This is Orbitor, a game from Evil Alien, an indie studio from Canberra, Australia. It’s about, well, orbits! Before you go saying it’s a fancier Angry Birds Space, don’t; I’ve actually seen this project before, at an earlier stage, and having been in development for a while it pre-dates Rovio’s game by a long shot.…
A team from The University of Texas have, along with Romanian computer scientist Mihai Polceanu, won a competition for the “BotPrize”, which is awarded to whoever can come up with the most “human-like” piece of artificial intelligence in Unreal Tournament 2004 Why UT2004 and not, say, Counter-Strike? Because the competition was sponsored by UT’s publisher…
Similar to companies like LucasArts, Rockstar have always sought to mix things up when their games first boot up. Which is why so many of them, even today, feature their own unique intro sequences, where the company’s logo is either introduced, lit up or blown up. The video above runs for over nine minutes, so…
A generation of military first-person shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield may have millions of kids thinking they know modern warfare, but they don’t. As these videos are about to show. YouTube channel FUNKER530 exists as a repository for veterans to post videos they’ve captured of live, raw combat, and some of the stuff…
Nintendo has just detailed the New Super Mario Bros. 2 DLC that it first announced back in June at E3 There’ll be three packs made available, all of them courses for the game’s coin rush mode: – Ippatsu Shoubu de Dokidoki Pack (very difficult course) – Gold Mario Go! Go! Go! Pack (try and get…
Mount & Blade, one of the guiltiest pleasures on the PC, is getting a full-blown sequel
According to a report from Korean news outlet JoongAng (translated by VentureBeat), one of the country’s biggest media outlets, Asian gaming giants Nexon and NCsoft are pooling resources in an attempt to purchase Valve. Apparently executives from both Korean companies, meeting in Hawaii this week as part of an annual summit, discussed the proposal both…
Looks like PAX Australia will be held in Melbourne from 19-21 July, 2013.
One of the highlights of QuakeCon each year is the baked-in LAN party, in which 3000 people get together in a giant hall, plug their desktop PCs into a desk and just go at it. While it’s far from the scale of, say, Sweden’s Dreamhack, it’s still a massive party, and one we get a…
Of course, there’s already been an official Animal Crossing anime, released all the way back in 2006. But there’s always room for unofficial animated adaptations, especially when they’re this funny. Warning: this is a little NSFW, so keep the volume button handy. Game Grumps Animated – Silly Voices – by Flannelson [Game Grumps, via Go…
Most developers creating games set in the present day do some amount of research. They go shoot the guns the game will feature, or go drive the cars, take some pictures of the city streets they’ll be recreating, that sort of thing. But what do you do when your game is set in the 15th…
The images you’re about to see were all done by Benjamin Huen, an artist now at Valve who used to work at BioWare. They’re incredible. Especially the Mass Effect portrait pieces, which you’d demand be made available for purchase, if some of them weren’t…already available for purchase Also included in today’s gallery are Benjamin’s Dragon…
You know, once was a time Nintendo were serious about releasing miniature versions of their consoles. The NES got one (the NES-101), the SNES got one (the SNES 2), but ever since, Nintendo’s been all “eh, the original model will do”. Which is a pity, because smackedsam’s shrunken N64 looks terrific! It’s not trying to…
By now, you should all be aware of the 1997 incident in Japan where a number of children were hospitalised after watching an episode of Pokémon. It was weird, and more than a little dangerous. So dangerous, in fact, that none other than the US military saw it as an opportunity to invent new and…
Here’s our first look at the new Neo Geo X Gold handheld in action, courtesy of Japanese game mag Famitsu. Out in December, it looks…well, is that my eyes, or is the machine stretching the original 4:3 visuals to fit a 16:9 screen? It damn well better not be. Aside from that, the buttons sound…
Like almost every other game set in the future, multiplayer mech shooter Hawken looks bleak. Pollution, dark skies, it just seems a generally unpleasant place to spend any amount of time. Some days, though, the clouds part. The shooting stops. And hardened futuristic science warriors can kick back, have a beer and read the funny…
Halo 4 has new bad guys, and those new bad guys have new guns. Here are those new guns in action. I’m still unsure whether Halo 4’s marketing is just lying to us, or whether 343 has performed some kind of dark magic on the Xbox 360. Those are the only two explanations as to…
Being a big Hot Toys fan, I’m super impressed with the company’s line of recent Batman figures. Yet realistic isn’t the only way to go about making incredible Batman toys. You can also take the stylish route. Based on comic artist Jim Lee’s recent interpretation of the Dark Knight, this figure’s torso, arms and legs…
All three of the Ezio Assassin’s Creed games are being bundled on the PS3 and sold for $40. It’s out November 13
Norwegian retailer CDON has, as it should, a page up ready for people order Wii U games. It’s also got something most other retailers don’t: listings for games many Nintendo fans can only dream of. Among the known and incoming games like Tank!Tank!Tank! and New Super Mario Bros. U, there are listings for games that…
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