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Microsoft Has Now Spent Over Ten Years In The Console Business
Time flies, doesn’t it? One day, you’re thinking only Sega and Nintendo are capable of building quality, successful gaming hardware. The next, you wake up to find that Microsoft is building a video games console. Yet it’s been eleven years to the day that the world awoke to such a scenario, as it was at…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Games Help Soldiers Manage Combat Nightmares
Research that last year suggested gamers had the ability to control their dreams – or fight back in nightmares – has been applied to soldiers who have seen combat duty, and finds that those who game have fewer and less intense nightmares about war. Jayne Gackenbach of Grant MacEwan University in Canada says about 100…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedFirst Time Caller, Longtime Listener, It’s Dr. Robotnik
Sonic’s arch-nemesis took time for a brief call to morning radio jocks Opie & Anthony to talk about evil. It’s a short clip but a great impersonation, and the duo’s reactions are worthy a chortle or two. They’re also NSFW, so keep the volume down if there are tender ears nearby. The guy behind Dr.…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Fun Factory
People who love things that aren’t just video games, get in here. Start talking amongst yourselves about politics, music, science, literature, trucks made out of Play-Doh… whatever you want. This nightly open thread is all yours. Seriously. I’m going to leave you a couple links to interesting, funny, sad and regretful things, but that’s it.…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Hats and Swords Turn TF2ers Into Shogun Warriors
Team Fortress 2’s offering Japan-themed hats and swords for all eight classes as part of a tie-in with Total War: Shogun 2, which is due for release next week. There are three ways to get the items. One, of course, is to preorder Shogun 2 on Steam. [Team Fortress 2]
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Throws in the Towel on NBA Jam
EA Sports has made it official – there will be no roster update, nor any type of post release support, for NBA Jam. Carmelo Anthony on the Knicks? Deron Williams on the Nets? You’re on your own. It’s not that surprising, and certainly an arcade title doesn’t depend on accurate rosters to the degree that…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedSkullgirls, The 2D Fighting Game That Plays Smarter, Not Harder
A new 2D fighting game will throw its hat into the ring this summer, the ambitious and impressive Skullgirls. It’s a downloadable girl-on-girl brawler borne of a love of Street Fighter, Marvel Vs. Capcom and Guilty Gear. It’s a fighting game that creatively solves fighting game problems. Skullgirls, coming to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
D.C. Universe Online Digital Download Coming Soon to PSN
Two months after the MMO’s release, D.C. Universe Online will get a digital download version over PlayStation Network, the official PlayStation Blog said earlier today. The game is $59.99 and includes a month’s subscription. Other packages will be offered.
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Cardboard Tube Samurai Comes to Monday Night Combat
Just in time for PAX East, the latest update to Monday Night Combat brings Penny Arcade’s revered Cardboard Tube Samurai to the game’s PC version, as a uniform for the assassin class. Check him/her out in that vidja above. The update also delivers an “All-Star Rating System,” that which will give players a better idea…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedGatling Gears Does Twin-Stick Shooting, Commando Style
If you’ve not grown weary of the twin-stick shooter yet, perhaps give arcade throwback Gatling Gears a chance, the top-down shoot ’em up that injects a dash of bullet hell into the mix. We recently got a chance to play Gatling Gears at an Electronic Arts event last week, finding the game to be an…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mod Resurrects March Madness in NBA 2K11
EA Sports’ NCAA Basketball bit the dust after its 2009 release; 2K Sports’ College Hoops 2K series cashed out two years before. With Selection Sunday three days away and March Madness upon us, how’s a gamer to satisfy his basketball jones? Well, those with a PC may do so through a “total conversion mod,” developed…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Disney Vs. Capcom Isn’t Real, But Could Be Someday
It’s an all out war between Disney and Capcom characters in Chris Clancy‘s newest piece of ass kicking artwork. DISNEY vs CAPCOM by Chris Clancy (deviantART) (Facebook) 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.
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2011 -
UncategorizedA Look at the Printed World of Homefront
I’ve been playing through Homefront on my new computer for the upcoming review (next week). I can’t talk about that, but I would encourage Kaos not to mock me with rogue White Castles… that is all. Microsoft Invalidates Stolen Point Codes, Considers Punishment For Exploiters An algorithm that allowed the generation of working Microsoft point…
By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Get A Taste Of The Ark With Brink At PAX East
Eager to get your hands on Bethesda and Splash Damage’s Brink? We’ve played it a ton already, but if you’re interested in Brink‘s brand of team-based shoot ’em up action and you happen to be in Boston this weekend, say for PAX East, you can get your hands on the game this weekend in an…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Baseball Rivals Play Dueling Cameras [Updated]
Kotaku may have kicked off a fad last year, with our post on how to make your video game baseball presentation conform to real life broadcasting angles. MLB 2K11 directly cited the work as an inspiration behind its new broadcast presentation. MLB 11 The Show was assuredly thinking the same thing when it introduced realistic…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Move Gets Its Ape Escape This Summer
Already released in Japan as Furi! Furi! Sarugetchu, the PlayStation Move-powered Ape Escape is finally coming to North American fans of monkey snatching this summer. It is simply called PlayStation Move Ape Escape. In PlayStation Move Ape Escape, players use the Move controller as a fan, monkey snatching net, slingshot and more, all in the…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
Seized European PlayStation 3 Systems To Be Released Into The Wild
While the Blu-ray patent infringement lawsuit between electronics manufacturer LG and Sony rages on, a court decision in the Netherlands has halted the confiscation of PlayStation 3 systems entering Europe, with the more than 300,000 units already seized ordered returned. The confiscations began last month, when a civil court in The Hague, Netherlands ordered a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
If Running For Charity Is Too Exhausting, There’s Always Virtually Running For Charity
When I was a kid we had charity walkathons at my school. We walked around the playground, making money each lap for a cause I’ve forgotten. When I worked for MTV, Second Life was popular, so someone was doing a walkathon in that virtual world, for cancer research. Today, games in which you might be…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
There’s A New Wrinkle In Japanese Schoolgirl Game Gal Gun‘s Panty Shot Drama
Do you know Gal Gun—or if you prefer, Gal☆Gun—the Japanese shooter for the Xbox 360 that’s all about shooting high school girls with a “pheromone shot” and is mostly wall to wall upskirt shots? Then you probably know about the back and forth “pantsu” drama that threatened to keep the Japan-only game panty shot free.…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2011 - Uncategorized
There’s No Doubt Anymore. Apple Has Spooked Nintendo.
Nintendo’s top people don’t use the word Apple. They don’t say iPhone or iTunes, not voluntarily, not if they can avoid it. And maybe that’s because when they’ve been lamenting the problems with the “value” of games lately — they like that word better than “price” — they don’t just mean Apple. They might also…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 10, 2011