Today’s Talk Amongst Yourselves is the same as last year’s TAY, except for one thing. This is still our daily forum where you can talk about games. But last year, Chuck Greene was welcome. Not this time. No, this time, we welcome Frank West. Thanks to reader Pan1da7 for today’s image (and who also did…
Today marks the release of Ubisoft’s Rocksmith, a music game that may seem a bit on the late end of the Great Music Game Craze of 2009. All the same, it comes with a tantalizing promise: it allows players to plug a real guitar into their game console via a 1/4 inch-to-USB cable and play…
There’s a point that a shameless rip-off of a more well-known, established game can be not quite shameless enough to be barred from Apple’s App Store. And Mooncraft knows the point well. The game is a shameless rip-off of indie smash hit Minecraft. Utterly shameless. From the world design to your inventory management to your…
The Benz | TOKYO, JAPAN: Sony held a GT5 event in Roppongi. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) Don’t Get Mad at Need for Speed: The Run‘s Biggest Star Mad Men star Christina Hendricks’ latest role? Need for Speed: The Run According to PopWatch, the actress will play a character by the name of Sam Harper. More »…
The iSec, Lenovo’s home game console, was supposed to be out this fall. According to Chinese reports, it will get a limited release this December in the Mainland. Previously called the eBox, the iSec has Kinect-style controls and will cost 3,000 yuan (US$470). How iSec’s release will factor into China’s ban on game consoles, we…
Siri is not only miffed by Scottish English, it also doesn’t follow English spoken with a Japanese accent. “Work” and “walk” are notoriously difficult for Japanese speakers—largely because the Japanese loan word for “work” is “waaku” (ワーク). Japanese people are used to saying “waaku” for “work”. The gentlemen who recorded this video has a good…
One of the things that impressed me most about the 3DS was its online. With the 3DS, Nintendo has delivered a solid online experience—an experience that will be M.I.A. for Monster Hunter 3G It is possible to get online with Monster Hunter 3DS to do things like download event quests. You just won’t be able…
Level-5, the studio responsible for Professor Layton, is working on a new piece of game hardware: An all-purpose arcade cabinet for its games. Dubbed “Level-5 Station”, the cabinet will be capable of playing customized versions of Level-5 console games altered specifically for this general purpose cabinet. The cabinet features a 32-inch monitor and the ability…
This new trailer for Starbreeze’s upcoming Syndicate shooter tries to show the common ground between the 1993 original and this new reboot. Those who really have no idea about Syndicate, but enjoyed Starbreeze’s work on games like Riddick, it’ll be interesting! Those who enjoyed the original Syndicate and loathe the idea of a first-person shooter…
In an interview with the LA Times, Warner Bros.’ Martin Tremblay, president of the company’s video games division, gets to talking about their “tent-pole strategy”, based around big, quality games. Tremblay of course name-drops Batman: Arkham City, and another Warner hit of 2011, Mortal Kombat, but near the end of the interview mentions something interesting.…
Mad Men star Christina Hendricks’ latest role? Need for Speed: The Run According to PopWatch, the actress will play a character by the name of Sam Harper. “She’s got a relationship with the main driver player,” explained Hendricks, about her role with the game’s protagonist Jack Rourke. “They come from the same hood. She gets…
Asia has Gran Turismo 5’s latest downloadable content already. Europe gets it very soon. But in the US, it’s been delayed until October 25. To make up for the wait, players will receive a “special bonus”.
Matt Rhodes is an artist who has worked on two of BioWare’s biggest games in recent years, namely Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age 2 What I love about his style, and why we’re featuring it here today, is that it’s often not as “realistic” as other pieces of concept art you’ll see. It’s more…
So we’d be led to believe, going by this single screenshot. Just the one. No video. Taken at a reportedly recent Soulcalibur V press event. I’m so suspicious I’m furrowing my brow, but we’re checking with Namco Bandai just to be sure. Ezio Auditore a guest fighter in Soulcalibur V? [Scrawl] You can contact Luke…
This Portal 2 turret stands 14.5″ tall. It’s soft. It’s cuddly. And it talks. Due out in mid-December, it’s an officially-licensed product available at ThinkGeek, and will go on sale for only US$30. While the plush’s product listing doesn’t specify which phrases the little darlings will utter, they do say the turrets will know all…
Cosplay is not easy. And this Ryu cosplayer gets the costume part totally right. He also does a solid job uttering “Hadouken!” It’s when he actually starts trying to pull off Ryu’s moves when things go south. Also, cartwheels? Wait, what? You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can…
Turbine, developers of Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online, have sent out an email this evening warning users that the studio’s forum accounts may have been compromised. The guts of the message read like this: Turbine is concerned that a third-party recently may have attempted to access forum account information. There…
Animation team Kooberz Studios figured, you know, all LEGO ever cover is kid’s franchises. There’s never anything with real gore in it. So they whipped up their own LEGO Gears of War video. And it’s pretty great. Clocking in at just under two minutes, the Locust could have been better, but Marcus and the way…
June 2008 was tragic. Then 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato went on a stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s geek district, leaving seven dead and ten injured. He was sentenced to death earlier this year. Not exactly the feel-good backdrop for a movie. Written and directed by prolific filmmaker Ryuichi Hiroki, the movie, dubbed River, follows a young woman…
For now. Minecraft creator and Mojang boss Markus “Notch” Persson has just tweeted the above, meaning the legal tussle between his studio and Elder Scrolls publishers Bethesda, while not over, is for now at least in his favour. You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him…
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