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Simpsons! Simpsons Arcade Here! Who’s Ready?!
A listing with Australia’s Classification Board says The Simpsons, the fondly remembered arcade beat-em-up, is coming soon to modern platforms. The certificate says that Backbone Entertainment, linked to SEGA ports, is handling the game, to be published by Konami. Konami handled another port of a revered arcade brawler last year, X-Men The Simpsons Arcade likely…
By Owen Good Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Million-Dollar Grant Seeks to Spark Young Gamers’ Interest in Science
The National Science Foundation is funding a project at N.C. State University [pictured above] to develop a video game that helps improve computer science knowledge retention in middle school kids. The NSF called the $1 million grant to State necessary in light of the decline in students enrolled in the so-called STEM fields – science,…
By Owen Good Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Red Sox’ Gonzalez is The Show‘s Cover Star
“Well played, Mauer,” appears to be finished as a catch phrase for MLB The Show with today’s naming of Boston’s Adrian Gonzalez as the cover star for next year’s edition of the game. He displaces the Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer, who held the packshot for the past two years. Sony dated the game, too,…
By Owen Good Published November 9, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Deeper Look at the Vita’s Big Charmer, Escape Plan
We’ve seen plenty of Uncharted and Resistance on the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld, but we haven’t seen enough of the truly creative stuff. In this new video from Sony, Matt Morton from Fun Bits Interactive talks through the creation of Escape Plan, the studio’s hilariously violent-looking black-and-white puzzle game. Morton talks about why they went…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fight Night Champion Offers Its Modes a la Carte on PSN
As tipped off yesterday, Fight Night Champion is being offered a la carte over PlayStation Network beginning today—gamers can buy the boxing title’s “Champion Mode,” the cinematic narrative of fictious boxer Andre Bishop, for $5. If they enjoy that, they can add other game modes on a piecemeal basis. EA Sports made it official with…
By Owen Good Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Skyrim Will Have Infinite Randomly Generated Content. But Will It Ever Feel as Real as Minecraft?
Speaking to Wired in a new interview segment published today, Skyrim director Todd Howard revealed that the game will feature randomly generated quests created by its Artificial Intelligence “director,” known as Radiant Story Howard mentions that after finishing the written “story” quests for factions like the Dark Brotherhood (made up of assassins) and The Thieves…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Formula To Skyrim’s Success
MATHMATICAL! –Game Informer executive editor Andrew Reiner explains via a picture on Twitter how he figured out his Skyrim score. Here’s the Tube Terror in Modern Warfare 3 That’s Freaking Out the Brits Depictions of terrorist attacks on London’s Tube are just one of the ways military shooter Call of Duty courts controversy in this…
By Brian Crecente Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dead Space 2, Rayman Origins Demo New This Week on the PlayStation Store
This week, Sony brings its usual raft of new and tweaked content to the PlayStation Store. Notable additions to their selections include Dead Space 2 as a downloadable for $29.99, with a free full game trial for PS+ subscribers. If you’re more in the mood to try something new, you can give the Rayman Origins…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 9, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Very Beginner’s Guide to The King of Fighters XIII
Charming, talented, and highly susceptible to flattery Atlus PR manager Aram Jabbari is joined by Dream Cancel community member Metaphysics in the first in a series of tutorial videos aimed at getting new warriors up-to-speed with the upcoming The King of Fighters XIII While I doubt the series will touch on my special method of…
By Mike Fahey Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Should You Buy Super Mario 3D Land? Yes.
Eight months after the 3DS’ North American debut, Mario at last debuts on the handheld in Super Mario 3D Land. Nintendo is keen for a big hit to energize interest in the device, and they’ve put their best plumber on the job. Should you hire his services too? Owen Good, the Sports Guy Who Went…
By Owen Good Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Call of Duty’s Elite Service Still Broken, But Getting Better
Elite, Call of Duty’s answer to stat tracking, community building, help guides and original videos, remains mostly unusable nearly two days after the service’s official launch. But teams are working around the clock on fixing the problems, Activision tells Kotaku “We are being challenged by a response beyond any of our expectations on day one,”…
By Brian Crecente Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Multiple Film Projects Might Move Leonardo Da Vinci From Assassin’s Creed Sidekick to Superhero Spotlight
Hollywood loves nothing so much as copying successes. It’s how gladiator, vampire and zombie trends start to run amok. And now that historical action hybrids are all the rage—Sherlock Holmes, The Da Vinci Code, we’re looking at you—there’s apparently a rush on projects centered on Leonardo DaVinci. Slashfilm’s got the scoop here. In a way,…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Now You Can Play Dead Rising 2 in Your Web Browser
Capcom has teamed up with those magical people at Gaikai to deliver a 30 minute timed demo of Dead Rising 2 that runs in your Java-enabled web browser. Ain’t technology a thing? Gaikai works by running the games you want to play on its own server, streaming the game via video to your browser, giving…
By Mike Fahey Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Battlefield 3 Still Can’t Dethrone Black Ops
The latest Xbox Live activity list—the first covering a full week of Battlefield 3 availability—shows that more people are still playing 2010’s Call of Duty: Black Ops online. BF3 is second, then Modern Warfare 2
By Stephen Totilo Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Video Games Represent Dangerous, Metaphorical Powers in “The Tetris Effect” Short Story
The hardest lesson taught by Tetris is that success isn’t infinitely sustainable. Those blocks are going to get unmanageable at some point. Over at The Awl, video games figure prominently in a new written work by Justin Wolfe. It’s a hypnotic hodgepodge of hero’s-journey structure and pop culture references. Picture a literary, cross-media orgy with…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Cave Story Soundtrack Goes Heavy Metal
Cave Story already has a pretty damn good soundtrack, but as with all things, it can be improved by being dipped in liquid fire and rendered into heavy metal. Thankfully there’s Erik Peabody, who has released his new 7-track album “Made of Metal” upon the world. It features “metal remixes honoring some of the most…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 9, 2011 -
Uncategorized30 Seconds of Skyward Sword: A Masterpiece of a Forest
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has beautiful graphics, despite the fact that it runs on dated hardware. In this game, artistry repeatedly trumps technological limitations. I want to show you one example of the game’s great look in one of the first areas you can reach in the game. This is the game’s forest,…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 9, 2011
