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UncategorizedA Visual Guide To Enslaved: Odyssey To The West
Andy Serkis, the lead voice and body-acting talent behind Ninja Theory’s Heavenly Sword and Enslaved acting as the digital Gollum in The Lord of the Rings. Heavenly Sword, Enslaved studio Ninja Theory’s 2007 debut PlayStation 3 game. Monkey and Trip in Enslaved: Odyssey To The West Devil May Cry, the next game from the people…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report: New Gaming Hardware Revealed Today Via MTV
According to a very cryptic report from Gaming Age, a “major consumer electronics company” will unveil a new “gaming related” product today. And they’ll do so tonight, via MTV. That report claims that MTV reality show Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory will see the unveiling (or “teasing”) of a new product—hardware? software? a combination of both?—from…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
DC Universe Online Knocked Into Early 2011
Not even the combined powers of all of DC’s super heroes could keep Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online from being pushed back to early 2011, but new beta testing details cast light to the game’s blackest night. A fall release for DC Universe seemed like the sort of unlikely scenario you’d only find in…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Game About Insurgency
The sounds of guns echoed throughout Al-Assad Library Book Exhibition in Damascus, Syria. The guns weren’t tangible, but virtual. The conflict, however, was from real life. It was late 2000, and a crowd gathered around the television set that was running first-person-shooter Under Ash. The game’s designer, Radwan Kasmiya, thought all those long hours he…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
iTunes Chart Toppers: Angry Birds Have Taken Over My Home
Last week I made the mistake of gifting Angry Birds to my wife’s iPhone. She hasn’t stopped playing since. Please help… Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com) $0.99 21 1 2 Super Monkey Ball 2 (Sega) $.99 1 — 3 Call…
By Brian Crecente Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
How Are Gamers Hurting Themselves?
Between January 1, 2004 and January 1, 2009, 696 gaming-related injuries were reported in the United States. How are gamers hurting themselves? Researchers from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia gathered together data on five years of gaming-related injuries in an attempt to identify how gamers are getting hurt while playing their games. Polling the National…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
Who Wants To Play Disc Golf With Death?
A trio of sinister skeletal figures joins the cast of Sony’s PlayStation Move sports game this week, as the Haunted Pack brings the undead back to Sports Champions. I say back, because when the PlayStation Move first debuted at E3 in 2009, we were shown a tech demo that starred a skeleton. The person demonstrating…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2010 -
UncategorizedUnreal Engine Powers Upcoming Tower Defense of the Ancients iPhone, iPad Game
Surprise! Dungeon Defenders, which seems to combine the best of tower defense games with the combat of Defense of the Ancients, is also coming to mobile platforms. Due out later this year on Xbox Live Arcade, the Playstation Network and PC, this video shows Dungeon Defenders being played on two iPhone 4s, an iPad and…
By Brian Crecente Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s Former Mommy Helps Create Kiddy Cities
Last week Cammie Dunaway left the gaming industry after three years as Nintendo’s executive vice president of sales and marketing. Where is Cammie going? She’s taken on a role that will generate countless jobs for children 13 and under. Now that she’s left Nintendo, Cammie Dunaway tells GamesBeat’s Dean Takahashi that she has become the…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download: Revenge Of The Belly Dancer
It’s a banner week for the Nintendo Download, as the sequel to a belly dancing half-genie platformer for the Game Boy Color becomes the priciest DSiWare title yet. In 2002, WayForward Technologies released Shantae for the Game Boy Color. It was a strong platformer, following young half-genie Shantae on a quest to recover a prototype…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Another terrific reader-submitted TAY image starts the week right. After admiring it, please talk here about video games. This is your forum, game-loving people. Submit your best image riffs for Talk Amongst Yourselves over at #TAYpics. Great work, reader Sandorasbox, on today’s effort!
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
Modern Games Struggle With Modern Warfare
Last week Electronic Arts found out the hard way that video games’ latest four letter word is actually seven letters long. News that the publisher’s upcoming modern military first-person shooter was going to be set in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, based on real engagements that pitted U.S. soldiers against Taliban fighters, hit without raising…
By Brian Crecente Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
Today Is….
To: Crecente From: Ash It’s Monday! A new week! Who’s excited? What you missed last night The Game Could Have Smelled Like Blood Microsoft Japan Employee Arrested For Fondling A Schoolgirl This Year’s Oktoberfest Is Odd Katamari Creator Has A New Company, Still Making Games Is The PSPgo Too Small For Your Hands?
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Hits In December
Forget 2011. Blizzard said today that the next expansion to World of Warcraft will be released on December 7. That’s World of Warcraft: Cataclysm for PC and Mac, in an otherwise barren video game December. Cataclysm is the third expansion to World of Warcaft, following the blockbuster releases of World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade and…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
Helen Mirren Is Already Fit, Knows How To Party
Nintendo has had its fair share of celebrity pitch ladies. There’s been Nicole Kidman, Liv Tyler and Beyonce. The United Kingdom is getting the The Queen. Not the real queen, but Dame Helen Mirren, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Her Majesty in the 2006 film The Queen. Mirren will be shilling Wii…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2010 -
UncategorizedBar Girl Game Gets Erotic Game Knock-Off
Dream C Club is not an adult game. But, there are elements in Xbox 360 title that smack of an eroge (erotic game) Custom Maid 3D, on the other hand, is an adult game as far as we know. Like Dream C Club, it is set in a night club and features maid outfits and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
Gears Of War Devs Reckon Future PlayStation, Xbox Will Be Portable
Epic Games, video game engine tycoons and the developers behind Gears of War, have a vision for the future. And that vision includes Xboxes and PlayStations that you can unplug from your TV and carry around with you. They don’t mean handhelds, like the 3DS or PSP. Think more along the lines of something like…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2010 -
UncategorizedThis Is Where DS Games Come From
Contrary to popular belief, Nintendo DS games are not made when two Game Boy Advance games love each other very much. They’re made in factories. Like this one! Look at those machines go. Sorting, spinning, packing, spinning…fascinating. You really need to watch this 2-3 times, to let the action really wash over you. UPDATE –…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2010 - Uncategorized
These Boys Have Irked Idol Game Fans
The upcoming entry in Namco Bandai’s idol simulator franchise features a boy band. Some fans of THE iDOLM@STER do not want a boy band in the game. They’re not happy. It’s not only that Namco Bandai has shoehorned a boy band into THE iDOLM@STER 2 — it removed four female characters from the game to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2010