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CultureTotal RecallThere Has Never Been A Good Akira Game
It’s one of the defining works of modern popular culture, and features plenty of stylised, graphic action. So why is it nobody has ever made a good game out of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira? It’s not for want of trying, that’s for sure. There have been three (well, maybe five, but we’ll get to that later)…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011 - Uncategorized
Halo, BioShock, Dead Space as 16-bit Heroes
Artist Michael Myers was brought in by t-shirt team High Score Society to design a range of gear in which modern video game heroes were rendered in a stylised 16-bit-ish form. The results? Wonderful. He did five designs in all, one each for BioShock, Gears of War, Killzone, Dead Space and Halo. You can check…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Uwe Boll’s Latest Game Movie Fodder
Uwe Boll,who’s not as bad as you think, is making a new video game movie, Zombie Massacre Zombie Massacre is a 1998 Amiga title also known as Gloom 4. If you think Gloom sounds like “Doom”, that’s no accident. It was a Doom clone. Boll won’t be helming the project, but producing. Marco Ristori and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
What? A PC Developer Who Actually Understands DRM?
In recent years publishers like Ubisoft, 2K and EA have done a great job pissing off paying customers with systems aimed at preventing piracy. Which, uh, is counter-productive! Especially when PC pirates are able to easily circumvent said measures. So it’s great seeing Christofer Sundberg, from Just Cause developers Avalanche, speak a little common sense.…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dragon Quest Spin-Off Rocketing onto the Nintendo 3DS
The Rocket Slime spin-off was an enjoyable Nintendo DS outing. Its 3DS sequel aims to be the same, but for the 3DS. The second entry in the Dragon Quest Heroes was localized as Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime back in 2006 when it was released in North America. The third entry, which I guess could…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Halo Helmet Looks Good Enough for the Movie They’ll Never Make
The way it’s looking there’ll never be a Halo movie. Ah well! So long as regular humans keep making killer props like this, we’re free to imagine our own. Which is always for the best, because then, they never end up sucking. This helmet was submitted to MAKE magazine by creator Tsabo Tsaboc over the…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Lovecraftian Crysis Game (Well, Mod)
Thanks to Adam over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun for pointing out The Worry of Newport, a Crysis mod that turns the tropical shooter into a slow, moody traipse through a drab seaside village. Which looks cooler than it sounds. Set in and around the town of Newport, it’s all about exploration. And listening, as the…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
If 1992 Had Limited Edition Consoles…
We started to see limited edition consoles pop up regularly in the late 1990s. They’re of course commonplace now. In the early 90s and before, though, they weren’t really around, which is where Ricepuppet’s console customisation service comes in handy. He sells commissioned consoles, bearing the theme of the purchaser’s choice. Want a Hello Kitty…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Multiplayer Details, Sumo Wrestling, and the Price of Being Elite: All the News from Call of Duty XP
Badges awarded at Call of Duty XP [above] give an idea of the activities that expo attendees enjoyed over the weekend. Kotaku spent the past two days the inaugural gathering for fans of Activision’s combat shooter, where the publisher revealed more details about the premium Call of Duty Elite subscription, we spent time with the…
By Owen Good Published September 5, 2011 - Culture
Sister…This Storyboard Artist Has a Twin Sister…
That Darth Vader line has always creeped me out a little. This stuff, though, featuring a pair of storyboard artists working in the games industry, does nothing of the sort. After I ran that Crysis 2 art last week, I was contacted by Trudi Castle, another artist who worked on the game. Unlike the static…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
An Army of Video Game Fans in the Dragon Con Day Three Cosplay Gallery
It’s the fourth and final day of Dragon Con 2011, but I’m not there. The final day of a convention like this is a sad affair. Instead, let’s revel in the glory of yesterday’s cunning cosplayers. Dragon Con isn’t a video game convention, though it’s trying to be. There’s a MMORPG programming track that consists…
By Mike Fahey Published September 5, 2011 - Reviews
The Rockus 3D 2.1 Speaker System Sounds Nice, But At What Cost?
When one thinks of quality computer speakers, several names come to mind: Logitech, Altec Lansing, Bose, and Creative Labs, to name a few. Soundscience isn’t a name that comes to mind. Neither is Antec. In fact, when one thinks of the name Antec, they think PC cases and power supplies. Hit up the company’s Wikipedia…
By Mike Fahey Published September 5, 2011 -
UncategorizedGet Ready for Valve’s “Meet the DOTA Heroes”
Valve’s series of “Meet the…” videos for Team Fortress 2 are some of the smartest, funniest clips this industry has ever seen. So it shouldn’t surprise you that the company is looking at doing something similar for the upcoming DOTA 2 “There are a lot of heroes in DOTA 2—105 so far, and we’re gonna…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Dead Space? It’s For Kids!
Dead Space’s Isaac is normally running around in the dark scared out of his mind. Here, he’s just a kid. Kickin’ it on the playground. Maybe with an imaginary friend. Note I said imaginary friend, which is good times. Not imaginary dead girlfriend. Which is bad times If the style looks familiar, it’s another giant-headed…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
I was Long the Terror and Scourge of Mario Land. The Stalin of Marios.
There’s a place called “The Gun Store” in Las Vegas where you can shoot a real AK-47 at different targets (including zombies and Osama bin Laden, though I suspect the latter has been discontinued). It’s expensive, over a dollar per round, and as you can imagine, those will mount up pretty quickly when you are…
Maria Bustillos Published September 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
Battlefield 3 Has Magical Tanks
I didn’t notice this during my time with the game last month, because I was either rolling along blissfully or exploding disgracefully, but EA’s upcoming Battlefield 3 has magic tanks. And they are magic, because they’re capable of doing something no actual tank has ever been capable of: healing themselves. Yes, in Battlefield 3 tanks…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Final Fantasy Figure Excites Me More Than the Game
After the whole Final Fantasy XIII hullabaloo, a FF break was in order. The world didn’t get that. It got Final Fantasy XIII-2 Perhaps, FFXIII-2 is fantastic—I haven’t played it yet, so I wouldn’t know. There’s some much hanging over the title, like Final Fantasy‘s good name and the crushing disappointment of FFXIII This Lightning…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 5, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Look At 41 of Iran’s Best Video Games
Last week I found myself in a back row of one of Gamescom’s business hall with a few minutes to kill. Turning a corner I discovered a sizeable booth set up to showcase the computer and video games of Iran. We’ve recently written a bit about Mir Mahna and I’m always fascinated with how different…
By Brian Crecente Published September 5, 2011