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Now You Can Skip the Super Bowl
Cancel the subs! Madden NFL 11 predicts that the Pittsburgh Steelers will win their record seventh Vince Lombardi Trophy, defeating the Green Bay Packers 24-20 in Super Bowl XLV, according to the annual EA SPORTS Super Bowl Simulation powered by Madden NFL 11. Six out of the last seven Super Bowl champions have been accurately…
By Brian Crecente Published February 1, 2011 -
Black Ops’ Newest Four Maps in Action, Plus Zombies!
Call of Duty: Black Ops’ four newest maps add a healthy mix of new places to run and gun, hide and shoot, play and kill. Here’s a first-hand play-through. I spent a few hours yesterday playing around with Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike maps for the Xbox 360 in Training Grounds, pitting myself…
By Brian Crecente Published February 1, 2011 -
Watch My Pink Hands Get Warm
Sounds like you’ll need a gajillion of these in Denver. What you missed last night The PS3 Slim Now Comes In Silver Here’s How One PC Maker is Dealing With Intel’s Recall Before There Was Dragon Quest, There Were Dirty Games Kotaku, the Gamer’s Guide Games That Make You Want To Go Places
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 1, 2011 -
Luigi Mecha Ready To Destroy The Mushroom Kingdom
From the man who brought you the Yoshi mecha and the Mario mecha comes the, wait for it, Luigi mecha. Donald “KodyKoala” Kennedy is a wizard at producing slick and imaginative custom figures. The 29-year-old married father of three got into custom vinyl figures after returning to Texas from living in Hawaii. “I don’t think…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 1, 2011 -
Get your image featured in the next installment of TAY! All you need to do is put a joke or some sort of witty word-ballooned comment on top of this month’s image. Two technical notes: 1) post your submissions at 640-pixel width. 2) the image needs to be in a 16×9 aspect ratio, which for…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 1, 2011 -
Chinese Parents Are Able To Control, Ban Online Gaming
There is a war raging right now in China, and it’s against online addiction. The latest recruits aren’t doctors or bureaucrats, but parents. Starting next month, a new “parental watch project” will go into effect that will require online gaming companies to have a web page and call center hotline for parents to monitor their…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 1, 2011 -
Don’t Let The Movies Kill Dead Space
Dead Space 2 is a crazy good game, and the survival horror series is building up a sizable fan base. Know what that means? There are rumblings of movie possibilities. The games already got the animated and graphic novel treatment as well as toys. So a big screen version seems to be the logical next…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 1, 2011 -
Games That Make You Want To Go Places
Video games are meant to be an escape from the real world. Yet sometimes, escape be damned, they do such a good job of depicting real locations that the player can’t help but want to pack their bags and go travelling. Whether that be because a game is set in a painstakingly realistic simulation of…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2011 -
The Loneliest PS2 Game Is Also A Novel
Popular Japanese author Miyuki Miyabe offers her take on one of the PlayStation 2’s video games, Ico. The game’s minimalistic plot might have left holes for you to fill. If you’re not creative enough to do that, let Miyabe! The game was designed by Fumito Ueda, and Miyabe offers her own take on the title.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 1, 2011 -
Re-Releasing Old PS1 Games Is Harder Than It Sounds
I’ve often wondered just how “classic” games are re-released for a modern home console. Like, the process that actually goes into digging up the old code. So it was awesome today to get some answers on the subject! Sony’s European blog has outlined just what needs to happen to turn a classic PS1 game into…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2011 -
Hollywood, Where Video Game Movies Go To Die
Of course, it could be argued that Hollywood is simply where video games go to die. Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, the action game about two career criminals, is getting the big screen treatment. One day. Maybe. The movie adaptation was first revealed in 2007 when the script was finished. A year later, Bruce Willis…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 1, 2011 -
Let’s Play A Very Disappointing Round Of Video Game Bingo
Bingo is fun! Least, it is when old ladies play. When it’s based on how predictable blockbuster video game marketing and design has become, though, it’s kind of a bummer. By Christina Coffin, as seen on I Get Your Fail
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2011 -
This Real Final Fantasy Sword Does Some Real Damage
As the main weapon from Final Fantasy VII, the “Buster Sword” is a video gaming icon. In this clip, a man makes a real, giant replica, then has another man run at a piece of wood and smash it to bits. Hats off to the guy for making the sword, as it looks enormous (and…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2011 -
Imagine A World Without Grand Theft Auto
Seems ridiculous, what with Rockstar’s epic crime series still a benchmark for open-world gameplay, but did you know that the very first GTA came close to never being released? It had nothing to do with politics, or censorship, either. Instead, it was regular old-fashioned development troubles that nearly robbed the world of one of its…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2011 -
Get Ready For the Hardest Game You’ll Play This Year
Demon’s Souls was a hard, hard game. Its spiritual successor doesn’t sound any easier — even with its brand new title. Previously the game sported the working title “Project Dark”, but according to the latest issue of Japanese game magazine Famitsu, the game is now called “Dark Souls”. Spiritual successor, perhaps, but the world and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 1, 2011 -
Before There Was Dragon Quest, There Were Dirty Games
Enix, which joined with Square to form Square Enix in 2003, is beloved in Japan for its Dragon Quest games. Children and adults alike adore DQ. Enix’s earliest games, however, are anything but wholesome. In 1982, Enix held a game programming contest and entered the game publishing business. One of the winners was Yuji Horii,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 1, 2011 -
Pokémon Will Teach You To Type, Or You Will Die Trying (Or Typing!)
Remember that mysterious Pokémon game from last year’s Tokyo Game Show, the one that was for the DS but would include a proper keyboard? It’s out in April in Japan. And still makes absolutely no sense. It’s called Pokémon Typing, and is intended to serve as a touch-typing aid for kids, get them clacking away…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2011 -
The PS3 Slim Now Comes In Silver
Just as the original model of the PlayStation 3 was made available in a fancy shade of silver, so too is the newer “Slim” model. Let’s hope unlike last time this isn’t a Japan-only kind of deal! See, the last silver PS3 was never released in the West. So this one, currently only revealed for…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2011