A Kid With a Gun! A Teddy Bear With a Gun! A Party With Lots of Guns!!!

How did nobody get pistol-whipped at Capcom’s Dead Rising 2 Los Angeles party? I figure you leave that much duct tape, axes and pistols lying around in downtown LA, something bad is bound to happen. I figured wrong. Thanks to reader itsjono for going to the big event and videoing the whole thing.

Frankenreview: Halo: Reach

Is Bungie’s final game in the Halo series a masterpiece, or is that a bit of a reach? We turn to a crack squad of video game reviewers for the answer. It’s been a long road from Halo: combat Evolved to Halo: Reach, and along the way Bungie has done a lot of growing. This…

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Apple’s Game Center Launches — Let the Battle For Bragging Rights Begin

If there was ever any doubt that Apple was serious about making a splash in the world of gaming, then the launch of its new online social gaming service Wednesday should certainly put those doubts to rest. Apple just made playing iPhone and iPod Touch games with other people a whole lot easier with the…

Hidden Gems: Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to run an item shop in a Japanese role-playing game? EasyGameStation’s Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the fast-paced world of RPG commerce. Capitalism, ho! Ever since Recettear appeared on Steam last week, fans of the game have been bugging us to give…

Professor Layton and the Unwound Future Review: Riddle Me This

Take part in a thoroughly polite time-traveling conundrum with the newest adventure of Professor Hershel Layton and his puzzle-solving ward Luke in Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, a charming, thought-provoking British adventure. In the Unwound Future, Layton, Luke and a handful of hangers-on jump from decade to decade to solve the mystery of a…

Have Halo: Reach Early? Go Ahead and Play

Bungie tweets that they won’t be banning people for playing a legit copy of Halo: Reach online early. I’m sure the 30,000 or so people already playing will be happy to hear that.

Company Of Heroes Designer’s Widow Tells Her Story

Erin Wood, the widow of Company of Heroes Online lead designer Brian Wood who died tragically in a car crash earlier this month, appeared on NBC’s Today this morning to discuss the accident and how she’s coping with her loss. Click to view Seeing Erin talk about the accident that claimed Brian Wood’s life earlier…

Game Obsessed Woman Neglects Children, Kills Dogs

When officers arrived at a house in Swanley, Kent, earlier this year to investigate appalling conditions reported by a neighbor, the game obsessed homeowner’s two dogs had been decomposing in the dining room for two months. The unidentified 33-year-old widow living at the residence with her three children tried to bar officers from entering the…

Remember Reach… With These Nifty Wallpapers

Remember Halo: Reach before you even play it with these nifty wallpapers created by Gizmodo’s talented contributing illustrator Sam Spratt Here are the full size images if you’d like to use them: Remember Reach Creating Remember Reach Remember Reach Black Remember Reach Text Free And don’t forget to check out our full review of Halo:…

The Hook Brings You Back To LittleBigPlanet 2

In LittleBigPlanet 2’s Adventures of the Amazing Grappling Hook, Media Molecule demonstrates once again how anything can be greatly improved by strategic application of a grappling hook. It’s true! The grappling hook is the ultimate accessory, whether you’re a sackboy or a movie character that never actually touched a grappling hook during the film you…

The Nintendo Download: Staying Out Of Harm’s Reach

This week’s Nintendo Download features three games that probably won’t suffer much from tonight’s midnight release of Halo: Reach, along with the long-awaited tan version of Nnoo’s myNotebook. Rejoice! After working on the Nintendo Download just about every week since Nintendo started offering downloadable titles, you start to see trends. For instance, when a huge…

Nvidia GeForce GTS 450, GeForce GTS 450 SLI and Palit GTS 450 Sonic Platinum Review

Nvidia landed an astounding blow to AMD last July pulling the GeForce GTX 460 out of nowhere and quickly taking the lead as the best mid-range graphics card on the market. It’s only been a few weeks since and the 768MB version of this card can now be had for as little as $170, crushing…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

You can haz conversations about gamez and stuffz here. Good job, Riktor! Let’s see your images for Talk Amongst Yourselves. Submit them at #TAYpics

Halo: Reach Delivers The Pinnacle Halo Experience

It is, perhaps, the ultimate compliment. Having spent much of a Friday last week locked away in my media room playing Halo: Reach for work, for a review, I returned to it over the weekend to play through the game a second time for fun. Later this week I plan to spend another couple of…

We Have Arrived In Tokyo

To: Crecente From: Ashcraft Hello! I am currently in Chiba — not Tokyo — and am watching British television at our hotel. I like British television. It is fantastic. What you missed last night Japan Censoring Call Of Duty’s Blown Off Body Parts See The Xbox 360’s New Dashboard In Action Well, The 3DS Is…

Japan Censoring Call Of Duty’s Blown Off Body Parts

In The Land of the Rising Sun, there are two versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops. One is subtitled. One is dubbed. Both do not have have blown-off body parts. The game has been slapped with a CERO Z rating, which is the Japanese equivalent of an Adults Only rating. However, unlike AO, Japanese…

This Part Of Final Fantasy XIV Seems Familiar

There has been chatter that Final Fantasy XIV features terrain that has been copied and pasted throughout in-game maps. But, does it? Have a look a these Final Fantasy XIV maps. Each select that is repeated is marked with a corresponding circle, square, whatever and see what parts of FFXIV appear to be copied and…

Three New Street Fighter 3DS Screens

Capcom reckons that the 3DS version of Street Fighter IV will be a “perfect port”. In terms of gameplay, of course, not graphics. Nintendo’s new handheld may look great for a handheld, but expecting 360/PS3 graphics from the thing is a bit much. While these screens may look a little jaggy, remember, the same rule…

Resident Evil Movie Goes #1 At The Box Office

The fourth Resident Evil movie, Afterlife, opened in the US over the weekend, and went straight to the top of the box office charts. Now, killjoys will point out that it opened competing against, well…practically nothing. And that, being a 3D movie, its inflated ticket prices blew out its box office takings. But it’s too…