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Contra Returns Without The Contra Name
Konami is giving its side-scrolling shoot ’em up classic Contra a makeover and it’s doing so with Guilty Gear and BlazBlue makers Arc System Works, resulting in the downloadable game Hard Corps: Uprising. It doesn’t bear the Contra name, but the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade game is apparently “spiritual sequel” to Contra: Hard…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 3, 2010 -
EA Sports Picks Spain to Win World Cup
Spain emerged as champion from EA Sports’ simulation of the World Cup final in 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, with England losing on penalty kicks in a semifinal with Brazil and the Americans falling in the round of 16. The game has the Spaniards besting Brazil 3-1 in the title match to claim the…
By Owen Good Published June 3, 2010 -
Every Day The Same Dream, An Unexpected Video Game Movie
Previously featured Flash game-like thing Every Day The Same Dream, a delightfully depressing drudgery simulator, spawns a fan-made film with a slightly different perspective. If you haven’t already played Molleindustria’s game, do so, then bum yourself out further by watching. Every Day The Same Dream [Vimeo via BoingBoing]
By Michael McWhertor Published June 3, 2010 -
Six Men Lock Themselves In A Box For Science
Three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Columbian, and a Chinese walk into a fake spaceship, and don’t walk out again for 520 days. Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Starting today, a crew of six pseudo spacemen will be spending a year-and-a-half inside the Mars 500, a mock spacecraft, in order to help the Moscow-based…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 -
Dead Space Extraction Guiding Its Way To PS3, Xbox 360?
Visceral Games’ sci-fi horror experience Dead Space Extraction appears (again) to be making the leap from critically successful, commercially disappointing Wii game to high-definition do-over, thanks to EA Montreal. Dead Space Extraction was outed as a PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade candidate earlier this year, when we reported on publisher EA’s interest in bringing…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 3, 2010 -
Two Gamers Who Spend Two Full Days A Week Playing Games
Remember that NPD study that defined extreme gamers as people who average 48.5 hours of play time a week? G4’s Patrick Klepek got two of these gamers to explain themselves. One of them is 22-year-old Chelsie Chatelain, who explains how she manages to play games so much: “I just have A LOT of free time,”…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010 -
Red Dead Redemption Free DLC Out June 22
The promised free co-op-centric downloadable content for Red Dead Redemption will be available on June 22, according to Rockstar. Expect six co-op missions for 2-4 players, including an explosive shootout with the Walton gang.
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010 -
“Grace’s Diary” Educates About, Explores Teen Dating Violence
Grace’s Diary has players work their way through an interactive story, working to discover what happened to Grace and, perhaps, learning the danger signs of Teen Dating Violence. The game, designed by Hima in Bangkok, Thailand, was named the winner of this year’s Life. Love. Game Design contest, taking home a $2,500 prize. As games…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 -
Super Mario Galaxy 2 Takes Off In Japan
It was a super week for Super Mario in Japan, with Super Mario Galaxy 2 seeing super sales. The sequel to Super Mario Galaxy out-supered its nearest competitor, Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Masou Kishin – The Lord of Elemental. The latest figures from Japanese sales tracker Media Create put Super Mario Galaxy 2 at…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 3, 2010 -
We’re Really Not Feeling This Thor Costume Concept Art
Yesterday’s live-action Captain America concept art gave us hope for the next Marvel properties getting the movie and video game treatment. Today’s Thor concept art takes a large hammer to that hope. Yesterday Ain’t It Cool News delivered a set of images purported to be concept art for the upcoming Captain America movie, which of…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 -
Reminder: You Could Be Playing This Live-Action Atari Game
The 2010 Come Out & Play Festival will start tomorrow in Brooklyn, NY. I’ve mentioned it before, but now I can show you the test-run for the festival’s live-action version of Atari classic Kaboom. Compare it to the virtual version. Real-life Kaboom is just one of a weekend’s worth of public games, some based on…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010 -
Is This Shattered Dimensions’ Spider-Man 2099?
A series of screenshots has slipped onto the web, showing off what looks like confirmation of Spider-Man’s 2099 alter-ego Miguel O’Hara’s appearance in Activision’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. While we were expecting a big reveal of the third of four dimensions featured in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, it looks like someone might have jumped the gun. All…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 -
F.E.A.R. 3 is Really About Family… A Psychic, Psychotic Family
Psychotic ghost or fratricidal lunatic: Those are your character options in Warner Brother’s upcoming thriller, shooter F.E.A.R. 3. F.E.A.R. 3 is all about dependency, family and the supernatural, as Frank Rooke, director of design at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, tells it. “For those of you who have seen or played a F.E.A.R. game you’ll know…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 -
The 20 Most-Loved Wii Games
Any game can sell. But any game that sells can collect dust a week after it is bought. These are the 20 games that collect the least dust, that get played the most per user. Welcome back to Kotaku’s monthly update of Nintendo Wii stats. At the beginning of each month we provide the latest…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010 -
Square’s New WiiWare Games Are Unbearably Cute
Enter the picture-book world of Kumanage, Square Enix’s adorable WiiWare title that’s actually two different games. Will you choose action or puzzles? According to Japanese gaming news website andriasang, Square Enix’s Kumanage is actually two different games: Kumanage: The Blue Gem that Kiina Hates -Battle Version and Kumanage: The Red Candy that Piina Likes –…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 -
APB Needs 2Ghz, 2GB, 20 GB
For those of you waiting for the free-roaming cops vs. robbers massively multiplayer APB: All Points Bulletin to hit later this month, here are the PC minimum specs: Core 2 Duo 2Ghz or equivalent, 2GB RAM (3GB for Vista64 / Windows 7 64), nVidia GeForce 7800 – 256MB or equivalent, 20GB Hard disk space, headset…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 -
A Sandstorm Kicks Up In Global Agenda
Atlanta-based Hi-Rez Studios launches phase one of the massive Sandstorm patch to Global Agenda today, bringing many much-needed additions to the massively multiplayer online shooter, including revamped Agency-vs-Agency combat, epic weapons, and single player content. Global Agenda is a nifty little online multiplayer shooter that received a relatively warm reception when it launched back in…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010