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Ninja Gaiden Developers Have A New Vision
Ninja Gaiden 3 is coming, under the direction of Yosuke Hayashi, a Team Ninja veteran who now heads the Japanese development studio responsible for that series and the latest Metroid. His team has a vision. This is it: In a new clip, partially screencapped here, Hayashi introduces fans to the new Team Ninja website. He…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 23, 2010 -
Oh No It’s A Mr. Bill iPhone Game
Capcom resuscitates a 34-year-old Claymation Saturday Night Live joke in Mr. Bill for the iPhone. One would think that after more than three decades being abused by Mr. Sluggo and Mr. Hand the Claymation family man Mr. Bill would have wised up. Sadly that is not the case. The hero of the clay has fallen…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 -
‘Replayability’ Might Be A Bad Word
I wish people would stop using the word “visceral” when they talk about video games. It conveys nothing to me. Writer Ben Abraham is enraged by a different word: “replayability.” In a recent essay his essay he tears into “replayability” a word, he says in a semi-ironically, is “what is fucking wrong with videogames.” He…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 23, 2010 -
Football Mario Doesn’t Appreciate Mushroom Trash Talk
Compare him to a video game plumber all day long; all it does is make Houston Texans defensive end Mario Williams tackle Washington Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb harder. Just because the Houston team’s stadium regularly flashes a Super Mario Bros. cartoon on its jumbotron doesn’t mean it is okay to taunt Mario Williams with mushroom-related…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 -
Explore The Future Of Gaming At BAF Game 2010
The creative minds behind games like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Fable III, and Brink convene in November at the Bradford Animation Festival in Bradford, West Yorkshire, to discuss the future of gaming, and everybody’s invited! BAF Game is the video game arm of the annual Bradford Animation Festival, organized in partnership with the University…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 -
The Sound And The Fury Of Fallout: New Vegas
Players will be running into plenty of things they want to shoot in the New Vegas wastes. The second Fallout: New Vegas developer diary shows off plenty of ways to kill them. You can keep your steampunk; post-apocalyptic weapons are where it’s at. The developers at Obsidian Entertainment channelled the 50’s sci-fi mindset in New…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 -
An Open Letter From A Former Bungie VP to Bobby Kotick
While perhaps not seen in the full context of his talk at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch conference, Activision head Bobby Kotick‘s comments about Bungie did create quite a stir last week. It is worth your time to go listen to the full 40-minute or so talk here, but the thing that captured so…
By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2010 -
Fake Gene Simmons Ushers Fake Guitar Into Hard Rock Hall Of Fame
Kiss super-fan Kevin Curtis welcomes the first gaming guitar into the Hard Rock Hall of Fame, celebrating the imminent launch of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 -
This Is The Official Final Fantasy XIV PC Controller
While Final Fantasy XIV works splendidly with a wired Microsoft controller, it does not exactly scream “Final Fantasy.” One can hear this official Final Fantasy XIV controller from Sunflex screaming from a mile away. First unveiled at GamesCom last month the official Final Fantasy XIV controller has more of a PlayStation aesthetic to it. It…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2010 -
I Rapped As Snoop Dogg For You
The self-conscious games reporter does not rap in public. He raps at home, with a preview build of Def Jam Rapstar, video-camera activated. But then, though he might regret it later, he shares the videos with you. During my vacation last week I agreed to test whether my enjoyment of rap music and my enjoyment…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 23, 2010 -
New Bulletstorm Media Kicks You In The Face With Its Giant Feet
What is it with Epic games and GIANT BOOTS? Does everyone in the dark, gun-riddled, post-apocalyptic future suffer from severe orthopaedic ailments? And if so, who makes them? Was Marcus Fenix once a cobbler?
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
Peter Molyneux’s Son Calls Out Valve On Half-Life 3 Delay
Perhaps calls out is too harsh a phrase. Really Lucas Molyneux just asks, almost begs, Valve’s Gabe Newell for more details on the perpetually not-finished Half-Life 3 All the while Peter Molyneux, creator of Black & White, Magic Carpet, and Fable, peppers his son with advice and questions like, “What would you say to the…
By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2010 -
I Like This Team Fortress 2 Mod’s Pepper Sauce!
This is such a great idea I can’t believe this is the first I’m hearing of it: it’s a Team Fortress 2 mod where one team plays as a team, and the other team plays as Saxton Hale. That’s about the gist of it. The Red Team plays as normal, the Blue “Team” is a…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
The Game Menus Of The Future Will Be In 3D
We know games are going 3D, but did you ever stop to wonder what would happen to game menus? Scaleform are some of the development community’s unsung heroes, responsible for the user interfaces and menu systems for many of today’s biggest games. In this clip, they demonstrate how those menus will look runing in 3D,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
Happy 121st Birthday, Nintendo!
Irrational Games was founded in 1997. Lucasarts in 1982. Sega in 1940. Each of those three companies may feel like old-timers relative to their field, but they’ve got nothing on Nintendo, which todaycelebrates its 121st birthday Yes, it was on September 23, 1889 that Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a company that at the time specialised in…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
(LEGO) Thor Is Here!
While Blizzard and LEGO continue to sleep on what would surely be a trillion-dollar industry, it’s left to fans to come up with their own brick-based creations based on Starcraft II. This amazing Thor was put together by the talented Sven Junga, who has left no detail unattended in recreating Starcraft II’s most Austrian of…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010 -
In This Case, Video Games ARE Art
Artist Jon Hansen walked into a second-hand store, saw a pile of awful Thomas Kinkade rip-offs, and had an idea: to make them better. By adding some Street Fighter. And Space Harrier. They’re part of a larger series called “Cross-Cultural Contamination”, which also stars Godzilla and Cobra Commander. So, yeah. Awesome. You can even buy…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010
