Capcom and Nintendo have always had a rather close relationship. In 2002, though, the pair became blood brothers. Or so people thought. That was the year the infamous “Capcom Five” were announced by the Osaka-based publisher, a range of titles seemingly designed to give Nintendo’s fledgling GameCube a shot in the arm, and which ended…
Sony just announced that the PSN, down since April in the wake of an attack by hackers, will be fully restored (for most regions) by the end of the week. The only regions where it won’t be 100% back will be Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. For everyone else, that means the following suite…
Call of Duty, as has long been predicted/expected, is set to introduce a monthly subscription fee for its multiplayer users. Launching as an online service, rather than a standalone product, Call of Duty Elite will be part of Modern Warfare 3 (and future titles) when its released in November, and will include the option of…
Or not, since these aren’t real conditions. But the Game Arthritis series of kind of makes us wish they were real. After all, scars tell a story, and it’s about time video gaming gave us more impressive ones than just a calloused thumb. Game Arthritis is a gallery by Matteo Bittanti and IOCOSE. There’s some…
Some Jedi are unnervingly good. Others are evil to their very core. And others, well, they’re just bros, hangin’ out, bein’ assholes. If the humour and special effects seem a little better than your standard YouTube fare, this is another Facerocker joint. In this case, a sequel to last year’s just as awesome Jedi A-Holes
Crytek’s CryEngine 3 technology, which we’ve seen most recently in the company’s own Crysis 2, is the driving force behind a $57 million project from the US Army aimed at teaching its soldiers how to fight. While virtual battlefields have long been a staple of military training, the new Dismounted Soldier Training System (DSTS) looks…
Cosplay can be great when a piece is a painstaking recreation of the original. There is, however, nothing stopping it from being great when there’s a bit of gender-bending going on, either. Rmthompson1979’s shot of Abigail here, dressed as Zelda’s Link, is proof of that. She’s far from the only amazing picture we’ve got this…
Over on Hardcore Gaming, there’s a new timeline up for reading called “A Brief History of Western Action RPGs”. Brief? Are you kidding me? Spanning over thirty years of role-playing games (mostly) free of teenagers with stupid haircuts and over-sized swords, the timeline begins with the likes of Adventure and Dungeons of Daggorath and ends…
Headphones. You’ve seen one pair you’ve seen them all. Unless they’re Sony’s new official wireless PS3 headphones, in which case, they look different, and great as a result. The standard headphone design of “buds and band” is dominated by two massive panels over the earpieces, one there to hide the microphone which can retract within,…
As the creator of Nintendo’s Pokémon series, Satoshi Tajiri is one of the most important (if not well-known) developers working in video games today. Like another Nintendo legend, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, Tajiri’s most popular work has been directly inspired by his childhood experiences and hobbies. While Miyamoto’s Zelda was the product of boyhood explorations,…
It’s the week before E3. There are rumours buzzing around like flies on a turd. Here’s the biggest fly, then, from the weekend: that the NGP has a name. And that name is “Vita”. Now, there’s a sordid tale behind this, beginning with “leaked” snaps from a supposed marketing brochure and ending with the original…
Here are the deaths of eleven million Just Cause 2 games, caused by bodies smashing into solid ground, visualised on a map from the heavens. Please, watch it. Deathmapping: Just Cause 2′s 11m Casualties [Rock, Paper, Shotgun]
A PC cult classic returns (and on consoles this time, too) next month when Alice: Madness Returns hits shelves. The first game was batshit crazy, and beautiful to boot. So it’s little surprise, then, that the sequel looks to be continuing that tradition. In these pieces of concept art for the game (some you may…
Dragon Age II was, for many, a bit of a disappointment. Too many recycled environments, too many cheap waves of bad guys to chop through. It was, you could argue, a bit of a rush job If it makes you feel any better, developers BioWare have heard your complaints. On the company’s forums, writer Mike…
Turtle Rock Studios, the group responsible for the creation and much of the development of Left 4 Dead, has “got the band back together” after shifting away from Valve’s ownership and will be releasing its next game for publisher THQ. Having worked with Valve for years, first on the Xbox version of Counter-Strike and then…
And shotguns won’t work, either. Your best bet is a star, though, that may be how this whole mess started in the first place… I’M-A-GONNA-EAT-YOUR-BRAINS! [Dan Hipp]
Seamus Blackley, formerly of Looking Glass and one of the key men involved in Microsoft’s original Xbox project, has quit his job at a talent agency and will be coming back to the games business. Not that he ever really left, as in his time at Creative Artists Agency he helped manage clients like Call…
And that man is not series creator Shigeru Miyamoto. Nor is it current overseer Eiji Aonuma. It is Doctor Emmett Lathrop Brown. As a public service announcement, give the video a minute (literally) to warm up and get where it’s going. You’ll know when it’s got there, and then you’ll know why he’s the only…
SimCity is a series beloved by millions, and one that’s sadly been neglected of late while the Sims franchise went supernova. Now, according to MCV, it’s coming back. Only, you may not like what comes next. It seems that EA is bringing SimCity back as a Facebook game, hoping to steal a share of the…
According to a report on French tech site 01net, in order to cut costs and compete with the price of Nintendo’s $249 3DS, Sony’s upcoming NGP handheld has been the victim of a little slash-and-run. The piece states that the NGP, which was originally intended to ship with 512MB RAM, will now only ship with…
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