Proving that iOS games can steamroll their way to world domination without having any fat red birds in them, Temple Run – a game about little else but running – has crossed the 100,000,000 download mark. For a game that I used to call “Canabalt for less awesome people”, that’s one hell of an achievement.…
Sandbox action game Just Cause 2 was a blast to play solo, but sadly shipped without any kind of multiplayer. No matter. Fans of the game’s PC edition have whipped up a version that lets a reported 600 people play it at once. On the same island. The results are predictably…insane. Note that this is…
Perhaps the strangest news of the day, if not much longer, is that cult 90’s shooter Rise of the Triad is getting a remake Considering a whole generation of gamers has now grown up likely not having played the thing, they’re probably wondering, what’s all the fuss about? Here’s what all the fuss is about.…
Old video games may have a certain charm to them when they’re working, but what about when they’re not? When they’re crashing and bugging out all over the place, no matter how many times you shake them or blow in the cartridge slot? Glitchee’s site is a wonderful catalogue of just such episodes, mostly of…
As you may have guessed by now, comedian and talk show host Conan O’Brien is fairly rubbish at video games. Mostly because he neither plays nor really even likes games. But then, that’s exactly what makes his “reviews” so good.
It was only two weeks ago that the World of Warcraft movie, fresh off its big-time director leaving the project, looked set to join the scrapheap of failed video game adaptations Today? It sounds like there’s some serious push behind the movie, because not only has a new writer been announced, but Activision boss Bobby…
Sebastien Larroudé is one of my favourite concept artists working today. Formerly a senior concept artist at Eidos, where he worked on Thief 4 and Deus Ex (we actually featured some of his DE:HR work previously here), Larroudé – aka Rainart – now heads up Steambot Studios, a collection of brilliant artists that includes the…
Around 80% of trade-ins that take place in a GameStop store are re-sold in the same location. Those that aren’t, though, are moved on to this enormous factory and processing facility in Texas. If a game is traded in and the disc is looking a little worse for wear, it’s sent here for cleaning (with…
This elaborate custom PC was built for display at this year’s QuakeCon. You can take your pick as to what’s most amazing about the project: the fact it works, the fact it looks identical to a terminal from Fallout, or the fact the entire thing cost under $60. The PC’s exterior is hand-made, while the…
When you spend over $400 on an action figure – that’s right, this is a posable figure, not a statue – you expect a certain level of “wow”. I’m not sure this Batman figure delivers $400 worth of wow, but it sure does come close. Standing an enormous 18 inches tall, the Hot Toys figure…
There’s a very simple secret at the heart of Zelda’s success. The games have always been about showing you things you can’t do, making you work to get an item, then granting that item the power to do the thing you previously couldn’t do. It means that, as time has gone on, the game’s developers…
If you haven’t finished Red Dead Redemption, and one day plan to, don’t read any further Still with me? OK, good. John Marston’s son, Jack Marston, is a whiny little punk. Even at the “end” of the game, where he’s supposedly a grown man, he’s still a whiny little punk. This custom Jack, made from…
This is Forge. Pencil me in as mildly interested, if only because it’s promising to be an online game that brings some of the baggage of an MMO – like progressive stats and a string of special abilities – while leaving much of the boring stuff behind. Pitched as a game that’s all about player…
Robh Ruppel is the art director at Naughty Dog, the developers of the Uncharted series. Before that, he spent over a decade working at Disney’s animation studio. This gallery of his work includes examples of both concept art and matte paintings from across that period, and features pieces from the Uncharted games, personal projects, Disney…
I remember Ghosts ‘N Goblins being about two things: underpants and skeletons. Mostly about underpants. It’s easy to forget amidst all the cheesy humour of the game, then, that it had a fairly brutal premise. I mean, it’s not like destroying Satan himself and then escaping the netherworld of Hades is tough enough. No, there…
The Commodore 64 turned 30 this week. As the firs video game platform my family ever owned, it will always have a very special place in my heart. But I was born in 1980. What do kids born in the 21st century think of the machine? The BBC and C64 fan Mat Allen went to…
As someone who spends most of his time on an iPad playing strategy games, and as someone who when not playing them on an iPad is playing them on a PC, when I had the chance to speak with Johan Andersson, the Studio Manager of Paradox’s internal development team, there was one thing I needed…
As video gaming has become more popular, thanks to platforms like Facebook and mobile phones, the industry (and passionate fans) took a lot of pride in seeing the average age of a “gamer” climb out of the teens, into the 20s and then the 30s. So it’s a bit weird, then, to see that the…
One of the more bizarre stories to come from the London Olympics so far has been the farcical conclusion to the group stages of the women’s badminton, which saw eight players deliberately try and lose in order to manipulate their knockout stage seedings, to the outrage of many. Maybe instead of blaming the athletes, though,…
The Dark Knight is not very good at Halo. Bruce Wayne was obviously too busy with all that money and grief as a kid to have learned his way around a control pad. He’s making up for it now, though. The only way he knows how.
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