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The Car Dashboard of the Future – A New Place To Play?
The same kind of touchscreen-controlled, widget-enabled technology that lets us customize and personalize devices like the iPad and Android-powered phones could be coming to your car dashboard. Naturally, we’re thinking “So, what kind of games can we play on it?” The New York Times’ Wheels blog takes a look at one offering from Cisco that…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Don’t Hate Crysis 2 Because It’s Beautiful
Instead, appreciate the photorealism of Crytek’s New York set sequel, which looks a lot like this in-game—provided you have the hardware to make Crysis 2 run this well, of course. Crysis 2 is suiting up for a release on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 later this year, some time during EA’s third quarter.…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 13, 2010 -
UncategorizedWill White Knight Chronicles 2 Turn Things Around?
This brand new look at the sequel to Level 5’s so-so Japanese role-playing game certainly looks to ramp up the excitement, the big bad guys and the JRPG cliches. But White Knight Chronicles 2 will do it in style. This is our first longform look at the PlayStation 3 sequel since its Tokyo Game Show…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Game Design as Make-Believe: Fictional Worlds
Based upon part four of the Mimesis as Make-Believe serial. When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this. It is self-evident that this also happens when one plays a tabletop role-playing game, the…
By Lauren Orsini Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Today… My Son is a Gamer
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: I Have Slightly High Blood Pressure And Am Concerned One word: Kendo! Today Tristan decided to take the plunge into online gaming, spending some of his 9th birthday money to purchase a year’s gold account on Xbox Live. I had nothing to do with this decision, I’m pretty sure it…
By Brian Crecente Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Write a Snappy Catchphrase, Hear It in NBA Jam
EA Sports just opened a contest to get four fan-written catchphrases announced in NBA Jam‘s reboot for the Wii. Note: “Boom-shakalaka” is already taken, but “boom-shakalaka-lakalakalaka” technically is still eligible. Enter the contest through the game’s Facebook page. They need submissions for the following plays: Dunks, assists, alley oops, blocks, three pointers, regular field goals,…
By Owen Good Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Continues Hardware Kill Streak In Slow April
The Wii and Nintendo DS killed the competition in the United States last month, partly because the other hardware makers didn’t put up much of a fight. It was, bluntly, an ugly month for video game sales. The Nintendo DS, with a little help from those lovable Pokemon, easily dominated the NPD Group’s sales chart,…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Splinter Cell: Conviction Was April’s Big Winner [Update]
Sam Fisher used little stealth in his slaying of the competition in April, with Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction clearly visible at the top of April’s bestselling games list, according to the NPD Group. Ubisoft’s Xbox 360 exclusive Splinter Cell beat out the latest Pokemon games for the Nintendo DS and New Super Mario Bros.…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Green Day Sounds Pretty Certain It Will Have DLC for Rock Band
Although a producer said earlier there will be no additional DLC for Green Day: Rock Band – giving a rather sophisticated, creative reasoning for the decision – the band’s drummer sounds certain there will be more tracks coming via download. Speaking to Game Informer, Green Day’s Tre Cool said: We wanted it all to go…
By Owen Good Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Who’s Killing Who In Alpha Protocol
There’s so many different battling factions in Sega’s Alpha Protocol you’d need a score card to keep up, or perhaps an explanatory trailer. Alpha Protocol drops on June 1, with plenty of different factions packed in for Agent Michael Thorton to shoot at, make deals with, and play against each other in a high stakes…
By Mike Fahey Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Good Girl Artist Does A Very Good Bayonetta
Platinum Games’ good witch Bayonetta gets the pin-up treatment from comic book artist Adam Hughes—”I have no idea what they are using it for,” he says—in a piece commissioned by Sega. As seen (larger) at Hughes’ deviantArt page.
By Michael McWhertor Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Is Not The Marvel Super Hero MMO You’ve Been Waiting For
It might not be the City of Heroes meets the X-Men we were hoping for, but kids should get a kick out of playing as tiny versions of their favorite Marvel characters in Gazillion Entertainment’s Super Hero Squad Online. Gazillion finally draws back the curtain on Super Hero Squad Online, the massively-multiplayer online game first…
By Mike Fahey Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Joker Beats The Snake Again In Japan Game Sales
Snake will settle for second place again this week in the battle of Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The two portable games sit comfortably atop the country’s weekly sales chart. The two games hold spots one and two again, with a string of Nintendo favorites—New Super Mario Bros. Wii,…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Coming Soon: LEGO Human Organs
Researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology have found a way to encase living cells in stackable cubes to create what some are calling LEGO organs. Building things out of toy blocks has long been a favorite pastime of children and adults the world over. Why should biomedical engineers be left out…
By Mike Fahey Published May 13, 2010 - Reviews
Photo Dojo Micro-Review: This Game Is A Joke
Not since my Mii arm-wrestled the Mii of television’s own Geoff Keighley has Nintendo technology allowed me to witness such a titanic virtual battle of video game journalists as it did the day Photo Dojo allowed me to battle… me. The image you see attached to this Photo Dojo review is of me, the guy…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Is Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night?
It’s more than a miserable little pile of gems—it’s Konami’s new puzzle role-playing game for the iPhone, featuring some of the most memorable characters from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Yeah, we weren’t expecting this either. Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night gives the star of Symphony of the Night, Alucard, a chance to dispatch…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
How To Opt-In For The World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Beta
The closed beta test for World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion is just around the corner, and Blizzard is encouraging players to opt-in for their chance at early access. Here’s how you do that. You’ll need a Battle.net account with a World of Warcraft license attached to it in order to opt-in for the Cataclysm beta.…
By Mike Fahey Published May 13, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Call of Duty Has Another New Developer In Raven [Update]
With close to half of the team at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward bailing on the troubled developer, publisher Activision appears to have found a new source for Call of Duty development. Raven Software, the developer of sci-fi shooters Wolfenstein and the recently completed Singularity, has been pulled off its current…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 13, 2010
