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The Designer of Call of Duty‘s ‘No Russian’ Massacre Wanted You to Feel Something
Long-time Call of Duty game developer Mohammad Alavi designed Call of Duty IV‘s famous ghillie suit level and Modern Warfare 2‘s notorious interactive massacre of civilians, the level called “No Russian.” In a stellar piece about interactive atrocity, game designer Matthew Burns gets Alavi to explain the intent behind that level, a level in which…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 2, 2012 -
A Weird Glitch Makes This The Best Dance Off In A Video Game Ever
I don’t even…what the hell is…ah whatever, don’t question it. Because this is undoubtedly the best dance off in video game history, thanks to what looks like some funny bugs in Arma 2. What the fuck kind of dance is that?! [YouTube via AmazingGames247]
By Tina Amini Published August 2, 2012 -
The Red-Headed Killer Returns to the Nintendo Download
It’s an incredibly short week for the Nintendo Download, but that just makes Circle Entertainment’s follow-up to the compelling DSiWare action-adventure The Lost Town: The Dust more of a chance to shine. Stare into the eyes of the red-headed killer. It was a grave oversight on my part that I completely skipped over The Lost…
By Mike Fahey Published August 2, 2012 -
I’ve Never Wanted to Buy a Virtual House More Than I Do Right Now
Phineas T. Rotostar is one hell of a salesman. It only took him a minute and a half to complete sell me on a floating sky house in the animated sci-fi MMO universe of WildStar Not that it was a particularly hard sell. I already had one foot in Carbine Studio’s pretty space opera. The…
By Mike Fahey Published August 2, 2012 -
Gaming’s Biggest Problem Is That Nobody Wants To Talk
Last year, as you might remember, this website leaked almost everything there was to know about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 As you might also remember, Modern Warfare 3 did okay. Like, $775 million in its first five days okay. People could easily go on the Internet and read extensive spoilers on every single…
By Jason Schreier Published August 2, 2012 -
Okay, Maybe the Minecraft Creeper Plush Does Look a Little NSFW
Coming in September from official Minecraft online retailer Jinx, this huggable depiction of the game’s most familiar foe does, at first, resemble the Incredible Hulk’s junk. My younger sister Nadine was at my apartment watching my children when the UPS man arrived with the package containing the plush Creeper. Completely unfamiliar with Minecraft she was…
By Mike Fahey Published August 2, 2012 -
Leaked Screens Show How FIFA 13 Works with the Wii U Controller
While Kotaku previously provided the nitty-gritty on how the Wii U version of FIFA 13 interacts with Nintendo’s new controller, this batch of new screen shots explicitly show how the Wii U’s tablet controller will work. WiiU Screens [FIFA Play via VG247]
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 2, 2012 -
Sony has lowered forecasts for its handheld gaming machines, but kept them steady for the PS3.
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 2, 2012 -
Link Sure Does Have to Lug Around a Ton of Stuff
There’s a very simple secret at the heart of Zelda’s success. The games have always been about showing you things you can’t do, making you work to get an item, then granting that item the power to do the thing you previously couldn’t do. It means that, as time has gone on, the game’s developers…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 2, 2012 -
It Takes an Action Figure to Bring Red Dead’s Jack Marston to Life
If you haven’t finished Red Dead Redemption, and one day plan to, don’t read any further Still with me? OK, good. John Marston’s son, Jack Marston, is a whiny little punk. Even at the “end” of the game, where he’s supposedly a grown man, he’s still a whiny little punk. This custom Jack, made from…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 2, 2012 -
Not Every MMO Has to Make You Get 10x Stupid Animal Tails
This is Forge. Pencil me in as mildly interested, if only because it’s promising to be an online game that brings some of the baggage of an MMO – like progressive stats and a string of special abilities – while leaving much of the boring stuff behind. Pitched as a game that’s all about player…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 2, 2012 -
You Might Soon See Paradox’s Big PC Games on an iPad (But Probably Not a Console)
As someone who spends most of his time on an iPad playing strategy games, and as someone who when not playing them on an iPad is playing them on a PC, when I had the chance to speak with Johan Andersson, the Studio Manager of Paradox’s internal development team, there was one thing I needed…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 2, 2012 -
The Average Age of a “Gamer” Just Dropped by Seven Years. Um, What?
As video gaming has become more popular, thanks to platforms like Facebook and mobile phones, the industry (and passionate fans) took a lot of pride in seeing the average age of a “gamer” climb out of the teens, into the 20s and then the 30s. So it’s a bit weird, then, to see that the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 2, 2012 -
How The Olympics Could Have Learned a Thing or Two From Video Games About “Cheating”
One of the more bizarre stories to come from the London Olympics so far has been the farcical conclusion to the group stages of the women’s badminton, which saw eight players deliberately try and lose in order to manipulate their knockout stage seedings, to the outrage of many. Maybe instead of blaming the athletes, though,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 1, 2012 -
Batman Sucks at Halo, But Excels at Kicking Robin’s Ass
The Dark Knight is not very good at Halo. Bruce Wayne was obviously too busy with all that money and grief as a kid to have learned his way around a control pad. He’s making up for it now, though. The only way he knows how.
By Luke Plunkett Published August 1, 2012 -
The PC Franchises Some Gamers Think are Improving, and Others Think are Getting Worse
Which PC franchises are getting better with age, and which are getting worse? Before we go any further, know that this is not science. It’s just the results of a survey a single website specialising in PC gaming ran a little while ago. Like our own grand census from a few years back, that makes…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 1, 2012 -
Customize The ‘Meow Mix’ Theme Song Of Your Darkest Nightmares
Tina isn’t doing the off-topic thread tonight, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have cats! In fact, let’s just combine her thing (cats) with my thing (music) into one super thing I give you THE MEOWMIXER. File this one under “Publicity Stunts We Fell For,” because I fell for this one. Something about mixing my…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 1, 2012 -
The Best Meat-Head Dialogue From the New Expendables Game
That’s the point of The Expendables, right? That they’re a bunch of meatheads from another era who are Back To Kick Some Ass? Even keeping that in mind, this game footage assembled by our video maestro Chris Person is some of the goofiest, most meatheaded dialogue I’ve heard in a long time. It’s practically Duke…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 1, 2012