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You may not Survive This Dark Souls Concept Art
To go with the Demon’s Souls concept art we showed you a few months back, today we’ve got a collection of art from its spiritual successor Dark Souls, out this week on the Xbox 360 and PS3. For a game that is about little but darkness, pain, brutality and despair, the art certainly gets the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Classy, if Slightly Muddled, Text Adventure
The Binary is a web-driven, text-based game in which you’re being sent back in time to make sure other people sent back in time don’t mess around with things. Sort of like the recent flick Source Code, only with less Chesty Jake, more Words on a Screen. It plays out at times like an interactive…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Will There Be an Xbox 720? Hollywood Thinks So.
Real Steel, that new Hugh Jackman flick with fighting robots, is set in a near future, dominated by battling bots. More preciously, the movie is set in 2020. In one arena scene, corporate logos like Mercedes-Benz, Capital One, and, ahem, Del Taco light up a stadium. There is also a Bing logo and an Xbox…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Help Real Japanese Earthquake Orphans Through Fiction
The earthquake might have rocked Japan last March, but its effects still linger. Charity book Kizuna, a collection of short fiction by international writers, aims to help orphanages in the areas hit hardest by the quake and tsunami. [Kizuna]
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedMega-Man’s Producer Is Making a Nintendo 3DS Game
Keiji Inafune, former Mega-Man producer and Dead Rising designer, is hard at work on a new title. It’s called Kaio: King of Pirates and it’s for the Nintendo 3DS. It stars a penguin pirate. Inafune will be taking director duties. King of Pirates is a mix of pirates and Sangokushi. It’s an action role-playing game,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 - CultureTotal Recall
Enjoy This Badass 16-bit Title Screen Art
We’ve seen title art from modern games. And from NES games. Today, we’re hitting the ground somewhere in between with a collection of animated title screen art from the Genesis/Mega Drive and Super Nintendo. These images come courtesy of Title Scream, a site run by Kiwi interactive designer Cameron Askin which is looking to preserve…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Parks and Recreation, Not Parks and Buy Yourself an Xbox 360
An employee of the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department used a city credit card to purchase a little recreation for himselfā€”namely, an Xbox 360. That’s not all the gaming recreation that the employee, Naikia Howard, indulged in: he also took a copy of Wii Sports and a Wii home from a Seattle teen center. An…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedHow To Be a Jet In Battlefield 3’s Beta
No jets on Operation Metro, the only map available in Battlefield 3’s beta? No problem. Make your own. [thanks Smi1ey!] You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedFinally! A Song about Co-Op Gaming
The Nghiems is an indie rock band fronted by David Nghiem and his brother James. The group’s single “Dum Dum Dah Dah” is about co-op gaming. The tune’s video features a slew of stop motion photography, arcade gaming, and the members of The Nghiems. Making the video took four months and used 8,000 individual photos…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Square Enix RPG’s Name Sounds Terrible, Looks Just Fine
There’s a new Square Enix game on the way for the Nintendo 3DS called Bravely Default: Flying Fairy. Even going by Square’s ridiculous standards, it’s a ridiculous name. Lucky, then, it looks so damn good. Understand that this appears to be an incredibly “traditional” Japanese role-playing game, and that I’m talking about its visuals, not…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedNi no Kuni‘s Funny Bone Has Quite the History
The Kansai area of Japan includes Osaka, Kobe, and Kyoto. It’s famous for its food, such as okonomiyaki and beef, its companies, like Panasonic and Nintendo, and its comedians, which include about half of the people on television. Japanese comedy is synonymous with Kansai. The country’s most famous comedy agency, Yoshimoto Kogyo, started in Osaka…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Get a Sneak Peek at Diablo III’s Items, Weapons and Armour
Even though most of you aren’t playing the game yet, Blizzard still wants you to get to grips with the world of Diablo III. So the developer has opened a section on the game’s site where you can check out a lot of Diablo III’s early items and weapons. These are of course just the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
So, How Does LA Noire Look On PC?
Let’s find out, since publishers Rockstar have today released some screens of the late-to-the-party PC edition of the face-reading hat simulator. Looks a little muddier in parts than the glorious master race will be accustomed to, but considering the nature of the game (it is quite literally a console port) that’s not too big a…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Electronic Arts Suing EA Over Dodgy Logo
EA, the video games publisher, is taking EA, the fitness supplies company, to court. And it’s not over the name. Energy Armor, based in Florida, is instead being taken to court because of two things. The first is its logo, which is more of a “complete rip-off” of EA’s famous branding than it is an…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fund Star Commander So You Can Command a Starship (or Commit Genocide) With Your iPhone
Star Command isn’t just another blocky sim game where you get to hire, fire and command a crew of your very own starship. It also gives you the option to render alien races extinct, something nefariously left out of such titles as Game Dev Story and Tiny Tower Goal: $20,000 Notable Reward: $100 – All…
By Chris Carolan Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fund Roaring Skies To Bring Multiplayer Dogfighting to the iOS
Roaring Skies is an iOS top down multiplayer airplane shooter. The Flight Control-like shooter includes a variety of game modes ranging from two-versus-two, four-versus-four and even an attempt at something almost resembling a Defense of the Ancients mode. Goal: $8,000 Notable Reward: $499 – No shit, they will fly you over the Golden Gate Bridge…
By Chris Carolan Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fund Girl With a Heart of To Help Reinvigorate Text Adventures
Girl with a heart of reminds me of all those games that you found loaded on the computer in your school. This multiplayer form game may not be your first choice, but something about it keeps drawing you back after you’ve played it once. Goal: $2,000 Notable Reward: $10 – Free copy of the game…
By Chris Carolan Published October 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedFund Crystal Catacombs to Help Bring Something Beautiful Into the World
Crystal Catacombs, simply put, looks awesome. Side-scrolling action role-playing game, randomized dungeons, chip-tune sound track and it looks pretty slick too. Out of all of this month’s Kickstarter hopefuls, Crystal Catacombs definitely gets me best in show prize. Goal: $11,000 Notable Reward: $1,000 – Actually help design and develop an entire realm for the game,…
By Chris Carolan Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fund Zombies, Run! So You Can Run From Hordes of Zombies Through Your Neighborhood
Zombies,Run! is an augmented reality game in which you play it as you go out for your morning jog. Using your head phones and an iPhone or Android, you listen to the sounds of a world destroyed by the undead. The game has you run through this zombie wasteland picking up all sorts of things…
By Chris Carolan Published October 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fund Mean Mallows Because You Like Chocolate But Hate S’mores
Mean Mallows is an iOS survival game that takes you on the terrifying journey of being a piece of chocolate in a hungry world filled with marshmallows and graham crackers. Goal: $26,000 Notable Reward: $1000 – Get named as a Game Producer in the credits. Chances: Slim. The goal seems a bit to high for…
By Chris Carolan Published October 5, 2011