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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 -
Uncategorized1970’s Science Fiction Comes to Life In Thunderbeam
Thunderbeam is an upcoming indie adventure game for the iPad that blends 70’s science fiction, 70’s anime, a rad soundtrack and Prince of Persia. Which sounds great Actually, let’s back up. It uses the rotoscoped animation style of Prince of Persia. In terms of gameplay, the dev team cite influences like Maniac Mansion, which is…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Would You Do with the World’s Largest HD Screen?
Why, you’d play video games on it, just like NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. did at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. As website Joystiq points out, it took 57 workers four months to complete the 332.5 ton, 720p screen, which is comprised of 9 million LEDs. Dale Jr. Takes World’s Largest HDTV For a Test Drive…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedNew Hitman Games Links with Movie, Stars a Carradine
The latest game in the Hitman series, Absolution, is taking the series in a slightly different direction than longtime fans may be used to, as publishers Square Enix seek to tie the games in with the upcoming movie. “We’ve designed a more stylized, more serious, and darker game this time around in both the story…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis One Goes Out to Fans Of Out of This World
Or, as I knew it, Another World. This indie demo is for a game called Concurrence, and while this particular section has been put together for a competition, a full game is in the works. You play a man (Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, it seems) who wakes up on an alien planet and has to find…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
“Social Gaming Is Going to Crash”
Game designer Denis Dyack, who labored on action game Too Human for years, thinks that social gaming is a bubble waiting to burst: “The trend that I see is it’s probably going to be one of the biggest bubbles and explosions that our industry’s seen in a long time and I think when it crashes…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedPlaying Space Invaders with 480 Sneakers
Converse’s “The Canvas Experiment” was just that: take a 4m x 5m canvas, put 480 pairs of Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers on it then play a game of Space Invaders Admittedly, it sounds better in theory than it looks in practice, the “screen” making things pretty tough to see, but then, you can make…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
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. It’s not too much for Metal Gear cosplay queen Omi Gibson. In her latest photoset, Gibson cosplays as cattle prod-wielding, sexually charged dominatrix Belladonna. The character “accidentally” killed herself with said cattle prod, something echoed in this cosplay. While the game…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Flight Is Like Rez, Only with Less Vibration
Swiss indie developer Tobias Baumann, who made the awesome Dopplescope, is currently working on a new project called The Flight, which is a shooter that uses music as bullets. While the general premise is one that’s been used a few times before, The Flight still looks cool in that it’s basically Rez, only instead of…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Can You Handle All This Badass Plastic?
Namco Bandai doesn’t only make video games. It’s Bandai arm has toy and game licenses for iconic Japanese institutions like Gundam, Kamen Rider and Ultraman, as well as new favs like One Piece and Haruhi Suzumiya At an Akihabara showcase, Namco Bandai displayed the latest entries in its high-end collectibles range. The end results are…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Square Enix Just Cancelled a Bunch of Games
Square Enix has cancelled multiple in-development titles, according to the company’s latest financial forecast. These games were binned as the company is “introducing a tightened selection standard regarding title lineup to strengthen the revenue base of the Company’s digital entertainment segment”. The name/franchise of the cancelled titles was not disclosed. [Square Enix]
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nintendo, Your Piracy Protection Isn’t Working
Earlier this week, Nintendo pushed live an updated piece of firmware for the DSi. It was aimed at stopping piracy. Less than a day later, however, flash cart manufacturers had already found a way around it. It took flash cart (cartridges allowing the use of homebrew and/or pirated software) producer R4iDSN less than 24 hours…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011
