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In Case You Haven’t Formed An Opinion About Minecraft By Now…
Sometimes game reviewers only have a couple of days to play and weigh a major game release before releasing their reviews. With indie sensation Minecraft they’ve had over a year. This is going to be the best Frankenreview ever! Minecraft is a tool / toybox / video game about building things with blocks, built lovingly…
By Mike Fahey Published November 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Culmination is a Flash Game I Can Get Behind
Culmination is a smooth side-scrolling action game with an ambiance that is both eerie and calming. The controls feel solid (with only minor hiccups during combat) and I find myself zoning out while I play. Maybe I’m not a Flash game aficionado, but I am loving how polished this game feels. Culmination [Kongregate] You can…
By Chris Carolan Published November 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Happy 10th Q-Games
Tenugui | Q-Games Dylan Cuthbert sent me this lovely tenugui to celebrate his company’s 10th anniversary this month. Thanks for the present Cuthbert and thanks for all of those wonderful PxelJunk games. It’s Okay to Pee on the UK’s Newest Game Console First, they put advertisements in front of men’s urinals, figuring dudes who have…
By Brian Crecente Published November 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Skyrim Goes Hipstamatic
We have certainly seen a lot of different kinds of posts about Skyrim over the past couple of weeks. We’ve got jokes and memes, fan-fiction and fan-art, and one billion YouTube videos, from the impressive to the disturbing But it ain’t a “thing” until some iPhone-toting hipster has posted a bunch of fake-retro photos of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedXseed Successfully Fishes for Fishing Resort Coverage
Around this time of the year the surprise UPS and Fedex shipments begin to fade and the flow of new games fades to a trickle, making it an excellent time to fish for the illusive video game blogger with a mysterious rainbow suitcase. This is a rather cute little package for a game I wouldn’t…
By Mike Fahey Published November 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Busy Single Mom Who Wants to Sneak in Some Game Time
Being single is an excellent excuse to spend every spare moment you have indulging in your taste for gaming, but tack on ‘mother’ after ‘single’ and the opportunities to get your game on dwindle appreciatively. Here are a few gift ideas to help a single mom get her gaming groove back. Babysitting Coupons A large…
By Mike Fahey Published November 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedSkyrim Patch 1.2 Discreetly Disposes of Dead Wedding Guests
Already available on the PlayStation 3 (though masquerading under the name 2.01), the 1.2 patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is due out for the PC and Xbox 360 on Wednesday, and the plague of marital corpses finally comes to an end. Containing perhaps the most entertaining bug fix listing I’ve seen since they…
By Mike Fahey Published November 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Prepare to Pay Through the Nose for the Vita’s Proprietary Memory Cards
Rather than adopting one of the many memory card formats readily available on the market, Sony is launching a special proprietary format for use in the PlayStation Vita. A format so magical it’ll run you anywhere from $29.99 to $119.99 at GameStop. With memory cards having dropped in price drastically since the launch of the…
By Mike Fahey Published November 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mother Says World of Warcraft Turned Her Child Into Aggressive School-Skipping Hunchback
A mother writes in to Australia’s Telegraph to complain that World of Warcraft has turned her 13-year-old son into an aggressive computer addict who skips school and threatens violence if pulled away from his game. She says the boy, who is bigger than she is, missed most of his schooling this year and most of…
By Brian Crecente Published November 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedWatch as Indie Game: The Movie Moves Fez‘s Phil Fish to Tears
It’s taken a long time for Fez to get finished. It’s taken a long time for Indie Game: The Movie to get finished, too. So, when filmmakers Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky showed the documentary to gamemaker Phil Fish—who, along with Braid creator Jonathan Blow and the two-man Team Meat, is one of the indie…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedIt’s a Me a Mario! An 8-Bit Opera
The guys at JonandAl put together a Super Mario opera for the world to enjoy. As ridiculous as it is, I still can’t get the song out of my head. I dare you to not be moved when Mario gets that star power. If only they can remake the original movie as an opera… You…
By Chris Carolan Published November 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedCall of Duty Elite Trailer Shows What It Looks Like When Activision’s FPS Facebook Actually Works
So, getting Call of Duty Elite functional has been a struggle for Activision. The publisher’s promising that the social platform built for their best-selling FPS franchise will finally be mostly functional this week. The mega-publisher’s turned out a trailer to celebrate this occasion. In the clip, you’ll see an overview of Elite‘s basic functionality as…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Peek Inside the Home of Skyrim’s First Serial Killer
People love to collect in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim They collect loot, they collect books, horses and armor. They even collect butterflies in jars. But this guy (I’m assuming he’s a him because most serial killers are) likes to collect the bodies of decapitated female companion characters and undress and pose them. It’s just…
By Brian Crecente Published November 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedShow Us Your Space Sim Spirit For a Spot in the SOL: Exodus Closed Beta
Seamless Entertainment’s upcoming space combat sim SOL: Exodus is a game built for the most dedicated fighter pilots; the kind that long for the days of Wing Commander and Freespace, Privateer and X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter. If you can prove your space sim passion, then we might just have a spot in the SOL: Exodus…
By Mike Fahey Published November 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Gaze Into the Mystery of These New Final Fantasy XIII-2 Screens… Hey, A Chicken Lady!
In my hands-on preview, I talked about how Final Fantasy XIII-2‘s trying to shake things up a bit. You’ll find some new things in these screens, including a bizarre new character who’ll be popping up throughout the game. The woman in the feathered suit is Chocolina, a flamboyant chicken woman who’s a traveling merchant in…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Makers of Tony Hawk: Ride Want You To Fund Their Next Game
Tony Hawk: Ride developers Robomodo are kicking off a Kickstarter this week to help fund an Xbox Live Kinect game, a first they believe. While crowd-sourcing funding for indie, PC and mobile phone games has become very popular on Kickstarter, it’s unusual to see experienced developers looking for help to fund a game bound for…
By Brian Crecente Published November 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Customizer Fixes the Biggest Problem With Skylanders Toys
While the plastic characters Toys For Bob created to populate the world of Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure are certainly cute, colorful, and well-made, zero points of articulation makes them less action figure, more tiny statue. Action figure customizer supreme Jin Saotome brings four Skylanders to life in a whole new way. With a steady hand and…
By Mike Fahey Published November 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedVisit the Lovely, Re-Mastered Gulf of Oman in This New Battlefield 3 Trailer
EA DICE’s promised shiny, new revisions of classic multiplayer locales from Battlefield 2 and this new trailer shows off how the seaside environment looks when done up in the Frostbite 2 engine. For some reference, see the videos below for how the Gulf of Oman used to look in its previous implementation. Doggie52 Battlefield 2…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Tunisia, Egypt and Libya Look to Computer Games To Help Stabilize The Region
Think of it as a very specialized version of SimCity; one that replaces UFOs, monster attacks and city-flattening meteors with political unrest and economic upheaval; and replaces charming tiny animated people with real-time charts and in-person advisers. The SENSE program is a U.S. developed computer game that has been helping countries prepare for national transitions…
By Brian Crecente Published November 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedYour First Look At Indiana Jones the Facebook Game
We walked you through how the next Indiana Jones experience won’t be a movie, but rather a Facebook game, earlier today. Here’s a glimpse of what Zynga’s re-tooled Adventure World looks like. And yes, Indiana Jones Adventure World even has the theme music.” You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at [email protected].…
By Brian Crecente Published November 28, 2011