I’ve beaten Street Fighter IV three times already, and loved everyone of the nine minutes it took me to do so each time. No wonder it’s at the top spot. Now about that lack of online multiplayer… Here’s the full list: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our…
Later this month, citizens of the United States will take part in the 2010 Census, an event aimed at helping the government learn more about the people it’s trying to serve. We’re doing exactly the same thing. POLL 1 – The Consoles You Own Ever wonder how many other people out there like the same…
Last week San Francisco transformed, turning into something like the Hollywood Canteen, but for gamers. A famed servicemen’s club of the 40s, the Hollywood Canteen was operated and staffed completely by volunteers, mostly from the movie and music industries. So the likes of Bette Davis, Abbot and Costello and Ronald Reagan could be seen hanging…
Peter Molyneux was smarting last week from the fact that half of the people who played his studio’s last game, Fable II, didn’t bother with half of its depth. People didn’t even change their (virtual) clothes. His fault. Molyneux’s got a plan to fix things, and to induce more wardrobe changes. The butler will do…
Gabe Newell. John Carmack. The creators of Uncharted 2, Scribblenauts, Farmville. Even Penny Arcade. I interviewed a parade of award-winners backstage at the Game Developers Choice Awards. And I wanted to make sure these post-awards interviews were not dull. We talked about everything from PlayStation Move and Farmville: The Movie to a major sequel that…
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To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Soooooooooooo… yeah. It pretty much screwed up the timing of my workday today. Hope yours goes better! What you missed last night Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack Also Features Ridiculous Price Rumor: DS Successor Has Nifty Screen, GameCube Power Hey Activision, GDC Is For Developers, Not Strippers Standing Up To Proposed…
With Aliens vs. Predator already out (and reviewed!), it time to get excited about the next project with Predator in it, the upcoming feature film Predators. Starring Adrien Brody and Laurence Fishburne, Predators is a sequel to the 1987 film Predator — producer Robert Rodriguez wanted the reboot to be like sci-fi film Aliens was…
Not exactly eight minutes, but close enough. This spring, Stealth series Metal Gear Solid is coming to the PSP. It will look like this. Series creator Hideo Kojima has called Peace Walker a “MGS5-class game”, and it was later revealed that Peace Walker was going to be called Metal Gear Solid 5. Watch this gameplay…
You collect coins. You then use those coins to get extra lives or buy things. Get used to it, because that’s the way the world works. Money has appeared in games for decades now with seminal games like Super Mario Bros. having players collect coins. Players must collect coins to get more lives — meaning,…
As someone who snuggles up to his copy of Raising The Bar every night, I’m one to appreciate a good video game art book. And Uncharted 2’s looks damn good. Published by Ballistic, the book comes in three versions, ranging from USD$65 all the way up to an incredible USD$300. At the lower end of…
No, a superfan. If you know this game, feel free to say it out loud and pat yourself on the back. Good job! If not, read on. Originally released on the PC in 2005, fantasy sci-fi visual novel Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na was turned into a manga and an anime as well as being…
When Xbox 360 conked out in the past, folks would send their Xbox 360s to Microsoft in cardboard boxes affectionately called “coffins”. Here is a real honest-to-goodness Xbox coffin. Designed by designer Alexis Vanamois, this Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death coffin is a final resting place for a dearly departed console. There’s even a…
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The Tokyo Metropolitan government is moving forward on legislation that sets out to ban provocative “visual depictions” of characters who appear to be 18 years-old and younger. And some of Japan’s most famous manga creators are fighting it. Manga artists Go Nagai, Tetsuya Chiba and Machiko Satonaka appeared at the Tokyo Government Office on March…
The initial lineup of PS3 games compatible with Sony’s new Move controller was, SOCOM aside, geared heavily towards the casual user. The list of compatible games on the Move’s website, however, is a little more promising. Because amidst the Wii Sports knock-offs and proof-of-concept pieces is, surprisingly, a listing for Gran Turismo 5. Not the…
Activision, the company that publishes Guitar Hero and Call of Duty, did not get the memo. The recent Game Developers Conference is not the venue for half-naked pole dancers. Thing is, GDC is for game developers. Not silly PR stunts. To promote triad crime game True Crime, Activision turned part of the San Francisco W…
In the upcoming Iron Man movie sequel, Tony Stark won’t be going it alone. He’s got James Rhodes, aka War Machine, to help him out. And you know what that means: yes, Don Cheadle action figures. This 1/6 scale figure is by Hot Toys, the same people who brought you the amazing Iron Man Mk…
For the uninitiated, Final Fantasy XIII might seem like the sequel to Final Fantasy XII. It’s not. Each game is its own title, so if there was a FFXIII sequel, it would be FFXIII-2. When asked about the chances of a direct FFXIII sequel, the game’s producer Yoshinori Kitase replied, “In the past three years…
RPAD spent the entire Game Developers Conference trying to dig up information on Nintendo’s successor to the wildly-successful DS handheld. His findings? Of interest. According to several third-party developers writer Raymond Padilla spoke with, the next Nintendo handheld sounds a lot like the current Nintendo handheld, only with better screens and better performance. Just like…
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