Wait a minute. There are no monsters here. Or convention centre staircases. What is this, cosplay, or a fashion shoot? It’s a bit of both, as we bring you the full range of pics from Ryan and Abigail’s Legend of Zelda afternoon we featured briefly last month. Be sure to click on “expand” to see…
You’ve seen the best E3 2011 had to offer. Now see the worst. The very worst. Oh good Lord is some of this bad. From Ubisoft’s Mr. Caffeine to the travesty that is Star Wars: Kinect, take four minutes out of your life to remind yourself that for all the pomp and pageantry surrounding the…
To date, every single thing we’ve seen on Battlefield 3 has been of the PC version. And yet, the game is coming out on Xbox 360 and PS3. Tonight, we got our first look at one of those console versions. On Late Night With Jimmy Fallon earlier tonight, as part of the show’s week-long focus…
Lucius is an upcoming PC game that sounds a lot like Hitman. You get assignments to kill people, you sneak around, you kill them. Only, you’re not a skilled international assassin. You’re a six year-old boy. Oh, and you’re also the son of the devil. Whereas Hitman is an action game at heart, though, Lucius…
There’s been a Gears of War movie in development since 2008. It was supposed to be released in 2010 which, yeah, never happened. We’ve even had a chance to read a version of the screenplay. So where is this supposed movie? Like most Hollywood projects, it’s having a lot of trouble getting off the ground.…
This being the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo of America thought it’d be an awesome idea to celebrate with the release of a special compilation of the series. Nintendo Japan said, um, nothankyou.jpg. Yes, as insane as that may sound, while the idea of throwing a bunch of old Zelda games on…
As amazing as it may seem for a company we associate with something as modern as computers, IBM was founded on this day, June 16, all the way back in 1911 It’s had some ups and downs since then – from helping the Nazis to helping put a man on the moon – but we’re…
Graphic designer Graham Smith has a little ongoing project where he takes famous brands and switches their logo. So for example you get the Coke logo but it says Pepsi. His work include a few video game examples. Two are Nintendo (one as Sega, another as Sony), one the Xbox 360 (as the PlayStation 3),…
It’s no Master Sword, but if Link needs to knock out some annoying little monsters, it’ll do. Link with Pikablade by pyrofire2007
Stanley Lau has been asked by Capcom to provide the official artwork for the upcoming Street Fighter III 3rd Strike Online Edition. Being both an accomplished comic artist and a Street Fighter nerd, his work does not disappoint. In addition to the stuff he’s done for the game’s upcoming re-release, Lau is something of a…
Website PlayStation Museum has a complete PS1 development kit, including everything you need to make a game, from coding it to burning master discs. And now it can all be yours. The site is selling this obscure and yet amazing collection of hardware, which includes dozens of pieces of equipment as well as software and…
You know a game is big when its patches get big fancy trailers. Rage of the Firelands, an update to the expansion Cataclysm, brings new raids, new massive bad guys, new quest hubs and more
Take Arms is a 2D multiplayer side-scrolling combat game destined for the Xbox Live Indie Games Channel. And it looks pretty great. With two teams, selectable classes, bots, three maps and three game modes, you’re getting a lot for the $3 developers Discord Games will be asking for the game. And yes, before you ask,…
BioWare, the creator of Mass Effect and Dragon Age, has had its servers raided by hackers and the account details of around 18,000 customers have potentially been lifted. BioWare’s Aaryn Flynn writes on the company forums: Yesterday (June 14), we learned that a hacker gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare community server system associated…
This year is the 10th anniversary of the Devil May Cry series, and to commemorate the occasion, it looks like Capcom will be releasing a collection of three games, all of them remastered in high definition. Those games are Devil May Cry, Devil May Cry 2 and Devil May Cry 3, the collection outed not…
It’s hard enough finding enough major characters who aren’t white in games, let alone people who aren’t straight. So it’s interesting to see how 2K is handling the inclusion of a homosexual character in upcoming shooter XCOM As is becoming customary at the Canberra studio where XCOM is in development, 2K Marin Australia have snuck…
This is a trailer for an upcoming Brad Pitt movie called Moneyball. It’s about baseball. And at 0:58, you can see that the owner of the Oakland A’s baseball team is being played by none other than Activision boss Bobby Kotick. Remember, this is a movie about baseball. Not video games. And while it could…
Reader Gray, with a little help from actress Jennymarie Jemison and Zane Rutledge, one of the original Alice’s CG artists, has sent us two clips fans of American McGee’s and EA’s series might be interested in. One is a live-action homage to the new game, Alice: Madness Returns. The other, and this is really cool,…
All this week, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is showing off big video games. To honour this special (marketing) event, the show has put together a new intro that’ll only run this week. Isn’t it great? I like the existing intro, but they should keep this one, run it every night. Chiptunes and all. Every…
There are few more storied franchises in adventure gaming than Sierra’s Police Quest series, which in the late 80’s and early 90’s was home to some of the grittiest, most realistic and yet most rewarding games around. Oh, I’m sorry, did I say gritty? Because that only applies to the Western version of the game.…
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