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Insurance Group Rides Shotgun With Driving Game

Remember that brain-training flash game that Allstate Insurance was looking into as a way to offer insurance discounts to drivers? Now the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety is behind it, too. Working with developer Posit Science, AAA is offering a new brain training game program called DriveSharp, which is pretty much the same thing as…

Finally, A Reason To Eat Cup O Noodle

[As Seen on Hobby Media, thanks Frankie]

That Went Fast

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Did You See The Eclipse? With both Mike McWhertor and Mike Fahey traveling to San Diego Comic-Con today, it’s been a bit hectic. I did manage to eat lunch, download the preview code of Gears of War: All Fronts Collection, and even played a healthy chunk of G-Force. Despite that,…

Real Beatles Compared To Beatles Screenshots

What are those people doing in that brick building in Massachusetts? They’re ensuring that the virtual Beatles look like the real Beatles. Bitmob.com has taken a gander at some images from the upcoming Beatles Rock Band game. They’ve taken a look at photos and video stills of the Beatles. And they’ve compared. The results aren’t…

This Week In Video Game Comics

And on the week of Comic-Con 2009 there is just one video game comic released? I guess publishers were too busy announcing them. Oh well. Um… all hail Sonic? Click the thumbnail for more details. >Sonic Universe #6… Written by Ian Flynn; Art by Tracy Yardley Summary via publisher Archie Comics: “Reaping”: An unprecedented new…

Next Grand Theft Auto DLC Hits Oct. 29 [Update]

Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony hits the Xbox 360 as a download on Oct. 29, Rockstar announced today. The latest chunk of episodic content will also arrive on a disc along with previous DLC episode The Lost and Damned as Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City. Episodes is also set for…

Two Dozen More Songs Revealed For Guitar Hero 5

Guitar Hero 5 will feature 85 songs when it hits stores on Sept. 1. Today Activision shed the light on 24 more of those songs, including Iron Maiden’s “2 Minutes To Midnight” and “The Spirit of Radio” from Rush. Here’s the new 24: • AFI – “Medicate” • A Perfect Circle – “Judith” • Billy…

Gangstar Preview: Very Much Like GTA On An iPhone

Coming in August is a game that looks and plays an awful lot like Grand Theft Auto. Except it’s on the iPhone. And it’s not GTA. But it does work. Word first leaked about Gangstar: West Coast Hustle earlier this month. It’s another GTA-like game coming to a platform that Rockstar Games hasn’t yet graced…

Dear You, Last Chance to Tell Us More About Yourself…

…by completing this fun-filled survey all about YOU. Send the last question to [email protected], thereby entering yourself to win a $300 AMEX gift card. Then we’ll take a long walk on the beach together, planning our future while the surf gently laps at our toes. Love, Gawker. [Contest rules apply.]

Scribblenauts! Hits North America Sept. 15

Scribblenauts, voted Best Game of E3, is set to hit North American shores on Sept. 15, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment said today. The 5th Cell developed game has players scribble the names of items that they can then use to help solve the more than 200 puzzle and action-themed challenges. To celebrate the looming date,…

Dead Space Extraction Comic Hits Comic-Con

Not one to be left behind, Electronics Art has announced that another one of their video games will be getting a comic book outing at this week’s San Diego Comic-Con. Image Comics and EA are teaming up to release a comic based on Dead Space Extraction. The comic based on the Wii-exclusive, will team up…

CTA Defends Anti-video Game Ad Ordinance

The Media Coalition has joined the Entertainment Software Association in their call for the Chicago Transit Authority to repel its ordinance barring the advertising of video games rated Mature or Adults Only. The ordinance prohibits advertisements for video games that have been rated “Mature” or “Adults Only” on CTA vehicles and in CTA facilities. A…

The Rising Price Of XBLA Games

The average price of Xbox Live Arcade games on the Xbox 360 has risen by a $1.74 since the Xbox 360 launched in November of 2005, according to Kotaku’s study of prices for more than 200 XBLA games. Microsoft’s annual Summer of Arcade promotion begins today, a five-week event designed to draw attention to new…

Score Brutal Legend Metal Meltdown VIP Passes

Heading to Comic-Con? Yeah, me too. If you don’t already have plans for your Thursday night and wouldn’t mind have your face melted clean off, join us at the Brutal Legend Metal Meltdown show. It’s free. GWAR will be there. All you need to do is RVSP with the folks at Vice, who will inscribe…

Have We Reached Exercise Game Saturation?

Get up off your ass. Move, move, move. It’s summertime! No need to go outside. Video games can help you become active and maybe even lose weight. This is hardly new, but have we reached saturation? “When I was in Best Buy the other day and saw the huge EA Sports Active displays it felt…

Ex-Visceral Execs Making Game Based On Existing Activision Franchise, Leading New Studio

Wondering what Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, former top guys at Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno studio Visceral Games are going to be doing at Activision? Something new, based on something old, Kotaku learned today. An Activision spokesperson confirmed to us today that former Visceral general manager Schofield and COO Condrey will be working at…

Brutal Legend Countersuit Describes Guitar Hero As “Competition”

Brutal Legend developers Double Fine claim that Activision is trying to torpedo their game to prevent it from competing with Guitar Hero, according to a countersuit filed last week, the Associated Press reports. The suit also claims that Activision prefers to develop games based on their existing roster of titles, and not develop original titles.…

Dead Space Extraction Preview: What The Wii Can Do

When he wasn’t expressing excitement that one of the people attending his demo writes for legendary horror magazine Fangoria, the executive producer of Dead Space Extraction was letting us experience EA’s bravest Wii game. These devs like the gore. EA has taken a bold step. The company is bringing a prequel to the graphically and…

More Details On God of War Comic, Books… Knife?

This October, God of War die hards will be able to get their hands on the United Cutlery replica Blades of Chaos and the first of six issues of the new comic series from DC Comics. Then, this March, the first of two God of War Novels arrive from Del Rey. Sounds like someone went…

Neurosurgeons Blame Increase in Car Surfing On Grand Theft Auto

The increased popularity of car surfing corresponds to the release of the Grand Theft Auto games and YouTube videos showing the activity, according to a study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery. The authors of the study found that there were 74 cases of car-surfing between 1999 and 20008 in Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Texas.…