That’s what internet chatter throughout the course of the evening would have you believe, with reports coming in that some banned Xbox 360 consoles (and their associated Gamertags) can suddenly re-connect to Xbox Live. Users of various forums, including xbox-scene, have over the last few hours found that modified consoles banned from Xbox Live for…
Catsy, the same LEGO fanatic who recreated Mass Effect’s Citadel so beautifully last year, is back giving similar treatment to GLaDOS, the mouthy villain of the Portal series. Considering the level of detail present in GLaDOS’ design—all those panels and pipes and joints—even attempting to build her out of LEGO is to be applauded, let…
Having made a start last year then seemingly forgetting all about it, Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya has dusted off the next-gen brawler and will be once again providing weekly videos where he plays through the game while telling you all about it. You can see the first two instalments at PlatinumGames’ website, with the promise…
It may seem a little unnecessary for a game all about building stuff to need its own mod tools, but official mod tools are exactly what indie smash hit Minecraft is getting. Getting hold of the necessary gear (which comes complete with in-built “signatures” to show off your work) will cost you nothing, but you…
It seems an age since the world first saw Halo. It was the 20th century. Back when it was introduced by…Steve Jobs. And was a…third-person shooter. The series has come a long way since then, but sometimes it’s fun to look back. At blocky space marines and a major game being announced in Comic Sans…
You’ve seen our buddy Sam Spratt give us his take on the next Nintendo console’s controllers and appearance, but what about you, dear reader? What about our more talented reader’s takes? I put a call out last week for those handy with PhotoShop to drop us a line and send us some classy, realistic mock-ups…
This hand-crafted Portal turret may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts. And that’s in its fancy motion-sensing capabilities, meaning whenever you mess around with this plush, it reacts just like an in-game turret would. Short of opening fire with live ammunition, at least. [via Super Punch]
When its not crunching data brought back by spy plane missions, the US Air Force’s PlayStation 3 super-computer (nicknamed “Condor”) is now being loaned out to universities so they can crunch slightly less dangerous data. One of those institutions is the University of Dayton in Ohio, where it’s being put to work creating “artificial neural…
While customers wait to hear, well, anything of substance from Sony regarding the continued PlayStation Network downtime, at least somebody is hearing from the company, and that’s developers affected by the prolonged outage. Mad Blocker Alpha is a game that was supposed to have been released on the PSN last week, but because of the…
LA Noire was shown off behind closed doors earlier tonight at the Tribeca Film Festival. It was a strictly no-cameras kind of event, something YouTube user Darkskater7991 seems to have overlooked. See it before it’s gone! And if it’s gone by the time you’re reading this, well…the sun will come up tomorrow. Tomorrow.
Atlantis aside, Disney’s animation arm would never actually come up with something this cool. Disney Samus by villainzekes
It’s been a hallmark of PC gaming (and, well, PC using) for years now: when Windows really does something wrong, users have been greeted by the dreaded “blue screen of death”, crashing their system. No more! Instead, it appears as though the next version of Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 8, does something similar to the…
Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto is in Paris at the moment on a 3DS press tour, and in between pressing the flesh and answering questions about his hobbies and pastimes, he’s dropping hints about Mario Kart 3DS Despite the fact we’ve seen little but a glorified tech demo of the latest and inevitable version…
Sony’s S1 tablet looks like a beautiful piece of gear. We’re really digging the tapered, magazine-like edge to it. The S2, though? With the dual screens and touch interface? It looks like a fan mock-up of a 3DS Lite, albeit a very pretty one.
Here’s the debut trailer for Sony’s new pair of PlayStation-certified tablet computers, the S1 and S2
Following hot on the heels of the first PlayStation Phone, Sony has today unveiled its first tablet devices that will be capable of (officially) playing PlayStation games. The S1 tablet, which is a Tegra-powered device and is tapered on one end “like holding a magazine”, will be the first Sony tablet device to carry the…
Arcade games may have been a source of great joy and entertainment for millions across the world in the 1980s, but for the small town of Marshfield, Massachusetts they were nothing but trouble. Fearful of the effects arcade video games would have on Marshfield and its inhabitants, in 1982 the town outlawed the use of…
Most of these “Fancy Pants” galleries we run are full of great photos of people in great costumes, but a few of this week’s pictures go the extra mile. Leading the charge is this Aria T’Loak, which is not just an amazing piece of costume play, but an amazing choice of character. Joining her this…
Portal 2 and Mad Men. They don’t seem like the likeliest of bedfellows, but this reimagining of the hit TV show’s opening credits still works! [via Super Punch]
Syfy’s live-action take on the Red Faction universe, Origins, will make its debut on June 4. If you were wondering what the thing looks like, well, wonder no more. It’s hard to make out what’s going on, other than the fact there are people on Mars and some of them are wearing clothes that are…
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