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It’s About Time Chrono Trigger Made it to the Wii Virtual Console
When a role-playing game is as centered on time travel as the Square classic Chrono Trigger, you really can’t argue when I call it one of the greatest RPGs of all time. Guess what I’ll be playing come Monday? You can Final Fantasy fanboy all you want, Squaresoft was at its absolute best when it…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 -
Why Play an MMO You Know One Day Will End?
In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Kain’s Legacy asks a poignant question: Why do we invest so much time in massively multiplayer online games that will one day cease to be? I was reading the article about the Lineage servers closing and it just got me thinking. I’ve thought about his before, but I…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 -
The Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection is Three Digitized Fighting Games in One
Warner Bros. is rolling out the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection this summer, bundling together Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 in one downloadable package for the PlayStation3, Xbox 360, and PC. Shouldn’t that be Arkade Kollektion?
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 -
CHiPs is Supposed to Protect Xboxes, Not Steal Them
Back in my day the men and women of the California Highway Patrol were a shining beacon of hope, justice, and racial diversity. The sort of organization that would never have one of their own arrested for allegedly stealing an Xbox from a Target store. Things sure have changed since 1983. Today 36-year-old California Highway…
By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves: if you’ve got things to say (about games, of course), say ’em here. Our thanks to Incursor for his exquisitely morbid TAYpic—we can tell a lot of work went into pulling it off. If you’d like to give your Photoshop skills a turn, please do so here:#TAYpics (Read this thread…
By Drew Cohen Published May 12, 2011 -
Home Sheep Home May Have Been Nominated for a BAFTA, But It’s Just Too Thin to Win
Home Sheep Home, you’re no Angry Birds—at least not when it comes to value. You may be a handsome, amusing diversion for the iPhone and iPod touch, but there’s just not enough of your sheepish, physics-based puzzle solving to go around. Home Sheep Home, based on Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep and an online Flash game…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 12, 2011 -
Drinking and Shooting Resident Evil Style
GUN HAZARD | TOKYO, JAPAN: To celebrate 15 years of Resident Evil, a Tokyo airsoft gun bar is being turned into a RE shooting range. (Photo: Capcom) Controversial Game Brought to Life With Tight Rubber, a Nice Lady and Fake Blood Thrill Kill, a violent S&M-themed fighting game, was too much for the PlayStation 1.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2011 -
StarFox 64 3D Supports up to Four Players. No Online.
At a retail event today in Japan, Nintendo gave more Star Fox 64 3D details. The game sports a “64 Mode” and a “3DS Mode”. In the 3DS Mode, players can control the spacecraft by using the 3DS’ internal gyroscope sensor. That means, moving the 3DS right causes the spacecraft to go right, moving it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2011 -
Are Foreign Games Losing Their Stigma in Japan?
For decades, the term “youge” (洋ゲー) or “Western game” was pejorative. In Japanese, “you” (洋) is used to denote Western things, whether that be “Western music” (洋楽) or “Western clothes” (洋服). These words are not pejorative—not like youge has been. “Even now, there have been people in Japan using the label youge- (Western games) with…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2011 -
Classic Movies Look Better as Pixel Art
Artist Andy Helms has been going bananas these past few weeks, churning out amazing pieces of movie-inspired pixel art at a breakneck pace. A Fistful of Dollars, The Goonies, The Lord of the Rings, Inception…all covered, all recreated in adorable pixel art, all here for you to enjoy with your morning coffee. While some are…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
New Alien Game Coming From the Guys Who Make…Total War
British studio Creative Assembly, best known for its work on the Total War franchise of PC strategy games, is currently developing a game based on Ridley Scott’s original 1979 horror masterpiece. Aside from the fact it’s being developed “for consoles”, there’s little other information available at this time, though more details should pop up later…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
1970’s Science Fiction Comes to Life In Thunderbeam
Thunderbeam is an upcoming indie adventure game for the iPad that blends 70’s science fiction, 70’s anime, a rad soundtrack and Prince of Persia. Which sounds great Actually, let’s back up. It uses the rotoscoped animation style of Prince of Persia. In terms of gameplay, the dev team cite influences like Maniac Mansion, which is…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
What Would You Do with the World’s Largest HD Screen?
Why, you’d play video games on it, just like NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. did at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. As website Joystiq points out, it took 57 workers four months to complete the 332.5 ton, 720p screen, which is comprised of 9 million LEDs. Dale Jr. Takes World’s Largest HDTV For a Test Drive…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2011 -
New Hitman Games Links with Movie, Stars a Carradine
The latest game in the Hitman series, Absolution, is taking the series in a slightly different direction than longtime fans may be used to, as publishers Square Enix seek to tie the games in with the upcoming movie. “We’ve designed a more stylized, more serious, and darker game this time around in both the story…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
This One Goes Out to Fans Of Out of This World
Or, as I knew it, Another World. This indie demo is for a game called Concurrence, and while this particular section has been put together for a competition, a full game is in the works. You play a man (Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, it seems) who wakes up on an alien planet and has to find…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011 -
“Social Gaming Is Going to Crash”
Game designer Denis Dyack, who labored on action game Too Human for years, thinks that social gaming is a bubble waiting to burst: “The trend that I see is it’s probably going to be one of the biggest bubbles and explosions that our industry’s seen in a long time and I think when it crashes…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2011 -
Playing Space Invaders with 480 Sneakers
Converse’s “The Canvas Experiment” was just that: take a 4m x 5m canvas, put 480 pairs of Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers on it then play a game of Space Invaders Admittedly, it sounds better in theory than it looks in practice, the “screen” making things pretty tough to see, but then, you can make…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2011
