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Your Official Valve Action Figures (and Replica Portal Guns) are Coming In 2012
Toy company NECA revealed at Comic-Con today that its range of merchandise based on the intellectual properties of Valve will start shipping in 2012. Oh, and they also let us know what they’ll be! While there are sadly no pictures yet of the figures or merch, here’s what you’ll need to be saving your money…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2011 - Uncategorized
Australia is (Probably) Getting Adults-Only Games
Despite one of the state Attorneys General required to change Australia’s classification laws not turning up to a meeting earlier today, those present (and the Federal Government) have agreed “in principle” to institute an adults-only game rating for the country. Having never foreseen the day games would ever need one, Australia never instituted an adults-only…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallSegata Sanshiro, the Greatest Video Game Ad Man Of Them All
Sony’s fictional executive Kevin Butler has won himself a legion of fans. Which is great! Kevin Butler, though, ain’t got shit on Segata Sanshiro. In the late 90’s Sanshiro was concocted by Sega to help sell the Sega Saturn. And there’s never been a more entertaining ad mascot for a video game company. For pretty…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2011 -
UncategorizedBehold the Power of Green Lantern’s Light in D.C. Universe Online
From the beginning, in every panel on the game, in its every appearance here at Comic-Con, there has been one question facing D.C. Universe Online “When are you going to do light powers,” Mark Anderson, the game’s director, recalled on the Comic-Con floor. “‘When am I gonna be a Lantern?” Well, that time will come…
By Owen Good Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Street Fighter X Tekken Shows Its Character in Ten More Screens
As noted earlier, Street Fighter veteran Dhalsim has been confirmed for Street Fighter X Tekken alongside Poison, and Yoshimitsu and Steve Fox from Tekken. Capcom today released these ten new screens showing them in action. Scarf ’em up! There is undoubtedly more to come.
By Owen Good Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Batman, Master Chief, Solid Snake & Sam Gideon are Square Enix’s Newest, Most Beautiful Action Figures
Square Enix does way more than just FInal Fantasy figures. They’ve got fantastic looking toys from other games—Metal Gear Solid, Street Fighter, Batman: Arkham City, Vanquish, Halo, God of War…—coming to their Play Arts Kai line. They brought ’em all to Comic-Con. Some of them look finished. Plenty don’t. They all look sharp, especially Sam…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Risk Meets Resistance in Insomniac’s Global Resistance
Insomniac Games has launched the beta for a web-based strategy game called Global Resistance, described as a “massive strategy game,” featuring all players battling on the same global map in a game offering crossover features with the upcoming console title. In a trailer shown at Resistance‘s Comic-Con 2011 panel, the conflict between humans and Chimera…
By Owen Good Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Gears of War 3 Live from Comic-Con
The talent behind Gears of War 3 is talking about the forthcoming game during the game’s annual presence at San Diego Comic-Con. Design director Cliff Bleszinski and executive producer Rod Fergusson will be fielding questions from fans. What will they say? Let’s follow along in the liveblog below to see what surprises they have in…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe New Captain America Game Includes This Perfect Captain America Moment
I consider Captain America to be a bit boring. I mean, what’s he got… a shield and some steroids? Still, I respect the Marvel hero’s popularity and I think I know what makes Captain America who he is. So I was happy to see, early on in the new Captain America: Super Soldier video game,…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
X-Men: Destiny Takes a Voice of Protest to the City by the Bay
San Francisco is a city long associated with rights movements, idealism, and rallies for peace, making it a useful backdrop for X-Men: Destiny. But Silicon Knights isn’t planning on a Summer of Love when the game arrives this fall. Shown off at a preview event Wednesday at Comic-Con, Destiny will present three different stories for…
By Owen Good Published July 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedRetro Game Master Episode 5: Clock Tower
In this fifth episode of Retro Game Master, our game-testing everyman, Shinya Arino, faces off against Clock Tower Clock Tower was released for the Super NES in 1995. Loosely based on Dario Argento’s movie Creepers, Clock Tower is a point-and-click game that has players controlling the movements of orphan Jennifer Simpson as she tries to…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedHow a Wish and A 9-Year-Old Led To a Great Game
Tanks and Hovercrafts rage against the evil purple Flamions. Shots are fired on both sides as the player attempts to subdue the oncoming hoard of enemies. Sounds like a fun game, if not a little common in it’s setting. But Allied Star Police, and how it came into being, is anything but typical. The game…
By Max Abrams Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Happy Birthday Old Man
KENYA – Ernest Hemingway (who was born on this day in 1899) at a fishing camp, his hand and arms burned from a recent brushfire; his hair singed from recent plane crashes. (Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.) I’ve Seen Battlefield 3 on PS3 Firsthand. It’s…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Live from Comic-Con 2011’s Star Wars: The Old Republic Panel
BioWare and LucasArts are showing off the latest from their ambitious, massively multiplayer online game Star Wars: The Old Republic at Comic-Con today, giving us the skinny on the Star Wars a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Let’s see what’s new in BioWare’s Star Wars MMO, which we’re talking about…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Poison Highlights the Latest Character Reveal for Street Fighter X Tekken
Poison, the dominatrix hotty from Final Fight headlined another four-character reveal for Street Fighter X Tekken at Comic-Con 2011. She will be joined by Dhalsim and, from Tekken, Steve Fox and Yoshimitsu. During a panel defined by teases, in more ways than one, the audience briefly believed Darkstalkers characters would be confirmed for the game.…
By Owen Good Published July 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedFreddy Krueger Coming to Mortal Kombat
The next downloadable character for Mortal Kombat is Freddy Krueger, the dude with the knives on his fingers from A Nightmare on Elm Street. Where’s Jason? IGN reports that Freddy will be downloadable on August 9 as part of a multi-character bundle (…as a standalone downloadable character; my fault for the error, folks, not IGN).
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Ultimate Video Game Art Exhibition Gets Super-Sized
The iam8bit art exhibition kicks off its fifth year of breathing twisted new life into 80’s gaming icons with its biggest show yet, so expansive that it can only be called SUPER iam8bit. iam8bit first paraded works of art inspired by classic video games about back in 2005, proving to many that not only are…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition Arrives Aug. 23
At Comic-Con 2011, Capcom revealed the launch dates for Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition. The game comes to PlayStation Network on Aug. 23, and to Xbox Live Arcade on Aug. 24. Price is $14.99 or 1200 Microsoft Points. Producer Yoshinori Ono introduced the game with a trailer promising three different visual modes: classic,…
By Owen Good Published July 21, 2011 -
UncategorizedIconic Gun Controller Now…a Free App
As far as game peripherals go, Namco’s GunCon is legendary. It’s a great, great light gun controller. It would be a shame if Namco somehow cheapened that controller’s good name by making an iOS app. Today, Namco launched a GunCon iOS app for the iPhone and the iPod Touch called iGunCon. The good news is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
From Painsocks to Demon Belts, All the Diablo, StarCraft and World of Warcraft Loot You Can Handle
Blizzard Entertainment, maker of World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo, comes to Comic-Con each year armed with all-new things for fans to rabidly consume. From books to belts to food to thigh-high demon socks, Blizzard and its partners innovate new ways for fans to spend, spend, spend. What’s new this year? Plenty of things for…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 21, 2011