Aside from perhaps Nintendo, there are few video game studios that have ever been home to so many of the industry’s best and brightest as Looking Glass managed. Founded in 1990, Looking Glass was not only responsible for some of that decade’s most innovative and memorable games, but was also a place where people like…
If you like video games and animated series Adventure Time, no doubt one of your favourite characters will be Beemo, Jake and Finn’s adorable little talking Game Boy…console…thing If you’d like to have your very own Beemo, well, get ready, because here’s how you do it. You’ll need a Game Boy Color. And some tools.…
It’s funnier when you realise, three seconds in, that anyone who’s ever played the original Prince of Persia has done just this. Only maybe not to such catchy music. [via Boing Boing]
Classic explosion simulator Bangai-O is getting a HD re-release on Xbox Live Arcade this Spring. While the graphics have been improved since the N64/Dreamcast original, the batshit crazy obsession with missiles remains.
It’s been, can you believe, eight years since the last true SimCity game was released. Yet time hasn’t stopped people from doing amazing things with the venerable old PC game. This is Al Aauim, a city that’s been built in the game that’s frightening in its realism and attention to detail. Using real Asian cities…
Zachariah Perry Cruse, you have made perhaps the greatest thing ever. I want one in my kitchen. Keep my bread in it. So when I make toast, it feels like I’m receiving a GREAT TREASURE.
Sure, you may be hard-pressed seeing the branding at all, but official Gran Turismo clothing was never going to be of the tacky-slogan-on-a-t-shirt variety. This line of clothing, now available for the first time to those in the USA, keeps its Gran Turismo roots very close to its chest, opting for subtle badges and inconspicuous…
Artist Joe Guinto will be auctioning off this great Shadow of the Colossus piece at the Kawaii Kon, April 29 in Hawaii. All proceeds will go to the Gamers Heart Japan charity. Shadow of the Colossus by Joe Guinto
Blind Mind Studios, the developers of indie space strategy game Star Ruler, is withdrawing the title from sale on the Impulse digital shopfront following its sale to multinational retailer GameStop “Due to a rather large list of things we detest about GameStop”, a Blind Mind rep writes on the company’s website, “Star Ruler will no…
Some games are suited towards multiplayer components. Others are not. So why do so many games waste time and money trying to be the former when they’re clearly the latter? It’s something Randy Pitchford, boss of Gearbox Studios (Borderlands, Brothers in Arms), has on his mind. “…the reason [publishers demand multiplayer components] is because they…
Nintendo has Mario. Microsoft has Master Chief. And Sega, well, for a long time Sega has had Sonic the Hedgehog as its mascot. Thing is, Sonic is an usurper Before the blue, spiky hero with the red shoes burst onto the scene in 1991, Sega already had a mascot: Alex Kidd. A character we have…
You like Machinarium? Then you may like Osada, the newest game from Machinarium’s developers, Amanita Design. It’s free, and you can play it right now While we’re on the subject, Amanita have also recently done some amazing work on both the puppet film Kooky and its book. You can – and should – check that…
Not content with attacking Sony’s commercial websites and the PlayStation Network itself, a group of activists has now turned its sights on obtaining the personal information of a number of Sony executives. A supposed “splinter group” of hacking outfit Anonymous, calling itself “SonyRecon”, has asked members to get “people to gather and contribute dox, and…
To help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of the Legend of Zelda, some artists have got together and run a little competition paying homage to the classic series. While influences predictably focus on Ocarina of Time (for nostalgia’s sake) and Twilight Princess (because Link looked so good in it), there’s still room for…
Using water as a cooling solution for computer hardware is usually only required if you’re building a PC capable of time travel. You do not need it for the humble Nintendo Wii. Still, with spare time on his hands modder Angel OD figured he’d rig one up anyway, building an elaborate custom case for his…
YouTube user MikeX1978 likes to post videos of video games playing in slow motion. His latest, for example, shows that when you’re not running around shooting at things, Crysis 2 can sure get pretty It’s an interesting choice of music backing it up (LCD Soundsystem’s “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down”).…
Brazilian artist Victor Hugo Queiroz, who we last saw throwing Ryu into a decidedly unfair fight, is back with another amazing Street Fighter piece, this time pitting Blanka against Dhalsim. Two of the original Street Fighter II’s weirdest characters face off here, Blanka has lost a little weight, while Dhalsim is…yeah, his usual self. [Round…
For years now, Ubisoft has carved out a small but dedicated market for its Anno series, strategy games based on European colonisation in the 15th-18th centuries. It’s now leaving all that behind. Inexplicably, the next game in the series, of which previous titles have been called Anno 1404 and Anno 1701, will be called Anno…
Simi Zeko is a man who studies graphic design and computers. So when a college project had him combining the two, he decided to present some Battlefield: Bad Company 2 statistics in a very fetching way. Collating a wide range of player data from the top player of each of the game’s three platforms, Zeko…
Considering the dilapidated state of the game’s story, you’d imagine not that many actors (Ice-T aside) would fancy starring in a movie based on Call of Duty: Black Ops. So it’s a shame to see Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson do just that. I like The Rock! Not as a wrestler, mind, as I haven’t invested…
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