Missed Connections – Rift: Planes of Telara

Dear Trion Worlds. I am terribly sorry I missed our appointment at E3 2010. If it’s any comfort, the E3 trailer for your MMO Rift: Planes of Telara looks very pretty. Rift is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game with a very intriguing concept. The land of Telara is being ravaged by rifts opening in…

Ghost Recon Future Soldier Does Three Things Almost All At Once

According to some text I saw on the screen of Ubisoft’s big new Tom Clancy game, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier takes place “sooner than you think.” Good news. That means we’re getting octo-camo soon, and three friends we can trust in a firefight. I was allowed to look but not touch a demonstration of spring…

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Disney Is Completely Serious About These Tron Action Figures

Disney unleashes the first product shots of their massive Tron Legacy toy and electronics line, including mice, keyboards, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 controllers, and action figures with cutting-edge impulse light projection technology that makes them extremely ugly. You can expect plenty of Tron Legacy junk on store shelves come this December, including the 12…

Like Fancy Dress Parties and Candy? Modern Warfare Devs are Hiring!

Infinity Ward, the studio behind Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2, may have lost founders Jason West and Vince Zampella. Nearly 30 employees may have left in a mass exodus. Parent company Activision may be entangled in lawsuits, but that won’t keep the studio down. Infinity Ward is hiring in a big way, buying banner…

Call of Duty Black Ops Spoiler: Stuff Blows Up Impressively

Call of Duty: Black Ops benefits from a large screen. The bigger the screen the better, I learned last week. That is because Call of Duty games are giant acts of detonation. We are no longer storming Normandy Beach in Call of Duty. We are no longer one of many against an overhwelming force. From…

XCOM By Any Other Name Could Be Great

The reason I love XCOM so much, why I’m so worried about its future has likely more to do with a stolen car and an obscene amount of hoagie sandwiches than it does the Sci-Fi strategy game. You see, in the summer of 1994 I was between jobs. Having been fired from the arcade I…

Transformers: War For Cybertron Review: Now Light Our Darkest Hour

After suffering through two sub-par games based on the live-action films, do Transformers fans finally have the video game worthy of the franchise in War for Cybertron? In 2004, developer Melbourne House and Atari gave us a glimpse at how good a Transformers game could be in the Transformers Armada-based game for the PlayStation 2.…

Packing Tips From A Tetris Master

Have you ever seen a skilled Tetris player performing and thought to yourself, “He must be great at packing a moving truck?” We put that notion to the test, assembling several handy moving tips from a Tetris pro. Tetris masters aren’t that easy to find. There are no large, organized tournaments for the game and…

Suicide Bombers and Razor Wire Make Gears of War 3 a Real Beast

Tucked away in the dimly lit back room of a defunct subterranean power plant in downtown Los Angeles, music pulsing, crowds surging, I concentrate on the task at hand: Blowing myself up, taking as many people with me as I can. Scurrying along the dusty ground, skirting low walls and coils of razor wire, I…

Four Play For The Price Of Two With The Xbox Live Gold Family Plan

Microsoft gears up for the launch of family-friendly Kinect this fall with the Xbox Live Gold Family subscription plan, delivering four Xbox Live Gold memberships for the price of two, plus a host of new features and family-exclusive content. This is why I need kids. Starting in November, Microsoft’s new Xbox Live Gold Family Pack…

Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days

The iPad, which still hasn’t quite proven itself as a solid gaming machine, just hit the three million mark. That’s three million in 80 days. Not bad.

Blood Of The Cybermen Looks Terribly Chilly

The second free downloadable Doctor Who Adventure Game will be Blood of the Cybermen, which takes place in an abandoned Arctic research station. That certainly explains the mini-skirt. After the first episode in the series, City of the Daleks, garnered more than half a million download requests in the first 12 days of release, the…

Microsoft Explains Why Kinect Doesn’t Do Gears of War 3, Halo: Reach

When Kinect was unveiled as Project Natal during last year’s E3 and Tokyo Game Show it looked like the sort of controller that would be used for a wider variety of games. Up on stage, Microsoft showed off not only a bunch of casual games for the motion-controller, but also innovative titles like Milo, which…

There Is No Ugly Part Of This Wii Game

Kirby’s Epic Yarn is my pick for Best-Looking Game of E3. My pick for Best Game That Looks Like It Was Made Out Of Yarn. My pick for Best Game That Had A Kirby Mech That I Missed. Kirby’s Epic Yarn is one of two side-scrollers coming from Nintendo this fall, part of the gaming…

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Sony: Almost All Sony Developers Looking Into 3D

Sony is making a big push for 3D with 3D televisions and a 3D ready game console. But Sony isn’t alone, the company says. According to Sony Worldwide Studios honcho Shuhei Yoshida, “Almost all WWS developers are researching how they can incorporate stereoscopic 3D technology into their games.” “Almost all WWS developers are researching how…

Tomorrow, Mini-Bash Is Seven. Seven!

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Real-Life Pilotwings My eldest son, Mini-Bash, turns seven tomorrow. Incredible. I remember when he was born. I don’t remember when I was born, but I remember when I was seven. We’ve well entered the realm of crystal clear memories. For his birthday, he wanted a storage case for his toy…

Yes, Even the New Xbox 360 Can Overheat

I guess even all of those sexy, sexy vents don’t completely put a stop to the Xbox 360 overheating. [Thanks Akuji]

Nintendo “Not Satisfied” With its Online Efforts

Super Mario Bros. Wii does not have online. There is one man who ultimately decided not to include the feature. That man is Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario. In a meeting with investors at E3 last week, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata revealed that Miyamoto decided not to include online. “So I’d like to talk…