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Mortal Kombat‘s Multiplayer is Free to All While PlayStation Store Remains Offline

Until PlayStation Store returns, Warner Bros. has suspended the “Kombat Pass,” the one-use code (included free in retail copies) that enables online play for Mortal Kombat. That means anyone with a copy of the game, used or new, can play online for free. However, when PlayStation Store comes online, “users will be able to enter…

What Can We All Learn from the Xbox Live Banning of ‘Pound Her Stank’?

Xbox Live technical support will be extra busy over the course of this week and the next as a new software update rolls out, bringing sweeping bans to those with modified consoles. But one fresh account banning from this week is more educational than the rest. An Xbox Live member with the gamertag “pound her…

Welcome Back to Killzone 3, Here’s Double XP

Now that Killzone 3 players can get online and kill each other once again, Guerrilla Games and Sony gives them incentive to do so in the form of a double XP weekend running now through 10AM UK time Monday morning.

Author of Negative Conduit 2 Review Becomes Target of Studio’s Ire, His Novel Attacked on Amazon

Video game development company High Voltage Software was so chagrined by a negative review of their game, The Conduit 2, its creative director may have encouraged studio staff to retaliate against the author—by inundating the Amazon page for his novel with negative reviews. T. Michael Murdock made no secret of his dislike—and outright distaste—for the…

Now Playing in CityVille: Kung Fu Panda 2

If FarmVille gets GagaVille, what does CityVille get? Jack Black as a tubby martial artist bear. Close enough. Zynga has teamed up with DreamWorks for the first ever in-game integration for CityVille, the Facebook city building game played by more than 88 million people. Starting today, players can destroy some low rent housing in order…

At Blip Festival, the People are Almost as Cool as the Music

The first thing I thought about this morning, as I opened my eyes, was that the cat trying to rouse me from my hung-over sleep sounded like a Game Boy. The second thing is that I had a really, really good time at the opening show night of Blip Festival 2011 last night. This year’s…

Put an Assault Rifle in Your PC with This Assassin Motherboard

You can go the route of modesty with a gaming rig—sure, but there’s something to be said for the glowing, flowing, completely outrageous rig of conspicuous PC carnage. How about a motherboard that looks like a disassembled gun? The Gigabyte G1.Assassin straps enormo-heatsinks in the shape of barrels and a full magazine. And it looks…

If Dadaists Opened An Arcade, It Would Look Like This

While debate persists over the merit of video games an art form, the medium has reached an undeniable milestone: the emergence of an active counter-culture. Enter Babycastles—an independent video game collective, housed within a lively exhibition space on the border between Brooklyn and Queens. When the collective hosted an exhibition in Manhattan last October, we…

Blip Festival 2011, Photos by Chris Person

So-so PSP Game Gangs of London Is Unexpectedly Coming to the Silver Screen

Remember Gangs of London? You’re forgiven if you don’t, because it’s a 2006 PSP game from Sony’s Team SOHO—The Getaway guys!—that very few people actually liked. But one British filmmaker was a fan and has since optioned rights to make a movie based on the game. The Hollywood Reporter notes that director Menhaj Huda wants…

The Cars of L.A. Noire

The hyperrealism in the groundbreaking 1940’s police detective game L.A. Noire extends to the 95 era-appropriate production and concept cars that populate the gritty game environment. Here are over 60 of the real vehicles from the game. [Jalopnik]

Blip Festival 2011, Photos by EMi Spicer

Meet Grant, X-Men: Destiny‘s Football Hero

Joining Aimi Yoshida as one of three new mutant characters in Silicon Knights’ X-Men: Destiny, Grant is a jock hailing from Georgia whose only ambition is to become a football hero. He gets it half-right. X-Men: Destiny places players in the role of one of three brand-spanking new mutants in a San Francisco torn apart…

Game Dev Searches for Developer Girlfriend Online in Adorable, Probably Illegal Personal Ad

There’s a game developer on the internet looking for love. And he’s got the job to woo you. Going as “single_white_dev”, his profile post starts innocuously enough, but it takes a slightly hairy turn in the second paragraph: I’m a Sr. Game Designer at a TOTALLY RAD studio working on an MMO (you know, like…

Get Cooperative with Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One in October

Delightful four-player action adventure Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One comes to the PlayStation 3 on October 18, Insomniac Games and Sony promised today. Insomniac’s other fall game, Resistance 3, hits the month prior. They’re busy! [PlayStation.blog]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is Day One for OnLive

Streaming video game download service OnLive is gathering steam, scoring a big win with a day-one release of the eagerly-anticipated Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Don’t have an OnLive console? Don’t worry, one comes free with the Augmented Edition of the game. For those unaware, OnLive is a service that allows players to play games streamed…

Macho Man Randy Savage Killed in Car Accident

Randy Poffo, better known as 1980s pro wrestling icon Randy “Macho Man” Savage died today at the age of 58 after suffering a heart attack and losing control of his vehicle, TMZ reported today The news outlet confirmed the death with Savage’s brother, Lanny Poffo. Savage was best known as one of the top stars…

Tired of Your Old, Broken Super Nintendo Games? Piss on Them!

You thought that eBay lot of used Super Nintendo games was a good idea, until you discovered they were all either broken or horrifically outdated sports titles. At least you’ll have a pot to piss in, as long as you follow Price Charting’s instructions on how to build a video game urinal. For only $200…

Sony Hacked Again (But Not PlayStation)

Relative to the grand hack of last month, having one of Sony’s official sites turn up a phishing exploit doesn’t seem all that bad.

It’s Our Last Day on Earth. What are you going to play?

Tomorrow is the Rapture, according on one Harold Camping, a minister who sounds like Vincent Price and looks like a pickle in a deep fryer. All the Christians will be spirited to heaven, while the rest of us will be left to suffer the tribulations of the coming apocalypse. Babylon Surf City, let’s go! But…