There are only a few days left in October to talk about video games. Seize the moment. Talk about them here. Good work, reader KindaGamey, on today’s TAY image. Folks, we need new art for November. Submit paintings that are old (public domain, please) to #TAYpics. Something that looks good. Nothing too busy. I’ll pick…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE:By The Time You Read This, I’ll Be Watching Recognizers Keiji Inafune is leaving Capcom. That guy’s like the carpet there — really surprised. Wonder how it’ll affect Capcom. What you missed last night Teen Brags Of Murder Over World Of Warcraft CEO At BioShock And GTA Publisher Take Two Stepping…
Ben Feder, CEO of Take Two Interactive since 2007, will be stepping down from his post at the end of the year, the publisher of Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, BioShock and Carnival Games revealed this morning. Feder is leaving so he can pursue plans to travel in Asia with his family for an…
Anime and video game voice actress Aya Hirano continues her move into mainstream Japanese entertainment. Today, she appeared on popular afternoon show Waratte Iitomo! (“It’s Okay to Laugh!”). Yes, that’s a big deal! While game and anime vocal talent might be popular, they exist largely on the periphery of the entertainment world. This past August,…
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This past March in British Columbia, two teenage boys — 16 and 18 — raped and killed 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor before mutilating and burning her body under a bridge. When it was over, the 16-year-old told a friend on World of Warcraft what they’d done. The reason the teen picked WoW was because it was…
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Guess Capcom legend Keiji Inafune wasn’t kidding around when he said he hated his job : the Capcom exec said today he’s leaving the company he’s been with for 23 years at the end of the month. His full job title had been Head of R&D Management Group, Consumer Games R&D Division and Contents Management…
One of the key draws of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is that it includes an all-new city for you to explore: Rome, home to the Vatican and a damn fine cup of coffee. It’s a shame there’s no coffee on offer in the game, then, but the Vatican at least plays a starring role.…
In Japan, PS3 games generally do way better than Xbox 360 games. Just look at the disparaging difference for multiplatform title Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2. Going on sale October 21 in Japan, approximately 64,000 copies of the PS3 version were sold in The Land of the Rising Sun during its first week. In…
Today’s great PC game you’ve probably never heard of? The Polynomial. Or, as I like to call it, my “just got home from the pub” game. It’s a mathematically-generated space shooter. How’s that work? It plays music in the background, of your choosing, then adjusts the surrounding space to match the rhythm of the track.…
Before Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare launched, Rockstar’s Dan Houser compared the zombie add-on to a 70s horror flick. With Halloween right around the corner, get out the popcorn, because here is a field guide to some crazy Westerns. The 1970s were a great decade for horror films. Several seminal films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre,…
A trailer for a belt? Sounds ridiculous, but we can let it slide when it’s a belt designed (and forged in comic strip form) by Penny Arcade. We can also let it slide because, unlike everything else we’ve ever seen of Dragon Age II, it has a sense of humour about it, something the game…
Rockstar Games’ Old West tour de force Red Dead Redemption catches zombie fever—as video games now tend to do—with the Undead Nightmare add-on, a meaty, mystical expansion to the comparatively sober original adventure. Zombies have invaded West Elizabeth, with the infection landing at Red Dead Redemption protagonist John Marston’s doorstep. Marston sets off on an…
Just like Nintendo’s handheld games console, Sony’s PlayStation Portable is doing it tough these days, sales of the machine down 50% from what they were at this time last year. Sony handed in its Q2 2010 financial results today, and while the PlayStation 3 enjoyed a slight increase in sales over the three-month period that…
Today at a Tokyo hotel, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata shot down talk of a Wii price cut anytime soon. This comes as Nintendo posted losses due to slow sales and the strong Japanese yen. “Of course, we cannot say it will never happen, but we are not thinking of it for the near future,” Iwata…
One of the big keys to Blizzard’s success as a PC developer has been its Battle.net system for online multiplayer. Now that Blizzard is shacked up with mega-publisher Activision, could we see non-Blizzard games appear on Battle.net? Don’t bet on it any time soon, but Battle.net project director Greg Canessa tells Gamasutra you can never…
5th Cell, the developer behind innovative titles like Drawn to Life and Scribblenauts, revealed its upcoming title. The game is called Hybrid, and it’s a post-apocalyptic third-person shooter. While there might be a glut of third-person shooters, 5th Cell promises to give players “a completely new gameplay experience never seen before in the genre”. The…
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That’s according to AskMen, at any rate, who have picked the Activision boss at number 16 on their list of the 49 most influential men. That’s one spot ahead of NBA superstar Lebron James and one spot below tennis ace Rafael Nadal. Coming in at #1 is comedian Jon Stewart, while right behind him was…
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