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Retro Game Master Episode 5: Clock Tower
In this fifth episode of Retro Game Master, our game-testing everyman, Shinya Arino, faces off against Clock Tower Clock Tower was released for the Super NES in 1995. Loosely based on Dario Argento’s movie Creepers, Clock Tower is a point-and-click game that has players controlling the movements of orphan Jennifer Simpson as she tries to…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011 -
How a Wish and A 9-Year-Old Led To a Great Game
Tanks and Hovercrafts rage against the evil purple Flamions. Shots are fired on both sides as the player attempts to subdue the oncoming hoard of enemies. Sounds like a fun game, if not a little common in it’s setting. But Allied Star Police, and how it came into being, is anything but typical. The game…
By Max Abrams Published July 21, 2011 -
Happy Birthday Old Man
KENYA – Ernest Hemingway (who was born on this day in 1899) at a fishing camp, his hand and arms burned from a recent brushfire; his hair singed from recent plane crashes. (Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.) I’ve Seen Battlefield 3 on PS3 Firsthand. It’s…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011 -
Live from Comic-Con 2011’s Star Wars: The Old Republic Panel
BioWare and LucasArts are showing off the latest from their ambitious, massively multiplayer online game Star Wars: The Old Republic at Comic-Con today, giving us the skinny on the Star Wars a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Let’s see what’s new in BioWare’s Star Wars MMO, which we’re talking about…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 21, 2011 -
Poison Highlights the Latest Character Reveal for Street Fighter X Tekken
Poison, the dominatrix hotty from Final Fight headlined another four-character reveal for Street Fighter X Tekken at Comic-Con 2011. She will be joined by Dhalsim and, from Tekken, Steve Fox and Yoshimitsu. During a panel defined by teases, in more ways than one, the audience briefly believed Darkstalkers characters would be confirmed for the game.…
By Owen Good Published July 21, 2011 -
Freddy Krueger Coming to Mortal Kombat
The next downloadable character for Mortal Kombat is Freddy Krueger, the dude with the knives on his fingers from A Nightmare on Elm Street. Where’s Jason? IGN reports that Freddy will be downloadable on August 9 as part of a multi-character bundle (…as a standalone downloadable character; my fault for the error, folks, not IGN).
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2011 -
The Ultimate Video Game Art Exhibition Gets Super-Sized
The iam8bit art exhibition kicks off its fifth year of breathing twisted new life into 80’s gaming icons with its biggest show yet, so expansive that it can only be called SUPER iam8bit. iam8bit first paraded works of art inspired by classic video games about back in 2005, proving to many that not only are…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2011 -
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition Arrives Aug. 23
At Comic-Con 2011, Capcom revealed the launch dates for Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition. The game comes to PlayStation Network on Aug. 23, and to Xbox Live Arcade on Aug. 24. Price is $14.99 or 1200 Microsoft Points. Producer Yoshinori Ono introduced the game with a trailer promising three different visual modes: classic,…
By Owen Good Published July 21, 2011 -
Iconic Gun Controller Now…a Free App
As far as game peripherals go, Namco’s GunCon is legendary. It’s a great, great light gun controller. It would be a shame if Namco somehow cheapened that controller’s good name by making an iOS app. Today, Namco launched a GunCon iOS app for the iPhone and the iPod Touch called iGunCon. The good news is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 21, 2011 -
From Painsocks to Demon Belts, All the Diablo, StarCraft and World of Warcraft Loot You Can Handle
Blizzard Entertainment, maker of World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo, comes to Comic-Con each year armed with all-new things for fans to rabidly consume. From books to belts to food to thigh-high demon socks, Blizzard and its partners innovate new ways for fans to spend, spend, spend. What’s new this year? Plenty of things for…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 21, 2011 -
Live Out Your Bank Robbing Fantasies In Payday: The Heist
For all those tired of the same old squad based FPS scenarios, Payday: The Heist offers new settings to take on. Gone are the bands of soldiers and hoards of zombies to mow down, replaced with elaborate capers ranging from bank robberies to armored car hijackings. If blowing off the roof of a bank to…
By Max Abrams Published July 21, 2011 -
Your Next Soulcalibur V Opponent Could Be Your Own Creation
Namco Bandai welcomes us back to the stage of history in Soulcalibur V next year, and the developer needs your help creating custom non-player characters to spar with in between the big-name battles. It’s time to give names to the nameless hordes. When you aren’t fighting characters with cool, professionally-crafted names like Patroklos Alexandra in…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2011 -
What I Thought I Knew About Assassin’s Creed Revelations Was Partially Wrong
Darby McDevitt told me last week that the lead characters of Assassin’s Creed 1 and 2 aren’t related. I’ve played a lot of each Assassin’s Creed game. I thought I knew the important stuff about Altair and Ezio, the series’ two heroes from the past. But Darby McDevitt, writer of this fall’s Assassin’s Creed Revelations…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2011 -
Yoshimitsu and Poison Add Much-Needed Class to Street Fighter X Tekken
Look, you can be as mad at Capcom as you want over Mega Man Legends 3‘s cancellation or the repackaged Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 update. They’re putting Poison in Street Fighter X Tekken. I forgive them. Pink hair, wide hips, and cutoffs; that describes my perfect woman. The riding crop is pure bonus. Poison made…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2011 -
On the Bright Side, The Nintendo 3DS Video Service Can Only Get Better Than This [UPDATE]
Our very own Mike Fahey warned me that there were no new videos to watch on the 3DS today, despite today being some sort of 3DS Video Service launch day. Given that I trust Fahey about as far as I can throw him with one hand, I had to go to my 3DS’ eShop and…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2011 -
What is America’s Fetish This Week? Armageddon
There was supposed to be chaos. There was supposed to be confusion. There was supposed to be collapse. There’s wasn’t any, of course. Granted, the so-called Carmageddon was predicted to hit the City of Angel hard last week, but it ended up being a non-starter, with people enjoying taking pics of empty streets. But the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 21, 2011 -
Duke Nukem, Jason Rubin, the Rockeeter, and Scourge the Hedgehog All Have New Comics Out This Week
I was supposed to recommend the week’s best new comics yesterday. I’m a day late. Fitting, I guess, because one of the new comics is tied in to Duke Nukem Forever. That’s my excuse. On with the recommendations… Comics You Should Consider Buying (from comics shops) Daredevil #1 A new series for Marvel’s blind super-hero…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 21, 2011 -
X-Men Destiny Shows Off the Uglier Side of Marvel’s Mutant Menace
The San Diego Comic-Con is in full swing, making it the perfect time to parade out some ugly X-Men cosplayers, courtesy of Activision’s X-Men Destiny The new generation of X-Men making their debut in X-Men Destiny this September look decidedly last-generation, don’t they? Perhaps not the three main characters, a trio of mutant teens just…
By Mike Fahey Published July 21, 2011 -
The Wasteland of Rage is a Delicious Buffet Plate of First-Person Action
The folks over at Id have released their fourth Rage developer video and this time the focus is on the wasteland. Take a look at how Id plans on using the open world to facilitate gameplay, with a few food metaphors thrown in for good measure.
By Joshua Rivera Published July 21, 2011 -
Live at Comic-Con’s Kinect Star Wars Panel
LucasArts’ Craig Derrick and Kinect’s Jorg Neumann sit down with USA Today’s Mike Snider to discuss new gameplay from the Kinect-enabled Star Wars game. The panel is said to include new details about the game include an all-new mode. The duo are also supposed to be “unveiling an exciting announcement,” according to the official panel…
By Brian Crecente Published July 21, 2011