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Metal Gear Rising Was Killed Off
For a spell there, Metal Gear: Rising fell off the map. That’s probably because the game had been canned. Now, as evident in the game’s latest trailer, Rising is back in a big way. During the latest Kojima Productions podcast, it was revealed that the game’s core mechanic, the ability to chop up whatever, was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedPress a Button, a Man Swears At You
Clay, a company that specialises in “innovative digital media experiences”, built this table covered in buttons for an exhibition that kicked off in London last Friday. It’s called the “Periodic Table of Swearing”, and took all this to build: It’s constructed from over 100 buttons, CNC’ed and laser cut MDF, direct to media printing, over…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedBet You Couldn’t Play Street Fighter with Your Feet
AJ loves arcade games, and he’s not going to let his disability get in the way of that! In the above video, AJ plays everything from fighters to shooters to classic arcade games—with his feet. Check out his YouTube Channel, appropriately titled OnlyUseMyFeet. How I play Arcade Games with my FEET! [YouTube]
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Cute That Sonic Runs Like An Idiot
On Friday, artist Zac Gorman thought aloud “I think it’d be cute if Sonic ran like an idiot”. He accompanied this thought with a cute little animation. The internet did the rest. A bunch of other artists and Tumblr users agreed, posting Sonic running like, well, an idiot. And you know what? He is cute.…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedSolesides: Freestyle Rapping
For the next 7:06, if you have any appreciation of how hard it is to come up with rhyming verses off the top of your head, any at all, prepare to be blown away. Hi. Welcome to Soundtrack. Tonight, we’re looking at Freestyle Rapping In the early 1990s, some students at the University of California…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Young Idol Makes Out with Older Dude. Misses Gran Turismo 5 Event.
With over thirty members, you’d think it’d be no biggie if AKB48’s 17-year-old Yumi Wakatsuki was M.I.A. Yet, this weekend when she didn’t show at a Gran Turismo 5 event, people began wondering whether her absence wasn’t merely because she was under the weather. People began wondering if she had been benched for one of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011 -
Uncategorized“Ashton” Is Not Short for “A Shit Ton”, Nintendo
Internet person Aston recently purchased a Nintendo 3DS and created a Mii. Aston seems to like his 3DS. Nintendo doesn’t like his name. After entering his name, a warning screen popped up, noting that others might find the moniker “offensive”. On his friend’s 3DS, Ashton’s name is censored and replaced with question marks. Ashton’s a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Does “BioWare” Even Mean Any More? It Doesn’t Mean Command & Conquer.
In saying the next Command & Conquer game is coming from “BioWare”, it seems EA is hoping a little of gamer’s good will towards the RPG powerhouse will rub off on the game. Instead, unless Generals 2 is amazing, it’s probably going to backfire. How? When people think “BioWare”, they think of the Canadian developer…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
…And China Rips-Off the PS Vita
Sony is making the PlayStation Vita at a Chinese factory. And, surprise, another Chinese company is releasing a new device that looks an awful lot like the Vita. Anyone remember the iPed? Called the Yinlips YDPG18, the Android-powered portable has a gravity sensor, front and back cameras, a large LCD screen, 1080p support, and a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Spike VGAs Red Carpet Had Celebrities, Developers (and Sometimes Both!)
Over the weekend, the Spike Video Game Awards were held. While you would have seen a few people get up on stage, there were a lot more people in attendance. Lots of developers, yeah, but lots of celebrities as well. Ever wonder just who among those celebrities scores an invite to a free meal and…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedDarksiders II: What Starts With War, Ends With Death
I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first Darksiders game, but even I’ll admit, that’s a pretty snappy tagline for its sequel. This trailer was released over the weekend. It’s short on gameplay, but long on soft focus and dripping blood. Darksiders 2 is out on PC, PS3 and 360 sometime in 2012.
By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
The “Spike Holiday Video Game Extravaganza” Might be a Better Name
“The Spike Video Game Awards are not everyone’s ideal version of a video game award show, and complaining about them has become an annual event, like the show itself.” Totilo wrote that over the weekend, and I agree 100%. Complaints over the show and its format are getting as tiring as the show itself, so…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Get Item!
Get Item! | Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of The Legend of Zelda, accepts the Video Game Awards’ inaugural hall of fame award on behalf of the game and Nintendo. Surprise! That PS Vita Wasn’t Lost at the VGAs After All Yep, that DeadMau5 is a real funny fucker. To no one’s surprise, the DJ revealed this…
By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Night-and-Day Comparison Best Describes Fortnight
Fortnite, revealed last nite (rimshot) at the Spike Video Game Awards, is one of those games whose elements seem to be either derivative or easily recognizable, yet an easy description remains tip-of-the-tongue elusive. It’s a got resource gathering, but it’s not really Minecraft; cartoony characters, but you can’t say it’s Team Fortress; zombies and headshots,…
By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Surprise! That PS Vita Wasn’t Lost at the VGAs After All
Yep, that DeadMau5 is a real funny fucker. To no one’s surprise, the DJ revealed this afternoon he did not, in fact, lose an unreleased PlayStation Vita in a Los Angeles cab after his performance at last night’s Spike Video Game Awards. “I just wanted to see how much management would freak out over it,…
By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011 - Culture
DLC Provides the TLC
Downloadable content for Battlefield, Assassin’s Creed, and Gears of War highlights an otherwise slow week for new releases. Don’t forget the Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue series coming to the PS3 and in Pinball FX2 on the 360. Tuesday • Assassin’s Creed: Revelations—Ancestors Character Pack (PS3, 360) • Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand (PC, 360)…
By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Kneecapped by Skyrim
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •The Very Best of the Skyrim ‘Arrow in the Knee’ Meme [Ranker] Out on the vanguard of 2011’s hottest new video game memes, Ranker charts…
By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Angry Birds Second Birthday Invites a New Bird to the Party
Angry Birds has published another special-occasion update, this one celebrating the runway mobile hit’s second birthday. With it, you get 15 new levels and a new projectile, the Orange Bird, which “propels any object it touches.” The update is to the main game, which is still 99 cents for the iPhone, $4.99 for the iPad.…
By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Baron and the Exec
The Spike Video Game Awards can always be counted on to supply awkward moments, but they’re usually a celebrity bombing a joke with a hamfisted, if not intoxicated delivery. Last night we got something different, and no, we’re not talking about the teabagging spree. That’s “The Black Baron,” a YouTube hypeman who had earlier ripped…
By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe 2011 VGAs: All the Videos, All the Games, All the Awards
The Spike Video Game Awards are an event that says more about the coming year than it does about the current one. Last night gave us more than a dozen trailers, half of which concerned games about which we knew nothing, or next to nothing, before Zachary Levi started handing out the hardware. As to…
By Owen Good Published December 11, 2011