Indie studio Brain Candy is working on a game called Fray, which it describes as a “turn-based, multiplayer, real-time strategy game”. Hrm. Let’s see how they explain that little contradiction. Fray sounds a lot like Bullfrog’s classic Syndicate, at least in terms of general setting: the world is a dark place, corporations are running the…
This is not your typical story: an American and a Swede meet over the Japanese language and decide to make a video game. That game then takes the Japanese iTunes charts by storm. Dubbed Rhythm Control, the game has players touch bubbles that appear on screen. It’s simple and fun, and in Japan, it’s the…
From left to right: Peach, Samus and Zelda. By Megan Lara. Also available as t-shirts!
The first bunch of games for Microsoft’s Kinect were…crude. Resulting in a fear from many gamers that the peripheral may not be cut out for more complex titles. Well, this Dead Space 2 footage might convince you otherwise. In it, you can see the guy – if this is legit – is almost literally playing…
Nintendo may have been around for over 100 years, but the Nintendo we know today does video games. And it first hit the handheld gaming big time with its line of Game & Watch units. Here’s how they got their start! A new “Iwata Asks” Q&A on Nintendo’s website goes into great detail on the…
Hollywood is making an Uncharted movie. It could star Mark Wahlberg, Robert DeNiro and even Joe Pesci as a family of treasure hunters. This makes us wonder, has the movie’s unlikely director, David O. Russell, even played Uncharted? “I want the gamers to be happy,” Russell tells IGN, adding that he’s not supposed to talk…
You’ve made a first-person shooter. Who better to hawk it than somebody who really likes first-person shooters. Somebody like Noa. Noa Torigoe, star of adult films like Max Orgasm, Ultimate Gold and The Fuck Fuck Fuck: 10 In Rapid Succession, has been roped in to promote Killzone 3 in Japan. While first-person shooters do have…
Yesterday, FOX News ran a story on Bulletstorm and got pretty much everything wrong. That’s not the real story, though. They real story is how they got everything wrong: they did it on purpose. Yes, we know, it’s FOX News, but still, how the media outlet steadfastly refused to consider both sides of the argument…
So, some guys cracked the PS3’s copy protection security wide open. One of them is a “celebrity”. The others are complete unknowns. So unknown that Sony can’t find them, meaning it can’t take them to court In an attempt to track them (“them” being the fail0verflow team) down, Sony earlier this week tried to get…
Today, publisher Activision put the Guitar Hero franchise on hold. Maybe forever. For a series that once threatened to become the biggest thing video games had ever seen, it was quite an inglorious end. The gallery above will take you, from left to right, on a journey looking at every Guitar Hero game ever released,…
A segment on British TV shows Microsoft’s vision for the home of the future. That vision of a Microsoft Home, as demonstrated by a Microsoft official for England’s Channel 4, included an image of a TV displaying an icon for Halo 5. That’s what we call a joke and inevitably, but clearly not announcement of…
Tonight’s open thread is brought to you by fennel. Let’s all thank the great bulb for hosting this semi-nightly post where off-topic conversation thrives. After a hard day of dealing with the death of Guitar Hero and the threat of even more Call of Duty, let’s all take a moment to share better, more enlightening…
The Nintendo DS is the most successful portable gaming machine on the planet. More than 100 million of them are out there. Should you get one, or wait for the Nintendo 3DS? [UPDATED for the pre-3DS shopping season.] This is our best advice — updated regularly — about whether or not you should buy a…
Nintendo’s most loyal fans in the United States will be able to get their hands on the company’s Ball, the Club Nintendo exclusive re-release of the 1980 Game & Watch portable. It’s the latest Club Nintendo reward. Club Nintendo of Japan gave out Game & Watch Ball hardware way back in 2009, a recreation of…
PlayStation Move Heroes, a game we played last year, is the first PlayStation game to bring lots of characters from Sony games together. Nintendo does this kind of thing all the time with Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart and various Mario sports games. Sony usually keeps its icons separate. They’re crossing their franchise lines with…
We’ve got an video clip from FX legend Steve Johnson’s archives featuring the angelic underwater alien puppets of James Cameron’s The Abyss. Watch the footage now. [io9]
We recently took issue with Brøderbund’s video game controller that required no physical contact, the U-Force. This forgettable, flaky Nintendo Entertainment System controller, almost universally despised, has been mastered by one man, who uses his U-Force with rare mastery. That man is Joe McKenna, maybe the best U-Force practitioner we’ve ever seen. His sister, Karen,…
The underrated fighter Rain shows what he’s got in this excellent Mortal Kombat fan art illustration by Luciano Fleitas. Finish him! Bring it by Luciano Fleitas / demitrybelmont (deviantART) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.
The DICE conference kicked off today, though I spent much of my morning in the room writing and working through design issues. I hope you had a chance to check out my hands-on impressions of Duke Nukem Forever. Despite the shallow nature of the game, I kinda want to play through the rest of it.…
The Wii’s original role-playing game The Last Story has been knocked from its first place perch in Japan by the legal powers of Capcom’s Gyakuten Kenji 2, the latest game in the portable Ace Attorney series. The combined powers of Miles Edgeworth, Macross, White Knight Chronicles and Dragon Ball made for a top ten full…
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