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Notch’s New Space Game Has A Really Weird Title
The name of Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson’s next game will be 0x10c, he said today on his Twitter account. No, it’s not Mars Effect, as he had claimed on April Fools Day. The team is going with 0x10c, a name as bizarre as it is unpronounceable. It’s also an error code. “What happens if…
By Jason Schreier Published April 3, 2012 -
Rock Band Blitz Turns Your Playable Music Into a Rhythm/Arcade Mash-up This Summer
You won’t need plastic instruments to jam along to Harmonix’s latest Rock Band game. Revealed on G4 today, Rock Band Blitz turns players into a one-man band, making them play all the instruments with a gamepad in a song in an arcade-style experience that harkens back to the dev studio’s Frequency and Amplitude games. Xbox…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 3, 2012 -
If You Hated Kinect Star Wars Dancing, You’ll Cry Over These GIFs
The dancing in Star Wars: Kinect is admittedly quite silly to say the least. But you don’t need to chalk this latest Star Wars-branded product up to a scar on your childhood memories Instead, let’s celebrate the sheer ridiculousness that is the Star Wars parody dance moves and songs. But apparently a lot of die-hard…
By Tina Amini Published April 3, 2012 -
British Teachers Blame Video Games For Rise in ‘Hitting, Hurting and Thumping’
This week’s dose of anti-video game vitriol comes straight outta Great Britain, where a group called the Association of Teachers and Lecturers says electronic entertainment is making kids violent. As Telegraph reports: Alison Sherratt, former president of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, says growing access to “horrific” games is responsible for an increase in…
By Jason Schreier Published April 3, 2012 -
Ghost Recon: Commander Plans to Make Facebook Your Next Field of Battle
Ubisoft is releasing a number of Ghost Recon games this year. There’s console title Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, free-to-play PC shooter Ghost Recon Online, and now Ghost Recon Commander, a Facebook-based social experience designed to bridge the other games and tie them together. Loot Drop co-founder Brenda Brathwaite revealed the game’s Facebook page via Twitter…
By Kate Cox Published April 3, 2012 -
Why I’m Worried About My Daughter’s Video Game Future
This is my daughter. Her nickname is Cheeks. I really want her to play video games. Like, I really, really do. One of her favorite things to grab when she wanders around the apartment is an Xbox 360 controller. She holds it the right way most of the time, presses the buttons and looks up…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 3, 2012 -
Here’s How You’ll Operate Steel Battalion‘s Kinect-Powered Tanks
After I played Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor last month at Microsoft’s spring showcase, I called it the hardest-core Kinect game yet This tutorial video gives a sense of why that is, demonstrating all of the various moves available to players inside the cockpit of their vertical tank mech, or “VT.” By combining the Xbox 360…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 3, 2012 -
Nine Comics That Will Make You Fight Your Friends 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 3, 2012 -
Goodbye To The Comic Book Shops That Helped Shape Me
In late November of last year, I asked one of the clerks at a comic shop in midtown Manhattan to tell me how much money I’d spent there. I knew they had the total in their computer, but I wasn’t positive that I really wanted to know what it was. The clerk admitted that this…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 3, 2012 -
This Classic Manga about a Deadly Samurai and His Adorable Son Should’ve Been a Video Game a Long Time Ago
Comic books become TV shows that turn into movies that get spun off into games. Or the whole thing happens in reverse. Ideas from all these media feed off of each other—or they should. Source Material will take an occasional look at how elements from great comics, games, movies or TV shows show up in…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 3, 2012 -
SHAZAM! 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 3, 2012 -
There’s No Wedding Proposal Like a Final Fantasy Wedding Proposal
When Seth Hay arrived at the “Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy” concert last weekend in Toronto, he was met with a lovely surprise. His girlfriend, Cheryl Murray, had bought him tickets to a meet-and-greet with legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu and conductor Arnie Roth. After the show, they would get to hang out…
By Jason Schreier Published April 3, 2012 -
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Comes to PC on June 12th
Future Soldier, Ubisoft’s new entry in the Ghost Recon franchise, will be released for the PC on June 12th. The game will require a one-time online activation, but won’t require an internet connection to play.
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 3, 2012 -
Why You Cried While Playing Journey
People have a hard time talking on the internet about crying. Crying is a vulnerable enough act on its own that taking the time to write about it just seems over the top! When we talk about games like Journey, we usually talk about how “the room got dusty,” or we “got something in our…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 3, 2012 -
Van-Based Mobile Arcade Operator Arrested for Child Molestation [Update]
Games2U is a mobile franchise business that operates vans packed with video game consoles, renting them out for children’s parties and other special occasions. It sounds like the perfect business for a child molester. According to authorities, Leonard R. Filipkowski of Lakeland, Florida thought so too. The 44-year-old owner of the local Games2U franchise faces…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2012 -
Hey, Star Wars Grumps, You’re Making It Even Worse
It’s been popular for far too long to complain about Star Wars. I’m sick of it, because it all sounds to me like a bunch of old people complaining about kids these days. Sorry, haters, but you are living in an era of wonderful Star Wars, and your childhood isn’t being ruined. And I’m not…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 3, 2012 -
It’s So Cool To Be a Geek That Felicia Day Wrote a Song About It
I won’t speak for everyone, but I’m sure many self-proclaimed geeks have had their hobbies and passions bashed by high school teenagers who couldn’t comprehend the awesome. I certainly never replayed my favorite Final Fantasy games over and over in lieu of fellow gaming compatriots to share the experience with. No, never. Felicia Day and…
By Tina Amini Published April 3, 2012 -
If You’ve Got a Problem, If No One Else Can Help, Maybe You Can Hire The Angry Birds Team
Angry Birds is everywhere. The A-Team used to be everywhere. Put them together, and you’ve got 30 years of pop culture condensed into one minute of flash animation. If I died tomorrow and you played this video at my funeral, first off who the hell invited you to my funeral? Secondly, as the church police…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2012