Potential spoilers ahead, so read with caution: I appreciate your passion for the experience that Black Ops delivered, but I ultimately must disagree with your defense of it. Firstly, I do think that the Game of the Year requires some degree of innovation. Graphics are not a requirement, but I would say that gameplay is.…

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Video’s Takedown Jolts “World of Starcraft” Makers

YouTube’s takedown of a video showing “World of Starcraft” sent tremors through the mod community that Starcraft’s publisher was out to shut down the fan-made MMO. Activision Blizzard has yet to comment officially, leaving the project in an uncomfortable limbo. Stirring the pot further is the fact that the MMO was developed with Starcraft II’s…

Now You Have One More Reason To Buy Killzone 3

Perhaps you want to get more use out of that 3D television or your PlayStation Move controller. Perhaps you simply just like the Killzone series. Or perhaps you want to play SOCOM 4 before it’s released. Adding to the list of reasons one would want Killzone 3, the game will serve as a PlayStation 3…

Throw Hadoukens In Your Living Room With Street Fighter On Kinect

The Kinect genie refuses to return to the bottle. Here an enterprising modder rigs up his PC to play Street Fighter IV with Kinect, including shoryukens and hadoukens (and Ken). The video features actual gameplay versus the CPU. Modder demize2010 wrote the scripts to work with FAAST, the open-source Kinect driver, and another to enable…

Double Fine Sets Up Stacking For February

Double Fine’s Stacking, the gorgeous, funny, inventive adventure based on Russian matryoshka dolls arrives February 8 for PlayStation Network, a day later for Xbox Live Arcade. Playing with dolls will cost $14.99 or 1200 Microsoft Points, depending on your platform.

Hands-On With Dead Or Alive: Dimensions And Its Unusual Controls

How do you do a fighting game on the 3DS? You do it the Super Street Fighter IV way or this Dead or Alive way. Pretty similar. Touch-screen is optional but helpful for those who are fighting-game-challenged (like me). Note that Dead or Alive Dimensions, a “launch window” game for the Nintendo 3DS, will also…

Wii Games Are Explained Best By Japanese Comedians

Most things are. Here a troupe of Japanese comedians bring an in-game power from Wii role-playing game The Last Story to life. The power is “gathering” and to illustrate the point, there are comedians like the duo Oriental Radio, Ryo from the comedy group London Boots and what looks to be Kazuko Kurosawa from comedy…

Here Is A Dog In A Tron Costume Playing Donkey Kong

And Excitebike! In Episode 1 of “Tron Dog,” the canine protagonist gets sucked into the game grid to dodge barrels and flip a motorbike. I mean, it’s Tron Dog, the title sort of speaks for itself, right? The video stars Sauce, the four-year-old pomeranian owned by Stephanie Farah, who shot the video with William Voermann.…

Robot Staring Contest

What robots do you have on your desk? I had two for about five minutes. Now they’re tucked away in a closet, scared, lonely. What you missed Nintendo’s 3DS Hits the U.S. On March 27 for $249.99 A Metric Ton of 3DS News, Games and Interviews Science Fiction Heroes And Villains Converge In Red Faction:…

Truly, This Is Twilight Princess’ Midna’s Better Side

True form Link and Midna team up in this rad Twilight Princess illustration by GENZOMAN. This is a reverse look at his “Midna and Wolf Link” piece. Related Rampages: Thor | Fantasy Street Fighter | Midna and Wolf Link Zelda – Midna and Link by Gonzalo Ordonez Arias / GENZOMAN Need your daily fill of…

iPhone Dead Space Puts Monsters In Your Pants

Dead Space 2 arrives next week. Sometime soon we’ll be getting Dead Space on the iPhone, in a game whose story bridges that of the two console versions. Here’s how the iPhone’s gameplay will look. Like the original game, Isaac himself is the HUD in the iPhone version (holograms over him show ammo, health, etc),…

Hands-On With Kid Icarus Uprising, A Superb-Looking 3DS Game

It might be a little hard to appreciate how good the 3DS’ Kid Icarus Uprising looks in this video. All games look better in person and not under funky lighting. But, surely you can see? Kid Icarus was the best-looking game I played on the Nintendo 3DS at today’s New York City pre-launch event. I…

Monster Hunter Finally Slayed By A.C.E. In Japan

Who can stop Monster Hunter Portable 3’s streak? Only another PSP game, one with similar Japanese flair, Another Century’s Episode Portable. The mech simulation has dethroned the latest and 4 million selling Monster Hunter in Japan. The latest A.C.E. from Armored Core developer From Software managed to secure the top spot in this week’s Japanese…

Finally A Chance To Slap PlayStation Home Users

Two new games hit Sony’s PlayStation Home virtual world on Thursday, through one hits harder than the other. Conspiracy’s stealthy infiltration seems entertaining, but Slap Happy Sam’s cartoon violence looks downright therapeutic. From independent developer the Odd Gentlemen, Slap Happy Sam is a multiplayer game in which players can get back at each other for…

2010 Game of the Year Finalist Debate: Call of Duty: Black Ops (Xbox 360)

What makes a game a game of the year? Not innovation. Not graphics. Not gameplay. Not even a combination of all three. What makes a game of the year is the experience it delivers. The way it leaves you feeling when you’re done, if you’re every really done with the game. In 2010, the question…

Geometry Wars, Blur Studio Will Likely Close After All

With no sign of a buyer in sight, it looks like it is the end of the road for the troubled Bizarre Creations, the British game development studio behind Blur, Geometry Wars, Project Gotham Racing and James Bond game Bloodstone, according to a report on the UK site Develop

Mom Loses Her 6 Kids Over Game Addiction, Filthy Home

A Uniontown, PA woman has lost custody of her six young children after investigators found the kids living in a filthy house littered with “animal waste.” Why the deplorable conditions? The mother is “addicted” to online computer games. Police say the kids, which are 11 years old and younger, were sleeping on bare mattresses and…

Waiting Anxiously To Play

Waiting for her friend to come home so they can play the game together, Flickr user iwinatcookie gets creative with her collector’s edition LittleBigPlanet 2 Sackboy. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

Disney Pulls The Plug On Propaganda Games

The makers of Tron: Evolution and Turok are no more. Disney confirmed the (not too surprising) closure of Vancouver-based dev Propaganda Games today, saying “The studio has completed all work associated with its most recent project.”