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I Can Predict The Entire Halo 4 Plot, Using Only The Halo 4 Soundtrack
Microsoft and 343 have been typically tight-lipped when it comes to plot details surrounding Halo 4. But today, that all changed: The track-listing for the game’s soundtrack was released. Oh yeah. You read that right. Using the track names from the soundtrack, I have pieced together some highly precise (ish) predictions about the story of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 22, 2012 -
Diablo III Designer Sorry For Insult, Sort of Sorry For Diablo III
Jay Wilson, the lead designer on Diablo III, has issued a lengthy and public apology after being caught calling Blizzard North co-founder David Brevik a “loser”. Earlier this week, an interview with Brevik was published which called into question some of the design decisions made on Diablo III. While they were hardly incendiary, Wilson and…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 22, 2012 -
Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do When The Skyrim COPS Come For You
Not all the guards in Skyrim are knee-injured former adventurers, and not all of their tasks involve capturing dragons and stopping marauding Dovahkiin. Some of them are just regular old working stiffs whose 9-5 involves cruising around and sorting out the drunk and the disorderly. This Nerdist video takes look at what the show COPS…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 22, 2012 -
The Secret World Developer Lays Off “Around Half” Its Staff
Modern-day MMO The Secret World has a great deal going for it. The world is interesting, there are clear plans for regular content updates, and their new raid looks lovely. It even has a free trial now. But unfortunately, what it doesn’t have going for it is subscribers. Developer Funcom, based in Norway, had announced…
By Kate Cox Published August 22, 2012 -
If Not This Year, Women’s Soccer Will Be In Video Games Soon, Says FIFA Producer
It’s inevitable that women will appear as playable athletes in a football title, the executive producer of the FIFA video game series told a petition organizer. But it’s far too late for that to happen in FIFA 13, and he couldn’t commit to any future year in which it might for his series. Still, whatever…
By Owen Good Published August 22, 2012 -
Best Game Ever: Wild Arms
Speak Up’s Best Game Ever segment rears it’s glorious head once more, this time with a comment swiped from TAY from good old Mr. Gilder, who tells us why Wild Arms’ Western-themed role-playing is the bee’s knees. The first three Wild Arms games are my favorite JPRG series. 4 & 5 are great too, but…
featuring Mr. Gilder Published August 22, 2012 -
Watch Us Kill For Weapons In This New Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Mode
I promised you a video of the new Arms Race mode in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, so here it is. The objective pretty much mirrors the game’s other modes: kill the enemy team. But navigating the much more open area maps quickly makes you lose sight of anything team-based. As you secure kills, you’ll move up…
By Tina Amini Published August 22, 2012 -
Get Your First Look at Peter Molyneux’s Next Crazy Experiment Right Here
Game development’s most seductive over-promiser doesn’t work at Microsoft anymore. He’s doing his own thing, starting up a company called 22 Cans and promising a life-altering experience in his next game Curiosity. The world at large hasn’t really seen a look at the game. Until now. Molyneux showed a live demo of Curiosity at the…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 22, 2012 -
20 Things You Should Know About The Next Big Console JRPG
Pickings are slim for JRPG fans this fall. Xenoblade and The Last Story have both come and gone, and while our handhelds are getting some Persona and Paper Mario action soon, there aren’t a lot of big console JRPGs on the horizon in the near future. Until January. That’s when America will finally be able…
By Jason Schreier Published August 22, 2012 -
Play This Awesome Free PC Game. It’ll Take 15 Minutes, And You Will Enjoy Yourself.
Look, I’m not gonna mince words here. If you own a PC, you owe it to yourself to play Gravity Bone. I don’t want to tell you what it’s all about, since the game is so short that even telling you the setup would give you information in the same amount of time that you…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 22, 2012 -
Deponia is the Biggest Pile of Trash I’ve Ever Had the Pleasure of Escaping
Stranded on a world that’s literally one gigantic garbage dump, the adventurous Rufus dreams of escaping his sub-lower-class life to live among the world’s elite in a gleaming floating city in the clouds. He’ll probably kill himself first, the idiot. Adventure gaming fans will surely recognize the name Daedalic Entertainment, the creators of gorgeous hand-crafted…
By Mike Fahey Published August 22, 2012 -
Windows 8 Is Not Good For Gamers
For the past several days, I’ve been playing with a very nice laptop that has Windows 8 Professional installed on it. Many others, like our sibling site Gizmodo, have looked at Windows 8’s usability for professional environments, or for everyday home computing. I’ve been exploring its potential specifically for gaming, trying out play-related features both…
By Kate Cox Published August 22, 2012 -
Sweet Mother Of Pearl, There’ll Be A Lot Of Indie Games At PAX This Year
This kickin’ trailer shows the 30+ games that will be on display at the Indie Megabooth at PAX Prime next week in Seattle. Can you name all the games? I… can’t. (Hmm, maybe that’s because I watched this with my mouse over it so the Vimeo logo blocks where it totally says the names of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 22, 2012 -
A Bunch Of Famous DJs Remix The Pants Off Of The Halo 4 Soundtrack
We haven’t even heard most of Massive Attack maestro Neil Davidge‘s Halo 4 soundtrack but it’s already being mashed, sliced, and remixed by a bunch of different DJs and producers. Davidge is taking the reins on the Halo series, which has up until now always featured the iconic work of Martin O’Donnell. The soundtrack itself…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 22, 2012 -
This Video Shows Why the Studio That Made Wipeout Was So Awesome
Between todays’s news that the Sony Liverpool studio—originally known as Psygnosis—is closing and yesterday’s reports of Nintendo Power shutting down, this feels like The Week Video Game Nostalgia Died. But let the incredible promotion video—courtesy of Boing Boing—above remind you of how creatively forward-looking and dominant Psygnosis was in its heyday. You can smirk at…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 22, 2012 -
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Battle It Out In Their Very Own Violent Video Game
Well now here’s a trailer for VOTE!!!, a game made by the people who made Infinity Blade, that beautiful brawling game for iPad. This one is a bit more political. You’ll get to play as either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney as they brawl one another with ridiculous weapons like ice cream cones, hot dogs,…
By Jason Schreier Published August 22, 2012 -
Lost Planet 3 Creator’s Mystery Game, MMO on Consoles and Other Gaming Secrets
Editor’s Note: Imagine that there are secrets about video games buried under the soil on which you stand. The mysterious person known as Superannuation wields a shovel; so please step a little to the left and see what Superannuation is digging up just for you… According to a job posting for Lost Planet 3 [concept…
by Superannuation Published August 22, 2012 -
Nintendo Confirms the End of the Nintendo Power Era
Yesterday, news broke suddenly that Nintendo Power—one of the oldest game magazines around—would be shutting down. Today, Nintendo confirms that the Future-published magazine is ending this year. Here’s their official statement: Nintendo can confirm that Future US will end the production of Nintendo Power magazine with the last issue slated for December 2012. For Nintendo…
By Evan Narcisse Published August 22, 2012