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UncategorizedWhat is America’s Fetish This Week? Japan
It’s a country with 120 million people, with a deep and long history, with a complex and beautiful language. Yet, for Americans, Japan often offers something else entirely—a place to project its fears, fantasies, and, yes, even neurosis. So much of Japan is familiar for Americans. There’s baseball, rock music, junk and fast food culture,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Hide from Big Brother’s Roaming Eye with Pixelhead
You can’t take two steps in the world these days without having your image captured. Everywhere you turn there are people with cellphone cameras, traffic cameras, Google Streetview vehicles. How can we remain anonymous in this digital age? Why, with digital camouflage, of course. Enter Pixelhead. The brainchild of artist Martin Backes, Pixelhead is a…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Hulu Plus Will Be Free On Xbox 360 For A Week, Thanks To Beef Jerky
The Hulu Plus service launches on the Xbox 360 tomorrow, enabling people to stream episodes and clips of popular TV shows—or at least a subset of the ones that are available through your computer—through an Xbox 360 and onto a TV. Usually, this will cost you both the price of an Xbox Live Gold account…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Frightening How Persistent a Child Predator Can Be
In December of 2010, 18-year-old Alex Trowell of Idaho was on his way to visit his 12-year-old World of Warcraft girlfriend in New Mexico. Alerted by the girl’s mother, New Mexico police called Trowell and had him turn his car around. Last week, Police in Nampa, Idaho arrested Trowell after discovering the girl with him…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhy Is Apple Allowing Mario Clones on iTunes?
Trademark red cap and white gloves, big mustache and floating coins. There’s no confusing this iPhone game: It’s Super Mario Bros. Only it isn’t. [Update] Monino by developer FeYingInfo popped up on iTunes for a penny shy of a dollar earlier this week begging the question: Why in the world did Apple approve it? This…
By Brian Crecente Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Celebrating Seven Years of City of Heroes
Seven years ago today, NCsoft and Cryptic Studios released City of Heroes, providing fantasy-gorged massively multiplayer online gamers a new way to waste countless hours of their lives alongside thousands of their closest friends. Let’s celebrate seven years of heroes and villains with a colorful infographic and nostalgia-laden anecdotes! I fondly remember the day City…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Credit Card Companies See No Sign of PSN Hack Fraud
Speaking to Bloomberg, spokesmen for Wells Fargo & Co., American Express Co. and MasterCard Inc. said they were monitoring cardholder accounts and hadn’t seen unauthorized activity relating to Sony. [Bloomberg]
By Brian Crecente Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Cargo! The Quest for Gravity: A Blown Up World as Imagined by Russian Madmen
Russian developers Ice-Pick Lodge are an inspiration of mine. Operating out of a two bedroom Moscow apartment, their small team assembled Pathologic, one of my favourite games of all time, and monstrous afterlife-simulator The Void, which was among the most interesting games of 2008. Both of these games were legendarily bleak. Last week Ice-Pick released…
Quintin Smith | Rock, Paper, Shotgun Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedBinary Domain is a Prophetic Vision of the Robot Apocalypse
Behold our first glimpse of gameplay from Sega’s Binary Domain, a cautionary tale in which humanity must fight for survival against the highly advanced robots we created with our own hands. I bet Watson is behind this. It’s the same old story I’ve been shouting from street corners for years. “Stop making robots!” I’d yell.…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Exploring the Most Beautiful Video Game Worlds
In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid urges us to sit back, relax, and get lost in the wondrous landscapes of the most gorgeous virtual worlds gaming has to offer. What are some of the absolutely best video game worlds out there? I think I know what I love best about a video game, and…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
One Out Of Two Portal 2 Players On Steam Hasn’t Finished The Game
So much for Portal 2 being too short. Fans of Portal 2 may be surprised to learn that a lot of people who own the game aren’t playing it very much. Little more than half the players who bought the game on Steam have finished it and more than one in ten of them haven’t…
By Mike Epstein Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhat’s on the Menu? The Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation Map Pack
I was wondering when Activision was planning on returning to the dual pistol-wielding line cook from that live-action Call of Duty: Black Ops commercial. Welcome back, old friend. Things have escalated since we last met. What we have here is a quick look at the five new maps coming to the Xbox 360 by way…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is Let Them Eat Cake the Most Authentic Royalty Simulator of All Time?
Oh, perchance for but a moment to be an inbred simp amidst a pageant to celebrate the sublimation of fresh genetic material into our state-supported carnival sideshow. I would look out from Buckingham Palace and I would think Wot I think is that I’m quite a proper fellar and…ooh thar’s cake I’m’a gonna throw it…
By Joel Johnson Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Don’t you just love the spring? The sun is bright, the air warm, balmy and refreshing. A perfect time…to stay indoors and play video games! Speaking of which, what are you all playing right now? Let’s hear some talking. User kaploy9 has introduced a 19th-century child to Kinect—and with such terrific results! If you’d like…
By Drew Cohen Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedRejected by Apple, Controversial Illegal Immigration Game Reborn Cuter, Cuddlier as Snuggle Truck
Let’s say you make a video game that involves driving illegal immigrants across protected borders, a game that’s deemed “disgraceful” and in “poor taste” before it’s even been released. That game, Smuggle Truck, is then submitted to the iTunes App Store. It is, unsurprisingly, rejected. What do you do? Make Snuggle Truck—swapping the “m” for…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
In Japan, He Speaks for the Duke
ALL HAIL THE KING | JAPAN: Veteran voice actor Fumihiko Tachiki will be bringing Duke Nukem Forever alive in Japan. (Photo by Game Watch Impress) PS3 Hacker George Hotz Denies He’s Behind the PSN Breach PS3 rapper hacker George Hotz got sued by Sony. He made an rap video that drew comparisons between getting fucked…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
PS3 Hacker George Hotz Denies He’s Behind the PSN Breach
PS3 rapper hacker George Hotz got sued by Sony. He made an rap video that drew comparisons between getting fucked up the ass and the lawsuit. Hotz reached an agreement with Sony, but there’s speculation that the famed hacker is still bitter, that he’s behind the PSN breach. “And to anyone who thinks I was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedYour Photos Will Make an Amazing Platformer
Piclings isn’t your typical platformer. Most platformers have pre-made levels; some have players make their own. In Piclings, your photos are the basis of each level. Check out the game’s trailer above.
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedAnswering Questions About Vibrators Is so Embarrassing
Making video games that support them, however, is totally awesome. In 2002, game designer Testuya Mizuguchi made a “trance vibrator” for his synethesia shooter Rez. The trance vibrator even came in a washable “protective glove”. You could rub it against your vagina if you liked—something website gamegirladvance found out first hand (NSFW review here). Website…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 28, 2011