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Hot And Cold Running Game Controllers
When you play with thermoelectrics, you’re bound to get burned, or possibly chilled. Researchers from the at the Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that certain something that’s been missing from every video game that’s ever featured lava and ice levels: ThermoGame, a video game interaction system that delivers sensations of hot and cold to the…
By Mike Fahey Published July 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Metroid: Other M To Include Two Hour Movie Version Of Game
Once you finish playing next month’s Metroid: Other M on the Wii, you can watch it. A “theater mode” will stitch the game’s cut-scenes and some pre-recorded gameplay into a Samus epic. This news comes from an interview with Other M creators in Famitsu, as translated by 1Up.com: The storytelling aspect of Other M continues…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Three Hundred Dollars’ Worth Of Left 4 Dead 2 Tank
After teasing the first statue in their Left 4 Dead 2 line on Wednesday, Gaming Heads sends us detailed pictures of their grotesque Tank statue, along with a $300 price tag, and that’s the cheap version. The blurry picture released earlier this week did not do Gaming Heads’ rendition of Left 4 Dead 2’s Tank…
By Mike Fahey Published July 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Forget Limbo, LittleBigPlanet 2 Might Be Able To Do Shadow Complex (And More)
Earlier today I showed you that the first LittleBigPlanet was customized by a gamer to play like Xbox downloadable darling Limbo. Last week, however, I watched its sequel play like Xbox downloadable darling Shadow Complex. LBP2 is wonderfully flexible. Like its predecessor, LittleBigPlanet 2 is a highly customizable action game that is most impressive in…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
All Three Dragon’s Lair Games At Once, All For Wii
Were Dragon’s Lair, Space Ace, and Dragon’s Lair II: TIme Warp too hard for you? Then you’ll want Destineer’s Dragon’s Lair Trilogy for the Wii, featuring a beginner moves guide and Watch Mode, so you don’t even have to play. Dragon’s Lair property owner Digital Leisure continues to try and milk as much money from…
By Mike Fahey Published July 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Ways Alan Wake Is Unrealistic
Shadow-possessed people are not the only unrealistic elements of celebrated Xbox 360 game Alan Wake. Over at Magical Wasteland, Matthew Burns interviewed writer Tom Bissell for a fun chat that turned into a breakdown of what Alan Wake the game gets wrong about the life of a writer. New York literary agents do not talk…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Old Republic Visits Nar Shaddaa, A Good Place To Be Bad
The Star Wars universe has its fair share of wretched hives of scum and villainy, but Nar Shaddaa, the crowning jewel of the underworld, is a rather lovely hive of scum and villainy. Ah, The Smuggler’s Moon; doesn’t it sound so romantic? Orbiting the Hutt home world, the sprawling upper cityscape of Nar Shaddaa is…
By Mike Fahey Published July 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Lay Down Your Guns
Writer Fraser Allison thinks a few games could be improved if they contained a little less shooting. We’re reprinting the case here. Read on and see if you agree. I love violent games. I love shooting. I heart punching. I make “brrrm!” noises when I move tanks around, and cackle gleefully when I make those…
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UncategorizedStarCraft II Takes A Shot At Apple
You can elude the Dominion. You can evade the Zerg. You can swipe precious artifacts out from under the watchful eyes of the Protoss and escape without a scratch, but you can never escape Apple’s crack marketing squad. Note: iPistol will not fire if held firmly by the grip.
By Mike Fahey Published July 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Great Gatsby Video Game Disappoints
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife may have given video games the name of one of the medium’s best franchises, but what did F. Scott ever give us gamers? The Great Gatsby game? Apparently, it’s not good, though that’s not his fault. Here is blogger Jennifer Wright, crushed because of The Great Gatsby video game: When I…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nominate The Next Talk Amongst Yourselves Image
What should next month’s Talk Amongst Yourselves image be? Drop you suggestions into the comments section below. (This is not today’s TAY.) Reminder: Please provide the artist’s name and the name of the artwork.
By Stephen Totilo Published July 30, 2010 -
UncategorizedLittleBigPlanet Does Limbo
Limbo is a wonderful black-and-white game from Playdead that has been a marquee title for the Xbox 360’s summer of arcade (we like it). LittleBigPlanet is a modder’s delight on the PS3. Of course, someone combined the two. Above is a Limbo-inspired level made in LittleBigPlanet. It is called, Limbo, Son of the Forest. The…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
TWO WEEKS, I HAVE MADE IT!!
To: Totilo From: Bash RE: Obama And The Billboard It’s not Obama driving by, but it’s been about two weeks since Mrs. Bashcraft and Mini-Bash went to the US to visit my parents, leaving me in Osaka with Micro-Bash. I was kinda worried at first, seeing as how I’d be responsible for the kid, cleaning,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Mass Effect Studio Needs To Sell 10 Million Units
One million used to be the bar. Then two. Then three. Mass Effect developer BioWare isn’t stopping there. “Well, we need to sell 10 million units,” said BioWare co-founder Dr. Greg Zeschuk. “That’s actually the new target, right? We do Top 10 games, our stuff is quite successful. I know Mass [Effect 2] is number…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 30, 2010 - Uncategorized
Why Didn’t Lost Planet 2 Sell As Well As Projected?
Capcom took a big spinning bird kick, right in the profits, which were down 90.4 percent. Ouch! Part of the blame fell on Lost Planet 2. At the company’s financial briefing, Capcom answered why the game didn’t live up to sales expectations. According there are many rival titles in the genre, and the company didn’t…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 30, 2010 -
UncategorizedSix Colorful Minutes Of Pokemon Black & White
Kids! Pokemon! Dancing! Bad 3D! There’s all that and so much more in this lengthy new trailer for Pokemon Black & White, for the Nintendo DS. There’s also battles galore and some overworld action as well. If you feel like this game has been under-shown to date, this trailer should take care of that nicely.…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2010 -
UncategorizedI’m Commander Shepard, And This Is My Favorite Cosplay In The Entire Universe
Remember that Mass Effect 2 cosplay that could have been the best thing ever? Yeah. Turns it out it’s the best thing ever. Here’s Holly Conrad, Tayler Hudson, Tank, Jessica Merizan, Alex Gross and Steph Werner up on stage at Comic-Con last week, absolutely dominating proceedings. Grunt may steal the show from a technical standpoint,…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2010