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The Mysterious, Magical Kentucky Route Zero, A 2011 Game To Anticipate
The trailer for a game I hadn’t heard of comes with the most unusual description: “a magic realist adventure game about a secret highway in Kentucky and the mysterious folks who travel.” This is Kentucky Route Zero. I want to play it. All I know so far is what you can all see here and…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011 -
If You Act Now, Dragon Age II’s Exiled Prince Is Free
Today BioWare dishes out details on The Exiled Prince, the first installment of downloadable content for Dragon Age II that players get for free – as long as they preorder the game within the next four days. The Exiled Prince, much like The Stone Prisoner downloadable content for the original Dragon Age, introduces players to…
By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011 -
Pockie Ninja Mixes Naruto With Bleach, Unofficially
After weeks of teasing something called Project Ninja with images of tiny Naruto and Bleach characters, online game operator NGames reveals Pockie Ninja, a web game featuring characters “inspired by” those popular anime series. So far all I’ve seen is bits of character art and this trailer, released today with the reveal of the game’s…
By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2011 -
We Are Servbot
As seen at Capcom’s Las Vegas Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 party last night.
By Brian Crecente Published January 7, 2011 -
We Almost Got Glasses-Free 3D Gaming Last Decade
We’ll get a chance to play video games in 3D without wearing special glasses in the coming months, as Nintendo releases its 3DS system… but Nintendo already had glasses-free 3D gaming two machines ago. We just didn’t know about it. In an interview posted on Nintendo’s website, company boss Satoru Iwata talks about how the…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011 -
7 More Minutes of A Visually-Improved Morrowind
Recently we told you about a fan project that gives 2002 role-playing game favorite The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind significantly upgraded graphics. Then this mod compilation got blocked due to complications. Still, here’s a new video of it. As our Luke Plunkett wrote overnight, all is not lost with the nixing of this so-called Morrowind…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 7, 2011 -
Burn It All Down
To: Brian / Stephen From: Luke Here’s what you missed: GameStop’s Holiday Was A $3 Billion Disappointment Morrowind Mod Pack Put To The Sword Rumor: Here Are The PlayStation Phone’s Specs Let’s See The PlayStation Phone In Action Sony Thinks It Can Stop PS3 Hacks HD Re-Releases Should Be A Celebration, Not A Quick Buck
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 -
Red Dead, Mass Effect & Uncharted Turn On The Charm
Artist Emily Carroll’s video game-inspired works don’t fill the page with explosions, or large necks, or slutty women. They just show people smiling. Warm, happy smiles. While Carroll gets Red Dead’s Bonnie McFarlane 100% right, and assembles the sweetest team of Cerberus soldiers the galaxy as ever seen, that Chloe & Drake shot, from Uncharted…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 -
Welcome, New Arcade!
You only ever seem to hear about arcades closing these days, so let’s break that depressing trend and welcome the opening of a big new arcade instead. Pinball Wizard Arcade is located in Pelham, New Hampshire, and will be throwing its doors open on January 12. Not only does it have a great name, but…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 -
Civ World May Be The Death Of Us All
The game formerly known as CIvilization: Network – now more appropriately titled Civ World – is coming later this year. But if you’re lucky, you can play it this month. While the game’s open beta won’t be taking place until around June, beginning January 12 select alpha testers will be let in the front gates…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 -
It’s Not Really A PSP, But It’ll Do
This “PS One Handheld Game Player” is in no way endorsed or supported by Sony. That doesn’t stop it playing PS1 games, though. For USD$77 you can buy the unit, based off an older PSP knock-off that was actually a portable TV and media player. This newer model, though, is more in line with the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 -
Cave Maps Turn Into Dungeon Crawls
The sandstone caves of Nottingham are a network of caverns and tunnels deep beneath the English city. There’s currently a project underway to “map” these caves, and the results look more than a little familiar. I never thought I would see the day where science, tourism and “noclip mode” intersected, but it appears that day…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 -
Lord Of The Rings Tripled Its Revenue By Going Free-To-Play
In a podcast, the developers of Lord of the Rings Online said that the switch over to a freemium play model has already tripled the revenue coming in from the MMO. That’s quite a turnaround, though it does raise the question of what the game’s revenue picture looked like before the change. Still, LOTR Online’s…
By Owen Good Published January 7, 2011 -
HD Re-Releases Should Be A Celebration, Not A Quick Buck
Earlier today, Sony and Eidos reiterated the launch details for a trilogy of Tomb Raider re-releases destined for the PS3. Part of that was a reveal of the pack’s cover, which has us shaking our heads in disappointment. The box art, pictured above, features the three covers of the games the bundle is collecting. There’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 -
Sony Thinks It Can Stop PS3 Hacks
Over the past week, the PlayStation 3’s copy protection has been blown wide open, the very heart of the console laid bare. Yet Sony believes it can prevent homebrewers (and, let’s face it, pirates) from taking advantage. “We are aware of this, and are currently looking into it,” a Sony representative tells Edge. “We will…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 -
Let’s See The PlayStation Phone In Action
Along with a “review“, we’ve also got for you tonight some footage of the (rumoured) PlayStation Phone’s menu, game performance and screenshots of the thing in action. First up is the phone’s menu system, which as you can see here is able to switch neatly between “phone” mode and “PSP” mode when the PlayStation Pocket…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 -
Rumor: Here Are The PlayStation Phone’s Specs
Can’t remember the last time so much info spilled out about a piece of gaming hardware before it was officially unveiled, but whatever, it’s 2011, let’s roll with it: the PlayStation Phone has been reviewed Chinese website IT168 got its hands on a version of the phone (which it carefully points out may not be…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 -
Morrowind Mod Pack Put To The Sword
Hope you grabbed that big Morrowind mod pack released the other day, because it’s tough to find at the moment. Turns out the man responsible for the package didn’t get the approval of all the individual mods whose work was included, and after a succession of requests and threats Morrowind 2011 is now “under attack”,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2011 -
Angry Birds Coming To A Board Game This Year
If you treasure all that time spent building Mousetrap’s contraption and its inevitable collapse midway through, then Angry Birds: Knock on Wood, a board game due later this year from Mattel, is perfect for you. Yes, it has a slingshot. In the two-to-four player game, both sides will play a card-based strategy game that supplies…
By Owen Good Published January 6, 2011