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Here Is A Dog In A Tron Costume Playing Donkey Kong
And Excitebike! In Episode 1 of “Tron Dog,” the canine protagonist gets sucked into the game grid to dodge barrels and flip a motorbike. I mean, it’s Tron Dog, the title sort of speaks for itself, right? The video stars Sauce, the four-year-old pomeranian owned by Stephanie Farah, who shot the video with William Voermann.…
By Owen Good Published January 19, 2011 -
Robot Staring Contest
What robots do you have on your desk? I had two for about five minutes. Now they’re tucked away in a closet, scared, lonely. What you missed Nintendo’s 3DS Hits the U.S. On March 27 for $249.99 A Metric Ton of 3DS News, Games and Interviews Science Fiction Heroes And Villains Converge In Red Faction:…
By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011 -
Truly, This Is Twilight Princess’ Midna’s Better Side
True form Link and Midna team up in this rad Twilight Princess illustration by GENZOMAN. This is a reverse look at his “Midna and Wolf Link” piece. Related Rampages: Thor | Fantasy Street Fighter | Midna and Wolf Link Zelda – Midna and Link by Gonzalo Ordonez Arias / GENZOMAN Need your daily fill of…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011 -
iPhone Dead Space Puts Monsters In Your Pants
Dead Space 2 arrives next week. Sometime soon we’ll be getting Dead Space on the iPhone, in a game whose story bridges that of the two console versions. Here’s how the iPhone’s gameplay will look. Like the original game, Isaac himself is the HUD in the iPhone version (holograms over him show ammo, health, etc),…
By Owen Good Published January 19, 2011 -
Hands-On With Kid Icarus Uprising, A Superb-Looking 3DS Game
It might be a little hard to appreciate how good the 3DS’ Kid Icarus Uprising looks in this video. All games look better in person and not under funky lighting. But, surely you can see? Kid Icarus was the best-looking game I played on the Nintendo 3DS at today’s New York City pre-launch event. I…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 19, 2011 -
Monster Hunter Finally Slayed By A.C.E. In Japan
Who can stop Monster Hunter Portable 3’s streak? Only another PSP game, one with similar Japanese flair, Another Century’s Episode Portable. The mech simulation has dethroned the latest and 4 million selling Monster Hunter in Japan. The latest A.C.E. from Armored Core developer From Software managed to secure the top spot in this week’s Japanese…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011 -
Finally A Chance To Slap PlayStation Home Users
Two new games hit Sony’s PlayStation Home virtual world on Thursday, through one hits harder than the other. Conspiracy’s stealthy infiltration seems entertaining, but Slap Happy Sam’s cartoon violence looks downright therapeutic. From independent developer the Odd Gentlemen, Slap Happy Sam is a multiplayer game in which players can get back at each other for…
By Mike Fahey Published January 19, 2011 -
2010 Game of the Year Finalist Debate: Call of Duty: Black Ops (Xbox 360)
What makes a game a game of the year? Not innovation. Not graphics. Not gameplay. Not even a combination of all three. What makes a game of the year is the experience it delivers. The way it leaves you feeling when you’re done, if you’re every really done with the game. In 2010, the question…
By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011 -
Geometry Wars, Blur Studio Will Likely Close After All
With no sign of a buyer in sight, it looks like it is the end of the road for the troubled Bizarre Creations, the British game development studio behind Blur, Geometry Wars, Project Gotham Racing and James Bond game Bloodstone, according to a report on the UK site Develop
By Stephen Totilo Published January 19, 2011 -
Mom Loses Her 6 Kids Over Game Addiction, Filthy Home
A Uniontown, PA woman has lost custody of her six young children after investigators found the kids living in a filthy house littered with “animal waste.” Why the deplorable conditions? The mother is “addicted” to online computer games. Police say the kids, which are 11 years old and younger, were sleeping on bare mattresses and…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011 -
Waiting Anxiously To Play
Waiting for her friend to come home so they can play the game together, Flickr user iwinatcookie gets creative with her collector’s edition LittleBigPlanet 2 Sackboy. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
By Mike Fahey Published January 19, 2011 -
Disney Pulls The Plug On Propaganda Games
The makers of Tron: Evolution and Turok are no more. Disney confirmed the (not too surprising) closure of Vancouver-based dev Propaganda Games today, saying “The studio has completed all work associated with its most recent project.”
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011 -
Hands-On With Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition
Capcom’s Seth “S-Kill” Killian walks us through the controls for 3DS’ upcoming Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition. The game will have the same stages, costumes and moves found in the console version. The game will have two different control modes: Pro and light. Light mode enables you to set up macros, essentially, into the…
By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011 -
There’s A Little Metroid In Dead Or Alive For 3DS
Dead or Alive: Dimensions, the Nintendo 3DS entry in the long-running, extremely jiggly fighting game series, is coming from Team Ninja. That’s the same team behind Wii game Metroid: Other M. Now the two are coming together. How? A new video of Dead or Alive: Dimensions shows off two Metroid cameos, one from mini-boss Ridley…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011 -
Unleashing Your Evil Side In Dead Space 2 Multiplayer
Dead Space 2’s Outbreak multiplayer mode pits fragile humans against twisted alien monsters in an all-out battle to see who kills what first. Let’s see how that looks through the eyes of a Necromorph. I’ve played plenty of games that pit human characters with guns against hideous creatures with super powers; games like Singularity, Left…
By Mike Fahey Published January 19, 2011 -
Hands-On With the 3DS’ Picture-Morphing, Monster-Seeing Freebies
Nintendo walks us through all of the many apps built into the 3DS. This is what you get out of the box for free the day you buy the system. We already knew about the ability to take amazing, 3D photos and look at them live. But that’s not all you get when you pick…
By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011 -
“Problematic” Gaming Linked To Depression, Drugs, And Fighting
In a survey that’s sure to be taken the wrong way by somebody, researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have discovered links between “problematic gaming” and negative health behaviors like smoking, doing drugs, and fighting. But first, good news! the good news is that the study, which surveyed 4,028 adolescents about their gaming habits,…
By Mike Fahey Published January 19, 2011 -
How Does The Nintendo 3DS Price Stack Up?
Nintendo has revealed the launch price of the Nintendo 3DS, the company’s priciest portable yet at $249.99 USD. How does Nintendo’s stereoscopic 3D gaming handheld compare to the competition and its ancestors? The cost of buying into Nintendo’s latest and greatest portable gaming systems has been on the rise since the launch of the DS…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011 -
The 23 3DS Games You Can Play By June
By this summer, three months after the Nintendo 3DS hits the U.S., there will be more than 30 games to play on the system, according to Nintendo. Here’s 23 of them. Reggie Fils-Aime today defined the 3DS’ launch window as between March 27 and June 7, when E3 kicks off, and said that more than…
By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011 -
It’s Official: You Can Transfer Your Purchases From DSi to 3DS
YES! Tucked away on the official page for the Nintendo 3DS ( and yes, in the press release) is confirmation that Nintendo has finally come to their senses in regards to digital purchases. “System Transfer is a feature that enables you to transfer downloadable software already purchased on a Nintendo 3DS system to another Nintendo…
By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011