‘Kind of Bloop’ To Jazz Up Chiptunes

Imminent chiptunes compilation project Kind of Bloop asks “What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System?” We’ll find out soon, when the 8-bit homage to Miles Davis‘ popular album releases. The computer generated cover of seminal 1959 jazz album Kind of Blue is still just a project. But it’s a…

UK “Crime Lords” Running Real-Life Empires From Their PlayStations

Crafty criminals are reportedly bypassing traditional means of running their nefarious bad guy operations from the confines of prison, turning to video game consoles to deliver orders to the outside world. So says the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency, which pegs generation non-specific “PlayStations” as the newest tool used by crime committing types to do…

‘Madden’ PC Plans Remain Shrouded In Mystery

It’s the eve of E3 – sort of – and EA still isn’t talking about what will become of Madden football on our personal computers. It was way back in April of last year that EA Sports chief Peter Moore leveled with gamers and said that the mighty Madden franchise wouldn’t be coming to PC.…

The King of Fighters XII ESRB Rating All But Rules Out Mai Shiranui

Fighting fans hoping to see Fatal Fury femme fatale Mai Shiranui added to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 ports of The King of Fighters XII are likely going to be disappointed. The ESRB has weighed in on the console versions of SNK Playmore’s newest 2D fighter, giving it a T-rating. That’s par for the…

Naughty Dog Co-Founders Become Monkey Gods

Naughty Dog co-founders Jason Rubin and Andrew Gavin have teamed up with fellow Flektor founder Jason Kay to create Monkey Gods, a new social gaming development studio. Monkey Gods is a studio focusing on the development and distribution of games for social networks, the iPhone, and video game consoles. CEO Jason Rubin provides the creative…

Dark Void Devs Wary Of Jetpack Neglect

Airtight Games still has time to wrestle with an apparently common problem: gamers not using all of their abilities in a game. One of the themes of my day yesterday was the idea that gamers often ignore or under-utilize the abilities that games give them. This is common. Or at least it seemed so yesterday.…

The Bigs 2 Is Chock Full Of Mini-Games

2K Sports upcoming sequel to their over-the-top baseball game The Bigs includes almost more mini-games than you can shake a stick at. Of course the sport of baseball is one of the most stick-shaking intensive pastime in the world, so the mini-games still feature liberal amounts of batting, along with what looks like climbing and…

Unofficial Lost Terminal iPhone App Is A Game Of Patience

Lost fans—myself included—may not find the idea of typing six numbers into a computer terminal every 108 minutes, as show characters were forced to do, particularly fun. But there’s an app for that. Smallrock Software’s Doomsday Terminal application for the iPhone and iPod Touch recreates the thrill of plugging a sequence of numbers into a…

“Zombie Saturation” Has Not Yet Been Achieved

A Call of Duty developer sees life in the undead genre. Dead Rising. Left4 Dead. Nazi zombie mode in Call of Duty: World at War. More Nazi zombies in the first World at War map pack. And next, in June, Imperial Japanese zombies in a swamp shamble through he second map pack for World at…

Bayonetta’s First Climax As Explained By Hideki Kamiya

The most recent trailer for PlatinumGames Bayonetta comes and goes in a mere 90-seconds, an attention-stealing high speed montage of gameplay and cut scenes. Hardly enough time to appreciate its subtly and secrets. That’s why Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya spends more than 23 minutes explaining the trailer in nitty-gritty detail. In yet another example of…

Pacific Rift Vehicles Score An Eight Part Makeover

Sony is giving Motorstorm: Pacific Rift vehicles a brand new look, kicking off eight weeks of free downloadable content with tomorrow’s PlayStation Store update. The artists at Sony’s Evolution Studios have come up with 24 new vehicle liveries for Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, with dynamic new looks in the pipeline for each vehicle class in the…

Take-Two, Circus Defend Against PETA Game Criticism

Allegations about elephant mistreatment do not appear to have shaken corporate support for an upcoming Wii Ringling Brothers circus game. Earlier today, we reported that the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals organization is calling for the cancellation of Take-Two’s upcoming game based on the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (the so-called…

Square Enix’s Vanguard Storm Brings More Crystal Defense To iPhones

Square Enix‘s iPhone endeavors expand today with the release of Crystal Defenders: Vanguard Storm on the iTunes App Store, a “defensive simulation” that follows in the footsteps of the previous Crystal Defenders touchscreen controlled game. Vanguard Storm may not look like your standard “tower defense” title, with a battlefield and multi-tiered plane system that looks…

Bionic Commando’s Giant 360 Box of Schwag

With Bionic Commando due to hit consoles next week and Capcom trying to maintain their absurdly high standard of schwag, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when this arrived in the mail. Inside was a cornucopia of Bionic Commando goodies including an action figure, polo, poster, lanyards and the swankiest USB drive I’ve ever…

Burnout Paradise Cops And Robbers Micro-Review

Criterion Games continues to change the face of Burnout Paradise with the release of the Cops and Robbers downloadable content add-on for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Hearkening back to Burnout titles of old, the Cops and Robbers add-on pits two teams of players against each other, both vying for control of a load…

True Fact: In that picture, that guy lying down on the steps to the right, liked to masturbate in public, wear no clothes and slept outside on the street in an old wine barrel. Not because he was a bum, but because he believed that since we as humans are animals, we should be more…

Upcoming Racing Game Repeatedly Compared To A Shooter

Activision’s CEO already said Blur could be the Call of Duty of racing games, but it’s the four varied references to shooters in Edge magazine‘s cover story on the game that drive that home. From a “business perspective” it’s not hard to see why Activision would hope that the first racing game Bizarre Creations makes…

Might & Magic Becomes DS Puzzle RPG

Ubisoft does Puzzle Quest with Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, a manga-styled puzzle role-playing game hybrid coming to the Nintendo DS this August. Developed by Capybara, the developers behind the recently revealed PSN rainbow puking game Critter Crunch, Clash of Heroes is a role-playing game set in the Might & Magic universe that replaces…

One World Record, 500 Pounds of Quarters

Steve Wiebe, famed King of Kong underdog, just got 500 more pounds of incentive. UGO is reporting that Stride Gum is offering the one-time Donkey Kong champ $10,001 in quarter if he’s able to beat Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high score. The current score sits at 1,050,200. “Steve Wiebe is an inspiration to gamers everywhere,…

Ghostbusters Multiplayer Promotes Stream Crossing

There’s a great deal of stream crossing going on in this multiplayer trailer for Atari’s upcoming Ghostbusters: The Video Game. And it isn’t just proton streams being crossed either. The developers have lined up a bevy of backpack-centric weapons for the Ghostbusting team to bust out in multiplayer, including a thin green ray and a…blue…