Such a great name. It’s being developed by Ronimo, the guys behind the excellent 2D strategy title Swords & Soldiers, and trades fast clicking for fast multiplayer platforming action. Heading for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, they’re calling it an “explosive Multiplayer Online Battle Arena” game, claiming inspiration drawn from 80’s cartoon series.…
Nintendo takes the fight against piracy seriously. How serious? Serious enough to really mess up this guy’s day. Warning: NSFW language ahead! [thanks Chris!] 3DS Piracy [Rooster Teeth]
Were this a 3D render of Mass Effect 2’s Thane, it would be impressive. Thing is, it’s not. This is a tangible, old-fashioned sculpture. Get a load of the detail! Seriously, had you not been informed this was crafted by hand you’d simply assume it was a game asset, such is the colour and intricacy…
Paradox Shift, a first-person game in development by a bunch of students at the University of Southern California, is a puzzler. Sort of like Portal. Only instead of moving through space, you’re moving through time Playing as a construction worker on a dam, you’re given a time travel gun because, well, it’s a lot faster…
Nintendo 3DS game boxes have been designed to be friendlier on the environment by using less plastic. All those little holes could look like crap, but Nintendo already knows a good way to make the most of them. This is the European version of Ocarina of Time 3D, and despite the awful picture quality on…
You’d think that Portal 2’s co-operative levels were designed specifically so that they could only be completed by two players working together. Turns out that’s only half right. While you do need two players to complete each room properly, YouTube user Gocnak quickly found that you only really need the other person to open the…
Ever since Sony released firmware update 3.61 for the PS3, there have been a few reports of older consoles—like, say, my launch 60GB model—overheating. Dying a death. A lot of those deaths have occurred while playing LA Noire, but that’s apparently not LA Noire’s fault. A statement released on Rockstar’s forums—and since retracted by the…
We’re going to get a little personal today on Total Recall, and take a look at my favourite Nintendo console of all time. Not the best, not the biggest-selling, just…my favourite. And that console is the Panasonic Q, a machine sadly never made commercially available in the West. The Q, a very fancy version of…
The real stars of LA Noire aren’t the cops, or the cars, or the bloody deceased. They’re the fancy hats, of which there are surely more in this single game than there are in every other ever made. Put together. Being so critical to both your enjoyment and understanding of the game, then, we figured…
Yes, that is Mario, if Mario was actually Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. This might be the best thing I see on the internet this week. Mario Boy by Scott Watanabe
Between all the running and riding in little boats and more running you end up covering quite a lot of ground in Half-Life 2! What makes this somewhat unique, though, is that you do it all in immediate succession. There’s no cutscenes where you jump in a helicopter and reappear 1,000 miles away, or hitch…
If you had to ask people which game series they’d most want action figures based on, your top answer would be Half-Life. Your number two, though, would be Uncharted, so it’s a shame to see these are the first plastic representations of the game’s characters. They’re part of the Minimates line of Minifig-like toys, designed…
Quick, before something happens to the video: here’s around sixty minutes’ worth of footage from the upcoming Star Wars MMO The Old Republic. [thanks everyone who sent this in!]
Because the PS3 will most likely never see the first Mass Effect, when Mass Effect 2 hit Sony’s console developers BioWare had to include an interactive comic to help players make the choices that defined their character’s actions. Xbox 360 and PC players made those choices while actually playing the first Mass Effect, but since…
With experience on both the PC and Xbox 360, Fable studio Lionhead is well aware of the pitfalls of both platforms. And feels one pitfall is deeper than the other. “Piracy these days on PC is probably less problematic than second-hand sales on the Xbox,” Lionhead’s Mike West told Eurogamer. “I’ve been working on PC…
One has to wonder when Netflix decided to offer its streaming movie service on video game consoles whether it would have such a drastic effect on American internet usage. I mean, look at this report: it states that almost 20% of total internet bandwidth usage in the United States is from people watching movies and…
The Xperia Play, Sony Ericsson’s first PlayStation-certified phone, has been out in Europe for a little while now. Americans wanting in on the action? Your wait is almost over. The phone will be released in the US on May 26, and will be available exclusively through Verizon. It’ll be priced at $199, with an additional…
Mario has gone through three distinct phases of super popularity. One in the early 90’s. One is seemingly just on the wane, born of the success of his games on the DS and Wii. The other, though, was in the mid-80’s. The fat plumber was so popular then that he didn’t just have a best-selling…
Roguelikes are relatively primitive, cruel types of role-playing games, often intimidating to the newcomer. Legends of Yore, thankfully, is a lot more accessible. It’s a roguelike (definition here) for the iPhone and Android that’s trying to make things a little easier on the mobile adventurer by limiting the number of stats and streamlining things like…
We’ve already seen our fair share of Portal 2-inspired art around these parts, but this series of miniature personality spheres by Chris Myles certainly takes the, ahem, cake. Using a 3D printer, he’s built four excruciatingly-detailed models, which aren’t just perfect in their representation, but also swivel realistically, and even have LED lighting should they…
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