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Tiger Woods Needs To Step Up His Game, Says EA Boss
Even during a withering sex scandal, EA Sports stuck by Tiger Woods as the face of its golf franchise. Now, however, the company’s CEO says Woods must perform like the world’s No. 1 golfer, or risk the company looking elsewhere. Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello, speaking Monday at a business leader summit, said EA has…
By Owen Good Published December 1, 2010 -
Gran Turismo 5 Laps The Competition In Japan
PlayStation 3 real driving simulator Gran Turismo 5 is off to a great start in Japan, with first week sales topping 430,000 copies, knocking former champ Call of Duty: Black Ops down to sixth place. But it wasn’t just Gran Turismo 5 making big moves this week in Japan. The latest Super Robot Taisen title…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 1, 2010 -
The Only Way To Travel In Post-Cataclysm World Of Warcraft
You can have your fancy flying mounts and your flashy teleportation spells; the Goblin Rocketway is the only way to travel in the new World of Warcraft. It’s like a love roller coaster, only with less love and more fire. No one used to go to Azshara. It was a relatively useless zone, unless you…
By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2010 -
Put A Pricey Pyramid Head From Silent Hill On Your Shelf
Iconic whatever-the-hell-he-is Pyramid Head from Konami’s horrific Silent Hill series is being immortalized in solid resin—along with a friend—for your video game statuette collection needs. But high quality Pyramid Heads don’t come cheap. Konami Style has released a 12.5″ version of the grisly Pyramid Head for 25,200 yen (about $300 USD) and will soon release…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 1, 2010 -
Kane and Lynch and Kain and Raziel and the Guardian of Light
Are career criminals Kane and Lynch finally going to appear in a great game? It would appear so, as the PC version of Tomb Raider spin-off Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is getting some unexpected playable characters. The stars of IO Interactive’s gritty but flawed Kane & Lynch series of action games will…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 1, 2010 -
CrimeCraft’s Bleedout Draws Top-Notch Art Talent
Vogster’s free-to-play online shooter CrimeCraft launches its episodic Bleedout campaign this weekend, with some of comics’ greatest artists lending their vision to each chapter. Who’s in? Check out the trailer. Some of the biggest names in comic and dark fantasy art are giving CrimeCraft a go, with Tim Bradstreet, Ben Templesmith, Nathan Fox, Zach Howard,…
By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2010 -
The Uncharted Movie Doesn’t Sound Like Uncharted At All
Set aside your concerns about Mark Wahlberg portraying PlayStation 3 action hero Nathan Drake in the big screen adaptation of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, because it doesn’t sound like this movie is based on the video game at all. Uncharted director David O. Russell tells the LA Times that he sees Nathan Drake and his extended…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 1, 2010 -
Multiplayer Space Combat Is An Excellent Reason To Return To PlayStation Home
It takes something pretty special to drag me into PlayStation Home these days. A free-to-play multiplayer space combat game complete with customizable ships and zero-G avatar exploration might just do the trick. Every day that passes without a new entry in the Wing Commander series is another day I desperately seek out any game involving…
By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2010 -
When Spartans Die, They Go Here
College Humor’s latest animated short makes me feel a little less bad about all the times I get killed in Halo. I’m just letting my Spartan see the Spartan afterlife. It’s intentional. Halo Spartan Heaven [YouTube’s CollegeHumor.com channel]
By Stephen Totilo Published December 1, 2010 -
Is Technology Ready For Japan’s Holographic World Cup?
Tomorrow is the day Japan finds out if its promise of a fully holographic worldwide broadcast earns them the bid for the FIFA 2022 World Cup. Can the country possibly deliver? Tomorrow is the day the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) reveals which country will be hosting the 2022 World Cup. Australia, Qatar, South…
By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2010 -
U.S.A. Leads Lucky Part Of The World In Slaying Zombies
The PlayStation 3 video game Dead Nation was created in Finland but nevertheless shows that the United States is the world’s top country in destroying the undead. The game’s global rankings also inadvertently show the worldwide divide between those of us privilieged to live in countries where PlayStation 3s are officially sold and those where…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 1, 2010 -
30 Days, 25 Robots, 24 Mustaches, And One Sex Change
Last month 25 employees at Age of Empire developer Robot Entertainment stopped shaving in honor of the annual Movember men’s health awareness event. Aside from one transforming into a woman, it seems to have gone pretty well Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2010 -
Skateboarding ‘Has Run Its Course’ As A Top Video Game Format
The heyday of skateboarding games is past, the head of EA, the company that makes Tony Hawk rival franchise Skate, told Kotaku in an interview this week. EA chief John Riccitiello, whose company’s Skate series has been regarded as the better skateboarding video game series in the last few years, sees skateboarding as part of…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 1, 2010 -
Check Out The Top 100 Indie Games Of 2010
Interested in playing more games from independent developers but unsure where to start? Indie DB’s list of the top 100 indie games of 2010 as voted by players is an excellent place to start. The top 100 list at Indie DB comes as a result of their quest to find the top 10 indie games…
By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2010 -
PETA Roasts Super Meat Boy With Tofu
After using its game parodying powers to transform Super Mario Bros. and Cooking Mama into vegetarian-friendly fare, PETA sets its eyes on the indie scene with Super Tofu Boy. Is he really better in bed than Super Meat Boy? Back in the day recording artists were sure they had made it big when Weird Al…
By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2010 -
The Allure Of Plush Tech
When I was a kid the future looked like this. Modern. Sleek. Cool. Technology, we dreamed, would deliver us a touchscreen-controlled, voice-activated world in which humans harness technology, build a peaceful world, and look fabulous doing it. In my own lifetime, this streamlined aesthetic extends from the Starship Enterprise to the iPad, and it’s only…
Michael Abbott, BrainyGamer.com Published December 1, 2010 -
PlayStation Minis, I Can No Longer Ignore You
PlayStation Minis are little iPhone games, except no one talks about them (and they’re playable on a PlayStation Portable, not an iPhone). Sorry, but I’ve got to change that. According to the official PlayStation blog (in Europe, sigh), Pac-Man Championship Edition — possibly the best Pac-Man game ever made — and Mobigame’s Edge — a…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 1, 2010 -
Hugo-Nominated Sci-Fi Author Writes The Book On Crysis 2
Del Rey brings the story of Crysis 2 to book stores everywhere in March with Crysis: Legion, the official game novelization by Peter Watts, the Canadian science fiction author once famously involved in a scuffle with the U.S. Border Patrol Crysis: Legion tells the story of Crytek’s upcoming shooter. New York has been invaded by…
By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2010 -
Resident Evil 5 May Have Exposed Child To Real Evil
A father in the Canadian province of British Columbia contacted the police on Monday after receiving sexually explicit messages from a man his 12-year-old daughter had met playing while Resident Evil 5. The father, a resident of Nanaimo, British Columbia, told authorities that the message exchange began on Monday when his daughter was engaged in…
By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2010