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Life Is The RPG That Ends With You Die. So How About Earning Points And Tracking It?
Okay, maybe life isn’t the best role-playing game, but it’s pretty damn important. And that’s why San Francisco start-up GreenGoose created lifestyle platform to track it. Packaged with a water bottle, toothbrush and a vitamin container, the GreenGoose logs how many times a week people, say, pick up their toothbrush, awarding them points each time…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedNine Guys, Giant Mechs And 2011’s Sexiest Indie Game
Two days ago, nobody had ever heard of Hawken, nor its developers Adhesive Games. What a difference an amazing debut trailer makes The clip blew people’s socks off because not only did it look good, period, but it looked unbelievable for such a small indie studio. “The core team at Adhesive has six members”, team…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mortal Kombat Is Walking In A Bloody Wonderland. First Web Series Images Surface.
Last year, a live-action short called Mortal Kombat: Re-Birth took the internet by storm. Now it’s going to be a web series, and the first images look most enticing. Well, as enticing as a spinal cord and a snowman can look. Both Michael Jai White and Jeri Ryan are returning for the web series. It’s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Guild Wars 2 Thief Is A Rogue Like None Other
Most massively-multiplayer online role-playing games have some sort of rogue class, but none are quite as roguish as the newly revealed Guild Wars 2 Thief. Kotaku spoke to developer ArenaNet about what raises this stealthy stabber above the rest. When ArenaNet initially announced the Thief class last week, the image that came to the mind…
By Mike Fahey Published March 11, 2011 -
UncategorizedEarthquake Crisis Brings Out the Best In Japan’s Gaming Greats
About 2:45 p.m. Japan time today, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the island nation. A devastating tsunami followed, rolling over cities, enveloping towns. Reports now put the death toll at 300 to 400, with at least another 350 missing. Reports from Japan are coming in from those who were in the middle of the tumult…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Pair Of Batman Toys Escape From Arkham City
DC Universe will be releasing a line of action figures based on the upcoming Batman game, Arkham City. The first two on the market will be Batman and Two-Face, who come packaged together in the one box. Which is awkward Pack Batman in on the Harvey Dent side and it’ll be swell! Pack him in…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
How Saying Bad Things Can Keep You From Playing A Video Game
It appears that a Bioware fan has been temporarily halted from playing his copy of Dragon Age II after copping a forum suspension. Which is weird since, you know, Dragon Age II is a singleplayer game According to a post on the Bioware forums, user v_ware had his account suspended for a period of 72…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Old Games Never Die (They Just Sit In Storage)
Old books are kept in a library. Old movies are kept in archives. But where are old video games kept? Don’t sweat it: they’re kept safe and sound. Or, at least, the ones developed and/or published by some of the industry’s biggest names are are, a great feature on Gamasutra finding out the archiving and…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Xbox Japan Isn’t Giving Up On Kinect. There Is A Trailer.
That’s good. It also hasn’t given up on the Xbox 360. Xbox Japan is plucky! While the peripheral’s launch wasn’t exactly spectacular, the Japan arm is once again rolling out its Kinect trailer at locations across Japan. The trailer offers folks a chance to check out Kinect — a chance they had at Japanese retail.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Meet Ayamo, Your New Nerd Heroine
Ayamo might look like your typical hipster fashion model: she’s got lipstick kiss-marks tattooed on her wrist and she wears Ramones shirts and blue bandanas. A quick peek in her bedroom reveals otherwise. She might be into skateboards, but she’s also a giant otaku. “I go to Nakano Broadway to look at anime figures, Akihabara…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2011 - Uncategorized
Ever Wonder Why Dragon Age II Came Out So Soon?
Dragon Age was an epic role-playing game. Sequels to those kind of things normally take years to be released (just ask Elder Scrolls fans!). So why did Dragon Age II come out less than 18 months after Dragon Age? The game’s composer, Inon Zur, may have an answer for you. “Unlike other titles from Bioware,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011 - CultureTotal Recall
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