How 2011’s Best Game Trailer (So Far) Was Made

That amazing trailer for upcoming shooter Bulletstorm — the one taking the mick out of Halo’s famous “diorama” trailer — wasn’t done with fancy computers. It was done the old-fashioned way. With artists. And fake vomit. A Reddit user’s girlfriend worked on the commercial, and ereinecke posted a series of pics showing how the trailer…

Mysterious URL Hints At More Final Fantasy XIII

An online site registration could once again prove that gaming’s endless role-playing franchise isn’t anywhere near its finale. The website www.finalfantasy13-2game.com was recently registered by “Corporation Service Company”, which is the same company that registered domains for Square Enix games like MindJack, Nier and Gun Loco. What a kwinky dink! The URL for role-playing game…

CityVille Nearly As Big As Japan

CityVille, the latest Facebook sensation from the makers of FarmVille, just hit 100,000,000 users. That. Is. Frightening

Meet The Least Imaginative Video Games In The World

Like the movie business, video games can be incredibly insular, lots of the same kind of thing coming out at the same time. But these games — all from the same game maker — go a little beyond that. Yesterday, Michel Guillemot — founder of Gameloft and brother of Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot — tried…

Here’s The Game The Accused Tucson Shooter Played

Before the rampage that left 6 dead and 14 injured, accused Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner vented in online forums for games like Earth Empires. But what is Earth Empires? Earth Empires is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that evolved from one of the earliest browser-based MMORPGs. The original game, Earth: 2025, launched in…

How Appropriate, You Fight Like A Boy Who Never Grows Up

Monkey Island’s Guybrush Threepwood gets a lesson in swordplay he can’t talk his way out of. By Aled Lewis, as seen on GamOvr

2 Guns Might Save Uncharted From Cinematic Slaughter

Adventure franchise Uncharted has a Hollywood film in the works, and it sounds just terrible. There might be a sliver of hope. The movie apparently stars Mark Wahlberg, which isn’t a bad thing, because he is a talented actor. Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci are supposedly attached, too. Likewise, not bad things! It’s just…

This Resident Evil Figure Is Dressed For Battle

Chinese toy company Hot Toys is working on another Resident Evil 5 toy. This one’s another Jill Valentine, only this time, she’s looking ready for a midnight swim. This 1/6 scale figure — which actually depicts Jill in her “battle suit” — will be out later this year. As is expected with Hot Toys figures,…

Who Wants Sarah Palin’s Xbox 360 Autograph Anyway?

People might want the Alaska politician-cum-celebrity’s autograph, but maybe just not on an Xbox 360 for a million bucks. Ask David Morrill, who apparently spent the last two years trying to sell one. Because for the past two years, an Xbox 360 purportedly signed by Palin has wasted away on eBay. CNBC noticed that the…

Sony Telling People The PSP2 Is As Powerful As A PS3

A report on trade site MCV reckons Sony has been telling “licensees” — ie the people making games for it — that the PSP2 “‘is as powerful as the PlayStation 3”. It’s part of a clear strategy Sony has for the upcoming (and still not yet officially unveiled) handheld, which is that it’s “specifically requesting…

The Most Dangerous Thing In Liberty City Is…Silly Cars

The PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV can be a funny beast when people start to mess around with it. Take, for example, the game’s cars. And what happens when you all but turn off their friction. As you can see in this new clip below, created by a modder, things go freakin’ bananas.…

Pucker Up, Pikachu

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Masked Avengers Doing Good In Japan

A forty-year-old manga starring a mask-wearing wrestler is inspiring Japan to do good. Only, they are dishing out presents instead of punches. Rwar. This holiday season, child welfare facilities around Japan were inundated with anonymous gifts under the name of “Naoto Date”, the hero of retro manga and anime Tiger Mask. Tiger Mask followed the…

Yoostar 2 ‘300’ Performance

Yoostar 2 ‘Terminator’ Performance

Does The World Really Need A Wireless Graphics Card?

It would seem the answer is a tentative “yes”, with the release of the KFA2 GeForce GTX460 graphics card. Those spindly extensions are wi-fi antennas, meaning the card can transmit its video signal over thin air. Why, you may ask, would I want to do that? The thinking is that it lets people separate their…

Killzone 3 Is A Movie With A Game Attached

Hope you like your cinematic sequences, Killzone fans, because the third game in the PlayStation shooter series will have over 70 minutes of cutscenes

Jumping The Flagpole In Super Mario Bros. — On The First Level

Jumping the flagpole in Super Mario Bros. is possible. This has been proven. Have you seen it on World 1-1, though? Well, thanks to this glitch, you will. [NSFW audio because this guy’s nom de plume is ‘Motherfucker Mike’]. Mike says this video is 100 percent real and was done on a console, not on…

GameStop Wants Access To Your Xbox Live Account

While GameStop is perfectly happy selling you Xbox Live points cards at the moment, in the future, the retailer wants to do more than that. It wants your Xbox Live details, so it can send you the stuff it’s selling. “Today you pick the card up off the rack that’s associated with that map pack,…

FBI Pulls Online Game Records Of Accused Tucson Shooter

The FBI on Wednesday asked for communications logs from Earth Empires, the massively multiplayer online game played by Jared Loughner, accused of the shooting Saturday in Tucson, Ariz. that left six dead and 14 wounded, including a member of Congress. Earth Empires’ administrator told the Wall Street Journal that the Federal Bureau of Investigation asked…