EA Might Be In Trouble For Using Scared Moms As Game Bait

Electronic Arts’ Dead Space 2 marketing campaign is in the sights of a parents advocacy group. Well, actually, it is, since a “parent advocacy group” is calling out the campaign for the same reason I think it’s stupid: it completely overshoots (and in many ways insults) its target market, pandering to a demographic that won’t…

Here’s One Thing We Want From The NGP

This. This is what we want. Well, not Okami specifically, just the idea of it, where we can walk into a store, pick up a game and know it spans the divide between three PlayStation consoles. We don’t want mere re-releases. Or simple remakes. We want Sony to make good on its retreat from the…

First Rule of Capcom’s Fight Club: Talk About the 3DS

Here’s a stylish look at Fight Club, the celebration put on by iam8bit and Capcom last night that provided 1,500 fans a peep at Super Street Fighter IV on the 3DS, if they waited in line 19 hours. Taking place last night, Fight Club’s admission line snaked around an entire city block in downtown Los…

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She’s Got the Hadouken Nailed

Reader Jorge R. says he gave his girlfriend his PC gamepad and a copy of Street Fighter IV. After a week, here’s her new manicure.

Big Game Hunters

Are you ready for some football? Or are you simply gearing up for some big advertising? Do you have any idea what I’m talking about? Let’s talk about it in tonight’s open thread. Comic book fans, you may want to tune into Sunday’s Super Bowl game to see the first Captain America trailer (io9 has…

A Chronicle of Misspelled Slurs — Except ‘Fat,’ ‘Ugly’ or ‘Slutty’

From the message that Xbox Live user ralphy305 sent a female gamer, it’s clear the time he should have spent on his spelling and grammar was instead put to keying in a text representation of an ejaculating penis. Give the devil his due, though, ralphy305’s invective was also a hat trick hitting the titular themes…

More Gundam Hack ‘n’ Slash Action Coming To America

Namco will bring the beautifully cel-shaded Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 (aka Gundam Musou 3) to North American Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s this summer—and it’s bringing all-new Mobile Suits with it!

Watch a Video Game Being Made In Seven Minutes

Three developers from Cryptic Studios participated in last weekend’s Global Game Jam, the festival that challenges participants to create a game from scratch in just 48 hours. They built this time-lapse video, compressing two days of work into seven minutes. Jimb Esser (programming), James Laird (programming and design) and Nick Duguid (art) collaborated on “Benny…

The Wii Virtual Console Gets A Great Addition: Online Play

At least in Japan! That’s because Sega will release a Virtual Console Arcade version of Puyo Puyo—which you may have played in the form of Kirby’s Avalanche or Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine—with online multiplayer support for Wii. According to Inside Games, via Andriasang, Sega will release the 1992 version of Puyo Puyo, complete with…

A Fistful of Dollars Stopped a Nomination for Red Dead Redemption

Check out that list of games nominated for the Writers Guild’s Video Game Writing Award. Seem like anyone’s missing? Well, there’s neither Red Dead Redemption nor anything from BioWare. The Guild says these games makers “refused” to submit a script. Why is that? The matter of a $60 fee seems to be a sticking point.…

Pac-Man And Galaga For 3DS May Be New Portable Growing Pains

Namco is reviving two of its most memorable arcade hits—Pac-Man and Galaga—for the Nintendo 3DS, tapping into some of the system’s most unique features, its gyroscopic tilt control and glasses-free stereoscopic 3D. They may take some getting used to. Both games, Pac-Man Tilt and Galaga 3D Impact, are part of the same package, Pac-Man &…

Warcraft Helps with the Homework

A World of Warcraft GM allegedly – allegedly – solves a calculus problem for a beleaguered subscriber. It’s most likely a fake, but still funny. But wouldn’t it be awesome if it’s real? Seen on WoWBash

Someone’s Trying To Make A Zombies Ate My Neighbors Movie

Yes, someone out there thinks that turning 16-bit classic Zombies Ate My Neighbors into a big screen zom-com might be a great idea. If this sounds like a scary proposition to you, this project still has a long way to go. According to a report from First Showing, LucasArts’ 1993 zombie classic is being prepped…

Would you Like Some Cheese With That Gaming Wine?

I like to call drinking a bottle of California red tonight “research.” But it really isn’t. I just ordered two bottles of 8-Bit Vinter’s last red because I love wine. What you missed Every Band on Tour Needs HelloGoodBye’s Magic Gaming Box And Now A Spooky Kinect Ghost Story The Argument For Angry Birds As…

Want a Code For A Free Download of Call of Duty: Black Ops’ First Strike?

I’ve got about a dozen codes for the Call of Duty: Black Ops’s First Strike map pack to give away. Head on over to my Twitter and follow me so you can see when I drop them tonight. They’ll be hitting within the next hour or so. These are Xbox 360 only codes.

The Cutest, But Not Safest Game Of Angry Birds

Photographer Jason Lee transforms the young ones into birds and pigs, a dangerously adorable game of Angry Birds, as seen on Flickr Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

League of Evil Offers a Meaty Experience of Its Own

Super Meat Boy’s replayable challenge and smartly simple design would make it a natural for an iPhone, right? Yeah, not much chance we’ll be seeing that. But consider League of Evil, which draws on the same concept while expanding it. Released this week by Ravenous Games, League of Evil follows the same gameplay objective as…

Ace Combat Is Also Going Through Some Changes With ‘Assault Horizon’

Namco’s venerable Ace Combat series is also getting a once-over—just like Ridge Racer—with Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, which adds a little “Close Range Assault,” bringing the camera closer for more intense dogfightin’ action. Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is slated to come to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 later this year.

Thought Demon’s Souls Was Hard? Dark Souls Will Be Even Harder

Demon’s Souls was a challenging game, and while some thrived on that challenge, others shied away. That cowardly bunch will find no succor in the game’s follow-up, as Dark Souls promises to be even more difficult. More difficult than Demon’s Souls. To some that seems like an impossible thing, yet that’s just what Dark Souls…