So, the future of the Xbox 360 is upon us. It’ll have lots of TV and video content. It’ll have UFC on-demand and FiOS set-top box functionality. (It won’t have Party Mode for video viewing, though.) In short, Microsoft’s looking to turn their dedicated game machine into yet another app repository. With a worldwide install…
What’s next for Markus “Notch” Persson now that he’s stepped away from Minecraft? Find out during the 22nd Ludum Dare game development event next weekend, where Notch will stream creating a game in just 48 hours. [Twitter]
What’s going on with Miyamoto? Will the world as you know it be turned upside down? If he ever stops making games, would all the color drain from your world, leaving you to see only black and white? These are questions we cannot answer. A question you can answer, however, is what have you been…
The internet was rocked. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and Zelda, reportedly said he was stepping down. Nobody seemed prepared for this. It was so sudden. So surprising. The end of an era. After the original report hit, Nintendo repeatedly denied that Miyamoto is “retiring” and stepping down from his current position. The official…
Even as it brings waves of new TV and video content to the Xbox 360, the console’s latest firmware update appears to have killed the most popular feature of its Netflix app. When Netflix brought its Instant Watch catalog, Party Mode became unexpectedly popular. It let you talk to your Xbox Live friends while you…
Batman Arkham City: Lockdown is an entertaining, graphically lush chance to beat your way through four of Arkham’s most notorious villains and their henchmen on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. It’s a visually rich, combat intense brawler that has you swiping and poking your way through hand-to-hand combat with Two-Face, Deathstroke, Solomon Grundy, the…
Mickey | CHIBA, JAPAN: Disney’s Kinect game on sale at Tokyo Disneyland. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) Nintendo Denies That Mario‘s Creator Is “Retiring” Late last night, a Wired.com report stated that Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and Zelda, had said he was “retiring”. Today, Nintendo denied that report. According to the original Wired report,…
This is Rola. Born of mixed Japanese, Russian, and Bengali heritage, Rola is one of Japan’s most popular fashion models. It isn’t only on the runway that Rola straps on dangerously high heels. It’s also when she plays Need for Speed: The Run Sister site Kotaku Japan covered a recent EA Japan event at Lamborghini’s…
The creator of Metal Gear, Hideo Kojima, got new business cards. They look fucking dangerous. ギリギリで新しい [Twitter]
Tecmo Koei is working on the latest entry in its fighting game series Dead or Alive, DoA 5. This latest batch of screenshots shows Hitomi and Ayane duking it out. Fans of the series will notice that Ayane’s character design is tweaked. Dead or Alive 5, the first developed without DoA creator Tomonobu Itagaki, is…
This old Famicom has what’s called a GetLoFi Precision Oscillator in it. Don’t know what that is? It can make the console sound like this Circuit-Bent NES [MAKE]
Gilles Beloeil is a concept artist and digital matte painter at Ubisoft’s flagship Montreal studio. Know what that means? Yup. More awesome Assassin’s Creed art. While right now he’s working on an “unannonced (sic) AAA game”, he’s been involved in the Assassin’s Creed series, most recently on Revelations We looked at some art from this…
Anastasia Cisarovna. The Baroness. She’s just one of the many memorable villains that make up the GI Joe universe, but for many young men, she’s the most memorable. The suit and glasses, you know. While the 2009 movie didn’t really do her justice, this statue from Sideshow Collectibles certainly does. Capturing her sexy swagger (if…
Mike Capps, president of Gears of War and Unreal Engine powerhouse Epic, gives one reason why his company isn’t yet developing a game for the PlayStation Vita. Considering he also told GI.biz in an interview, “I’m not sure how well it’s going to be accepted in our Western market which is primarily where our games…
Late last night, a Wired.com report stated that Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and Zelda, had said he was “retiring”. Today, Nintendo denied that report. According to the original Wired report, Miyamoto apparently said he was stepping down from his current management position so he could work on smaller projects with younger developers. “What…
We get to see behind the scenes at big game development studios all the time. Independent studios working on the sequel to a mod that was made for someone else’s game? That’s a side of game development we don’t normally get to see. So it’s great to see it in this clip from Unknown Worlds,…
How is this news? It’s not. It’s music. It’s Soundtrack. Time to kick back and relax. So relax! Tonight, we feature the sweet, sweet sounds of Brant Bjork, who didn’t just used to be in Fu Manchu, he used to be in Kyuss This track, off his landmark 1999 album Jalamanta, sums up everything the…
It’s that time of year again… When Godzilla-shaped Christmas trees start to appear! Here’s a round-up of a few from the last few years. Godzilla in Shinjuku…. Just kidding! It’s actually only a little bigger than human-sized You can spot this one most years among the Christmas illuminaton behind Takashimaya Times Square. Will 2011 turn…
It cannot be, but what if? Filmmaker Kyle Roberts created this stop-motion short using Minimates, a SNES, and tin foil. According to Roberts, “No Minimates were harmed during the filming of this short.” Marvelous Shorts: Wolverine vs Deadpool Stop Motion [YouTube]
Today’s Shigeru Miyamoto news shows that not even the biggest names in development are around forever. One man, though, plans on sticking around forever. One very brown man. That man is of course Yakuza and Super Monkey Ball’s Toshihiro Nagoshi, now 46, who in an interview with Gamasutra, said, “It’s not that I’m satisfied at…
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