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Make Games Or Porn? He Picked Games.
Back before Sega game designer Toshihiro Nagoshi turned golden brown, he was just another kid from rural Japan, moving to Tokyo, trying to make it big. Originally, Nagoshi wanted to make films. “I graduated with a film degree,” Nagoshi tells website ZakZak, “but at that time the Japanese film industry was in a shambles and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Michael Jackson’s Golden Game Boy Is Only $75!
According to the bill of sale, this Game Boy was owned by Michael Jackson. He used it to court Macaulay Culkin. Culkin even set Tetris records on it. So $75 to call it your own is quite a steal! Or, it would were that actually the story behind this golden Game Boy, but it’s not.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Clever Art Of Stealing
The quote “Good artists borrow, great artists steal” is often attributed to Pablo Picasso. There doesn’t seem to be solid evidence that he actually said it, but the quote is often misinterpreted anyway. It’s not that stealing is okay, but rather, stealing implies taking something and making it your own. What’s more, not every artist…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Is The Entire PlayStation Network Down? [Update]
Can you log onto the PlayStation Network via your PS3 console at the moment? We can’t, and we’re getting reports plenty of other people can’t either. Attempts to log into the PSN on consoles are being met with the error message 80710A06. While American users began reporting the issue a few hours ago, I’ve since…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2011 - CultureTotal Recall
Nintendo’s First Arcade Games Were, Well, Pretty Sucky
It’s one of those quirks of history that Nintendo, a company synonymous with colourful characters and fun video games, made its very first independent venture into the world of arcade gaming with…a board game adaptation. While 1981’s Donkey Kong and 1983’s Mario Bros. are most people’s introduction to Nintendo arcade games, the company’s first coin-op…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Super Mario 3DS Might Be Out This Year?
When the Nintendo 3DS was first unveiled, we were shown a bunch of trailers from games that barely even existed yet. And even then, saw nothing of a new Mario game. So it’d be sweet if it actually came out this year. But it just might, if comments by Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto can be…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mobile Games Maker Sends a Message With Amnesty International App
The iOS games studio Mobigame – best known for titles like Edge and Perfect Cell – has teamed up with Amnesty International to publish a game raising money for the human rights advocacy organization, observing its 50th anniversary this year. Bulletproof, costing 99 cents on the iTunes App Store, places the player as a political…
By Owen Good Published April 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
April Twentieth
What were we talking about? Oh, wait, we didn’t actually start talking yet. I must have been thinking of Talk Amongst Yourselves. Anyway, man, why don’t you join us in the open thread, pass some of that sweet conversation around. If you’re looking for some pot-related things to read tonight, don’t miss io9‘s great write-ups…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Fans Vote Heisman Winner For The NCAA 12 Cover
Alabama’s Mark Ingram, the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner, was voted the cover athlete of NCAA Football 12, whose debut trailer you saw yesterday. Ingram, expected to be a high draft pick in next week’s NFL draft, beat out candidates Nick Fairley of Auburn, Jake Locker of Washington, and DeMarco Murray of Oklahoma in a fan-voted…
By Owen Good Published April 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Gamefly Triumphs in Postal Service Dispute
The U.S. Postal Service gave an unfair advantage to competitors like Netflix and Blockbuster Video, a regulatory board said Wednesday, awarding game rental service GameFly a victory in a two-year dispute over the postage, breakage and sorting of its disc mailings. The Postal Regulatory Commission found that the USPS gave “an unreasonable preference” to Netflix’s…
By Owen Good Published April 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Uneasy Shooter Inversion Focuses On The Gravity Of War
Cover based third-person shooter Inversion looks and feels very much like other cover based third-person shooters—Gears of War, for example—with the exception of one major thing: gravity. That and a rare innovation with one other video game staple, the exploding barrel. We’ve seen Inversion before and been impressed with its gravity manipulation based gameplay. But…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
The New No More Heroes Is For Adults Only In Japan
There’s another version of the original No More Heroes coming to the PlayStation 3, but this one’s for Japan only and only for adults. No more toning down the graphic violence of Travis Touchdown in No More Heroes: Red Zone. As previously reported, Grasshopper Manufacture’s No More Heroes is being given another shot on the…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedSee The Sims Creator Will Wright Deliver A Dizzying, Fascinating Talk About Video Games And Education
If you’ve ever seen Will Wright, the big brain behind games like The Sims, Spore and SimCity, deliver one of his humorous, hypnotizing talks, you’re probably going to want to settle in and watch this one too. If you’ve never had the good fortune to be assaulted by Will Wright’s smarts, well, you’re in luck.…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Spoiler-Free Tips For Enjoying Portal 2
You’ve heard of Portal 2, but are you ready to play Portal 2? Do you need help determining which part of the game to play first? Want to know how to find the game’s coolest hidden items? The answers to that and much more are below (some of them hidden behind links, to protect unspoiled…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
See (Almost) Every New Mortal Kombat Fatality, Then See Kratos Become A Baby
We’re still plugging away at our Mortal Kombat review, but if you want to skip to the good and gory stuff, GameTrailers has a montage of the many, many ways to kill kombatants in the new game. They also have every single “Babality” in a hilarious diaper-filled montage. It’s kind of amazing
By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
Freek Out!
CONTROL FREAK | NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Kontrol Freek’s new TeeFreek button toppers. (Photo by Crecente) Digital Dragnet Cast For More Possible Victims of Accused Xbox Pedophile Police are calling for parents to search the Xbox Live friend’s lists of their children for the user name of self-professed furry and accused sexual predator Richard Kretovic.…
By Brian Crecente Published April 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedX Rebirth May Be The Sexiest Looking Space Sim Of 2011
Granted, I’d be hard pressed to list many of this year’s hardcore space sim contenders, but the newly revealed X Rebirth—the latest in Egosoft’s 12-year-old X series—is going to have a hard time being visually out-sexed. This is a gorgeous game. Publisher Deep Silver labels X Rebirth “a fresh beginning” for the series, one that…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
ESRB Lauds Retailers’ Performance In M-Rated Game Report
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board has responded to a Federal Trade Commission report that video game retailers do a good job of observing the M-rating on video games and refusing their sale to minors. “We are extremely pleased to see the Federal Trade Commission confirm not only that the video game industry continues to have…
By Owen Good Published April 20, 2011 - Uncategorized
The 3DS Is Back On Top In Japan, Despite Heavy Robot Casualties
After losing the weekly hardware battle against the deeply entrenched PlayStation Portable, the Nintendo 3DS strikes back, becoming the bestselling piece of hardware in Japan. The system likely has two new games to thank for that little surge. Pilotwings Resort was just released overseas, as was a 3D version of Konami’s baseball sim Pro Yakyuu…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 20, 2011 -
UncategorizedN.O.V.A.: Elite, The Facebook FPS Where Paying Is Winning
Gameloft takes its iPhone Halo clone to Facebook with N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance: Elite, a competitive first-person shooter that eschews balance for the sake of getting paid. It’s a common practice in social games; the more people pay, the better they play. But having a larger farm than the next guy isn’t quite the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 20, 2011