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Japanese Box Art Reigns Supreme (The Metroid: Other M Edition)
If you can speak the language – or justify spending big money on a game box – check out Japan’s fancy slip-cover edition of Metroid: Other M. You can dress or undress her face as often as you like, with a neat sliding cover meaning you can swap between casual attire Samus and Power Suit…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
APB Developer’s Social Game Project Snapped Up By Mystery Buyer
Realtime Worlds, the U.K. developer of cops-and-robbers title APB, has entered administration, which is somewhat analogous Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in the U.S. While the firm’s administrator is looking for a buyer for the studio’s recent massively-multiplayer-online game APB, it has now sold a social gaming project it was working on called MyWorld. The project…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Armored Core Figure Continues A Long Tradition Of Pointy Machines
Even if you don’t like the Armored Core series as a series, you have to admit, those giant mechs look pretty cool. And toys based on those giant mechs are pretty great, too. This is Evangel’s CREST CR-C89E ORACLE VER. (the caps is theirs, I’m not that excited), which stands 7.5 inches tall and will…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Life As A Pixel Shouldn’t Be So Rough
Multiplayer gaming is hard enough when you can talk to your colleagues, but trying to achieve some kind of cohesion with zero communication? It’s madness. Yet that’s what the aim of Swarmation is. You’re thrown into a multiplayer scenario in which you control a single pixel. There are dozens of other pixels, controlled by other…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Gary Oldman And Ed Harris In Call Of Duty: Black Ops
Hollywood stars Gary Oldman and Ed Harris are lending their vocal talents to the upcoming Call of Duty, publisher Activision has revealed. Oldman will be reprising his role as Viktor Reznov from Call of Duty: World at War. Oldman’s film credits include Sid & Nancy, The Professional and The Dark Knight, among many more like…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Shopping With Class
After ten years, San Francisco’s PlayStation Store closed. Fret not! In Japan, the PlayStation shopping experience lives on. As detailed last fall with blurry pics and layout plans, Japanese retailer Labi rolled out redone PlayStation sections for its Ikebukuro branch. The PlayStation concept store provides customers with a throughly stylish and classy PS buying experience…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Wii Remote Suited For Doctor Who
Playing a Doctor Who Wii game with a Wii-Remote could be fun. This is better. This fall, the British sci-fi series is getting a Wii title called Doctor Who: Return To Earth. The BBC has teamed with a peripheral maker to create a Sonic Screwdriver Wii controller. A Sonic Screwdriver stylus will also be released…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 7, 2010 -
UncategorizedWatch A PS3 Get Cracked By Two Mobile Phones And A Calculator
There’s a reason Sony wants so badly to block jailbreak device’s access: now that the code for the things is out there, people were using everything from mobile phones to calculators to get at their PlayStation 3s. In these videos, you’ll see variants of the PSGroove being run on the Nokia N900, a Palm Pre…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Super Mario Bros. Gets 25th Anniversary Logo
This year is the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. Time for a special logo. Kyoto-based Nintendo has filed a trademark for the pictured anniversary logo. This is it. The logo could be used in the Super Mario All-Stars reissue or any other merchandise Nintendo is planning for this year. For the game’s 20th anniversary,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
To BioShock Infinite, And Beyond!
BioShock Infinite looked pretty great from what we saw in its cinematic trailer. Now let’s now see how the in-game shots stand up. It’s bloomy! And also delightfully colourful, the dank, depressing depths of Rapture giving way to something so cheery Nintendo would be proud to race little karts around it. Here are two screens;…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Week In Comments
3D Blu-ray Playback For PS3 Delayed Comment by: Mancomb Seepgood Nominated by: Callabrantus just felt a great disturbance in the force, as if 0.5% of PS3 owners cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. The Week In Review: Kicking A Hurricane’s Ass, Chewing An Earthquake’s Bubblegum Comment by: Ninelight Nominated by: Pete This morning,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Sony Blocks PS3 Jailbreak Devices Via Firmware Update
Well, that didn’t take long. Sony has just pushed out a firmware update for the PlayStation 3, with users reporting that it “breaks” devices like the PSJailbreak Able to circumvent the PlayStation 3’s copy protection and allow users to run games installed to a hard drive, a flood of these jailbreak contraptions have hit markets…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Fable Creator, Rare Wanted Kinect To Have A Controller
Microsoft’s Kinect doesn’t need a controller. That’s the whole point of the thing! Still, a controller-free gaming experience is a hard idea to get your head around, which perhaps explains why Peter Molyneux and Rare asked Microsoft to include one. “We were absolutely adamant that we needed a button, something with haptic feedback, that would…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 7, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s Next Console Will Leave You With Your Mouth Open
Is your mouth open? If it’s closed, watch out, because Nintendo’s next console will make you all slack jawed. But relax, we’re a few years off. Go ahead, shut your yapper. Whether it’s been portables, controllers or even 3D, Nintendo has been a trailblazer. And according to Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto, that doesn’t look like…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 6, 2010 -
UncategorizedSeems Google’s Designers Played A Lot Of Gauntlet
Google’s Android platform has a cute little robot logo, but what’s this? The inspiration behind it is not, as I first thought, Metal Mickey, but is actually a Gauntlet game? Oh, this is too good. Take a look at the video below, for Gauntlet: The Third Encounter. It’s not just the appearance that’s similar, it’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Have Your Revenge On Nintendo’s Virtual Boy
For all its cult appeal, people sometimes forget why the Virtual Boy failed: because it sucked, and worse, because it caused us physical pain. It’s time to get one back on the cruel little hndheld, by ripping its guts out. iFixit got their hands on one of the old things, and rather than cherish it…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2010 -
UncategorizedMonaco, A Four-Player Video Game Heist, In Action
We recently reported that Independent Games Festival grand-prize-winning heist game Monaco was given a graphical makeover. Now you can see it in action, with game developer Andy Schatz providing play-by-play. I shot this video at the Penny Arcade Expo while Andy narrated. Four people played the game, using Xbox 360 controllers, while sitting on a…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 6, 2010 - Uncategorized
Uncharted Voice Actor’s Mysterious Project Is Uncharted DLC
We’ve heard back from Sony about today’s report that a key Uncharted voice-actor is doing new Uncharted recordings. Emily Rose, voice of Elena Fisher, is in L.A. recording voice-work with Uncharted 2 development studio Naughty Dog for some downloadable content.
By Stephen Totilo Published September 6, 2010