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Nazi Dinosaur Battles Finally A Reality When Dino D-Day Deploys In April
You know what World War II games need more of? Dinosaurs. Specifically, Nazi dinosaurs, the kind one can send into multiplayer battles, huge cannons strapped to their cold-blooded endothermic backs! We’ll do so with Dino D-Day, the long in the making multiplayer mod for Valve’s Source engine. Dino D-Day will officially release on April 8…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2011 -
ReviewsThe Waiver-Wire Prospects of MLB 2K11
I’m thinking of a famous, very touching monologue by Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame manager of the Baltimore Orioles, talking about cutting players during spring training. “You call ’em in and say, ‘It’s the consensus among us that we’re going to let you go back home.’ Some of them cry, some get mad, but…
By Owen Good Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Japanese Game Sales Hold Tight In Japan, Thanks To 3DS and Dynasty Warriors
Honestly, I wasn’t sure if we’d even get fresh sales figures from Japan this week, but we did and it appears that video game sales overseas are still rather strong, with the latest Dynasty Warriors game debuting with a quarter million copies sold. Dynasty Warriors 6 (or Shin Sangoku Musou 6, if you have trouble…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedAnarchy Reigns‘ Mathilda Has Curves And Spikes In All The Right Places
She’s one part Bayonetta, one part purple people beater. She’s Mathilda, and she’s ready to enter the blood-soaked multiplayer ring of Platinum Games’ Anarchy Reigns. Platinum Games and Sega continue rolling out characters for the upcoming brawler also known as Max Anarchy, and each new character is more intriguing than the last. Mathilda here is…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Quirky Touches That Only Nintendo Would Hide In the 3DS
Nintendo lets me spin the menu on their new 3DS system with my breath. Their machine can figure out that my face on Angelina Jolie’s head should be classified as “female.” They’re counting my steps, for kicks. You know gaming hardware is made by Nintendo if it’s fun in little ways you didn’t expect. I’ve…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Game Boy Puts The Bomb In School Bus Bomb Scare
Police responding to a bomb scare this morning on a school bus outside of the Northside Intermediate school in Milton, Wisconsin, discovered an 11-year-old boy in possession of a video game system dressed up with wires and batteries to look like an explosive device Milton Police Department Lieutenant John Conger confirmed with Kotaku that the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Red Dawn Remake Pulls A Homefront, Retcons Korean Invasion Of U.S.
The forthcoming remake of Red Dawn, the 1984 film in which American teenagers band together to fight invading Soviet forces, will feature a North Korean invasion of the United States, not a Russian one, similar to just-released shooter Homefront. Why is that so interesting? Because they already shot the film as a Chinese invasion of…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Teen Boy Invents Leather And Pizza-Scented Candles For Men
After making fun of his sister for selling scented candles as a school fundraiser, 13-year-old Hart Main of Ohio was inspired to invent “Mancans,” candles that emit manly odors. [Jezebel]
Margaret Hartmann Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
It’s Time to Wake Up, Sleepyhead
Bears do it. Frogs do it. Even hamsters do it. However, there has been no scientific evidence that humans need to hibernate, so stop using the crappy weather as an excuse to be lazy! Answer the question below, email your answer to [email protected] and you could win a Wii Fit Plus with a Wii Balance…
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Nyko’s Charge Base S For Xbox 360 Improves On The Unimprovable
The original Nyko Charge Base was like my personal team doctor, making sure my controllers were ready and charged for game time. But could Nyko improve on something that’s near perfect? (Yup.) [Gizmodo]
Jason Chen Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedThese Magic Cards Are The “Holy Shit” Moment of Nintendo’s New Toy
There will be sixteen games available on the Nintendo 3DS when it goes on sale on March 27, but its best games may be the ones built right into the machine. And video doesn’t show the half of it. It’s these silly little experiences that you’ll be making your friends watch—and that they’ll be making…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Art Project That Took One Convention, 40 Hours And 5,760 Pixels To Complete
Pixel artiste Jude Buffum’s interactive art installation “Painting with Pixels” slowly rendered over the course of five days at this year’s Game Developers Conference, a project that you can now watch be constructed pixel-by-pixel in just two minutes, fourteen seconds worth of time-lapse photography, thanks to I Am 8-bit.
By Michael McWhertor Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedWhat Is Chessboxing?
Chessboxing is an activity that combines the physical demands of boxing with the mental discipline of chess. Competitors alternate between rounds of chess and rounds of boxing, kicking things off with a four-minute round of chess and alternating with fisticuffs until 11 rounds have passed, or one competitor jams a rook in the other’s eye.…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Silver The Hedgehog, Felicia Day, The British Joker And Kratos, All New This Week
Do you like comics about video games? I sure hope so, because there are a lot of new ones this week, and not many interesting new comics that aren’t about games. Here are this week’s notable releases… Comics You Should Consider Buying Knight & Squire #6 This clever series about England’s version of Batman and…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 16, 2011 -
ReviewsHomefront Is An Emotional Shooter That Doesn’t Quite Deliver
I nearly wept during the opening of Homefront. Maybe it was the father in me, maybe just that I’m human, but those opening moments, so cleverly crafted to grab a hold of you and pull, succeeded on a level few games have before with me. Homefront depicts a United States, a Colorado, ghettoized by an…
By Brian Crecente Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Large Hadron Collider Might Also Be The World’s First Time Machine
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, propelling charged particles to high speeds and smashing them together in the name of science. It also might be a time machine. At least that’s what a long-shot theory put forth by Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho suggests. If this wacky…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011 -
UncategorizedCasey the Bully-Breaking “Zangief Kid” Gets the Street Fighter Remix He Deserves
You may recall Casey Heynes, the chunky kid who was tired of being bullied and became an icon. Now he’s immortalized—overmortalized?—in this video that mixes back in all the sound and visual effects we all heard in our mind when we first watched Casey piledrive his bully into the schoolyard concrete. [via Calm Down Tom]
By Joel Johnson Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Co-op Gaming Between an iPad and iMac, Guerilla Bob-style
Forget “PC vs Console” wars. Now it’s going to be “iPad vs Mac”. (Keyboard and mouse forever!) Guerilla Bob is a simplistic, three-quarters-overhead shooter in the Ikari Warriors vein, but that’s not what makes it unique. It’s that the co-op shoot ’em up doesn’t just allow two iOS devices to team up, but supports full…
By Joel Johnson Published March 16, 2011 - Uncategorized
Keeping The HD-DVD Dream Alive
The other day while watching my high-definition copy of Blade Runner on my Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive, I received an Xbox Live message thanking me for keeping the dream alive. Oh come on, where else can you buy a copy of The Bourne Identity for $2.39? They called us foolish for supporting HD-DVD over Blu-ray,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 16, 2011