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Have $3,500 Handy? I Know Exactly What You Should Buy.
A fully functional Nintendo controller coffee table. Wait, let me repeat that. It’s a fully functional Nintendo controller coffee table. But it’s also $3,500 on Etsy. That’s the price you’ll have to pay for all that sweet, sweet mahogany gaming. We’ve featured coffee tables resembling the NES system before, as well as the controller itself,…
By Tina Amini Published April 11, 2012 -
You Could (And Should) Be Playing AirMech Right Now
In AirMech, you play as a robot that transforms into a plane. You play from a top-down view. You can shoot stuff up, treating it like an arcade game, but it’s a real-time strategy game. You can watch the five-minute video here to listen to the game’s creative director, James Green, explain AirMech while he…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 11, 2012 -
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Punches and Kicks Its Way to A September Release
The sequel to one of the most popular PS2 games will be arriving on the Xbox 360 and PS3 this fall. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 re-assembles Jin, Xiaoyu and the other brawlers of the King of Iron Fist tournament for a nother go-round, with a few new special features. You’ll still be able to play…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 11, 2012 -
This Curvy Beauty Sprang From a Solid Chunk of Aluminium
I know, I know; a home theater PC barely counts as a gaming PC, but in the case of HardOCP forum member Achron’s sexy metal creation I’m willing to make an exception. Warning: machining porn inside. Achron’s “Acronym” project began some three years ago, when the then master’s student tried to find a front-end media…
By Mike Fahey Published April 11, 2012 -
Everything You Need to Know About Intel’s Ivy Bridge
Intel is set to roll out its latest generation of processors this spring despite a minor setback affecting ultra low-voltage models — the ones destined for super slim notebooks. By normal standards, the launch should mark a new “tick” in the company’s product roadmap, but Intel is going beyond just shrinking the current 32nm Sandy…
Jose Vilches | TechSpot Published April 11, 2012 -
The Secret World Reveals Deep Mysteries, Intuitive Play, and Deadly Zombies
Norwegian game designer Ragnar Tørnquist is perhaps most associated with the classic PC adventure game The Longest Journey and its sequel, Dreamfall. The two posit that our world is really only half of the world-that-is, and that our Earth as we know it has remained sundered from its more magical, mystical half for ages. In…
By Kate Cox Published April 11, 2012 -
At Its Most Primitive Aztez is Still More Fun Than Most Beat-em Ups
I’m playing an April 2011 build of a game due out in 2013. It only has one level, one hero and only six enemies to dispatch. I’ve played through it a dozen times since last night. The stark and striking black and white visuals of Ben Ruiz and Matthew Wegner’s Aztez are what initially drew…
By Mike Fahey Published April 11, 2012 -
Dark Souls ‘Prepare To Die’ Edition Coming to PC On August 24
The action-role-playing game Dark Souls will be available on August 24 for PC, publisher Namco Bandai said today at a Las Vegas event. It will feature new content and use the much-maligned Games for Window Live platform. Rumors have suggested that it will also have new bosses. As our lovely commenters point out, you can…
By Jason Schreier Published April 11, 2012 -
Would I Rather Command Marines or Bite Them In Half? Hmmm.
Wow, did Charlie Cleveland ever surprise me at PAX East. I don’t know the guy, and I didn’t pay much attention to the game his studio was showing off at the big show in Boston. Not at first. Charlie’s game looked, at a glance, like just another team-based shooter. I walked by a row of…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 11, 2012 -
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By Mike Fahey Published April 11, 2012 -
The Curse of Nordic Cove Lets You Smack Viking Ghosts With Golf Clubs
Okay, so The Curse of Nordic Cove kind of looks like a rejected Nintendo 64 game. And the hit detection seems a little off. But hey, at least this golf-simulator-slash-action-adventure title thinks outside the box. I saw it on the PAX East show floor last weekend and thought it was so bizarre, I had to…
By Jason Schreier Published April 11, 2012 -
Forget 3D, I’m Ready To Play This 4D Video Game
Miegakure is a video game set in four spatial dimensions: specifically, the dimension that goes out to the sides, like your keyboard; the one that goes up, like a tree; the one that goes out deep, like a dog fetching a stick… and that other dimension, the one you can’t point to unless you’ve got…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 11, 2012 -
Jack Lumber Is The Argument That Fruit Ninja Really Needed Logs
Please check out our game, the developer of Jack Lumber asked me, as I walked through the indie booth. My reply, because I was in a hurry: Can you pitch me the game in 10 seconds? In fewer than 10 seconds, the developer told me that the game is about a man whose grandmother was…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 11, 2012 -
Alternative Mass Effect 3 Launch Trailer Is Better Than The Official One
BioWare’s Mass Effect 3 launch trailer was great. The high-intensity of the final chapter in the sci-fi universe really came through in the slices of action and dramatic moments that were featured. But this alternative, fan-made trailer using Mass Effect 1 and 3 elements is even better. I love the heavy emphasis on the Reapers,…
By Tina Amini Published April 11, 2012 -
Amoebattle Is Loaded With Smart and Challenging Touch-Screen Strategy
A touch-screen should work well with real-time strategy games, you know? RTS games require a good overhead view, the ability to quickly flick between units, and a ready batch of hotkeys and functions. The iPad in particular is uniquely suited to do all of those things; it just takes the right game. Amoebattle, a terrific…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 11, 2012 -
A Song Built From the Sounds of Skyrim
We’ve seen more than our fair share of covers of Skyrim‘s bombastic theme music over the past six months. Now it’s time for a little something different: an original song pieced together using sounds recorded from the Xbox 360 version of the game. Through creative use of audio layering and filters, Peter “Flash! Bang!” Sneddon…
By Mike Fahey Published April 11, 2012
