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UncategorizedCube World is Quietly Becoming My Most Anticipated PC Game of 2012
The last time we say indie PC game Cube World, it looked interesting. Fast forward six months and a lot has changed. For the better. The voxel-based 3D adventure game, which is procedurally-generated yet each time includes a proper game, now looks gorgeous. So much so the team was very nearly bought out by Minecraft…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Creep Out Your Nintendo Console With Giant Stickers of Cats. Or Horses. Or Seals.
I’ve been meaning to post about these for years now, but they keep slipping my mind. Or does my mind sweep them out to preserve its own sanity? Probably the latter. Shitty peripheral company Kamikaze Gear offers these decals for the Wii and DS that are so awful they flip right back around again and…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
BioWare Bans Old Republic Player For Using Internet Meme
“I’m 12 and what is this”. If you don’t know what that means, here. Everybody back on the same page? OK, so we can all have a laugh at this poor guy’s expense when he was banned from Star Wars: Old Republic for using the line. Posting “I’m 12 and what is this” in a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
UncategorizedHacked PS3 Lets You Play Battlefield 3, Red Dead Redemption on the Vita
Enterprising hackers, who have cracked open the PS3’s v3.55 firmware, now have a pretty neat feature running on Sony’s new handheld: the ability to remotely play games like Battlefield 3 on a PlayStation Vita. While remote play itself is nothing new, having been enabled between the PS3 and PSP (and already some Vita games), it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Way More Universal Microtransactions are Coming to the PS3
Upcoming shooter Dust 514 won’t just be the first PS3 game to link to an MMO on the PC. It’ll also be the first to support a framework for the purchase of microtransactions on the PlayStation Network using a virtual currency. Asked by Develop whether developers CCP would be using their own form of in-game…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Microsoft Killing Microsoft Points, Will Use Real Money Instead
Good news, haters of arbitrary online currencies! The end for Microsoft’s confusing “Points” system may be near, if a report on Inside Mobile Apps is to be believed. The mobile site claims that Microsoft’s Points will be “phased out” by the end of 2012, with transactions to be listed in a user’s local currency instead.…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe Terrific Game of Thrones Board Game is Full of Violence and Betrayal, Void of Sex
Lies, bloodshed, betrayal! Power and influence, secrets and whispers, fragile alliances shattered in heartache and death! Also, lots of intense, weird sex. These are the things I think of when I think of Game of Thrones. Christian T. Petersen’s A Game of Thrones: The Board Game has all of that stuff. Well, except for the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
The Solar-Powered House of the Future, Controlled With Xbox Kinect
The brainy brains at SCI-Arc and Caltech have designed an entirely solar-powered house that is clean, green, and energy-efficient. It’s also remarkably easy to use, thanks to the fact that the entire thing is powered by Xbox’s Kinect motion controls. Fastcodesign breaks it down: The Compact, Hyper-Insulated Prototype Solar House (CHIP) has an Xbox Kinect…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Lannister Always Pays His Debts
Terrible Triangle | Jamie and Cersei Lannister gang up on poor Ned Stark via their character cards from A Game of Thrones: The Board Game Why The Apple Trackpad Might Be The Best Video Game Controller Ever Made I was designing a user interface for someone else’s social game the other day, and I was…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 23, 2012 -
UncategorizedThey Hired Rob Riggle to Sell You On Call of Duty: Elite
Starting tomorrow, the Call of Duty Elite ‘season’ begins with the first of four planned packs of DLC. Activision seems to believe that The Daily Show‘s Rob Riggle (a former serviceman himself) is the guy to sell it to us, and their new commercial features him taking a testosterone-y tour of Elite services, from study-able…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Street Fighter X Tekken Spawns the World’s First Fighting Game-Centric Reality Show
Not content with merely streaming live matches leading up to the March release of the Street Fighter X Tekken fighting game crossover, Capcom has teamed with iPlayWinner and Team Spooky to create Cross Assault, a live week-long $25,000 tournament masquerading as an internet reality show. Cross Assault will see two fighting game veterans attempting to…
By Mike Fahey Published January 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Scientists Want to Use Video Games to Help Kids’ Eyes
When I was a small child my parents would warn me that spending all day in front of the television playing video games would ruin my eyesight. Today researchers at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma have integrated computer games into a device that could be instrumental in saving a child’s eyesight. When…
By Mike Fahey Published January 23, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Tease of Live-Action Battlefield, By Way of Dead Island
The Grosjean Brothers recently made a fun, short live-action video that showed us what Skyrim would be like if it was set in a convenience store Their big project is going to be a live-action Battlefield 3 movie. This is a clip of it, done in that moody-and-plays-in-reverse style popularized by last year’s trailer for…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Gears of War Creators Are Giving the ‘Dudebro’ Thing a Rest With Fortnite
Epic Games makes macho games that feature manly men. Gears of War, for example. But they’re also making Fortnite, a game their lead game designer, Cliff Bleszinski, tells G4 should help the studio’s shed the developer’s “dudebro” image just a bit. But what’s it like? “Lots of games say they’re about survival but they’re more…
By Pierre Bienaimé Published January 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Learn All About the Xbox 360 Witcher 2 This Thursday
CD Projekt RED, the studio behind The Witcher 2, will be holding a live-streamed conference revealing the XBox 360 version’s release date, new features, and more this Thursday at 6PM GMT (1PM Eastern) on their Facebook page
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
TV Newsman Wonders if It’s Bad For Toddlers to Play Video Games, Tests Them On His Son
More and more toddlers are playing video games, sometimes before they can even talk. Derek James, co-host of Charlotte, North Carolina’s FOX News Rising investigates… using his very cute son as his guinea pig: Toddlers Playing Video Games More Than Ever [FOX Charlotte]
By Stephen Totilo Published January 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
From Ryu Hayabusa to Jeanne d’Arc, Everybody Fights in Warriors Orochi 3
The third installment of Tecmo Koei’s Dynasty Warriors / Samurai Warriors hack-and-slash crossover is coming to North America on March 20, it’s 120+ warrior roster padded with cameos from Ninja Gaiden, Warriors: Legends of Troy, Bladestorm, Trinity: Souls of Zill O’ll and Dead or Alive Warriors Orochi 3‘s expansive roster demonstrates one of the benefits…
By Mike Fahey Published January 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
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