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And So Nintendo 3DS Fever Begins…
Tomorrow morning Japan time, Nintendo is launching the successor to the Nintendo DS, the Nintendo 3DS. Getting a Nintendo DS on launch day back in 2004 was not a problem. The 3DS could prove more difficult. Crud. Back in 2004, Nintendo was coming off the disastrous GameCube. Rumors swirled that the company was going to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2011 -
This Game Has Asian Girls! Robot Girls! Dead Girls!
It’s a shame this isn’t an official trailer for fighting game Marvel vs Capcom 3. It certainly does a great job of selling the thing. This animated spectacular was put together by Newgrounds user JohnnyUtah, and cuts out matters of canon and characters and gets right to the heart of the game: the number of…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011 -
Some Of The Prettiest Games You Can’t Actually Play
The “demoscene” is a place where video games and music videos meet. It exists on the periphery of both mediums, but that doesn’t make it any less pretty to look at (and listen to). Unlike the “demos” you’re generally used to — samples of commercial video games — the demoscene is a place where videos…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011 -
The Game That Lets You Kill Gaddafi
Now seems as good a time as any to rid the planet of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi. Especially when you get to make a tasty burger in the process. Libyan Hamburger Recipe is required playing for anyone keeping tabs on this week’s biggest news, because not only do you get to take out the good…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011 -
3DS Games Will Keep You Waiting
Nintendo is recommending players take breaks every fifteen minutes while playing the 3DS in 3D. Who plays video games for fifteen minutes? Nintendo is not alone. The fifteen minute break interval is also what the Korean government is recommending while viewing 3D. Capcom realizes that most players don’t play in chunks of 15 minutes. At…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2011 -
Where Geeks Get Their Hair Cut
Real hair or fake hair, it doesn’t matter. Akihabara salon Fuwat will totally cut them both. Located five minutes from Akihabara Station and opening last fall, the salon has a sandwich board out front, like many salons. But the game-inspired drawings, like the cat from Monster Hunter, provide a hint at the otaku-friendly service offered…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2011 -
The Wii’s Sexiest Game Just Got Sad (And Creepy)
Ubisoft is shooting for “sexy” with its upcoming Wii party (?) game We Dare. But this fan-made trailer isn’t sexy at all It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you take the footage from a trailer featuring women in slinky business outfits and dudes with their shorts off and lay over the audio from…a zombie…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011 -
Guess Which Country Just Banned Mortal Kombat
The upcoming Mortal Kombat game is brutal as hell. Meaning, and this shouldn’t come as too great a shock to most of you, it’s been “banned” in Australia. I say “banned” because, like all other recent cases of a commercial title being barred from release Down Under, it’s actually been “refused classification” (as Australia lacks…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2011 -
And Dudes Dream of Electric Sheep
Even when you work from home you can still dream about work, though it does take that whole “I went to work naked,” anxiety dream off the table because hey, who’s around? I might be butt naked typing this right now. Think on that for a little bit. When you work in this space, though,…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2011 -
The Gunstringer Aims For Good Kinect Control (And Hits Its Target)
Twisted Pixel’s new shooter for the Xbox 360, The Gunstringer, might make you feel better about Kinect controls. It is, after all, a Kinect game you can play while sitting down. The makers of Splosion Man, The Maw and Comic Jumper aim to establish the “marionetting-based platformer/shooter” genre with The Gunstringer, an Xbox Live Arcade…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 24, 2011 -
Playing With The Sesame Street Game That Makes You Feel Like A Kid
The delightful Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster for Xbox 360’s Kinect controller is easily the best Sesame Street video game I’ve ever played. Please, don’t let the fact that it’s also the only Sesame Street video game I’ve ever played diminish that praise. Also, please don’t think that just because Once Upon A Monster…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 24, 2011 -
A Brutal Initiation to PvP — But One I Chose
I was adjusting my costume atop a skyscraper in Gotham City when a tour bus soared up into view and hovered there. There was a red diamond on my mini-map, meaning an enemy human player. Had I created Wile E. Coyote here in D.C. Universe Online, I would have cowered under a tiny umbrella, or…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2011 -
Team Fortress 2 Map Update Gives You the Li’l Chew Chew Who Could
Team Fortress 2 brightens your day with a title update that brings three community maps to the game, including an adorable payload affectionately dubbed “Li’l Chew Chew.” You get Nightfall, a payload race map by Aaron ‘Psy’ Garcha and Paul Good set in “a damp logging site, in the middle of the rain, in the…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2011 -
Our First Look At Batman: Arkham City In Motion Is A Stunner
2009’s Batman: Arkham Asylum set a new bar for super hero video games, a game unexpectedly great. Based on what we’ve seen of the sequel today, the developer of greater than expected Batman games is ready to shatter our expectations again. Rocksteady Studios and Microsoft offered our first gameplay glimpse of Batman: Arkham City in…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 24, 2011 -
German Pols Have a LAN Party in the Reichstag
Germany’s government has a rather sensitive relationship with video games. Reports of official censorship often involve the country, either for violent content or the fact that Nazis are useful game antagonists – and you know how they feel about that. Sensational crimes with ties to “Killerspiele,” have stirred calls for outright bans of violent games.…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2011 -
There’s Still a Market for NBA Elite 11
In sports collectibles, one company’s mistake is another man’s fortune. (Ask Billy Ripken.) Five months after NBA Elite 11’s embarrassing cancellation, copies of the game are still circulating over eBay – as well as box art, download cards, and other mementoes of the game that never was. NBA Elite 11 was cancelled a week before…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2011 -
Wii Swinger Parties, John Adams is a Triceratops, and the Cat’s Outta the Bag
Hey, gang. I’m taking over today’s roundup of the top news, but first – a cat, a backpack, a video camera. What could possibly go wrong? Your Neighbors Are About To Invite You To Wii Sex Parties You’ve bowled. You’ve gotten fit. And now you can use your Nintendo Wii console to throw a swinger’s…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2011 -
Cleaning Von Kaiser’s Clock — With Kinect
Kinect Sports Boxing, everyone asked if that was like Punch-Out!! on Kinect. Fighters Uncaged, same thing. How about we just go ahead and play Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! with a Kinect? This guy does. Here is RetroKinect by modder Dan Dockery. Simple controls, punch up, punch low, dodge left and right. The programmer disposes of Von…
By Owen Good Published February 24, 2011