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This Alternate Reality Game Lets Players Control Real People
There are plenty of games out there that posit alternate realities. Upcoming MMO The Secret World bases its whole plot around the idea, while piles of other games have at some point integrated themselves into the real world, often for marketing purposes. But one ARG is taking the premise of games like Missing: Since January…
By Kate Cox Published April 24, 2012 -
I Must Acquire This GLaDOS Pokéball Immediately
deviantART user wazzy88 just uploaded this beauty, and I immediately knew I’d have to have it. Too bad the pokéball will undoubtedly not contain GLaDOS’ famous snarky wit. Maybe you can hear it if you put it under water. The GLaDOS Pokeball [deviantART via Reddit]
By Tina Amini Published April 24, 2012 -
Hell F***in’ Yeah, It’s Time for Some Human Bowling Pins in Prototype 2
Here’s something I didn’t expect in Prototype 2: A human bowling minigame. That’s the best way I can describe “Collateral Damage,” one of the Radnet challenges that the game will be offering week-to-week, with character skins, experience points, powers and other goodies as the payout. Radical Entertainment went with these Radnet games instead of online…
By Owen Good Published April 24, 2012 -
It Took Us A While To Discover That This New Dragon Game Wasn’t Terrible
We’ve been skeptical about Capcom’s upcoming knights-and-magic game Dragon’s Dogma for about a year. And then Capcom sent me a near-final copy of the game so I could play it. My skepticism increased. Dragon’s Dogma appears to be one very messy, clumsy game, full of bad dialogue, cumbersome menus and annoying supporting characters. Its theme…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 24, 2012 -
Angry Birds Is Violating Your Facebook Privacy Much Less Today Than It Was Yesterday, Expert Says
USA Today reported yesterday that the Facebook version of Angry Birds had a flunking score of 65 in terms of respecting users’ privacy, according to a group called PrivacyChoice Today? PrivacyChoice gives the same app a glowing 89 (check it yourself). The Angry Birds folks “amended their policy, as did one of the companies collecting…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 24, 2012 -
Twelve Comics That Will Corrupt You From Within 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 April 24, 2012 -
Cowboy Joker? Pirate Batman? Thank You, Gotham City Impostors for These Ridiculous Super-Costumes
A few months back, the Monolith-developed shooter offered a wacky if inconsistent take on criminals and crusaders in Batman’s hometown. Gotham City Impostors imagined what ordinary folks who idolized the Dark Knight and the Clown Prince of Crime would do if let loose in all-out gunfights. Part of the fun of GCI comes from stitching…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 24, 2012 -
In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night! 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 April 24, 2012 -
Bruce Wayne on Drugs: One of the Best Batman Stories Ever
It sounds like a joke at first: What if Batman got addicted to drugs? But legendary Batman writer Denny O’Neil took a laughable premise and turned it into one of the best character portraits the Caped Crusader’s ever seen. Batman: Venom shows off everything that makes Denny O’Neil one of my favorite writers. His work…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 24, 2012 -
Thinking About Buying Batman: Arkham City? Hang On.
Just a PSA: The upcoming Game of the Year edition of Arkham City, to be released May 29, will include all of the game’s downloadable content, including the upcoming Harley Quinn’s Revenge, which comes out at the end of this month. So don’t dish out your $60 just yet—wait for the Game of the Year…
By Jason Schreier Published April 24, 2012 -
Each Level of Super Mario Bros. Condensed Into a Single Screen
You must play Super Mario Summary, a platformer that designer Johan Peitz created during the latest Ludum Dare game dev challenge. It’s a surprisingly fun recreation of Super Mario Bros. in which every level is summarized by a single screen. And you can play it at work. Which I just did. For the past 30…
By Jason Schreier Published April 24, 2012 -
Bloodforge Features a Forge, a Gorge, and a Lot of Bloody Dumbness
Meet Crum. (Hi, Crum!) He wears a big badass skull on his head. (Hi, huge badass skull on Crum’s head!) He hunts things, and lives a life of contented happiness in the freezing mountains of Some Fantasy World of Another. Until… he makes the Gods mad. And some dumb stuff happens. Soon his wife is…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 24, 2012 -
Preorder Customers Dress-Up With Gravity Rush‘s Physics-Defying Heroine
As if we needed more incentive to get our hands on one of the most anticipated PlayStation Vita games, players that preorder Gravity Rush will score a code for the Military DLC Pack, giving Kat a sharp new look to carry here through new missions and challenges. It’s not just a pretty costume; the Military…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2012 -
Mass Effect 3‘s Multiplayer Got Me To Trade My Cynicism for Addiction
I spend a lot of time with the quarian lately; she’s become my favorite. Though if I’m being strictly honest, she’s actually the third quarian. The first two long since reached the limits of their potential with me, and are now off fighting some other battles elsewhere in the galaxy. It’s the Mass Effect 3…
By Kate Cox Published April 24, 2012 -
We’ll Know About a Heart-Stopping, New PlayStation 3 Game on Thursday Night
Geoff Keighley, Game Trailers TV host and master of the world exclusive video reveal is currently in hype mode for Thursday’s installment of GTTV and is promising the following in a new promo for the show.. “A huge PlayStation 3 exclusive…” “…this new game that will definitely be the talk of the Internet…” “the next…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 24, 2012 -
Almost Everyone Gets Demolished By One Guy’s Knife In A Round Of Modern Warfare 3
This latest video hosted on AmazingFilms247 captures a player knifing almost every single enemy. It all happens so fast that the other players are left wondering what the hell even happened.
By Tina Amini Published April 24, 2012 -
Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy is Like Having a Little Ace Combat in Your Pants
We’ve mentioned Namco Bandai’s Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy briefly during the launch of the new iPad, but we never got around to featuring it as a Gaming App of the Day. I don’t know about everyone else, but for me this was because I was too busy playing Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy. This is console-quality…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2012 -
Modern Warfare 3 Player Gets Angry Kid To Argue With Himself
This is trolling at its finest (or worst, really). A MW3 player gets into a smack-talking back and forth with what seems to be a young kid, and records it for funsies. Funsies eventually turns into YouTube user Darknessgta4 playing the recording back to the kid, after which he actually gets the kid to argue…
By Tina Amini Published April 24, 2012 -
Forests And Fireballs Fill Witcher-Inspired Action Sequence
In honor of The Witcher 2, which was rereleased as an enhanced edition for Xbox 360 and PC last week, here’s an awesome action sequence that was inspired by the game’s frenetic spell-filled combat. It’s quite well done. Confrontation at Dawn – Witcher-inspired short [YouTube]
By Jason Schreier Published April 24, 2012