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EA Combines Mythic And BioWare Into A Giant RPG Robot

EA is merging their two top roleplaying game developers, BioWare and Mythic, into one massive RPG group, with BioWare’s co-founder Ray Muzyka taking the lead and Mythic’s Mark Jacobs taking a powder. Creating what is effectively a massively multiplayer RPG development juggernaut, EA has tapped Muzkya to become Group General Manager of their new RPG/MMO…

DS Transformer Case and Stylus Lacking in Transformation

It’s sort of disappointing to get a Transformer DS case and stylus only to find that it doesn’t do anything other than sit there. The Bumblebee starter kit comes with a yellow, vaguely Bumblebee-ish DS case and an absurdly over-sized stylus. The case folks open and closed and has a sliding panel on the back…

id Software Bought By Bethesda Parent Company, ZeniMax

Doom, Fallout, Oblivion, Wolfenstein, Carmack, Howard… all in one company. Two of the most acclaimed game development studios of all time are joining forces. ZeniMax Media, parent company of Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls development studio Bethesda Softworks, announced today that it is purchasing legendary Doom and Wolfenstein studio id. In an interview with Kotaku,…

Second Hitman Movie Has A Writer

Love it or hate it, the movie adaptation of Eidos’ Hitman series made 20th Century Fox a great deal of money, and now they’ve hired screenwriter Kyle Ward to make them some more. The news of Ward’s hiring comes by way of IESB, who confirmed with 20th Century Fox that the young writer had been…

Vampire Origins Offers Bloody iPhone Action

Chillingo’s Vampire Origins is a isometric adventure title coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch in the next couple of weeks. While part of me watches this video and thinks how cool it would be if someone came out with Diablo for the platform, another part of me thinks that this looks an awful lot…

Age Of Conan Ventures Into Tarantia Commons

Funcom has just launched Update 5 – Gangs of Tarantia for their massively multiplayer online roleplaying game Age of Conan, introducing a whole new area, new storylines, and fundamentally changing how the game is played. Yes, along with the new areas, which can be seen in the lovely screenshots here, Update 5 is another step…

The Lonely Island Plays Doubt: The Video Game

Who hasn’t been eagerly awaiting the video game adaptation of Doubt, the 2008 film that cast Phillip Seymore Hoffman as a Catholic priest involved in an inappropriate relationship with an altar boy? We missed out on this Lonely Island short, which originally aired during the 2009 MYV Movie Awards, as we were rather busy getting…

Spot Crecente, Win Schwag

This morning my family and I are kicking off a two-and-a-half week road trip that will have us traveling across a dozen states or so. I figured that since I live in the middle of nowhere it would be fun to bring some schwag along. Here’s the deal, I’ve got a smallish stash of freebies…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

There are worse things you can do on a Wednesday than talk about video games. So jump into the fray here.

About The Time I Had My Phone Blessed

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Leaving Second Grade Last fall, I got my cell phone blessed by a Shinto priest. You can read all about it right here. Though, it’s not in the article my “writing company” was blessed as well. Fingers crossed! (Probably should’ve had my game consoles blessed for good measure…) What you…

Box Of Old Zelda Games Redefines Definition Of “Case Fresh” [Update]

We don’t post about video game auctions very often here. When we do, it has to be something that’s pretty amazing. This cardboard treasure trove of Zelda fits that bill. It’s a box of sealed copies of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The original SNES release. Like the wounded body of…

THQ Splits In Three, “Core” Gamers Get Own Division

Picking up on the fact the gaming market has grown as much as it’s splintered over the past few years, THQ bosses today divided the company into three divisions: Core, Online & Kids, Family and Casual Games. The Core group will be headed by Danny Bilson, and be responsible for upcoming titles like Darksiders, MX…

Yes, Vin Diesel Is Actually Involved In Game Making

Hollywood star Vin Diesel has a game company, Tigon. Lots of Hollywood people have companies, but that doesn’t mean they actually do anything. According to Tigon head Ian Stevens, Diesel is as involved as his film schedule permits. “If he’s shooting a Fast and Furious I get a lot less of his time,” the game…

Valve Games Now Support Gun Controller

Sadly, it’s not the “PC Game Gun”. Instead, it’s been announced today that most of Valve’s shooters will be compatible with Novint’s Falcon peripheral. All games included with The Orange Box – those being Half-Life 2, HL2 Episodes 1 & 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2 – will now work with the novel controller. And…

If Only Video Games Had Been Invented Before The 20th Century

Video games were invented in the latter half of the 20th century. Meaning that their subject matter is, more often than not, set in the 20th century (or later). But if they’d been invented earlier… We’d (hopefully) have ended up with games like these! WARNING: some of the pics after the jump, which were entries…

NBA 2K Heads To Asia As An Online Game

Console games don’t sell across many parts of Asia. Too much piracy. But online games that milk you for microtransactions, they work much better, explaining why the series is going online for a new Asia-only title. It’s been announced that the popular basketball series is heading to China “and other key markets” in the region,…

Fan Service PS3 Game Crossing Over To Xbox 360

Cross Edge, the PlayStation 3 RPG that combines popular properties from Nippon Ichi, Gust, Namco Bandai, Idea Factory, and Capcom together into one all-star role-playing extravaganza, is headed towards the Xbox 360. The game was released in Japan last September and North America this past spring to so-so reviews. The Xbox 360 version, called Cross…

Why Do Girls Have Boobs?

In this promotional clip for PSP title Boku no Natsuyasumi 4 (My Summer Vacation 4), the game’s little boy goes around asking why girls have breasts. At the end of the clip, his exasperated father asks if someone can explain this to the boy. But honestly, why-girls-have-boobs is a dumb question! The kid should be…

When Architects Critique Video Game Levels

Video game levels are designed with one thing in mind: fun. But that fun comes dressed as architecture. Cathedrals, castles, office buildings, homes. The kind of stuff architects are best at. The Architect’s Journal have posted a list of what they feel are the top 10 examples of architecture in video games. The list itself…

Robot Learns How To Play Pitfall

We. Are. Doomed. While Japanese robots divert our attention with cute faces and coffee-making, the real work is being done at places like Rutgers University, where a robot has learned how to play Pitfall. Yup. Pitfall. First step, Atari games, next step, the enslavement of humanity. Or our eradication. Whichever our robot overlords feel up…