Super Crate Box Versus May Have The Best Trailer Of A Game You’ll Likely Never Play

Like the two-player version of one-button platformer Canabalt, the excellent Super Crate Box is coming to the Winnitron 1000, a video game platform exclusive to Winnipeg, Manitoba. At least we can all enjoy its trailer. The Winnitron 1000, should you happen to find yourself in Winnipeg soon, is an independent video game arcade cabinet. You…

Woe Betide He Whose Gamertag Appears In A Black Ops Trailer

An ordinary gamer is cleaning his Xbox Live inbox of dozens of friend requests each day, most of them containing a mercy plea from some Call of Duty cheater. What happened? His gamertag was shown in a Black Ops trailer. The trailer for Black Ops’ First Strike downloadable content pack hit on Monday, and at…

Nintendo, Let’s Have Great Metroid & Zelda 25th Anniversaries

On September 13, 2010, Nintendo celebrated the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. In 2011, two of its other great adventures, Nintendo Entertainment System games Metroid and The Legend of Zelda reach the same milestone. We should celebrate, Nintendo. The 25th birthday of Super Mario Bros. had an air of importance to it. Nintendo released…

Minecraft Makes The Dark Descent

Yesterday, Minecraft brought to you the Lockout map from Halo 2. Today, it’s the first two rooms of the PC survival horror title Amnesia: The Dark Descent – Minecraftized. Minecraftizied? Minecraftified? Minecraftufactured? Whatever, here’s the video. The mapmaker, the user GamerDuality on YouTube, says it took roughly 20 hours to build. Half of that was…

Game Artist Don Barnes Fatally Stabbed In Attempt To Stop Fight

Donald Barnes Jr., a video game artist formerly of EA Sports and Activision and the father of two children, was fatally stabbed earlier this week in Oak Park, California. According to police, Don Barnes was assaulted after attempting to intervene in a fight between a man and woman outside of his apartment. Police have arrested…

Which Gaming Rig to Buy

I think I’m narrowing in on a choice. Looks like it’s probably going to be an Origin because I found a case that love. I’m likely going to order it tonight and then impatiently sit by the door waiting for the delivery. What you missed This Gamey Noun Beat Out Crotchal “Junk” As 2010’s Best…

A PlayStation Move Bundle Made For The Non-Jock Is Here

Still waiting to join the ranks of PlayStation Move owners? If the PlayStation 3’s take on Wii Sports wasn’t your cup of tea, Sony will soon be targeting the Sly Cooper and Ratchet & Clank-loving crowd to get their Move on. PlayStation Move Heroes will join Sports Champions as the other game in North America…

How A Randy Robot and a Bit of Team Fortress Showed up in Monday Night Combat

It started with a lunchtime brainstorm by the guys who make Monday Night Combat: Maybe Valve would like to do a Team Fortress crossover? That began a process that required all of a 15-minute drive and a handshake. No money changing hands, no strings attached. “For us, it was like, ‘Really? That’s it?'” said Chandana…

The Discovery Of A Medieval Mega Buster

Young Mega Man tries out his medieval arm cannon in this awesome illustration by Damian Buzugbe. Head over to CGHUB and vote for your favorite “Megaman Dark Ages Redesign Challenge” submission! Related Rampage: Megaman Dark Ages Megakids Dark Age Experiments by Damian Buzugbe (Blog) (CGHUB) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so,…

This Excellent Twin-Stick Shooter Is The Last Of A Dying Breed

Luke Schneider of Radiangames has created six excellent Xbox Live Indie games. Today he released the seventh, Ballistic, and it could be the best of the bunch. It’s also the last. Every time I see the name Radiangames in the Xbox Live Indie Games store I can’t help but smile, and for good reason. Each…

When Mario Karters Crash

What if Mario Kart’s most wreckless racers didn’t just get back on the track after a crash? Bad things, according to humor site Dorkly Bits. Dorkly Bits: Mario Kart Crash [YouTube]

Gaming’s Top Men (And A Wookiee Posing With Gaming’s Newest Hardware)

May 15, 1996: Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto poses with the newly-revealed Nintendo 64. (AP) May 27, 1998: Sega’s Bernie Stolar poses with the Dreamcast Controller (and VMU!) (AP) November 11, 2001: Microsoft’s Seamus Blackley with the then-new Xbox (AP) May 21, 2002: Sony’s Kaz Hirai with the PlayStation 2 Network Adapter (AP) May 11, 2004: Nintendo’s…

This Is What Rhythm Heaven Looks Like On Wii

Nintendo makes great rhythm video games in the form of Rhythm Heaven—simple, but smartly designed arcade-style games that are incredibly addictive and rich. The company is bringing one of those to the Wii and it too looks fantastic. Along with the new Kirby game for Wii, Nintendo showed off its latest Rhythm Heaven at an…

The Manly Art Of Posing With Video Game Systems

I’ve never posed with a video game system. I doubt you have either. But the top men in video games do that any time there’s new gaming hardware to show off. How cool can you look posing with plastic? In chronological order, here are some of the great achievements in hardware-posing, as photographed by the…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Once more unto the new game plus, dear friends. I’ll be playing through Dead Space 2 this weekend for the second time this weekend, a chance to scratch the PlayStation Trophy itch and power up a flamethrower. Dead Space seems to be among the few franchises I personally deem worthy of a replay. I’ve played…

A Visual Guide To Black Ops First Strike

Lurking somewhere beneath this striking Left 4 Dead style First Strike zombie poster are a series of screens showing off the new zombie playground and four new multiplayer maps coming to Xbox Live on February 1. Study them and survive. Videos are all fine and good, but nothing beats the good-old unmoving screenshot when it…

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Yikes, Maybe The Xbox 360 Can’t Replace The Cable Box

Five families in the Boston area agreed to ditch their cable TV connection for a week and use an XBox 360, Apple TV, or similar device instead. Stories like this usually involve relieved, money-saving people. Not this one. The idea is that a person could avoid paying a cable TV bill by using a gaming…

Epic Games: Sony’s Next Gen Portable is a “Pretty Huge Deal”

Launched earlier this week, Sony’s hefty NGP already has quite a number of game developer fans. Among them is the company behind Gears of War, Unreal Tournament and Bulletstorm. “I’ve played our demo on it and I’ve played Dungeon Defenders on it,” said Epic vice president Mark Rein. “I think Sony has done a great…

Sure, Let’s Release Genetically Engineered Mosquitos Into The Wild

Malaysia recently released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild. What reason could there possibly be to justify such a thing? Malaysia’s intent is indeed honorable. They aren’t purposefully trying to create a super powered variant of one of the world’s most deadliest disease carriers. To the contrary, these 6.000 bugs have been genetically altered…