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Xbox Bundle Includes 250GB Console, Forza 4, Terrible Wheel
Microsoft announced a new hardware budle yesterday that includes a 250GB Xbox 360, a copy of Forza 4 and one wireless racing wheel. Which you can use as, I don’t know, a doorstop or something. [Microsoft]
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
Apple is “Not Interested in Being in the Console Business”
You hear rumours of Apple entering the console business once every, oh, six months or so. Maybe that’ll slow down after comments made today by new Apple boss Tim Cook. “Gaming has kind of evolved a bit”, he said at tonight’s D10 conference talk. “More people play on portable devices. Where we might go in…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
Persona 4: The Golden‘s Intro Movie Drips With Style and Harmonica Riffs
If you want to get excited about the fall’s release of Persona 4: The Golden on the PS Vita, there are few better ways than watching its opening cinematic, which features a style-drenched, poppy run through the cast of characters, all accompanied by “Pursuing My True Self” by Shihoko Hirata. Man. If you are a…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 29, 2012 -
Insane Garrus Cosplay Will Calibrate Your Eyeballs
This is Digiko, dressd up as Garrus from the Mass Effect series. I had to drop his name in there because if I hadn’t told you, you may have thought this was simply Garrus from the Mass Effect series. The whole thing took around two months to build and cost $300 in materials. The Mantis…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2012 -
Four Naked Barbarians Walk into The Skeleton King’s Lair
A team of four Barbarians joined together recently with a simple goal in mind: to take down the Skeleton King, one of Diablo III‘s earliest boss fights. An easy task, unless you’re playing on Hardcore Mode, and you aren’t allowed to upgrade your equipment. Girlish shouts ensue. Robert Pooner and the Spice Boys step into…
By Mike Fahey Published May 29, 2012 -
5 Things Grand Theft Auto V Should Lift From Max Payne 3
It can be difficult to view Max Payne 3 on its own terms. It’s a fine game in its own right, but it will always exist at least partly in the shadow of Rockstar’s other, much bigger looming release—Grand Theft Auto V Since Rockstar released GTA IV four years ago, both Red Dead Redemption and…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 29, 2012 -
An EA Game Returns To Steam, Because the Developers Changed It
Crysis 2, an EA-published game that disappeared from the popular PC gaming service Steam last year, returned today. Peace on Earth between Steam’s team at Valve and EA? Not exactly. EA pulled some of its games from Steam Steam pulled some of EA’s games last year due to objections about how Steam handled downloadable content,…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 29, 2012 -
The Wii U’s Ability to Run Unreal Engine 4 is In Doubt (Again)
Our pal at Game Trailers, Geoff Keighley, will be debuting the demo of the next-gen Unreal Engine 4 graphics tech some time during E3 on Spike, but in the week before E3 he’s breaking some Nintendo fan’s hearts. He Tweeted last night that the Wii U, Nintendo’s console that’s close to the PlayStation 3 and…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 29, 2012 -
You Should Try You Don’t Know Jack on Facebook Right Now [Update]
I have many fond memories of playing the original You Don’t Know Jack and its various expansions back in the late 90’s on PC. Starting today, the series’ recent revitalization has hit a new high point: You Don’t Know Jack has come to Facebook, and it is wonderful. I actually played YDKJ on the Xbox…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 29, 2012 -
Looks Like Castlevania: Mirror of Fate isn’t the 2D Platformer I Was Hoping For
Last week news of a game called Castlevania: Mirror of Fate for the Nintendo 3DS had fans of the series (myself including) imagining a brand new 2D adventure for Nintendo’s latest handheld. Perhaps if we had known the game’s full name, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow — Mirror of Fate, we would have known better. According…
By Mike Fahey Published May 29, 2012 -
Diablo III Is Adorable
Here’s something: I lived in a frat house for three months. It wasn’t as bad as you might guess. Actually, it was nice. I only got two parking tickets that summer. I also read several issues of Men’s Health, cover-to-cover, on the toilet. It was a type of tourism. (“I’m in here!” I’d shout from…
Jenn Frank | Unwinnable Published May 29, 2012 -
The Divinity Series Returns to Original Sin Early Next Year
European developer Larian Studios has announced the fourth game in their Divinity franchise, Divinity: Original Sin Their most recent outing, Divinity II, came out right at the beginning of 2010 and was a direct “many years later” sequel to their first game, Divine Divinity Divinity: Original Sin is being cast as a prequel, in the…
By Kate Cox Published May 29, 2012 -
A Horror Game In Which You Play as a Two-Year Old
This is the video game trailer that the people I follow on Twitter have been buzzing about all day. It’s for Among the Sleep. It’s a horror “experience” played in the first-person perspective. You’re just two years old. Official description from the people making the game: “In Among the Sleep you take on the role…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 29, 2012 -
Here Now, The Very Best Ultraviolence From Sunday’s Epic Game of Thrones
You know it, I know it; the American people know it. Sunday’s Game of Thrones, which centered entirely around King’s Landing and the Battle of the Blackwater, was a high point in the show’s already great run. It had everything: epic battle scenes, incredible special effects, rare moments of intimacy and humor, quality time with…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 29, 2012 -
Far Cry 3‘s Latest Teaser Is Crazy Like a Cat. Specifically, a Tiger.
Okay. Oh-kay. Let’s put aside the fact that the Far Cry 3 gameplay we’ve seen thus far has more in common with Uncharted than it does with the misunderstood-by-many, beloved-by-me Far Cry 2 Let’s overlook the fact that the protagonist’s name is “Jason Brody.” Even though there is a “bro” right there in his frickin…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 29, 2012 -
Five Comics That Will Make Your Worlds Collide This Week
If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 29, 2012 -
The Lego Batman 2 Video Game Might Know What Kids Want Out of Comics Better Than Comics Do
The next Lego Batman game comes packed with superheroes. Enough to form a Justice League, even. And that’s great for the adults who already know those characters and will be playing with children. But if I were a seven-year-old kid playing the not-out-yet Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, the first thing I’d want to…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 29, 2012 -
Why Robin Makes Batman Better
Robin plays a big part in the Harley Quinn’s Revenge DLC that hits Batman: Arkham City today. Yeah, it’s apparently not that great. But the character’s presence in the add-on reminds me that people exist who really, really hate the Boy Wonder. I mean, folks who rabidly rail against the very idea of a Robin.…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 29, 2012 -
With One Magic Word… Panel Discussion Starts Now!
Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this
By Evan Narcisse Published May 29, 2012