Build Your Empire In DJ Hero 2

Freestyle Games creative director Jamie Jackson walks us through DJ Hero 2’s Empire Mode, the replacement for the original game’s underwhelming career mode. In the original DJ Hero, you unlocked new venues as you progressed through the game, which was pretty damn boring. Empire Mode in DJ Hero 2 looks to make up for it,…

A Limited Edition Fable III Controller Fit For A King

If you’re planning to rule over Albion as king or queen in Fable III comes in, you’re going to need a controller befitting your lofty station. The official Fable III Limited Edition Wireless Controller should do the trick. It may look a bit gaudy, but such are the trappings of royalty. Artists from Fable III…

Castle Crashers Crashing PAX With A Special Surprise

The Behemoth may be busy pushing Castle Crashers through Sony’s approval process and working on BattleBlock Theater, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have time to work on a very special Castle Crashers treat for fans attending PAX this year. I feel a bit sorry for PlayStation 3 owners eagerly awaiting their chance to purchase…

Mechanical Breakdown: The Inventory

It’s now been a few weeks since I wrote my initial thoughts about the inventory, and I’ve made a few new conclusions from the comments and other articles I’ve researched (thanks to the Critical Distance Game Writing search engine). What follows may rehash some of what I wrote last time, while also exploring the Inventory’s…

It’s Tropico 4 Time Already?

Fresh from the success of last year’s Tropico 3, Kalypso Media and developer Haemimont Games bring El Presidente into the 21st century, adding in Facebook and Twitter functionality into next year’s Tropico 4. With six years between Tropico 2: Pirate Cove and last year’s Tropico 3, you can forgive me for being surprised by the…

Adama Goes Digital In Battlestar Galactica Online

Can the world have too much virtual Edward James Olmos? Bigpoint shows off slightly-creepy character models for the browser-based online game of SyFy hit Battlestar Galactica. You didn’t think they’d make a Battlestar Galactica game without the stars, did you? Bigpoint today reveals that several popular members of the BSG cast have provided their likenesses…

Are You Sure You Don’t Want to Jailbreak Your iPhone?

Reader Paul Brown sent along images of a new iMario theme he created for the iPhone 4. The catch? You’ll need to jailbreak your phone to install it. Makes me wish I had an iPhone 4… a jailbroken iPhone 4. iMario [Mac Themes]

APB Developer Realtime Worlds Hit With Major Layoffs

The studio behind ambitious cops and crooks online game APB and the original Crackdown may be on the verge of closure, according to sources claiming to have knowledge of the situation. But developer Realtime Worlds says it’s “fully committed” to the massively-multiplayer game. Realtime Worlds confirmed “expected redundancies” across multiple department at the studios today,…

DanceDanceRevolution PS3 Will Move You

Dance Central for Kinect might be getting all the attention, but Konami’s DanceDanceRevolution for the PlayStation 3 has a few tricks up its sleeve that could bring the original dance game back into the spotlight, starting with PlayStation Move support. While Dance Central utilizes the strengths of Kinect, DanceDanceRevolution for the PlayStation 3 uses the…

Is This Where Missile Command Goes To Die?

There is nothing more tragic in the world of arcades than a disused classic cabinet sitting in some forgotten place as a glorified table. While prowling the back roads and country towns of New York state earlier this week I discovered a hidden treasure in a home built along the Mahopac lake in the 40s.…

The Lord Of The Rings: War In The North Travels To Germany

The GamesCom trailer for Warner Bros.’ The Lord of the Rings: War in the North fulfills the unwritten rule that every Lord of the Rings video game trailer end with a troll busting through a door. While many Lord of the Rings games have featured completely troll-less trailers, it isn’t a true Rings game until…

My First 30 Minutes With Fallout: New Vegas

The start of Fallout: New Vegas is a good surprise, so stop reading if you don’t want even a hint. Not that the first scene of Fallout: New Vegas makes sense (or hasn’t been alluded to before). The confusion it elicits is intentional. The game begins, as I recently experienced first hand, in first-person perspective,…

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Your First Look at Deus Ex Gameplay

You’ve seen plenty of cinematic trailers, you’ve seen interviews and heard about the aesthetic design of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but they’ve never show you the game in action… until now. The two-and-a-half minute video mashes gameplay with what I’d bet are cinematic pieces, but there’s still a better sense of what the actual gameplay…

Any QuakeCon Photo Gallery Must Include Crazy Computers

You cannot walk through QuakeCon out here in Dallas without spotting a large computer. People drag them in wagons or saunter through the halls of the host hotel with their arms in a personal-computer embrace. Let’s start with this beast: This was the largest rig I saw in the Bring Your Own Computer section of…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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Check Out Crysis 2, Medal of Honor and Dragon Age 2 At Gamescom

Electronics Arts is bringing quite a line-up of games to Germany’s Gamescom next week, packing their booth with the likes of Crysis 2, Darkspore, Dragon Age 2 and Medal of Honor. The booth will also have Darkspore, FIFA 11, FIFA Manager 11, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Rock Band 3, The Sims 3 on console…

Look What I Made! (My Wife Helped)

To: Everyone From: Luke I know there’s been GamesCom to organise, and QuakeCon to cover, and I know I’m at home doing neither, but boy have I been busy nonetheless. Probably has something to do with this little lady, who is now one week old. Phew. What a week. These little humans are hard work!…

The First Rule Of Smash Bros. Is, You Do Not Talk About Smash Bros.

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The Next Tony Hawk Game Is For Kids

Recently in New York it was Gabe who showed me the next Tony Hawk video game, Tony Hawk Shred. Gabe did a great job, especially for someone who would be happy to be paid in toys. Gabe is seven. The next Tony Hawk game is for kids, kids like Gabe. It is called Tony Hawk…