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The Biggest Game Of The Year May Well Be…
It took over 200 years for the population of Australia to reach 22 million. It’s taken CityVille, the latest game from Farmville creators Zynga, just eleven days That’s right. Twenty-two million in eleven days. While detractors of this type of casual Facebook gaming can point to the fact most of those players haven’t paid a…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 14, 2010 -
Gotta Cup ‘Em All
Someone made a Pokémon bra — a Pokébra? As seen on szmoon
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010 -
Hope Crytek’s Korean Shooter Plays As Good As It Looks
Warface, the online shooter destined for Asian markets and published by Crysis creators Crytek, may not have sounded like much at first, but take a look at it in action. Yeah, it’s another team-based online shooter set in a war-torn, near-future landscape, but doesn’t it look nice! Of course, only in a place like Korea…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 14, 2010 -
Pac-Man Creator Wants To Pump You Up
Pac-Man might have been inspired by greasy pizza, but that doesn’t mean its creator, Toru Iwatani, wants you to turn to lard. Toru Iwatani, Tokyo Polytechnic University and Hitachi are working together on a new fitness machine that combines elements of gaming with serious exercise. After leaving Namco, Iwatani became a lecturer at Tokyo Polytechnic…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010 -
Monday Night Combat Smashes Keyboards, Releasing On Steam
Monday Night Combat, one of the year’s surprise hits on Xbox Live Arcade, will be released on PC next month. While a first glance may have you wondering why, since being a cartoon-based team shooter it’s firmly on Team Fortress 2’s turf, you’re not being very fair. Monday Night Combat is its own creature, as…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 14, 2010 -
You’re One To Talk, Japan!
A giant mecha statue is going up in China. It looks like Gundam — if Gundam was sickly orange and built by men on bamboo poles. Japanese netizens are holding this up as another Chinese rip-off. Is Japan really one to talk? Back in 2007, the Japanese media did a series of reports during its…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2010 -
First Uncharted 3 Gameplay Footage Sets A House On Fire
Uncharted 3 made its real public debut tonight, with Late Night TV host Jimmy Fallon getting some actual hands-on time with the game. And it’s all a little…awkward. You can’t fault Fallon’s passion for video games, but his impromptu questions (and inability to run up a flight of stairs) don’t work so well with video…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 14, 2010 -
Video Game Plants Never Looked So Pretty
WhiteSilentTiger has a simple goal: create a good-lookin’ little video game forest. I’d say it’s mission accomplished! What’s most impressive about this scene isn’t that it was made by a modder, it’s that it was made using the “old” CryEngine 2, which powered Crysis all the way back in 2007, and not the more recent…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 14, 2010 -
There’s A PC Remake Of GoldenEye Out Too, You Know
GoldenEye Source, a mod project that’s been in production for over five years, has finally been released. As in, it’s no longer in beta; the hi-def PC port of the classic N64 shooter is now finished While the recent re-release of the game on Wii was a fun piece of nostalgia, the Wii being a…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 14, 2010 -
Playboy Sexes Up Tron Legacy
Hoping for a little less clothing in the upcoming Tron Legacy? Playboy has the next best thing, a totally NSFW spread on the video game movie featuring Playmates Sasckya Porto and Irina Voronina on working light cycles. Thankfully less hardcore than Pron, the XXX parody of Tron Legacy, Playboy’s take on next week’s Tron sequel…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 13, 2010 -
How An Emulator Saved A Video Game Developer’s Bacon
Part anti-publisher rant, part impressive display of creative coding, Mark Feldman’s fascinating little story about how the multiple arcade machine emulator MAME was instrumental in rebuilding a Spy Hunter port from scratch is a must read. While publishers often rail against video game emulators like MAME (for good reason) and the legally gray area in…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 13, 2010 -
Mass Effect Scrolls 3: Skyrim
What happens when you slap on the audio from The Elder Scrolls V’s first teaser trailer onto the Mass Effect 3 equivalent? Things… seem to work out surprisingly fine. Better than YouTube user Solgineer‘s other recent audio-visual mash-up, the Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer set to Tears For Fears music? You’ll have to be…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 13, 2010 -
Believe It Or Not, There Are New Tony Hawk: Ride & Shred Accessories
This is the DEK and it may be the first video game peripheral designed to work with the latest, wildly unpopular Tony Hawk skateboarding and snowboarding games that require dedicated skateboard controllers to play. The DEK is, quite simply, a mat on which players use their Tony Hawk Ride and Tony Hawk Shred skateboard controllers.…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 13, 2010 -
Super Smash Bros. ‘De-made’ For Game Boy Looks Crazy Enough To Work
This is Super Smash Land, the Game Boy release of Nintendo’s bestselling brawler that never existed until now. And, yes, that’s Kirby and Mario duking it out at Peach’s Castle in monochromatic glory. Super Smash Land is the creation of digital artist Dan Fornace, writes Piki Geek, an 8-bit de-creation that manages to squeeze good-natured…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 13, 2010 -
Mess
What you missed Uh-Oh, Guillermo Del Toro’s Insane Is A ‘Trilogy’ The Waffle Game That Changed Their Lives On Kotaku’s Compromised Commenting Accounts Indie Mega Hit Minecraft Gets Inevitable Merchandise The End Of Brotherhood And The Future Of Assassin’s Creed When Sprites Explode (It’s Very Colorful) Who Is Batman’s New Enemy, Hugo Strange? Dungeon Hunter…
By Brian Crecente Published December 13, 2010 -
LEGO Black Ops Is Too Gory To Ever Be A Video Game
Will we ever get a Call of Duty game for the kids? Not if it’s as bloody and gory as LEGO Black Ops, the stop motion animated elimination bloodbath from YouTube movie maker Keshen8. You won’t find much in the way of killstreaks, perks or outrageous tomahawk kills, but LEGO Black Ops, via FourZeroTwo’s Twitter,…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 13, 2010 -
iTunes Chart Toppers: It Slices, It Dices
Epic’s amazing Infinity Blade dominates the iPhone and iPad charts this week. Rightfully so. Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Infinity Blade (Epic) $5.99 1 — 2 Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com) $0.99 30 1 3 Angry Birds Seasons (Rovio) $0.99 1 — 4 Smurfs’ Village…
By Brian Crecente Published December 13, 2010 -
Paper Link Vs. Octorok Ink
Link is about to get inked in this killer stylized artwork by FOLKFIDDLE. Watch out for the Octopus by FOLKFIDDLE Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix. Republished with permission.
By Michael McWhertor Published December 13, 2010 -
Dungeon Hunter 2 Scratches Your Diablo Itch
Gameloft’s Dungeon Hunter 2 brings more of what made the original Diablo-clone so much fun to play with the addition of online multiplayer and plenty more dungeons to crawl. I’ve only just started playing Dungeon Hunter 2, but it already looks like the two things I liked least about the original have returned: The generic…
By Brian Crecente Published December 13, 2010