November 15’s ‘Something Around Assassin’s Coming In 2011’ appears to = today’s “next year we will have another big Assassin’s Creed game” from British gaming news outlet MCV. Both quotes come from top people at Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft.
Consoles on the cheap! Twofer video games! Accessories galore! It’s here, the gauntlet of shopping that is the run-up to the holidays in the U.S. [Updated daily, now includes: Alienware, Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Kmart, MadCatz, Meijer, Old Navy, Target, Toys R Us and Walmart. ] Below you’ll find a ever-growing list of video game…
You may never have heard of Trainz, but if you’re into train simulators it is the best, perhaps the only, game for you and now the million-copies-sold game is getting multiplayer. Starting this January Australian-developed Trainz Simulator 2010 is going into open beta with multiplayer, with plans to have the new feature go live by…
In the second of historian Jess Nevins’ series on science fiction pulps, he takes us through the Golden Age of science fiction, from the late 1930s through the “last efflorescence of the pulps” in the mid-1950s. The 1937-1941 period was the high point of the science fiction pulps. There were nine science fiction pulps published…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Hope you had a good turkey day and ate lotsa, wait for it, turkey. Today is Black Friday, so I’m pretty sure everyone is out shopping, instead of sitting at home or work looking at their computer screen. I’m at home! (Hello everyone!) I have this bottle of Pepsi that I…
Criterion is delighted with the response to arcade racer Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, as they should be. So they’re giving away three new cars, but there’s a catch. The dev team put together a pack of three supercar convertibles that includes the Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible, the Lamborghini Murciélago LP 650-4 Roadster , and…
Have a PSP? Sony’s latest firmware update adds music sharing support called Music Unlimited, which is powered by a cloud-based digital music service called “Qriocity”. Sharing is good! Firmware 6.35 adds a Qriocity logo to the PS’s XMB. The music service isn’t quite ready to launch, and this update prepares PSP owners for the forthcoming…
Dream Club, the bar hostess simulator, allows players to virtually get drunk. Whoever sculpted this android girl Airi statue must have been totally blotto. This is a prototype and not the final figure — the final color and shape might vary. Well, they’re going to need to vary a lot, because this Airi is slated…
Konami’s cute-’em-up Otomedius (think Gradius meets boobs) was supposed to be this year in The Land of the Rising Sun. Supposed to be, because it won’t. The game, instead, will be out next spring in Japan on the Xbox 360, reveals Konami. In 2008, Otomedius Gorgeous! was also delayed. Seems Konami has problems getting its…
Next February, a new Dragon Ball title will be shooting beams in to arcades across Japan. The game is called Dragon Ball Zenkai Battle Royale. It’s a four player networked game that seems similar to Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team In Dragon Ball, Zenkai, as the Dragon Ball Wiki explains, is a genetic ability…
This couple, married on the 4th of July, found just about the sweetest way imaginable to commemorate their anniversary: with complementary Zelda tattoos. As seen on Fuck Yeah Tattoos Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
The newly released racer is going to get an update shortly that will, as GT5 designer Kazunori Yamauchi tells Eurogamer, “refine the usability of the game to make it a better experience”. The update will hit on November 27 and, as Yamauchi points out, include more regulations for online play like max power and weight…
Not “junk” as in “trash”, but “junk” as in “tickle pickles”, “flesh bananas” or “knobgoblins”. You know, dicks! To date, Japan produced at least two big ding dong peripherals: SOM was released in late 2008. It connects to player’s computers via USB and even syncs to “climax scenes” in erotic games. A “piston machine” was…
You make one of these charts for animals, or fruits, or cars, and you really have to stretch sometimes. It’s crazy that video games are able to be recognised so easily. By Maicon Costa, thanks Dan!
Not just, one Japanese home per se, but oodles more. Defying the odds, Xbox Japan turned out impressive Kinect sales figures…impressive for Xbox Japan. While the peripheral sold over a million in its first ten days in the U.S., the motion sensor sold 26,000 in Japan during its first two days. Pretty good! The Xbox…
With a touch screen and microphone, the DS has seen some pretty unique games over the years. But wielding the handheld and a giant book at the same time? That’s new! These are a couple of commercials for Level 5’s Ni no Kuni, an upcoming collaboration between the Japanese role-playing game developer and Studio Ghibli,…
Crytek, the creators of Far Cry and Crysis, are mostly known for their shooters with a strong emphasis on singleplayer campaigns. Their Korean studio, however, has just taken the wraps off an entirely online shooter. It’s called Warface, a “near future” shooter for the PC that lets players either take each other on in online…
December’s Spike TV Video Game Awards gets a little more murderous with the help of Activision. The Call of Duty and Guitar Hero publisher has launched a teaser site for Murder Your Maker, a… well, we don’t know what it is yet. But the Murder Your Maker teaser site sure smacks of a serial killer…
Blizzard Really Wants You To Start Playing World of Warcraft Now Comment by: Phantom_Renegade Nominated by: Andrew Wyatt Like any drug, the first hit is often quite cheap. Well, They Actually Did It Comment by: subterfunk Nominated by: Valeria Heart IT’S OFF LIKE MY WII™ Activision Hasn’t Bailed On Tony Hawk: Shred Yet Comment by:…
Provided it works, a pre-owned game is the same thing as a new game. As in, it’s the same game. So why do people still prefer new games, when used ones are cheaper? Research company Cowen and Company decided to go and find out, asking 1,300 people (of which 1,001 were gamers) what their motivations…
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