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Club Nintendo Now Rewards With Games
Nintendo of America’s rewards program just got a lot more interesting for those of us not into Nintendo-themed fans, notebooks and patches. Starting today, Club Nintendo loyalists can also earn 3DS and Wii games. The overhauled Club Nintendo website already has Super Mario Kart (100 coins) and Fluidity (150 coins) listed for the Wii. Other…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedSee Borderlands 2’s Talking Holiday Card in Action
One of my favorite things about the holidays is seeing all of the creative ways video game developers and publishers find to celebrate. The many holiday cards we receive each year, are a great example of that. Take, for instance, this fantastic Borderlands 2 card I received yesterday from 2K Games and Gearbox. Thanks for…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedHere’s How Sorcery Lets You Make Magic with the PS3’s Move Controller
Once upon a time, there was a PS3 exclusive called Sorcery. It looked like the kind of high-definition motion-control game that would pull in gamers skeptical of what Sony’s Move controller could do. It even got nominated as one of the best games Kotaku saw at last year’s E3. Yet, it suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
Long-lost Sorcery Re-Appears, Will Hit PS3s in Spring 2012
Lots of folks have wondered about whatever happened to PS3 exclusive Sorcery. After more than a year of silence, Sony’ just announced that the Move-centric motion-control game will hit in Spring 2012. Look for our hands-on impressions later today.
By Evan Narcisse Published December 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedWe’re Getting a Free-To-Play Command & Conquer Game Very Soon
EA isn’t just making a 2013 Command & Conquer game under the BioWare umbrella. They’re making a free game, an “all new free-to-play MMO strategy game” called Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances according to a press release today. The game will be playable in browsers and on mobile platforms. (No platform was specified). It goes…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedWatch This Lizard Kick Ass At A Video Game With His Tongue
I’ve seen orangutans play video games on a touch screen, but this is the first lizard. And this Bearded Dragon doesn’t need opposable thumbs to master the art of gaming, he uses his tongue. [Via Reddit]
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
PS Vita Rowboat Capsizes in the Atlantic, Rowers Rescued
Two guys named Tom who were trying row a boat called the PS Vita across the Atlantic Ocean as part of a month-long race were rescued today after their boat sank eight days into their journey. Tom Sauer and Tom Fancett blogged today—yes, they blogged today—that they floated in a lifeboat for 10 hours overnight…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
California Pulls Portal Prank on New York
In Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood sits Alamo, a giant cube sculpture by Tony Rosenthal which dates back to 1967. The artwork, a.ka. the Cube, lives not far from New York University, The New School, and few other landmarks. It’s been in music videos by Cypress Hill and other groups and has been the subject of…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
I would actually pay for this chicken to be a DLC mount in Red Dead Redemption. In fact I think we should all petition Rockstar right now, to make this happen. Any takers…? …Guess not, oh well, maybe it can be a secret boss in the new Metal Gear game or something. While I go…
By Chris Carolan Published December 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
Your Kids Will Be Playing On Angry Birds Playground Equipment Next Year
Angry Birds has its own board game, plushies, cookbook and even a knock-off attraction in a Chinese theme park, but now the massively popular mobile game is getting an official line of playground equipment and parks. Two Finnish towns, Rovaniemi and Espoo, will be getting the world’s first official Angry Birds playgrounds next year, according…
By Brian Crecente Published December 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedLearn The Guitar While Taming Wild Beasts On Your iPad
WildChords, a new guitar training app from Ovelin, is truly a remarkable little thing. It presents a charming, well-put-together guitar trainer that is both simpler and more effective at teaching the guitar than pricy music games like the not-so-fun Rocksmith and the fun-but-complicated Rock Band 3 This is a music game with a story—the basic…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
2019’s Consoles Will Be As Fast as Today’s Supercomputers, Says Nvidia
You’ve heard of flops, a.k.a floating point operations per second, before in video game circles. Who can forget the riveting moment in former Sony exec Ken Kutaragi’s 2005 E3 PS3 presentation when he talked about how many gigaflops the system’s processors would be capable of? Boring tech presentations aside, flops are great indicators of computing…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
Famous Japanese People Holding PS Vitas
Bita | TOKYO, JAPAN: Akina and comedian Kendo Kobayashi promote the PS Vita. (Photo: 4Gamer) This Wii Remote Exploded. Why? A family from Belleville, Michigan came home the other night to find their living room full of smoke. The culprit? One of their Wii Remotes had quite literally exploded It’s lucky nobody had been home…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Xbox 360 Sleeps with the Fishes. No, Really.
The Red Ring of Death claimed many original Xbox 360s. Some of them were fixed. Some of them were recycled. And this one ended up a saltwater aquarium with live corals, fish, crabs, snails, and shrimp. Spencer of Blue World Aquariums purchased and gutted a broken Xbox 360 for the purpose of turning it into…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedHow Sony Made a Truly Amazing Ad
Sony recently released a handful of jaw-dropping commercials that looked straight out of sci-fi. In the commercials, Sony created a real holodeck—like out of Star Trek. Today, Sony revealed how it did this. As previously posted, there was no post-production work done on the footage. All the effects were done in the room, using 3D…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedWesterners Almost Made Metal Gear Rising
As revealed over the weekend, Konami roped in Bayonetta developers Platinum Games to make Metal Gear Rising, because it couldn’t. Originally, Kojima considered bringing in a Western developer after first planning on cancelling the game in late 2010. But, since this is a ninja game, he ultimately decided a Japanese developer would be the best…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedJapanese Lady Explains The Empire Strikes Back
Mika is studying English, and in her pursuit of the English language, she’s been appearing in videos, explaining movies. Here, she explains The Empire Strikes Back. And she does a wonderful job. Previously, Mika explained Star Wars. Also, delightful. Mika-san Explains The Empire Strikes Back [Kirai]
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2011