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Let’s Play One Hundred and Sixty-Two
Hope Springs Eternal | It only felt like a holiday. Baseball fans celebrated Opening Day today. Major League Baseball moved up Opening Day to prevent the postseason from creeping into November. The last time MLB opened the season this early with a full slate of games was 1998. (Photo: Getty Images) Sony’s MMO Studio Confirms…
By Owen Good Published March 31, 2011 -
Playing 3DS Augmented-Reality Games with a Whiteboard
Everyone’s testing the limits of the Nintendo 3DS augmented reality games, but it does seem that if you can replicate one of the cards it uses – preferably the question-mark box – you can start the game from anywhere, whether it’s on the screen of an iPhone or, now, a white board. Some guys at…
By Owen Good Published March 31, 2011 -
GameStop Buys Slightly Used Impulse, Spawn Labs
Game retailer GameStop is buying Impulse, the video game digital distribution subsidiary of Stardock and rival to Valve’s Steam. GameStop also bought game streaming outfit Spawn Labs, which will bring “immediate access to a wide selection of high-definition video games on demand on any Internet-enabled device.” Sure sounds like they’re taking on OnLive. More details…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 31, 2011 -
The Wii’s Xenoblade Finally Being Exported From Japan
Wii role-playing game Xenoblade (aka Monado: Beginning of the World) will no longer be a Japan-exclusive, thanks to Nintendo of Europe. The company is bringing the game to the Wii in Europe as Xenoblade Chronicles. Developed by Monolith Soft, better known for the Xenosaga and Baten Kaitos series, Xenoblade is an action-based RPG that tells…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 31, 2011 -
EA Sports Boss Says Michael Vick “Has Served His Time”
Michael Vick, who returned to the NFL in 2009 after a two-year prison sentence for running a dogfighting ring, was the second-biggest winner (by percentage) in the first round of EA Sports’ fan-voted playoff for the Madden NFL 12 cover. To no one’s surprise, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has demanded Vick’s removal…
By Owen Good Published March 31, 2011 -
Mega Man, After Defeating Chin Man
Mega Man and the gang combine forces in Adam Ford‘s excellent submission into UDON’s Mega Man Tribute Contest Past Mega Man Tribute artwork can be found HERE! Mega Man Tribute by Adam Ford (FOV Editions) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 31, 2011 -
Walmart’s Exclusive L.A. Noire Case Is Stuck In Traffic
Preorder Rockstar’s L.A. Noire from GameStop and you get a thrilling homicide case. Preorder the game from Walmart and you’re stuck on traffic duty. Rockstar continues to dole out retailer-exclusive cases for its upcoming detective thriller L.A. Noire, and today we get our first peek at “A Slip of the Tongue”, the traffic case that’ll…
By Mike Fahey Published March 31, 2011 -
With Some Help From Final Fantasy, The PSP Closes In On The 3DS
This week’s Japanese bestsellers list will likely be reference in a future report, “Why We Should Continue To Re-release Remakes of Final Fantasy Games” at Square Enix. The latest collection, the PSP release of Final Fantasy IV Complete Collection—containing Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years—is this week’s top game in Japan.…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 31, 2011 -
This Rockstar Cover Is Full Of Easter Eggs
Rockstar Games made one of 20 covers to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Esquire UK’s Man At His Best series. They made one hell of an image for it. (Click the image at left to see a much bigger version) The cover art, according to the official Rockstar blog, is “designed to reflect the decay…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 31, 2011 -
The Creator of Resident Evil Gets His Own Truly Bizarre Action Figure
Shinji Mikami, the video game creator behind games like Resident Evil, God Hand and Vanquish, is finally getting his own action figure, now available for pre-order at the web site of Tango Gameworks, the developer’s new studio. Featuring “real shaving action,” 256 points of articulation and alternate zombie heads, it may be the best Shinji…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 31, 2011 -
Offended Gay Gamer Wants Dragon Age II Writer Fired
Last week we lauded BioWare writer David Gaider for his eloquent defense of the inclusion of love interests for players of any sexual orientation in Dragon Age II. Now one gamer has started an internet petition asking that Gaider be fired for his poor portrayal of gay men. You can’t please all of the Dragon…
By Mike Fahey Published March 31, 2011 -
Hollywood To Rip Off Video Gaming’s Excellent Framerate
Video games have stolen many things from Hollywood. What’s Hollywood going to take back? Director James Cameron wants to shoot Avatar 2 and 3 at 48 or even 64 frames per second, the latter rate being the ideal framerate for first-person shooters and racing games. Movies are usually shot at 24 fps, but, hey, if…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 31, 2011 -
Sony’s MMO Studio Confirms Massive Layoffs, Closes The Book On The Agency
Yesterday’s rumors have proven true, as Sony Online Entertainment confirms 205 cut positions, the closure of three studio locations, and puts the final bullet in the head of massively multiplayer online spy game The Agency. In an official statement delivered to Kotaku this afternoon, Sony Online Entertainment outlines the strategic decision that resulted in the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 31, 2011 -
Infamous 2 Is Our Next Garish Super-Hero Comic, In Video Game Form
What exemplifies super-heroes? It’s more than super-powers, which the first Infamous video game on the PlayStation 3 had, in the form of a man named Cole whose electrically-charged body was as deadly as a toaster in a tub. There is a gaudiness to super-heroes, a garishness that the dark, slick first Infamous lacked. There’s people…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 31, 2011 -
This Is All You Need To See Of The Saints Row: The Third Debut Trailer
Game Informer has posted the debut trailer for THQ and Volition’s Saints Row: The Third, consisting of some music, a few splash screens, and one second of actual gameplay footage. See for yourself
By Mike Fahey Published March 31, 2011 -
It’s Not Every Day You Get To Create A Brand-New Muppet
Creating a brand-new official Muppet character is a task few people in this world have the opportunity to undertake. Double Fine Productions Scott Campbell is one of those people, and this is what his effort has wrought. Once Upon A Monster is the most exciting Sesame Street video game ever created. Using Microsoft’s Kinect camera,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 31, 2011 -
You’ll Never Forget Your First 3DS Street Pass Notification
On the fourth day since the official release of the Nintendo 3DS, I finally walked past someone else who had the system and was sharing their data … at the Sony Style Store, surrounded by PSPs and PS3s. I don’t know exactly when it happened. Possibly when I was talking to some PlayStation public relations…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 31, 2011 -
BloodRayne Is Back And More Two-Dimensional Than Ever
We’ve still got a day left until April Fools, so we’re going to have to take Majesco seriously when they announce the return of their half-vampire, half-supermodel heroine this summer in the 2D side-scrolling platformer BloodRayne: Betrayal. Why take a franchise that did moderately well as a 3D action-adventure title and transform it into a…
By Mike Fahey Published March 31, 2011 -
Deep Space Mystery Solved Using 1970s Computer Graphics Technique
Extra-solar probes Pioneer 10 and 11 have been confusing astrophysicists for the last decade: they’re slowing down a lot more than we’d expected as they’re leaving the solar system. The slowing has become know as the “Pioneer Anomaly.” (But you probably know it by the popular formula, “Ol’ (8.74±1.33)×10^−10 ms^−2”.) Scientists working out of Lisbon…
By Joel Johnson Published March 31, 2011
