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  Jimmy Fallon Pulls A Kinect Oprah

  Xbox 360 Kinect’s third appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon features Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda without sunglasses, the Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev playing Dance Central, and ends with everybody in the audience scoring a Kinect bundle. Kinect first appeared on Fallon’s show last year as Project Natal, where it performed admirably. It’s second appearance back…

  By Mike Fahey Published November 5, 2010
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  Xbox 360 Kinect Stress Test, Technology Vs. Dogs, Darkness, Disguises

  The Xbox 360 Kinect can be confused by large dogs and wildly flailing children. Those are two stress tests that Microsoft’s controller-free add-on failed in a series of trials involving lighting, human and dog distraction, rubber masks and voice confusion. The audio and vocal tests returned mixed results, but everything else we threw at the…

  Brian Crecente and Stephen Totilo Published November 5, 2010
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  At Last, The PlayStation Move Steering Wheel

  The people at CTA Digital keep making wacky video game peripherals that keep us laughing. Because the PlayStation Move doesn’t look distinct enough on its own, what if it was part of a steering wheel? Or part of a fake machine gun? Keep on keeping us entertained, CTA Digital. (For the story on who CTA…

  By Stephen Totilo Published November 5, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Talking about games is not as difficult as completing Super Meat Boy, right? So let’s get started right here. Let the gaming discussions begin. Thanks to KindaGamey for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics

  By Stephen Totilo Published November 5, 2010
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  Report: Another Worker Dead At Game Console Manufacturer

  Early Friday morning, a worker at Foxconn’s Shenzhen plant “fell to death”, reports Xinhua News Agency (via Reuters). Foxconn manufacturers the Xbox 360, the PS3, the Wii and the iPhone. Not including this latest incident, there have been at least thirteen suicides this year. According to Xinhua News Agency, “The death was confirmed by the…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010
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  What Nissan Used To Give For 25 Years Of Service

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: That was a fast week I don’t know what they give now — hence the past tense. Over the weekend, we went to Mrs. Bashcraft’s grandmother’s house. Her grandmother recently moved to a new apartment, so there’s been a great deal of packing and unpacking. Her grandmother came across this…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010
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  Japanese Video Game Pop Star Called Out for Racism

  Singer Reina Tanaka was never a lighting rod for controversy. The twenty year-old is a member of the popular girl group Morning Musume. She has her own anime and a spin-off mobile phone game. That is, until she offended Koreans. On the singer’s blog, Tanaka posted pictures of herself and fellow Morning Musume members Sayumi…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010
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  The First Moron To Break His TV With Kinect

  Well, the first moron that we’ve heard of. He’s not really a moron, he’s Phil Villarreal, author and critic. And he’s out a pricey television. You are the controller? No Phil, you are the guy with the broken TV. “A public service announcement: Do not under any circumstances play Kinect Sports Volleyball at 1:30 a.m.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010
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  The British Library, Preserving Books And…Video Games?

  The British Library, which catalogues every book published in the UK for posterity’s sake, is keen to start keeping copies of old video games, too. “The games publishing industry recognizes the value in preserving their computer games and many in the industry that I’ve talked to could relay horror stories about old material disappearing or…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010
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  Ken Is Suddenly More Interested In Sweaters Than Fireballs

  By slaterman23, as seen on Gamefreaks

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010
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  15 Second Schoolgirl Spot Gets 3 Minute Making-Of Documentary

  Seventeen year-old idol Karin Aiba is promoting PSP game Dangan-Ronpa in 15 second TV ads. The making-of documentary is way longer and has added curry eating. Mmm curry! Dangan-Ronpa, which means “winning an argument with bullets”, is like Battle Royale, but with a psychotic teddy bear instead of a psychotic Beat Takeshi. The upcoming PSP…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010
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  New Battlefield Game Lets You Blow Up Crap For Free

  As expected, EA today revealed a new game in the Battlefield series, and as expected, it’s part of the publishers Play4Free line of PC games that let you, well, play for free. Battlefield Play4Free pits the forces of the United States and Russia against each other in a 32-player online combat game for the PC…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010
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  The Fire-Breathing Tanks of Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam

  This look at the Vietnam-themed download expansion back for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 gives us a good look at the fight for hill 137 where GI recon have discovered NVA regulars defending an outpost. Oh, it also shows us how amazing the fire looks in the game, in particular when it’s spewing out of a…

  By Brian Crecente Published November 5, 2010
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  Lame iPhone Joke Turned Into Actual Video Game

  Back in August, obnoxious PSP spokesboy Marcus Rivers went to town on iPhone gaming, the ad team mocking up a crummy mobile game called “Lame Castle”. It’s no longer a mock-up. Bradley Johnson, formerly of Crystal Dynamics, tells Gamasutra “my buddy sent me an e-mail with a link to a PSP ad and wrote, ‘We…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010
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  Which Part Of Japan Is Bonkers For Xbox 360?

  And prefecture part is keen for the Wii? And what regions heart the PS3? All three consoles were put through Google Insights for Search to get the tally for the console searches with the most buzz The results are for this year, are broken down by prefecture and do not necessarily translate into console sales…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010
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  Conquer World Of Warcraft With Tanks And Spearmen

  We’re surprised it’s taken this long, but somebody has finally gotten around to recreating World of Warcraft’s land of Azeroth in PC strategy game Civilization V. It’s not some kind of fancy total conversion of the game or anything, so don’t expect new units or rules customised for World of Warcraft players. Considering Civilization V…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010
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  Hollywood, Not Playing Video Games Is So “Disrespectful”

  When filmmaker Mike Newell was promoting the Prince of Persia flick, he readily admitted that he didn’t play the game. No wonder, says Resident Evil: Afterlife director Paul W.S. Anderson, the movie didn’t live up to expectations. “And for me, that’s like adapting a book without reading the book or adapting a stage play and…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010
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  Halo’s Spartans Are Not Made, They Are…OK, They’re Made

  Popular Halo web series Red vs Blue just got a little more real, with this veritable army of real-life Spartan suits built to honour the machinima Back in 2007, Shawn Thorsson and his friends thought it’d be a hoot if thy could go trick-or-treating dressed as the characters from Red vs Blue. Now, in 2010,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010
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  Faith In Final Fantasy XIV Needs Resurrecting

  Players aren’t happy with online game Final Fantasy XIV. Square Enix, the company behind the title, knows this and wants to make things better. “Currently, the service isn’t satisfactory,” says Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada. He’s right. It isn’t. “We’re in the middle of quickly improving it,” Wada told a group of investors. “We want…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2010
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  Half-Life Fan Movie: Pretty Kids, Explosions Aplenty

  Here’s a new trailer for Beyond Black Mesa, a fan-made Half-Life movie that makes up in enthusiasm and polish what it lacks in subtlety and Gordon Freeman. There’s a little too much kung fu and pretty young people running around for it to feel truly authentic. Half-Life 2’s world is a bleak, decaying one, after…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010