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Super Stardust HD Won’t Stop, Adds Impact Mode In Spring
The great PlayStation Network shooter Super Stardust HD may be approaching its fourth birthday in June, but developer Housemarque isn’t finished with the twin-stick addiction just yet. It’s bringing something new to the shooter this spring with “Impact.” Impact mode, according to Sony Computer Entertainment America, “twists the game rules” by outfitting your space ship…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 22, 2011 -
The Most Beautiful Sights On My iPad Are These First Few Minutes Of Sword & Sworcery
People who are in the know have been waiting for Sword & Sworcery for many, many months. They’ve expected one gorgeous iPad game from a little development studio called Capy. These people know an attractive game when they see its first Ico-meets-Atari screenshot. These people know that “sworcery” isn’t a typo and that the full…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 22, 2011 -
The End Is the Beginning For FormerLEGO Universe Devs
The founders of NetDevil left their Colorado-based studio recently to kick off another game developer start-up. END Games Entertainment has been mostly quiet until today when a blogpost went live hinting at what the foundling studio plans to work on next. Hint: Think casual. [End Stand For…]
By Brian Crecente Published March 22, 2011 -
The Sims Go Medieval
Saucy | Romance novel or video game cover? You decide. (Photo: Brian Crecente) Bedtime Stories Do You Want a Dog Killer on Your Copy of Madden 2012? Much has been written about Michael Vick’s dog fighting ring. About the 70 dogs seized, the cruelty they were subjected to and the two year sentence that came…
By Brian Crecente Published March 22, 2011 -
PlayStation Store Update: Swarm, Slime & Mana
Big things are happening on the North American PlayStation Store this week with the downloadable release of DC Universe Online and Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy, new PSN games Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime and Swarm, and another PlayStation classic, Legend of Mana. Whew! But wait… there’s more! Later this week, PlayStation Move Heroes will hit the…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 22, 2011 -
In Duck Hunt 3D, The Ducks Hunt You
Alfred Hitchcock meets Gunpei Yokoi in Duck Hunt 3D, the live action movie that picks up where that sinister duck hound left off. Created by The Country Club and exclusive to YouTube gaming channel The Game Station, Duck Hunt 3D tells the story of a world gone mallard, where a small group of survivors must…
By Mike Fahey Published March 22, 2011 -
Jinx Launches The Official Minecraft Merch Store With Digable T-Shirts
Need a way to identify yourself as a hardcore Minecraft player when you’re out and about? LIAR! Hardcore Minecraft players never leave the house. For those lesser players that do, Jinx has some lovely official Minecraft tees to help hide your chest. Jinx continues to rack up the big-name title licenses at its for-gamers clothing…
By Mike Fahey Published March 22, 2011 -
Mega Man X, Exploded
Mega Man X snaps out of his thick rocky shell to expose his inner workings thanks to Jeffrey Cruz‘s killer illustration. He is all that is robot! Related Rampages: It’s time to Rock, man | 80’s Worlds Collide (More) – X – by Jeffrey Cruz / lastscionz (deviantART) Need your daily fill of geek eye…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 22, 2011 -
The Next Spider-Man Video Game Shall Soon Be Revealed
Following up on the compelling-yet-flawed Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Activision once again taps developer Beenox to handle the next Spider game, with a grand reveal slotted during a panel at next month’s Wondercon in San Francisco, with some very special guests. While I wasn’t a big fan of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions overall, I did appreciate the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 22, 2011 -
Angry Birds Set Free Today On Amazon’s New Android Appstore
Amazon.com’s newly launched Appstore for Android is kicking things off with a free download of Angry Birds Rio. Amazon’s competitor to Google’s Android Marketplace will be giving away premium apps for free every day, so it may be worth investigating as an alternative. More details at Gizmodo
By Michael McWhertor Published March 22, 2011 -
Willow Smith vs. M. Bison In Fashion Battle of the Decade
MTV’s hawk-eyed Mary H.K. Choi spotted the preternatural fashion selection of Willow Smith, best remembered for her now-decade-old hit, “Zygote To Dance (Feel That Kick)”, and dashing dictator M. Bison of Street Fighter and “Still sorry, Raul Julia” fame. [Style.MTV.com]
By Joel Johnson Published March 22, 2011 -
The Sims 3 = A Man Robbing Your House While You Have Sex
Every game on the Nintendo 3DS has some sort of rotating icon that appears on the system’s home menu. Submarine game Steel Diver features a rotating sub. Ridge Racer has a car. These things epitomize their games. What epitomizes the Sims 3 experience? A burglar peeping on you while you’re having sex. Or maybe you’re…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 22, 2011 -
A New, Improved Look At X-Men Destiny And Its Teenage Mutant Ninja Girl
The last time we got a look at X-Men Destiny, the merry mutant adventure from the House of Ideas and Silicon Knights, we cooled to its look and feel. But our latest peek at the game and new X-character Aimi Yoshida has us warming up to Activision’s latest. Yoshida, pitched as a minute 15-year-old Japanese…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 22, 2011 -
A Video Game Is Not Worth Stealing Your Mother’s Painkillers Over
A 34-year-old woman in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, today received a one-year jail sentence (suspended to one and a half months) for convincing a nine-year-old to steal his mother’s Percocet in exchange for a video game. If only she had known
By Mike Fahey Published March 22, 2011 -
The Nintendo They’ve Tried to Forget: Gambling, Gangsters, and Love Hotels
Nintendo, the world’s family-friendly video game maker, formed under less virtuous auspices. Before Nintendo made video games, they made playing cards for gangsters and ran their own love hotel, which some assert their own president frequented—during work. Saucy! It’s deathly quiet. I can hear my footsteps as I trundle down a small side-street, where the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 22, 2011 -
Steam Gets Chatty With Skype’s SILK
Valve announced a Steam client update today that replaces the service’s standard voice chat with SILK, the voice codec developed and used by Skype, ensuring Portal 2 co-op players crystal clear voice chat with which to curse at each other.
By Mike Fahey Published March 22, 2011 -
Another Portal 2 Hype Video, For People Excited By… Panels
Could you like panels as much as you like portals? According to the latest video hyping April 19 release of Portal 2, panels are/were the next big breakthrough in Aperture Science, the crazy labs of the Portal series. I predict that their next innovation will be gel. Valve jokingly indicates that this video is the…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 22, 2011 -
The Augmented Reality of Nintendogs + Cats
Nintendogs + Cats doesn’t just add better graphics, the creepy ability for the virtual pets to watch you and cats to the mix. There are also some neat augmented reality features built into this latest version of digital pet ownership. Once you’ve selected your pet, named him or her and done a little training, the…
By Brian Crecente Published March 22, 2011 -
The Banjo-Kazooie Relationship Takes A Sinister Turn
What kind of Red-Crested Breegull spends all of her time stuffed inside the backpack of an adventuring bear? A Red-Crested Breegull with nowhere else to go. Dorkly takes a pixelated look at the bird/bear relationship that many gamers never stopped to question. Rare made the whole thing just seem so natural in their platforming series,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 22, 2011