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What if the Xbox 360 was a Breakdancer, Right?
Did you ever wonder what it would be like if the Xbox 360 went to a nightclub and started breakdancing? How would the laptops and the controllers react? Actually, how would the other Xbox react? In the so-bad-it’s-good or so good-it’s-bad category, I submit this video that popped up on Vimeo from one Jared Caudillo.…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 30, 2011 -
RIP GamePro
One of the longest-running magazines about video games has just run out of credit. It’s just been announced that GamePro magazine, which launched in 1988, will cease publication as a standalone entity next week on December 5. As first reported by IndustryGamers, both the magazine and website are being shut down, with the following text…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 30, 2011 -
The Gritty Adult Mario Game You Want But Will Never Get
Earlier this year Splash Damage character artist Jon Fletcher crafted a magnificently twisted take on Mario for Polycount‘s Brawl contest. Now he gives us his twisted take on Mario’s lanky brother and a splash screen for a game we’ll never play but desperately want to. With a full 3D model of large and in charge…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2011 -
Chuck’s Zachary Levi Is This Year’s Very Tall VGAs Host
NBC’s Chuck tells the story of an ordinary geeky dude who becomes an ultra-capable super-spy. It’s become an oft-embattled cult favorite for the parade of genre stars, nerd references and video game cameos and now its lead star gets to reap the ultimate reward. According to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Lesley Goldberg, Zachary Levi’s going to…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 30, 2011 -
Tomorrow’s New Call of Duty is for the iPhone
Call of Duty: Zombies was a hit on the iPhone, a simplified port of the popular “Nazi Zombies” game from Call of Duty: World at War—players fight to defend a building from increasingly difficult waves of advancing undead. It was a fairly humble iOS first-person shooter, but it had a strong brand behind it, was…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 30, 2011 -
What If Arkham City Were a Suburb of Springfield?
Artist Dean Fraser of Springfield Punx fame is up to his old tricks again, giving the heroes and villains of Batman: Arkham City a Simpsons-style makeover. Mmmmm, Springfield Catwoman. Both Fraser and his fans have been posting Arkham City sketches over the past week, depicting the sort of horrible idea Mayor Quimby might come up…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2011 -
Archie Meets KISS and Titan Metal Sonic Goes on a Rampage in This Week’s Most Interesting Comics
This is a slow week for new comic books. There are fewer new ones to get excited about. Don’t fret. There are some, and they don’t all involve Archie and Jughead hanging out with members of KISS. Here are my and Evan Narcisse’s recommendations: Comics You Should Consider Buying (from comics shops) Archie #627 This…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 30, 2011 -
Find Out the Hobbies of Yakuza: Dead Souls’ Gangsters In This New Trailer
Sure, you know that the next Yakuza game from Sega is leaving any semblance of gritty crime drama behind. But did you know that the guy with the bionic machine gun arm likes to cook? We can only hope that there’s culinary side missions in Yakuza: Dead Souls when it hits next March. Using zombie…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 30, 2011 -
A Tantalizing Glimpse of Transformers: Rise of Grimlock
You can call it Transformers: Fall of Cybertron all you want. This brief teaser for the trailer airing during the Spike TV Video Game Awards shows who the star of this show really is. Starscream, Ironhide, Optimus, Bumblebee, and Cliffjumper are all well and good, but none of them stack up to a giant robot…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2011 -
Three Guys, 18 Million Blocks, One Unbelievable Minecraft Video
It’s just two minutes and twenty-two seconds of black and white video. In it we see a play-through of classic 80s Game Boy title Super Mario Land. Pretty bland stuff, until you hear how it was created. The YouTube Minecraft Super Mario Land in Stop Motion video is the culmination of more than 500 hours…
By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011 -
New Screens for Army Corps of Hell Show Off Elemental Attacks and Giant Insect Bosses on PlayStation Vita
We’ve previously talked about how Square Enix’s first Vita game will give you an army of goblins that you control as a demon king. The Final Fantasy publisher’s outed some new screens for the original strategy/action game that puts some of the special moves you’ll be able to do. You’ll need them to face off…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 30, 2011 -
Does Choplifter HD Really Need Zombies and Duke Nukem?
Coming this winter to Xbox Live Arcade, inXile Entertainment’s Choplifter HD takes the classic rescue chopper gameplay of the 1982 PC original and “amps it up” with zombies, explosions, and the odd cameo. Fingers crossed for a classic mode! First spotted in a 2009 trademark filing, Choplifter HD is now officially official, descending upon Xbox…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2011 -
Fund Chocolate Dice For Delicious Games of D&D
Funding video games is great and all, but lets not forget table top gaming, especially when it involves dice you can eat. Actually all this is, is funding the creation of dice you can eat, but that’s enough for me. This Kickstarter will help back the production of chocolate and sugar 4, 6, 8, 10,…
By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011 -
Report: The Last Guardian Creator Leaves Sony
The man behind beloved games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, and one of the lead developers of upcoming spiritual sequel The Last Guardian no longer works at Sony, according to a rumor reported by Eurogamer today. Fumito Ueda is completing work on the game as a freelancer, according to Eurogamer‘s Japanese video game development…
By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011 -
The First Screens of Sour Patch Kids: World Gone Sour Leave a Pleasant Taste In My Mouth
The promise of the sweet and sour Method Man video comes to chewy fruition this spring as Capcom picks up publishing duties for Sour Patch Kids: World Gone Sour for Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, and PC. What a ridiculous concept; I must play it. Sure it’s a gigantic candy marketing tool, but it’s…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2011 -
Fewer People Get Married in Skyrim Than Finish It
What have you accomplished in Skyrim? You’ve probably not finished it and it’s even less likely you’ve reached Level 50 or gotten married. Millions of people have played this year’s biggest role-playing game. Millions have gotten pleasantly lost in its numerous quests and expansive landscape. Along the way, those people have achieved many things, much…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 30, 2011 -
Why Arcade Punching Bags and Alcohol Don’t Mix
Two Florida brothers were arrested earlier this week after getting into a drunken brawl over an arcade punch bag machine, the Delco Times reports. The brothers, drunk and angry at a Pennsylvania tavern, got into a dust up with several regulars playing a punch bag arcade game. One of the brothers asked a patron to…
By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011 -
It’s High Time For a Best Video Game Motion Capture Actor Award
In today’s lifelike edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter MarcianTobay says it’s time to honor the motion capture actors, without whom our professionally-voiced video game characters would be nothing more than well-spoken robots. Let’s discuss Motion Capture. This will involve minor spoilers from a side-plot in Arkham City, so helmets on. Watch this clip.…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2011 -
This Modern Warfare Care Package Was Determined to Kill
This is Modern Warfare breaking another law of physics. Keep your eye on the care package as it drops from the sky. Feature? Glitch? Or, as the person who posted this on YouTube, suggests, “straight up magic?” Straight Up Magic [YouTube]
By Stephen Totilo Published November 30, 2011 -
Lapsed Constituents of the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race
We know that consoles are just out-dated computers. Computers are the past, present and future of gaming. Give me a Core i7-2600K powered Quad SLI gaming rig that I can tinker with over an outdated hunk of sealed tech any day. We PC gamers don’t need a lot, but here are a few solid suggestions…
By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011