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How Do You Make a Race of Intelligent Plant People Sexy?
ArenaNet character designer Kristen Perry was presented was presented with a thorny task when asked to cultivate the plant-like sylvari race for Guild Wars 2: Finding the balance between green-skinned humans and tentacle monsters. When you imagine plant people, those are the two images that immediately come to mind. Either you’ve got green elves with…
By Mike Fahey Published August 8, 2011 -
Rumor: Four More Wii Games Have Been Selected for ‘Nintendo Selects’ Budget Line
Wii owners, you may soon have four new games to play at budget-friendlier prices. According to retail sources, Nintendo will update its “Nintendo Selects” budget line with Super Paper Mario, Mario Strikers Charged, Punch-Out!! and Super Mario Galaxy in August. Currently the Nintendo Selects line includes just four games in North America: The Legend of…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 8, 2011 -
If You Were a Video Game Console, Would You Be As Cool As Ellen?
“If you were a video game console, what would you be?” is not the sort of question one would expect to find on the Facebook page of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, yet here we are. We might not be Ellen’s demographic, but sometimes she really speaks our language. No wonder Portia de Rossi married the…
By Mike Fahey Published August 8, 2011 -
This Thursday Retro Game Master Takes On S.O.S.
This week on Retro Game Master The Kacho takes on The Poseidon Adventure-inspired adventure game S.O.S. S.O.S. was developed by Human Entertainment for the Super NES in 1994. In the game, which was inspired by both the book and movie The Poseidon Adventure, players must escape the sinking ship Lady Crithania. The game has four…
By Brian Crecente Published August 8, 2011 -
Luigi’s Mansion Made More Terrifying
Luigi’s Mansion takes a dark turn in Ty Dunitz’s killer piece for this years FanExpo (August 25-28). Available in a very limited quantity at the show! Related Rampage: Super Meat Boy 64 Luigi’s Mansion: Redux by Ty Dunitz (deviantART) (Facebook) (Twitter) Via: gamefreaksnz | Reddit Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so,…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 8, 2011 -
How to Play Your Android Games with a PlayStation 3 Controller
Answering the call of Android gamers frustrated by virtual joysticks, Dancing Pixel Studios’ Sixaxis Controller can grant your PlayStation 3 controller power over your mobile games, as long as the device is right. Don’t get too excited just yet; there are some pretty strict requirements for running Sixaxis Controller on your Android-powered gadgets. First off,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 8, 2011 -
LEGO Universe Raises Level Cap from Zero to 40
When LEGO Universe launched in October of last year it was a breath of fresh air in the stale MMO market. Putting an emphasis on exploration and creativity, it didn’t need standard MMO mechanics like leveling to entice people to play. Today LEGO Universe adds a leveling system to entice people to play. Along with…
By Mike Fahey Published August 8, 2011 -
The End Could Be An Interesting Only Friend
The End is like no other educational game you’ve played before. Commissioned by Channel 4 Education and produced by Preloaded studios, The End is a free online web-based platformer that probes into the player’s philosophical and metaphysical opinions on morality and death. Combining physics-based puzzles with questions and battles with the world’s Guardians, the game…
By Max Abrams Published August 8, 2011 -
An Hour with Skyrim. It’s Amazing.
I mean no disrespect when I say this: I couldn’t give a dragon’s ass about the story in Skyrim. It may well be wonderful, but as the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls series—none of which I’ve played for more than an hour or two at most—I’ve never had any opportunity to understand, let alone…
By Joel Johnson Published August 8, 2011 -
Be a Part of Zelda‘s 25th Anniversary Celebration with Flipnote Studio
Nintendo wants fans to help them celebrate 25 years of Hyrulian adventure by creating their own Zelda-themed animations in Flipnote Studio, with the winners publically judged by the creators of the beloved series, including one Mr. Miyamoto. Using templates and music made available by Nintendo, fans can use the free Flipnote Studio on their DSi…
By Mike Fahey Published August 8, 2011 -
Mega Man Might Not Have a Game, But He’s Got a Portal Gun
The folks at Dorkly have been mighty free with those Portal guns lately, but Mega Man has to work for it. Enter Aperture Man! Maybe if Rock had gotten his hands on one of these sooner we wouldn’t have to deal with the cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3. He could have just opened up…
By Mike Fahey Published August 8, 2011 -
Domino’s Brings Back The Noid, The Nation Weeps
Ready or not, the Noid is back. Domino’s announced today that their long defunct mascot is making a comeback. Starting today Domino’s will feature the Noid in an arcade-style video game on its Facebook page for one week, awarding a free pizza coupon every minute to the player with the highest score. After “liking” Domino’s…
By Max Abrams Published August 8, 2011 -
Why Fruit Ninja Is One of the Best Things to Hit the Xbox 360 Kinect [Updated]
I finally hooked up the Kinect camera to my Xbox 360 in the new home this weekend. It wasn’t to play Child of Eden, which I’ve heard is great. It wasn’t to play a bit more Dance Central, which I know is great. It was to cut fruit. Halfbrick’s Fruit Ninja hits the Xbox Live…
By Brian Crecente Published August 8, 2011 -
Two Hours with Jonathan Blow’s The Witness, an Abbreviated Wonder
The last time I’d been to the island, it didn’t make sense to me. I had exited a building that had birthed my presence into the island’s sun splashed terrain. I’d confronted some blue panels in the manner a driver confronts a stop sign. The panels were signs I didn’t know how to read. They…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 8, 2011 -
The World of Warcraft Gaming Mouse Gets a Legendary Downgrade
In World of Warcraft a legendary item is a piece of equipment of extreme rarity and power, a virtual status symbol for those that harness its powers. In SteelSeries gaming mouse parlance, legendary means cheaper with fewer buttons. The original and Cataclysm editions of the World of Warcraft Gaming Mouse were lovely devices, large, bulky,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 8, 2011 -
Should We Just Wait for the Game of the Year Edition?
In today’s award-winning edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, cold-hearted commenter Monsieur.Froid wonders if other gamers are beginning to catch on to this whole Game of the Year trend. So with Fallout 3, I discovered the advent of the gaming industry’s newest conception: the ‘Game of the Year’ edition. Sure, it comes in other flavours,…
By Mike Fahey Published August 8, 2011 -
Watch a Master Modder Split an Xbox 360 Controller in Two
In the latest episode of The Ben Heck Show, master video game console modder Benjamin J. Heckendorn creates an Xbox 360 controller for folks that can’t bring their hands together in front of their bodies. How does he do it? Well I figured he would split the damn thing in half, but I guess there…
By Mike Fahey Published August 8, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
I saw Blink 182 the other day. It made me feel pleasantly nostalgic, the way I do when I play video games that remind me of my earliest days playing video games. Those days were pretty early too, because I’ve been playing for as long as I could hold a controller. Not that you should…
By Joshua Rivera Published August 8, 2011 -
When A Book Becomes a Game At the Hands of Pixar’s Masters
Born of Hurricane Katrina and the passing of a dear friend, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is more than a poignant, interactive allegory, it is the budding metamorphosis of the narrative. In the interactive piece of fiction, readers flip through digital pages on their iPad, poke pictures into life, paint grey skies…
By Brian Crecente Published August 8, 2011 -
Simple Physics and Jet-Age Design Get You Home in The Marbians
A physics-based puzzle grading you out on a scale of one to three, by now, might be not a genre but a cliche in mobile gaming, But there are still concepts out there that can keep it fresh and one of them is The Marbians, a cheerfully dressed app for iOS and Android devices that…
By Owen Good Published August 8, 2011