Right now, gamers play video games on the Xbox 360, the PS3 and the Nintendo Wii. One day, we will have new consoles. Won’t that be great? Um, no, not according to one of gaming’s biggest studios. “It would be horrible,” says THQ’s Danny Bilson. “It still costs us a fortune to make games on…
Like puzzles? No, that isn’t a puzzle, it’s a question. Wordsnap Contraption is a word-based puzzle game in which players try to create new words — in under two minutes. There are multipliers and a constant flow of new letters. Wordsnap Contraption is a fun little game. Future updates will hopefully expand the dictionary.
Meagan VanBurkleo, who we’ve seen before as the Princess of Persia, returns to wow us again with a day spent as Mad Moxxi, a maniacal star of Gearbox’s shooter Borderlands. If you haven’t played the game before, Mad Moxxi is like Tina Turner in Mad Max 3. Only less terrifying While the pictures are great,…
Monkey Island? More like Spunky Island. Apologies if that appears crass, but I didn’t come up with it: developers Grimmstone did, as it’s the name of their pornographic tribute to Lucasart’s classic adventure game series. Sadly, it’s not a game where you have to trade insults with dangerous women or use rubber chickens to cross…
A handful of mothers were totally freaked out by sci-fi game Dead Space 2. Those moms are pansies. Dino Ignacio’s mom? While everyone else seems to cover their eyes, his mom laughs in the game’s face, cackles and chuckles. Ignacio is Dead Space 2’s user interface designer. Dead Space 2 is headed to the Xbox…
We’re just a few hours away from a pair of big Nintendo events in the US and Europe, where actual, useful information pertaining to the release of the 3DS will be revealed. To pass the time, then, let’s make some predictions. There are three key pieces of information we’re likely to have by the time…
This year, China is releasing a new controller-free gaming console. New for China, that is, as the world already played this when it was called Kinect. Dubbed a “Kinect clone” by the West, the eBox will come with 30 games built in and a set-top camera that can detect a player’s movements, according to the…
Angry Birds. It’s the craze that’s sweeping the nation. Well, many nations. And soon, it’ll be the craze that’s sweeping TV sets (or computer monitors), with an Angry Birds animated series on the way. Rovio, the developers of the smash hit mobile game, has found a partner (or partners) to “move into production” on an…
A 42-year-old Japanese male walked into his local cineplex and started watching the latest Gundam flick. As well as recording the anime’s audio with his phone. He is now in police custody. While piracy is only thought to be, you know, filming the actual screen, Japanese copyright law covers audio, too. Under a 2007 ruling,…
Here’s a tip, budding customer service representatives of the world: if you’re going to abuse your powers in a video game and treat your customers like dirt, don’t do it while you’re live-streaming the game An employee of Riot Games, operators of action RTS League of Legends (ironically, about to pioneer a new system aimed…
Final Fantasy games are just that, fantasy. You know, guys with amazing hair swinging big swords around in mystical locations. Part of the setting for Final Fantasy Versus XIII is a little less fantasy, though. A little more ordinary This is not a bad thing! In fact, what makes the Final Fantasy Versus XIII trailer…
Crims locked up in a Scottish prison have found a novel use for their PS3s: employing them as charging stations for the mobile phones they’re not supposed to have. Prison officials say that the inmates had been stealing computer mice from their labs (used for training and teaching courses), re-wiring them then slipping them into…
While marveling at the scenery, soaking up pop music or playing video games, you can’t miss it. In Japan, English is everywhere. And the country seems, at times, obsessed with learning it. Of course, most of the English visitors and residents alike come into contact with isn’t really English, but Japan’s spin on the language.…
I’ve only ever seen Golden Tee Golf in places where beer is served, and played by people drinking it, so maybe letting the latest version of the arcade classic communicate with Facebook isn’t the best idea in the world. Golden Tee LIVE 2011 will let players sign into Facebook before playing, and once they drop…
Xbox 360 users, two things: one, you’re getting back the option to boot your console straight to a disc, and two, your Xbox.com Gamercards are in for a change. That is all.
A huffy customer support worker at Activision, no doubt fed up dealing with people complaining about Call of Duty: Black Ops’ poor online performance, has snapped over an email exchange with tech blogger Jason Koblovsky. Koblovsky, who for months has – along with many others – experienced connection issues with the game when attempting to…
Kongregate Arcade, the Flash game app released earlier today for Android, has been pulled from the service’s online marketplace. Why? Kongregate owner GameStop doesn’t know, nor is Google saying. But all hope is not yet lost… “Tens of thousands of users successfully downloaded the new app but, due to unknown reasons, Google has pulled it…
Maybe the next Metal Gear should take place in an Office Max or supermarket in Sweden. Maybe it shouldn’t. Maybe we should talk about thoughts like these in tonight’s open thread. While our nightly off-topic post is normally less about video games than the rest, I was curious to know what other video games are…
This Angry Birds thing goes all the way to the White House. Former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney reveals he’s dabbled in Angry Birds on the iPad. Pray he’s better with a slingshot than a shotgun…
If you’re a Nintendo fan, tomorrow’s kind of a big deal. Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe are expected to blow the lid off their 3DS launch plans on Wednesday morning at two special events. Nintendo is launching its brand new platform, the Nintendo 3DS, across the globe over the next two months. It’s…
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