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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 - Uncategorized
The Next Big Thing From The Makers of Brutal Legend is… Sesame Street?
They’ve made games featuring heavy metal funny man Jack Black and talking Russian stacking dolls, so what’s next? The monsters of Sesame Street of course. With the help of Xbox 360’s Kinect, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster lets gamers join Cookie Monster, Elmo and other Sesame Street characters as they explore a “living storybook”…
By Brian Crecente Published February 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedFatty Sandwich, Pocket Monsters And An Operation In The Family
Long day, much of it spent running around in the morning, entertaining Micro-Bash. Hope he was entertained! I got to go to the library, which was pretty darn bad ass. I love the library. It’s a great place. The Simple Joy Of Men Kicking Balls Flick Kick Football is about kicking balls. And that’s it.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
The 3DS Game Case Ain’t Your Father’s Nintendo DS Game Case
With the 3DS launching later this month in Japan, retailers are starting to get 3DS dummy cases for in-store displays. And the 3DS cases…they’re different. Compared to the regular black Nintendo DS cases, the 3DS ones are white. The logo placement has changed, too. That’s not all, the 3DS cases are slimmer and apparently weigh…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 15, 2011 -
UncategorizedYou’re Not in Azeroth Anymore…
Massive dynamic battles are at the heart of the RIFT game, and MMO players had best be prepared for the unexpected in Trion’s fantasy MMO (which started Open Beta today). Zone-wide battles erupt one rift at a time, spewing planar enemies across the world that culminate in epic battles across every zone. Check out the…
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UncategorizedBioShock Movie Sank Under The Weight Of An R Rating
Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski was going to direct a big-screen version of BioShock. But, the picture fell apart. Verbinski now says why. “I couldn’t really get past anybody that would spend the money that it would take to do it and keep an R rating,” Verbinski tells ComingSoon.net. “Alternately, I wasn’t really…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 15, 2011 - Uncategorized
Sony’s NGP Was Stripped Of Features
The Next Generation Portable is an amazing little machine. I was quite impressed with it. But it could’ve been even more amazing — amazinger! Not to mention more expensive, too. “There were elements that we found pretty cool, but had to set aside to remain on target,” Sony Computer Entertainment worldwide studios boss Shuhei Yoshida…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 15, 2011