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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Look at you people, all happy and smiling with your “Skyrim” and your “Modern Warfare.” I’m winding up my time with Super Mario 3D Land, which hits shelves on Sunday. That’s right, fuck off Bowser. I’m coming to kick your ass and there’s nothing you can do about it because I’m dressed like a sparkly…
By Owen Good Published November 11, 2011 -
Devriez-Vous Acheter Rayman: Origins? Oui.
2011 has already seen the release of one Rayman game— Rayman 3D for the 3DS. It was good fun, but that is unsurprising, given that it was a 3D port of 1999’s Rayman 2: The Great Escape. In Rayman: Origins we have a bona-fide new Rayman game. Created by the irrepressible French game designer Michel…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 11, 2011 -
Armistice
Veterans Day | SPEAN BRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM: Veterans attend Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge to observe a two minute silence as a mark of respect for the war dead on November 11, 2011 in Spean Bridge, Scotland. Armistice Day traditionally marks the end of the WWI when Germany and the allied forces signed the armistice…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
Let’s Compare Skyrim on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim released today to much excitement, and you can play it on all of the high-powered platforms. Which machine runs it the best? The PC usually comes out on top, and that seems to be the case again here. Watch for yourself though, as YouTube user Robbaz returns to give us…
By Matthew Buzzi Published November 11, 2011 -
Finally, The Glorious 27-Minute Stop-Motion LEGO Halo Film You’ve Been Waiting For
We’ve been eagerly anticipating this unofficial mash-up of LEGO and Halo for more than two years Initially promised for an early 2010, the Battle of the Brick, a 27-minute LEGO Halo movie, finally premiered today on Gametrailers We’ve been following Alex Kobbs, and his impressive LEGO Halo works, for nearly half a decade. So grab…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
Bring Us Your True Tales of Skyrim Adventure
While Bethesda has done a fine job developing the fiction of the continent of Tamriel, there’s one important story missing from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — yours. And what good is a tale that goes untold? We want to know how you fit into the lore of Skyrim, and we’re not above sharing it…
By Mike Fahey Published November 11, 2011 -
How to Occupy Scribblenauts In Eight Easy Steps
The fantastic image you see above is courtesy of someone named crzisme over at Reddit, and is an actual in-game screenshot! A pretty realistic representation of the Occupy Together movement, wouldn’t you say? As you may know, Scribblenauts allows you to type almost any noun into its database, and the game will create an animated…
By Matthew Buzzi Published November 11, 2011 -
Your Web Window into Japan’s Wild, Sexy, and Scary Side
Another night. Mahni Aino (above) fired up her computer and flipped on her camera. The sexy posing would come later, but now she was just talking about what food she liked cooking. Comments streamed across the screen, like “You’re so cute” and, even, “Do you use a Dell PC?” Then, she started doing yoga on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 11, 2011 -
Things That Should Exist: Minecraft Legos
People love building real-world things in Minecraft. Buildings, works of art, board games, starships. (Okay, those aren’t real. Yet.) However, there’s a distressing lack of ways to build Minecraft things in the real world. One brilliant solution gets floated here and it’s such a patently obvious idea that you’ll howl at the fact that such…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 11, 2011 -
A Dozen Reasons To Hate Call of Duty Games
Call of Duty is reviled among a vocal group of gamers. When they read that the latest iteration of the series is selling well, or is well reviewed, or is being played by a lot of people, they seem to take it personally. That’s always baffled me. So on Twitter today I asked the 13,500…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
Nearly a Quarter of A Million People Are Playing Skyrim on Steam Right Now
The nifty Steam Game Stat tracker shows that about 210,000 people are currently playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. That’s compared to the distant second place Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which hit a peak at 78,000 or so players today. [Thanks Kent]
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
30 Seconds of Skyward Sword: One Amazing Boat
I showed four moments from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword this week. Those four moments that might not be the mostly obviously spectacular moments in the new Wii Zelda, but each of them shows off one of its strengths: the combat twists, the music, the art direction, the atmosphere… and today, I’m going to…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 11, 2011 -
One Million Players Join DC Universe Online One Week After It Goes Free-to-Play
We already know that over 120,000 PC users joined DC Universe Online in 24 hours after the Sony Online Entertainment title went free-to-play, but now the publisher’s revealing more about how big the shift has been for them. In the week since DCUO became FTP, one million new would-be metahumans have joined the game’s ranks.…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 11, 2011 -
Intimidation Played No Part in These Saints Row: The Third Review Scores
Here comes Saints Row the Third, walking down the street without a care in the world, waving its giant purple schlong about for the whole wide world to see. Why is it in such a good mood? Perhaps the assembled game reviewers have the answer. Okay folks, it’s getting old now. As Kotaku‘s resident Frankenreview…
By Mike Fahey Published November 11, 2011 -
This Retro Skyrim Trailer Hilariously Invokes Zelda, Duck Hunt and Duke Nukem
Your Dovahkiin may be all sorts of bad-ass, but this video features the cutest Dragonborn of all. Thrill to this imaginary game’s pixilated vistas! Gasp at the exciting downhill skiing sequences! Wish that someone makes this into something actually playable! Skyrim Trailer – Retro Edition [YouTube] You can contact Evan Narcisse, the author of this…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 11, 2011 -
The Continued Popularity of Call of Duty’s Two, Three and Four Year Old Games
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s record-breaking, first-day sales are impressive, but almost more impressive is the life these Call of Duty games seem to have online. This morning I hopped online to see how the past four year’s worth of Call of Duty games were doing online. Yes, people still do play the original…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
From One End of Skyrim to the Other in Under Nine Minutes
Who needs fast travel when you’ve got sprinting, speed shouts, and the miracle of digital video speed manipulation to take you across the province of Skyrim in speedy style? Watch my Dragonborn run a cross-country marathon in The Elder Scrolls V This video captures the entire trip from the extreme northwest to the southeastern border…
By Mike Fahey Published November 11, 2011 -
Bethesda Working on Skyrim Graphics Problems on Xbox, Advises Not Installing Yet
If you want to get the best graphics out of your Xbox 360 play-through of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim you may want to hold off on installing it to your console’s hard drive. At least for now, developer Bethesda says. Early reports of graphic issues with the almost universally beloved role-playing game led the…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011 -
Unlocking Galactus in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Is Easy, If You Played Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Hey, fighting game fans, hope you didn’t delete your save files from the pre-Ultimate version of Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Because playing as the big bad from MvC3 in UMvC3 is significantly easier if you’ve still got that data on your console’s hard drives. According to a post over on Capcom Unity, all you need…
By Evan Narcisse Published November 11, 2011 -
THQ Maintains It Knows Exactly Where All Its Dildos Are
THQ denies reports that they have mislaid 25 four-foot purple dildos destined for the Netherlands and France as part of a promotion for their open world, tongue-in-cheek video game Saints Row: The Third. Inside Gamer PC , citing several sources, first reported on rumors of a pallet of the three-pound sex toys, each affixed to…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011