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UncategorizedNFL 2K5 Says New England Wins a Super Bowl Shootout
Earlier this week, the official Madden NFL 12 simulation of Super Bowl XLVI took both the underdog and the under for the first time in the past nine years, calling the New York Giants as 27-24 winners over the New England Patriots. A simulation run on dearly departed Madden nemesis NFL 2K5 returned the opposite…
By Owen Good Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Week in Unbelievably Gorgeous Screenshots: Fuel and Total War: Shogun 2
Since we ran a feature on Duncan Harris, the groovy “video game photographer” behind the website DeadEndThrills, I’ve been sharing some of his work each week here. This week Harris was really on fire—a whole grab-bag of games, with some spectacular shots from Zeno Clash, Fuel Total War: Shogun 2s. Let’s dig in. First up,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
I got sucked back into Skyrim this week. My first playthrough didn’t get very far; I was tromping around as a Nord warrior, and it didn’t really connect me to my choices, and my choices to the story, as much as I would have preferred. After watching the Grosjean Brothers’ hilarious Skyrim 2012 sequel, I…
By Owen Good Published February 3, 2012 -
UncategorizedHear Five Minutes of the Latest Halo Novel, Narrated by Guilty Spark
Halo: Primordium, by Greg Bear, released just after the new year, and if you’re curious what the book’s all about, Macmillan has provided Kotaku with this five minute clip from the novel’s audiobook version. Narrating this clip is Tim Dadabo, the voice of 343 Guilty Spark.
By Owen Good Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Worst Facebook Game Title Ever
These days, it can seem as though every Facebook game-title ends in -ville. So thank God for Telaxo, whose game Ball Separation stands out from the sack… I mean pack. Truly, this game looks like it swings free! I hear that Facebook gamers the world over are just nuts for it. It looks like one…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
That Old College Try
That Old College Try | All-Americans LaMichael James, Justin Blackmon and Robert Griffin III celebrate a fumble return and touchdown late in the fourth quarter of Madden Bowl XVIII. But next year’s NFL rookies left too much time on the clock, and fell to the team of Drew Brees, Tim Tebow and Jimmy Graham. (EA…
By Owen Good Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
BioWare to “Patch” Error-Laden Mass Effect Novel in Response to Fan Uproar
Mass Effect fans recently tore into the many errors and inaccuracies in William C. Dietz’s new spin-off novel Mass Effect: Deception, putting together a thoroughly damning document cataloging scores of lore-errors and mistakes in the book. Today, BioWare’s community coordinator Chris Priestly posted the following to the BioWare forums: Mass Effect fans have been asking…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 3, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Nintendo Game Worth… Watching
Here’s something small that could mean something big. It’s the back of the box for the new Wii game Rhythm Heaven Fever. Nintendo is selling the idea that the game isn’t just fun to play, but that it’s fun to watch There are many games that are fun for spectators. The Grand Theft Auto games…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2012 -
UncategorizedYou Might Catch Some Secrets in This Final Fantasy XIII-2 Monster Video
Join me as I take a trip through my favorite new feature of Final Fantasy XIII-2, monster recruitment, snag a couple of rare creatures, and witness the beginning of a legend that will never die. Well, probably never die. Since finishing the main story of Final Fantasy XIII-2 last weekend I’ve spent the majority of…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2012 -
UncategorizedCheck Out This Explosive Live-Action Battlefield 3 Fan-Film
The guys at ApertureVFX have put together this more-than-somewhat-awesome live-action take on the chaotic, visually disorienting gameplay of Battlefield 3 It plays out almost exactly how you’d picture a real-life BF3 match looking, though I don’t remember seeing quite so many pairs of sunglasses during my time playing the game. I’m not sure whether some…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Defense of Video Game Cloning
There have been a lot of stories about game-cloning flying around lately, from Zynga’s cloning of Nimblebit’s popular iOS game Tiny Tower to Spry Fox’s lawsuit against 6waves for cloning Triple Town With those stories has come a fair amount of discussion—is cloning a bad thing? Should it be illegal? Where do we draw the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
These Are Not the Same-Sex Relationships The Old Republic Players Were Looking For
Riffing on the Family Research Council’s outrage over same-sex NPC relationships in Star Wars: The Old Republic, talk show host Conan O’Brien and team cobble together some footage of the science fantasy franchise’s most famous gay couples. Of course the actual footage has nothing to do with the actual situation in Star Wars: The Old…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Deus Ex Lead Designer Honored With Game Developer Lifetime Achievement Award
With nearly 30 years in game development and a career spent crafting unique gaming experiences like Deus Ex and Epic Mickey, Warren Spector has been chosen to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. The annual peer-selected award will honor Spector’s many contributions to the science and art of…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Mass Effect Producer Suggests Keeping Your Mass Effect 3 Save Games
While speaking with Gamerzines, Mass Effect producer Mike Gamble suggested that “it wouldn’t be a bad idea to keep your ME3 saves.” “Obviously I can’t say anything,” he said, “but it wouldn’t be a bad idea.” Rock, Paper Shotgun‘s John Walker had some fun with this, floating theories about the meaning behind Gamble’s statement—perhaps the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Check Out This Ex-Game Developer’s Terrific Photos of Cops
Antonio Bolfo was an animator at Harmonix, working on video games such as Guitar Hero. Then, with the legacy of September 11 on his mind, he joined the New York Police Department. He started bringing a camera along and snapped photos of the police at work. And then he left the force and made photography…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 3, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Witcher 2 Dev Diary Might Answer Your Questions About the Xbox Version
In case Kirk Hamilton’s preview of The Witcher 2 on the Xbox left you with unanswered questions about the 360 remake, here’s CD Projekt with a professionally produced video filled with colorful lights, sounds, and people talking about making the game. Yep, nothing like a highly-polished marketing movie to show us exactly where a game…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
Tebow Works Another Fourth Quarter Miracle—in Madden Bowl
His season may be over, but Tebow Time has not run out. And if last night’s news about the Madden NFL 13 cover is any indication, get ready to see a lot more of the Denver quarterback during the off-season. Tebow, who had a breakout season leading the Broncos to a division title and the…
By Owen Good Published February 3, 2012 - Uncategorized
1.4 Million Unsold Video Games Won’t Be Buried in the Desert
Yesterday, we learned that the video game publisher THQ is sitting on 1.4 million unsold copies of uDraw, a hugely unsuccessful game designed around a tablet peripheral. uDraw was such a disastrous investment—it cost the publisher around $100 Million on production and lost revenue—that it is almost singlehandedly responsible for their dire financial straits. Of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 3, 2012 -
UncategorizedMinecraft Captures the Non-Stop Action of Rock’em Sock’em Robots
Two robots enter, both robots stay, only one has a slightly elevated head. Minecraft craftsman Sethbling has recreated the 1964 sensation that swept an easily-amused nation, Rock’em Sock’em Robots The classic two-player big robot battles comes to life in Mojang’s pile of virtual building blocks, using a rather ingenious little pressure plate mechanic to simulate…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2012