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Let This Be The Lone Uncharted Kart Racer
Thanks to the PlayStation 3’s ModNation racers, game developers who might dream of detouring their best series into the Mario Kart genre can instead just make, say, an Uncharted ModNation track. The official Uncharted mods are now available for all. Developers from Uncharted studio Naughty Dog have made an official bundle of ModNation DLC: ModNation…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
Super Meat Boy Creators Say ‘Fuck You’ To The DLC System With ‘Teh Internets’
Team Meat, the makers of upcoming Xbox Live Arcade release Super Meat Boy, have devised a way to deliver downloadable levels to their bloody, meaty indie platformer, all for free. They call it “Teh Internets.” This unlockable chapter in Super Meat Boy grants players of the XBLA game the option to download future chapters, to…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
Sackboy Invades The Kingdom Of Dotnia
On the same day LittleBigPlanet 2 is delayed a feature update for Atlus’ 3D Dot Game Heroes brings a special guest to the retro land of Dotnia. From one creativity fueled PlayStation 3 exclusive to another, LittleBigPlanet’s Sackboy makes his Dotnia debut in today’s feature update for 3D Dot Game Heroes. Sackboy is not alone…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
Facebook Malfunction Spawns FarmVille Panic, Schadenfreude
Facebook is not working well right now. It’s down for a lot of folks. That means FarmVille crops may be dying. And that means some people are upset. Others are laughing. Let’s go to Twitter to survey the immediate reaction:
By Stephen Totilo Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
A New Halo Game Every Three Years Is Not Enough
Microsoft wants key entries in the Halo series to make their way to your Xbox 360 a little faster, increasing the frequency of the standard three year cycle developer Bungie was known for. But just how frequent? Phil Spencer, VP at Microsoft Game Studios, tells IGN that “one Halo game every three years – which…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 23, 2010 -
UncategorizedHalo: Reach Armor Lock Not Quite As Useful In Real Life
If you could have any of Halo: Reach’s new armor abilities in real life, would you choose armor lock? Watch this video before answering. I would have chosen active camo myself, but then I am the sort of suspicious character who could benefit from being invisible once in awhile. Jet pack would finish second, followed…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
Ninja Gaiden Developers Have A New Vision
Ninja Gaiden 3 is coming, under the direction of Yosuke Hayashi, a Team Ninja veteran who now heads the Japanese development studio responsible for that series and the latest Metroid. His team has a vision. This is it: In a new clip, partially screencapped here, Hayashi introduces fans to the new Team Ninja website. He…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
Oh No It’s A Mr. Bill iPhone Game
Capcom resuscitates a 34-year-old Claymation Saturday Night Live joke in Mr. Bill for the iPhone. One would think that after more than three decades being abused by Mr. Sluggo and Mr. Hand the Claymation family man Mr. Bill would have wised up. Sadly that is not the case. The hero of the clay has fallen…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 -
ReviewsSwords Review: It Slices, It Dices, It Sucks
Of all the ways to play using motion-detecting video games, swordplay seems to offer the most potential for fun. The give and take of fencing and Kendo seem like easy rules to mimic in a video game and the slashing motion of using your sword to attack and block seem like the sort of big…
By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
‘Replayability’ Might Be A Bad Word
I wish people would stop using the word “visceral” when they talk about video games. It conveys nothing to me. Writer Ben Abraham is enraged by a different word: “replayability.” In a recent essay his essay he tears into “replayability” a word, he says in a semi-ironically, is “what is fucking wrong with videogames.” He…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
Football Mario Doesn’t Appreciate Mushroom Trash Talk
Compare him to a video game plumber all day long; all it does is make Houston Texans defensive end Mario Williams tackle Washington Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb harder. Just because the Houston team’s stadium regularly flashes a Super Mario Bros. cartoon on its jumbotron doesn’t mean it is okay to taunt Mario Williams with mushroom-related…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
Explore The Future Of Gaming At BAF Game 2010
The creative minds behind games like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Fable III, and Brink convene in November at the Bradford Animation Festival in Bradford, West Yorkshire, to discuss the future of gaming, and everybody’s invited! BAF Game is the video game arm of the annual Bradford Animation Festival, organized in partnership with the University…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Sound And The Fury Of Fallout: New Vegas
Players will be running into plenty of things they want to shoot in the New Vegas wastes. The second Fallout: New Vegas developer diary shows off plenty of ways to kill them. You can keep your steampunk; post-apocalyptic weapons are where it’s at. The developers at Obsidian Entertainment channelled the 50’s sci-fi mindset in New…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
An Open Letter From A Former Bungie VP to Bobby Kotick
While perhaps not seen in the full context of his talk at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch conference, Activision head Bobby Kotick‘s comments about Bungie did create quite a stir last week. It is worth your time to go listen to the full 40-minute or so talk here, but the thing that captured so…
By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2010 - Uncategorized
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
