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One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2012 Promises?

E3 is just around the corner and, for the fifth year in a row, we’re taking a look back at the big three’s big E3 promises. What came true, and what didn’t? After looking at both Sony and Nintendo, it’s finally time to examine Microsoft. While Microsoft talked about a lot of games at their…

Someday Our Xbox 360s Will Be Retro. And This is How We’ll Feel.

One of my new favorite YouTubers, LaserFrog, knows that the Xbox 360 will someday be a retro console. He imagines this beautiful but somewhat sad future. “Ah, remember the 360? Crazy to think it used a disc drive. Don’t know how we ever got past those dark ages!” So good. I’ll cherish my 360, and…

The awesome remastered version of Spelunky—which was an Xbox 360 exclusive last year—is coming to PC, PS3 and Vita this summer, according to developer Mossmouth

Now You Have No Excuse For Not Playing Final Fantasy Tactics

Way before Game of Thrones became the hottest thing on television, some of fiction’s best politicking and betrayal could be found in Final Fantasy Tactics, a strategy-RPG originally released for the PS1, then PSP, then iOS and Android (in Japan). It’s one of the best games out there. And I guess there’s a team at…

It’s The Wizard Of Oz Meets Pokemon? That Actually Makes Sense.

Coming June 19 to iOS from Little Box Apps, Monsters Invade: Oz gives Dorothy a little something to keep her occupied as she eases on down the road — collecting, battling and evolving monsters. I suppose in a way The Wizard of Oz is a lot like Pokemon. Dorothy travels the yellow brick road, picking…

As compensation for its “longest downtime in quite a while,” EVE Online is giving active accounts 50,000 unallocated skill points. Trial accounts got an extra week. “If you hear of someone doing or planning something bad, even if it’s your friend, we do have the PLEX for snitches program,” publisher CCP said.

This Infamous: Second Son video shows off how motion capture is evolving for the PS4. That is a whole lot more dots than we used to see, no?

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The Next Deus Ex Is A Mobile Game

Teased earlier this week, Square Enix has lifted the veil on Deus Ex: The Fall, a first-person shooter for iPhone and iPad that picks up where James Swallow’s novel The Icarus Effect left off. From the YouTube video description: We are back in 2027 — a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but…

After Getting Laid Off From Zynga, These Guys… Partied?

A year ago, sketch-centric guessing game Draw Something became an inescapable phenomenon, pulling in millions of people each day. That success led to a surprising $210 million acquisition of dev studio OMGPOP by Zynga. On Monday, many of those creators were victim of a harsh 520-person culling as Zynga desperately tries to re-structure.But, were those…

Hacker Ports Xbox 360 Game to PC, Calls It ‘Justice’

Some Russian hacker, unilaterally deciding that PC gamers have the inalienable right to play the 2011 Xbox 360 game The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile (pictured), just up and ported the thing, saying “This is not piracy, this is restoration of justice.” According to a translation of the GameDev.ru forums, the hacker, named Barabus, said “the authors…

Free Copy Of Saints Row IV With Purchase Of This $99 Dubstep Gun

What an amazing deal! Not only do you get a 12-inch replicaDubstep Gun with lights and sounds for $99, you also get a Johnny Gat memorial statue, a Dubstep Doomsday Button and a copy of Saints Row IV for good measure. Neat! The coolest (and possibly cleanest) Saints Row collector’s edition in game history, ladies…

Kinect-Enhanced Doodle Jump Lands On Xbox 360 This Summer

It’s been two years since Lima Sky announced it would be bringing mobile sensation Doodle Jump to the Xbox 360 as a Kinect-powered downloadable game, and the thought tickles me just as much today as it did back then, only now there are pretty screens to temper my amusement. They’re pretty sharp screens as well,…

The World Is Yours In This Massive PC Strategy Game

If you’re new to the world of grand strategy games having picked up the gateway drug that is Crusader Kings II, may I suggest you look into this, Paradox’s big follow-up game, Europa Universalis IV. It’s lacking in Crusader King II’s intimacy, but shifts its weight by letting you control just about any faction of…

China’s League of Legends Clone Is A Bootleg Wonderland

300 Heroes proves, as CrusaderCast puts it so well in this video, “there is no Mandarin word for copyright”, because it doesn’t just copy League of Legends (literally, it re-uses LoL’s textures), it makes use of as many famous characters from properties it didn’t pay for as it can get its hands on. There seems…

Surely The Dalai Lama Would Approve Of This DOTA Character

It takes a lot to make me laugh out loud at some video game character design. Game artist Hunter Mortenson and his wife Sadies have recently created this DOTA 2 courier, and he’s available in the Steam Workshop. His name? The Dallying Llama Courier (though sadly, it appears as though Valve has renamed him Llama…

Ladies And Gentlemen, Abraham Lincoln

This is not a retouched photo. It’s not a 3D model, or an actor dressed as perhaps the United States’ greatest ever President. This is a sculpture, done by veteran Hollywood effects man Kazuhiro Tsuji. It was part of a display held earlier this year at the Copro Gallery in Santa Monica. Tsuji, who moved…

The Fastest Way To My Heart Is With Giant Battleships

I don’t give a damn that this trailer for World of Warships – an upcoming game from the same guys behind World of Tanks – has no gameplay in it. What it does have are lots and lots of battleships. Battleships are awesome. More video games need battleships. Developers, note: more games need battleships.

3200 x 800 Video Game Laughs At Your Single Monitor

What you’re looking at here is Super Chain Crusher, a shmup (shoot-em-up) whose native resolution of 3200 x 800 is so long most modern video hardware cannot properly display it. So its developers encourage you to play it across two screens. OK, so you technically can play it on one screen – and you can…

Redesigning The Super Nintendo For The 21st Century

I think the Super Nintendo, at least the Japanese/European model, is one of the most beautiful pieces of consumer electronics ever made, from its colour palette to its timeless design. Just because the original is timeless, though, doesn’t mean we can’t get an update for these more modern times. Like this one, by Colombian designer…