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UncategorizedSkyrim Christmas Lights. Battlefield 3 Christmas Lights.
Nothing says CHRISTMAS SPIRIT like synchronising an expensive set of blinking lights to video game theme music. Behold, Skyrim’s main theme, and Battlefield 3’s intro music. Set to Christmas lights. The Skyrim ones are…OK, but the Battlefield setup could be handy for impromptu dance parties.
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
See How Link and Zelda Have Changed In 25 Years
The upcoming Legend of Zelda art book, Hyrule Historia, has so far only been confirmed for a Japanese release. Since that means most of you won’t be looking at it at all, it won’t hurt to take a peek at a few more of its pages, especially ones that show the progression of Link and…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Call of Duty Creators Tease new Game With Second Blurry Image
Back in the Summer Respawn Entertainment, home to the creators (and many of the developers) behind the Call of Duty and Modern Warfare franchises, teased their upcoming project with a single image There’s now a second one. It’s about as useless as the first, but given the expectations around whatever it is Respawn come up…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedThere’s Still Going to be a Grateful Dead Video Game. And Thank God, Really
Look, if there’s one game that merits a massively multiplayer online experience, it’s The Grateful Dead. This has been on our radars for a little while, and it’s unclear whether it’ll be a proper MMO, a Facebook game, or what. Things become marginally clearer in this new video, called “The Epic Tour,” that has been…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Super Meat Boy Blowing a Hadoken Through a Saxophone!
Did that headline get your attention? Good, because you should go and read this super-cool piece by Kill Screen‘s Lana Polansky about mechanics, practice, saxophone, jazz, and Street Fighter. (It also features the amazing illustration above, drawn by Daniel Purvis.) “Hey,” you may be thinking. “Doesn’t Kirk write about that sort of thing too, sometimes…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Skyrim Finally Plays Nice With Your Extra RAM
Happily, the newest official patch for Skyrim will allow the game to make use of up to 4 Gigabytes of RAM, as opposed to its previous ceiling of 2GB. This had previously been accomplished via the Large Address Aware hack, but that method had been blocked by a previous patch from Bethesda.
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedSonic CD Could Be The Best Five Dollar Sonic Purchase You Make This Week
Sonic CD was released last week on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network for $4.99. It’s a game that stands up on its own even 18 years after it first launched. And it looks great in widescreen. If you have some spare cash or you have never played Sonic CD, now is probably a good…
By Chris Carolan Published December 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Wrong Way to Stop Video Game Piracy
Republished from Rock, Paper Shotgun You’ll likely remember that last week it was revealed that CD Projekt had hired a firm to send out letters to those they believed had pirated copies of The Witcher 2, demanding large sums of money. It’s a practice that is widely despised, due not only to its propensity for…
John Walker | Rock Paper Shotgun Published December 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Very Gawker Christmas
O Christmas Tree, Gawker’s Christmas Tree | Love the tree, not sure about those decorations. 😀 UK Treatment Group Preps For Next Big Addiction: Video Games A UK-based charity treatment group is preparing for what they believe will become the next major addiction issue: Video Games. Norcas, which has been supporting those affected by addictive…
By Brian Crecente Published December 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Humble Indie Bundle Gets Bigger, Better, and Therefore Less Humble
The new Humble Indie Bundle is terrific. For a price of your own choosing, you can get indie gems Super Meat Boy, Bit. Trip Runner, Jamestown, Shank and Nightsky, as well as Cave Story + and Gratuitous Space Battles for paying more than the average selling price. Today, the folks behind the bundle announced that…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedStar Wars: The Old Republic MMO Log Part One: Light and Dark Running Smuggler
While the rest of Kotaku dedicated themselves to squeezing every ounce of gaming out of the world we live in last week, I spent the latter half on vacation, and by “on vacation” I mean playing Star Wars: The Old Republic I have a knack for scheduling my holiday time to coincide with the launch…
By Mike Fahey Published December 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Meanwhile in World of Warcraft…
How did World of Warcraft‘s creators counter today’s launch of rival MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic? They didn’t, unless you count all these “hot fixes” they just activated. One of them: “Algaefin Rockfish no longer swim in schools.”
By Stephen Totilo Published December 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Skyrim’s Dragon-Powered Sleigh, Jabba The Snowman: These Are 2011’s Gaming Holiday Cards
The holidays are FULLY ON and with them come a slew of wonderfully creative holiday cards from some of your favorite video game developers and publishers. Here’s a look at just a few of the one’s we’ve been sent. Don’t forget to check out the Borderland 2’s talking card or previous years cards. Don’t forget…
By Brian Crecente Published December 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Devil May Cry HD Collection Brings Back Original Dante Next April
Capcom’s looking to make both sorts of Devil May Cry fan happy in the coming months. They’ve got the re-envisioned DMC Devil May Cry update to their demon-hunting franchise releasing at some undetermined future date. That game sticks to the series’ guns-and-swords play stle, even if it looks radically different. And traditionalists will get the…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
The new Popeye World Record is 3,023,060
Brooklyn’s Ben Falls is the new world record holder in the 1982 Nintendo arcade game Popeye, according to the score-tallying folks at Twin Galaxies. He scored 3,023,060 points. Previous record holders managed barely more than 1 million.
By Stephen Totilo Published December 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Somewhat Exciting On-Rails Space Combat Shooting Gallery of The Old Republic
The Old Republic isn’t just about waiting, running, and shooting. This is a Star Wars game, and what would a Star Wars game be without action-packed space combat? Just look at how much fun I’m having here, and try not to be too jealous. Okay, so it’s a sad macro-scale mini-game that would be right…
By Mike Fahey Published December 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedSee How Unit 13 Brings Touch-Happy Tactical Shooting to the PlayStation Vita
Here’s a look at the upcoming portable from the makers of the SOCOM games. You’ll see how the same kind of tactical focus has been revisited and rebuilt for a portable and more social experience, as previously noted by our own Stephen Totilo. With the fact that the Vita’s a dual-stick handheld, this could be…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedPucker Up for Your First Look at the Sour Patch Kids Game in Action
Despite my best efforts to disbelieve, Capcom’s downloadable Sour Patch Kids game World Gone Sour continues to be a real product, a fact cemented by this first gameplay video. It’s certainly a great deal more inventive than the product tie-ins I’m used to, right up there with Darkened Skye, the magical Skittles action game. I’d…
By Mike Fahey Published December 20, 2011
