The Last Man to Play Halo 2 on Xbox Live

He is Apache N4SIR. Nearly a month after Microsoft shut down the original Xbox Live, he was one of the Noble 14 who kept their connections running. Their numbers slowly dwindled, and today, he was the last Spartan standing. At 4 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, Agent Windex and Apache N4SIR were the last ones left…

Immerse Yourself In Tron Legacy Concept Art

We’re still about six months away from the theatrical release of Disney’s Tron Legacy, so some new concept art of the sleeker, sexier video game world seems appropriate. But that doesn’t make the wait any easier. Feast your eyes on lightcycles and Recognizers from the past and present, architecture, and a dozen other things that…

BioShock 2‘s Latest DLC Hits PS3 and 360 Tomorrow

BioShock 2‘s “Rapture Metro” pack of downloadable content, abruptly delayed from its original release two weeks ago, was rescheduled just as abruptly today. 2K Games today said the DLC rolls out tomorrow. The DLC is 800 Microsoft Points/$9.99 and is available on PS3 and Xbox 360 tomorrow. The PC version of the DLC is on…

Designer Glasses Help Lower The 3D Dork Factor

Wide acceptance of 3D in the home, whether for movies, television shows or video games, has a few imposing barriers. Price, support, and—perhaps most limiting—looking like a tool while staring blankly at your television screen, wearing 3D specs. At least Nintendo is cognizant of this, readying a 3D handheld gaming machine that won’t require users…

Brit Modder Wiped Out, but Doesn’t Get Jail

A British programmer said to have reaped some £600,000 selling modchips that bypassed copy protection on four consoles avoided jail at his sentencing today, but only because the father of two was bankrupted by his conviction. Glen Cook (pictured, left) got home detention from a judge named Les Spittle, whose measured remarks at sentencing belied…

Is The Story of God Of War Worth… Reading?

Fortunately, you can determine that for yourself. Not by judging the cover of the novelization of the PlayStation video game, but by reading the first chapter of the God of War book, now online and freely available to read. Sony’s offering up the first 17 pages of Matthew Stover and Robert E. Vardeman’s text-based take…

Tron Legacy Concept Art

Get The Ballad of Gay Tony For A Song This Week

Attention Grand Theft Auto IV fans looking to complete the “Impossible Trinity”: Rockstar’s second expansion The Ballad of Gay Tony is the Xbox Live Deal of the Week. Revisit Liberty City slightly cheaper, just 1200 Microsoft Points. [Live Marketplace]

FarmVille, Coming to a Convenience Store Near You This Summer

FarmVille looks to overrun your corner convenience store this summer, thanks to a cross promotion that’ll have 7-Elevens nationwide hawking exclusive items for the casual game, plus others from the Zynga family. Whaddaya get? From the looks of it, a water tower, a cow, a sandwich cart, a tree, a swimming pool and other items…

Mother’s Day

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Yes, I Forgot Mother’s Day Dude! How can you forget that, you’re married to a mother twice over. Man, you’re lucky you survived. Tristan and I spent Sunday catering to Trish’s every needs. We fixed her breakfast, spent the day doing some handy jobs around the house, walked the dogs…

The Bizarre Dragon Quest Battle Road Victory Controller Approaches!

For the Wii owner that demands an authentic Dragon Quest Battle Road Victory arcade experience at home, controller maker Hori offers this elaborate and very expensive… thing. The new controller, seen here in its conceptual form, replicates the controls from the arcade version of Dragon Quest Monsters Battle Road II Legend, coming to the Wii…

Walmart Takes Another Shot at Used Game Sales

Three months after its kiosk partner bellied up, ending Walmart’s first foray into used game returns, the retail behemoth is climbing back in the ring with another provider, and will offer more than just used discs. Industry Gamers says Walmart confirmed that it is now partnering with Game Trade, a start-up company providing these types…

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…