The Eight Unusual Video Games Up For The IGF ‘Nuovo Award’

One is a zen-like game about creating a tree. One is a beautiful, abstract fencing game. Another sees its players fighting physically to win. In another of 2011’s Independent Game Festival Nuovo Award nominees, you play as a dictator’s cat. The Independent Games Festival Awards special prize, the Nuovo Award, exists to reward “abstract, short-form,…

Happy Holidays From This Nice Man

The video game holiday cards keep on coming. This one is from Lucasfilm and is, perhaps, a preview of a new character being digitally added to The Empire Strikes Back. This came with the card too. Enjoy!

Ten Albums I Cannot Live Without

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GT5 Toy Car Logo Replaced With Cute Note

Not only a cute note, but a cute note and a smiley face. The undercarriage of a Gran Turismo 5 car was caught sporting the logo “It (the logo) is way too interesting,” Yamauchi tweeted earlier this month. “It will be erased in the next update.” The reason for this? “Because it’s embarrassing.” According to…

Next Valentine’s Day, Dragon Quest VI Beats Chocolate

Get ready to fall in love with Dragon Quest VI. In 2011, the DS version of the game is finally headed to North America. On February 14, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie will be getting its official English-localized release. Until now, the Japanese game was only available in English via fan translations. Dragon Quest…

What Was Your Favorite Trailer From 2010?

Video game trailers are now such a key part of the landscape that they’ve taken on a life of their own, often times more exciting than the games they’re trying to sell. So we want to know: what are your favourites? Remember, we want to know what your favourite trailer from 2010 was. Not the…

No Reward Is Worth This Many Barrels

Donkey Kong meets Star Wars. By Carlos Escárrega, as seen on it 8-bit

This Final Fantasy IV Trailer Is Complete

For the umpteenth time Final Fantasy IV is getting remade. This time, it’s being called Final Fantasy IV: Complete. Hopefully that’ll mean developer Square Enix is finished remaking FFIV. The game features Final Fantasy IV as well as Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. Final Fantasy IV Complete will be out next spring in Japan.

Use A Mouse & Keyboard On Your Xbox 360

While most Xbox 360 games make using a control pad enjoyable, there are still a lot of people who prefer using a mouse and keyboard, especially on shooters. This peripheral lets you combine the best of both worlds. The XIM series of controller adapters for the Xbox 360 have been around for a while now,…

There Are Too Many Damn Mobile Phone Game Commercials

If you flip on your television, chances are pretty high you’ll see a McDonalds ad. For those living in Japan, chances are higher you’ll see a mobile phone game commercial. Way higher. For the month of December, the most common commercial on greater Tokyo television was for mobile game site Gree with 2,800 commercials. Number…

The Fellowship Of The Zelda Tattoos

And now they know for sure, there are six guys in the wolf pack. Six wolves, running around the Bay Area together, in San Francisco, looking for rupees and heart containers. So tonight, we make a toast! The six guys (well, five and one lady) — Ashley Raj, Josh Kulinski, Willie Harper, Ehren Tye, Josh…

A Giant Denial For Gundam Rip-Off Claim

A theme park in China’s Szechwan province constructed a large orange statue that looks similar to the RX-78 Gundam erected in Tokyo last year. While the Gundam lawyers are going into mobile lawsuit mode, the park’s operators say theirs is original. The Japanese media is quick to point out obvious similarities, but China’s Floraland Park…

Crysis 2 Figure Defeats Aliens With His Barrel Chest

Toy company NECA has an action figure based on upcoming shooter Crysis 2. For a future soldier, he looks decidedly…simian. The figure boasts 25 points of articulation, which for collectors who like to pose their figures is great, but doing so on one of the Crysis’ trademark Nanosuits has this guy looking all out of…

A Visual Guide To Japanese Mobile Phone Game Commercials

Capcom’s Quickest Hit…Ever?

Earlier this month, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd went on sale in Japan, and oodles and oodles of people bought it. The game is a smash, and Capcom says it’s the company’s fastest selling title ever. Shipping 3 million units, Capcom says that Monster Hunter Portable 3rd brings the series’ sold tally to 16 million. That’s…a…

Dragon Age II On PC Doesn’t Look THAT Different

When it was first shown off, BioWare’s Dragon Age II seemed very different to the first game. I don’t know, this combat trailer for the PC version of the game looks pretty similar to Dragon Age to me. I mean, you pause the game, there’s a ton of commands, there’s all kinds of words and…

Uncharted Movie Director Suffers Awkward Actor Plea

At a recent screening for The Fighter, an Uncharted fan approaches David O. Russell to tell the filmmaker just why actor Nathan Fillion is perfect for the flick. This gamer’s played all the Uncharted games — all two of them! Awkwardness ensues. Russell replies, “Alright, alright, alright, alright, okay…”, adding “You know, if they want…

Black Ops’ First Downloadable Content Is Oscar Mike

The first downloadable content for Call of Duty: Black Ops has been revealed. It’ll go on sale on the Xbox 360 on February 1, and cost $15. The DLC comes in the form of a multiplayer map pack, containing four “regular” levels and one for the game’s zombie mode. Two of the regular maps are…

Huge Robot Marks Enormous Events In Japanese City’s History

Back in 2009, Namco Bandai constructed a life-sized Gundam statue to commemorate the anime’s anniversary, later moving it to (literally) look over its figure factory. There was another giant robot statue built in 2009, and it commemorates more than a cartoon. Okay, so that’s not really fair. As any fan will tell you, Gundam isn’t…

Review: X-Men Reopens A Classic Six-Pack

Konami’s X-Men couldn’t have arrived at a more nostalgic time for me. Released my freshman year, I stayed on campus until they kicked everyone out for Christmas break, and went flat broke playing X-Men at the Electric Company Mall in Raleigh. The classic brawler returned this week to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network,…