Game developer Robots and Pencils have been getting lots of attention lately, much of it in the form of hate mail. The developer recently released Minecraft World Explorer for the iPhone and iPad, an unofficial app that allows gamers to explore the worlds they create in the incredible popular computer game Minecraft. It sells for…
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The latest Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One trailer shows how players can join forces to use the same weapon.
This year, Armored Core 5 will be released in Japan. And if you like mechas, you’ll be all over this game. More details about the game, which was first revealed last year, are in the latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. As previously posted, the game’s concept is “mayhem” mechanical action. The game will…
Ringo Starr might be “absolutely crap” at Rock Band, but that isn’t going to stop him from trademarking the crap out of his name, Ringo. Rather, Ringo™. The famed drummer registered the trademark for “downloadable computer games via the internet and wireless devices” as well as “toys, namely toy vehicles, plush toys” and “pet toys”…
Gaming has characters with memorable personalities. But Master Chief, the protagonist of the Halo series, is a total void. And there’s a reason for that. According to the studio’s lead writer Joseph Staten, “We left-out details to increase immersion; the less players knew about the Chief, we believed, the more they would feel like the…
Steam has a new feature in beta whereby PC users can snap screenshots and have them uploaded to the cloud, where all their mates can see them. Handy for team bonding sessions!
Bullistic is an Angry Birds clone. Only, I think I like it better. It’s the same premise as the Android and iPhone smash hit: you use a slingshot to vault animals across a stage so they break stuff, only instead of pigs, you’re now smashing vases and china. There’s a corny heavy guitar soundtrack, genitalia…
Aya Hirano, who pissed off Japanese nerds with the admission of her social life, is coming to upcoming Final Fantasy game Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. Hirano will be lending her vocal talents to the game, voicing the character Prishe. Hirano started out as a voice actress, but is crossing into the mainstream in a way…
If Nintendo’s monster-catching craze was not a game, but a social network. As seen on +5 Mace
When the Nintendo 3DS was first introduced, there was a trailer showing Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto shaking a dog’s paw that popped out of the 3DS, and Nintendo of America honcho Reggie Fils-Aime getting his faced burned off. Easy to understand! Since then, Nintendo’s enlisted the likes of popular boy band Arashi to make o-faces…
Super Mario Bros. was first released in 1985. Back then, games weren’t designed on computers, using fancy 3D models. They were designed on paper, by men who ate nails for breakfast and wrestled bears after supper. Nintendo has published a new interview on its website with the creative forces behind the classic NES game. To…
Kotaku reader vidhagans had a problem. Her Nintendo DS, it was cold. Naked. Needed shelter. So she made these two cases, sporting Zelda themes, and now the thing is warm. And we are impressed One is based on Link getting his hands on the Triforce, the other on the scenery of SNES classic A Link…
While spit-screen gaming is the ideal means for two people to truly share a multiplayer experience, it’s not without its problems. Like cheating. A problem these two industrious souls have managed to overcome. Above, witness exhibit A, which we’ll call the “ghetto method”. It involves some tape and a blanket. And the second player, who…
This isn’t the first time this pre-schooler’s been exposed to StarCraft. The 4-year-old commentated on a StarCraft 2 match with “shooties” a few month back. But, now, she’s playing In the latest video, “Stargirl” plays Protoss on easy A.I. She needs to make more guys and wants to click on big buildings. She likes to…
Be sure to check out the Super Bowl trailer for the upcoming flick “Rio” to get a secret Angry Birds code. The secret code can be found in a single frame in the ad, so get out those pause buttons!
For years, glimpses up skirts were used to titillate Japanese gamers. A new game’s done away with that entirely. It is moving beyond, to new realms of I-don’t-know-what. Many of the earliest computer games were adult titles, once again proving that pornography is often the killer app for early adaptors. In Japan particularly, upskirts, or…
There will, inevitably, be a LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean game. Here is its debut trailer
Interstellar Marines is a video game unlike your standard sci-fi shooter. Instead of being backed by a publisher, its developers are instead taking money from fans now, who will get the game when it’s done. Zero Point Software, the indie developers behind the game, believe it’s the best way to go about getting a quality,…
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