If Toy Story Was Made By The Mass Effect People

Not since the Terminator had to decide what to tell the janitor knocking on his door has a movie icon had such excellent choices of what to say or do next. What should Toy Story’s Woody do here? [UPDATE] The dialogue wheel in this drawing is a riff on the same system used in the…

Mafia Wars Feels The Sting Of The Green Hornet

Wherever there is crime you’ll find the Green Hornet and Kato, and that includes Zynga’s popular social mobster game Mafia Wars, where players can unlock one hell of a ride if they play their clicks right. Zynga teams up with Sony Pictures Entertainment for the first theatrical tie-in for its hit game Mafia Wars. Between…

The Portable Laptop That Might Make PC Gaming On-The-Go Work

This is the Razer Switchblade, currently an “innovative concept design” for a portable laptop computer with a customizable keyboard and touchscreen interface, a device that promises a “full desktop experience in a netbook sized solution.” World of Warcraft on-the-go, anyone? That’s one of the ways that Razer is pitching the Switchblade concept, as well as…

This Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Magazine Cover Has A Secret

Game Informer has revealed the cover for its February issue, dedicated to Bethesda’s recently-revealed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and while the front is rather classy and subdued, there’s a mysterious party going on around back. What looks like a rather plain cover the print version comes with a special ultraviolet coating that gives the…

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 Hits Early Next Month

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 hits the PS3 on Feb. 1 and the Xbox 360 on Feb. 2. It will cost $15 for the PS3 and 1200 Microsoft Points on the 360.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War II – Retribution Plays The Race Card

Do you love all six races in Dawn of War II – Retribution enough to get the $39.99 Collector’s edition, or are you so preferential you’ll preorder one of the special race packs? THQ’s latest strategy foray into the Warhammer 40,000 universe is coming in March, which gives players plenty of time to decide where…

New Killzone Trailer Shows Grand Spectacle, Desperate Struggle Of Sci-Fi War

Killzone 3 looks like an impressive first-person shooter, but I sense some apathy out there. FPS games… there are so many of them. This trailer helps. Last month, Killzone’s head creator Herman Hulst was in New York, showing me part of the game. He told me we’d get to know more about the enemy Helghast…

Razer Switchblade Gallery

These Are The First Video Games In The New Mac App Store

If you have a new Mac or fancy getting one that runs Mac OS X v10.6.6., you can get a free app store on it, as of today. It’s got more than 1000 apps, Apple says. Which games? I took a tour of the Mac App Store today, which you watch in the clip atop…

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Gains Marvel Girl And Mayor Man

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3’s big release is only a little over a month away, but Capcom still has some characters up their sleeves. Final Fight’s wrestler-cum-mayor Mike Haggar joins the battle, and Phoenix rises from the ashes once more. Mike Haggar’s inclusion in Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 was pretty much a given, with pictures of…

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Sony’s CES Keynote Ends With Elvis

We may have gotten the same old song and dance from Sony regarding the PlayStation Phone and PSP2 last night following their CES press conference, but the event ended with a completely different kind of song and dance. Cirque du Soleil performs Elvis Presley’s Bossa Nova Baby from its production of Viva Elvis, closing out…

Torchlight On Xbox 360 Looks Like…This!

Torchlight, one of 2009’s surprise hits on the PC, is hoping to be one of 2011’s surprise hits on the Xbox 360. Here’s how it’s shaping up. Torchlight should be out in Feb/March, and will sadly only be appearing on the Xbox 360, with no PS3 version planned (as it’s actually being published by Microsoft).

Well, Game Previews Have Certainly Changed

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MLB 2K11 Renews Its Million-Dollar Perfect Game Bounty

Three up, three down, three times squared. Do that in a video game and you might win a million bucks. 2K Sports’ mad Million Dollar Perfect Game challenge returns this year with MLB 2K11. “I don’t know if we’re smart or just insane,” Jason Argent, the vice president of marketing for 2K Sports. “The million-dollar…

Tease Yourself With Some Beyond Good & Evil HD Footage

We’re pretty sure Beyond Good & Evil’s HD re-release, due on the Xbox 360 very soon, is going to play well. We’ve, uh, played the game before. But how it looks will be just as important to some people. And…yep, for a game first released in 2003, it’s looking just fine. The game will also…

These Pokémon Don’t Take No Crap

Artist Coran “Kizer” Stone is the man to thank for these pieces of Pokémon art, which include trainer Ash getting a little surly and a struggle with a monster that has trouble keeping his bodily functions in check. If you like what you see, you should check out Stone’s deviantArt page, which has not only…

Grandmothers Don’t Just Steal Crab Meat, They Steal Wii Games Too

A 60 year-old woman has been arrested and charged with stealing some Wii games while on a shopping trip with her grandchildren. Great example you’re setting there, Gran! Jennie T. Gatses, from Homer Glen, Illinois, was caught by security guards at the local Dominick’s stuffing four cans of crab meat and four Wii games in…

The PSP For Girls

Sony has gone PSP mad today, showing off not only a Final Fantasy bundle, but one for girls, too. And I don’t say that because this is pink. I say it because it’s literally called the “Value Pack For Girls” Due out in Japan in February, the bundle includes a “Blossom Pink” PSP-3000, headphones, a…

So, This Kinect Thing Is Popular With The Humans

In its first sixty days on sale, Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 has sold millions. Actually, that should read millions and millions Obliterating even Microsoft’s own internal wildest dreams, the motion-sensing camera has sold over eight million units since its release late last year. Considering there are “only” 50 million Xbox 360s out…