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UncategorizedSuper Meat Boy Claymation Gets It Right On The Very First Try
Few games would seem as suited to claymation as Super Meat Boy; it’s a little surprising it took this long to see him in the medium. By YouTube user iheart2embalm, it’s a virtuoso recreation of the game’s opening cinematic. [Via GoNintendo]
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Things Go Bada-Boom When Joe Barbaro’s In Town
Ultimately, Mafia II suffered from too much imagination and not enough substance; “Jimmy’s Vendetta,” its first paid DLC extension, lacked both. But this trailer for its second, Joe’s Adventures, due Nov. 23, actually looks promising. Jimmy’s Vendetta (like the PS3-only Betrayal of Jimmy) threw us into the persona of an entirely new mob character and…
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Don’t Wipe Your Boots Before Entering
A welcome mat suitable for any New Vegas saloon. Made by commenter WT Crafts (Etsy page). Side effects don’t include kidney damage, nausea, loss of visual acuity, dizziness, nosebleeds, joint inflammation, tooth decay, sore throat, organ rupture and halitosis.
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Forbes Lists Gabe Newell As A Name You Should Know
Being video gamers, you likely are familiar with the Valve co-founder and president. But Forbes, business list-maker extraordinaire, has taken notice and looks to feature Gabe Newell in a December magazine roundup of influential people and concepts. Forbes isn’t doing this because it expects Episode 3 sometime next year. The numbers it likes are 70…
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Original Violent Spectacle Gets Its First Mature Rating
Growing up, I only saw boxing on HBO. With Mike Tyson the premier fighter, it was usually over fast. Anything that wasn’t seems sanitized in low-definition hindsight. That changed the first time I saw a bout fought live. In headgear. It was in February 1997, inside Goettge Memorial Fieldhouse aboard Camp Lejeune at The Armed…
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Scoop Up Some Great Schwag at Access 45
All right players, it’s time to fuel up. The Slurpee brand, the choice elixir of real gamers everywhere, has teamed up with EA and Ubisoft to bring you Access 45, a massive event that includes 45 straight days of kick-ass contests. But you can’t grab anything until you slurp the last sip. You may have…
By Gawkercreative Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Indie Game Makers Unite In “Winter Uprising” On Xbox Live
Declaring an insurrection against “massage apps, clones and garbage,” a ragtag band of indie developers on Xbox Live’s Indie Channel are going all out the first week of December, unleashing 14 games in the “Indie Games Winter Uprising.” The games will be priced between 80 and 400 Microsoft Points (a buck to five bucks) and…
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Predict The Mature Content In Fight Night Champion
Yesterday, EA Sports confirmed that Fight Night Champion will be its first M-rated sports game ever. The sweet science is a dirty business – how far will the game go in presenting that? Right off the bat, I’d say they’re going to stop gimping the lyrics in the soundtracks. It always sounds hideous, but they…
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Box Scores: A Bargain At Twice The Price
Demos aren’t just to try before you buy. Sometimes they can turn in a nailbiting thriller, as one value-seeking Kotaku reader found with FIFA 11’s demo. Wocalax couldn’t pick up the FIFA 11 full copy just yet, and has instead played the game’s demo to fill in the time. The game features only three-minute halves…
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
NBA Jam’s “Mr. Boom-Shakalaka” Calls Some Inappropriate Catch Phrases
Click to viewNBA Jam is known for its zany catch phrases and Tim Kitzrow is best known as the zany announcer delivering them. Asylum got Kitzrow on the phone to deliver seven new lines they wrote. The result is 100 percent fan service. ‘NBA Jam’ Announcer Tests Jam-isms We’d Like to Hear [Asylum]
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Moneysaver: See Red
No snappy puns this time, just a classic, straight up parody of an action movie directed by my good pal Lon Lopez, co-starring my other good pal John – he’s the cop getting the crap kicked out of him. I want them to do a Honeycomb action movie spoof. Opening sequence: Detective walks into the…
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Week In Review: Cuban Mission Crisis
Nearly 50 years after the Bay of Pigs, Cuba’s state-run press still seethes with indignation at any U.S. incursion, real or perceived. In a first, the Communist holdout is outraged at a video game. That would be Call of Duty: Black Ops, which features Fidel Castro in a couple of ways without the island government’s…
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Now This Is A LEGO Game We’ll Never See
There are plenty of game franchises that would be perfect for the LEGO treatment. Halo. Ratchet & Clank. Zelda. But God of War? Hrm. Samir Karmieh’s LEGO Kratos makes us wish the Danish toy giant would at least consider it, though. It could be one great ironic joke (much like most LEGO games are at…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
THQ Says You’ll Find Out About Saint’s Row Movie Soon Enough
An announcement is due in December, the publisher told Gamasutra. THQ is looking to time the film’s release to the next game’s launch, but that’s not a hard commitment this far out. Speaking to Gamasutra, THQ CEO Brian Farrell said the company views its licensing strategy as a means to “build our brand at no…
By Owen Good Published November 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedHow To Piss Off An Entire Nation With One Virtual Bullet
The biggest video game of the year isn’t making any fans in Cuba’s government. Here’s why… About 5.6 million people bought Call of Duty: Black Ops when it went on sale earlier this week. The first-person shooter had a bigger opening than any movie, any video game, any… book. But not everyone was delighted about…
By Brian Crecente Published November 13, 2010 -
ReviewsReview: Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage Is Bloody, But Not A Good Time
Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage is a beat ’em up action game that’s exploding with as much liquid gore as it is fan service, but its monotonous gameplay doesn’t do fans of the manga many favors. Omega Force, the developers of dozens of Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors action games, squeezes the dreary,…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedRemember, Shoot The Hinges
The Call of Duty games are intricately-scripted affairs, ones that rush you along a pre-determined path at a pre-determined pace in order to maintain the illusion of excitement. Step off that ride, and everything falls apart. You could call this single-play griefing, you could call it Call of Duty as art, I just like that…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedYou Can’t Blow Things Up With This Black-Ops Toy, But It’s Still Fun
I’m not sure at what point my test drive of the Call of Duty: Black Ops remote control truck became an attempt to blow things up, but it was easily within the first ten seconds. Of course I didn’t succeed. The RX-XD add-in that comes with the prestige edition of the game certainly looks like…
By Brian Crecente Published November 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Return To Rome And Live The Creed
If there’s anything history has taught us, it’s that even the world’s most monstrous tyrannies are no match for a few menacing deadpan proclamations and a good-hearted band of outcasts. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is out Tuesday.
By Owen Good Published November 12, 2010 -
UncategorizedActually, We Could Lose Los Angeles
Who could use a better alien invasion right about now? And how about a little off-topic conversation to start the weekend right? That’s why we have these posts, folks. While shit blowin’ up in Battle: Los Angeles certainly looks alright, I’ll have to agree with my colleague Owen Good who believes that “Nothing can prepare…
By Michael McWhertor Published November 12, 2010