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First (Brief) Look at Team Fortress 2 Toys
NECA, specialists in action figures and props based on video games, will be bringing out lines of figures based on Valve properties in 2012. While we haven’t yet seen the finished versions of these toys, we do today have some work-in-progress shots of Team Fortress 2’s Demoman. What’s more interesting than the pictures themselves is…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nabbed Game Burglar Tries a Mission Impossible
Remember that scene in Mission Impossible when Tom Cruise lowers himself down through a laser maze? Minus the lasers and the wire acerbatics, an unemployed 21-year-old named Yuuki Saitou tried a stealth entry of his own to swipe used games and consoles. At around 2:15am in the morning on Sept. 8 in Miyazaki Prefecture, Saitou…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe World Has Become a Video Game, and It Is Very, Very Sad
This is a commercial currently airing on Australian TV. I won’t spoil the bizarre ending by telling you what it’s for, but that’s not the point. The point is how great the voxel effects look. Voxels, which had a trendy little run in the video game business in the 1990s with titles like Outcast and…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Is Nintendo’s Slide Pad Packaging
Loud. Gaudy. The box art for the Monster Hunter 3 (-tri) G 3DS Expansion Slide Pad bundle was madness. Nintendo’s take on the 3DS Expansion Slide Pad’s stand alone packaging is not. It’s restrained, standard—the simplicity you’d expect from Nintendo these days. The 3DS Expansion Slide Pad will be available separately on Dec. 10 for…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mass Effect 3 Has Multiplayer, Says PC Gaming Magazine
Australian magazine PC Powerplay is showing off the cover for its next issue on the publication’s official site, and it says as clear as you can get that the game features multiplayer. In big writing, cross the middle of the front page, it says: MULTIPLAYER COMES TO MASS EFFECT 3: FIGHT ALONGSIDE YOUR FRIENDS AS…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Let This BlazBlue Star Stick a Plastic Gun in Your Face
Noel Vermillion, star of fighting game BlazBlue, is getting immortalized in PVC for the very first time. Do you remember the first time? You do, you know. The Queen’s Gate version of Vermillion is priced at ¥7,980 (US$104). Orders are being taken later this month through November. The figure will be released next spring. 初のフィギュア化…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedWatch a Man Shoot a Home-Made Rocket Called Quake all the way Into Space
Among amateur rocket-launching circles, there’s a bounty called “The Carmack Prize“. It’s named for id boss, Doom co-creator and budding rocket scientist John Carmack, and will reward anyone who can get a home-made rocket 100,000 feet into space and capture some GPS data from it. The first people to claim the prize will pick up…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedCrazy Christians Say Pokémon Are “Oriental Demons”, Minecraft‘s “Distracting”
Minecraft, congratulations! You’ve officially arrived. Religious nuts are railing against you. For years now, Pokémon‘s been a favorite target of those outside the religious mainstream. Dorothy Spaulding from Watchmen Broadcasting, a local Christian broadcast network in Georgia, discussed the perils of Pokeémon with guest Henry Lewis. Apparently, Pokémon are “Oriental demons”, and the names of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Link, Be a Lady Tonight
You see your fair share of ladies cosplaying as the hero of the Legend of Zelda series. Not as much fan art. Let’s change that. This piece is called, well, Female Link, and is by Albanian artist Edli Akolli. It’s just one his many amazing fantasy-inspired works, more of which you can check out at…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Grown Woman Threatened for…Being a Grown Woman
Aki Toyosaki is 24 years-old. A big Grand Theft Auto fan, she works as a voice actress, voicing Yui Hirasawa in K-On as well as Cinque in the upcoming Final Fantasy Type-0. She’s an adult, and she’d be free to live her life as an adult. That is, if she wasn’t a voice actress in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
RAGE’s PC Version has Been Updated, Might be Better now
The PC launch of id’s anticipated shooter RAGE has been, well, a “Cluster!@#$”. And that’s in the developer’s words. Does a massive update released over the weekend help things? It certainly helps help things. The update, which is out now, adds many of the hardware configuration options people were mystified weren’t there in the first…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Skyrim’s Map Leaked, Looks Massive [Update]
Reportedly obtained via Russian (where else) collector’s edition copies of the game, here’s what’s likely your first look at the game world of the upcoming RPG blockbuster Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Scanned by members of a Russian fan forum, it shows a world that is surprisingly large; if you remember Oblivion’s map, it used a…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
It Takes Two to Make NBA Jam Go Right
The inability to switch off between players was one of the few drawbacks of an otherwise rollicking NBA Jam revival last year. It required some clunky manipulation of your starting lineup and defense, for those who actually played it, often left a man open as you instinctively swarmed to the guy your CPU partner was…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Team Fortress De-Booted
Team Fortress, De-booted | Low-resolution Team Fortress 2 classes, made cuter for older systems. By PixelBlock, an artist who’s done these and numerous other demakes in the past month. Takedown Notice Sends Battlestar Galactica Modders Fleeing from the NBC Universal Tyranny A swell Battlestar Galactica mod for Nexus drew the attention of NBC Universal, who…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 - Culture
A Forza to be Reckoned With
High-performance automobiles return to the Xbox 360 with Forza Motorsport 4 this week. Not a car guy? Take to the skies with Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, on the PS3 and 360, or head back to the casino with Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. There’s also DLC releasing for Dragon Age II Monday • Red…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Takedown Notice Sends Battlestar Galactica Modders Fleeing from the NBC Universal Tyranny
A swell Battlestar Galactica mod for Nexus drew the attention of NBC Universal, who sent a cease-and-desist over to ModDB, which had been hosting the work on it. And 19 other BSG mods. All have been wiped out. “I was shocked and saddened when i got the message from ModDB admins that our mod, the…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Stunted Thinking
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Five More Bizarre Publicity Stunts in Gaming [Delta Gamer] Includes the WTFery THQ concocted for its marketing of Red Faction: Guerrilla (pictured above). By no…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
ModernWarfare3.com Finally Redirects to, Y’know, Modern Warfare 3‘s Website
At last, the long, sordid saga of ModernWarfare3.com has come to an end, one month before the game’s release, with lessons learned for all sides. For Activision, it’s “register the goddamn domain before you announce the game.” (They appear to have taken this to heart.) For cybersquatters, it’s “Don’t be a dickclown and you can…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 - Uncategorized
Frozen Account Further Sours PayPal’s Terrible Reputation with Indie Devs
For the third time in about a year, PayPal has frozen the account of an independent developer for six months, presumably because preorder activity triggered red flags. PayPal rarely says why in this case, even to the account holder, leaving its actions to appear arbitrary and bureaucratic, if not portrayed as mean-spirited. Minecraft had $750,000…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011