Mad Catz is in the process of creating a range of Gears of War 3 branded specialty controllers, headphones and peripherals for the Xbox 360 title, the company said today. Among the Gears’ items will be console skins, faceplates and a crate for transporting and storing your console.
Let’s say you don’t like a game. It pisses you off. If you nerd rage, you might do something to the game. Something bad. In Japan, that typically involves scissors. One Japanese YouTube user with the handle “XboxFunBoy” unwrapped a new copy of Wii role-playing game The Last Story and then tears up the the…
Tomorrow, January 27, the world is expected to officially greet the PSP2 for the first time at a showcase event in Tokyo. With the real thing’s reveal on the horizon, let’s look back at what we know about the handheld. Or, to be more precise, what we think we know. The PSP2 is expected to…
Mmmm… Bread. Texting of the Bread has players clack out words to defeat seemingly endless streams of, ahem, gingerbread men. The game is from website ScrewAttack and is an iOS take on Sega’s Typing of the Dead, which was originally an arcade game based on rails shooter House of the Dead 2. Texting of the…
Next week, New York’s Ars Nova theatre company will be presenting twelve plays based on…Wii games. Those selected include Wii Tennis, Let’s Tap and…oh dear. Buck Fever. Each is a “short” play that, while named after a Wii game, may not necessarily be a direct adaptation of one. So “All Star Cheer Squad” may start…
Nintendo is gaming’s comeback kid. Just when everybody counted them out with the GameCube, the Kyoto-based game maker fired back with the hugely successful Nintendo DS and the Wii. But there’s more to the Cinderella story than that. Specs Price: US$24.95 Platform: Hardcover What’s in the book: 256 pages, black and white pictures. The Basics…
Kotaku commenter GeshGav (art blog here) is sprucing up one of the hallways in his home. Not with wallpaper, or a fancy coat of paint. But with this amazing Mario picture. Bravo!
Wii Fit’s skiing looks harmless enough. You ski by…leaning a little. Don’t tell that to this guy’s living room, though. He ends up doing quite a number on it. Which considering the game is requiring him to just stand up is quite an achievement. God forbid someone give him a Kinect. He’d probably end up…
The US Secret Service, in a throwback to the 20th century, currently train using tabletop simulations. Realising that 1944 was a long time ago, they’re now looking to replace that with video games. Specifically, with a “virtual reality” environment that uses a 55-inch stereoscopic 3D display to let trainees enter a simulated training area and…
While a 5-month old baby died from internal bleeding, 21-year-old Trent Owen Ngaruhe Hapuku apparently continued playing his PlayStation. The New Zealander faces manslaughter charges after Mikara Ranui Jarius Reti died on January 11. Hapuku was left in charge of young Mikara. The baby’s mother, Jamie Reti, supposedly left the child alone with the 21-year-old…
You’ve seen the effects of Halo on the human heart. Now see the effects of…SimCity (via).
While to outsiders Japan appears a homogeneous nation (with only 2% of the population being registered foreigners), there are actually key regional differences in the way people behave and the language is spoken. The country’s video game developers are no exception. It’s easy to divide the country into East and West Japan — or simply…
Don’t look now, but Mass Effect 2 on PS3 is having a little trouble saving some people’s games. Be cautious!
That may sound like a tough one, but actually, the AbleGamers Foundation has an answer, and that answer is Forza 3. The Foundation, which exists to promote awareness and accessibility in video games for disabled gamers, selects once a year a recipient for its “Accessible Mainstream Game of the Year”. This is awarded to the…
Here’s a novel concept: digital delivery store Direct2Drive is trialling an offer whereby PC gamers can download and rent a game. It works like this: you download the entire game from D2D, and pay $5 for five hours of playtime. If at the end of that time you want to buy the game, you pay…
With the PS3 able to play games in 3D and Nintendo about to launch a 3D handheld, it’s easy to get carried away with the “latest big thing” in gaming. And forget we had 3D games the 1980s Yes, long before Sony added 3D capabilities to the PS3 and Nintendo unveiled the 3DS, several companies…
Even in light of the toll Dead Space 2 has taken on my circulatory system, I’m going back into it. If you’re not a fan of the deep space terror of that game, join us for some off-topic conversation instead. Tonight’s open thread is extra geeky, so feel free to nerd out in the comments…
We’re not sure why toy maker Kotobukiya is releasing a figure based on Phantasy Star Online now, but we’re not complaining. Who doesn’t love PSO and would want a little robot maiden to remember all the good times? Whatever the reason, Kotobukiya is releasing a very reasonable model based on RAcaseal Eleanor from Phantasy Star…
Almost two millennia before the rest of humanity entered the industrial age, the Greek inventor Hero invented the steam engine, wind-powered machinery, and theories of light that couldn’t be improved for centuries. And then he invented some really crazy stuff. Scientific geniuses have to pull off a tricky balancing act before they’re even born. Great…
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