I am a Sgt in the US Army and i find this absolutely ridiculous. Playing video games is a great solace after a long day in the field or even after a convoy. I have personally seen combat and have no problem with combat related games. If i where still in Iraq and AAFES was…

DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue Trailer

What’s all this about powerful, mythic thongs created by a master craftsman? It’s the introductory story for DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue of course. In this video we learn about the six noble thongs and how they corrupted those who wore them.

LET’S GET EXCITED FOR TGS

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Been doing TGS stuff today — getting ready for next week. Can you believe TGS is next week? Can you? It should be a fun show. I like the Tokyo Game Show! What you missed last night LEGO + Nintendo Games = Mind Blown Gary Oldman And Ed Harris In Call…

Call Of Duty And Hollywood Go Way Back

Call of Duty is no stranger to Hollywood. While a couple of big time movie stars are going to do voice work in the upcoming Black Ops, this is far from a first for the series. There have been rumblings of a possible Call of Duty movie. Those rumblings were followed up by comments from…

Yep, An Ewok In A Delorean

As part of a promotion for Telltale’s Back to the Future game. As seen on CNET via Bleeding Cool

Once Upon A Time In Armadillo

By Adam Sidwell. Click to embiggen, it’ll make more sense. As seen on Super Punch

LEGO + Nintendo Games = Mind Blown

This is a sequel of sorts to 2009’s amazing “8-Bit Trip”, by Swedes remdreglade. They’re back, with a new name (Ninja Moped) and a mind-blowing series of “gameplay” videos of NES games made with nothing but LEGO. As an added bonus, the clips double as trivia contests. Can you name every game you see before…

Buggy Tales Game Ported To PS3

Wii title Tales of Graces was so buggy that the game had to be recalled. A ported (and no doubt refined and hopefully bug-free version) is coming to the PS3. The PS3 version is dubbed “Tales of Graces f” and features new in-game content and a rounded out story. The game also comes with codes…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

America’s Best Zombie Crew

We’re not sure the exact moment Left 4 Dead 2 cosplay took a turn towards choreograph city, but we like it (thanks Jose!)

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…

Watch 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…

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,…

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;…

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,…