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Get Your Call of Duty Convention Tickets July 19
Tickets for Activision’s paintball-playing, Modern Warfare 3-sampling, fundraiser celebration of all things Call of Duty go on sale July 19, at 10 a.m. Tickets for the two-day event will sell for $150 with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit that helps returning veterans find employment. The Sept.…
By Brian Crecente Published July 14, 2011 - Culture
Where Does Batman Get All This Wonderful Concept Art?
There may be over seventy years worth of Gotham City imagery to draw from, but that doesn’t mean the developers of Batman: Arkham City were allowed to get lazy. Continuing on from their work on Arkham Asylum, the artists at Rocksteady Studios have again drawn on the inspiration of famous comics, awesome cartoons and the…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedIt’s Minecraft, (Sort of) Running On the Nintendo DS
A DS homebrew developer by the name of smealum is taking indie smash Minecraft and bringing it to Nintendo’s portable system. Unofficially, of course. At this stage there’s not much running but the world itself and the ability to smash blocks around, but it’s a start! Hopefully he can get some other stuff, like random…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
Where Zelda Meets…Magic Cards?
A Games Radar contributor by the name of KREATIVEassassin has built an entire 242-card deck of Magic cards. Out of characters and locations from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past What’s great about these is that it looks like you could actually use them, as he’s gone to the trouble of not…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
Does Working at Square Enix Suck?
Square Enix makes Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Making those games might not be easy. It might be hard. Really hard. No fun hard. Making video games is not easy. But some companies, like Insomniac are supposedly terrific places to work, with employees skipping to work. Singing. But does working at Square Enix totally bite?…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Horror of Mario’s Enemies
It’s a good thing the early Mario games were so low-fi. If they’d shown your enemies in as high a resolution as they appear here, we’d have all been crapping our childhood pants. These, uh, interpretations of some of Mario’s foes were drawn by Mike Puncekar. Some of them, like Lakitu, are just cool. But…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedWatch Ezio’s Dad at Work This November
Assassin’s Creed: Lineage, the series of short, live-action films serving as a prequel to Assassin’s Creed II (and its own to “sequels”), will be out on DVD this November. To be released by New Video, they’ll be collected into the single volume on DVD and Blu-ray and released on November 15. Included with the set…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2011 -
UncategorizedLet’s Look at Nintendo Video. Together!
It might not be exciting, but Nintendo Video is free. And that’s all that counts, no? Nintendo recently launched a new video service cleverly called Nintendo Video. Geddit? In the above clip, I check out some of the new clips and recommend that you attend a fashion show in Tokyo. You really should. Really.
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Strange Studio Born of Two Rival Companies
The Ridge Racer game for Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Vita will be the product of a unique studio: one that was established not by one major publisher, but as part of a partnership between two Cellius, the developer in question, is a joint venture between Sony Computer Entertainment and Namco Bandai, born of 2007 negotiations between…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
Bread. In a Can.
Mmm. Bread. Delicious (well, somewhat) canned bread. In Japan, canned bread is a tasty treat for otaku. Don’t believe me? Among the t-shirts and hug pillows being offered at an upcoming event for Xbox 360 game Dream Club, there are cans of bread. The cans feature characters from the virtual hostess game. If you’ve never…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
Yup, Another Obscure Japanese Game is Coming to the PC
Carpe Fulgur, the same guys who brought 2010 surprise hit Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale to the West, is back with another obscure Japanese game soon to be an obscure Japanese games with English language localisation. Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone will be CF’s next title, their third (the second being Chantelise) since…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
Two Million People Signed Up to Test a Call of Duty Community Feature
The beta test for Call of Duty Elite kicks off tomorrow, with invitations to be sent out to those selected for the the first run. Does that mean you? Maybe. Depends if you signed up to test something that’s not even a game! The first emails for successful applicants (of which there were around two…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2011 - CultureTotal Recall
The Mario Movie Could Have Been so Much Better
The Mario movie we ended up with in 1993 was nothing like the games it was based on. An earlier draft for the film, however, was a lot more faithful. It’s impossible to tell whether it would have been any good, of course, but in sticking to the basics of the Mushroom Kingdom it at…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2011 - Uncategorized
Microsoft has Rights to Make Another South Park XBLA Game
Microsoft has a two-game deal with Comedy Central for its South Park license, which implies that another Xbox Live Arcade game could be on the way, following 2009’s South Park: Let’s Go Tower Defense Play! Joystiq uncovered that nugget in a discussion with Prithvi Virasinghe of 345 Games, which is the games production arm of…
By Owen Good Published July 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Big Games and the Can’t Miss Events of Comic-Con 2011
Are you going to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con? Then you must love video games, a medium that has a stronger presence than ever at the annual gathering of people passionate about comic books, toys, superheroes, sci-fi and everything nerdy enough to pack a convention center. Video games are big—really big—at this year’s show. Top…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
NBA Jam Creator Leaves EA Sports for Zynga
Mark Turmell, the creator of the NBA Jam series that saw a revival last year on modern consoles, has left EA Sports for the social games developer Zynga, Kotaku has learned. Turmell’s is the latest in a string of notable departures from EA Tiburon, one of two EA Sports studios and the production site of…
By Owen Good Published July 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
All Mass Effect Comics are Free Until Tomorrow Afternoon
Dark Horse is offering all of its Mass Effect comics for free, over the web, for the next 24 hours, a promotional move for both an upcoming Dark Horse Mass Effect series and surely tied to a panel at next week’s San Diego Comic-Con. The promotion ends tomorrow at 3 p.m. EDT. The problem is,…
By Owen Good Published July 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
Computer Learns to Play Civilization by Reading the Instruction Manual
Starting from nothing, a computer taught itself to read the instruction manual for Civilization and saw its rate of victory jump from 46 percent to 79 percent. That is according to researchers at University College London, who developed “meaning-inferring algorithms” that, when applied to the computer, took it from zero understanding of its task to…
By Owen Good Published July 13, 2011 - Uncategorized
See More of Hard Reset, the PC Exclusive with Shades of Blade Runner and Painkiller
The people who teased their PC exclusive shooter with a single screen shot last month have finally unveiled the mysterious sci-fi project they’re working on. This is Hard Reset, the cyberpunk first-person shooter from people who worked on Painkiller, Bulletstorm and The Witcher 2 PC Gamer has exclusive details on this “dark sci-fi” shoot ’em…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 13, 2011
