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The Smithsonian Has Picked the Games of Its Art of Video Games Exhibit

The Smithsonian American Art Museum revealed the winners of its public vote to decide what games will be featured in their exhibit, The Art of Video Games, today. The exhibit creates a visual history of the evolution of gaming from its humble beginnings through the present. The vote, which took place between February and April,…

By Mike Epstein Published May 5, 2011

Accused Xbox Pedophile Indicted on 19 Sexual Abuse Charges

Richard Kretovic, accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy he met through Xbox Live, has been indicted on nine counts each of first-degree criminal sexual act and second-degree sexual abuse, plus one count of endangering the welfare of a child.

By Mike Fahey Published May 4, 2011

How to Hack Your Kinect

When the Kinect first launched last November, gamers were (to put it charitably) a bit skeptical. Here was a device with incredible technological potential, and the most impressive game that came out with it was a dance simulator. Since then, though, the software problem has been solved. Not by Microsoft, whose Kinect releases have been…

Alex Castle - MaximumPC Published May 4, 2011

Developer reveals gameplay, character creation for D&D Daggerdale

Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale is a hack-and-slash action game coming out for Xbox, Playstation and PC in late May. This visit to the Forgotten Realms is the first time console players have been able to play a D&D videogame in several years. Atari Producer Michael Fahrny answered a few of our questions about designing a…

By Ed Grabianowski Published April 29, 2011

Moon Diver Strides Onto Xbox Live Arcade In May

After a successful launch on the PlayStation Network, Square Enix delivers Strider-creator Koichi Yotsui’s downloadable multiplayer side-scroller Moon Diver to Xbox Live Arcade on May 4.

By Mike Fahey Published April 20, 2011

Kinect for Netflix is a Catastrophe. Microsoft Has No Idea What to Do with Kinect

“Let’s find out how long it takes to select and watch our favorite Netflix movie using Kinect instead of the Xbox 360 controller!” That was the simple metric we wanted to try to test the new Kinect support in the Xbox version of Netflix. I suspected that it’d take a little bit longer to use…

By Joel Johnson Published April 14, 2011

The Making of Gears of War 3 Multiplayer

I’ll stay out of the way of this one, since I know you really just want to watch it. I will indulge myself to say, however, that I like the slight cooling of the color palette while still allowing more varied hues than previous titles. It’s still “gritty” but looks much cleaner.

By Joel Johnson Published April 12, 2011

Damn, Agent 47, You Are Good

This may be the best whack job from IO Interactive’s Hitman: Blood Money, as played by TheAuZZieGamer. For those unfamiliar with this particular Hitman mission, it involves the assassination of Vinnie “Slugger” Sinistra, an FBI informant in the Witness Protection Program. There’s some salty, Australian accented language in here, so perhaps watch with headphones. Seen…

By Michael McWhertor Published March 29, 2011

Xbox Predator Drives Girls To Strip Club, Sends Them Condoms

A man from Washtenaw County, Michigan, has been charged with attempting to accost children for immoral purposes after meeting a number of young girls over Xbox Live and, among other things, sending them condoms. Robert Lynch, who is 20, is accused of forging online relationships with “several” girls from Saline Middle School in January of…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

The Joys Of A Console’s First Moments

Know what I tend to remember consoles by? Not their games, or controllers, or even hardware casings. I usually remember them for their boot-up jingles. As silly as that sounds, those first few seconds of animation and music really set the tone for what the platform holder hopes is to come, and more than any…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2011

Buy Your Very Own Knight Of The Old Republic

Darth Revan, the “star” of classic role-playing game Knights of the Old Republic, has been immortalised in polystone. It’d be cooler if it was carbonite, but that stuff doesn’t do fine details as well. Standing 6 1/2-inches tall, this half-bust has the guy masked and holding two lightsabers, the colours of which you can swap…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2011

Overheat This Xbox And It WILL Catch Fire

When working with wood for this particular piece, artist Ben Winfield decided against making something clichéd, like a breadboard or a chair. Instead, he made a replica Xbox console. Before you ask, nope, it doesn’t work. Come on, you can’t make consoles out of wood! It does look great though, and when it comes to…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2011

Reviews

The Waiver-Wire Prospects of MLB 2K11

I’m thinking of a famous, very touching monologue by Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame manager of the Baltimore Orioles, talking about cutting players during spring training. “You call ’em in and say, ‘It’s the consensus among us that we’re going to let you go back home.’ Some of them cry, some get mad, but…

By Owen Good Published March 16, 2011

Star Trek Fan Dances His Ass Off To Kinect

This man is playing Dance Central, a dancing video game for the Xbox 360’s Kinect sensor. He’s at Boston’s PAX East gaming convention. He is dancing to Bell Biv Devoe’s Poison, a song that taught children of the 90s never to trust a big butt and a smile. The song teaches us a new lesson:…

By Stephen Totilo Published March 12, 2011

A Brief Moment with Firefall, The Free Game That Wants To Be World of Warcraft with Guns

Orange County, California might be bland, confesses one developer of Red 5’s team-based shooter Firefall, but the game certainly is not. Armor-bound medics squirt now de rigueur healing ribbons that glow a pale green to extrude life back into teammates wearing primary yellow or red that’s too busy for G or B. I stood for…

By Joel Johnson Published March 11, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

Microsoft Has Now Spent Over Ten Years In The Console Business

Time flies, doesn’t it? One day, you’re thinking only Sega and Nintendo are capable of building quality, successful gaming hardware. The next, you wake up to find that Microsoft is building a video games console. Yet it’s been eleven years to the day that the world awoke to such a scenario, as it was at…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011

Kinect Sets Guinness Record As “Fastest Selling Electronics”

Congratulations to Microsoft, who took what I thought was going to be a modest hit and making it a giant one. Now let’s get that next wave of games coming! [GuinnessWorldRecords.com]

By Joel Johnson Published March 9, 2011

The End Of The Shenmue Saga Would Have Been ‘Tight,’ Mega 64 Reveals

Will there ever be a Shenmue III? Maybe. But the long hoped for conclusion to the Shenmue saga is moot now, thanks to Sega legend Yu Suzuki revealing to Mega 64 how the story arc would have ended. Spoiler alert! Suzuki spilled the beans on the remaining chapters of the Shenmue saga at GDC last…

By Michael McWhertor Published March 7, 2011

Shenmue III is Coming?

Speaking at a talk during the Game Developer Conference today, designer Yu Suzuki said that he thinks Sega is going to let him make Shenmue III. The audience broke into shouts and applause, and then Suzuki abruptly changed topics.

By Brian Crecente Published March 2, 2011

Felicia Day Teaches Us Proper Dragon Age Dagger Techniques

Felicia Day, star of the Internet series The Guild, will also be the star of Dragon Age: Redemption a web spin-off to the dark fantasy Dragon Age series that will debut this summer. She also has a huge crush on Thane, the dying green alien from Mass Effect 2 (“He is not a lizard man!”…

By Stephen Totilo Published February 17, 2011