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One Last Chance To Own Super Mario All-Stars For Wii
Nintendo is cutting off your supply of the Wii version of Super Mario All-Stars, the limited edition collection of four NES era Super Mario Bros. games with a 16-bit makeover. But it’s also giving you one last chance to buy it. Nintendo of America said today it’s producing its “final run” of the Super Mario…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedMore Chocolate Death
So I got more candy yesterday after I shot the first batch. Crazy! I Know!! Get Ready To Play Dress-Up With Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Now that Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds is on store shelves, Capcom can start doling out the downloadable costume packs. Check out upcoming costume changes for Captain…
By Brian Crecente Published February 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedYou’ve Never Experienced Neo Geo Hardware Drama Like This
Are you ready to have a Neo Geo make sweet love to your eyeballs? Thanks to photographer Aaron Nanto and his perfectly preserved, beautifully shot SNK hardware, your retinas are about to be thoroughly and lovingly sexed. This is “Neo Geo: Bigger Badder Better,” a “cinematic tribute to SNK’s 24-bit arcade powerhouse” and the most…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Killzone 3 PS3 Bundle You’ve Been Waiting For
If Killzone 3 will be the game that finally convinces you to become a PlayStation 3 owner, this is the package for you. Included is a 160GB PS3 system and one copy of Killzone 3—or “the ultimate PlayStation Move and 3D game,” according to this cardboard box. If you’re already a PlayStation 3 owner, you…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
16-Year-Old Confesses To Killing Mom Over PlayStation
Philadelphia teenager Kendall Anderson confessed in court to murdering his sleeping mother after she confiscated his PlayStation. And if you don’t like crime-related video games stories with terrible, sickening endings, don’t go any further. This one is perhaps the worst. Anderson’s confession, read in court by Philadelphia police homicide detective Thorsten Lucke, admits to attacking…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Games Might Not Desensitize Us To Violence After All
The “video games desensitize children to violence” argument is a popular weapon in the arsenal of the anti-violent video game crowd. A new study finds violent games to have no effect on long-term emotional memory at all. Researchers at Ryerson University in Toronto led by Holly Bowen, a PhD candidate in psychology, gathered a group…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedThe Hilarious Agony Of An Old Smurfs Video Game
Old games were difficult in stupid ways. This video — full of NSFW language — confirms this fact. The poor guy who tries to get through this 1982 Atari and Colecovision game previously struggled through the disturbingly similar QWOP. Let there never be another video game like this. Smurf Rescue Gameplay and Commentary [YouTube]
By Stephen Totilo Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Musical Video Game About Catching Snowflakes With Your Tongue
Rich Vreeland makes music for video games; games like Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter and the upcoming Fez. He’s also made a short video game about making music with your tongue and snowflakes. January is a tiny game, simple to control—walk right or left, press up to stick out one’s tongue—but also fun to…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedCould Video Games Ruin Toys?
Toy Fair is a rather large test tube of possible fun. It’s been held, in recent years, at the massive glass-walled Jacob Javits Center in New York City, inside which there’s a swirl of new toys and that popular foreign substance we love here: video games. There are many ways in which we can measure…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedMortal Kombat’s Newest Kombatant Will Make You Puke
The black ninja is back. Noob Saibot, first introduced in Mortal Kombat II, will return for the upcoming PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 reboot. The Noob of the new Mortal Kombat will double team you and make you violently ill. The latest confirmed kombatant in the Mortal Kombat that goes back its roots features more…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
How You Can Help Build A World-Class Video Game Museum
The staff at the Museum of Digital Art and Entertainment have the knowledge, passion, and the gaming artifacts to create a world-class video game museum in the San Francisco Bay area. Now they just need a place to put it. Archiving video game history is an important undertaking that needs to be handled with the…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedQuake’s Oddest Controller Is Made Of Mouse, Keyboard And Masking Tape
In 2006, before Kinect and maybe even before Wii, gamer Niel de la Rouviere decided to make a motion-controller for Quake III. He says he was bored; I say that Niel de la Rouviere, armed with masking tape, was efficient. He uploaded a video of his makeshift contraption to YouTube yesterday. I’m impressed that it…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Makes Zombies So Terrifying?
As the entertainment world’s zombie outbreak continues unabated, one of the nation’s top minds seeks an answer to a pressing question: What makes humans fear these brain-hungry abominations, aside from the whole brain-eating thing. Stephen Schlozman, MD, knows a little something about fear and the undead. He’s an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Crashing The Silent Protagonist Party
When a party’s guest list includes Gordon Freeman, The Legend of Zelda’s Link, and Crono from Chrono Trigger, the chances of striking up a good conversation are pretty slim, even for gaming’s most appropriate party crasher. I prefer the premise to the punch line in the latest video from the folks from Dorkly. There have…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
You Decide The Best PlayStation Network Games Of 2010
Sony is giving players the chance to honor upon their favorite downloadable titles of 2010 in the first-ever PlayStation Network Gamers’ Choice Awards. Which of the 20 nominees will walk away with top honors? Since PlayStation Network users are the ones that play the downloadable games Sony makes available on the PlayStation 3 and PSP,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedInterview: Defrosting Frozen Synapse
You know what we haven’t talked about for a while? Frozen Synapse – the high-speed tactical strategy game from Oxfordshire developers Mode 7. It takes the spine of X-COM, adds a little procedural generation and tweaks it into something fresh, fast, instant and accessible. And it’s still not been released, despite having been released last…
Alec Meer, Rock Paper Shotgun Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Pokémon Trading Card Game Moves Into Cyberspace
After more than 12 years of success in the real world the Pokémon Trading Card Game goes virtual this April with the Pokémon Trainer Challenge. Finally a way for older fans to play without looking completely creepy. I’m a staunch supporter of trading card games, but I’ve never had a chance to play the Pokémon-flavored…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Would These Film Genres Make Good Video Games?
Video games cover a lot of ground, but commenter Lannyandcarl believes there are still many untapped genres just waiting for some gaming love in today’s. That’s the touching coming of age story in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. A strange thought occurred to me this past weekend, there are a lot of genres that are used…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Get Ready To Play Dress-Up With Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
Now that Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds is on store shelves, Capcom can start doling out the downloadable costume packs. Check out upcoming costume changes for Captain America, Iron Man, Dante, Thor, Chris Redfield, and Ryu. The first batch of download costumes for Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 hits on March 1, the…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2011