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UncategorizedStar Trek Fan Dances His Ass Off To Kinect
This man is playing Dance Central, a dancing video game for the Xbox 360’s Kinect sensor. He’s at Boston’s PAX East gaming convention. He is dancing to Bell Biv Devoe’s Poison, a song that taught children of the 90s never to trust a big butt and a smile. The song teaches us a new lesson:…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Resistance, Ratchet & Clank Creators Push Into Facebook with Insomniac Click
Insomniac Games, the makers of the Resistance and Ratchet and Clank series, will push into mobile and Web-based games development with a new division – Insomniac Click – that the studio unveiled on Saturday. Going public with their plans at a social gaming panel at the South by Southwest interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Insomniac…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nickels, Dimes, Pennants, Pennies or Points, Sports Gamers Still Get Value
>It didn’t take long after MLB 11 The Show’s release for everyone to notice its microtransactions menu and give it a good public flogging. While I don’t claim that these things are in anyone’s interest other than the publisher’s, gamers do a fantastic job of making this out to be a more odious threat than…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedHere’s One Tricked-Out Ride on Shift 2 Unleashed
Here’s Shift 2: Unleashed being played at PAX East on three extremely large television screens, shot by our man there, Stephen Totilo. It’s video-of-video, but this setup definitely amplifies the thrill-ride sense of speed and motion delivered through driving the game in its default in-car camera view. The flag drops on Shift 2 Unleashed on…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Settings Highlight The Show‘s Good Cause
MLB 11 The Show arrived on Tuesday, bringing with it a set of controls and options designed to include disabled gamers. The association for these gamers, begun by a 25-year-old college student, also launched on Tuesday and gets a plug from the PS3 game. The Association for Disabled Virtual Athletes is the brainchild of Hans…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedStop What You Are Doing and Watch This My Little Pony Video Right Now
Proving that My Little Pony makes everything hilarious and StarCraft II makes everything awesome – at the same time – is this fantastic two-minute mashup that is simply not to be missed. YouTube’s StubbornlyObsolete put this together using the audio from StarCraft II’s cinematic launch trailer and video from seventeen goddamn episodes of “My Little…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
UFC Takeover of Strikeforce Could KO EA Sports MMA After One Round
Zuffa llc, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has bought out mixed martial arts’ second largest promotion, Strikeforce. The acquisition could mean only one MMA video game going forward. Last year’s EA Sports MMA was licensed by Strikeforce, using its rules, many of its fighters, and venues where major Strikeforce cards have been…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 -
UncategorizedWarp Is My Favorite Scientist-Exploding PAX East Discovery, So Far
I keep asking people who I run into at PAX East to tell me which games I should check out. Thank you, to whoever told me to try Warp. I think it was Eka, hype man extraordinaire for Monday Night Combat. I’m glad I went. Warp lets you be an alien who can warp through…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Homecoming Kings
The Rays and the Red Sox had an old-fashioned bad-blood rivalry early last decade, one that cooled off in animosity as the talent gap between the two clubs has narrowed. When these two American League East franchises meet, three big name players will be facing their former team. That would be Carl Crawford, who played…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Run a Katamari All Over This (and Any) Site
Are you browsing this page on Google Chrome right now? Well, you’re going to want to. Some saint of a coder has developed an utterly delightful hack that rolls up all of a Web page’s text and pictures, Katamari-style. How’s it work? Pasting a piece of JavaScript into Chrome’s address bar activates the hack, which…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Call of Juarez: The Cartel Creators Argue Their First-Person Shooter Is No Celebration Of The Mexican Drug War
The creators of the upcoming video game that pits United States law enforcement agents against a Mexican drug cartel deny that they are ripping their subject from today’s headlines. It’s a hard position to understand, given that Call of Juarez: The Cartel is set in modern times, casting its bad guys as a vile Mexican…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Moosiest Moose We Know
This is no longer a vacation. It’s a quest. It’s a quest for coupons. I’m gonna have deals and you’re gonna have savings. We’re all gonna have so much fucking fun we’ll need plastic surgery to remove our godamn smiles. You’ll be whistling “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” out of your assholes! Hardware • PS3 Slim 320GB Console, Playstation…
By Owen Good Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Look At Project Milo, Which Was Actually An Adventure Game
Despite being presumed dead in the water, Lionhead’s Project Milo was once one of Kinect’s most interesting titles. What originally appeared to be little more than an AI chat program eventually was revealed as an adventure game, something we’re only now getting our first real look at. These storyboard images obtained by Develop show some…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
PAX East Cosplay Day 1, From Assassins To Valkyria Chronicles
People dressed up as video game characters for PAX East here in Boston (I think most were supposed to be video game characters). Some tried harder than others. Some just stood inside giant mech suits. Some were paid to cosplay, and some did it for the love. There was even someone cosplaying as a reporter…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Xbox Live’s Achievement Numbers Are Slightly Terrifying
Achievements. Almost every major platform has them now in some shape or form, but they started on the Xbox 360 back in 2005. Have you ever wondered how many have been unlocked in that time? While writing an upcoming story on Xbox Live, I got hold of these numbers related to the service, which I…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2011 - Uncategorized
Imminent NFL Lockout Does Not Threaten Madden 12‘s Release
Though the NFL’s ownership is expected to lock players out, following a breakdown in negotiations with the players’ union, EA Sports repeated reassurances that will have no impact on Madden NFL 12’s release or its rosters. While the NFLPA has decertified, evidently its agreement with EA Sports still provides for the use of the group…
By Owen Good Published March 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedMLB 11 The Show Gets In a Dig at MLB 2K11‘s Cover Boy
MLB 11 The Show’s third-wheel analyst, Eric Karros, completely telegraphs this burn of Roy Halladay, who graces the cover of Major League Baseball 2K11. If it’s any consolation to 2K Sports, I doubt many people will hear this. You can mute individual announcers in the competing product, and Karros was buh-bye on day one for…
By Owen Good Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Yesterday Was a Great Time for a Japanese Politician to Say He’ll Ban Games
On Thursday, this guy, the current governor of Kanagawa prefecture in Japan, wagged his finger at violent video games and said he’d ban them as well if he’s elected governor of Tokyo. About 12 hours later, a tsunami smashed into northeast Japan. As the Tōhoku region is digging out, facing a rising death toll and,…
By Owen Good Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
NBA 2K11 Gets a New Voice in the Booth
Kevin Harlan, the play-by-play voice of NBA 2K, told KNBR-AM’s Damon Bruce (also a voice in the game) that former NBA executive and player Steve Kerr will join the series as analyst next year. Kerr will replace Clark Kellogg; he was formerly the analyst in EA Sports’ NBA Live series.
By Owen Good Published March 11, 2011