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Nintendo Getting Better With Its WiiWare Demos, But Not Nailing It Yet
More demos of WiiWare games are coming — finally. But they’re still only going to be offered for a limited time and won’t be for all titles. For several years, Nintendo has been selling some terrific downloadable games in its WiiWare store: World of Goo, Thru-Space, Swords & Soldiers, Art Style: Light Trax, and plenty…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Call of Duty: Black Ops Continuing Domination Over Books, Games, Movies, President Bush
Call of Duty Black Ops set a five-day record for getting people to part with their money, according to its creators today. $650 million in copies sold around the world in the span of a work week. Black Ops publisher Activision, you know, the one a lot of gamers love to hate because of their…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 18, 2010 -
UncategorizedShoot Down Friends’ AR.Drones With Parrot’s Augmented Reality iPhone Game
Remember Parrot’s awesome iPhone-controlled AR.Drone? Of course you do. Grab an AR.Drone-owning friend and when the augmented reality app hits the App Store, get downloading for some healthy Bluetooth-based competition. It’s a two-player game, which rather limits the app, as you’ll need to find someone else who owns a $300 (£300) drone as well as…
By Kat Hannaford Published November 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Vaporware Legend Returns From The Dead
Wardevil, a game five years in development that was reportedly cancelled last month, is for some reason now being brought back from the dead and given a new name. British creators Ignition have decided that, rather than develop the game in-house, it will now be built via a combination of local and outsourced talent, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dead Space, Figure, Doopedy-Do
Toy company NECA has released the first official shot of their upcoming figure based on the upcoming Dead Space 2. Seeing hero Isaac in colour and in such clear detail for the first time makes me realise he looks…familiar. He looks like he did in the first game, sure, but look down. Past the helmet,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2010 -
UncategorizedThey Really Need To Stop Making These Mega Man Online Trailers
Why? Because all it makes us want is a Mega Man movie, not some side-scrolling online game. These teaser trailers for the Korean online game Rockman Online (or Mega Man Online) are getting better and better, turning the cute platformers into dark, violent, exciting affairs. Which makes it all the more disappointing when you see…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2010 -
UncategorizedHow Long Until Kinect Turns Into Skynet?
Why play games on Kinect when you can hook it up to a robot, teach it how to learn from its surroundings then take your orders with the wave of an arm? Philipp Robbel, a student at MIT’s Personal Robotics Group, has done just that, connecting Microsoft’s motion-sensing peripheral to a small robot (a hacked…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Uh, Where’s Fable III On PC?
It’s a valid question. After all, the Xbox 360 version is out, while the PC version is not, and does not even have a release date. Well, according to Lionhead, it’s still…in development, the team behind the series saying “Fable 3 PC Version is still in development here at Lionhead so PC GAMERS don’t panic.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2010 -
UncategorizedGreat Shot Kid, That Was One In A Million
There are one-in-a-million kills, and then there are one-in-a-gazillion-million-billion kills. Or, in this case, suicides. Reader Adam sends us this clip of a game of Halo: Reach, in which he fires off a shot that misses its target. He does, however, manage to hit first the ground and then a distant mountain, which results in…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
The “Future Of Video Games” Goes On Sale Tomorrow
OnLive, the streaming service that has the potential to change forever the way we play (and purchase) video games, will begin selling its small TV “console” tomorrow. And it’s got a rather attractive price-point to go along with it. The small unit, which plugs into your internet connection and then into your TV – bringing…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
The New Medium Where Writers Are Trying To Make It
What would you expect to be paid to write a video game script? $100,000? Maybe you’d get that a few years ago, but the rate is now more between $10,000 to $20,000, writes The New York Observer. It’s one of the more interesting did-you-knows cropping up in a collection of anecdotes about solid writers who…
By Owen Good Published November 18, 2010 -
ReviewsReview: Hoard Will Set Your Friendships On Fire
With so many multiplayer experiences these days revolving around perks and persistent characters, it’s nice to see a game that remembers the key to good competitive gaming is often just to keep things simple. Hoard is a party game that creates small boardgame-like maps, puts players in control of dragons then has them competing to…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2010 -
UncategorizedCars Love Gran Turismo 5 Too!
If you thought the first Japanese TV commercial for Gran Turismo 5 – the one with the toy cars – was fun, it’s more fun when the toys are swapped out for dozens of real cars. I lost count of the number of different cars I saw in this ad, but suffice to say, it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
UFC Undisputed Comes To iPhone, iPad
Following EA Sports MMA into mobile gaming, THQ’s mixed martial arts franchise UFC Undisputed will hit the iPhone and iPad this week, a company executive says. Via Twitter, THQ’s Danny Bilson says the game hits the two devices via the iTunes App Store tomorrow. “Gives Tap Out new meaning,” Bilson, THQ’s president for core gaming,…
By Owen Good Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Just Chillin’ In Space
Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space, waiting to engage you in off-topic conversation. Would you like to talk about movies, music or things that aren’t video games? What about video games? We got those too. I’m going to go eat hamburgers and finish up Donkey Kong Country Returns, so, please talk amongst yourselves.…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Get To The Gym With DiRT 3
Gymkhana, the “car rodeo” YouTube video phenomenon, will join the redoubtable Rally in DiRT 3 next year. Loosely described, gymkhana features a start and finish line and some obstacle to negotiate. Codemasters dropped several screenshots illustrating both modes today. A news release from Codemasters says that DiRT 3’s rally will feature “more than double the…
By Owen Good Published November 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rumor: BioWare’s New Mass Effect Is A Multiplayer Spin-off [Update]
The BioWare project teased earlier today by Spike TV’s Video Game Awards is not an early look at Mass Effect 3, according to a development source, but the multiplayer-focused Mass Effect spin-off currently in the works at BioWare Montreal. That Mass Effect game is not a massively multiplayer online version of BioWare’s sci-fi RPG series,…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 17, 2010