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The Lady Who Saw a Wii at Grandpa’s Hospital and Now Thinks She Wants One
As much as you’re able to instantly recommend the best products to your fellow gamer, you might grope for advice when that older person, maybe a family member, suddenly expresses an interest in video games for the first time. What you’re being asked to do is help someone develop or understand their actual taste in…
By Owen Good Published December 5, 2011 -
Kinect Helps High School Duo Win $100,000 National Science Prize
Who says gaming can’t lead to a higher education? Ziyuan Liu and Cassee Cain of Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge are splitting a $100,000 college scholarship awarded in the Siemens Foundation’s annual high school science competition after creating a Kinect-powered application that uses Microsoft’s magical camera to analyze the way a person walks.…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 -
A Halo: Reach Recreation of Resident Evil‘s Most Infamous Location
It might not seem familiar at first, but once you start wandering the corridors you’ll realize that this is a faithful scale recreation of Resident Evil‘s Spencer Mansion crafted using the creation tools from Halo: Reach Marrying his love of two decidedly different game franchises, ForgeHub member Cryptic Sin spent nearly a year crafting and…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 -
Here’s a Naked, Fan-Made Saints Row The Third Edition of So You Think You Can Dance?
It’s tough to top anything that’s already in a game as aggressively juvenile and over-the-top as Saints Row the Third, a game that marketed itself with giant dildo weapons. But somehow YouTuber XBLStallion83’s done exactly that with this hilarious video that stitches the game’s taunt moves into a dance marathon. Using Michael Jackson’s classic “Billie…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 5, 2011 -
Modern Warfare‘s Most Magical Kills Involve Sliding Care Packages, Levitating Cinderblocks
YouTube user AmazingFilms247 keeps posting ridiculous Modern Warfare 3 (and Modern Warfare 2) multiplayer videos on YouTube. They show just how amazing Activision’s popular shooter is at breaking its own rules of physics. Care packages on ice! Levitating cinderblocks! And more… enjoy!
By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2011 -
You’ll Be Able to Get Your Threeway On With Trine 2 On Steam This Wednesday, Consoles Coming in Two Weeks
Frozenbyte’s long-brewing puzzle/platormer sequel finally getting release dates on various platforms, with the PC and Mac versions first out the gate. They’ll be available on Steam on December 7, followed by a North American PSN release on December 20 and worldwide Xbox Live Arcade availability on December 21. There’s no still no firm date for…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 5, 2011 -
Explore the Dusty Pages of the Ultimate Tome of Diablo Lore
Hello my friends! Stay awhile and listen…err, watch as I explore Diablo III: Book of Cain, 147 pages of illustrations, excerpts, and firsthand accounts of the history of the world of Sanctuary, coming soon to a bookseller near you. As the last of the Horadrim mages, an ancient brotherhood formed by the Archangel Tyrael to…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 -
An Adorable Musical Argument for Legend of Zelda Fan Procreation
Three children (with a baby cameo) take on the roles of Link, Zelda, and Ganon in what could be the most favorable outcome of Legend of Zelda fans in love, even if they got the musical credit wrong. I can only hope that my children will one day allow me to submit them to this…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 -
Nintendo’s Latest Cheerfully Teaches You Insider Trading
In real life, insider trading is as much a crime as jumping on someone’s head and flattening them to death. But in the Super Mario-themed Wii virtual board game Fortune Street, insider trading is both a valid tactic and a recommended strategy. The key to making it sound like so much fun is the music.…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2011 -
What Could Epic Games Be Teasing for the VGAs This Weekend?
All you Kremlinologists who like to parse secrets out of video clips are SOL on this one. The teasing’s strictly of the verbal variety as Epic Games Design Director Cliff Bleszinski hints an all-new game during a promo for the upcoming Spike Video Game Awards. Viewers don’t get much to work with, other than clips…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 5, 2011 -
HeroClix Online Gets a Double Dose of DC Comics and Digital Content Codes
HeroClix Online isn’t just for Marvel fans anymore, at least it won’t be come December 7 when WizKids introduces the first two DC Comics-themed sets to the online game and releases the first physical product with codes for in-game heroes included. Fulfilling the promise of the popular tabletop game’s move to digital form, HeroClix Online…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 -
Should You Buy Fortune Street? No.
If they’ve been making versions of the Nintendo Wii’s new board game for 20 years, if Nintendo themselves are publishing it—choosing to sell this to us this holiday season instead of other Japanese games still awaiting translation—then surely it must be good and worth buying? Stephen Totilo, who got really close to giving this eye-sore…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2011 -
Games for People Who Don’t Have the Internet. Not Even Dial-Up [UPDATE]
You may know a person who likes video games who doesn’t have Internet. Don’t pity them. Buy them a present. The very best gift for them might be the Internet itself, but aside from that, here’s what you can get them. Of course, if they don’t have Internet because they are in prison, disregard all…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2011 -
Whosoever Holds This Pinball Table Shall Possess the Power of Thor
Should you be worthy or willing to spend 800 Microsoft points / $9.99 next week, this Thor table and more shall be yours when Zen Studio releases the Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue pack on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Thor joins the X-Men on the side of virtue in this downloadable pinball…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 -
The Last Guardian Creator Says He Remains Hard At Work on His Game
The Last Guardian creator Fumito Ueda took to Twitter earlier today to reassure fans that he is still hard at work on his game. “Ueda says he’s been getting lots of Q’s lately, but fear not—they’re hard at work on Last Guardian, as always,” Tweets 8-4’s John Ricciardi, loosely translating Ueda’s Tweet today. Last week…
By Brian Crecente Published December 5, 2011 -
This New Trailer for Rayman Origins Covers the Fundamentals in Pretty, Funny Fashion
Apparently, the powers-that-be at Ubisoft know that the visual splendor of their latest gorgeously rendered platformer can be straight-up confusing. That’s the only raison d’etre I can figure behind the video above. The clip details gameplay goals so basic that you’d have to be a drooling idiot not to get them. To be fair, there…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 5, 2011 -
Devs Explain How Animal Crossing 3DS Will Be the Best Animal Crossing Yet
Producer Katsuya Eguchi and a trio of developers from the Animal Crossing 3DS team spend ten minutes discussing how the latest iteration of the animal life sim will set itself apart from the rest. They had me at skirts and pants. While I love me some Animal Crossing, the game hasn’t changed very much since…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011 -
It’s Time for a War Game that Respects the Geneva Conventions
Despite its inherent brutality, war has rules. Laws of war have been around in one form or another since Biblical times. They govern the treatment of prisoners of war, the expediency of death on a battlefield. Could they, should they also pertain to the depiction of virtual war in video games? That’s the question the…
By Brian Crecente Published December 5, 2011 -
Take A Gander at the Guns of Max Payne 3 in These New Screens
Other than the ability to absorb enough human misery to fell any three lesser men and not get addicted to all those painkillers he guzzles, Max Payne has no superpowers to speak of. When Rockstar’s hard-boiled hero cop needs to dispatch bad guys, he needs guns. Lots of ‘em. These new shots from the threequel…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 5, 2011 -
The 3DS is the Perfect Platform for the Return of Yoshi
With Nintendo visiting many of its classic franchises upon the 3DS, commenter Daemon_Gildas believes it’s high time Mario’s trusty mount companion got a little 3D lovin’. Hear him out in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I think it’s about time Yoshi got some love on the 3DS. Maybe an open-world game, but maybe the “world”…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011