Dreamcast saga Shenmue II ended on a cliffhanger. More than nine years later, fans still want closure and continue to demand a long overdue sequel to one of the most expensive games ever made. Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki is working on a social game Shenmue Town — not exactly the Shenmue game people have been…
While the world waits for somebody to actually get a Battlefront game finished, fans of multiplayer Star Wars shooters may have to settle for a four-player game for the iPhone. Star Wars: Imperial Academy — which should be out in the U.S. any day now (it’s already available in Canada) — pits the player as…
Love simulator Love Plus is taking Japan by storm. Forget figurines and t-shirts, the game even spawned vacation packages! The girls in Love Plus, however, are on the thin side. That might not be to everyone’s tastes. A Japanese adult game maker is hoping to plug that hole with “Debu Plus” (“Fatty Plus”). The game…
A good adventure game needs two things: tricky puzzles and pretty graphics. Kaptain Brawe certainly has the latter covered. It’s a new point-and-click adventure game made in the style of old point-and-click adventure games (think Day of the Tentacle), and from what we played of the demo, Kaptain Brawe is shaping up quite nicely. You…
Predict The Mature Content In Fight Night Champion Comment by: Ackbar-is-The-Boss Nominated by: madammina A demonic spirit will overcome the announcer and he will say “FINISH HIM” Your character will then rip his opponent’s legs off and use them to beat the remains of his body into a pool of blood. How To Piss Off…
While I’d forgotten all about PS3 game Modnation Racers, I could never forget about rhythm action game Gitaroo Man. So it’s lovely seeing the two come together like this, helping each other out. User D-Mise has used Modnation’s robust character-creation tools to whip up what must surely be one of the most impressive things we’ve…
Following on the heels of She-Hulk and Zero, another pair of characters are headed to upcoming fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Hungry for more? According to retailer GameStop, Resident Evil’s Jill and Marvel’s Shuma-Gorath are bundled as DLC characters for Marvel vs. Capcom 3’s Collector’s Edition. The characters will be widely available to those…
The Xbox 360’s famous Red Ring Of Death was usually caused by over-heating inside the console. We’ve seen many backyard solutions claiming to fix this, but none as elaborate — or possibly effective — as this. It may not be easy on the eye, and certainly won’t win any awards for style, but piping a…
Voice actors are more than just minor celebrities: they are so essential to a character that they become inseparable. Like with Japanese gaming, Western gaming has characters that cannot be separated from their voice actor. Take David Hayter, for example, the English-language voice of Metal Gear Solid’s Snake. Or Nolan North, the voice of Uncharted’s…
As expected, Microsoft’s new online shopfront for PC games has gone live. We were promised a bigger, better store. So has it delivered? I don’t like it. Not yet, anyways. It certainly looks pretty, its minimal appearance a nice break from Steam’s clutter of buttons and menus and buttons within menus within menus. This theme…
Until it was removed from the App Store yesterday you could, for a short while, get what was basically Minecraft for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Only difference was this game was called Minecrafted Despite proclamations that Minecrafted was “built without code or content from the original”, it looked like Minecraft, played like Minecraft…
There are lots of people out there who refuse to pay for video games. If you’re wondering how many, let’s take a look at illegal Starcraft II downloads, and you’ll see they number in the millions Last week, Torrent Freak posted a story revealing that the most popular illegal copy of Starcraft II had been…
Use this nightly thread to talk amongst yourselves, please, where the conversation runs from Spider-Man to alien invasion movies to music to video games. What happens in this thread tends to stray in this thread. The following links are more interesting than I’ll say here, so I’ll shut up now. Oh, and this Unstoppable trailer…
Philadelphia Phillies perfect game-pitcher Roy Halladay will grace next year’s edition of MLB 2K when 2K Sports’ baseball sim comes back to console, portables and PC. The predicted Cy Young award winner is, unsurprisingly, honored to be this year’s coverboy. Last year, 2K Sports offered a million bucks to the first person who pitched a…
The Pokémon of your nightmares, as frighteningly re-imagined by Pixiv artist Yoshio, as seen on Reddit. (Click to evolve into larger picture.)
One addition to this week’s list of new releases is the highly anticipated Pac-Man Championship Edition DX which hits Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday. It’s joined by Alien Breed 3: Descent.
Using YouTube’s in-video linking feature, design studio Analogue has sliced up George Romero’s horror film Night of the Living Dead into a piece of choose your own adventure interactive fiction. Want to toy with the lives of the stars of the 1968 zombie classic? Editing The Dead lets you decide the fate of zombie and…
Epic Games’ beefed up Xbox 360 shooter series may be adding a little motion control to its Locust-chainsawing action, according to one report that says Gears of War is getting Kinect enabled. IGN claims that a “reliable source” has indicated to the publication that some type of Gears of War experience with Kinect support will…
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