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360 Gets Old-School Role-Playing For A Buck

“West” is a new indie game for the Xbox 360 that looks right up the alley of anyone who has ever played (and enjoyed) games like Pokemon or Mother It of course lacks the polish of those top-down, role-playing Japanese classics, but then, you can’t get them for $1 on an Xbox console, either. West?…

Dead Space 2, You Are Creeping The Hell Out Of Me

Everything I’ve seen so far of Dead Space 2 has been about making the game bigger, more expansive, more explosive. Not much on whether the game’s gotten any creepier. Well, this trailer is pretty freakin’ creepy. Dead Space 2 will be out on PC, 360 and PS3 in January 2011. Click to view

Setting Up and “Tuning” Your Xbox 360 Kinect

Setting up your Kinect array of cameras and microphones doesn’t take too long, but it’s much more involved than setting up the Wii or Playstation move. This video walks you through the initial set-up process and then some of the fine tuning you can do if you run into problems.

Video Game Ads Were Better In The 1930s

One of the best things about early 20th-century transportaton was the advertising. Cruise ships, airlines and car companies all used bold, iconic ads to sell their vision of the future. It’s a vision that transfers easily to classic video games. IGNs art team whipped up this line of ads showing how video game vehicles would…

Five Games That Were, And Should Be Again

Wolfire, the charitable types developing kooky PC action game Overgrowth, don’t just make games. They imagine what it would be like if people went and remade someone else’s old games, making them as awesome in 2010 as they were originally. Wolfire’s team has posted examples of five classic games that “could still be milked, along…

In Two Years, Gears Of War Might Chainsaw A Phone

Donald Mustard, creative director of Chair Entertainment (Shadow Complex), sees a bright future for gaming on a mobile phone. One so bright that in 2-5 years we’ll be playing Gears of Wars on something that fits in our pockets. Chair, who are currently working on Infinity Blade for the iPhone, say that at first doing…

9 Days With Kinect, My Video Diary

One man lives with a Kinect for nine days. What happens? How does his mind change? What are the surprises? And where in the world does the guy go on Day 7? This is my Kinect Diary, in video.

Club Mario Makes Us Want To Forget The 1990s

It’s easy to forget these days with Nintendo trying so hard to look all adult and stylish, but in the early 1990s, the company was anything but. Allow this montage of footage from Club Mario (a short “comedy” section of the The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!) serve as a reminder that not only did…

Beat The Foreign-Looking Dude With A Japanese Name

Soccer franchise Winning Eleven (AKA Pro Evolution Soccer) is facing increased competition from foreign-based developers. The game’s latest television spots also show heavy competition from a sauve non-Japanese-looking fella with a Japanese last name. And they’re some of the most popular ads on Japanese television. The first ad opens with actor Fuku Kondo talking to…

The Sights, Sounds And Dancing Armies Of Kinect’s NYC Launch

While Kinect launches all across the US tonight, the peripheral’s official bash was in New York City, where Marky Mark, Microsoft and an enormous army of purple-shirted dancers overran Times Square.

Configuring A Room For Kinect: A Tale of Two Homes

Kinect needs a lot of room, more room than any video game control device before it. But where there’s a will to move furniture or rotate TVs, there is a way. This is how we made room in two homes. From Stephen Totilo, deputy editor, based in Brooklyn: Space is tight in my Brooklyn condo.…

Virtual Idol Shoplifter Gets Really Punchy

Hatsune Miku, the popular star of Yamaha’s Vocaloid, doesn’t only appear in video games. Japanese politicians also use her to improve election chances. Miku is virtual, but has very real fans. One of them pocketed a Hatsune Miku plastic figurine, which ended in fists flying. MSN Japan reports that earlier this month outside Tokyo in…

The Cursed Crusade Screen Shots & Artwork

The World May End Before We Get Darksiders 2

Apocalypse simulator Darksiders was released in January 2010. The action/RPG game will be getting a sequel, but we hope you’re willing to wait, because it might not be here until 2013 Brian Farrell, CEO of the game’s publisher THQ, said this morning during an earnings call that the sequel to one of 2010’s sleeper hits…

Examining Kinect’s Minority Report Effect

Kinect may be touted as the Xbox 360’s answer to motion gaming, but it’s not just about making you the controller. Kinect can also let you interact with television, movies, music and the Xbox 360 like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, just without the fancy gloves. This video is a quite long, but in it…

StarCraft II Gives You One Free Name Do-Over

If you were in a rush when you picked your StarCraft II callsign and, in hindsight, think it sucks, help’s on the way. PC Gamer is reporting that Blizzard will allow one free rename. Others will cost. PC Gamer says Blizzard’s accommodating the user base’s recent demands for the name change option, but to a…

A Visual Guide To Your Shape

Your Shape’s calibration measures things like shoulder span, arm length and leg length. When players are able to match movements with their trainer, they are “in rhythm”. Players can also exercise with training like bicep curls. Your Shape allows players to create fitness challenges among friends. You know it, you love it, the hula hoop.

There Might Be Life Left In Game Magazines Yet

The traditional “news-previews-reviews” games magazine is a dying beast, but the idea of a magazine based on video games is still one worth saving. It just has to be done right. Like Amusement. Or in this case, Kill Screen. Onto its second issue now, Kill Screen is the latest magazine to make the smart decision…

Modern Warfare 2 Shot To Pieces, Then Set On Fire

This video begins slowly, tricking you into thinking it’s the inconsequential ramblings of a fanboy, but as soon as you hear a Russian accent drawl “I’m going to shoot it with a few guns”, things get interesting. True to his word, the lad (who dearly loves his firearms) lays down a PC copy of Activision’s…

Kinect From All The Angles, Plus Beans

Kinect, like you’ve never seen it before, on one of our roofs, compared in size to everything from a Wii sensor bar to a can of beans. Plus! Cord length!