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The Place Where Video Games Want to Live
LA Game Space is an ambitious idea to seize an old warehouse in the Arts District of Los Angeles, California and turn it into what sounds like a home for game design and independent titles. Its creators aren’t looking to turn it into a store, or an arcade, but something a little more serious and,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 8, 2012 -
Hey Halo, if You Love Aliens so Much, Why Don’t You Marry it?
Because Halo wears its love for James Cameron’s Aliens on its sleeve (and its legs, and its face), this machinima video splicing the classic sci-fi flick with Halo’s HD remake is about as perfect a union as you’re going to find. If you think you’ve seen it before, you might have! Haliens did almost exactly…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 8, 2012 -
Connor, You Didn’t Have to Shoot That Guy, You Could Have Just Knocked Him Out
We’ve featured the work of Ubisoft artist Gilles Beloeil here on Fine Art before, but you know what, that was for Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Since Assassin’s Creed III is just out, now’s probably a good time to cover his more recent work on the series. Unlike the pieces we saw the other day, which were…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 8, 2012 -
There’s Now a Mod That Gives Mass Effect 3 a “Happy Ending”
Still not happy with the way the Mass Effect saga drew to a close, a team of modders have released something for the PC version of Mass Effect 3 called MEHEM. Or, the “Mass Effect Happy Ending Mod”. SPOILERS TO FOLLOW. You can see the edited and re-composited ending above. I…don’t see much happy about…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 8, 2012 -
Will You Get Halo 4 on PC? Hahahahaha. No.
In the last ten years, while Microsoft has published all kinds of awesome games on the Xbox 360 (and has lately been quietly publishing XBLA games on the PC), it’s published exactly three of its major shooters. Halo, Halo 2 and the first Gears of War It’s a stupid move, one that seems increasingly stupid…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 8, 2012 -
Here’s One Thing Origin Does Better Than Steam
Poor Origin. Powered by EA, the company everyone loves to hate, and going up against Steam, the service everyone loves to love, it’s had a rough start to life. But EA has, ever so slowly, been improving the service, and the biggest improvement of all is rolling out with the next update. The publisher has…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 7, 2012 -
Apparently Megan Fox Is At Her Coolest When Shilling For Laptop Companies
Oh, Megan Fox. You’re often annoying. You’re hot. You’re in bad movies. It’s unclear whether or not you take acting, or yourself, seriously. I’ve always sort of gotten the sense that you’re pretty cool, but that somehow it’s not coming across. But my mixed feelings aside, this Acer laptop ad from last week where Ms.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 7, 2012 -
The Last ‘Good’ Console War, Re-imagined As A Giant Robot Battle
Embattled gamers have weathered many a console war over the past thirty years. But above the Xboxes and Gamecubes, the PlayStations and the Dreamcasts, one war stands apart: Super Nintendo vs. the Sega Genesis, the World War II of the console wars. This illustration by Daniel Dussault, titled “Za Konsoru Uozu 199X,” takes a fresh,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 7, 2012 -
What Do You Know, All This Time And We’ve Got ‘QTE’ Wrong
Yesterday, I ran an article looking for your favorite Quicktime Events. The quicktime event, commonly just called a “QTE,” is a long-derided trend in video games where players are forced to quickly match button presses to on-screen cues, usually during otherwise noninteractive cutscenes. QTEs are sort of a shortcut to shoehorn bullshitty interaction into cutscenes,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 7, 2012 -
Pol Who Wanted Warning Labels on Violent Games Loses Re-Election
U.S. Rep. Joe Baca, who had long wanted cigarette-style warning labels slapped on violent video games, won’t be headed back to Capitol Hill. He lost re-election yesterday in a redistricting arrangement which had him pitted against a fellow Democrat for a seat in a differently-numbered district. Baca, a seven-term incumbent, sought three times, unsuccessfully, to…
By Owen Good Published November 7, 2012 -
It’s Hide ‘n Seek Multiplayer With The Wii U’s First Indie Game
Nintendo’s new Wii U console isn’t even out yet, but there’s already a group of funky game designers putting together a cool, arty game for it. The game in question is Chasing Aurora, a simple, papercraft-style flying game in which you take control of one of few sky-rats, more commonly known as “birds.” The game…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 7, 2012 -
How To Prepare Dishonored‘s Only Appetizing Dish
I loved Dishonored‘s dank, diseased city of Dunwall. It felt so fully realized, and had so much character. A lot of that came from the food. Like Bioshock before it, most of Dishonored‘s characters leave food lying around. As the protagonist Corvo meanders from room to room, he’ll often take stabbing-breaks to eat everything that’s…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 7, 2012 -
Far Cry 3‘s Story Still Looks Kinda Dumb; I Still Want To Play It
Today Ubisoft sent out the latest “story trailer” for Far Cry 3. That term, these days, has come to mean a trailer that will tell us about the story of the game—as opposed to a “Multiplayer trailer” and a “Gameplay trailer.” I like that video games are so complicated that they require multiple trailer-genres just…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 7, 2012 -
Inside Line Still Finds a Hard Left in NASCAR Country
Because of their high fidelity physics and the crude way in which a standard console controller is equipped to handle them, motorsports simulations may be the most demanding genre of any video game. When I fired up NASCAR the Game: Inside Line, rather than jump straight into my career I tried to repeat a moment…
By Owen Good Published November 7, 2012 -
What’s Good (And Bad) About The Wii U Before You Even Turn it On
We’ve got ourselves a brand new Wii U. Let’s take a close-up look. Nintendo’s new console is the first new home console since 2006, and as you can see, it’s exciting and shiny. Well. Shiny until you get your fingerprints all over it, you disgusting human. Watch the video for my initial impressions on the…
By Jason Schreier Published November 7, 2012 -
The Next Uncharted Game is Not Really an Uncharted Game
I told you not to get too excited. The next Uncharted game will be a “casino/card game”, according to its Brazilian ratings clasification. Called Uncharted: Fight for Fortune, it’s for the PlayStation Vita, and given its lack of marketing to the point where it’s being revealed by ratings boards, you can bet it’ll be a…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 7, 2012 -
DayZ Developers Not Pleased About Real-Money Mod
The stakes almost always feel high in the zombie-survival game DayZ. Your life can end at any moment, and from any of a huge number of causes, and if you die, you’ll lose all your precious gear and have to start over. But what if the stakes were raised, what if you were actually losing…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 7, 2012
