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These are Apple’s iPhone & iPad Games of the Year [Update]
Every year, Apple holds its own awards for the best in iPhone and iPad applications. Its best of 2011 have been announced, and the top games are…unsurprising. iPhone Game of the Year Tiny Wings Runners-Up Jetpack Joyride Tiny Tower iPad Game of the Year Real Racing 2 HD Runners-Up Dead Space Jetpack Joyride See? Unsurprising.…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2011 -
The Dancing, Cosplaying Girls Out To Make the Weather Fun
Your local news station might have a weatherman. It might have a weather woman. Taiwan has weather girls—make that, Weather Girls. Their goal is to make those global forecasts in distant cities exciting. Sometimes they dance around, sometimes they smile, and sometimes they ask you what your plans are. And sometimes they do this dressed…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 9, 2011 -
Behold the Custom Etched Skyrim Controller
Meghan’s husband has everything. “For instance, he has two pomegranate spoons,” she told Kotaku. “Two of them. I don’t know why. He doesn’t even like pomegranates all that much.” What do you get the guy who has everything? You get him this He also has a nice wife. Knowing how much her husband digs The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 9, 2011 -
Fix Up, Look Sharp In These Amazing Video Game T-Shirts
Michael McWhertor, formerly of Kotaku, currently of GameTrailers and always of chestcloth providers Meat Bun, is brightening up the holiday season with what I think is the best collection of shirts his little operation has yet to come up with. Having teamed up with game artists like Paul Robertson and Zac Gorman, the new “Cute…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2011 -
Report: The 3DS Circle Pad Boasts Insane Battery Life
The Nintendo 3DS add-on Circle Pad, apparently dubbed the “Circle Pad Pro” in the West, runs on a single AA battery. How long does that battery last? According to a one individual in Japan who already has the upcoming peripheral, the device’s instruction booklet says batteries will last around 480 hours. If true, that’s impressive…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 9, 2011 -
Nolan North Can Even do Mario (and Barrel Rolls!)
Actor Nolan North is the voice of 1000 video game characters, most notably Uncharted’s Nathan Drake and Assassin’s Creed’s Desmond. In this clip, though, you’ll see him try his hand at other people’s voices. Sure, it starts with his own characters, like Drake and Arkham City’s Penguin, but quickly moves into strangetown with his attempts…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2011 -
This Man Did Not Kill the Dreamcast!
There’s been a story kicking around for a few years now that Peter Moore, formerly of Sega and Microsoft, was the man who killed the Dreamcast. Turns out he actually didn’t. Why it took over three years to set the record straight is anyone’s guess, but in an interview with IndustryGamers, he sets the record…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2011 -
How To Play Wii Games In High Definition, On Your PC
Even when it was released in 2006, Nintendo’s Wii games were already looking a little past it, stuck as they were in the muddy depths of standard-definition resolution and on relatively old hardware. In 2011, they’re way past it. Not to worry. If you’d rather play your Wii games in stunning HD – and trust…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2011 -
Battlefield‘s Taken a Piece of Call of Duty‘s Pie, Says Peter Moore
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 left an inch-deep bootprint on video gaming’s biggest retail month, and dominated most measures the popular press use to designate big-game-itude. Yet Peter Moore, the Electronic Arts chief operating officer, is insisting his label’s Battlefield 3 drew blood from the year’s biggest commercial release. “I think when the dust…
By Owen Good Published December 8, 2011 -
There Are No Brunettes in “Miyamoto’s Angels”
This four-star send-up by The Game Station is clever any day of the week, and especially timely given whatever the hell it was that just took place in the past 24 hours. This is “Miyamoto’s Angels” and, lo and behold, all three are blondes, so I can’t easily identify which one is supposed to be…
By Owen Good Published December 8, 2011 -
It’s Time to Drool over Journey Again
The last time I showed you Journey, I showed you the desert. Let’s go… underwater? What I’ve got for you to look at here is a short video of a new area in ThatGameCompany’s lovely-looking spring 2012 PlayStation 3 game. The last time we showed you the game, we were running direct-feed footage of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 8, 2011 -
Closed Multiplayer Beta on Tap for UFC Undisputed 3
UFC Undisputed 3, which releases on Valentine’s Day, will get a closed pre-release beta, according to the game’s producer and a THQ representative. Though no other details are available, given the online difficulties faced by THQ’s WWE 12, it’s widely assumed this will cover the game’s multiplayer features. Console betas in sports titles, whether closed…
By Owen Good Published December 8, 2011 -
Report: Next Dead Rising Stars a Mechanic, Deals with Illegal Immigration
First there was Frank, then there was Chuck. Now, in the next Dead Rising, there’s Rick, a mechanic holding out against the zombie apocalypse in Los Perdidos. That is according to an unnamed source speaking today to Siliconera. The info follows Capcom’s vaguest of teases, on the game’s official Facebook page, suggesting that series protagonist…
By Owen Good Published December 8, 2011 -
A Million Bucks Up for Grabs as EA Sports’ Tournaments Move to the PS3
Competitive Madden gaming, for the better part of a decade, typically involved a weekend of long drives, cheap hotel stays, and lots of standing, sitting and sometimes sleeping on ugly convention center carpet. It fairly assured that only the diehards and elites would show up for preliminary rounds. Well, not anymore. Virgin Gaming is bringing…
By Owen Good Published December 8, 2011 -
Yes, Uncharted on the Vita is Like Uncharted on the PS3.
Do we want our console games on our handhelds? Do we want a game in our pocket that plays like a game on our TV? That was the promise with the PlayStation Portable and that is now a promise, thanks to certain games, of the PSP’s successor, the PS Vita. Take a fresh look here…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 8, 2011 -
BBC Leaks Doctor Who Teaser for PS3, Vita, PC
A Doctor Who video game is being developed for PS3 and PlayStation Vita, according to a teaser trailer that the BCC evidently published prematurely, then removed, on Thursday. Entitled Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, the text accompanying the video said that “Gamers can take on the role of the Doctor and River Song as they…
By Owen Good Published December 8, 2011 -
Stop, Motion!
Androids Need Love Too | This short stop-motion video was created using a 3DS, YouTube is absolutely littered with sub-30 second test runs. But there are very few fleshed out shorts in there yet. The Day Mario’s Creator Didn’t Retire (And What It Says About His Future) The internet was rocked. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator…
By Brian Crecente Published December 8, 2011 -
Student Who Never Goes Anywhere without their iPhone
Ah, the iPhone. The person who has the iPhone—and who never doesn’t have the iPhone—only needs one gift. But surely there’s more than one to recommend. iTunes Credit You can’t go wrong with this. You’re basically giving the person cash, but you’re narrowing down the possible uses of that cash to the stuff on iTunes—books,…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 8, 2011 -
This Nintendo Download Brought to You By Pushmo
There might not have even been a Nintendo Download post today if not for the brave efforts of Pushmo, Intelligent Systems’ endlessly entertaining block jumping game for the Nintendo 3DS. The rest of this week’s games can go straight to hell. With the big Nintendo 3DS system update dropping on Tuesday I really wasn’t expecting…
By Mike Fahey Published December 8, 2011 -
Unit 13 is, Unexpectedly, a PlayStation Vita Game That Matters
I missed the first item we ran on Unit 13. I forgot the second one existed. But now that I’ve played this “launch window” game for the PlayStation Vita, I’m paying attention. I think you should, too. Unit 13 gives a generic first impression. It’s a third-person military shooter made by Zipper Interactive, the creators…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 8, 2011