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Could a Video Game Save Your Life During a Natural Disaster?
Could a video game mean the difference between life and death the next time the planet decides to violently erupt near a heavily populated area? That’s the question Geeks Without Bounds plans to answer with GameSave, a five week long hack-a-thon event aimed at creating the ultimate disaster relief video game. Video game website Gameranx‘s…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
5th Cell’s Cover Shooter Hybrid Innovates Itself into 2012
Hybrid, the cover-focused Xbox Live Arcade shooter from the creators of Scribblenauts that made a splash at GDC earlier this year, has been pushed back into 2012, the extra time used to “create the highest quality title possible”.
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedAn Innocent Sandwich Died to Create Weapons for The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North developer Snowblind Studios takes its weapon creating seriously in this behind-the-scenes video, and an innocent lunchtime treat gives its life for the greater good.
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Ubisoft Expects Minimal Impact from PlayStation Network Downtime
While the PlayStation Network security breach and subsequent downtime has had significant impact on many PlayStation 3 publishers, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says he expects his company’s cost to be minimal. Speaking today during Ubisoft’s fiscal year 2011 financial results conference call, Guillemot spoke about how the PlayStation Network’s security-spawned hiatus was affecting his company.…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Will Rival the Shooter Heavyweights, but is Getting Far Out of the Way
Who wants a Modern Warfare killer? Ubisoft does. (And so do most other publishers aside from Atlus, but that’s not the point.) The head of Ubisoft, Yves Guillemot, said today that the company’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, long in development and showed in controlled demos at last year’s E3, won’t be released until the first…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedStreet Fighter X Tekken Has Sexy British Legs and Knows How to Use Them
Though the latest teaser video for Capcom collaboration Street Fighter X Tekken takes the teasing to the extreme, there’s no mistaking the blonde braid and camouflaged flanks of Britain’s own Cammy White. With Ryu, Ken, Guile, Chun-Li, and Able already confirmed for Street Fighter X Tekken, it’s quite obvious to me that the Capcom side…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedHow a Video Game Chickened Out Of Letting Me be a Terrorist
Video games let us be heroes. They let us don the cape, wave the flag, put on the badge, hoist the blue lightsaber or simply face the fires of dragons to save the princess. They could let us be anyone, though. Terrorists, for example. They could let us be them. If you take your video…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s About Time Chrono Trigger Made it to the Wii Virtual Console
When a role-playing game is as centered on time travel as the Square classic Chrono Trigger, you really can’t argue when I call it one of the greatest RPGs of all time. Guess what I’ll be playing come Monday? You can Final Fantasy fanboy all you want, Squaresoft was at its absolute best when it…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Why Play an MMO You Know One Day Will End?
In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Kain’s Legacy asks a poignant question: Why do we invest so much time in massively multiplayer online games that will one day cease to be? I was reading the article about the Lineage servers closing and it just got me thinking. I’ve thought about his before, but I…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection is Three Digitized Fighting Games in One
Warner Bros. is rolling out the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection this summer, bundling together Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 in one downloadable package for the PlayStation3, Xbox 360, and PC. Shouldn’t that be Arkade Kollektion?
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
CHiPs is Supposed to Protect Xboxes, Not Steal Them
Back in my day the men and women of the California Highway Patrol were a shining beacon of hope, justice, and racial diversity. The sort of organization that would never have one of their own arrested for allegedly stealing an Xbox from a Target store. Things sure have changed since 1983. Today 36-year-old California Highway…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves: if you’ve got things to say (about games, of course), say ’em here. Our thanks to Incursor for his exquisitely morbid TAYpic—we can tell a lot of work went into pulling it off. If you’d like to give your Photoshop skills a turn, please do so here:#TAYpics (Read this thread…
By Drew Cohen Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Home Sheep Home May Have Been Nominated for a BAFTA, But It’s Just Too Thin to Win
Home Sheep Home, you’re no Angry Birds—at least not when it comes to value. You may be a handsome, amusing diversion for the iPhone and iPod touch, but there’s just not enough of your sheepish, physics-based puzzle solving to go around. Home Sheep Home, based on Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep and an online Flash game…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Drinking and Shooting Resident Evil Style
GUN HAZARD | TOKYO, JAPAN: To celebrate 15 years of Resident Evil, a Tokyo airsoft gun bar is being turned into a RE shooting range. (Photo: Capcom) Controversial Game Brought to Life With Tight Rubber, a Nice Lady and Fake Blood Thrill Kill, a violent S&M-themed fighting game, was too much for the PlayStation 1.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
StarFox 64 3D Supports up to Four Players. No Online.
At a retail event today in Japan, Nintendo gave more Star Fox 64 3D details. The game sports a “64 Mode” and a “3DS Mode”. In the 3DS Mode, players can control the spacecraft by using the 3DS’ internal gyroscope sensor. That means, moving the 3DS right causes the spacecraft to go right, moving it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Are Foreign Games Losing Their Stigma in Japan?
For decades, the term “youge” (洋ゲー) or “Western game” was pejorative. In Japanese, “you” (洋) is used to denote Western things, whether that be “Western music” (洋楽) or “Western clothes” (洋服). These words are not pejorative—not like youge has been. “Even now, there have been people in Japan using the label youge- (Western games) with…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Classic Movies Look Better as Pixel Art
Artist Andy Helms has been going bananas these past few weeks, churning out amazing pieces of movie-inspired pixel art at a breakneck pace. A Fistful of Dollars, The Goonies, The Lord of the Rings, Inception…all covered, all recreated in adorable pixel art, all here for you to enjoy with your morning coffee. While some are…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Alien Game Coming From the Guys Who Make…Total War
British studio Creative Assembly, best known for its work on the Total War franchise of PC strategy games, is currently developing a game based on Ridley Scott’s original 1979 horror masterpiece. Aside from the fact it’s being developed “for consoles”, there’s little other information available at this time, though more details should pop up later…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011
