The Last Story Finishes First In Japan

The creator of Final Fantasy brought his latest adventure, Mistwalker’s The Last Story, to Japan this past week, with the Wii game debuting at the top of the country’s bestseller list. But this week’s chart definitely belongs to the PSP. The top ten bestselling games in Japan is dominated by new PSP games, including Sega’s…

D.C. Universe Online MMO Log Three Gallery

At least he’s not a sad panda. Mom warned me about you. Abort, retry, fail? Not a goof; I thought this guy’s character was very well done. I can tell by the hat. Little. Yellow. Different. This looks like a hell of a great snapshot, but it’s really a glitch hanging this guy in midair.…

Star Trek Online Celebrates Its First Year

It’s been a year since Cryptic Studios boldly went and released a massively-multiplayer game based on Star Trek, and it’s come quite a long way since then. See what’s changed and what’s next for Star Trek Online. Star Trek Online is a different game from the one I reviewed a year ago. Back then I…

Reel in Augmented Reality Fish (and Humans) Using Takara Tomy’s Fishing Reel

Like a fish borne from the ashes of Dreamcast’s Bass Fishing comes another wacky Japanese toy: Takara Tomy’s Virtual Master Reel. It’s an augmented-reality fishing reel that uses its 0.3MP camera to insert your real surroundings into the fishing game. Unfortunately it’s only destined for Japan (where it’ll cost the equivalent of $77), but how…

We Got Armored Core V Screens Incoming!

The team behind the Armored Core series is giving fans another dose of massive mech-on-mech action next year. Armored Core V from FromSoftware mixes things up with new “atmosphere” and online action “newly designed to focus on huge team-based battles on a global scale.” Armored Core V will be available throughout North America and Europe…

The Case Of The Identical Rabbit Games

There are two ways to buy a game about a violent rabbit on Apple’s Mac store. You could pay the game’s creators $10 or you could buy the version that is making them angry. That one costs two bucks. That choice between Lugaru and Lugaru HD is one that the creators of the game never…

First Look At Dark Souls, The New Demon’s Souls, In Action

FromSoftware is giving Demon’s Souls fans more of the punishing same with Dark Souls, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 follow-up to 2009’s brilliant and unforgiving role-playing game. Here is Dark Souls’ first glorious trailer. Formerly known as Project Dark, Dark Souls appears to deliver more tense dungeon crawling, strategic combat and innovative online multiplayer…

Dark Souls Screens And Artwork

Killzone Multiplayer Beta Pushed to Tomorrow

Originally scheduled to hit today, the multiplayer beta for Killzone 3, Guerrilla Games says, will now hit on Thursday, February 3rd at 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. But cheer up, they’re giving away 60 Killzone 3 Limited Helghast Editions to make up for the delay.

Is This The First Kinect-Created Music Video?

Some music video directors spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on fancy special effects. Filmmaker Dan Nixon just spent $150 on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect to create the music video for Echo Lake’s “Young Silence.” I don’t know about the song, but the imagery in Echo Lake‘s “Young Silence” is quite eerie and haunting, thanks…

A Video Game Dream House, Built Before Your Eyes In Hyper-Speed

Most 18-minute videos on YouTube are dreadfully boring, but Curtis Paradis, avid Sims 3 user, puts on a stellar show speed-building the most elaborate house I’ve ever seen in a video game. The house is elaborate. Lots of windows. Lots of furniture. It’s basically a mansion, something I’d never have the money for in real…

Eyes Deep in Deus Ex Human Revolution’s Must-Read Comic

It opens with a man masturbating on a Juarez, Mexico rooftop and wraps up with a head-exploding punch; surprising then that the first word that popped into my head when I finished reading the inaugural Deus Ex comic is smart. The first Deux Ex Human Revolution comic hits stands next week, dropping readers somewhere into…

Pirates Of The Caribbean Has Never Been So Blocky

You’ve seen the trailer, now check out the first action-packed, block-built screenshots of Lego Pirates of the Caribbean in action.

Stem Cell Shooting Gun Heals Massive Burns In Days

Treating serious burns is a time consuming process that normally takes weeks or months, leaving patients open to dangerous infections as they heal. This newly-developed stem cell shooting spray gun reduces healing time to days. Warning: Graphic video inside. Most of the damage from serious burns doesn’t come from flames. It comes from infections brought…

Crysis 2 Starts Spreading the Minimum Spec News

There is no room for the weak in this battle for New York City, according to the latest Crysis 2 trailer. Apparently, there’s also no room for weak computers either. Along with this new trailer comes the official minimum specs for playing the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 game on your computer: * Internet connection…

Can Kinect Make You Swim Like Michael Phelps?

505 Games has teamed up with Olympic superstar Michael Phelps to create Michael Phelps – Push the Limit, “one of the most realistic and intense sports simulation video games ever.” Is it time to flood your living room? The Kinect is a magical device full of hope and wonder, but I’m having trouble envisioning how…

Duty Calls Is A Quick And Brutal Stab At Call Of Duty

Look away, Call of Duty fans. Bulletstorm’s Duty Calls parody game viciously sums up the Call of Duty experience in one painfully funny four-minute experience complete with boring briefings, bloody screens, and the obligatory slow-motion shoot-out. Watch us play it. If you plan on downloading and playing Duty Calls, don’t watch this video. It’s a…

Darkspore’s latest Hero is A Gravitic War Master

Darkspore hero Andromeda is one of the 25 heroes coming to EA’s strategic action-RPG computer game.

Transformers Vs. Zombies, DCU Online’s First Issue And More

My weekly round-up of comics — some of them about video games — is back, in a slightly new format. Read on for my recommendations. Our Week In Comics column will run every Wednesday, the day new comics are released in comics shops across America and, increasingly often, for download on the iPhone and iPad.…

Bulletstorm Mocks Call Of Duty With A Free PC Game

First Bulletstorm took on Halo with a touching, vomit-soaked diorama. That’s good enough for Halo, but to take on Call of Duty it’ll need something meatier, like the full downloadable PC game Duty Calls. I’ve seen games marketed by mocking other titles before (mocketing?), but never quite to the extent Epic Games is taking it…