Shigeru Miyamoto might have created Mario, but he didn’t just draw the character. No, his work on Mario runs much deeper. As the years worn on, Miyamoto wasn’t directing the Mario games any more, but returned to the director’s chair for Super Mario 64, the first game to render Mario in 3D polygons. And he…
This base-jump in Just Cause 2 certainly gives new meaning to the term “leap of faith”. Press play, then wait for the parachute to open. You’ll, uh, be waiting a while. Just Cause 2 was a sandbox adventure game released earlier this year on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. We never got around to reviewing…
iPhone smash hit Angry Birds was not released in the 1990s. I’m sure of it. I was there in the 1990s, and I didn’t see it. But what if it was? What would it look like? Probably something like this. The pixels really complement the art style. These screens were whipped up by Penney Design.…
Taking a bunch of tiny, adorable Marvel Super Hero Squad figures as a template, Rust This World has created a line of tiny action figures based on the characters appearing in Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. series of fighting games. While not every character is there, plenty of the main ones are, like Pikachu, Mario, Bowser,…
Sci-fi game Vanquish was originally inspired by a 1970s Japanese anime. It was also supposed to star a remote controlled robot. According to the game’s designer Shinji Mikami, originally there wasn’t anyone in the suit. “Instead,” he explains, “it was a remotely operated robot with three different pilots who would take turns controlling the unit…
It took over 200 years for the population of Australia to reach 22 million. It’s taken CityVille, the latest game from Farmville creators Zynga, just eleven days That’s right. Twenty-two million in eleven days. While detractors of this type of casual Facebook gaming can point to the fact most of those players haven’t paid a…
HoN 2.0 – an upgraded version of indie strategy hit Heroes of Newerth – will be out at 8am EST. It’s free for current HoN players, and $30 for newcomers.
Someone made a Pokémon bra — a Pokébra? As seen on szmoon
Warface, the online shooter destined for Asian markets and published by Crysis creators Crytek, may not have sounded like much at first, but take a look at it in action. Yeah, it’s another team-based online shooter set in a war-torn, near-future landscape, but doesn’t it look nice! Of course, only in a place like Korea…
Pac-Man might have been inspired by greasy pizza, but that doesn’t mean its creator, Toru Iwatani, wants you to turn to lard. Toru Iwatani, Tokyo Polytechnic University and Hitachi are working together on a new fitness machine that combines elements of gaming with serious exercise. After leaving Namco, Iwatani became a lecturer at Tokyo Polytechnic…
Monday Night Combat, one of the year’s surprise hits on Xbox Live Arcade, will be released on PC next month. While a first glance may have you wondering why, since being a cartoon-based team shooter it’s firmly on Team Fortress 2’s turf, you’re not being very fair. Monday Night Combat is its own creature, as…
A giant mecha statue is going up in China. It looks like Gundam — if Gundam was sickly orange and built by men on bamboo poles. Japanese netizens are holding this up as another Chinese rip-off. Is Japan really one to talk? Back in 2007, the Japanese media did a series of reports during its…
Uncharted 3 made its real public debut tonight, with Late Night TV host Jimmy Fallon getting some actual hands-on time with the game. And it’s all a little…awkward. You can’t fault Fallon’s passion for video games, but his impromptu questions (and inability to run up a flight of stairs) don’t work so well with video…
WhiteSilentTiger has a simple goal: create a good-lookin’ little video game forest. I’d say it’s mission accomplished! What’s most impressive about this scene isn’t that it was made by a modder, it’s that it was made using the “old” CryEngine 2, which powered Crysis all the way back in 2007, and not the more recent…
GoldenEye Source, a mod project that’s been in production for over five years, has finally been released. As in, it’s no longer in beta; the hi-def PC port of the classic N64 shooter is now finished While the recent re-release of the game on Wii was a fun piece of nostalgia, the Wii being a…
Hoping for a little less clothing in the upcoming Tron Legacy? Playboy has the next best thing, a totally NSFW spread on the video game movie featuring Playmates Sasckya Porto and Irina Voronina on working light cycles. Thankfully less hardcore than Pron, the XXX parody of Tron Legacy, Playboy’s take on next week’s Tron sequel…
Part anti-publisher rant, part impressive display of creative coding, Mark Feldman’s fascinating little story about how the multiple arcade machine emulator MAME was instrumental in rebuilding a Spy Hunter port from scratch is a must read. While publishers often rail against video game emulators like MAME (for good reason) and the legally gray area in…
What happens when you slap on the audio from The Elder Scrolls V’s first teaser trailer onto the Mass Effect 3 equivalent? Things… seem to work out surprisingly fine. Better than YouTube user Solgineer‘s other recent audio-visual mash-up, the Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer set to Tears For Fears music? You’ll have to be…
This is the DEK and it may be the first video game peripheral designed to work with the latest, wildly unpopular Tony Hawk skateboarding and snowboarding games that require dedicated skateboard controllers to play. The DEK is, quite simply, a mat on which players use their Tony Hawk Ride and Tony Hawk Shred skateboard controllers.…
This is Super Smash Land, the Game Boy release of Nintendo’s bestselling brawler that never existed until now. And, yes, that’s Kirby and Mario duking it out at Peach’s Castle in monochromatic glory. Super Smash Land is the creation of digital artist Dan Fornace, writes Piki Geek, an 8-bit de-creation that manages to squeeze good-natured…
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