Report: Kinect Only Cost $56 To Make

The Xbox 360’s fancy motion-sensing camera Kinect may cost you $149, but according to a report from UBM Tech Insights, it costs Microsoft a whole lot less. UBM have got hold of a Kinect, torn it apart to examine each of its components then tracked how much each of them cost. What they found was…

Capcom Rolling Out MotoGP 10/11 In March

Capcom today said the latest installment of its superbike racer, MotoGP 10/11, is under development and due for release in March. Developer Monumental Games is back on the case. Check out this gallery of a dozen screenshots. A news release touted a “brand new customizable player assist feature,” that will tune the game to players’…

Cuddle Party Invite

Man, it’s been kind of a tense day. Let’s shake it all off with a little off-topic conversation, clear the air and… hey, I just had a crazy thought… what about a cuddle party? I’m kidding of course, but the one time I was invited to attend a cuddle party while minding my own business…

This makes me imagine that if I were to quit smoking, Phillip-Morris might send me a free carton of Reds with a lovingly crafted note saying, “we’ve got a new flavor coming out this winter, and we would love it if you would just take our free gift and just make sure whether you want…

Blizzard Offering A Week Of Free Time To Warcraft Apostates

Backsliders in the church of Warcraft are being coaxed back to the flock with an offer of seven free days of gameplay, to whet their appetite for the Cataclysm expansion due in December. Notices are going out to lapsed subscribers now; they promise a week of game time, but the offer expires Dec. 1. World…

Psychonauts Creator Is Totally Ready For A Sequel

Tim Schafer, creative force behind Grim Fandango and Brutal Legend, is ready and willing to give you that Psychonauts sequel you’ve been dreaming of. Now he just needs a publisher to finance the damn thing. When asked by games mag PSM3 about the possibilities of a sequel to 2006’s quirky psychic adventure, Schafer said “I’m…

MotoGP 10/11 Screens

Get Your Mitts On LittleBigPlanet 2’s “Grabinator”

LittleBigPlanet 2’s already brought us grappling hooks, bounce pads, Sackbots, and the Creatinator. Now Media Molecule reveals a fourth tool – the Grabinator, with which Sackboy can pick up carry and even throw massive things of a great weight. The Grabinator replaces an early concept called the “Power Gloves,” but they do the same thing.…

Octodad Proves Raising Kids, Secretly Being An Octopus Ain’t Easy

Loving husband. Caring father. Secret octopus. This is the tagline for Octodad, an adventure game in which players struggle to raise a family, maintain a secret octopus identity and somehow walk upright on tentacles. Created by a team of students at DePaul University for the Independent Games Festival Student Showcase at next year’s Game Developers…

They Died For Mega Man’s 4.0 GPA

If I had the Mega Buster, junior year chemistry would have been so much easier. Two birds, one stone and all that, too. Seen on Dorkly.

Halo Reach, Time, Golf Balls & One Poor Spartan Make An Epic Machine

Halo Reach player and Forge tinkerer “Carnage A51” spent a month in the Xbox 360 game’s level maker, crafting a Rube Goldberg machine with a red letter ending. It may take a while to get there, but it pays off. Warthogs Mongeese and Ghosts toppling like dominoes and slow moving Halo golf balls may test…

Fallout: New Vegas Does Thing On Japan’s Sales Charts

The most exciting new addition to this week’s Japanese game sales chart is the appearance of Fallout: New Vegas. Looks like that “protest” against Japanese role-playing games campaign worked. While Fallout: New Vegas didn’t managed to unseat reigning champ God Eater Burst—or sell better than the Super Mario Bros. collection, Pokemon or Winning Eleven 2011,…

Kinect Sports Launches Facebook App

Rare has built and launched a Kinect Sports application for Facebook, which will keep track of players’ league results, allow them to issue invitations and be invited to others, and collect video highlights in a single place. The application will soon update with the ability to see complete personal stats and records (by event, or…

Turkey, Attorneys and Some Lovely Bruschetta

To: Ash From: Crecente I got a turkey in the mail today. It was an entire turkey, smoked. It came from the smokehouse wizards in New Braunfels, Texas. They are magical with their meats…. Hmmm, that didn’t come out right. I once spent a week in New Braunfels covering a very high-profile murder trial that…

Review: FlingSmash Nearly Lives Up To Its Name

For ten bucks more than the cost of a Wii Remote Plus you can pick up the new Nintendo controller with a copy of FlingSmash, Artoon’s paddle-ball platformer. Is it worth it? Let’s see. FlingSmash is a rather ballsy name for a game on a platform that began life plagued with television-damaging controller throwing. When…

Melt Down The Megacopter In Bionic Commando Rearmed 2

This is how you bring down the Megacopter in Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 – hang on its undercarriage, blast away at the engines and then – jump on a plunger so it shits out a clown car? Well alright. That’s one way to finish off a boss in BCR2. Capcom released the following gallery o’…

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 Characters

Hauser Mag McNamara Sabio Nathan “Radd” Spencer Super Joe

Super Meat Boy Teases New 360 Chapter, New PC Character

Minecraft guy and Captain Viridian of VVVVVV are known to be two of three playable characters exclusive to Super Meat Boy’s upcoming PC version. Team Meat teased the third today; looks like the guest star’s game name rhymes with Shmachinarium. There are three more characters to be revealed, and Team Meat dropped these hints: “One…

de Blob 2 Lets Blob Drink Lead Paint, Be A Morph Ball

Wii hit de Blob is going 2D, HD and stereoscopic 3D when the globose, paint-drenched hero makes his way to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next year. THQ’s Blob also has a few new tricks, including one that made 3D Metroid games more fun. de Blob 2 retains the soft, brightly colored charm of…

Know Mega Man’s Evil Robot Masters

With ten installments of the main Mega Man series and several spinoffs, it’s hard to tell one evil Robot Master from the next. That’s where Udon’s Mega Man Robot Master Field Guide comes in. The Mega Man Robot Master Field Guide, due out in March of next year from frequent Capcom collaborator Udon Entertainment, compiles…