If you were unexcited by the fact the new Ouya console runs Android games, remember: if it runs Android, it can run emulated games working on the platform. And as anyone with an Android phone can tell you, that’s a lot of games. Users on the Ouya Boards who are already in possession of one…
Something tells me the chances of us seeing officially licensed Dishonored LEGO are slim. Rats, murder, prostitutes… I don’t think it’s quite LEGO’s thing. But hey, where LEGO misses an opportunity, custom builders are always there to come through with the goods. Nathan Proudlove built this Dishonored “Tall Boy” walker, a unit in the game…
According to a report on German IT site Golem, Valve engineer Ben Krasnow told an audience at the recent EHSM 2012 conference in Berlin that the company’s long-awaited “Steam Box” custom PC/console/thing will indeed be running on Linux, and will be revealed in full at either GDC or E3 later this year. Meaning the PC…
Fresh off their success with The Walking Dead series, as well as experience with half a dozen other properties that belong to someone else, developers Telltale have told Red Bull (the website of… the drink) what their dream projects are. And they’re about the same as anyone else’s dream projects. “Coming from LucasArts we always…
Having stopped shipping in Japan last year, The Guardian has confirmed with Sony that PlayStation 2 production has now ceased worldwide. Let that sink in for a second. There are no more PlayStation 2 consoles being made. Anywhere. Once the new consoles already on shelves are gone, that’s it. While it’s almost 13 years old,…
It’s easy. Because it’s the only game on this list that’s about sex and politics. Most others are about killing. And don’t get me wrong, as head of a medieval dynasty, there will be the blood of thousands on your hands when your game is done. But in Crusader Kings II, unlike most other games—its…
This is Japanese artist Daito Manabe, who “uses electrical impulses as an artistic medium”. Translation: you’re about to see human bodies wired up and shocked, turning muscle movements into a weird kind of musical instrument. It’s equal parts gross and fascinating. The video itself is another in the excellent “Creators Project” series, an earlier episode…
I was surprised back in September when a new entry in Kotobukiya’s line of “Bishoujo” figures—normally a little on the revealing side—played it demure when it came to Mass Effect’s Commander Shepard. Ditto for this second version of the piece, which changes weapons and haircuts. There’ll only be 2000 made available, and the front hand…
These awesome robots and moody rooms? They’re by Benoit Godde, a French concept artist at Quantic Dream who’s worked on games such as Heavy Rain, Beyond and the cancelled Eight Days If you like what you see here, there’s plenty more to see on Benoit’s personal site and CGHub page To see the larger pics…
You’d think the horse stealing the car would be the funniest bit. But no. I like the dude’s obvious disappointment at the overall outcome at the very end. “aaww”. For more horse-in-Grand-Theft-Auto-IV madness, see here Horse [Premium Gifs]
It wasn’t until the Wii U launched that we found out accounts and information registered on that console would be staying on that console. Sounded bad at the time, but there might be a bright side to the whole mess. There obviously haven’t been too many people buying one of the machines pre-owned in its…
There’s a short piece up on Wired about a new Star Wars comic book series. There’s something new in it: Leia is a pilot. Like, an X-Wing pilot, in the orange jumpsuit and everything. Series writer Brian Wood (of DMZ fame, and formerly of Rockstar Games) did a pretty good job of explaining how/why the…
I played a lot of games this year, and sadly, most of them were forgettable. It’s just been one of those years. Luckily, not everything landed between the ranges of “awful” and “mediocre”. Some games landed between “pretty good” and “fucking incredible”. Like these ten which, in no particular order, are my absolute favourite games…
Zombie survival rip-off The WarZ which, outside of a bizarrely fanatical fanbase hasn’t exactly endeared itself to the wider community, has for the past few days been the subject of attacks on the game’s servers. That’s according to the game’s community manager Kwerk, who wrote earlier in the week “First we were hit with an…
Since it’s been nine months since the last trailer, we’d assumed/hoped that the movie Noobz (sigh), a tale of online gaming and… bad comedy, had been consigned to the garbage disposal unit of history. Nope. It’s out soon, and here’s a new trailer. Tina described the first one as “ghastly”. I’m going to call this…
AbleGamers, a “a nonprofit that helps gamers with disabilities”, has revealed their winners for its 2013 accessible game of the year. Overall, top prize went to the PC version of EA Sports’ FIFA 13, for its customisable controls, high contrast colours, visual cues and, best of all, a mouse-only control scheme. For disabled gamers with…
LEGO builder Baron von Brunk, who you may have seen here from time to time, is back with something a bit bigger. A little more ambitious. He’s built this enormous five-foot LEGO NES controller. Which works. I don’t know what to be more impressed by, the build itself or the fact he owned enough grey…
“I blended classic Zelda and dark science fiction and drank the ensuing mixture”, writes indie developer John S Park, aka 6e6e6e. “It was Radio the Universe.” And it looks terrific. “Players will feel aesthetic and gameplay influences from titles like Yume Nikki, Symphony of the Night, Hotline Miami, and Dark Souls“, Park adds describing his…
Joshua James Shaw works at Blur, those guys responsible for many of the prettiest cinematic trailers and cutscenes you see for games today. Some of the games he’s worked on include Far Cry 3, Dark Souls II, Star Wars: Old Republic and Force Unleashed (though there are also images from a personal graphic novel project,…
Sideshow will be releasing, sometime in the future, this gorgeous premium format statue of Nathan Drake, star of the Uncharted series. It’ll be expensive—we’re talking hundreds of dollars—but as we’ve seen with similar pieces from the range, you’re getting something of suitable size/heft for your buck.
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