The build-up for BioWare’s Mass Effect 2, still not planned for release until next year, has been one of gaming’s more mysterious. Hints of Commander Shepard’s possible death in trailers and demos confuse ever more. What’s going on? Kotaku asked. “We have been saying it’s the dark middle act, so the tone is definitely darker,”…
Bob Dylan once told a journalist that the first time he heard a recording of Elvis Presley singing “That’s All Right”, he realized that no one would ever again be able to tell him what to do. I personally had a similar moment as a ten-year-old, playing Super Mario Bros. 3: I managed to use…
In the five years I have been covering video games professionally there’s one thing a video game company had never asked me to do until Activision did last week: Play their new game in four-player split screen. We might as well have been back in 1997 playing GoldenEye or something at Activision’s PAX-week event in…
This Labor Day weekend two giant shows took over Seattle: One dedicated to music, the other to video games. But only one of them is growing. Bumbershoot, Settle’s annual international music and arts festival, has been drawing a crowd to the Seattle Center since 1971 when 125,000 visitors showed. This year attendance appears to be…
Pokemon experts may snicker. They may laugh at me the way they laugh at a pale blogger caught next to a flexible cos-player. But can they deny that Pokemon games are confusing to newcomers? And that simplicity might help? I’ve always been able to remember that water Pokemon are good against Fire, but I’m not…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Got this as a freebie over the weekend. It’s “Placenta 10000”. It’s a jelly drink that is supposed to make you beautiful. If you’ve ever wondered what a placenta jelly drink tastes like, it’s peach flavored! And there are ZERO CALORIES. What you missed last night PS3 Slim Racks Up Biggest…
You know, for all the big sequels and big new games due in the next year, none have me as excited as Red Dead Revolver. What can I say. I’m a sucker for scowling cowboys.
A Boy and His Blob was first released in 1989, but this trailer throws back to a slightly earlier time. I can see this running in a cinema, in 1985. And I mean that in a good way.
Dark Forces & Battlefront fans, you may want to watch this clip from Galactic Warfare, an upcoming Star Wars mod for Call of Duty 4. Oh, sorry, I just called it a “mod”. It’s not just a “mod”, it’s a total conversion, meaning the entire game – from handling to graphics to the menus –…
It’s not just Japan that is going bonkers over the PS3 Slim. The United Kingdom is going bonkers, too. PS3 sales are up over a thousand percent, apparently! Sales tracker ChartTrack hasn’t revealed specific numbers, but told game site MCV: “The sales increase is very impressive, making the PS3 the top selling hardware in Week…
As seen on Ian Cummings @ Twitter.
In The Land of the Rising Sun, Sony has a hit with the PS3 Slim. A really, really big one. In its first three days on sale, the newly redesigned console sold 150,252 units. Not bad for a platform that was originally released in November 2006! What’s more, this is the biggest weekly sales figures…
Hockey-mask-wearing chainsaw-wielding sculptor Mr. Jason brings iDOLM@STER character Haruka Amami to life from a block of wood. The video is on the long side, part 2 of 2 and over six minutes. There are other videos of Mr. Jason wood works as well, so check them out. Namco’s pop idol simulator THE iDOLM@STER originally started…
You mention “in-game ads”, people get shirty. Don’t like the fact they’re being sold stuff within something they already bought. But there’s less ground for complaint with in-game ads bought for a good purpose. The Transport Accident Commission of Victoria, a state in Australia’s south-east, have signed a contract with Massive – the Microsoft-owned in-game…
Kazuyuki Inakoshi, manager of Akihabara’s Messe Sanoh, doesn’t pull any punches in his Famitsu.com column about the recent PS3 Slim launch. In short: The launch could have been smoother. “If you are talking about the basic demand for the newly designed PS3, it seemed so-so,” Inakoshi blogs. There was no line in front of his…
At the IFA Consumer Electronics show in Berlin last week, a Sony rep told Engadget that 3D gaming would be coming to “all” PS3 games via a firmware update in 2010. Turns out he may have been slightly exaggerating. Sony corporate quickly reached out to clarify the rep’s statements, saying that when it comes to…
As seen on Shot in the Wild.
Digital Foundry’s long-running blog on Eurogamer often throws up some interesting technical studies on games, but few have ever been as interesting, or as comprehensive, as this piece on controller latency. What’s controller latency? DF explain it neatly as: In basic terms, controller latency is very easy to define. It’s the time, usually measured in…
Futuristic military sorcery franchise Strike Witches has been announced for the Xbox 360. Originally illustrated in mags, Strike Witches went on to become a light novel, manga and anime. The Strike Witches are magical moe animal girls recruited by governments worldwide to take down the imperialistic Neuroi and its indefensible weaponry. No info about the…
Keen for some visuals to go with Totilo’s description of one of Uncharted 2‘s singleplayer levels? Here’s your images.
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