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No Way to Trim the Pubic Hair of Console Gaming
In about a week I’ll move into a new home. My mother’s giving me an antique pine cabinet which she says is perfect to support my TV and house all my video game equipment. When I get home my best friend and I will carry over this antique. Then I’ll drill a huge hole right…
By Owen Good Published June 22, 2012 -
How To Turn Mass Effect 3‘s Shepard Into A Barbie Doll
Step 1. Get some clay. Step 2. Fashion the clay into a Barbie doll. Step 3. Hunt down a red wig for—you know what? Don’t even try this at home. Just check out how this blogger pulled it off Full pic (click to expand): Saving the galaxy, one Ken at a time. Commander Shepard Barbie…
By Jason Schreier Published June 22, 2012 -
Alabama is No. 1 in the First Top 25 Poll of the Season
News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • The Associated Press and the USA Today Coaches’ Poll won’t send in their preseason ballots for another few weeks, but that hasn’t stopped EA Sports from releasing its first poll—the preseason Top 25 of the 2012-2013 season in NCAA Football 13. This is…
By Owen Good Published June 22, 2012 -
SmartGlass Could Make Wii U a Better Sports Console, Too
There was so little mention of the Wii U by Electronic Arts, or any sports publisher at E3, I felt compelled to double-check with Madden‘s boss that they still were building a version for it. “Well, Peter [Moore] announced it on stage last year,” said Cam Weber, the label’s general manager of American football, breaking…
By Owen Good Published June 22, 2012 -
Global Thermonuclear War and the Single Man: It’s the Week in Gaming Apps
Heeding Luke Plunkett’s warning from Monday, I’m going to talk about The Act, Centipede Origins, and WarGames: WOPR, purposefully avoiding any mention in this week’s roundup of the insanely addictive Pocket Planes Oops. I’m considering instituting a moratorium on writing about games from Tiny Tower developer NimbleBit until they stop creating games that sap the…
By Mike Fahey Published June 22, 2012 -
We Don’t Play Games The Way We’re Supposed To
Companies want us to play games one way. We actually play them another way. Today’s Dorkly comic (by Julia Lepetit) does a wonderful job of illustrating that point. Behold a few of my favorites: Check Dorkly for the rest! How Games Are Meant To Be Played vs. How You Play Them [Dorkly]
By Jason Schreier Published June 22, 2012 -
PSA: Fez’s Bug-Fixing Patch Breaks It Even More
When she reviewed Phil Fish’s critically acclaimed indie game Fez earlier this year, our own Tina Amini noted that she experienced a few crashes while playing through the game. The intermittent glitchiness were a known issue and dev studio Polytron has been working on a title update to fix it. But don’t go grabbing that…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 22, 2012 -
An Open Letter To The Creators Of Final Fantasy
Dear Square Enix, How you doing? It’s been a while. Last I heard, you guys had some money issues. Hope you’ve bounced back. Sold off some of those extra records in the attic. Took out a second mortgage on your airship. Made some Facebook games. Whatever. I’m writing today because you’re the vanguard of role-playing…
By Jason Schreier Published June 22, 2012 -
Valve and Adult Swim Collaboration Premiering Next Week
Valve, the people who make Team Fortress 2, and Adult Swim, the beloved block of Cartoon Network shows for grown-ups, are teaming up for something TF2-related. It’s happening next week. That’s all we know! Fail to learn much more here
By Stephen Totilo Published June 22, 2012 -
Mass Effect 3 Executive Producer Casey Hudson: “You Can Never Completely Satisfy Everyone.”
The Mass Effect 3 ending—one of the year’s biggest video game controversies—will be getting more content when the Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC hits next week. But, with all the fan outrage and protests that have come and gone, that series’ executive producer apparently knows that it’s not going to make everyone happy. The…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 22, 2012 -
Determine Who Wins Comment of the Week Internet Points
Internet points! Better than real-life points! Let’s start nomination threads, with a link to a comment you liked. What’s that? The comment you liked was already nominated? Vote it up! Wait, you don’t remember what you liked this week? Look through your comment history for those #cotw hashtags (hopefully you’re using them for your own…
By Tina Amini Published June 22, 2012 -
The Trouble With the Never-Satisfied Gamer
Near the end of our interview earlier this month, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime jokingly asked me for harder questions. We’d mostly been talking about the ins and outs of the Wii U, but on this final day of the big E3 show, an event that included a big showing by Nintendo’s new console,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 22, 2012 -
The Amazing Bruce Campbell Gets Extreme in The Amazing Spider-Man
Since his role as the ring announcer in the first Spider-Man movie, B-movie and television star Bruce “Ash” Campbell has been a fixture in the webslinger’s video games. Next week’s The Amazing Spider-Man is no exception. Campbell plays an over-the-top journalist in the game, putting Spidey through his paces in a series of challenges that…
By Mike Fahey Published June 22, 2012 -
Expanded Mass Effect 3 Ending Coming On June 26
BioWare is releasing the Extended Cut downloadable content for sci-fi role-playing game Mass Effect 3 on June 26, it said today. You’ll be able to download it for free on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. It’s a whopping 1.9 gigabytes. “The Extended Cut expands on the endings of Mass Effect 3 through additional scenes…
By Jason Schreier Published June 22, 2012 -
This Watch Dogs Screenshot Sure Looks Next-Gen, Doesn’t It?
Ubisoft’s been coy about what platforms its next open-world game will be coming out for, even if they’ve already said when. That it’s coming to PC is a given, I think. But this Watch Dogs screen that’s been floating around today definitely looks like something destined for the next round of console hardware. But will…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 22, 2012 -
Curt Schilling’s $50 Million is Gone, Along With the Rest of 38 Studios
The meltdown and collapse of 38 Studios not only halted the development of a potentially promising game in progress, but also hurt plenty of people In a recent interview with Boston-area sports radio network WEEI, studio founder Curt Schilling—formerly a major league baseball pitching star—explained how the studio collapse hit him, personally. In addition to…
By Kate Cox Published June 22, 2012