A little game called Air Penguin is beating its more widely known avian competition for the top spot in the iTunes paid apps chart these days. Air Penguin’s hotter than Tiny Wings and topping Angry Birds. The Korean-developed penguin game from Gamevil and Enterfly does several things right. • It’s simple. You control an Antarctic…
Singapore’s SingTel kicked off a subscription-based cloud gaming service called ESC, which allows players to play high-powered games over the net via desktops or notebook computers with Pentium 4 chips. It’s also possible to play games via SingTel’s fibre-optic set up for televisions. Games are streamed over the internet in standard def, and there are…
Sony’s God Of War series may be set for a fourth home console title, with a source telling PSM3 that God Of War 4 will be out in September 2012. Try not to act too surprised.
It’s a shame that you miss it while you’re too busy kicking cars and shooting things in the face, but Crysis 2 is a love letter to the city of New York, something that really shines through in the game’s concept art. These pieces were done by Crytek artists Dennis Chan and Viktor Jonsson, and…
Okay, so the box art for Pandora’s Tower is way to similar to Final Fantasy’s art. But the upcoming Wii game’s latest trailer is original enough to seem engaging. You know what sells it? Raw monster meat.
You need to fill out an entry form. And be honest. It may get creepy, like it does here, but you must be honest (via Gamefreaks). what’s cooler than being cool? by Nick Edwards
While Minecraft has long had a “free” mode, that’s restricted you to just running around building stuff. The new demo for the game actually lets you engage in the proper singleplayer “campaign”, albeit with a time limit. Players have 90 minutes to run around building, destroying, mining and killing anything they can get their hands…
And no, I don’t mean literally speaking with them. Eww! Reality! I mean chatting with them, as the official World of Warcraft Mobile Guild app now supports a remote chat feature. If you’ve got the app and are away from your computer, it allows you to not only access your guild’s chat room, but have…
As if Resident Evil 5, with its alternative controls and albino zombies on motorbikes, wasn’t different enough. Upcoming Resident Evil 6 is going to be even more different. According to Masachika Kawata, currently producer of Resident Evil: Raccoon City, big changes are planned for the inevitable RE6. “The series will see a complete renovation with…
Action game No More Heroes is coming to the PS3, with Move controls, as No More Heroes: Red Zone Edition. The game is basically No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, which was an HD port of the first game, but features 5 bosses from No More Heroes 2 as well as ten missions that had originally…
Don’t sweat it, Americans! You may not be getting the fancy Deus Ex Collector’s Edition that includes an action figure, but you’re certainly free to go buying the figure on his own, as he’s part of an entire line being released by Square Enix. Part of the company’s “Play Arts” series of action figures, there…
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sports game trailer that has a dog, a Centurion (or Spartan?), an American Indian, a bull and a buffalo all in the one video before.
Microsoft’s Xbox Live Indie Games Channel has been hit in recent weeks with some ratings manipulation, which is affecting how games are displayed (and as a result sold) on the service. Here’s what the platform holder is doing about it. “Starting today”, reads a statement issued by Microsoft, “only users with Xbox LIVE Gold subscriptions…
Today Sony Computer Entertainment confirmed yesterday’s rumor that its digital-only portable the PSPgo was going out of production. The Tokyo-based electronics giant told Japanese website AV Watch that new PSPgo units would no longer be manufactured or shipped “in order to concentrate on the NGP”. The remaining PSPgo stock, however, will continued to be sold…
If you’ve played a Castlevania video game from the past decade, you’ve likely enjoyed the musical stylings of Japanese composer Michiru Yamane. She’s the musician behind Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and dozens of other Konami games. Now she’s scoring indie 2D fighting game Skullgirls, lending it some jazzy flair. Yamane, who can boasts more…
With Portal 2 knocking Team Fortress 2 from the limelight this week, many people are probably wondering what the hell they’re going to do with all those hats they’ve picked up. Well, you can use them in Portal 2. Six of the most iconic Team Fortress 2 hats – and really, hats is what that…
It all started in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But it wasn’t nearly as sexy. Game makers began releasing titles with 3D polygons, giving shape to what was previously flat. By 1994, Namco released Tekken, one of the first fighters with 3D polygons. Yet that was nothing compared to what Namco did two years…
Sad news out of Sony tonight, as Team Ico boss Fumito Ueda sends word that his studio’s upcoming PS3 game The Last Guardian, along with the HD re-releases of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, have all been delayed. The Ico/SotC collection was originally supposed to be out this Spring. Last Guardian, meanwhile, was supposed…
The Wii’s sensor bar is a flimsy little thing. It’s pretty weak, too. What it needs, then, is MORE POWER, and that’s exactly what these two handymen are proposing. They’ve built the MegaBar, a large, powered infared source that lets you use a Wii Remote with accuracy well beyond the console’s standard range. So, say,…
The short answer: a lot. The long answer: a substantial amount, my dear, it really is quite noticeable. These new comparison shots, put together by NeoGAF user Prime Blue, show some key scenes and locations early on in the game, with the 1998 Nintendo 64 version on the left and the 2011 Nintendo 3DS version…
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