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UncategorizedThe Vulture Is Circling Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
In normal Spider-Man continuity, a burglar Peter Parker lets escape kills his Uncle Ben. In Spider-Man Noir continuity, former circus freak Adrian Toomes, a.k.a. the Vulture, eats Uncle Ben. You can avenge the Vulture’s dinner in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. Technically Spider-Man Noir already took care of vengeance, killing the Vulture in issue four after the…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
How an Army of Junkies and Kids Enriches Tech Titans
The company behind Farmville is sealing a deal with Google and has been embraced by Apple and Facebook. That such companies would associate themselves with the exploitation of children and financially depleted addicts is alarming, even in hyper-aggressive Silicon Valley. There’s no question Zynga is on a roll. Despite a scandal over the scammy commercial…
By Ryan Tate Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Three Solutions For This Super Scribblenauts Problem
Nouns can solve problems in Super Scribblenauts, as you can can see in the first two solutions to this challenge level in next month’s DS game. But so can a noun connected to just the right adjective.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Hellboy Director To Make Video Games With THQ
Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo Del Toro is bringing his creative vision to bear on the games industry. Last week he teased a “big deal with a big company.” According to the LA Times, that big company is THQ. We reported on Del Toro’s plans to enter the game industry last week, after he…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Really Bad Games: Satan Vs. Jesus
From the creators of adult-themed adventure game Bonetown comes the Flash game Satan Vs. Jesus, subtitled “Good VS Evil in an Epic Battle to Get Laid,” and it’s wrong in so many ways. Needless to say, this Flash game, available now at Newgrounds, is very not safe for work. Hippie surfer Jesus and throaty Satan…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Scott Pilgrim’s Easter Egg Hunt Trailer Hands Out Achievements
This isn’t just a fantastic trailer for a (I hope) fantastic movie, it’s also a bit of a game. Watch the trailer and click on things in the video to get more details about the movie. The trailer tracks your score and awards you with achievements and more videos. Pretty friggin great. Click to view
By Brian Crecente Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Multiplayer Beta Is A GameStop Exclusive
Want to get into the North American Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood PlayStation 3 pre-launch multiplayer beta test this September? Then you’re going to have to preorder the game through GameStop. Ubisoft and GameStop have teamed up to provide players who reserve Brotherhood through the retailer exclusive access to the pre-launch multiplayer beta test for the game,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Halo Reach Afterhours at GameStop
GameStop, Microsoft and pro-gamer Tom “Tsquared” Taylor will be showing off some new Halo Reach footage and sharing some tips and tricks for the game at an event this Friday. The Halo Reach: Afterhours Event will also include a glimpse at the Xbox 360 game’s new Firefight mode. Hit up this site to check out…
By Brian Crecente Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
LittleBigPlanet 2 Has A Story Mode Too
Media Molecule and Sony have been focusing on LittleBigPlanet 2’s versatile game creation tools, but as this latest trailer shows, it’ll also have a deep adventure mode, and that adventure mode has grappling hooks. Those of us who don’t have the time to create and share will be happy to hear that LittleBigPlanet 2 will…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Policing Inappropriate StarCraft II Maps Because They Can
Unlike the original StarCraft, Blizzard is reviewing player-made maps for StarCraft II, deleting those they deem inappropriate. When players in the forums ask why, Blizzard responds, “Because we can.” The deletion of the custom StarCraft II map “Ultimate Tank Defence” from Battle.net due to inappropriate content prompted the map’s author to question Blizzard’s actions in…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
400 Turns Of Civilization V
This preview of Civilization V is incomplete. It takes more than nine Earth hours, you see, for the great Arabian empire — land of Mecca, Rio De Janeiro and Beijing — to assume dominance of the globe. It takes more than 400 turns of Civilization V to finish one playthrough set on a “small” world,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Chinatown Arcade, An Unlikely Place For Tolerance
For 30 years Chinatown Fair Video Arcade has stood at 8 Mott Street in New York City’s Chinatown, entertaining gamers. Despite its age, it also stands as an environment for LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) youth to just be themselves. While the world of gaming has labored to deal with the gay question, Chinatown Fair…
By Aulistar Mark Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
EyeToy Creator Says Controller-Free Is “Limited”
Sony’s R&D wizard Dr. Richard Marks has two impressive entries on his resume: Creating the PlayStation EyeToy motion controls and the upcoming PlayStation Move motion controls. And he thinks controller-less controls are “limited”. “I created the technology for EyeToy which we made a controller-less device and it was really neat and it enabled new things…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee Is Pretty Good
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Santa Fe I had no idea! I never really drank coffee when I lived in America. Mrs. Bashcraft brought some French Vanilla back, and it’s not bad at all. I had no idea! Any idea why it’s good? What you missed last night How Activision Pissed Off Pro Paintballer Greg…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Batman: Arkham Asylum Sequel Coming Fall 2011
Batman: Arkham City, follow-up to the bone-crushing, dark Batman: Arkham Asylum, is in development for the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 for a Fall 2011 release, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment said this morning. The sequel, in development by Rocksteady Studios, has players taking Batman into Arkham City, the new maximum security home for all…
By Brian Crecente Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
Game About Befriending A Young Boy Is “Contentious”
Peter Molyneux, the game designer behind the Fable franchise, is working on Project Milo. The game is about a relationship with a young boy. Yep! According to Molyneux, there are “huge mountains” with the subject matter. “The reason for that is it is enormously contentious for us to do a game, a story, an experience,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 5, 2010 -
UncategorizedDeep Inside Xbox 360 Kinect and Why It’s the Future of Microsoft
Kinect is more than an Xbox 360 peripheral, it’s the future of Microsoft, or at least a very possible one. It’s the beginning of Microsoft’s plans for natural user interfaces, the step beyond the thing you’re staring at right now. *** Kinect is as much a product of serendipity as anything else. When Microsoft hired…
matt buchanan & Joel Johnson Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
BioShock 2 Getting Story-Expanding Add-On
2K Games’ BioShock 2 is getting a new single-player focused downloadable game add-on that will include new characters, story and abilities, the developer said today. Minerva’s Den has players taking on the role of an all new character as they team up with Brigid Tenebaum to fight a dictator’s hold on a district in the…
By Brian Crecente Published August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized
In This Game, You Spank Girls
Seven girls are trapped in hell. Your job, as their prison guard, is to rehabilitate them. From the developers Nippon Ichi (Disgaea) and Imageepoch (Arc Rise Fantasia), Criminal Girls is “the role-playing game where you punish young girls”. Each of the girls represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins. So there is one girl that…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 5, 2010