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Hero of King of Kong to be Enshrined in Hall of Fame
Steve Wiebe, the protagonist of the documentary The King of Kong, famous for his pursuit of Donkey Kong’s all-time record, will be enshrined alongside the game’s creator with the first class inducted by the International Video Games Hall of Fame. Wiebe, an algebra teacher in Kirkland, Wash., is currently the holder of the No. 3…
By Owen Good Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Street Fighter IV Creator Teases Comic-Con Timed Game Reveal
At this weekend’s EVO tournament in Las Vegas, where the world’s best Tekken 6, Super Street Fighter IV and Melty Blood players battled it out, the man who made Street Fighter IV teased the unveiling of his next game. Yoshinori Ono, the producer of Street Fighter IV and its Super sequel, has been teasing that…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Just Don’t Get Kicked Out of the Circle in NHL 11
There’s plenty you can do on a faceoff other than spam the controls and look like a fool. NHL 11 wants to give you more options this year, as shown in new screenshots released today. As we saw in a video yesterday, you’ll be able to tie up your opponent and kick it back, tie…
By Owen Good Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dragon Age II’s New Look, Now In Screen Shots
BioWare’s next big role-playing game, Dragon Age II, will be a very different thing. For starters, the sequel sports a “new visual style,” readily apparent from concept art and newly released first screen shots of Dragon Age II. Game Informer magazine subscribers are already basking in printed versions of Dragon Age II’s new artistic direction,…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
PlayStation’s New ‘Terms of Service’ Urges Not ODing On 3D
What are we agreeing to now when we play our PlayStation 3s? For one, to take heed of Sony’s advice while enjoying 3D games or movies, which the legalese-laden, newly-updated Terms of Service agreement says may cause “discomfort.” Sony’s latest addition to the list of things it expects us to follow is about the latest…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Big Patch Accompanies NCAA 11‘s Arrival Tomorrow
Not many people game completely offline, but you’ll want to be connected if you’re bringing home NCAA Football 11 tomorrow. It gets a a day-of-release patch that fixes and tunes a ton of features. I can confirm this is already present; EA Sports put it on the server last Wednesday. The patch not only corrects…
By Owen Good Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Fat Lip From Fat Head
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Monday, Monday It finally happened. After months of rough housing with our Great Dane, Poe, he finally connected one with his big, beefy paws, clocking me right in the face when I was ducking a particularly exuberant open-mouthed head-butt. His paw, actually his ankle, popped me dead center in the…
By Brian Crecente Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Homoerotic Shooter Re-release ‘Cho Aniki’ Outed For PS3
Muscle-bound side-scrolling shooter Cho Aniki is coming to the PlayStation 3, according to a new rating from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board. That’s good news for fans of Speedo-wearing studs who fight similarly ripped, nearly naked dudes. Cho Aniki is coming to the PS3 courtesy of Monkey Paw Games, the company founded by the former…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Well Alrighty, Then: Here are the Madden 11 Achievements
The full achievement list for Madden NFL 11 is now out in the open. It includes “Laces Out,” which gives you 40 Gamerscore for kicking a 60-yard-field goal. That sounds makeable – provided Dan Marino’s not holding. Aside from making homages to 1990s comedies, developers use the achievements and trophy sets to condition gamer expectations,…
By Owen Good Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
The New Kid Icarus May Explore Another Dimension: Multiplayer
Nintendo is finally creating a new Kid Icarus game, Kid Icarus Uprising, after nearly 20 years of downtime for the character. The Nintendo 3DS game may be modernized with a now-expected feature, online multiplayer, according to its creator. Masahiro Sakurai, Kid Icarus Uprising and the Super Smash Bros. Brawl game designer, tells UK mag Games…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Expendables Gets The 8-Bit Contra Clone It So Richly Deserves
Step into the boots of action stars Jet Li, Sylvester Stallone, and Jason Statham, in an 8-bit Facebook action game based off of their upcoming movie, Contra The Expendables. You have to like a movie that brings together some of the greatest action heroes of all time into one testosterone-coma-inducing parade of shooting, punching, and…
By Mike Fahey Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
From Your Glorious Occupiers of the New Korean Federation
Man, this brings back memories from when I lived in Seoul, South Korea as a kid. I actually had a whole stash of propaganda in my bedroom, tucked away in a dresser drawer behind the socks. I collected it over my two years in Korea, finding it all around the city, but someone found it…
By Brian Crecente Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Silent Hill Music Man Akira Yamaoka’s Favorite Songs
Composer Akira Yamaoka, perhaps best known for his moody musical contributions to Konami’s Silent Hill series, wants his own funeral to be scored by Ennio Morricone’s “Ecstasy of Gold,” one of the game composer’s five favorite songs. Yamaoka, now at No More Heroes developer Grasshopper Manufacture, tells Nintendo Life that the memorable tune from The…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Crysis 2 Nano Edition Briefly Appears, Is Nowhere Near Nano-Sized
Swedish online store Webhallen.com briefly carried a listing for the Crysis 2 Nano Edition priced at the equivalent of nearly $200. What Crysis 2 swag could be worth that much? German website PlayFront.De managed to snag a few pictures of the ultra-expensive edition before Webhallen took it down, and I have to say, that’s one…
By Mike Fahey Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Star Treatment
If you are somebody, and you visit Nintendo’s New York offices from out of town, you get your very own greeting in the lobby, running on a flat-screen TV. I’ve never seen this at a game company before. Horii is the creator of Dragon Quest, including Dragon Quest IX. The other two gentlemen on his…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s Biggest DS Still A Big Deal In Japan
Nintendo’s recent price drop on its line of portable game machines is giving the platform a big boost in Japan. As it has since becoming cheaper, the XL-sized Nintendo DSi LL reigns supreme on Japan’s sales charts. Add another 32,000-plus Japanese players of the biggest Nintendo DS to date. When combined with the portable’s other…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 12, 2010 - Uncategorized
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Curls Up With A Good Book
Fans looking to delve deeper into the cyberpunk dystopia of the Deus Ex series need look no further than Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect, a novel coming next year from Del Rey and tie-in author supreme James Swallow. Secret agent Anna Kelso and special-ops soldier Ben Saxon live in a world of great and powerful…
By Mike Fahey Published July 12, 2010 - Reviews
Flametail Review: Space Burn
Could the video game Snake be improved by setting the snake’s tail on fire? Of course! Flametail is a recent downloadable release for the Nintendo DSi’s DSiWare service, which means that you are about to read about a game that gets less press than your fingernail clippings. You are reading about a game that is…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 12, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Man Who Will Bring Us To The Fourth Dimension
Marc ten Bosch is the only man I have ever treated as if he had a super-power. Not super-strength. Not heat vision. Something better. I believed, because it is sort of true, that he can see the fourth dimension. That would make him a special class of person. Depending on your perspective, it could make…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 12, 2010