According to the latest issue of Famitsu, it’s not even possible to even start games that require memory cards if you don’t have one. Famitsu called memory cards indispensable. [■■速報＠保管庫(Alt)■■
After a few years of games that just got progressively worse, Activision has wisely rested the once-mighty Tony Hawk’s skateboarding franchise. Maybe they should bring it back without any skateboards? This great video shows some parkour experts spinning, flipping and sliding to the visuals and even soundtrack of the classic Tony Hawk’s 2, even down…
This year isn’t over. There are still months to go. But according to Famitsu publisher, Nintendo didn’t own the first six months of this year. Other years, sure, but not this one. In a recently released report, Nintendo tumbled to the number two spot for Japanese software sales, dropping from ¥21.5 billion (US$283 million) to…
Today’s Fine Art features two men who worked on RAGE, id’s recently-released desert shooter. One helped design (and build) the game’s cars. The other, the game’s mutants. Both somehow found the time to draw pictures of pretty ladies as well. Which, given the amount of tiny shorts on display in this post-apocalyptic wasteland, shouldn’t be…
A team of props builders from forum The FX lab have wanted to build a Batman suit for a long, long time. With the success of first Arkham Asylum and now its sequel, Arkham City, they finally found the inspiration/motivation. So they built a Batsuit based on that found in the games. And it’s…well, I’m…
Saving the planet’s all very well, but it’s not always the most fun thing in the world. Games, however, are fun. Why not combine the two? Luckily, AMEE can support both! My favourite game at the moment is Minecraft, which (amongst other things) involves using resources to make things, and quite often burning them to…
Phew. All this video game stuff, especially Battlefield 3 stuff, is wearing me out. Time to take a few minutes to chill, relax, watch a soothing movie where footage of modern-day Tokyo is played to the accompaniment of the Blade Runner soundtrack. The footage, shot by Samuel Cockedey, is mostly of the Shinjuku area in…
Remember the days of Nintendo printing money? Those days are over, apparently. According to Japan’s Nikkei, the Kyoto-based game maker is poised to post huge losses tomorrow. Profits are supposedly down a staggering ¥100 billion ($1.3 billion), which is twice what Nintendo forecast. The two major culprits are struggling hardware sales and the stubbornly strong…
German filmmaker and all around special guy Uwe Boll has a bit of a bad rep with gamers. Mostly due to his parade of terrible movies based on video games. But you’re all missing the point! The point isn’t to judge him solely on his movies. The point is to admire that a man such…
Fist of the North Star started life as a badass manga. A badass manga needs a badass figure. A big badass figure. But does it need Swarovski crystal? You bet it does. Fist of the North Star follows the adventures of Kenshiro as he punches the shit out of people and utters hard-nosed likes like,…
It’s a scourge of junior high school students everywhere: Mononucleosis. The highly infectious disease is colloquially dubbed the “kissing disease”. But that’s not how Steve Jobs got it. He got it making a video game. In an interview on The Last Word, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recalled when he made a Pong game for himself.…
In Japan, the new second-thumbstick add-on for the Nintendo 3DS is simply called the “Circle Pad Expansion”. Not very exciting, but it at least gets the point across. In the West, though, it looks like it’ll have a different name. A trademark filing from Nintendo in Japan has revealed that the peripheral’s name in places…
Blizzcon wasn’t only about Blizzard games. It was also about Blizzard fans. There were contests, such as the amazing costume competition. But they weren’t the only fan creations that dazzled. The Blizzcon 2011 Fan Art Contest celebrated the stunning illustrations and paintings Blizzard fans drew, inked, and sketched, whether that be with pencils or tablets.…
Last week, we showed you an amazing PC gaming setup that involved five HD projectors, an omni-directional treadmill, wireless gun peripheral, ambient lighting and paintball gun. Some people cried “it’s a marketing stunt!”. Others cried “it’s not real!”. Those claiming the former, well, the prominent Battlefield 3 placement makes that a 50/50 call. Those claiming…
And I don’t mean the iconic “Price is Right” font. I mean the way the latest game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V, has a rather interesting employment of antique US currency. As spotted by a Reddit user, the “FIVE” at the end of the game’s logo is lifted almost directly from an old…
We rarely get to see the process by which a video game is pitched to a publisher, even today in an age of developer diaries and all-access marketing. It’s even rarer we get to see how a game was pitched all the way back in the early 90s. Yet that’s what we’re getting a look…
So here we are, at the start of another evening’s open thread. How was your day? Good, I hope. Mine was nice, it was gorgeous in San Francisco and I typed a lot of words. Speaking of typing words, your own words are welcome here in off-topic town. Here are a few conversation starters, and…
A while ago, EA announced that people buying the PS3 version of Battlefield 3 would get a nice little bonus: a free copy of Battlefield 1943 For those unsure which platform to get the game on, that’s one hell of a sweetener, Battlefield 1943 being a great game in its own right. Fast forward to…
I’ve noticed a bit of an internet scuffle breaking out over Simon Parkin’s 8/10 review of Uncharted 3 for Eurogamer. “Uncharted 3 is the most exciting game in the world,” he writes, “but only until you deviate from the script.” Parkin’s criticisms focus mainly on his opinion that the Uncharted games are overly cinema-focused and…
One of the things that’s always a challenge in superhero games is giving the character new powers as they go. Infamous 2 got to bypass Cole McGrath’s origin story, and as a result introduced new powers while presenting a faster-moving, more enjoyable story than the first game. That said, it’s always a good thing to…
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