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UncategorizedMichael Bay, This is How you do Transformers
Hot damn. I know it’s just a pre-rendered trailer, and I know the song is corny, but this 1:47 of Transformers action spoke to me more as a Transformer fan than Michael Bay’s three films put together. It’s the Spike Holiday Video Game Advertising Extravaganza Spike Video Game Awards trailer for the upcoming action game…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedBioShock: Infinite Trailer Looks and Sounds Terrific
The upcoming BioShock: Infinite has a new trailer. It’s for the VGA Awards. This is it. The trailer looks great and features a fantasy cover of the hymn “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” It is, however, a tad on the short side. BioShock: Infinite will be out in 2012.
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis is How the End Begins in Diablo III
The opening cinematic for Diablo III debuted tonight at the Spike VGA awards, featuring the falling of more than one star and the passing of a torch from uncle to niece. If you’ve been fortunate enough to play through the Diablo III beta, then you already know about the falling star. You’ve already met Deckard…
By Mike Fahey Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedCall of Duty Maker Gets Teabagged As Charlie Sheen Watches
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 picked up the award for best shooter during Spike TV’s Video Game Awards show tonight, but not without causality. The rules of the VGA acceptance speech are: If you go past your allotted time, a cosplaying soldier teabags you on stage. When Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling blew…
By Brian Crecente Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedEpic Games Reveals Cartoony New IP Fortnite
They teased it earlier this week and tonight on the VGAs, the makers of Gears of War 3 revealed their newest game. Called Fortnite, it appears to expand on the fortification/tower defense mechanics introduced in Gears of War 3 with an all-new art style that leaves the gritty, steroidal look of previous Epic games behind.…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Can NFL Blitz Have a Cover Curse if the Game Actually Has No Cover?
Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was voted the “cover star” for January’s reboot of NFL Blitz at the Video Game Awards tonight. Of course, Blitz is a downloadable title, so this game actually has no physical cover. So that means Rice won’t actually tear his ACL in the playoffs after the game releases on…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 -
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Mario’s Creator Rocks Out to The Black Keys
Fresh off a week of denying reports that he’s retiring, the creator of Mario and Zelda was caught on camera rocking out to a little live music from The Black Keys during the VGAs tonight. I’m told he did a little head-banging too, but I missed that bit. That’s fine by me, this is how…
By Brian Crecente Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Amazing Spider-Man Battles Berzerk Robots, Because Non-Beserk Robots Would Be Boring
After two games that weren’t exactly dripping with hot web-slinging action, developer Beenox takes things open world in the Amazing Spider-Man. How focused are they on swinging this time around? So focused that they haven’t noticed they’ve stolen the plot from a Robocop move. Come on folks, haven’t we learned by now that when you…
By Mike Fahey Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedAlan Wake Meets His Evil Twin in American Nightmare
This is Alan Wake: American Nightmare, the downloadable sequel to Remedy’s 2010 narrative game for the Xbox 360. In it, the protagonist author Alan Wake fights against his murderous doppleganger.
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedVideo Game Awards Show Host Gets Teabagged. This Ain’t the Oscars.
If you win an Oscar and ramble through your acceptance speech, the orchestra will drown you out and the cameras will cut away. But, if you’re a game developer and you prattle too much at the Spike Video Game Awards, you might have a man drop his crotch on our face. It’s called teabagging. It’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedRainbow Six: Patriots Straps a Bomb to the One Percent in 2013
Told from the terrorists’ perspective, this is the debut trailer for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Patriots, shown moments ago at the Spike Video Game Awards. Even given its fuck-the-man tone, it was little weird hearing the crowd cheer that suicide bombing with such verve. The game’s coming in 2013, says Ubisoft.
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedHoly Shit! It’s a New Mass Effect 3 Trailer
The VGA Awards Mass Effect 3 trailer has hit, demonstrating one way to handle a gigantic intelligent robot creature hell-bent on the extinction of everything: Giant bug sex. I’m not sure what sort of twisted ancient intelligence built a temple for the sole purpose of unleashing an enormous amorous insect on any Reapers that might…
By Mike Fahey Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedBioWare’s Next Game is Command & Conquer: Generals 2
Just announced at the Spike Video Game Awards, BioWare’s next project is a Command & Conquer sequel entitled Command & Conquer: Generals 2 The original Command & Conquer: Generals was released in 2003 for the PC and MacOS. That game depicted the U.S. and China as allies in the near future, fighting against the terrorist…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedUncharted‘s Studio is in Charge of The Last of Us
The PS3 exclusive title The Last of Us is being developed by Naughty Dog, the studio that brought us the Uncharted Trilogy. The game’s introductory trailer showed a young girl and an older man, presumably her father or some relative, fending off an invasion of deranged mutants infected by whatever pandemic that forms the game’s…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedTony Hawk’s New Game is Tony Hawk HD
Having teased such an announcement earlier in the week, at tonight’s Spike VGAs skate legend Tony Hawk made it official: after a short hiatus in 2011, his series will be back in 2012 with Tony Hawk HD And it sounds pretty great. Rather than risk screwing everything up with a new game like the last…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Road Reggie Winners
We got the ‘Shop Contest back on the track last week thanks to Nintendo of America honcho Reggie Fils-Aime and a life-size Luigi bumble-bee kart. Cygnus_Mal chucked the spiny shell at 19 other contestants, so he finishes first! The usual gallery of lunacy awaits inside! aardvarkattack (2)catches Reggie stuck in morning traffic on I-5. lemonmanlemonman…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
No TV? Watch the Spike Video Game Awards Here, Live
If you’re somewhere without a cable television or, worse, no television at all, you can still follow the action from tonight’s 2011 Spike Video Game Awards live, right here. Courtesy of Spike and MTV Networks, we’re glad to bring you live streaming video of the broadcast. A half-hour pre-show begins at 7:30 pm, which you…
By Owen Good Published December 10, 2011
