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Mass Effect 3 Has Multiplayer, Says PC Gaming Magazine
Australian magazine PC Powerplay is showing off the cover for its next issue on the publication’s official site, and it says as clear as you can get that the game features multiplayer. In big writing, cross the middle of the front page, it says: MULTIPLAYER COMES TO MASS EFFECT 3: FIGHT ALONGSIDE YOUR FRIENDS AS…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011 -
Let This BlazBlue Star Stick a Plastic Gun in Your Face
Noel Vermillion, star of fighting game BlazBlue, is getting immortalized in PVC for the very first time. Do you remember the first time? You do, you know. The Queen’s Gate version of Vermillion is priced at ¥7,980 (US$104). Orders are being taken later this month through November. The figure will be released next spring. 初のフィギュア化…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011 -
Watch a Man Shoot a Home-Made Rocket Called Quake all the way Into Space
Among amateur rocket-launching circles, there’s a bounty called “The Carmack Prize“. It’s named for id boss, Doom co-creator and budding rocket scientist John Carmack, and will reward anyone who can get a home-made rocket 100,000 feet into space and capture some GPS data from it. The first people to claim the prize will pick up…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011 -
Crazy Christians Say Pokémon Are “Oriental Demons”, Minecraft‘s “Distracting”
Minecraft, congratulations! You’ve officially arrived. Religious nuts are railing against you. For years now, Pokémon‘s been a favorite target of those outside the religious mainstream. Dorothy Spaulding from Watchmen Broadcasting, a local Christian broadcast network in Georgia, discussed the perils of Pokeémon with guest Henry Lewis. Apparently, Pokémon are “Oriental demons”, and the names of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011 -
Link, Be a Lady Tonight
You see your fair share of ladies cosplaying as the hero of the Legend of Zelda series. Not as much fan art. Let’s change that. This piece is called, well, Female Link, and is by Albanian artist Edli Akolli. It’s just one his many amazing fantasy-inspired works, more of which you can check out at…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011 -
Grown Woman Threatened for…Being a Grown Woman
Aki Toyosaki is 24 years-old. A big Grand Theft Auto fan, she works as a voice actress, voicing Yui Hirasawa in K-On as well as Cinque in the upcoming Final Fantasy Type-0. She’s an adult, and she’d be free to live her life as an adult. That is, if she wasn’t a voice actress in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 10, 2011 -
RAGE’s PC Version has Been Updated, Might be Better now
The PC launch of id’s anticipated shooter RAGE has been, well, a “Cluster!@#$”. And that’s in the developer’s words. Does a massive update released over the weekend help things? It certainly helps help things. The update, which is out now, adds many of the hardware configuration options people were mystified weren’t there in the first…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011 -
Skyrim’s Map Leaked, Looks Massive [Update]
Reportedly obtained via Russian (where else) collector’s edition copies of the game, here’s what’s likely your first look at the game world of the upcoming RPG blockbuster Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Scanned by members of a Russian fan forum, it shows a world that is surprisingly large; if you remember Oblivion’s map, it used a…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 10, 2011 -
It Takes Two to Make NBA Jam Go Right
The inability to switch off between players was one of the few drawbacks of an otherwise rollicking NBA Jam revival last year. It required some clunky manipulation of your starting lineup and defense, for those who actually played it, often left a man open as you instinctively swarmed to the guy your CPU partner was…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 -
Team Fortress De-Booted
Team Fortress, De-booted | Low-resolution Team Fortress 2 classes, made cuter for older systems. By PixelBlock, an artist who’s done these and numerous other demakes in the past month. Takedown Notice Sends Battlestar Galactica Modders Fleeing from the NBC Universal Tyranny A swell Battlestar Galactica mod for Nexus drew the attention of NBC Universal, who…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 -
Takedown Notice Sends Battlestar Galactica Modders Fleeing from the NBC Universal Tyranny
A swell Battlestar Galactica mod for Nexus drew the attention of NBC Universal, who sent a cease-and-desist over to ModDB, which had been hosting the work on it. And 19 other BSG mods. All have been wiped out. “I was shocked and saddened when i got the message from ModDB admins that our mod, the…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 -
Stunted Thinking
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Five More Bizarre Publicity Stunts in Gaming [Delta Gamer] Includes the WTFery THQ concocted for its marketing of Red Faction: Guerrilla (pictured above). By no…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 -
ModernWarfare3.com Finally Redirects to, Y’know, Modern Warfare 3‘s Website
At last, the long, sordid saga of ModernWarfare3.com has come to an end, one month before the game’s release, with lessons learned for all sides. For Activision, it’s “register the goddamn domain before you announce the game.” (They appear to have taken this to heart.) For cybersquatters, it’s “Don’t be a dickclown and you can…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 -
Frozen Account Further Sours PayPal’s Terrible Reputation with Indie Devs
For the third time in about a year, PayPal has frozen the account of an independent developer for six months, presumably because preorder activity triggered red flags. PayPal rarely says why in this case, even to the account holder, leaving its actions to appear arbitrary and bureaucratic, if not portrayed as mean-spirited. Minecraft had $750,000…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 -
Miracle Nintendo
Lo, the image of Jesus did appear on a Nintendo Entertainment System, to tell the world that whosoever presseth up up down down left right left right B A start shall not die, but have 30 lives. I missed the boat on offering the Jesus Nintendo last week, when it was timelier, but this challenge…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 -
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s morning in America. It’s also early afternoon in the U.K. And it is 9 p.m. in Kazakhstan. Time for everyone to talk amongst themselves. About video games. Thanks to Shadoroch for the TAYpic. Want to have your TAYpic featured here? Send your images to #TAYpics. Make sure your image is 640 pixels wide by…
By Owen Good Published October 9, 2011 -
Laundry Time Winners
A designer’s concept blending a functioning coin-operated washing machine with a coin-operated video game was only slightly less absurd than the 20 laureates of this week’s ‘Shop Contest, led by Daniel Bain. See them all inside! Getting things started, electrikALIEN (6) just thought of the latest craze but, of course, it means one more peripheral…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 -
WWE 12 Gets a Lucha Libre Cover Star in Mexico
Regional covers for sports video games are not uncommon, especially for titles like FIFA. (Madden, once upon a time, also had a Spanish edition). I don’t know that it’s ever been done for THQ’s WWE series before now, though. [Update: It has. Several times.] There is a huge, rich, pro wrestling scene down in Mexico,…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 -
Sinestro Batman is Yours for Arkham City if You Pick Up a Crappy Blu-Ray
Green Lantern was not critically acclaimed. Nearly everyone hated it, but that won’t stop it from getting a Blu-Ray release. And with its Extended Cut Blu-Ray Combo pack is a skin dressing Batman in a Sinestro Corps getup for Batman: Arkham City, should you have the PS3 version. The skin was overlooked when it was…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011 -
So Another Hall-of-Famer Sued EA Sports. Should Video Gamers Care?
As multiple lawsuits have been brought in multiple venues by multiple former college athletes—some of whom are actually more recognizable as professional stars—I’ve tried to pull back to the big picture of what really faces video gamers and (principally) EA Sports in the parade of litigation over unauthorized use of likenesses in sports video games.…
By Owen Good Published October 8, 2011