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Lara Croft & The Guardian Of Light Finally Gets Online Co-op
The newest Tomb Raider game will get a major feature update next week, when developer Crystal Dynamics adds online multiplayer support for Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light. There’s just one little catch. The online co-op patch for Lara’s downloadable game is only coming to the Xbox 360 version next week, on October 27.…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 20, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Sexiest Fallout: New Vegas Collector’s Edition Unboxing You’ll See Today
You’ve seen the Fallout: New Vegas Collector’s Edition. You’ve seen its contents. But you’ve never seen it unboxed quite like this. This potentially NSFW video may change the way you open boxes forever. My fiancée has already told me that this is the wardrobe I’ll be wearing for the next unboxing video she helps me…
By Mike Fahey Published October 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Best Racing Game Apps
When people argue that smartphones are on the level with Playstation or DS portable as gaming platforms, they’ll usually whip out a racing game. With good reason! iOS and Android’s racing games are actually some of their best, period. iOS GOLD MEDAL: Real Racing The best all-rounder in the App Store today, with great graphics,…
By John Herrman Published October 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
God of War Collection Has Its Revenge On PSN Next Month
If you wanted to own the God of War Collection for the PlayStation 3, but couldn’t in good conscience bring that box art into your home, Sony has good news. That pair of PlayStation 2 ports is going digital. The God of War Collection sheds its Blu-ray coil for a PlayStation Store release in North…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
The (Porn) Stars Come Out For Just Dance 2’s Debut
Award-winning American pornographic actress Sasha Grey arrives at last night’s Hollywood launch party for Ubisoft’s Just Dance 2. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
By Mike Fahey Published October 20, 2010 -
UncategorizedYou Will Not Look This Cool Playing Sonic Free Riders
Even if you have an expansive all-white room to play it in, this is not how you will look while playing Sonic Free Riders on Kinect. Perhaps it would help if you had a series of green and purple concentric circles beneath your feet like the Kinect event at GamesCom where Crecente tried out the…
By Mike Fahey Published October 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Angry Birds Is Now From The Makers Of Madden [Update]
Giant games publisher Electronic Arts who you know from playing Dead Space, The Sims, Madden, and so on is buying the publisher of Angry Birds, Chillingo, for $20 million, the LA Times reports. What’s this mean for Angry Birds gamers? Chillingo publishes but doesn’t develop hits such as Angry Birds and Cut The Rope, two…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Apple Thanks Valve, Briefly Acknowledges Mac Gaming
How much of Apple’s 90-minute keynote today is about games? This keynote is all about their computers so… does a few seconds impress you? In the first few minutes of the briefing, Apple chief operation officer Tim Cook name-checked Valve, commending the company for adding the PC company’s Steam service to Mac computers. “This is…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Very Angry Birds Halloween
The special 45-level Halloween-themed standalone Angry Birds game from Rovio is akin to a crack dealer wrapping up rocks in orange Jack-o-Lantern pouches and throwing in some candy corn. Angry Birds once had me sitting in the bathroom for an hour and a half. True story. That’s how addictive the normal version of the game…
By Mike Fahey Published October 20, 2010 -
Uncategorized10 Games Businesses That Are Blessed
Negativity was popular. Let’s see how positivity does. Business blogger Nicholas Lovell is back, following up his list of 10 game businesses that are doomed with 10 (or so) that are getting it very right. Recently, I wrote a post entitled Ten games businesses that are doomed I got a lot of feedback, much of…
Nicholas Lovell Published October 20, 2010 -
UncategorizedChopper 2 Flies From iPhone To iPad To 42 Inch TV
Using a standard Apple component cable and an iPhone 4 as a controller, Majic Jungle Software’s Chopper 2 transforms the iPad into an expensive video game console. There are a handful of games out there that support using the iPhone as a controller for the iPad, but few look quite as gorgeous running on a…
By Mike Fahey Published October 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
There’s A New PlayStation 2 Bundle In Town
The tenth anniversary of the launch of the PlayStation 2 in North America is right around the corner, and the console still sells well enough to warrant a brand new Toy Story 3 bundle from Sony. The $99 Toy Story 3 PlayStation 2 bundle brings together the decade-old console with a copy of Disney Interactive’s…
By Mike Fahey Published October 20, 2010 -
UncategorizedFreezepop Rocks The Rock Band 3 Keyboard
Just how fully-functional is Rock Band 3’s keyboard controller? Synthpop sensations Freezepop are utilizing the peripheral onstage during their current tour, so we asked them. It should come as no surprise that Freezepop has access to the new Rock Band 3 controller in advance of the game’s release. After all, retired founding member Kasson Crooker…
By Mike Fahey Published October 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Fallout New Vegas Patches Coming
We just received comment from Fallout: New Vegas studio Bethesda about reports of bugs in the new game. Patches are coming, they say. We’ve updated our story with a note on one possible immediate fix. Just cross your fingers that this doesn’t happen.
By Stephen Totilo Published October 20, 2010 - Uncategorized
Super Mario Used To Shoot Bullets
The original plan for Super Mario Bros. was for video game’s biggest hero to shoot enemies with bullets rather than toss fireballs at them, according to Mario’s creator. As part of a 25th anniversary celebration of the Nintendo classic, legendary Nintendo designer and Super Mario Bros. lead creator Shigeru Miyamoto explained the change in Mario…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 20, 2010 -
UncategorizedTime Crisis Visual Guide
The Time Crisis series is one of my favorite still-in-existence arcade games. Light gun games are still best played in an arcade. The odd story mode of Time Crisis: Razing Storm has some neat weapons, like the spear gun which can be used to pin enemies to objects… and fish! With canon battles, rapid-fire blunderbuss…
By Brian Crecente Published October 20, 2010
