You Know It’s E3 When Elder Scrolls Is as Big as a Building

There’s a bit of an E3 custom to be had down the road from the Los Angeles Convention Center, where the annual event is held. And that custom is to drape the walls of the nearby Figueroa Hotel in giant video game posters. In 2009, for example, Final Fantasy XIII was literally the biggest game…

Get Your Minecraft Story in the Minecraft Documentary

2 Player Productions is currently toiling away on a very slick-looking documentary about indie sensation Minecraft. Want to be in the flick? Here’s how. The team is looking for player submissions about their experiences with the game. Personal stories, anecdotes, tales of how Minecraft changed your life. Nothing big, just a story under 350 words…

These Are Japan’s Nintendo eShop Launch Games

On June 7, the Nintendo eShop will open in Japan, outfitted with six Game Boy title titles on the Virtual Console: Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge, Kirby’s Dream Land, Baseball, Avenging Spirit, Downtown Special: Its Kunio’s Period Piece Assemble Everyone!, and Super Mario Land Other games at launch include Mystery P.I., Breakout 3D, and 3D…

Professor Layton Loses Something in Real Life

Actually, you know, it loses nothing. It’s just that one kind of charm is replaced with a different kind. So carry on!

Japanese Dev Legend Goes from Riches to Rags

He developed some of the most successful, ground-breaking games ever. But today, game designer Yoshiki Okamoto’s personal blog has vanished from the internet. Rumors say so did he. Back in the early 1980s, Okamoto developed inventive shooters like Time Pilot and Gyruss for Konami. After joining Capcom, he worked on titles like 1942 and Forgotten…

Saints Row: The Third Screen Shots

If You Could Bone One Animal Crossing Character, Who Would it be?

Gross question, right? Or perhaps just…stupid? Perhaps, but this is video games and this is the internet, meaning that more than one person has thought about having sex with an Animal Crossing character, and those people have got together. Auntie Pixelante has combed the depths of a certain niche porn mecca, found everything there is…

These Girls Will Rock Your Brains Out

Late last week, Capcom held a typical and somewhat ho-hum press conference for Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D in Tokyo. The bright spot was when heavy metal band Aldious took the stage. Unfortunately, they weren’t they’re to play music, but games. The members dig video games and were there to check out the game’s co-op…

Starhawk’s Multiplayer Looks Like Space Madness

Starhawk has transforming jet fighters, and real-time strategy-esque base building, and also, lots of killing. If that sounds like fun, well, it looks like fun too. I saw some people when the game was first unveiled reckon it looked like Battlefield: Macross. I’m nodding my head in agreement (and anticipation) with that, and doing so…

The PlayStation Network Is Back in Action

As promised, and after over a month of downtime following attacks by hackers, Sony’s PlayStation Network is now back up and running. This means that not only can players engage in multiplayer, but you can finally once again access things like the PlayStation Store as well. We’ve been able to access the Store in both…

Wow, Somebody Built (Another) Real Portal 2 Robot

Atlas, one of Portal 2’s co-operative testing robots, is making the jump from the monitor screen to the real world, courtesy of some amazing work at Technically Magic. The guys at TM, specialists in props and costumes for ads and music videos and the like, built the little guy from scratch for a GameStop competition.…

PSN to be “Fully Restored” by the End of the Day

Sony just sent out a quick update letting customers know that “all PlayStation Network services” should be back up and running by the end of today, June 2. That’s for everywhere except Japan, Hong Kong and Korea, that is. [Sony]

Warhammer Games Have Rarely Been Darker, or Better, Than This

The Warhammer 40K universe has been a happy hunting ground for game developers over the years, with over a dozen games having been released based on the storied sci-fi franchise. For all their technical and story-telling advances, though, one remains as many people’s favourite 40K game of all. And it was also one of the…

Mega Man’s Cups Runneth Over

Cup-in-the-fence tribute to Mega Man, on a bridge straddling an overpass, parts unknown. The makers (not the photographer), spray-painted the cups to make the mosaic. More detailed shots can be seen here.

Those Who Preordered Duke Nukem Forever Get First Dibs on DLC

The “First Access Club,” i.e. those who preordered the game from 2K and Gearbox (or bough the Borderlands GOTY edition) will get “the very first Duke Nukem Forever multiplayer downloadable add-on for free!” So, the lack of specifics means maybe it isn’t a map, but probably a skin or a weapon of some kind. Duke…

Coming In Hot

Folks, we’re already at the hump of this week, so let’s get tonight’s show on the road. This is an open thread, where you can discuss matters video game related or not. For example, would anyone care to offer an informed opinion about what these thousand of teeny tiny insects that seem to have taken…

These are the Big Sports Games of E3 2011, We Think

Because of the assurance—death, taxes and Madden—that they come out every year, sports video games aren’t typically the biggest newsmakers at E3. For diehard fans, however, it is often the first time their favorite series gets a gameplay demonstration. We’ll be there to see all of these, the biggest sports games of E3 2011. This…

What has Two Thumbs and an Ocarina? This Guy

The plastic ocarina that Nintendo’s sending around with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is quite the coveted piece of swag. Until we got ours, only French journalists and Australian customers were on the chosen list of recipients. Does the thing actually work? Joel Johnson put it to the test. You may not…

When Online Gaming Goes Wrong, You Don’t Need to Get SWAT Involved

A disagreement over an Xbox Live Indie game has resulted in what may be the ultimate grief, with one gamer sending a SWAT team to another gamer’s home after phoning in a bogus murder-suicide 911 call. It all happened over a game of FortressCraft, the Minecraft-“inspired” world-building game for the Xbox Live Indies channel, according…

Who are all these weird new mutants in X-Men: First Class?

The first X-Men films introduced us to marquee mutants like Wolverine and Storm. For the 1960s prequel X-Men: First Class, Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn has dug deep into X-Men lore and plucked out some of the comic’s most obscure mutants. You may be familiar with the returning characters (Magneto, Professor X, Mystique, and Beast), but…