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UncategorizedHere’s a Sneak-Peek of Hulu Plus on Xbox 360
Hulu Plus is coming to Xbox Live tomorrow, so we took a quick look to see if there were any mind-altering changes compared to similar apps like Netflix and the Zune store. Guess what? There aren’t. Anyone who’s used Netflix on Xbox 360 before will feel right at home with the Hulu interface since it’s…
By Mike Epstein Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedLittle Things Get a Lot of Attention in the First Two Madden NFL 12 Videos
Two videos give the first look at Madden NFL 12‘s gameplay, calling attention to gameplay (above) and presentation details added for this year’s game. They don’t cover everything. There are three deeper discussions of the game’s defensive and collision upgrades and fully customizable playbooks. The presentation video shows progressive lighting, new broadcast overlays, jazzier pregame…
By Owen Good Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Lara Croft Still Looks Like Hell in the New Tomb Raider
The makers of the new Tomb Raider have been stripping away any semblance of glamor Lara Croft may have exhibited in previous games. Her next, simply titled Tomb Raider, features a muddier, bloodier Lara simply trying to survive. The game is the subject of numerous magazine covers this month, all of them appearing to use…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Redbox Video Game Rentals Go Nationwide In June
After nearly two years of testing video game rentals in its ubiquitous crimson movie rental machines, Redbox is ready to take its game national, offering game rentals at more than 21,000 locations nationwide starting June 17. Redbox began testing video game rentals in its DVD rental kiosks back in August of 2009, slowly adding locations…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 - Uncategorized
Even If Yoshi Is Gay, Where are the Other Gay Video Game Heroes?
Can an egg-laying dinosaur without sex organs be gay? IGN’s Jack DeVries makes the case that Mario‘s green dinosaur steed with the prehensile tongue is “dating”-in the strange, largely irrelevant backstory that frames the series-Birdo, the pink, bow-wearing dinosaur first seen in Super Mario Bros. 2 Birdo, according to official Nintendo lore, is male. The…
By Joel Johnson Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedEA’s Next Need For Speed Leaks Early, Goes On The Run In November
Looks like we’re getting a peek at the next Need For Speed a little earlier than publisher EA planned. Details on Need For Speed: The Run appeared on UK retailer ShopTo.net earlier today, a title heretofore unannounced by Electronic Arts. So… what’s The Run? Based on the first trailer for the game, it appears to…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Colleague Shares the Trauma of the Southern Tornadoes
Tiffany Nevin, news editor at GamingAngels.com (we’ve featured her work before) lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Her neighborhood and much of the rest of the American southeast has been mauled by tornadoes, claiming the lives of more than 200 people. Yesterday, another tornado ripped through her neighborhood. She shot this video an hour after it passed.…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 28, 2011 -
UncategorizedHow Do You Like Driver: San Francisco Now?
Ubisoft Reflection’s attempt to get the Driver series back on track will hit on August 30, according to a new trailer for the game that’s coming to just about every platform imaginable. Want to see what Driver: San Francisco looks like now? Have a look. Remember, this is the Driver game that has you playing…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 28, 2011 -
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One of the iPhone’s Best Role-Playing Sagas Continues in Zenonia 3
In 2009 Zenonia changed my idea of what an iPhone role-playing game could be. 2010’s Zenonia 2: The Lost Memories further refined the series’ winning formula. Now Zenonia 3: The Midgard Story arrives, and it looks to big the biggest Zenonia yet. The third installment of Gamevil’s action-RPG sees players adventuring as one of four…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 -
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