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You Can Now Sign Up For Dust 514‘s Beta… If You’re An EVE Online Player
We’ve shown you armor, weapons and vehicles from Dust 514, the persistent online shooter from the makers of EVE Online. Now, a select few will finally be able to get their hands on the game and how all those elements feel. Over on their dev blog, developers CCP have announced that registration is live for…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 23, 2011 -
Princess Mononoke
Mononoke Hime | Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke gets a makeover, courtesy of sakimichan Some Guys Who Made Homeworld Are Making A New Sci-Fi Game Over the past ten years, ever since we saw the last of the critically-acclaimed Homeworld series, a number of key developers working on games for developers Relic left the studio. More » Another…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 23, 2011 -
No 32GB Vita Cards For You, Europe (Yet)
The must-have accessory for the PlayStation Vita launch – and this is because you almost literally must have one – have been Sony’s proprietary memory cards. The 32GB versions in particular have been the most sought-after, selling out in Japan and being confirmed for the handheld’s US launch If you’re in Australia or Europe, though?…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 23, 2011 -
Because Santa Needs To Die
You remember Happy Wheels? Free flash game, dangerously fun/funny. Well, this being Christmas and all, its creator Jim Bonacci added a Christmas theme to it. Where you control Santa and some Elves. Then kill them, repeatedly and without mercy Just head to Happy Wheels’ site, pick a level and at the character select screen, choose…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 23, 2011 -
Congraturations, Sega, This Vita Game’s a Winner
Now, we should be the last people on Earth to get on a high horse over typos and associated spelling errors. But the fact this screenshot comes from the Japanese version of Virtua Tennis 4 on the Vita makes it too good to pass up. @ItCameFromJapan [Twitter, via Destructoid]
By Luke Plunkett Published December 23, 2011 -
A Day In the Life of a Shy Guy
Clock on, office politics, clock off. Just another day in the life of one of the Mushroom Kingdom’s most adorable denizens. By, who else, Zac Gorman (Click on the below image to embiggen). December 22nd, 2011 [Magical Game Time]
By Luke Plunkett Published December 23, 2011 -
The New Xbox Dashboard Is Stopping Some Users from Getting Online
Ever since the release of Microsoft’s new dashboard the other week, some unlucky users have been unable to get their consoles back online, something the company is promising to “resolve … as soon as possible”. “We have recently identified an Xbox Live profile data error that results in Error Code ‘801540B7’ for a small number…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 23, 2011 -
Capcom is Opening a bar. A Real, Drinking Bar.
Japanese publisher Capcom will next year open a bar in Tokyo’s bustling Shinjuku. It’ll be a sort of cultural and public relations outpost for the company (which is actually based in Osaka), as alongside food and drinks based off Capcom properties it’ll also host public events. The bar, which is called…Capcom Bar, opens on January…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 23, 2011 -
Half-Life LEGO? One Man Made It Happen.
Custom LEGO builder Brandon Bannerman doesn’t wait for due process to take its course, he makes his own damn LEGO. And this week he’s made this wonderful little Gordon Freeman. It’d look great with that last set of Half-Life LEGO we saw, give those Combine someone to chase after. You can check out more pics…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 23, 2011 -
Jedi & Sith Turn Times Square Into a Star Wars Battleground
To celebrate the launch of video game Star Wars: The Old Republic, publishers EA flew teams of Jedi and Sith into New York City’s Times Square to face off. Then they shipped (or paid the subway fare?) for a whole bunch more. The pace of the action is a little…slower than we’re used to in…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 23, 2011 -
Another MMO’s Accounts Have Been Hacked
Developer Trion Worlds has sent emails out to its subscribers warning them that accounts for its MMO Rift – which some people think is a damn fine game – have been compromised by “unauthorized intruders”. While Trion says that “there is no evidence, and we have no reason to believe, that full credit card information…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 23, 2011 -
Remember Star Wars Galaxies With This Poignant Memory Book
A week ago Star Wars Galaxies closed down for good. Today, the MMO published its official “memory book,” a whale of a tome at more than 200 megabytes in PDF form, recalling all of the worlds, races and principal events of the MMO’s eight-year run. Remember the Sullustan, the Ithorian, the Wookiee, the Human and,…
By Owen Good Published December 22, 2011 -
Video Games Tell Us Who”ll Win the NBA’s Christmas Tipoff and College Football’s New Years’ Bowls
Pro basketball resumes on Christmas Day; college football will begin staging its major postseason contests eight days later. This has, perhaps unintentionally, engendered competing five-game simulations from 2K Sports and EA Sports, makers of NBA 2K12 and NCAA Football 12. Want to know who wins the big matchups? We’ve got the results predicted by these…
By Owen Good Published December 22, 2011 -
Madden Picks Up a Top Designer from The Show
Free agent signings are big news in sports video games, not just the leagues they simulate. Today, EA Sports picked up Kolbe Launchbaugh, a senior designer for Sony’s universally acclaimed MLB The Show baseball simulation, and he’ll start work on EA Sports’ cornerstone Madden franchise in a couple of weeks. Launchbaugh himself revealed the news…
By Owen Good Published December 22, 2011 -
Club Nintendo Calendar Invents a New Month
Announced this summer, Club Nintendo’s gifts were customarily dumped on, then turned out to be not that bad. For the platinum level, anyway. Elite level members had to settle for a desk calendar. And one containing a new month, between October and December, named “Nobember.” Whoops. Nintendo has noticed the goof and in an email…
By Owen Good Published December 22, 2011 -
The Best Game Music of 2011: The Binding of Isaac
We’ve done a lot of big-budget games so far in our Best Video Game Music of 2011 series, but there were some great indie soundtracks released, as well. One of the very best of those was Danny Baranowsky’s dangerous, dark, synthy work on the Zelda-esque roguelike The Binding of Isaac Described by our own Stephen…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 22, 2011 -
The PS Vita’s Memory Cards Cost Less Than Expected, but Still Essentially Mandatory
The bad news is you still have to buy a new proprietary memory card for your PS Vita. The good news is it won’t cost as much as originally feared. Of course, the better news would be that you didn’t have to buy them at all. Alas, you still do. But the official pricing, included…
By Owen Good Published December 22, 2011 -
A Candy-Cane Resistance Christmas
Awwwww | Turns out if you put a Santa hat on anything it looks cute. The iPhone’s Answer to Diablo Gets A Free Horde Mode Long a fan of Gameloft’s Diablo-inspired Dungeon Hunter, I was intrigued when I heard their latest version would be both free-to-play and not a role-playing game. More » Skyrim Teams Up…
By Brian Crecente Published December 22, 2011 -
Asuka Leads a Girls’ Fight Out in This Street Fighter X Tekken Trailer
What do you get when you mix Chun-Li and Cammy of Street Fighter with Lili and Asuka of Tekken? I don’t know, some sort of giant woman creature with eight arms and legs? Spider-Woman? Forget it; it was a stupid question. Just watch the video. I’m not really sure what’s up with all of the…
By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2011
