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This Is What Nearly 3 Million People Gaming Look Like

This image of active Call of Duty: Black Ops players was snapped by reader The Dude at 11 p.m. eastern time last night. Note the nearly 3 million active players and the fact that seemingly the only people not playing Black Ops last night lived in the Rocky Mountains…. sorry, I had things to do.

Bulletstorm OJ, Like the Game, is Packed With Pulp

Unlike the package of bullet-riddled rotten meat sent to my house earlier this year, this jug of Bulletstorm Orange Juice promises to deliver Amazing Bulletstorm Stories! packed with 100% PULP! What’s that mean? Well according to the OJ’s ingredient list: “Bulletstorm was written by Rick Remender, author of the Punisher. Bulletstorm takes players on a…

Odds Of A Shameless BioShock Or GTA MMO Appear To Be Low

The chairman of the company that puts out everything from Civilization to BioShock to Grand Theft Auto explains why he’s never rushed to try to turn his top series into the next World of Warcraft. For that, we are thankful. This was the beginning of Take Two chief Strauss Zelnick’s response to a question at…

Bulletstorm OJ Visual Guide

Bulletstorm OJ Visual Guide

Shogun 2: Total War Returns To Japan In March

The bow monks have notched their arrows, the boats have been launched, and the footmen are stirring nervously in anticipation of the newly-revealed March release date for Sega’s Shogun 2: Total War. Drawing on the wisdom of Master Sun Tsu and the experience of doing these sorts of games for more than a decade, The…

Rock Band Will Still Be Rock Band After Harmonix is Sold

Viacom, like any good media conglomerate, loves big bottom lines… and it cannot lie, you other investors can’t deny that when a subsidiary walks in with itty bitty net earnings you’ve got to sell it… OK, that didn’t really work. But here’s the important thing: The makers of Rock Band and Dance Central will continue…

A Life Well Lived on Facebook

A life well lived is a life well documented on Facebook, it seems. This is Facebook as Facebook’s creators see it, a place free of annoying Farmville beggars, ad-backed instant messages, friendships and pokes. A place where life scrolls down in a single column packed with photos, life-changing one-liners and painful status updates. This is…

This Is Apparently The Ultimate Gaming Advantage

Behold The Avenger, an Xbox 360 controller prosthesis that promises to improve your accuracy and reaction time. Steven says “It’s almost like having extra fingers.” We say “Who the hell is Steven?” Steven’s quote appears on the front of the web page for The Avenger, and while I suspect he is one of the many…

L.A. Noire Explores The Subtleties of Crime With Nuanced, Digital Actors

It’s here, the first real trailer for gritty 40s detective game L.A. Noire and it’s going to blow you away. I’ve always been bothered by how out of sync, how unreal, digital actors look in video games. That’s exacerbated in the sorts of games they expect you to read anything into the folks you run…

There’s A Little Final Fantasy In Mario Sports Mix

The upcoming character-driven Wii sports compilation Mario Sports Mix is being developed by Square Enix, which explains how five iconic Final Fantasy characters have made it into the game’s roster. Who made the cut? You tell me, Kupo! No, it’s not Cloud and Sephiroth. Square Enix decided to go even more iconic than that for…

How Square Enix Plans To Fix Final Fantasy XIV

It’s no secret that the second MMO to bear the Final Fantasy name has issues. Square Enix today lays out plans for massive patches in November, December, and early 2011 to fix the game. What’s changing? After many below average reviews and negative player feedback, Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada came out and said it:…

Kinect And Your Kids: What Works, What Won’t

When I first unpacked the Kinect, the new controller-free motion-capture system for Xbox 360, I thought how awesome it would be to play with my daughter. She’s 2 1/2 (going on 14). So I figured Kinect Sports’ rudimentary bowling and ball kicking would be easy. And it was, when it worked. The sad fact was…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Time to talk video games, people. Let’s do it. Thanks to p4w4rr10r for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics

This Car Cannot Go 88 Miles Per Hour Or Generate 1.21 Gigawatts

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Why We Don’t Do Review Events This is not mine. It’s Mini-Bash’s toy car, but I’ll tell you what, if this had gone on sale in 1985, I would have been the happiest kid ever. Instead, I’ll have to settle with being in my early thirties and watching it roll…

MTV Owners Plan to Ditch Rock Band Creators

Viacom today said they plan to sell the company behind Rock Band, Kinect’s Dance Central and the original Guitar Hero. The mammoth company didn’t explain why they want to sell off Harmonix, but it’s likely tied to not just the slow down in gaming sales, but also what seems to be a distinct drop off…

Black Ops Opening Day Crushes Avatar, Halo And Everything Else

About 5.6 million people bought copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops in North America and the United Kingdom on Tuesday, when the game went on sale. That makes it the largest entertainment launch in history. And Black Ops is not just a popular game. It’s a very popular game. More popular than Modern Warfare…

Chronicles of Riddick Creators Have New Owners, New Game

The studio behind Chronicles of Riddick is working on a new “AAA title for gamers” using the technology behind upcoming titles Rage, Doom 4 and Quake, Zenimax said today. Why would the company behind Bethesda be telling us about MachineGames? Because they also confirmed this morning what we reported last week: it now owns the…

Russian Women: Game Developers Have Dirty Hair, Look Like Archaeologists

From “freaks with long dirty hair” and “ordinary people” to “young” and “archeologists but with computers” and “crumbs in their beards”, the women of St. Petersburg, Russia tell casual game developer Nevosoft what they think game developers look like. Freaks, sure, but archeologists?! Phew, good thing they didn’t ask them what bloggers look like! Thanks,…

The Plumber Is Coming Here? We Shall Double Our Efforts!

By Dave Wilson, as seen on Rampaged Reality