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Five New Mass Effect 3 Details You Might Want to Hear
Mass Effect 3 executive producer Casey Hudson spoke with UK magazine Xbox World, divulging some mid-production intel about Shepard and company. The info is scattershot; little pieces of unconnected details about many different aspects of the game. Still, they help to create a larger picture of BioWare’s vision for the game. For those of you…
By Mike Epstein Published May 11, 2011 -
The Best Place to Loiter in Guild Wars 2
Every massively multiplayer online role-playing game needs a place for players to hang out, shout their auctions, and bitch about the development team working on the game they’re currently spending every waking hour playing. For Guild Wars 2, that city is Lion’s Arch. The city of Lion’s Arch was a hub for adventurers in the…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2011 -
Would You Pay $90 to Attend a Minecraft Convention?
Six months before Minecraft‘s full release is due, creator Markus “Notch” Persson is pondering a gala event in Vegas on its release day – MinecraftCon, on 11/11/11, “with all of [development studio] Mojang going there, and us pushing out the final release live on stage or something.” Would you pay to see that? Notch wants…
By Owen Good Published May 11, 2011 -
Japanese Video Game Sales Take A Much Needed Week Off
With Japan celebrating Golden Week, there wasn’t much activity in the country in terms of new releases. In fact, in the list of top twenty bestselling games in Japan, there was nothing new represented. But we soldier on! According to sales tracker Media Create, Square Enix’s Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 Professional topped the charts…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 11, 2011 -
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Will Include, Surprise, Major Revelations
To hear the creative director of this fall’s Assassin’s Creed Revelations put it in a recent interview with Game Informer, the next Assassin’s Creed will actually merit its subtitle. Questions will be answered. What kind of questions? Read on, only if you’ve played Assassin’s Creed II and Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Oh, but if you’re about…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 11, 2011 -
Winter is Coming to Japan: Manga Game of Thrones book covers are glorious to behold
The Japanese editions of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire are a thing of beauty, thanks to covers by artists Ken Sugawara, Yasushi Suzuki and Noriko Meguro. Check out some incredible Manga-influenced Westeros art in our gallery. Images via Crunchy Roll and Hayakawa Publishing Game Of Thrones Cover Art by Ken Sugawara…
By Meredith Woerner Published May 11, 2011 -
Hey! Listen! Hey! Hey!! Look Out Behind You, Link!!!
For once, Link might want to actually “listen” to the crazy fairies’ nonsense. Such an amazing illustration of the classic Nintendo video game by Kevin Keele. Related Rampage: God of War “Hey! Listen! Hey!” by Kevin Keele / Kanyn (deviantART) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 11, 2011 -
Brink Takes a Swipe at Console Gamers while Deleting PC Gamers’ Characters
Oh those silly console gamers. They couldn’t possibly handle the advanced PC gaming concepts like objective-based teamplay. Why, if there was a bug in the game that say, deleted their characters completely if they exited the game too early, console gamers would be beside themselves. Wait, there is? The screen above, pulled from my copy…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2011 -
The Modern War Gear Solid Saga Continues with the Introduction of… Cardboard Gear!?!
The ultimate paramilitary crossover continues in the fifth(!) chapter of Modern War Gear Solid, which has already merged the worlds of Metal Gear Solid, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Halo into one ridiculously amusing soup. In the latest (and final?) episode, things reach even more ludicrous heights as Ghost battles Kotickovitch, Snake evolves the…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 11, 2011 -
What’s the Batman: Arkham City Comic Hinting At?
The video game sequel to the extraordinary Batman: Arkham Asylum won’t be released until October, but starting today a new comic, Batman: Arkham City, is bridging the two Arkham games’ gap. That compelled me to rush to the comics shop to find out what’s next in this saga. If you’ve been following the pre-release coverage…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 11, 2011 -
Video Game Gave Me Seizures, Says Grounded Navy Fighter Pilot
A former U.S. Navy F-18 fighter pilot is suing Sony, Bethesda and Zenimax claiming that the Playstation 3 version of Oblivion: The Elder Scrolls IV gave him a grand mal seizure, breaking his shoulder and permanently grounding him. In the suit, John Ryan McLaughlin says that on March 28, 2010 he was playing the game…
By Brian Crecente Published May 11, 2011 -
Namco Tops Competitors in Race for Swankiest Game Junket
Back in April, I was standing in a Miami beach-front hotel talking to people from Capcom, the games publisher that invited people like me to check out their new games. (We paid our own way, if you care). I joked that they could up the ante and do their event in Dubai next year. Too…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 11, 2011 -
Play Angry Birds Online, Right Now, for Free
Google isn’t above killing a little productivity to prove the power of its web browser. The search engine king has released a special free browser-based version of Rovio’s avian-flinging sensation Angry Birds on the Chrome Web Store, just to prove it can be done. Announced earlier today at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco,…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2011 -
Thoughts Born of Ten Hours with Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Quintin Smith recently got a chance to play ten hours’ worth of Eidos Montreal’s latest cyberpunk thriller, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Rather than exhaustively regurgitating every minute, instead he shares the thoughts playing the game put into his head. Thoughts like, “I am SUCH a badass. Watch this!” Oh admit it, you’ve…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2011 -
The Dark Souls Collector’s Edition Might Be For You, Softer Players
Or maybe it’s for you, Demon’s Souls diehards or those ravenously anticipating the challenge of Dark Souls. What it is, assuredly, is a strong motivator for pre-ordering Dark Souls for the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. Namco Bandai announced today that Dark Souls would get a limited release collector’s edition bundled with stuff, including a…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 11, 2011 -
There’s a Man with a Laser-Sighted Sniper Rifle Hunting Rats in Moscow
Look, everyone needs a hobby. I like to read, and stare solemnly out my window. It’s good to stay active! But this Russian fellow has a particularly engaging pastime: hunting down Moscow’s rat population and blowing them to rodent hell. Gennady, whose last name is a mystery because he is a covert rat sniper, used…
By Sam Biddle Published May 11, 2011 -
Fallout: New Vegas‘ Honest Hearts Laid Bare in New Trailer and Screens
The unspoiled wilderness of Utah’s Zion National Park shines in the first trailer and screens for Fallout: New Vegas‘ Honest Hearts downloadable content, coming May 17 to the Xbox 360 and Steam, with the PlayStation 3 version coming whenever the PlayStation Network decides to start cooperating. The first of three new installments of downloadable content…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2011 -
The Newest L.A. Noire Trailer is the Most Action-Packed L.A. Noire Trailer
You will need to be patient when you play L.A. Noire. You’re a detective, not a soldier; a crime-solver, not a crime-committer. There will be action in the Rockstar/Team Bondi game that finally comes out for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next week. Here is the game’s official launch trailer, filled with gunplay. We’ll have…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 11, 2011