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iPad 2 “Built For Gaming”

John Gruber of Daring Fireball, reviewing the iPad 2, had a developer friend write a quick testing suite for the tablet’s upgraded graphics: For example, on my original iPad, with 200 on-screen sprites, the framerate dropped to 45 fps. On the iPad 2, with 400 on-screen sprites, the framerate remained at 65 fps. On the…

Don’t Watch This: How Dragon Age 2 Ends

There’s more than just awkward sex in Dragon Age 2. There’s also, you know, a plot. Which ends in one of two forking paths. Even if you don’t have thirty hours plus to spend earning the ending yourself, you could still pick only one of these videos to watch. That’s sort of a game! Give…

Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Video Game Screen Shots

Get Your Star Wars: The Old Republic Guild Started Right Now

BioWare has launched Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Guild Headquarters, a place where players can get their groups organized well in advance of the massively-multiplayer online game’s launch. Are you and your friends ready to adventure in a galaxy far, far away? While Star Wars: The Old Republic isn’t due out any time soon, BioWare…

Okabu, the Secretly Pro-Environment Video Game

Okabu isn’t meant to be an “issues” game. It isn’t meant to teach you that we should care for our environment, that pollution could one day kill us. But it is, and it does. Fortunately it’s also a charming, creative game that hides those lessons behind the oddly anthropomorphic heroes of Finnish artist Mikko Walamies’…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Come here, one and all, to talk about video games, be they Killzone 3, Killzone 1, Killzone 2, Killzone Liberation or even not at all related to Killzone. Thanks to FiveSpeed for today’s pic. Submit your image to #TAYpics. We’re running low, TAY readers. Now’s your chance to get yours features. (Read this thread for…

A Human Screenshot, Nerd Rage And Drinking Before Noon

I actually don’t drink until the sun goes down, and these days I hardly drink. My mom once told me never to take a drink before noon. But then, Luke was telling me that you should if you’ve stayed up all night drinking. Hrm! Every Single NES Game Getting A New Coat Of Paint Artist…

There Are Huge 3DS AR Cards. They Make Life-Sized Miis.

The 3DS uses small credit-card sized augmented reality (AR) cards for the title AR Games, but Nintendo is currently developing AR cards that are able to reproduce life-sized characters. Here Nintendo president Satoru Iwata poses with his jumbo Mii. Japan’s Club Nintendo members will get the chance to snag special “big” AR cards. Details will…

Hollywood To Make Another Doom Movie. It’ll Be A Reboot.

The last Doom movie was released in 2005, which should be enough time for viewers to erase the dreadful picture from their brains. Universal Pictures is rumored to be moving forward with another Doom flick. According to website What’s Playing, the flick is in the early stages of development and is “a reboot – one…

Dragon Quest Was Made By Dudes, Pencils And Cigarettes

Nintendo might’ve been made by nice old ladies and robots, but Dragon Quest VI was made by dudes who smoke and dudes who drew pictures. How Video Games Are Made: The Making of Dragon Quest VI is a Japanese children’s book that shows the creation process of the classic Super Famicom role-playing game. And since…

Sexy Wii Game In Trouble For Not Being Sexy Enough

We Dare is supposedly all spank this, spank that, put this in your mouth, lick that. But that’s fantasy — make believe. And the game’s French publisher, Ubisoft, is getting its knuckles rapped for it. PEGI, the body that rates games in Europe, told Ubisoft to remove its “misleading” We Dare spot from the internet,…

Every Single NES Game Getting A New Coat Of Paint

Artist Campbell Whyte has embarked on a noble adventure: every day, he’s painting a picture based on a Nintendo Entertainment System game. Every. Last. One. Going off a Wikipedia compendium of 799 English-language games as his “master list”, Whyte will be going through the NES’ entire collection one by one, chronologically by order of release…

The PS3 Is Secure…For Now (Dun Dun DUN)

Hacker KaKaRoTo (real name Youness Alaoui), the fellow behind the PSFreedom jailbreak, thinks the PS3 is now secure after the recent firmware update. “Their previous errors were epic fails, it doesn’t mean they can’t do an epic save either.. they seem to have fixed all the issues they had,” Youness Alaoui wrote on Twitter (via…

Kinect Was Born For Garry’s Mod

John Boiles’ work getting Garry’s Mod to recognise Microsoft’s Kinect isn’t the most impressive video of its ilk we’ve seen. It is, however, the most entertaining. So many of the other ones are boring guys in their bedrooms talking about code! John knows we all just prefer seeing a guy kick boxes over to his…

Why Rake Leaves In Japan When You Can Play Deus Ex?

Action game Deus-Ex has a release window for Japan. The game is slated to be out this Fall, which is later than the West’s August release dates. [via Game Watch Impress]

PlayStation Boss, You Just Got Yourself A Promotion

Having “successfully led the turnaround of the games business”, PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai has (as expected) just been moved one step closer to the top job at Sony Corporation when current CEO Sir Howard Stringer moves on.

Is Tiny Wings The Angry Birds Of 2011?

Angry Birds is a wonderful game. But it’s so 2010. And we’re in 2011. We need a new mobile game to fall in love with. And this might be it. Released in February, Tiny Wings is the work of Andreas Illiger, and it is a beautiful-looking game. The art style is sensational and looks beautiful…

The Eye Of The Tiger Plays Street Fighter In Tracksuits

This is the story of one hipster-doofus, loose on the streets of Tokyo in an attempt to prove his worth as a Street Fighter IV player. And it’s more enjoyable than I just made it sound. Why? Because as a video it’s so easy on the eyes. It also takes in some of the city’s…

This Lady Is A Walking Screenshot

Cosplay, the art of dressing up like somebody else, is normally happy just looking like the character. Canadian Sheila isn’t happy just looking like the character. She has to look like screenshots When you look at the pictures individually, they look like…a girl standing around in a fairly basic costume. No big deal. But take…

Ico’s Creator Says The Game “Wasn’t Good Enough”

Fumito Ueda, the driving force behind PS2 classics Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, doesn’t think as highly of his team’s last two games as you might. While many gamers regard the titles as two of the greatest games ever made, Ueda says their almost-cult status is a problem, not something to be cherished. “The…