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EA Has Warp, Gatling Gears & Fancy Pants Adventures On Tap For 2011

Electronic Arts will be hitting Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC users hard next year with a trio of newly unveiled games, sci-fi stealth action game Warp, twin-stick shooter Gatling Gears and Flash-based platforming game The Fancy Pants Adventures. Warp comes to us from the newly signed EA Partners member Trapdoor. The XBLA, PSN…

Website Names Tip Plans For SSX Sequel

SSX, the snowboard supercross game, was one of the most acclaimed series on the defunct EA Sports Big nameplate, but hasn’t seen a new release since a poorly received Wii title in 2007. That might change with “SSX Deadly Descent.” Superannuation, cataloger of all prospective video game paperwork, noticed five sites all have been registered…

Which Version of Call of Duty: Black Ops Comes Out On Top?

If you care deeply about pixel counts and frame rate—or are simply still on the fence about which console version of Call of Duty: Black Ops to buy—don’t miss Digital Foundry‘s deep technical tear down of the Xbox 360 and PS3 releases. Eurogamer’s techy side examines the two console versions of Treyarch’s latest Call of…

Night Vision Cake Makes For A Prestigious Birthday

Was it really a year ago that Modern Warfare 2 was the it-release, and its night vision goggles were the opulent special edition premium. This cake doesn’t celebrate that anniversary, it’s for “stepTOF,” from his girlfriend. Sent in by TEAMCHINA.

Fan-made New Super Mario Bros. 3 Looks Super Insane

What if you took New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS and hacked a complete recreation of Super Mario 3 into the thing? Well, why stop there? Why not put some Metroid and Legend of Zelda in there too? Well, someone did that, creating the hacked New Super Mario Bros. 3, which not only…

The ‘Marvel Brothel’ Sex RPG Makes A Pimp Out Of Prof. X

Gross worlds collide when horny comic book fans get their hands on RPG Maker 2003. Not a dream! Not a hoax! Marvel Brothel is a fan-made role-playing game that turns Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters into a mutant whorehouse. Yes, in Marvel Brothel, the leader of the X-Men, Charles Xavier, decides that the best…

NHL Games Now Streaming Onto PS3

Much like its MLB TV application that launched earlier this year, the PS3 now features the NHL GameCenter application, so hockey nuts with a subscription can follow games live on their console instead of their PC. NHL GameCenter lets viewers see live regular season games (through the away team’s broadcast feed), with some playoff games…

Why We Don’t Do Review Events

To: Ash From: Crecente Another story about Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops review event has kicked off a new round of navel staring on Twitter. Something similar happened late last year when we wrote about these events. And I’m sure many times before when they’ve been written about. For the record, we declined to…

A New Breed Of Survival Horror Comes To The Forest

Sony’s Tokyo Jungle has some competition in video gaming’s survival of the fittest. Wildlife: Forest Survival from Electronic Arts lets you play as an alligator, hawk, rabbit, fox and more in its downloadable wildlife game due next year. Coming to the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in spring 2011, Wildlife: Forest Survival lets players…

Black Ops Dev: Glitchers Are “Douche-Bags,” Who Want To Be “Internet Nerd Famous”

David Vonderhaar is not a happy guy. The design director for Call of Duty: Black Ops’ multiplayer is busy dealing with the baffling lag problem in the PC version, so please stop “Twit-bombing” him with video of glitches and exploits. “I’m not going to talk about it publicly,” an obviously pissed Vonderhaar said in the…

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This Is Ignition’s Canceled $20 Million Baby

Ignition Entertainment shuttered its Florida studio earlier this month, deep-sixing the game the 70 developers were building, which was an FPS rumored to have cost $20 million. Video of the game, “Reich” has surfaced. Develop magazine has three clips of the game, which showcase the protagonist’s powerful telekinetic abilities and the real-time physics engine handling…

Last Chance to Win Some Hibernation Entertainment

It’s cold season and there is absolutely no reason to go outside again until April. Take this short survey, email the last question to [email protected], and you’ll be entered to win a $150 gift certificate to Game Stop. That will buy enough games to keep you entertained for the next few months. Standard contest rules…

The Roast Of Mario Is Not Safe For Work

Click to viewWhen Bowser opens Mario’s foul-mouthed roast at Peach’s Castle with insult gags like “Mario, you beat me so often, I feel like Toad’s dick!” it can only go downhill from there. And it does. Mario’s enemies, rivals and esteemed colleagues, from Bowser to Kirby to a ‘faced Luigi, rip into the star of…

Frankenreview: Call Of Duty: Black Ops

An elite force of soldiers that operates beyond the boundaries of any law. They are shadows, waiting for the perfect time to strike. They are the assembled video game critics, and this is the Call of Duty: Black Ops Frankenreview. There’s a new Call of Duty game in stores, and regardless of what the critics…

New Dick Cheney Video Game Is Weirder Than Expected

George W. Bush has a new book out. Dick Cheney has a new video game. But the latter is not an official product and does the strangest things with its source material. The Cheney game is called CheneyStar. It is sold for download for a dollar on the Xbox 360, in the Indie Games Channel,…

Cuba Slams Call of Duty: Black Ops As ‘Perverse’ Propaganda For Sociopaths

Call of Duty: Black Ops is rubbing one nation the wrong way. Cuba’s state-run media has blasted Activision’s latest entry in the Call of Duty series as “doubly perverse” propaganda for a story arc involving former president Fidel Castro. According to a report from the AP, state-run news web site Cubadebate is slamming Black Ops,…

Leona Lewis Launches Kinect With Her Voice

The UK pop singer responsible for the English theme song to Final Fantasy XIII, Leona Lewis helped launch Kinect in England yesterday during an event at the Natural History Museum. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

Why Mario Became The Star

The creator of Mario and Donkey Kong explains why the plumber was better-suited to star in so many games than the ape. A win for the little guys out there. Donkey Kong Jr. was created to solve this problem, Miyamoto tells Time’s Techland. Smaller heroes were better-suited to the 8-bit era of the Nintendo Entertainment…

You can make the argument that people are playing the game wrong, but if a user has to keep guessing on how to play it or why something isn’t working, then the design of the gameplay is flawed. No game developer should ever have to offer to fly a person in to show them how…