Alpha Protocol Impressions: Looks Deceive

Like the spy agent depicts, the espionage role-playing game Alpha Protocol is stealthily approaching its release, now slated for early summer. And it’s still a tricky game to size up. A few observations from a recent demonstration of the game: It Doesn’t Look Like A Role-Playing Game: At least the Mass Effect games are science…

Frankenreview: Dante’s Inferno

After going through a huge stack of reviews for our Dante’s Inferno Frankenreview, I have determined that this game might have a few things in common with God of War. That, and Dante has no idea how to play Limbo. Is it strange that a game revolving around a long, drawn-out philosophical exploration on the…

Doom II RPG Now on iPhone

You can now pick up a copy of Doom II RPG for your iPhone or iPod Touch for $4. The game includes nine maps, three playable characters, more than a dozen weapons, 11 enemies and plenty of upgrades. Game dev Zenimax, aka id, say there’s about eight hours of gameplay tucked away in Doom II…

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Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Teaches Irresponsible Driving

How can Sega expect kids to play Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing and not be tempted to jump out of moving vehicles? There are so many bad ideas laced throughout this special moves trailer for Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing that I hardly know where to begin. There’s drinking and driving, standing up while driving…

BioShock 2 PC Widescreen Pissing People Off Again

In August of 2007, BioShock caused an uproar among players for trimming the standard 4:3 aspect ratio instead of providing proper widescreen support. Now BioShock 2 PC does the same thing. Here we go again. The exact same issue that had PC gamers fuming when the original BioShock was released has been confirmed to be…

These Are Your E3 Publishers and Developers

More than 120 video game developers, publishers and hangers-on have confirmed that they’ll be at this summer’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, which organizers say is 90 percent booked. “Exhibitors, leading video game publishers, and millions of consumers around the world are eagerly awaiting the opening of the 2010 E3 Expo,” said Michael D. Gallagher, president and…

Does The Video Game Industry Need A Time Out?

In an article written for GameSpy, New York standup comedian Michael Drucker suggests that the video game industry take a year-long break from releasing new titles. Why does this sound like an amazing idea? It seems that Mr. Drucker and I are in close to the same boat – our favorite hobby is getting too…

Heavy Rain Review: No Wrong Conclusion

You’re a man trying to rock a baby to sleep. You’re a woman trying to look sexy for a sleaze. Who cares if you’re having fun, as long as you’re interested? You’re playing Heavy Rain, a video game about people. Many years in the making and a successor to what could most kindly be called…

The Road to IGF Is Paved With Good Games

Indie games are important. No, not because they’re sometimes “art“, but because of the innovations, the stirring of the pot they sometimes lead to. And nowhere is that more celebrated than during the Game Developers Conference’s annual Independent Games Festival. Now on its 12th showing, the festival gathers together the biggest and best names in…

10 Years Of Bejeweled, 1,000 Years Of Lost Productivity

PopCap kicks off a ten month long tenth birthday celebration today for Bejeweled, the causal gaming sensation that’s sold more than 50 million units and stifled the productivity of an entire generation. Bejeweled, for those of you who haven’t immediately run off to play a few rounds in celebration of the occasion, is a simple…

Pokémon’s Fifth Generation Begins With Zoroark

Scans from the latest CoroCoro Comic out the first new Pokémon of the fifth generation, Zoroark, the monster fox Pokémon and star of the franchise’s 13th animated feature, Phantom Ruler Zoroark. First shown in silhouette during this weekend’s Pokémon Sunday in Japan, CoroCoro Comic magazine scans from across the sea have confirmed the mysterious creature…

Playing The Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom Credits

Wii fighter Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom is packed with tons of inside jokes, including plenty I don’t quite get. Take for instance this little “game” that you can play while watching the credits roll by after beating the game. You can control the speed of the trio of bikers (the Dorombo Gang, Fahey thinks) and tap…

can videogames make us happy?

We can’t all be rock stars. Or can we? Why can’t we all be rock stars? Who says we can’t all be rock stars? “They” say we can’t all be rock stars. Who are “they”? Who knows? Then we have the people who say they don’t want to be rock stars. They say they’d rather…

Or Talk Amongst Yourselves About LOST

Reminder: Join in on the Lost conversation and try to help me untangle last night’s episode over at our #Losttalk discussion page. Surely someone’s figured it all out, no?

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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Due to Inclement Weather Your Podcast Has Been Delayed

Blizzard warnings and threats of a New York whiteout shut down CBS Radio’s New York Studio today, giving our podcast a last minute snow day. We apologize for the inconvenience, but are already hard at work with 2K Games shuffling schedules so we can get Jordan Thomas, creative director of Bioshock 2, on our snow-delayed…

First Library Card

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Toy Fair That’s Micro-Bash. He’s 1 and a couple months old. And today he got his first library card. His older brother, Mini-Bash, has had a library card for a couple years now and really enjoys going to the library — more so now, because he has learned to read.…

Is Love Plus Better Than Love?

A few days before last Christmas, a line stretched around a Tokyo bakery. The customers were waiting to buy Christmas cake. But they weren’t waiting to buy just any cake. In Japan, Christmas is akin New Year’s in the U.S. — secular and spent with friends. Yes, there are Japanese Christians who celebrate the religious…

“Many More Stories” Could Be Told From BioShock

People like BioShock 1. People seem to like BioShock 2. Know what that means? We will probably see another BioShock game. And then another. And another. Of course publisher 2K won’t confirm that, because 2K like most big companies seems to like surprises that aren’t really surprises. “Rapture is probably one of the most unique…