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Don’t Blame uDraw, Blame Yourselves, Rankled Staff Tells THQ Executives
Though THQ recently beat back rumors it was readying itself for sale, all is not happy within its house. Earlier today the company restated that it’s done with the kidstuff, blaming the commercial failure of its uDraw tablet, among other things, for its poor performance of late. The company’s stock closed at 70 cents today.…
By Owen Good Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
What ‘Calibur’ Is Your Soul?
A Stick and Six Buttons | One of the big honkin’ custom controllers at last night’s Soulcalibur V launch party in San Francisco. Sources: The Next Xbox Will Play Blu-Ray, May Not Play Used Games (And Will Introduce Kinect 2) Microsoft will upgrade its disc technology for its next Xbox from DVDs to Blu-Ray discs,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 25, 2012 - Reviews
You Can Take This Wheel for More than One 3DS Game
We’re a little late reviewing Hori’s official Mario Kart 7 Wheel peripheral, but I’m somewhat glad we are, thanks to some of the non-racing games I played with it on a whim. If this was just a piece of plastic meant for one game, the wheel is a $13 novelty at best, a luxury at…
By Owen Good Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Mojang Says Mobile Minecraft Is an Experiment, Xbox 360 Version Won’t Be as Buggy
When Mojang’s hit sandbox game debut in its iOS form late last year, lots of people thought the following: “It looks like Minecraft, sounds like Minecraft but it’s not…?” In a way that was true. The mobile version was only half of Minecraft, specifically the building part, and lacked the adventure elements that the PC…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Who Said Cheesy Full-Motion Video Computer Games Were Dead?
Remember back in the early 90s when the CD-Rom format made it possible for computer games like 1992’s Night Trap or The 7th Guest to feature extensive badly-acted full-motion video? Gamecade Production certainly does. They’ve just released Survival 2: Get Lucky, a FMV-style dating game starring Josh Knechtly of the band Rootbound. Who? It doesn’t…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Namco Bandai Celebrates UK SoulCalibur V Launch With Fitness Classes
Every Tuesday evening in February London fight game fans can step away from their game console and grab a little fitness with Gymbox’s SoulCalibur V: Swordsman Workout class. No, seriously. While there is a possibility that I am just too ignorant about the London gaming scene to realize how physically fit the fighting game fans…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedRhythm Heaven Fever Makes Music Out of Sports, Fishing, and Samurai Demon-Fighting
Rhythm Heaven Fever is getting a Wii release, the better to bring out the groove in goofy, random situations. This trailer starts out subdued enough, with a boy kicking a basketball in time while sitting on a bench next to a girl. Cute! Next, it goes to a fishing excursion, which is fun enough, before…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Getting to Hear New Music Should be Easier in Lumines: Electronic Symphony
We think Lumines is one of the best games for the PSP. But damn was it ever hard to experience everything the game had to offer. In the first game, players had to grind through the entire game to hear all the music or see all the trippy synchronized visuals. Lumines II improved on that…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedMario Party 9 Sure Does Look Like a Party
Granted, it’s a party on the Wii, but hey, a ton of people own Wiis! And thanks to Skyward Sword, many of us have even figured out how to plug it in to our new TVs and updated our firmware. So, should we want to pull out enough batteries to power three more controllers, we’ll…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
An Old Xbox Reveals the Secret Lives of a Good Friend
All my friend wanted was a simple, get-rid-of-it-on-Craigslist estimate for an original Xbox, two controllers, and about a dozen games. He knew that what he had was too common in its time, too obsolete in the present, to qualify as some latter-day Antiques Roadshow jackpot. Still, I couldn’t bring myself to appraise it at $25.…
By Owen Good Published January 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedThe First MLB 12 The Show Trailer Swings for the Fences, Teases Vita Integration
Sony’s in-house baseball title steps into the batter’s box with this video showing off gameplay and presentation from this year’s installment. That’s not just realism, folks. It’s Enhanced Realism. The game’s out on March 6th.
By Evan Narcisse Published January 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedA Special Message From the Resident Evil 6 Dev Team
By now you’ve seen the jaw-dropping trailer for Capcom’s Resident Evil 6, but have you seen the special version of the trailer with introductions by three members of the game’s development team? In this special version of the Resident Evil 6 trailer, shown last week during the special Fright Club event last week, executive producer…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Breaking a World Record Seems Like a Fine Reason to Get a Virtual Marriage
Marriage, ladies and gentlemen. Marriage is a game mechanic, or at least it will be early next month when update 1.7 goes live for Trion Worlds’ MMO Rift. They’ll be celebrating the new feature on February 14 by attempting to establish the World Record for most in-game marriages in a 24-hour period. Where’s that Divorce…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Sources: The Next Xbox Will Play Blu-Ray, May Not Play Used Games (And Will Introduce Kinect 2)
Microsoft will upgrade its disc technology for its next Xbox from DVDs to Blu-Ray discs, catching up to rival Sony, games industry sources tell Kotaku Sony’s PlayStation 3 currently supports Blu-Ray, which can contain 25 or 50GB of data compared to DVD’s 9GB. But that disc detail could be far less impactful to the next…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 25, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis is What A Video Game Played In a Planetarium Looks Like
Check out this test run of Space Cruiser, a video game that will be played by some 200 people on Thursday evening at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History. (Event details here. But it’s now sold out.) Video by Ida Benedetto.
By Stephen Totilo Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
Nine-Month Modern Warfare 3 DLC Calendar Revealed
We knew there would be nine months of downloadable content coming out for Modern Warfare 3. Now we can see which months will get maps, co-op missions and new modes. Right here. (So much for new campaign missions!)
By Stephen Totilo Published January 25, 2012 - Uncategorized
How Tales of Symphonia Created a Rabid Fighting Game Fan
Has one genre ever made you change your opinion of another? Commenter File2ish explains how Namco’s Tales of Symphonia made him a fighting game fan in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. What game genre did you not like when you first played it, but you now like (after an extended period of time of not…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2012