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Fake Gene Simmons Ushers Fake Guitar Into Hard Rock Hall Of Fame
Kiss super-fan Kevin Curtis welcomes the first gaming guitar into the Hard Rock Hall of Fame, celebrating the imminent launch of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Is The Official Final Fantasy XIV PC Controller
While Final Fantasy XIV works splendidly with a wired Microsoft controller, it does not exactly scream “Final Fantasy.” One can hear this official Final Fantasy XIV controller from Sunflex screaming from a mile away. First unveiled at GamesCom last month the official Final Fantasy XIV controller has more of a PlayStation aesthetic to it. It…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 -
UncategorizedI Rapped As Snoop Dogg For You
The self-conscious games reporter does not rap in public. He raps at home, with a preview build of Def Jam Rapstar, video-camera activated. But then, though he might regret it later, he shares the videos with you. During my vacation last week I agreed to test whether my enjoyment of rap music and my enjoyment…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 23, 2010 -
UncategorizedNew Bulletstorm Media Kicks You In The Face With Its Giant Feet
What is it with Epic games and GIANT BOOTS? Does everyone in the dark, gun-riddled, post-apocalyptic future suffer from severe orthopaedic ailments? And if so, who makes them? Was Marcus Fenix once a cobbler?
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
UncategorizedPeter Molyneux’s Son Calls Out Valve On Half-Life 3 Delay
Perhaps calls out is too harsh a phrase. Really Lucas Molyneux just asks, almost begs, Valve’s Gabe Newell for more details on the perpetually not-finished Half-Life 3 All the while Peter Molyneux, creator of Black & White, Magic Carpet, and Fable, peppers his son with advice and questions like, “What would you say to the…
By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2010 -
UncategorizedI Like This Team Fortress 2 Mod’s Pepper Sauce!
This is such a great idea I can’t believe this is the first I’m hearing of it: it’s a Team Fortress 2 mod where one team plays as a team, and the other team plays as Saxton Hale. That’s about the gist of it. The Red Team plays as normal, the Blue “Team” is a…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Game Menus Of The Future Will Be In 3D
We know games are going 3D, but did you ever stop to wonder what would happen to game menus? Scaleform are some of the development community’s unsung heroes, responsible for the user interfaces and menu systems for many of today’s biggest games. In this clip, they demonstrate how those menus will look runing in 3D,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
Happy 121st Birthday, Nintendo!
Irrational Games was founded in 1997. Lucasarts in 1982. Sega in 1940. Each of those three companies may feel like old-timers relative to their field, but they’ve got nothing on Nintendo, which todaycelebrates its 121st birthday Yes, it was on September 23, 1889 that Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a company that at the time specialised in…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
(LEGO) Thor Is Here!
While Blizzard and LEGO continue to sleep on what would surely be a trillion-dollar industry, it’s left to fans to come up with their own brick-based creations based on Starcraft II. This amazing Thor was put together by the talented Sven Junga, who has left no detail unattended in recreating Starcraft II’s most Austrian of…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
In This Case, Video Games ARE Art
Artist Jon Hansen walked into a second-hand store, saw a pile of awful Thomas Kinkade rip-offs, and had an idea: to make them better. By adding some Street Fighter. And Space Harrier. They’re part of a larger series called “Cross-Cultural Contamination”, which also stars Godzilla and Cobra Commander. So, yeah. Awesome. You can even buy…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
Woman Charged With Using WoW “To Entice An Underage Person Into Sexual Activity”
Angie L. Jenkins told a boy she played World of Warcraft with that she was 21. She’s actually 35. He told her he was 20. He was actually 15. You know where this is going. After meeting in 2009, the pair developed a relationship that began online, moved to phone conversation and ultimately ended with…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
UncategorizedSee Super Street Fighter IV’s New Boys In Action
Yun and Yang, the two new characters in the Japanese arcade release of Super Street Fighter IV, are going at it in this gameplay footage. We know, their opponents aren’t fighting back; it’s training room stuff, designed to show off the pair’s moves, especially their ultras. Ultras, artwork and images of Yun & Yang in…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
These Dreamcasts, They Are Glorious
Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah. Whoah Artist Torsten Rachu likes to airbrush stuff, consoles included, but even his finest work on current-gen systems pales in comparison to what he’s doen with four Dreamcasts. Long gone the console may be, but seeing a full-body Jet Set Radio piece on one of the old beasts…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
Professor Layton Covers Up New York Metro’s Sex Issue
The sharp-eyed bloggers over at Aggrogate noticed something amiss with today’s issue of freebie New York newspaper Metro. Instead of a sexy cover for the pub’s Sex Issue, the Metro was wrapped with a faux cover dedicated to the panic in London caused by puzzles. That’s right, Nintendo took over the New York paper with…
By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2010 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy XIV MMO Log Prologue: Character Creation
They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with character creation. You might recall the four-part MMO log we did earlier this year leading up to our review of Star Trek Online. Well we’re doing it again, and by we I mean me, for Final Fantasy XIV. Kicking things off is a video of…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
Photography Returns To Dead Rising
When Frank West departed at the end of Dead Rising, so too did the game’s amusing photography mode, which is absent from Dead Rising 2. Now that Frank’s back in Dead Rising 2: Case West, so too is the picture-taking. In an interview with Dead Rising 2’s Rob Barrett, Eurogamer asked about the possibility of…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Project Milo Canceled
Fable developer Lionhead Studios’ ambitious Milo project for Xbox 360’s Kinect add-on may have finally been put to bed. Sources claiming to have knowledge of the tech demo’s development tell Kotaku that Project Milo has been effectively shut down. That same source indicates that the technology that powered Project Milo—which has also been referred to…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 23, 2010