Our younger readers won’t have lived through it, but the 1980s were in in many ways a bleak time, the spectre of nuclear holocaust hanging over the world for much of the decade. For such a dominant political topic, however, few games chose to address the subject head-on. Ground Zero was one of the few.…
How very unlike Valve. In a post on the game’s official blog, DotA 2 developers say that while they had planned to keep testing the game for another year or so in a very private beta, they now want to “get it out there as fast as we can”. “Our original plan was to spend…
Those hands look clumsy. No wonder the Little Sisters keep running for the safety of the vents. By Dan Hipp You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
Here’s a new, long trailer for the upcoming real-time strategy game based on George R R Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series of novels. It’ll be out on PC on September 29. Sadly, being based on the books (and a sort of prequel at that) and not the TV show, there’ll be none of…
Thought I’d try something a little different with today’s Fine Art. Instead of showing the art of a video game, I thought I’d show off some of the art of video game artists. Which aren’t always the same thing! On the night of Friday, Sept. 23, Vigil Games—developers of the Darksiders series—will be hosting a…
Lee Wei Chen, a design student at Kingston University, has come up with an arcade cabinet that washes your clothes. Which is also a washing machine that plays games. ‘I realised that the skills I had developed in the virtual world were useless in the real world. I wanted to make them useful,’ Chen says.…
Level-5’s Ni No Kuni was easily my “game of the show” for 2011’s Tokyo Game Show. It’s the first game I ran to on opening day, and it’s the only game I went and played twice If my impressions and some off-screen footage weren’t enough to convey how good this game looks, here’s 13 minutes…
Given the nature of the game, and the financial realities of 21st-century game development, you should all be expecting Diablo III to appear on a console at some stage. So try not to let the following statement from Blizzard’s Jay Wilson freak you out too much. Because it’s for the best! “One of the reasons…
Not because it looks bad. It looks great! But all that flashing, and bright lights, and flashing. Argh! I sadly didn’t get a chance to play Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena at last week’s Tokyo Game Show, when it was playable, but the guys from Kotaku Japan did and said it was surprisingly…
Budding game artist Ed Chee (Monkey Island 2 Special Edition) will be displaying some of his works in an exhibition to be held in Toronto early next month. What makes this cool is that all the paintings were done not in paint, but on a Nintendo DS. Using the DS’ Colors! program, Chee has drawn…
Don’t have Sword & Sworcery yet? What the hell’s wrong with you? Actually, put that question on the backburner. For now, just get the game. It’s only $0.99. For today. Because it’s Autumn Solstice. You’ll understand once you get it.
Sony’s new PS3 terms of service are designed to stop the company being hit with class-action suits, and having to front juries, which care about little things like the right of the consumer over the operations of multi-billion dollar corporations. So how did the company get away with legally including a “don’t sue us” clause?…
I’m not normally a man to carry around regret, but last week, I didn’t get a chance to play this game. The lines, as we’ve told you, were too damn long. But if ever Square Enix were going to make a game that spoke directly to my heart, it would be this. Army Corps of…
Valve boss Gabe Newell has a history of replying directly to emails from the public, so there’s a good chance this exchange with an impatient Half-Life fan is for real. Either way, there’s a definite chance that it’s great. If anyone else wants to give it a show, maybe try a sonnet. Or an epic…
Sony will be releasing an Uncharted 3 hardware bundle in the US that includes the system and a game. Mercifully, Japan’s hideous Uncharted 3 controller is nowhere to be seen. It’s just a straight-up black console (320GB) with a straight-up, single black DualShock 3. Alongside that and the game the bundle will also include a…
Darth Vader turns into a shark, if you were wondering how strange
The signs were there for Sony. This year’s Tokyo Game Show was shaping up as the biggest ever, and its new Vita handheld would be many people’s main attraction. Why, then, did the company do such a poor job of actually letting people play the thing? We’ve told you how ridiculous the lines for the…
Research carried out by Nottingham Trent University, and which is soon to be published in the International Journal of Cyber Behaviour, Psychology and Learning, says that hardcore video gamers are having trouble distinguishing the real world from the virtual one. Having polled an astounding 42 gamers aged between 15-21, some of the most extreme cases…
Patryk Olejniczak used to make incredible Mass Effect fan art. Now he actually works for the series’ developers Bioware, so this is less fan art and more…work art? It’s a portrait of Legion, and if you don’t know who Legion is, you really need to finish Mass Effect 2 Mass Effect – Legion [Patryk Olejniczak]
Microsoft has announced that a demo for upcoming racer Forza 4 will be released on the Xbox Live Marketplace on October 3. The actual game is out just over a week later, on October 11 (Oct 14 for Europe).
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