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Celebrating Seven Years of City of Heroes
Seven years ago today, NCsoft and Cryptic Studios released City of Heroes, providing fantasy-gorged massively multiplayer online gamers a new way to waste countless hours of their lives alongside thousands of their closest friends. Let’s celebrate seven years of heroes and villains with a colorful infographic and nostalgia-laden anecdotes! I fondly remember the day City…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 -
Credit Card Companies See No Sign of PSN Hack Fraud
Speaking to Bloomberg, spokesmen for Wells Fargo & Co., American Express Co. and MasterCard Inc. said they were monitoring cardholder accounts and hadn’t seen unauthorized activity relating to Sony. [Bloomberg]
By Brian Crecente Published April 28, 2011 -
Cargo! The Quest for Gravity: A Blown Up World as Imagined by Russian Madmen
Russian developers Ice-Pick Lodge are an inspiration of mine. Operating out of a two bedroom Moscow apartment, their small team assembled Pathologic, one of my favourite games of all time, and monstrous afterlife-simulator The Void, which was among the most interesting games of 2008. Both of these games were legendarily bleak. Last week Ice-Pick released…
Quintin Smith | Rock, Paper, Shotgun Published April 28, 2011 -
Binary Domain is a Prophetic Vision of the Robot Apocalypse
Behold our first glimpse of gameplay from Sega’s Binary Domain, a cautionary tale in which humanity must fight for survival against the highly advanced robots we created with our own hands. I bet Watson is behind this. It’s the same old story I’ve been shouting from street corners for years. “Stop making robots!” I’d yell.…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 -
Exploring the Most Beautiful Video Game Worlds
In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid urges us to sit back, relax, and get lost in the wondrous landscapes of the most gorgeous virtual worlds gaming has to offer. What are some of the absolutely best video game worlds out there? I think I know what I love best about a video game, and…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 -
One Out Of Two Portal 2 Players On Steam Hasn’t Finished The Game
So much for Portal 2 being too short. Fans of Portal 2 may be surprised to learn that a lot of people who own the game aren’t playing it very much. Little more than half the players who bought the game on Steam have finished it and more than one in ten of them haven’t…
By Mike Epstein Published April 28, 2011 -
What’s on the Menu? The Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation Map Pack
I was wondering when Activision was planning on returning to the dual pistol-wielding line cook from that live-action Call of Duty: Black Ops commercial. Welcome back, old friend. Things have escalated since we last met. What we have here is a quick look at the five new maps coming to the Xbox 360 by way…
By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2011 -
Is Let Them Eat Cake the Most Authentic Royalty Simulator of All Time?
Oh, perchance for but a moment to be an inbred simp amidst a pageant to celebrate the sublimation of fresh genetic material into our state-supported carnival sideshow. I would look out from Buckingham Palace and I would think Wot I think is that I’m quite a proper fellar and…ooh thar’s cake I’m’a gonna throw it…
By Joel Johnson Published April 28, 2011 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves
Don’t you just love the spring? The sun is bright, the air warm, balmy and refreshing. A perfect time…to stay indoors and play video games! Speaking of which, what are you all playing right now? Let’s hear some talking. User kaploy9 has introduced a 19th-century child to Kinect—and with such terrific results! If you’d like…
By Drew Cohen Published April 28, 2011 -
Rejected by Apple, Controversial Illegal Immigration Game Reborn Cuter, Cuddlier as Snuggle Truck
Let’s say you make a video game that involves driving illegal immigrants across protected borders, a game that’s deemed “disgraceful” and in “poor taste” before it’s even been released. That game, Smuggle Truck, is then submitted to the iTunes App Store. It is, unsurprisingly, rejected. What do you do? Make Snuggle Truck—swapping the “m” for…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 28, 2011 -
In Japan, He Speaks for the Duke
ALL HAIL THE KING | JAPAN: Veteran voice actor Fumihiko Tachiki will be bringing Duke Nukem Forever alive in Japan. (Photo by Game Watch Impress) PS3 Hacker George Hotz Denies He’s Behind the PSN Breach PS3 rapper hacker George Hotz got sued by Sony. He made an rap video that drew comparisons between getting fucked…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 28, 2011 -
PS3 Hacker George Hotz Denies He’s Behind the PSN Breach
PS3 rapper hacker George Hotz got sued by Sony. He made an rap video that drew comparisons between getting fucked up the ass and the lawsuit. Hotz reached an agreement with Sony, but there’s speculation that the famed hacker is still bitter, that he’s behind the PSN breach. “And to anyone who thinks I was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 28, 2011 -
Answering Questions About Vibrators Is so Embarrassing
Making video games that support them, however, is totally awesome. In 2002, game designer Testuya Mizuguchi made a “trance vibrator” for his synethesia shooter Rez. The trance vibrator even came in a washable “protective glove”. You could rub it against your vagina if you liked—something website gamegirladvance found out first hand (NSFW review here). Website…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 28, 2011 -
Not Everyone Can Smoothly Finger the Wii Vitality Sensor
The Wii Vitality Sensor, which supposedly sensors your vitals, debuted at the 2009 E3 gaming expo. Then, it was too mellow for E3 in 2010. What about this year? Don’t hold your breath! At a recent meeting, an analyst asked Nintendo president Satoru Iwata about life-science doohickey, and the exec replied that the release date…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 28, 2011 -
Canada’s Privacy Watchdog Is also Looking into the PSN Outage
It’s not just Britain’s digital privacy watchdog looking into Sony’s PlayStation Network data theft: Canada’s Privacy Commissioner is now investigating the matter as well. Jennifer Stoddart, the current Privacy Commissioner of Canada, is responsible for officially investigating things like invasions of privacy should Canadians make official complaints. Which, in the wake of the PSN break-in…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 28, 2011 -
The World War Z Game That Could Have Been
Max Brooks’ World War Z is one of the best books about zombies ever written, using the subject of a zombie apocalypse not as a chance to stage a few cheap scares, but to rewrite the history of the world Being such a big fan of the book, then, it’s with both interest and a…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 28, 2011 -
Nintendo Likes Buttons and Won’t Ditch Them
Nintendo is making a new video game console. Rumors state that the console has a touch screen—something Kotaku has confirmed with its own industry sources. During a recent meeting, an analyst asked Iwata for his opinion of tablets. Iwata acknowledged their appeal, drawing comparisons between the Nintendo DS’s touch interactivity. “Whenever we make a new…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 28, 2011 -
Master Chief Is…An Australian boy in Tiny Shorts
Following on from his awesome Metroid piece, called “Lucy”, Aussie artist Ben Guy comes through with “Hank”, the latest in his series of “big helmets on little kids” series of paintings under the banner “Helm”. Hank by Ben Guy
By Luke Plunkett Published April 28, 2011 -
How the Japanese Media Dragged Nintendo into the PSN Breach
The PSN breach is a Sony issue. But when the evening news in Japan wanted to explain how credit cards can possibly leak in a situation like this, it didn’t use the PlayStation. It used the Nintendo DS. PSN users and gamers will immediately spot the discrepancy, but with non-gamers? Japanese parents might think the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 28, 2011
