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Baldur’s Gate Website Lurches to Life, Is a New Game Rising?
It’s been eleven years since PC role-playing gamers claimed the throne of Bhaal, Lord of Murder, bringing BioWare’s epic Baldur’s Gate series to a satisfying close, but has the entire tale been told? New developments at the game’s website suggest there’s still life in the old death god yet. With the recent news that a…
By Mike Fahey Published February 28, 2012 -
Turns Out There’s Already at Least One Great Mario Party Drinking Game
In today’s preview of Mario Party 9, I cracked that the game could easily inspire some great drinking games. As it turns out, the guys at “Drinking Games for Gamers” are way ahead of me, putting together a game called “Mario Party Down” with rules based on past Mario Party games. They get extreme bonus…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 28, 2012 -
This Video Game Just Sold, at an Airport, for Over $30,000
There’s a Neo Geo game called Aero Fighters 3. Until this month, it was assumed that it had never been released in the US. It never was, officially. But at least three copies are now known to exist anyway, and one of them just went for over $30,000 Reader Michael DiCioccio, a hardcore Neo Geo…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 28, 2012 -
Is That a Pineapple in Your Refrigerator or Are You Just Happy To See Me
PineappleVille | The fridge at Kotaku headquarters has been taken over by a promotional pineapple sent by Zynga. You can only eat it if you tell ten friends about it first. (Photo by Tina Amini) Six out of Six Binary Domain Reviewers Agree: Shooting Robots Just Makes You Feel Good You know, if Sega had…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 28, 2012 -
Are 100-Hour Games Just A Waste Of Our Time?
It’s tough to play games and not sometimes feel like you’re wasting your time. Whether you’re grinding for levels or fighting endless waves of random enemies, it can be difficult to reconcile with sections of game that feel like padding. Writing for Slate, journalist Michael Thomsen takes that notion one step further, critiquing 100-hour epics…
By Jason Schreier Published February 28, 2012 -
New Super Nintendo (Yes, Super Nintendo!) Game Is in Development for 2013
For the folks out there who can still lay hands on a working Super Nintendo system, good news: there’s a new game slated to come your way next year. Development, publishing, and production company Super Fighter Team are calling Nightmare Busters a “masterful run and gun game for the Super Nintendo, Super Famicom and all…
By Kate Cox Published February 28, 2012 -
Make Your Own Version of Pong, (Maybe) Win $100,000 [UPDATE]
In honor of Pong‘s 40th anniversary, publisher Atari is now taking entries for what it calls the “Pong Indie Developer Challenge,” it said today. For a shot at winning $100,000 and a publishing agreement with Atari, you can dream up your own version of Pong and draw up “at the very least” a design document.…
By Jason Schreier Published February 28, 2012 -
Six out of Six Binary Domain Reviewers Agree: Shooting Robots Just Makes You Feel Good
You know, if Sega had simply marketed Binary Domain with the slogan, “Shoot some robots”, I probably wouldn’t have been so down on it all these months. That was all I needed to know. There’s something about a dystopian future where some sort of robots have gained sentience and you’ve got to blow bits of…
By Mike Fahey Published February 28, 2012 -
Competitive Gamer’s Inflammatory Comments Spark Sexual Harassment Debate [Update]
Competitive fighting gamer Aris Bakhtanians has prompted some ire with inflammatory comments he made during a recent episode of Capcom’s “Cross Assault.” “Cross Assault” is a promotional competitive web-TV series that pits a team of Tekken players against a team of Street Fighter players. On the show, Bakhtanians made remarks about the entrenched sexism in…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 28, 2012 -
The Panel Discussion Dozen: 12 Comics That Aren’t What They Seem 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 February 28, 2012 -
Art and Superheroines: Psylocke as Drawn by Greg Land vs. Jerome Opena
This is the second Comics Alliance column by David Brothers on comic book artists’ approaches to drawing women in oversexualized ways. This time, he tackles the X-Men’s psychic ninja. Read on to see what Brothers thinks of Greg Land and Jerome Opeña’s takes on the character. We got a big response to my last piece…
David Brothers Published February 28, 2012 -
Namco Bandai’s ShiftyLook Uses Webcomics to Re-Invent Forgotten Characters
Look, you probably don’t remember Bravoman. I know I don’t. But, in his mind, the hero of a 1988 beat-em-up is the world’s greatest video game character. Lucky for him, he’ll be getting the chance to prove it all over again. Bravoman‘s going to be appearing in all-new webcomics from ShiftyLook, a new division of…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 28, 2012 -
Peer Into the Foggy, Flowing Animation of the Gotham by Gaslight That Never Was
Day 1 Studios is fresh off of getting robot combat fans all excited with the teaser campaign for Reign of Thunder. But, all comics aficionados have gotten for news of the outfit’s scuttled Batman game have been tantalizing glimpes of what might’ve been The biggest look, via SiliconEra, yet comes from this test animation supplied…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 28, 2012 -
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 February 28, 2012 -
Antichamber Will Confuse Your Brain
Antichamber, much like the premise of Portal, is a first-person puzzle game, and one that Stephen Totilo fell in love with at PAX 2011 Looking at this newly-released trailer, I know what you’re thinking: What the hell is going on in this game? What seems like a mesh of geometrical, randomly colored platforms, cubes and…
By Tina Amini Published February 28, 2012 -
Sony Sells 1.2 Million PlayStation Vitas Worldwide
Four days after its release on U.S. shores, the PlayStation Vita passed the one million sales mark worldwide. Sony has sold a total of 1.2 milion Vita units in Japan, the U.S., and all of its other territories as of February 26, it said in a press release today. The powerful portable system first launched…
By Jason Schreier Published February 28, 2012 -
The Boondock Saints to Continue Their Quest From Consoles
The Boondock Saints missed its mark with critics, but the 1999 film was, and remains, a cult favorite. The tale of style, crime, vigilantism, words you can’t say on television, and blood will soon be adapted into a multi-platform game. G4 spoke with Matt Scibilia, president and CEO of developer Critical Mass Interactive. In that…
By Kate Cox Published February 28, 2012 -
Disneyland Is Much More Fun When You’re Pretending To Be Professor Layton
Wired Game|Life editor (and my former boss) Chris Kohler published an excellent story today about his exploits in Disneyland last weekend. He wasn’t there just to float down log flume rivers or hang out with Mickey Mouse; he went to solve puzzles, Professor Layton style. The puzzles, put together by an organization called Shinteki, took…
By Jason Schreier Published February 28, 2012 -
The Boss Battles of Mario Party 9
In the trailer above, you can get a bit of a sense of Mario Party 9‘s road-trip design, as well as a taste of a couple of the new boss battles. It’s all a random, chaotic good time, though less “go team!” than this trailer would suggest. My full impressions of the game can be…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 28, 2012 -
Mario Party 9 Sure Could Inspire Some Great Drinking Games
“Are we there yet?” So you’re on a road trip with three friends, and things have gotten combative. You were thinking it’d just be you and your pal Waluigi, two buds taking some time on the road to catch up, but no; he had to invite along that annoying little punk Toad and his half-sister…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 28, 2012