Learn to Play Guitar Like a Gamer

We covered Ubisoft’s terrifying marketing ploy for Rocksmith two months ago. As it turns out, there was a much less scary marketing campaign going on all summer long. Van’s Warped Tour 2011 has wrapped, but at all 44 locations rockers and wanna-bes alike had the opportunity to rock out using their 3DS. Rocksmith, the first…

Blizzard Launches Diablo III Community Site, Beta Sure To Follow

The official community site for Blizzard’s hot-hot-hotly anticipated dungeoneer Diablo III has launched, giving the game’s hordes of fans a centralized place to post about, you know, how mad excited everyone is about the game. The activation of the community site seems to underline a high probability that the Beta will be released soon, at…

Bodycount Dev Diary Shows Off Explosive Multiplayer

Bodycount is a game that celebrates the trigger squeezing, headshot taking, destroy everything sensation of first person shooters. After all, the spiritual successor to Black better have some serious environmental destruction. The newest Bodycount developer diary takes a look at multiplayer. Co-op, deathmatch and team deathmatch are all featured in the video. The game’s pallet…

Trying Not to Swoon on My First Date With NBA 2K12

Basketball is the sport that always unmasks me as a panicky klutz, whether that is in a video game or in real life. I don’t see things very well, don’t have great anticipation, and overreact to most everything. On defense, it takes nothing to get me in the air, although such a statement implies there…

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Ms. ‘Splosion Man Crosses Over With Pinball FX 2 Next Week

Although known primarily for its Marvel Comics tables, the pinball simulator Pinball FX 2 has other crossovers, like Rocky & Bullwinkle and Street Fighter. The game’s latest team-up is with Twisted Pixel’s Ms. ‘Splosion Man, and it is available Aug. 31. The add-on runs 240 Microsoft points. (Pinball FX 2 is an Xbox Live Arcade…

GameStop Pulls PC Deus Ex: Human Revolution From Shelves Following OnLive Debacle

After getting into hot water earlier today for opening new PC copies of Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution and removing codes for a free OnLive version of the game prior to sale, video game retailer GameStop has pulled the games from its shelves pending recall. According to an email forwarded to Kotaku from an…

DOTA 2

DOTA – I think that game critics should be getting preview code of DOTA 2 in the not too distant future. For now I’ll have to make do with this t-shirt and wristbands from the game’s Gamescom outing. This is Why Some People Call El Shaddai a Visual Masterpiece In a little over five minutes,…

How To Turn a PlayStation 3 Theft Into a Drug Bust

17-year-old Bobby Lee Huffman of Hickory, North Carolina, called the police to his home on Monday after he discovered his PlayStation 3, controllers, and games had apparently been stolen. Then Bobby Lee did something incredibly stupid. Officers responded to the Huffman residence on Monday, where Bobby Lee showed them where the alleged criminals had torn…

I Was Only One Bloody Ground Slam Away From Loving Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

Proof positive that pre-release demos can make or break a game, my interest level in Relic Entertainment’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine went from zero to must-buy within 30 minutes of try-before-you-buy gameplay. As far as Games Workshop’s most popular franchises go, I’ve always been more on the Warhammer Fantasy Battles side of things. One would…

Check Your Fantasy Football League’s Scores When You Play Madden NFL 12

The NFL’s official fantasy football service, offered through NFL.com, will be integrated into Madden NFL 12, updating gamers with scores and results from their leagues, standings, schedules and more. The move, a first for Madden, helps drive interest to the NFL’s fantasy offerings, one of the few realms in which it is competing head-to-head for…

Catch Wing Commander-Inspired Sol: Exodus at PAX

Remember that last, great hope we have for another Wing Commander space combat game? Well it’s going to be at PAX this weekend, so you better go check it out. Seamless Entertainment tell me they will be at booth number 6026 demoing SOL: Exodus and listening to what gamers think about it. Do us all…

Check Out The Real Driver San Francisco Car In This Rap Video

Yelawolf, an Alabama rapper signed to Eminem’s Shady Records, loves muscle cars. So he must be pretty excited to drive around a real life model of Driver San Francisco‘s yellow and black Dodge Challenger. Yelawolf’s new video, “No Hands,” features the rapper in iconic locations around San Francisco, from Chinatown to the Bay Bridge. The…

New CD from MC Frontalot

Damian Hess, AKA MC Frontalot, has a new CD available on his website. Solved is a download-only album, available in MP3 and M4a formatting. Frontalot will be performing live this weekend at PAX in Seattle. [Frontalot.com]

Thirteen Easy Steps For Kicking Ass in Age of Empires Online

Age of Empires Online is a fantastically fun strategy game. I’ve been playing it off and on since before its release with my son who is entirely new to not only the series, but the genre. I figure he’s likely not the only inexperienced gamer drawn to this flashy, new (sorta free) real-time strategy game…

Rune Factory Images To ‘Tide’ Fans Over Until September Release

Natsume has big news connected to the screenshots of Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny which they released on their facebook today. The game hits Sept. 27 for both the Wii and the PS3. Screenshots for both versions of the game are now available. Tides of Destiny marks the debut of the series on the PS3.…

I’m on the Right, Predicting Nintendo will Never make an iPhone Game

Watch me, Stephen Totilo, chatting with Times Techland‘s Evan Narcisse about the future fate of Nintendo. This is a half-hour chat done in video splitscreen, so you can watch me do my best to be a talking head. (I was sporting my telemarketer look; Evan was doing the Lobot.) I couldn’t get the embed to…

GameStop Policy: Open Your Games, Steal Your Codes, Sell Game Like New

GameStop tells Gamespy.com that they have been removing the codes for free copies of the OnLive PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution from the new PC copies of the game they sell at their stores and selling the game, without the free bonus, as new. The free Onlive copies were part of a deal…

Summer Break Means More Games For More Kids Nowadays

My 13-year-old sister visited recently and the first thing she did was ask for the wireless password. So what? She’s a forward thinking kid keeping up with the times. According to a new study, however, she’s part of a larger trend. A recent study by Harris Interactive polled a total of 2,950 adults in America…

Practice is the Brainy Gaming Event New York Deserves

Those of us who live in New York City are guilty, daily, of thinking that our city is terrific and deserves terrific things. But we in New York City don’t have any awesome big gaming expos nor any whip-smart game design gatherings to make the rest of the world envious, at least not until we…