Would You Buy Half A Game Now And Pay For The Rest Later?

Rod Cousens, CEO of Codemasters, has an idea on how to solve the growing dispute between publishers and retailers over pre-owned sales: sell you part of a game now then have you download the rest later. The battle, which has gotten rather public over the past twelve months, is over the revenues retailers like GameStop…

The PS3’s Raunchiest Game Gets A Raunchy Trailer

Female characters eating bananas. Female characters covered in goo. Female characters covered in ferrets? Strategy game Record of Agarest War 2 is the follow up to, wait for it, Record of Agarest War. That game was deemed “too hot” for GameStop, resulting in the limited edition package (the one with the boob mouse pad) getting…

I Tried To Think Of The Most Harmless Thing…

…something that I loved from my childhood, something that would never ever possibly destroy us. Vault Boy. By Renée Chio, as seen on Gamefreaks

Shenmue Creator Keen For Overdue Shenmue III

Dreamcast saga Shenmue II ended on a cliffhanger. More than nine years later, fans still want closure and continue to demand a long overdue sequel to one of the most expensive games ever made. Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki is working on a social game Shenmue Town — not exactly the Shenmue game people have been…

Stormtroopers Wanted, Enquire Within

While the world waits for somebody to actually get a Battlefront game finished, fans of multiplayer Star Wars shooters may have to settle for a four-player game for the iPhone. Star Wars: Imperial Academy — which should be out in the U.S. any day now (it’s already available in Canada) — pits the player as…

It’s Love Plus, But Fatter And Dirtier

Love simulator Love Plus is taking Japan by storm. Forget figurines and t-shirts, the game even spawned vacation packages! The girls in Love Plus, however, are on the thin side. That might not be to everyone’s tastes. A Japanese adult game maker is hoping to plug that hole with “Debu Plus” (“Fatty Plus”). The game…

Turning Old Genres Into New Games

A good adventure game needs two things: tricky puzzles and pretty graphics. Kaptain Brawe certainly has the latter covered. It’s a new point-and-click adventure game made in the style of old point-and-click adventure games (think Day of the Tentacle), and from what we played of the demo, Kaptain Brawe is shaping up quite nicely. You…

A Week In Comments

Predict The Mature Content In Fight Night Champion Comment by: Ackbar-is-The-Boss Nominated by: madammina A demonic spirit will overcome the announcer and he will say “FINISH HIM” Your character will then rip his opponent’s legs off and use them to beat the remains of his body into a pool of blood. How To Piss Off…

PS3 Racer Gets In Touch With Its Musical Side

While I’d forgotten all about PS3 game Modnation Racers, I could never forget about rhythm action game Gitaroo Man. So it’s lovely seeing the two come together like this, helping each other out. User D-Mise has used Modnation’s robust character-creation tools to whip up what must surely be one of the most impressive things we’ve…

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Makes A Jill Sandwich

Following on the heels of She-Hulk and Zero, another pair of characters are headed to upcoming fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Hungry for more? According to retailer GameStop, Resident Evil’s Jill and Marvel’s Shuma-Gorath are bundled as DLC characters for Marvel vs. Capcom 3’s Collector’s Edition. The characters will be widely available to those…

Xbox 360 Over-Heating? You Could Always Try This

The Xbox 360’s famous Red Ring Of Death was usually caused by over-heating inside the console. We’ve seen many backyard solutions claiming to fix this, but none as elaborate — or possibly effective — as this. It may not be easy on the eye, and certainly won’t win any awards for style, but piping a…

What Do Harry Potter, Toy Story And Final Fantasy Have In Common?

Voice actors are more than just minor celebrities: they are so essential to a character that they become inseparable. Like with Japanese gaming, Western gaming has characters that cannot be separated from their voice actor. Take David Hayter, for example, the English-language voice of Metal Gear Solid’s Snake. Or Nolan North, the voice of Uncharted’s…

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Can Microsoft’s New Online Store Compete With Steam?

As expected, Microsoft’s new online shopfront for PC games has gone live. We were promised a bigger, better store. So has it delivered? I don’t like it. Not yet, anyways. It certainly looks pretty, its minimal appearance a nice break from Steam’s clutter of buttons and menus and buttons within menus within menus. This theme…

Review: The Fight: Lights Out Swings & Misses

If you feel like destroying something ugly, take a shot at The Fight: Lights Out, a dark, dreary brawler for the PlayStation Move that’s an unpleasant blend of Fight Club aesthetics and wild, Bumfights-style fist flailing. The Fight: Lights Out is a third-person fighting game lets players experience the thrill of brawling in underground fight…

Minecraft…On The iPhone?

Until it was removed from the App Store yesterday you could, for a short while, get what was basically Minecraft for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Only difference was this game was called Minecrafted Despite proclamations that Minecrafted was “built without code or content from the original”, it looked like Minecraft, played like Minecraft…

Pirates Are All Over Starcraft II

There are lots of people out there who refuse to pay for video games. If you’re wondering how many, let’s take a look at illegal Starcraft II downloads, and you’ll see they number in the millions Last week, Torrent Freak posted a story revealing that the most popular illegal copy of Starcraft II had been…

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Turn Off The Dark, Please

Use this nightly thread to talk amongst yourselves, please, where the conversation runs from Spider-Man to alien invasion movies to music to video games. What happens in this thread tends to stray in this thread. The following links are more interesting than I’ll say here, so I’ll shut up now. Oh, and this Unstoppable trailer…

Your MLB 2K11 Pitchman Is…

Philadelphia Phillies perfect game-pitcher Roy Halladay will grace next year’s edition of MLB 2K when 2K Sports’ baseball sim comes back to console, portables and PC. The predicted Cy Young award winner is, unsurprisingly, honored to be this year’s coverboy. Last year, 2K Sports offered a million bucks to the first person who pitched a…