You think Rockstar Games, you think about mean things. Angry men, drugs, dingy bars, fast cars, explosive firearms. Which is totally understandable, since the company’s most recent games are about a drug-addled hitman, a vengeful cowboy and a Puerto Rican who shoots up half of New York. But that murderous veneer hides a secret. Co-founder…
Indie developers Wolfire built this shooter, Receiver, in seven days. But that’s not the cool part. Or parts Instead, Receiver is interesting for two things. One, it focuses on a single weapon, the Colt 1911 A1, and takes it very seriously, using “high detail gun mechanics”, which means you can “manipulate each part of the…
Every year, representatives of the world’s biggest video game websites (this one included) get together and nominate which games they thought were the best ones they played at E3 (or in the week before E3, at special judge’s events). Note that condition: according to the awards’ rules, in order to be nominated for a major…
Activision may be heralded/hated as one of the world’s biggest video game companies today, but in 1981, it was a much smaller company. A very different company, in a very different time. Which is the only reason I can think of to explain this bizarrely wonderful promo video the company put together in 1981, which…
Hey, RoboCop, you’ve got mechanical arms and a gun in your leg. Why’d you have to go and smash a perfectly good arcade game? And it was pretty good. If you couldn’t make it out beneath all the broken glass and criminal hair, it’s Sly Spy, Data East’s 1989 side-scroller that took more than a…
A little while ago, LEGO and Blur Studios – you’d be familiar with their work – sat down to talk about the possibility of making an animated LEGO film. So Blur’s Jeff Fowler and artist Sean McNally got to work on a concept for their pitch, which revolved around a young LEGO minifig leaving his…
Capcom and Sony have just confirmed earlier reports that Clover’s classic Okami will be getting a HD re-release. It’ll be made available as a digital download on the PlayStation Network for $20, and will be out sometime this “Fall” (it’s out in Japan on November 1). Okami HD will boast “HD graphics”, display in 16:9,…
It’s a question whose answer I leave you with as I sign off for the night. [via Neatorama]
You rarely get to choose your nickname in life. Just ask Sony Worldwide Studios vice president Scott Rohde. His nickname isn’t, as you’d maybe guess, “Scholar”. Or “Rohde Warrior”. Or “Scottie”. Or, as Australians would assume, “Rohdesy”. It’s “the Shit Umbrella”. “It’s my job to create a giant umbrella and protect the studios from that…
In recognition of just how damn great they were, BioWare and EA have struck a deal that’s transformed Indonesian artist machine56’s Mass Effect t-shirt designs into actual, official merchandise. Three of his Cerberus-inspired designs are now available on the company’s store, along with a bunch of other stuff that’s either new or is coming very…
According to a report on movie site Bloody Disgusting, the upcoming Mortal Kombat film will follow the exploits of a “lowly unlucky supermarket employee”. “With Kevin Tancharoen still attached to direct from Oren Uziel’s screenplay”, the site writes, “we’ve exclusively discovered that the live-action reboot will follow a lowly unlucky supermarket employee who discovers that…
While it’s a little cheap, even by live-action video game trailer standards, this clip for the upcoming Darksiders II is saved by one thing: the presence of the ever-wonderful James Cosmo. One of the manliest men to have ever walked the Earth, Cosmo is perhaps best known these days as Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of…
Artist Dan Blomberg has worked with just about everyone who’s anyone at the top of the concept art food chain, at least as far as video games are concerned. From studios with a history of investing heavily in their own internal talent (Eidos) to firms who do nothing but concept art (Massive Black), Blomberg has…
Zombie mod DayZ might have military sim ArmA 2 sitting atop Steam’s sale charts at the moment, but this clip serves as a reminder that the core game is a fascinating beast in its own right. While its ageing engine has its quirks, when the game is played right, and with like-minded humans, it transforms…
CONS: This clip is almost entirely narrated by one of the developers, a practice which only marketing types enjoy. You could mute it, but then you’d lose the sound effects as well. PROS: It’s over twenty minutes of Dead Space 3 footage. Just gameplay.
Companies like Sega and Namco tend to get all the credit when it comes to weird and wonderful arcade cabinets, but even all the way back in the 1970s, Atari was trying its hardest to be different. To that end, it came up with a number of prototypes for cabinets that went a little further…
The unveiling earlier today of Microsoft’s new “Surface” tablets was a strange one for me. Not because of the nature of the product, but for its name. It’s one Microsoft has been using for years, only, for an entirely different device. One that, for a while there, we thought could change the way we played…
I appear to be one of a rare breed of person who, on the internet at least, is proud to have enjoyed Civilization V. I thought the shift to hexes and abandonment of unit “stacking” was the best thing the series had done in years, and while it wasn’t perfect – the AI could have…
Try Pocket Planes, the internet said. It’s fun, they said. It’s by the guys who made Tiny Tower, they said. Well, you know what, everyone who told me anything about this game over the weekend, fuck you. An interesting refinement on the “click stuff every now and then, wait a bit longer then click some…
Last year, Zelda’s 25th anniversary came and went with little fanfare from Nintendo. What people wanted was a nice big commemorative box set. What we got was…a concert tour and a 3DS. Designer Jason Nowak knows what we wanted, though, and took a crack at designing it. The results are…beautiful. A wooden box, a little…
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