Cannes And Lynch

Once every year the resort town of Cannes, France is transformed into a mecca of motion picture advertising, including this first look at marketing for the Kane & Lynch movie. As Twittered by Empire magazine

EA’s Fight Against Used Game Sales Passes To Tiger Woods

Publisher EA is extending its “Project Ten Dollar” scheme to make buying used copies of EA Sports games a bad idea. Don’t expect to play your EA Sports games online without the “Online Pass” included in new copies. What is Online Pass? It’s a game-specific, single-use registration code included in new copies—and in new copies…

Which Multiplayer Transformer Type Are You?

High Moon Studios breaks down multiplayer characters in Transformers: War for Cybertron into four distinct classes represented by four different vehicle types. Are you a car, truck, tank, or plane? This is certainly an interesting solution to allowing players to create their own custom Autobots and Decepticons without having to build a ridiculously deep character…

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Teaser Site Bears Its Claws, Fans, Syringes

Join Ubisoft as they give rise to a new era, with a countdown website showing off fans, claws, and other implements of destruction that will likely appear in Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, masquerading as a website for Templar front Abstergo Enterprises. A Ubisoft Twitter heralding the rise of a new era lead us to the Abstergo…

Enter the Split/Second Faux Destructo Contest

In honor of the new fast-car-destructo game Split/Second, we want to know which TV-show-that-has-jumped-the-shark set you’d like to virtually drive through/annihilate? Lost‘s Dharma Initiative bungalows? The Scrubs hospital? Send us your ideas and 5 lucky winners will snag a copy of the game! In Split/Second, players take part in a fictional reality TV program where…

Fantasy Artist Frank Frazetta Dies At 82

Painter Frank Frazetta, best known for his striking fantasy work with characters like Conan the Barbarian, Vampirella and the original Death Dealer, died today at the age of 82. While Frazetta’s direct contributions to video games were unfortunately minimal—a video game based on his Death Dealer character was, at one point, in development at the…

A Heartwarming Look At Arc Rise Fantasia

Imageepoch’s Arc Rise Fantasia is coming to the Wii in June courtesy of Ignition Entertainment, who’s passed along this exclusive look at the characters and environments of the turn-based role-playing game. The Meridian Empire is beset by flocks of Containment Dragons, strange creature filled with poison that can contaminate entire regions should they explode. L’Arc…

I <3 stupid games

My current least favorite part of the modern video game is when it tells me to stop having fun for a few minutes so I can think about something. It usually does this to satisfy some rough checklist born of a game designer’s tentative inferiority complex: “Our game might not be ‘sophisticated’ enough.” A friend…

“The Best Video Game System”

The Kontorland KT-103: It’s the Dreamcast meets the Sony PlayStation meets I-don’t-know-waht. Even SEGA mascot Sonic the Hedgehog “seems” to approve. Then, of course, SEGA probably has no clue about this. In case you missed it in the first pic. More like challenge the limits of intellectual property! The console is made by Kontorland, which…

Indian Holy Man May Hold Solution To Game-Interrupting Bathroom Breaks

Prahlad Jani claims he has lived without food or drink for the past 70 years, yet I can’t spend two hours playing World of Warcraft without having to pee. What could I possibly learn from this Indian holy man? Jani recently spent a period of two weeks being observed by a team of military doctors…

Why Supreme Court May Support Criminalizing Some Violent Games Sales

The battle between the video game industry and California politicians about whether to criminalize the sale of overly violent video games to minors has been one-sided so far. But the Supreme Court has grounds to turn the tide for California. Firs Amendment lawyer Julie Hilden explains why the Supreme Court might side with California when…

The Zero-Followers Twitter Scare Is Over

You have zero followers on Twitter right now. And you are following zero people. Check if you don’t believe me. Just hours ago we learned how to make anyone in the Twitter world follow us. All we had to do was type “accept [name of Twitter account we wanted to have follow us]” But within…

BlazBlue, The Art Exhibition

Many BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger fans would not disagree. That game is a work of art. And a work of art deserves one thing: an art show. This Wednesday, never before publicly shown Calamity Trigger production sketches and concept art will be shown at the UK’s Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution as part of the…

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The Surprising State Of Mac And Linux Gaming

Do Mac users not care about video games? Would Linux gamers play more if they could? David Rosen, whose Wolfire Games is presenting a copy-protection-free/you-name-the-price Humble Indie Bundle of stellar computer games, is on the case. Computer game-makers, take note! It’s ‘common knowledge’ that Mac and Linux gaming are so unimportant that they might as…

The Nintendo Download: Earthworm Jim, Phoenix Wright, And Photo Dojo

When you’ve got Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations for WiiWare, Earthworm Jim for DSiWare, and a fighting game where you’re the combatant, who cares if the only Nintendo Download games are chess and a children’s book? DSi storybook Flips: The Enchanted Wood and Chess Challenge! for both WiiWare and DSiWare should be honored…

Ten Tips For Creating the Ultimate Photo Dojo Warrior

Photo-friendly fighter Photo Dojo hits the DSiWare shop today with a temporary discount to free. Here’s a short list of ways to master the art of customizable, silly-fighting with your DSi, from Nintendo. Make sure you pick up your copy of the game in the shop before June 11 when the price jumps up to…

Too Much Creative Freedom Coming To The Sims 3

The Sims 3 is scoring a free pattern tool this summer that will allow players to take a perfectly lovely Sim house and plaster the walls with the vilest images their twisted hearts’ desire. Yes, this summer the player marketplace becomes a minefield as EA gives players the power to create and edit their own…

Young Nier Appears In The World Of Recycled Vessel

The younger model of Nier that appeared in Japan’s PlayStation 3 exclusive Nier Replicant makes a special Western appearance in The World of Recycled Vessel, downloadable content for Square Enix’s action-RPG which explores the past of the grizzled protagonist. In Japan, Nier came in two flavors: Nier Gestalt, the game I recently played and loved,…

Iron Man 2 Review: A Rusted Development

Sega’s movie tie-in for Iron Man 2 can’t possibly be worse than its movie tie-in for the first Iron Man film, can it? After the Iron Man video game that accompanied the first entry in Marvel’s film franchise failed to impress, Sega went back to the drawing board. Bringing in award-winning Marvel scribe Matt Fraction…