A “spokesperson” for hacking collective Lulzsec, who among other targets hit the online operations of Nintendo and Sony, has been arrested in the United Kingdom. And not just any part of the United Kingdom. The Shetland Islands. Which are about as remote as you can get and still be in Europe. LulzSec ‘spokesperson’ arrested by…
As part of its press release outlining the 3DS’ massive price cut, Nintendo also provided more detailed release information for two of the system’s more eagerly-anticipated titles, saying Super Mario 3D Land (November) and Mario Kart 7 (December) will be out in time for Christmas. As will Kid Icarus! You can contact Luke Plunkett, the…
The team at Animatronic Ackbar is putting together a documentary on video game culture. It’s looking good! This trailer was minted with the upcoming EVO 2011 in mind. I’m not the biggest fan of most kinds of competitive gaming, but there’s something about fighting game fans that’s just so damn entertaining. It’s extremely competitive yet…
Like most countries, download speeds in the US vary from city to city. Unlike most other countries, though, the United States is huge, meaning those differences can be, well, just as huge. A study by Pando Networks has found the average download speeds for internet users across the United States, and perhaps unsurprisingly found that…
Boy, those 3DS sales sure fell off a cliff. So much so that Nintendo has instituted one of the swiftest and deepest price cuts for a handheld in recent memory. The 3DS only went on sale earlier this year for $249, but as of August 12, it’ll be slashed all the way down to $169.99.…
What a difference a couple of years makes. It seems like only yesterday Nintendo was an unstoppable juggernaut, its consoles and handhelds tearing up the sales charts. In 2011, things are a little different. Nintendo just put out its financial earnings release for the three months of Apr-Jun 2011, and they’re grim reading, especially for…
Some strange news out of Sony’s latest financial earnings release: sales of the PlayStation 3 are down, while sales of the PlayStation 2 are steady and the PSP is making a late-life comeback! The release covers the three months between April and June this year. In that time, the PS3 sold 1.8 million units (down…
There’s a great interview with Jennifer Hale, the voice of the female Commander Shepard from Mass Effect, over on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, where she talks about all kinds of cool stuff. Most poignant at this present time, though, are her thoughts on the vote for her character’s new face And those thoughts are? “I like…
Crysis 2 has disappeared from Steam. Ditto for Dragon Age II. There’s a war being waged between EA and Steam over online PC gaming, regardless of EA’s stated hopes. Issuing a statement in response to Dragon Age II’s removal from Steam, EA says “At EA, we offer our games and content to all major download…
If you think messing around with the user-interface of a modern console, or even a modern iteration of Windows is hard, spare a thought for anyone involved in PC gaming during the 1980s and early 90s. Those hardy pioneers didn’t need icons, or dashboards. They used letters, and arcane commands, which were the bread and…
Artist Viktor Antonov has worked on a number of high-profile projects over the years. He’s recently published his own book, The Colony. He’s helping on a live-action adaptation of classic manga (and anime film) Cobra. He also did some nice art for shelved (yet promising) multiplayer shooter The Crossing Oh yeah. And he was also…
Valve’s online juggernaut and EA’s own upstart service Origin are having some problems of late. Problems continuing through to this week, with Dragon Age II—previously available on Steam—now being withdrawn from sale. The bone of contention seems to be Dragon Age II’s new piece of downloadable content, Legacy, which is only available as an in-game…
I don’t like the new female Commander Shepard. Mostly because it’s stupid they’re changing her in the first place, but also because in all options she looks like a 19 year-old who’s angry the Ford Fiesta her parents bought her just got a parking ticket. But these pieces of fan art from Brazilian Rafael Grassetti,…
The kids these days. They’re takin’ a shit, and boom, they got a game in their hands. This clip, by The Game Station, shows the elder statesmen of the video game world joining forces to overcome the looming threat of iPhone games. Godfather-style. If all the chit-chat at the beginning gets you down, please, stick…
You’ve seen one Xenosaga action figure, you’ve seen ’em all, right? Well, sort of, since they’re always of KOS-MOS, but this one’s new! Following up from Masaki Asai’s take on the iconic character in 2010, this 2011 figure, from Alter, is a lot taller (34cm vs 22cm) but also a lot more expensive, coming in…
According to reports from China, AMD will next year be releasing a new CPU called Piledriver. Appropriately, given its name, it may well go Zangief all over your games (or at least the games of the future that are actually coded for it), because it’s got ten cores. Yup. Ten. The catch? All those cores…
This is a doll. It’s also the subject of a patent filing by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, which thinks it might be a good idea if the doll and your PS3 chat with each other. The patent was first filed in 2008, though has only recently been publicly released. It details a plush toy that’s…
From Dust and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet are both part of Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade Games promotion for the Xbox 360. Neither is supposed to be out, but for some reason, both now are. This isn’t that big a deal when it comes to From Dust, which depending on where you are in the world…
It was 1992. I was at my friend Paul’s house, playing games on his mighty 486 PC, and we’d just finished a complete playthrough of Monkey Island for probably the 100th time. Bored, he turns to me and says “Oh yeah, my brother got this new game. Let’s play that.” He fires it up, and…
In 2008, publisher THQ shitcanned a project called Stormbirds, an aerial combat game that was looking to take on the likes of Ace Combat and HAWX While the game died, its surprisingly colourful art lives on, and today we’re looking at concept artist Stuart Jennett’s wonderful contributions. Jennett, formerly a comics artist with Marvel, is…
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