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Microsoft Teams Up With the Independent Games Festival
The Independent Games Festival has announced a multi-year partnership with Microsoft Games Studios. The partnership will involve a jury of indie game developers awarding an “XBLA Prize” (XBLA being Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade service), which will be given out at the IGF, a festival and awards ceremony that happens each March at the Game Developers…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedIs Televangelist Benny Hinn Skyrim’s Dragonborn?
This is the power of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Non gamers watch this video and think they may be witnessing the powers of international televangelist Benny Hinn during one of his many faith healing summits. Gamers watch this video and know what’s really going on here: FUS RO DAH!. Good thing Hinn doesn’t know…
By Brian Crecente Published December 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Video Game Wars Should Feel Real, EA Says
When I talked to EA’s Frank Gibeau earlier this fall about the making of Battlefield 3, the words that kept coming up were realistic and authentic. Yes, the ambitious war game still counts as fiction, what with its earthquake-aided insurrection and nuclear terrorism. However, it’s not quite as popcorn as the plot presented in the…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Lady Who Saw a Wii at Grandpa’s Hospital and Now Thinks She Wants One
As much as you’re able to instantly recommend the best products to your fellow gamer, you might grope for advice when that older person, maybe a family member, suddenly expresses an interest in video games for the first time. What you’re being asked to do is help someone develop or understand their actual taste in…
By Owen Good Published December 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Kinect Helps High School Duo Win $100,000 National Science Prize
Who says gaming can’t lead to a higher education? Ziyuan Liu and Cassee Cain of Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge are splitting a $100,000 college scholarship awarded in the Siemens Foundation’s annual high school science competition after creating a Kinect-powered application that uses Microsoft’s magical camera to analyze the way a person walks.…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Halo: Reach Recreation of Resident Evil‘s Most Infamous Location
It might not seem familiar at first, but once you start wandering the corridors you’ll realize that this is a faithful scale recreation of Resident Evil‘s Spencer Mansion crafted using the creation tools from Halo: Reach Marrying his love of two decidedly different game franchises, ForgeHub member Cryptic Sin spent nearly a year crafting and…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedHere’s a Naked, Fan-Made Saints Row The Third Edition of So You Think You Can Dance?
It’s tough to top anything that’s already in a game as aggressively juvenile and over-the-top as Saints Row the Third, a game that marketed itself with giant dildo weapons. But somehow YouTuber XBLStallion83’s done exactly that with this hilarious video that stitches the game’s taunt moves into a dance marathon. Using Michael Jackson’s classic “Billie…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedModern Warfare‘s Most Magical Kills Involve Sliding Care Packages, Levitating Cinderblocks
YouTube user AmazingFilms247 keeps posting ridiculous Modern Warfare 3 (and Modern Warfare 2) multiplayer videos on YouTube. They show just how amazing Activision’s popular shooter is at breaking its own rules of physics. Care packages on ice! Levitating cinderblocks! And more… enjoy!
By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
You’ll Be Able to Get Your Threeway On With Trine 2 On Steam This Wednesday, Consoles Coming in Two Weeks
Frozenbyte’s long-brewing puzzle/platormer sequel finally getting release dates on various platforms, with the PC and Mac versions first out the gate. They’ll be available on Steam on December 7, followed by a North American PSN release on December 20 and worldwide Xbox Live Arcade availability on December 21. There’s no still no firm date for…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedExplore the Dusty Pages of the Ultimate Tome of Diablo Lore
Hello my friends! Stay awhile and listen…err, watch as I explore Diablo III: Book of Cain, 147 pages of illustrations, excerpts, and firsthand accounts of the history of the world of Sanctuary, coming soon to a bookseller near you. As the last of the Horadrim mages, an ancient brotherhood formed by the Archangel Tyrael to…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedAn Adorable Musical Argument for Legend of Zelda Fan Procreation
Three children (with a baby cameo) take on the roles of Link, Zelda, and Ganon in what could be the most favorable outcome of Legend of Zelda fans in love, even if they got the musical credit wrong. I can only hope that my children will one day allow me to submit them to this…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedNintendo’s Latest Cheerfully Teaches You Insider Trading
In real life, insider trading is as much a crime as jumping on someone’s head and flattening them to death. But in the Super Mario-themed Wii virtual board game Fortune Street, insider trading is both a valid tactic and a recommended strategy. The key to making it sound like so much fun is the music.…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Could Epic Games Be Teasing for the VGAs This Weekend?
All you Kremlinologists who like to parse secrets out of video clips are SOL on this one. The teasing’s strictly of the verbal variety as Epic Games Design Director Cliff Bleszinski hints an all-new game during a promo for the upcoming Spike Video Game Awards. Viewers don’t get much to work with, other than clips…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
HeroClix Online Gets a Double Dose of DC Comics and Digital Content Codes
HeroClix Online isn’t just for Marvel fans anymore, at least it won’t be come December 7 when WizKids introduces the first two DC Comics-themed sets to the online game and releases the first physical product with codes for in-game heroes included. Fulfilling the promise of the popular tabletop game’s move to digital form, HeroClix Online…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Should You Buy Fortune Street? No.
If they’ve been making versions of the Nintendo Wii’s new board game for 20 years, if Nintendo themselves are publishing it—choosing to sell this to us this holiday season instead of other Japanese games still awaiting translation—then surely it must be good and worth buying? Stephen Totilo, who got really close to giving this eye-sore…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedGames for People Who Don’t Have the Internet. Not Even Dial-Up [UPDATE]
You may know a person who likes video games who doesn’t have Internet. Don’t pity them. Buy them a present. The very best gift for them might be the Internet itself, but aside from that, here’s what you can get them. Of course, if they don’t have Internet because they are in prison, disregard all…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhosoever Holds This Pinball Table Shall Possess the Power of Thor
Should you be worthy or willing to spend 800 Microsoft points / $9.99 next week, this Thor table and more shall be yours when Zen Studio releases the Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue pack on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Thor joins the X-Men on the side of virtue in this downloadable pinball…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Last Guardian Creator Says He Remains Hard At Work on His Game
The Last Guardian creator Fumito Ueda took to Twitter earlier today to reassure fans that he is still hard at work on his game. “Ueda says he’s been getting lots of Q’s lately, but fear not—they’re hard at work on Last Guardian, as always,” Tweets 8-4’s John Ricciardi, loosely translating Ueda’s Tweet today. Last week…
By Brian Crecente Published December 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis New Trailer for Rayman Origins Covers the Fundamentals in Pretty, Funny Fashion
Apparently, the powers-that-be at Ubisoft know that the visual splendor of their latest gorgeously rendered platformer can be straight-up confusing. That’s the only raison d’etre I can figure behind the video above. The clip details gameplay goals so basic that you’d have to be a drooling idiot not to get them. To be fair, there…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedDevs Explain How Animal Crossing 3DS Will Be the Best Animal Crossing Yet
Producer Katsuya Eguchi and a trio of developers from the Animal Crossing 3DS team spend ten minutes discussing how the latest iteration of the animal life sim will set itself apart from the rest. They had me at skirts and pants. While I love me some Animal Crossing, the game hasn’t changed very much since…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011