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Mass Effect 3 Gets a Happy Ending After All
People been complaining about the end of Mass Effect 3. Saying there isn’t enough of this kind of business If that’s you, here. Russian artist Hellstern has an alternative finale. And it doesn’t get much happier than plush Krogans, Gilbert & Sullivan karaoke and Garrus eating a watermelon. Mass Effect 3 how it should’ve ended…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012 -
If You Like Fast-Paced Battles And Dying A Lot, You Might Love Awesomenauts
Developer Ronimo—known for strategy game Swords & Soldiers—stopped by our offices recently to show off their latest creation: a zany arcade title that goes by Awesomenauts After spending some hands on time with the game and chatting with the developers, our own Elyas Gorogo-Baker takes us through a visual preview of the multiplayer online battle…
By Tina Amini Published March 20, 2012 -
Rayman 3 HD and Some Games With People Who Actually Have Arms Arrive on the PlayStation Store This Week
Is it harder to upgrade a game to HD when the main character doesn’t have limbs? Only Ubisoft game creator Michel Ancel can answer that one, since his signature creation—fresh off the awesome Rayman Origins—gets a shinier PS3 re-release this week. Other notable happenings inlcude a whole passel of Final Fantasy games on sale and…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 20, 2012 -
How To Take a Minecraft Pick-Axe To Your Favorite Website
There is a thing called Minecraft Anywhere, which is not exactly something that lets you play Minecraft Anywhere. It’s a marketing gimmick. A silly one, but a clever one, too! You might have some fun with it, if you’d like to have a Creeper run across your computer monitor right now… or if you’d like…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 20, 2012 -
Reboot Could Make Soul Reaver Rise From the Grave
For a while there, it certainly seemed like consoles and PCs were rife with video game vampires and vampire slayers, didn’t it? And the Legacy of Kain series in particular stood head and shoulders above the rest. Released on PS1/PC, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain won praise for its deep, sophisticated storyline, which introduced the…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 20, 2012 -
Looks Like We’ll Hear About The Next Epic Mickey Game This Week
The Internet was abuzz today with rumors about a possible Epic Mickey 2 for Nintendo 3DS following a tweet from France’s Nintendo Magazine yesterday afternoon. Translation (courtesy Google Translate): The presentation of Epic Mickey 2 will take place next week. 3DS version, Power of Illusion, more “classic” 2D is also planned. Though the sourcing here…
By Jason Schreier Published March 20, 2012 -
The First Official Trailer for the New Angry Birds Sequel
Here’s the first official trailer for the first proper sequel to Angry Birds, called Angry Birds: Space. They don’t look that angry, do they? More like they’re just…mildly upset. A little cranky. Guess that’s what billions of dollars does to an animal. It cheers them up. The game’s out on March 22.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 20, 2012 -
Game Critics Raid the Garbage of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
For decades those pesky raccoons have been sneaking about at night, digging through our trash cans and generally making a mess of things. It’s time the game reviewers of the internet strike back. To Raccoon City! It may sound like a nice place to live and cuddle, but like the furry fiends themselves, Raccoon City…
By Mike Fahey Published March 20, 2012 -
Here’s What New York’s Chinatown Fair Looks Like Right Now
Excitement swirled around the gaming industry this week in the wake of reports that New York’s legendary Chinatown Fair may be reopening for business. Film director Kurt P. Vincent, who directed a documentary about the beloved landmark called Arcade, reported that he had found workers moving arcade cabinets back into the building. According to Vincent,…
By Jason Schreier Published March 20, 2012 -
From Flower to Journey and Beyond: A Talk with Kellee Santiago of Thatgamecompany
Kellee Santiago is president and co-founder of thatgamecompany, which released Journey last week. Their previous game, Flower, is a featured, playable game at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s new exhibit The Art of Video Games, which opened this weekend. Santiago was at the museum as one of the featured panelists in Friday’s festivities, and I…
By Kate Cox Published March 20, 2012 -
Here’s Everything I Can’t Stand About Ninja Gaiden III
There are times in life when you shouldn’t mess with a good thing. To me, Ninja Gaiden III exemplifies this. Why are there Quick Time Events in Combat? What’s with all the cheesy British stereotypes? What the heck happened to the Ninja Gaiden I know and love? In the video above, you’ll see exactly what…
By Chris Person Published March 20, 2012 -
Did Nintendo Just Create Better Words For ‘Multiplayer’?
If you thought the word “multiplayer” was a good way of describing the thing you do when you play a video game with friends, please consider the word “together.” That’s the option you’ll get in the new 3DS game Kid Icarus: Uprising if you choose not to play the game’s Solo mode. “Together” is pretty…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 20, 2012 -
Congressman Really, Really, Really Wants To Slap Cigarette-Style Warning Labels On Video Games
It may have been in early 2009 when Congressman Joe Baca first got the idea that video games should be slapped with health warnings. He wrote a bill that would mandate it. It went nowhere. He did the same thing in 2011. That bridge went to nowhere, too. If he was a predictable legislator, he…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 20, 2012 -
Crossover: Ken Levine Talks About Why There Aren’t Any Bioshock Graphic Novels and the Comics Artists He Absolutely Adores
Part of Panel Discussion’s mission is to look at the ways and places where comics and video games intersect and here in Crossover, we’ll be talking to game creators about the comics stories and creators who’ve shaped their sensibilities. Anyone familiar with the full scope of Ken Levine’s resume probably figured out that the Irrational…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 20, 2012 -
This Brave Man is Selling His Entire Comics Collection, All 150 Longboxes
Mark Waid says he’s “reached a point.” A point where he no longer needs his comics collection. He’s got 150 longboxes of comics. He’s done with them. He wants to sell every single comic. And he’ll use the proceeds to finance the creation of a new line of digital comics Mark Waid is a fantastic…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 20, 2012 -
Telltale’s Walking Dead Adventure Can Be Yours for Five Installments of $4.99
Telltale explores the dark recesses of an already dark universe next month, when the first of five monthly installments of The Walking Dead hit PC, Mac, Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation 3. That’s right, no staggered release for this Telltale epic. The Walking Dead is officially a thing, creator Robert Kirkman officially looks cuddly, and…
By Mike Fahey Published March 20, 2012 -
The Panel Discussion Dozen: 12 Comics That Will Send You Sub-Orbital 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 March 20, 2012 -
Calm Down, Before Watchmen Won’t Be the End Times for Comics Creativity
If you listen to certain corners of the internet, the souls of comics fans everywhere are going to cry out for justice come June 6th. That’s when DC Comics starts rolling out Before Watchmen, the controversial prequels to Alan Moore’s beloved dystopian superhero opus. Written and drawn by legendary creators Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons,…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 20, 2012 -
Excelsior! Panel Discussion Starts Now, True Believers!
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 March 20, 2012