedding ring to the game. It’s called the Something Special For Someone Special, and is available as a crafted item. It…
It’s a “cozy yuletide”, as only the world of Sword & Sworcery could imagine. [s:s&s]
Since the series began, Nintendo has been coy on whether there’s an official timeline for The Legend of Zelda. They’ve said there is one, locked away in Nintendo HQ, but the fact it’s never been shared – and that each game seems so wildly different from the rest – has long clouded the topic. Until…
When Kendall Davis began work at 343 Industries, and got started on Halo 4, he probably didn’t think he’d end up quitting the studio and branching out to create an ambitious comic game with the help of an all-star game development ensemble. But that’s exactly what’s happened. Fine Art has the pleasure today of introducing…
When a reader passed this along and said it was a “fucking abomination”, I thought, well, those are awfully strong words. A Mega Man game on the iPhone can’t be that bad, can it? Oh. Turns out that, yes, it looks quite awful. Capcom seem to have confused the iPhone, which is capable of playing…
Hideo Kojima, creator and curator of the Metal Gear franchise, sure loves a tease. Speaking with CNN recently, he starts to get into details about his upcoming game, then like all good teases do, pulls up short just before you get to the good stuff. Having shown it off last week with APCs and women’s…
Ah, Comic Sans. The village idiot of fonts. While it normally ruins everything it touches, website Comic Sans Project are the font’s self-anointed “DEFENDERS”, replacing the logos of famous companies with, well, Comic Sans. You’d think it would look awful but, well, it often looks pretty great. Especially the PlayStation, Xbox and McDonalds ones. Comic…
Eclectic Australian outfit Regurgitator have been around since the mid-90’s, and in that time they’ve tried their hand at just about every popular genre of music you can think of. Rock? Yup.
Stasis is an upcoming indie adventure game set in space. It’s for the PC. It’s played from an isometric perspective. And it looks all kinds of dark and moody. Me and Stasis are off to a very, very good start. Playing the role of John Maracheck, who wakes up from a stasis-induced sleep in an…
Let’s say you want to make your Skyrim character look really different, but don’t want to have he/she looking like Lightning out of Final Fantasy XIII. You could always make them look like Link instead! The “A Skyrim Link Armor” mod by Handski takes some existing pieces of clothing in the game world and modified…
Nothing says CHRISTMAS SPIRIT like synchronising an expensive set of blinking lights to video game theme music. Behold, Skyrim’s main theme, and Battlefield 3’s intro music. Set to Christmas lights. The Skyrim ones are…OK, but the Battlefield setup could be handy for impromptu dance parties.
The upcoming Legend of Zelda art book, Hyrule Historia, has so far only been confirmed for a Japanese release. Since that means most of you won’t be looking at it at all, it won’t hurt to take a peek at a few more of its pages, especially ones that show the progression of Link and…
Back in the Summer Respawn Entertainment, home to the creators (and many of the developers) behind the Call of Duty and Modern Warfare franchises, teased their upcoming project with a single image There’s now a second one. It’s about as useless as the first, but given the expectations around whatever it is Respawn come up…
Portal isn’t just about science. It can also be about art, depending on how you look at it. And that’s exactly how Nathan Altice looked at it in this piece on Valve’s first-person puzzlers, drawing parallels between Portal and the work of artist Gordon Matta-Clark. I recently visited Chicago for the DHCS conference held at…
The debut trailer for Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit, due next year, is now up.
Look, if there’s one game that merits a massively multiplayer online experience, it’s The Grateful Dead. This has been on our radars for a little while, and it’s unclear whether it’ll be a proper MMO, a Facebook game, or what. Things become marginally clearer in this new video, called “The Epic Tour,” that has been…
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