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UncategorizedA Three-Minute Look at THQ’s Avengers, Disassembled
THQ’s big-time bloodletting back in August meant the end of its Brisbane, Australia studio and scuttled the publisher’s planned video game adaptation of The Avengers. Evidently those who were involved with the project can’t take no for an answer; footage of the game in its pre-alpha state released last week and was immediately smashed by…
By Owen Good Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
Boxplay Winners
Video game cosplay normally involves cosplaying as characters, not the video game itself. One Call of Duty fan turned that premise on its head in Canada a couple weeks ago, showing up as the Black Ops box itself. Last Sunday, our sensible shoppers swooped in to make everything even more absurd. We’ve got 20 of…
By Owen Good Published September 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedThere’s a Reason this Call of Duty: Rezurrection Trailer is Behind an Age Gate
Dismemberment? We know you can handle that. Zombie vomit? I’ll admit to some queasiness watching that in action. Activision’s pimping the PC and PS3 release of its Rezurrection map pack, on Sept. 22, with this latest video. It’s already out for Xbox 360 of course, and it’s at least as believable as Apollo 18 You…
By Owen Good Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
NBA 2K12 is not a “Roster Update”—and That’s the Problem
Roster update. In sports video games, it’s not a selling point as much as it is a term of abuse, one that implies that accurate rosters in annual titles have almost no value to a discerning video gamer. Well, in a couple of weeks, we may find out how important this baseline expectation really is.…
By Owen Good Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
Regulator Orders Canadian Cable Giant to Stop Throttling Online Games
Last week, Rogers Cable and Telecom, Canada’s largest cable provider, admitted that its network monitors may “inadvertently” throttle traffic of customers playing online games. “Inadvertently” or otherwise, Canada’s telecommunications regulator has told Rogers to knock it off. The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission cited Rogers’ own policy, which claims that online games like World of Warcraft…
By Owen Good Published September 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedToday’s Punishment: Thirty Minutes of Pointless Death in Dark Souls
Alright, you sinners. Last week’s confessional was … adequate. I still feel that you are holding back, and you cannot purify your gaming soul unless you make a full accounting of all your trespasses. So we’re going to have another round of punishment today, starring Dark Souls This is 10 minutes (entirely in Japanese) of…
By Owen Good Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
How Tall is Link? If This Lifesize Papercraft is Any Indication, He’s 5-foot-5
Requiring more than 200 pages, 12 hours of work per day for a solid month, and what must have been gallons of printer ink, is this jaw-dropping life-size papercraft Link that the artist Michaela M. completed this week. Yes, she has a template for those with the time and the patience to try to re-create…
By Owen Good Published September 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Video Compendium of 25 Years of Console Loading Screens
There’s something weirdly nostalgic about these two videos, which are a compilation of every boot screen for every console ever to have one, going back to the Sega Master System (the Mark III in Japan) of 1985. And by every one, it looks like this video means it, bringing in such systems as the Casio…
By Owen Good Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
Tokyo Game Show Explosion Day 3: Dress-Ups, Butts, and Long Lines
The Tokyo Game Show’s first public day brought rainy skies and a flood of gamers. Those who braved the crap weather were greeted with long lines, overwhelming crowds, and cosplayers. Here’s a complete round up of Kotaku‘s coverage from Day 3: Dress Up The Cosplaying Ladies of the Tokyo Game Show Saturday is the day…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Video Game Delivers the Immersive Realism of Waiting 5 Hours in Line at a Museum
A year ago, the contemporary artist Marina Abramovic held a show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, at which patrons waited in line for a very, very long time just to meet her. The excitement of that encounter is now chronicled in a recently launched free-to-play online game. OK, that means “flash game,” but…
By Owen Good Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
Next Friday is Hawaiian Shirt Day
I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door—that way Lumbergh can’t see me—and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I’m working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too.…
By Owen Good Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Cosplaying Ladies of the Tokyo Game Show
Saturday is the day the cosplayers come out to play at the Tokyo Game Show, crowds flocking to the walkways between the show’s exhibition halls to see some of the world’s best video game costume makers (and wearers) in action. Unlike the men, however (who you can and should see here), whose inspirations and genres…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedWatch a Silent Hill Trailer Where the Music Ruins the Action
Here’s Konami’s new trailer for Silent Hill: Downpour, released during the Tokyo Game Show. A word of advice: you may want to turn your speakers down. And by down, I mean off. You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedThese TGS Crowds Will Swallow the Earth
Sony’s TGS booth isn’t actually that busy, because half of it has been shut down. So the crowds are manageable. At Sega’s booth, though, things are getting a little crazy This crowd, spilling out and around the edges of Sega’s booth for a presentation, is one of the biggest we’ve ever seen at the Tokyo…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
Small or Not, People Showed Up at Microsoft’s TGS Booth
At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Microsoft’s booth was smaller. Smaller doesn’t mean empty. There’s been an assumption that because Microsoft has a smaller booth, the company is in retreat. Microsoft still sells only a couple thousand Xbox 360s a month. It’s not going to be this console that helps Microsoft break though, but it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
Microsoft’s TGS Booth Contained Branded Underpants and Dancing Furries
For nearly a decade now, Microsoft has been fighting an uphill battle in Japan trying to get the locals interested in the Xbox. It hasn’t worked. And in 2011, for the first time, the strain of that battle may be starting to show. In previous years, Microsoft has had a huge presence at the Tokyo…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
Yes, the PlayStation Vita Can do Fighting Games Just Fine, Thanks
I played Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom on the PlayStation Vita this morning. The thing is, we were only allowed eight minutes at a time on the thing, which isn’t exactly enough to tell you the ins and outs of the game (though I did film the game, the footage from which I’ll throw up a…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Cosplaying Dudes of the Tokyo Game Show
If you thought cosplay at the Tokyo Game Show was all women in tiny outfits, you are dead wrong. There’s an army of men out there dressed to the nines as well, and they’re impressing the hell out of us.. The Evangelion piece was great, being fully posable and even including a knife. Jack Sparrow,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
The PlayStation Vita is too Popular for TGS
Even before the floor opened to the public today, when only press and business badge holders were allowed on the show floor, the lines for PlayStation Vita Games were long. Today, the wait to play Uncharted: Golden Abyss was around 90 minutes before the show even opened. And then the flood gates opened at 10:00am,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 17, 2011
