Call of Duty: Black Ops Continuing Domination Over Books, Games, Movies, President Bush

Call of Duty Black Ops set a five-day record for getting people to part with their money, according to its creators today. $650 million in copies sold around the world in the span of a work week. Black Ops publisher Activision, you know, the one a lot of gamers love to hate because of their…

Shoot Down Friends’ AR.Drones With Parrot’s Augmented Reality iPhone Game

Remember Parrot’s awesome iPhone-controlled AR.Drone? Of course you do. Grab an AR.Drone-owning friend and when the augmented reality app hits the App Store, get downloading for some healthy Bluetooth-based competition. It’s a two-player game, which rather limits the app, as you’ll need to find someone else who owns a $300 (£300) drone as well as…

Vaporware Legend Returns From The Dead

Wardevil, a game five years in development that was reportedly cancelled last month, is for some reason now being brought back from the dead and given a new name. British creators Ignition have decided that, rather than develop the game in-house, it will now be built via a combination of local and outsourced talent, and…

Dead Space, Figure, Doopedy-Do

Toy company NECA has released the first official shot of their upcoming figure based on the upcoming Dead Space 2. Seeing hero Isaac in colour and in such clear detail for the first time makes me realise he looks…familiar. He looks like he did in the first game, sure, but look down. Past the helmet,…

They Really Need To Stop Making These Mega Man Online Trailers

Why? Because all it makes us want is a Mega Man movie, not some side-scrolling online game. These teaser trailers for the Korean online game Rockman Online (or Mega Man Online) are getting better and better, turning the cute platformers into dark, violent, exciting affairs. Which makes it all the more disappointing when you see…

How Long Until Kinect Turns Into Skynet?

Why play games on Kinect when you can hook it up to a robot, teach it how to learn from its surroundings then take your orders with the wave of an arm? Philipp Robbel, a student at MIT’s Personal Robotics Group, has done just that, connecting Microsoft’s motion-sensing peripheral to a small robot (a hacked…

Tattoos Are A Last-Gen Feature

It’s…just…yes. As seen on Pichu, via Gamefreaks Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

Uh, Where’s Fable III On PC?

It’s a valid question. After all, the Xbox 360 version is out, while the PC version is not, and does not even have a release date. Well, according to Lionhead, it’s still…in development, the team behind the series saying “Fable 3 PC Version is still in development here at Lionhead so PC GAMERS don’t panic.…

Great Shot Kid, That Was One In A Million

There are one-in-a-million kills, and then there are one-in-a-gazillion-million-billion kills. Or, in this case, suicides. Reader Adam sends us this clip of a game of Halo: Reach, in which he fires off a shot that misses its target. He does, however, manage to hit first the ground and then a distant mountain, which results in…

The “Future Of Video Games” Goes On Sale Tomorrow

OnLive, the streaming service that has the potential to change forever the way we play (and purchase) video games, will begin selling its small TV “console” tomorrow. And it’s got a rather attractive price-point to go along with it. The small unit, which plugs into your internet connection and then into your TV – bringing…

The New Medium Where Writers Are Trying To Make It

What would you expect to be paid to write a video game script? $100,000? Maybe you’d get that a few years ago, but the rate is now more between $10,000 to $20,000, writes The New York Observer. It’s one of the more interesting did-you-knows cropping up in a collection of anecdotes about solid writers who…

Review: Hoard Will Set Your Friendships On Fire

With so many multiplayer experiences these days revolving around perks and persistent characters, it’s nice to see a game that remembers the key to good competitive gaming is often just to keep things simple. Hoard is a party game that creates small boardgame-like maps, puts players in control of dragons then has them competing to…

Cars Love Gran Turismo 5 Too!

If you thought the first Japanese TV commercial for Gran Turismo 5 – the one with the toy cars – was fun, it’s more fun when the toys are swapped out for dozens of real cars. I lost count of the number of different cars I saw in this ad, but suffice to say, it’s…

UFC Undisputed Comes To iPhone, iPad

Following EA Sports MMA into mobile gaming, THQ’s mixed martial arts franchise UFC Undisputed will hit the iPhone and iPad this week, a company executive says. Via Twitter, THQ’s Danny Bilson says the game hits the two devices via the iTunes App Store tomorrow. “Gives Tap Out new meaning,” Bilson, THQ’s president for core gaming,…

Just Chillin’ In Space

Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space, waiting to engage you in off-topic conversation. Would you like to talk about movies, music or things that aren’t video games? What about video games? We got those too. I’m going to go eat hamburgers and finish up Donkey Kong Country Returns, so, please talk amongst yourselves.…

Get To The Gym With DiRT 3

Gymkhana, the “car rodeo” YouTube video phenomenon, will join the redoubtable Rally in DiRT 3 next year. Loosely described, gymkhana features a start and finish line and some obstacle to negotiate. Codemasters dropped several screenshots illustrating both modes today. A news release from Codemasters says that DiRT 3’s rally will feature “more than double the…

Rumor: BioWare’s New Mass Effect Is A Multiplayer Spin-off [Update]

The BioWare project teased earlier today by Spike TV’s Video Game Awards is not an early look at Mass Effect 3, according to a development source, but the multiplayer-focused Mass Effect spin-off currently in the works at BioWare Montreal. That Mass Effect game is not a massively multiplayer online version of BioWare’s sci-fi RPG series,…

Dirt 3 Rally and Gymkhana Screens

Admit It, You’ve Always Wanted To Use A Dildo On A Zombie

Lemme tell ya, I have, that game was called “my third marriage.” Hey-oooo! But seriously folks, the ESRB summary for Dead Rising 2’s DLC mentions a wieldable sex toy. I thought that was the paddlesaw! Bang, pow, zoom … Per the ESRB on Dead Rising 2: Case West: “One game area-a lounge with neon ‘XXX’…

What Is CityVille, Other Than The Next FarmVille?

The people who make the games you either love or love to hate on Facebook have a new one coming out in a few weeks. It’s called CityVille, which looks like Sim City without the tornadoes or FarmVille with skyscrapers. We haven’t played the game yet, but we can show you video of it in…