The 3DS was apparently already cracked within 24 hours of release, and it’s now supposedly running piracy devices. Isn’t Nintendo going to do anything? You betcha. Back in July 2010, THQ’s Ian Curran said, “What excites me even more [than 3DS games] is that there’s technology built in that device to really combat piracy…I actually…
David O. Russell, director of Three Kings and The Fighter, has a kooky idea for making Uncharted into a movie: ditch the game story and make it different. Robert De Niro hasn’t read the film’s script, but he’s hip. When asked by MTV whether he’s interested in the Uncharted flick, De Niro replied, “Absolutely, sure.”…
Console makers are always working on new stuff – you know, tinkering. But Microsoft is putting its money where its mouth is and hiring up for what could very well be a new console. There are three job listings: one for a “hardware verification engineer“, another for a “VLSI graphics architect” and one for a…
Back in 2008, Activision applied for a trademark for a game called Dance Hero. Then…we all forgot about it. Now, it seems, the publisher might actually be releasing the thing. While the world was busy lamenting (or celebrating) the demise of the Guitar and DJ Hero franchises, Activision seems intent to carry on and release…
The 3DS is able to render 3D without the need of 3D glasses. Neat trick, but the 3DS has another ace up its sleeve. The 3DS can, as pointed out on blog Tiny Cartridge, continue to play music while in sleep mode when it is placed on a DS Lite. When placed on a DSi,…
Developers Pikkotekk are trying something new: they want to make a shooter where 1000 people can go at it. On the one map. At the same time “About one year ago, we were talking with CCP and we came up with this idea that if we made a MMO FPS in Unity, the technical achievement…
Killzone 3 cinematics director Jim Sonzero was feeling the heat. Long, brutal days turned into nights — nothing new to those in the game industry. Sonzero wanted actor Ray Winstone to get in Malcolm McDowell’s face. That’s when they started to pretend like they were kissing. “These guys are real pros, yet are still always…
EB Games Australia has gone very public with an official release date for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It’ll be out Down Under on August 25, so other regions shouldn’t be too far off that mark.
What happens when four guys instrumental in the development of the Halo series leave Bungie and start up their own studio? They make a stylish 2D shooter/platformer. Fallen Frontier is the debut game from new indie studio Moonshot Games, which is comprised of four developers, three of whom served as producers, designers and programmers on…
You can play DS games on the Nintendo 3DS. No problem there. But did you know they take a lot longer to load on Nintendo’s new handheld than they did on the old one? A series of tests run by GameSpot, booting up five games on both the DS and 3DS, found that the new…
This year, Blizzard Entertainment – the developers behind series like Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo – turns 20. To celebrate, they’ve released this fascinating video retrospective. It tells a story most of you have probably never heard, at least not to this level of detail: of nerds collecting money to start a development studio, of making…
The real, honest-to-goodness Nintendo DS is made in China. Phony Nintendo DS handhelds are also made in, you guessed it, China. Funny, that. Over 90 percent of counterfeit goods that entered Japan in 2010 were, according to Japanese customs, from China. The number is 11 percent higher than the previous year. The number two country…
Earlier this month at a supermarket in Japan’s Kumamoto, 3-year-old Koko Shimizu went to the restroom while her mother paid for their groceries. Within minutes, the little girl was missing. Her body was discovered 500 meters away inside a large drain near a river. A twenty year-old college student named Yoshihiro Yamaguchi was captured on…
One of the great unfulfilled dreams of the present hardware generation is the ability to buy full, retail console games online. On the day they’re released in stores. Microsoft sells old games via Xbox Live, but they’re laughably over-priced. Sony has sold a few as well, like Burnout Paradise, MAG and Warhawk, but had never…
Don’t worry, elitist PC owners: while the demo for Dragon Age II made the game look like a sloppy console port, you can already download a patch that will have it looking more to your liking. Developers BioWare have posted a “High Resolution Texture Pack” on their website, a 1.08GB download that will “enable higher…
Now here’s something. After years of listening to fans call this one of the great, under-appreciated classics of video gaming, people will actually get the chance to play a polished, updated version of Beyond Good & Evil. First released all the way back in 2003, Beyond Good & Evil is what happens when you let…
Now that we’re all back from the whirlwind that was GDC 2011, the nightly open thread can resume its regular programming. This is where we talk about things like The Running Man or what we had for lunch or what music we’re listening to, should you just be joining us. So, speaking of the Running…
Tomb Raider, the video game, is starting fresh with a new Lara Croft adventure planned to reinvigorate the 15-year-old series. That game, simply called Tomb Raider, will be an origin story of sorts for Lara. Now, Hollywood is following suit with its own reboot, planning a new Tomb Raider flick for 2013. The Hollywood Reporter…
The new Mortal Kombat, as revealed last week, will feature a 300 mission long mode dubbed the “Challenge Tower.” We played a handful of levels of the mode that lives up to its name with demanding while teaching players the finer points of this year’s Mortal Kombat. Those 300 missions feature no lack of variety.…
The next Grand Theft Auto game may be heading back to Los Angeles—or its GTA equivalent Los Santos—if rumored casting details dug up by Google search crackerjack “superannuation” for a project codenamed “Rush” are Rockstar-related. Casting calls for a project by the name of Rush tied to Take-Two Interactive, which owns Rockstar Games, point to…
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