Miyamoto: True Interactivity Is Holding A Motion Controller With Force Feedback

The Nintendo Wii uses a controller dubbed “the Wii Remote“. Microsoft’s Project Natal uses a controller called “the human body”. What does Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto think? I don’t think I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don’t have something to hold in your hand, if you don’t have something like force…

Metal Sonic Vinyl Spin Dashes To Comic-Con

This year’s San Diego Comic-Con will feature the highly coveted (to Sonic the Hedgehog fans, I presume) Metal Sonic JUVI as a convention and Toys ‘R’ Us exclusive. If you have cash to spare, you know where to be. As always, we’ll be hitting up the San Diego Convention Center for this year’s Comic-Con, snapping…

Team Fortress 2 Map Editing Just Got A Lot Easier

Valve today released an update to theIR Source SDK, and included within were the source files for most of Team Fortress 2‘s original maps. Translation? It’s now a lot easier to edit Team Fortress 2 maps. Rather than forcing you to build your own map from scratch, which can be tricky, this update now lets…

Miyamoto Was A Hero To Most Game Developers

Famed Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto ranks at the top of some 3,000 video game creators’ list of “game development heroes,” according to a survey from the Develop Conference. In a poll of over 9,000 game developers worldwide, Miyamoto scored a first place showing, nabbing the presumably coveted award. The Mario and Zelda creator outranked…

Virtua Fighter 5 Arcade Update Piles On The Sega Fan Service

As seen on Sega’s official Japanese Virtua Fighter 5 web site via UK:R.

Is Xbox Live Primetime’s 1 Vs. 100 Becoming Pay To Play?

1 Vs. 100 Live, the first Xbox 360 game show for Microsoft’s Xbox Live Primetime push, is currently in beta testing. Originally pitched as a free game for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, it appears Microsoft may begin charging for it. While the 1 Vs. 100 Live product page on Xbox.com previously implied the game show…

B-Day

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: The American Toilet Is Very American Today was Trish’s birthday. I suspect I enjoy it more than she does because it gives me a chance to pamper her. Yesterday we went to a nice Italian restaurant with her parents. This morning I paid for a trip to a spa for…

EGM Subscribers Getting Maxim As Replacement

Those of us with outstanding subscriptions to Electronic Gaming Monthly may finally be on the receiving end of a suitable replacement, should you be a horny hetero male who doesn’t like actual nudity in your magazines and enjoys skimming Maxim. While EGM folded as a print publication earlier this year, interest in the magazine and…

GTA Chinatown Wars Completists Now Exceed 5,800

When last I checked, just over a month ago, nearly 4,500 people had jumped through the hoops to finish Rockstar’s portable GTA. The increase has been steady. I’ve now checked the completion stats online for Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars three times: in mid-April, mid-May and mid-June. These stats are listed on the Rockstar Social…

Tim Schafer Explains Why Dio’s Out Of Brütal Legend, Tim Curry’s In

Double Fine Productions’ Brütal Legend is packed with big names, including Jack Black, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Halford and, now, Tim Curry. Curry will replace Ronnie James Dio as Doviculus, chief bad guy of the open world action-adventure game. Why? Well, Tim Schafer, president of Double Fine, essentially says that the character simply grew to be…

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Reminder: Xbox Live Going Down Tonight

If you need to get any multiplayer gaming in on your Xbox 360 today, make sure you do it before the clock strikes 12:01 AM PST. Xbox Live will be going down for maintenance tonight, for up to 24 hours. As previously foretold, Microsoft’s online gaming service will be taking a breather tonight, affecting the…

Duke Nukem Forever Lawsuit Unearthed, 360 Version A Sticking Point

Take-Two’s lawsuit against Duke Nukem Forever maker Apogee/3DRealms has finally seen the light of day, with some Xbox 360-port and offshore-money twists. May brought news that the long road of the 1997-announced Duke Nukem Forever might finally have finally run out, as development studio Apogee ceased making the game and publisher Take-Two filed a lawsuit…

Call of Duty: World At War Tops 11 Million

Treyarch’s latest entry in the Call of Duty series is a success, as official word notes that Call of Duty: World At War has racked up more than 11 million sales since its launch in November of 2008. The game got off to a damn good start during the pre-Christmas season, selling more than 1.88…

World Of Warcraft: The Art Exhibit

While the argument over video games as art rages on, there can be no denying that games have influenced art, as evidenced by the WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon at the Laguna Art Museum in California. The WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon exhibit, which runs from now until October 4th at the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna…

Portable Game Beats Console Games For… The First Time Ever?

The selection of Scribblenauts as best game of E3 2009 by three major gaming outlets is a milestone for which we can find no precedent in gaming history. During the final day of E3 2009 I shared a quick cab ride with 5th Cell game designer Jeremiah Slaczka, and I asked him what was getting…

Sega President Departs To Helm ngmoco’s iPhone Network

President and COO of Sega of America Simon Jeffery has left the house of Sonic, hitching his executive wagon to iPhone developer and publisher ngmoco—you know, the one former Electronic Arts exec Neil Young co-founded in 2008. Jeffery, whose executive credits include stints at Sega and LucasArts, will assume the role of chief publishing officer…

The King of Fighters Online Flouts Its Mai

Fan-favorite Mai Shiranui is in fine form in this trailer for King of Fighters Online, the upcoming PC roleplaying game from Dragonfly and Triple Games. We originally thought the game was being developed by Triple A Games, but as Mai’s appearance proves, there is no room in this game for that A. According to the…

ThatGameCompany And The Beauty Of Taking Risks

“Everything is intense the first time you experience it,” says Jenova Chen, the 27-year-old creative director at Santa Monica-based studio ThatGameCompany. The first few World War II shooters Chen played floored him. We were all floored until the last Great War became such a vanilla setting for shooters. Old hat, and don’t we want something…

Is Super Monkey Ball Rolling Onto Wii Balance Boards?

Is Sega planning on doing additional banana grabbing on the Wii? A recently filed trademark for Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll would lead us to believe it might be, adding Wii Balance Board support to the formula. After all, the Nintendo DS take on the Super Monkey Ball series, closely tied with Nintendo’s varied…