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Winter is Coming
Winter is Coming | And it is adorable. By Renaud Forestie This Might Actually Be The Official Zelda Timeline Since the series began, Nintendo has been coy on whether there’s an official timeline for The Legend of Zelda. They’ve said there is one, locked away in Nintendo HQ, but the fact it’s never been shared…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
See How Star Wars: Galaxies Danced Out In Terror And Was Suddenly Silenced
Not with a bang, but several bangs. Then a whimper. And a succession of people just standing around, awkwardly, wondering what they’d done with the last eight years of their lives. As you’re probably aware, last weekend the plug was pulled on Star Wars Galaxies, the long-running, mildly-popular but ultimately disappointing MMO that had managed…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
Forget Hats, Team Fortress 2 Now Has Official Wedding Rings
Should you ever feel the need to propose to that special someone in the middle of a game of Team Fortress 2, you can now do just that, after developers Valve added an official wedding ring to the game. It’s called the Something Special For Someone Special, and is available as a crafted item. It…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
This Might Actually Be The Official Zelda Timeline
Since the series began, Nintendo has been coy on whether there’s an official timeline for The Legend of Zelda. They’ve said there is one, locked away in Nintendo HQ, but the fact it’s never been shared – and that each game seems so wildly different from the rest – has long clouded the topic. Until…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
This Is Not The Mega Man Game You Were Looking For
When a reader passed this along and said it was a “fucking abomination”, I thought, well, those are awfully strong words. A Mega Man game on the iPhone can’t be that bad, can it? Oh. Turns out that, yes, it looks quite awful. Capcom seem to have confused the iPhone, which is capable of playing…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
Metal Gear Creator’s Next Game is Set In a “Very Open World”
Hideo Kojima, creator and curator of the Metal Gear franchise, sure loves a tease. Speaking with CNN recently, he starts to get into details about his upcoming game, then like all good teases do, pulls up short just before you get to the good stuff. Having shown it off last week with APCs and women’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
Comic Sans Even Ruins Video Game Logos
Ah, Comic Sans. The village idiot of fonts. While it normally ruins everything it touches, website Comic Sans Project are the font’s self-anointed “DEFENDERS”, replacing the logos of famous companies with, well, Comic Sans. You’d think it would look awful but, well, it often looks pretty great. Especially the PlayStation, Xbox and McDonalds ones. Comic…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
What’s This, a Dark, Brooding Space Adventure Game?
Stasis is an upcoming indie adventure game set in space. It’s for the PC. It’s played from an isometric perspective. And it looks all kinds of dark and moody. Me and Stasis are off to a very, very good start. Playing the role of John Maracheck, who wakes up from a stasis-induced sleep in an…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
How to Play as Link, In Skyrim
Let’s say you want to make your Skyrim character look really different, but don’t want to have he/she looking like Lightning out of Final Fantasy XIII. You could always make them look like Link instead! The “A Skyrim Link Armor” mod by Handski takes some existing pieces of clothing in the game world and modified…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
Skyrim Christmas Lights. Battlefield 3 Christmas Lights.
Nothing says CHRISTMAS SPIRIT like synchronising an expensive set of blinking lights to video game theme music. Behold, Skyrim’s main theme, and Battlefield 3’s intro music. Set to Christmas lights. The Skyrim ones are…OK, but the Battlefield setup could be handy for impromptu dance parties.
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
See How Link and Zelda Have Changed In 25 Years
The upcoming Legend of Zelda art book, Hyrule Historia, has so far only been confirmed for a Japanese release. Since that means most of you won’t be looking at it at all, it won’t hurt to take a peek at a few more of its pages, especially ones that show the progression of Link and…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
Call of Duty Creators Tease new Game With Second Blurry Image
Back in the Summer Respawn Entertainment, home to the creators (and many of the developers) behind the Call of Duty and Modern Warfare franchises, teased their upcoming project with a single image There’s now a second one. It’s about as useless as the first, but given the expectations around whatever it is Respawn come up…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011 -
Aperture Science and the Caribbean Orange
Portal isn’t just about science. It can also be about art, depending on how you look at it. And that’s exactly how Nathan Altice looked at it in this piece on Valve’s first-person puzzlers, drawing parallels between Portal and the work of artist Gordon Matta-Clark. I recently visited Chicago for the DHCS conference held at…
Nathan Altice Published December 21, 2011 -
There’s Still Going to be a Grateful Dead Video Game. And Thank God, Really
Look, if there’s one game that merits a massively multiplayer online experience, it’s The Grateful Dead. This has been on our radars for a little while, and it’s unclear whether it’ll be a proper MMO, a Facebook game, or what. Things become marginally clearer in this new video, called “The Epic Tour,” that has been…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 20, 2011 -
Super Meat Boy Blowing a Hadoken Through a Saxophone!
Did that headline get your attention? Good, because you should go and read this super-cool piece by Kill Screen‘s Lana Polansky about mechanics, practice, saxophone, jazz, and Street Fighter. (It also features the amazing illustration above, drawn by Daniel Purvis.) “Hey,” you may be thinking. “Doesn’t Kirk write about that sort of thing too, sometimes…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 20, 2011 -
Skyrim Finally Plays Nice With Your Extra RAM
Happily, the newest official patch for Skyrim will allow the game to make use of up to 4 Gigabytes of RAM, as opposed to its previous ceiling of 2GB. This had previously been accomplished via the Large Address Aware hack, but that method had been blocked by a previous patch from Bethesda.
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 20, 2011 -
Sonic CD Could Be The Best Five Dollar Sonic Purchase You Make This Week
Sonic CD was released last week on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network for $4.99. It’s a game that stands up on its own even 18 years after it first launched. And it looks great in widescreen. If you have some spare cash or you have never played Sonic CD, now is probably a good…
By Chris Carolan Published December 20, 2011
