Wario Helps Show This Developer the Money

Tiburcio de la Cárcova, co-founder of social games studio Atakama Labs, doesn’t sell things at a cash register. His games go out over the internet. Meaning a sale isn’t as satisfying as seeing cash in the hand! So he built this awesome Wario Robot (with help from his daughter!) to help make everything seem a…

Are Japanese Xbox 360 Fans Getting Screwed?

On October 27, The Idolmaster 2, a pop idol simulator, is being ported to the PS3. The game originally debuted on the Xbox 360 earlier this year. Like previous Idolmaster games, there’s been copious amounts of downloadable content available—for a price. PS3 owners will be getting a big discount on that price, namely to the…

How Many People Play as Femshep (and How Many Create Their Own Hero?)

Since the Mass Effect series lets you not only select the gender of your character but also customise their appearance, it’s interesting to find out some statistics behind the choices people make when forging their story. Speaking with VG247, BioWare’s David Silverman says that 18% “of everyone who plays Mass Effect” uses the female version…

It’s Like a Silent Hill Game You Can Actually Experience

It’s summer. In Japan, that means beaches and snow cones. It also means having the shit scared out of you. While fall is the time for ghosts and goblins in the West, summer is traditionally the season of frights in Japan. Ghost stories are told on summer evenings. One reason for this is scary stories…

The Mysterious Team Fortress 2 Space Program

Earlier this week, a Team Fortress 2 update quietly added a bizarre new feature: several crashed rockets, which can now be seen smoking in the distance of several of the game’s maps. There’s no explanation for the rocket’s appearance, just the fact they’re there, and that when yanked from the game’s code we find they’re…

There Are Uncharted Action Figures (and One of Them Looks Awesome)

Cast those shitty Uncharted toys from your mind. At Comic-Con, Sony will be showing off the real deal. In all, there’ll be three different sets of Nathan Drake toys on show in San Diego: these vinyl pieces we first showed you back in 2009 (and which have subsequently been rebranded from Uncharted 2 toys to…

You Could Actually Download Atari 2600 Games (on an Atari 2600!)

Xbox Live Arcade is credited with popularising the notion of downloading console video games. Other consoles, like the Genesis, offered them a lot earlier, albeit with limited success. The CVC GameLine did things even earlier. We’re talking 1983 earlier. And while it all ended in disaster, the ashes of the venture would bizarrely lead to…

A Porn Star, A Pro Wrestler and Jin from Lost Walk Into Saints Row: The Third

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but the next Saints Row video game will tap the oral talents of one well-known porn star, one better-known professional wrestler and one Daniel Dae Kim. THQ and developer Volition revealed some of the star talent performing acting duties in Saints Row: The Third, leading with actress…

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Who’s Going to Comic-Con?

You? How about you? I am. Owen Good is. But if you’re going to Comic-Con and haven’t chimed in, tonight’s open thread might be a good place to do it. Of course, if you’re not going to San Diego for this ‘Con this year, you can talk about whatever you would like. That’s why we…

Rumor: Star Wars: The Old Republic Collector’s Edition Details Leak, Limited Pre-orders Start Thursday

Online retailers may have outed details on EA and BioWare’s ambitious massively multiplayer online game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, specifically its pre-order plans and its equally massive Collector’s Edition, a few days earlier than expected, much to the delight of Star Wars fans. Polish retailer Empik posted (then pulled) details on the Star Wars…

China’s Team Fortress 2 Rip-off Sexes Up ‘Meet The Sniper’

Chinese shooter Final Combat, an unsubtle, shameless swipe of two other free-to-play games—Valve’s Team Fortress 2 and EA’s Battlefield Heroes—has a new playable class it would like to introduce: the Sniper. The sexy, short-skirted, probably-does-not-urinate-in-jars Sniper. See, where Xunlei’s Final Combat distinguishes itself from Valve’s team-based shooter is in the fact that two of its…

The Classic Klonoa May Be Your Next PSone Classic

PlayStation game Klonoa: Door to Phantomile was recently re-rated by the ESRB for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. That means the 1998 original is a very likely candidate for a digital PSone Classics re-release. 🙂

Plush Life

Cutters – Cut The Rope plushes mint in box, as seen at an Electronic Arts held event in New York City today. (Photo by Brian Crecente) MapleStory: Thief Edition is a Two-Dimensional Adventure MapleStory, the blockbuster Korean MMO game, has turned up on more platforms than just the PC. It’s on the Nintendo DS, for…

Spartans Vs. Predators – Whoever Wins, We Win

Master Chief becomes an unstoppable force with his new Predator upgrades! Master Chief Predator by friend of ShrubbyTreeBush Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission. Master Chief Predator by ShrubbyTreeBush

Zelda and Robin Williams Still Reminding You they Love Ocarina of Time

Turns out the commercial that Robin and Zelda Williams put out last month was not alone in the universe. Zelda leaked on Twitter that another commercial existed somewhere. Here it is.

What Battlefield 3 Needs

For the past few weeks I have found myself returning to my favourite multiplayer game of last year, Battlefield: Bad Company 2. It’s a punchy rascal of a game, but it also hints at plenty of things that could be better in the future, and reminds us of lots of things that have been better…

PlayStation Store Update: Everybody Limbo

PlayStation 3 owners, you are now cleared to download last year’s excellent puzzle platformer Limbo, one of the dark highlights of this week’s North American PlayStation Store update. Already played that? Well, there’s a lot more. One PlayStation Move downloadable game (Fast Draw Showdown) and one undead tower defense game (Dead Block) are also new…

Robbed GameStop Store Employee Threatened with Blasting

You’re in the GameStop, you’ve got your gun at the ready, you’ve cleared the cash register area of children, and now you’re ready to make your demand. “Give me the money!” Good! Now follow it up with a threat! “…or I’ll blast you!” Wait, what? You shouldn’t rob video game stores; that should really go…

Darksiders II‘s Death and the Horse He Rode In On

The extended announcement trailer for THQ’s Darksiders II is here, giving us a deeper appreciation of Death and his majestic steed. Is it just me, or is that horse looking a little pallid? After bringing war to life in Darksiders the first, Vigil Games takes on the monumental task of granting a personality and likeability…