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Okamiden Masters the Art of Breaking Wind
Our latest look at Capcom’s portable take on Okami was full of breaking wind. You break wind to the left, you break wind to the right, you break wind straight on, all to show off the game’s latest magic brush technique. In Okamiden you work wolf pup Chibiterasu through the game with the help of…
By Brian Crecente Published January 12, 2011 -
Batman Would Completely Dominate World Of Warcraft
Billionaire Bruce Wayne uses his fortune to fund his never-ending war on crime. If events had played out differently, perhaps he’d be a gamer, using his fortune to fund a never-ending war against the Lich King. In this video mash-up created by Justin Herrera, the Dark Knight spends his considerable resources to create the World…
By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2011 -
Limbo Leads Developers Choice Award Nominations
BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 is nominated for five of ten awards at the 11th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Rockstar’s western epic Red Dead Redemption is up for six. Playdead’s downloadable Xbox Live Arcade game Limbo has them both beat. Limbo’s stark visuals, thoughtful puzzles, and purposefully vague story captivated players last year, and they…
By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2011 -
The Xbox 360 Tries Again To Replace TV Programming
Starting this spring Microsoft will again test the waters for a video game that replicates, perhaps replaces, something you might watch on television. In 2009, Microsoft turned the once-popular television game show 1 Vs. 100 into a very popular mob trivia game on the Xbox 360. The game had a regular season, a live audience…
By Brian Crecente Published January 12, 2011 -
Explode American Capitalist Pigs For Free, For Fun
The folks behind Alien Hominid HD have a little Freudian present for you iPhone gamers out there. Developers The Behemoth are in the process of turning Super Soviet Missle Mastar, a mini-game hidden in Alien Hominid HD, into a free iPhone title. Complete with big white phallic missile, capitalist pigs and a U.S.-shaped target, all…
By Brian Crecente Published January 12, 2011 -
With Booze, Does Size Matter?
To: Crecente From: Bash RE: Epic Sends Me The Tiniest Gin and Tonic I see your mini-gin and tonic and raise you two mini cups of Japanese sake! What you missed last night Shooting Dogfaces, A Singsong Voice And My Other Favorite Gaming Moments Of 2010 It’s Game On In Japan’s Sex Hotels Did Capcom…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2011 -
Telling Others Where They Can Put Their Doodle
Put away your pens and paper, because the makers of the iPhone’s most popular games don’t want anyone else doodling. Doodle Jump from Lima Sky is a regular in the top ten on the Apple App charts, but it’s not the first iOS game to have “doodle” in it. However, other developers are claiming that…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2011 -
Shooting Dogfaces, A Singsong Voice And My Other Favorite Gaming Moments Of 2010
2010 might be over, but my memories of the year’s games still live on and on. Here are some of my favorite gaming moments of 2010. These are in no particular order and do know that these moments are not a list of my favorite games of 2010. Several of these games would show up…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2011 -
A Wretched Hive Of Scum And Assassini
Donglu Yu is an artist who worked on Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. With the game now complete and out in the wild, it’s time for Yu to share some of her amazing work. As a lover of heavy coffee table books that are full of concept art, I can only hope that one day, Ubisoft sees…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2011 -
Did Capcom Totally Copy Someone Else’s Work?
Capcom Mobile has a little game out on the App Store called MaXplosion, where you run around a science lab blowing yourself up. If you think that sounds familiar, well, that’s because it is. It appears to be almost identical not just in premise, but in execution and even visual themes to ‘Splosion Man, a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2011 -
This Apartment Is No Nerd Slob Hole
The thing about nerd hovels is that the their stereotypical image is of being dark, dank, messy and cluttered with crap. Swiss dude Melonpan’s lair is anything but. It’s breezy and bright and all his game controllers, comics and figures are neat and tidy and displayed with such care. More pictures of his going’s on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2011 -
After A Tough Day Of Farmville, Relax With Some Pokerville
Live Poker by Zynga, also known as Live Poker By The Guys Who Made Farmville, is hoping to be the world’s biggest “social casino”. I’m afraid it may be succeeding. It’s terrible. Yet it’s being played by a quarter of a million people. Go figure. LIVE Poker by Zynga on iTunes
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2011 -
The PlayStation Phone, Torn Apart
Never mind that we’ve seen the PSPhone in action, Sony still hasn’t officially confirmed the product’s existence. Oh well. One Chinese website just apparently ripped the thing wide open. Granted, since Sony hasn’t yet confirmed the PSPhone, the product doesn’t officially exist. This dissected product could be anything — a real honest-to-goodness PSPhone, even. According…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2011 -
A Mario and Miyamoto For Nightmares
I never thought I’d see the day when the worlds of the Mushroom Kingdom and a Tool video intersected, but it appears 2011 is going to be full of surprises. This isn’t for the impatient, or the faint of heart, but there’s an eerie vision of the future to be found by sticking around to…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 12, 2011 -
Why Stop At Buying An Embarrassing Game?
Why not go all the way and buy a gaming chair and an embarrassing slip cover? Hey, it’s a mere $440, and you do only live once. A bundle for Cute-em-up shooter Otomedius X includes a copy of the Xbox 360 game, a copy of the soundtrack, a collection of illustrations, a sheet cover of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2011