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Mass Effect’s Meanest Ass-Kicker Comes Alive
To help give their Mass Effect cosplay a little more professional edge, the team at Crabcat Industries commissioned master craftsman Neil Tambini to make this Garrus mask. It’s terrifying. In an awesome way. Not only did Tambini (who helped design many of the monsters for the Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios) get the vigilante’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Thinking About Windows Phone “Control Pads”
A patent filing made public last week (but first filed in 2010) shows that Microsoft is at least thinking about making its Windows line of mobile phones a little easier to game on. The patent is for a mobile phone that looks like Sony’s Xperia Play, with a slide-out design. Interestingly, the patent is focusing…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2011 -
Uncategorized3DS Game Bug Sends Players to Big Boob Hell
Senran Kagura, that booby ninja game, is apparently doing pretty well in Japan. Even Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida bought a copy. Those who own the game might want to be careful of a bug that will trap them in boob hell. The bug doesn’t appear to be that easy to find (it involves using the character…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedMiddle Earth Is no Place for Americans
I like where Warner Bros. is going with Lord of the Rings: War In the North. It’s got the polish of the movie games with a new story that should give it some breathing room. But that narration… There are places American voices in a fictional setting are appropriate. On starships, for example. But there’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
When Pokémon Comparisons Don’t Piss You Off
The idea of raising monsters and then having them fight didn’t start with Pokémon. In 1992’s Dragon Quest V, players could select monsters and have them duke it out. That was years before Pocket Monsters came out. Yet, Dragon Quest spin-off Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker, which focuses on capturing and breeding monsters for battles, is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Strangest Video Game Show We’ve Seen This Month
Someone thought it would be a good idea to stick cult film director Tommy Wiseau, the man behind 2003’s abysmal/awesome The Room, in front of a camera to play video games The results are about what you’d expect. The man does little but spend six minutes bewildered by the latest Mortal Kombat game. It’s like…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedHere Are Some Gears of Wars 3 Maps We Didn’t Know About
That is, until somebody spotted them on the Gears 3 leaderboards. The maps are titled “Azura”, “Blood Drive”, and “Rustlung”. They’re apparently not playable and are probably upcoming DLC. Gears of War 3 was released in North America on Sept. 20 to much fanfare. The game does have unlockable content, but like so many recent…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedAnd the iPhone Games Keep Looking Better, and Better, and Better
Gears of War may not be available on Apple’s iOS devices, but you can get what looks to be the next best thing with Shadowgun While the Gears similarities are everywhere (especially in the design of your character’s suit), as is often the case with iPhone games it can be excused when it looks this…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Pokémon Parody You Cannot Erase from Your Brain
In this clip, the opening screens for an array of Pokémon games are brought to life. It’s funny, but more importantly, it’s totally bonkers. Then, there are the battle scenes, which are equally bizarre and wonderful. Be sure to stick around for the bit at the end with the toilet and the part with the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Virtual Boy as an Instrument of Public Nuisance
The Virtual Boy may have traumatised Nintendo all those years ago, but these days, it seems all it’s good for is comedic self-harm. Get me on any other day and this “entry level Jackass” stuff is both old and tiresome, as all it does is score cheap laughs off some poor worker’s clean-up job after…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
When Almost Killing a Girl with Saran Wrap Is Going too Far
It was horrifying. A young man with chemically curled hair and hipster glasses dumped the mummified body on the apartment floor. The 22-year-old girl was wrapped countless times in Saran wrap. A pair of guitars were in the corner, next to a home entertainment setup, with a TV and game consoles. “Yeah!” the guy with…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedRetro Ghost Recon Looks More Like the Syndicate Remake of our Dreams
The video’s title and characters say “Ghost Recon”. But the style on show screams “the Syndicate game people actually wanted“. Continuing their release of videos previously seen only by those attending Ubisoft’s E3 press conference, animation house Ludi Factory has shared this “retro” Ghost Recon clip. “It’s a tribute to Syndicate”, the video’s description says,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Giant Jeff Bridges Action Figure Appears
Hong Kong collectible company Hot Toys has once again hit it out of the park with this meticulously-detailed figure of Jeff Bridges as he appeared in the first Iron Man flick. Obadiah Stane, or in this suit known as IRON MONGER, may not have won the day in the movie, but he’s winning my heart…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2011 - CultureTotal Recall
The Delightful Home-Made Maps of the Zork Series
Zork is one of the oldest adventure game franchises there is. The series is so old, in fact, that aside from a few rare instances you can only play the games using, and seeing, text. No graphics, no icons, no heads-up display, nothing. So how did you get around? How did you use a map?…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Would You Like to Pre-Order a California Roll?
Sushi Restaurant About to Get a Letter from Games Retailer | SushiStop of Los Angeles. You don’t want to buy anything used here. (Image by Yelp, seen via Destructoid.) Star Wars: The Old Republic Ships on Dec. 20, Subscriptions Detailed Star Wars: The Old Republic launches on Dec. 20 in North America and Dec. 22…
By Owen Good Published September 25, 2011 - Culture
We’re Taking Nominations for Sunday Comics’ Newest Strip
As you may have noticed, we’ve been down a comic in our Sunday Comics lineup ever since Rooster Teeth closed in August. I could have just filled it in with any of the submissions we frequently get from webcomic authors, but remembering how this feature was conceived, and given that everyone has such strong opinions…
By Owen Good Published September 25, 2011 - Culture
Ready for Some Football
EA Sports’ FIFA 12 highlights this release week (Tuesday in North America, Thursday and Friday in Europe) along with Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2011. Not diggin’ sports? X-Men: Destiny, the quasi-action-RPG by Silicon Knights, arrives on shelves, too. Monday • FIFA Soccer 12 (Wii) Tuesday • FIFA Soccer 12 (PC, PS2, PSP, PS3, 360) —A…
By Owen Good Published September 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
End of Nations Won’t Release Until 2012
Though no official release date had been given for the free-to-play MMORTS End of Nations, 2011 had not been ruled out for the game’s launch. Developer Trion took that off the table today at the Eurogamer Expo, saying the game will in fact arrive in 2012 and not sooner. A live demo of the game…
By Owen Good Published September 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Smooth Textures
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. • Ten Games With the Best Textures This Generation [Gaming Bolt] …. • Top 15 Multiplayer Maps of All Time [Maximum PC] Not one map…
By Owen Good Published September 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Rage will require 3 Discs on 360, 8 GB Install on PS3
At Eurogamer Expo, the creative director for Rage confirmed that the game will release on three discs for the Xbox 360, and for PS3 owners, require an 8 GB install. The three-disc release wasn’t exactly a surprise. At QuakeCon, Joel reported that the game would require 21 to 22 GB of hard drive space if…
By Owen Good Published September 25, 2011