Inspired by the Humble Indie Bundles, a band of developers behind some of the iPhone’s finest games have banded together to run a little charity drive of their own. TL;DR: awesome iPhone games for $0.99. Because Apple’s App Store can’t wrap things in a neat little package like the Humble Indie Bundle, the Indie iPhone…
Crystal Graziano, one of the world’s finest cosplayers (and whose Metal Gear Solid outfits blew us away at the Tokyo Game Show), is also a big fan of Sega strategy series Valkyria Chronicles. In this gallery, she transforms into Selvaria Bles, getting not just the outfit right, but the, uh, proportions of the evil lady…
Mario is normally a bringer of joy. Of happiness. But not here. Wear this hoodie and you will bring naught but terror Though styled on the Baby Milo version of Nintendo’s mascot, the result of a collaboration between Japanese clothing company Bathing Ape and the video game powerhouse, these shirts don’t look legit. Mostly because…
Comics legend James Kochalka (American Elf) has penned this great comic in the second issue of Kill Screen magazine, in which we get to the core of why so many people love playing as a tiny plumber in red overalls. It’s a message worth remembering. All too often it’s easy to get caught up in…
Oh, wait, it was. Twice. OK, then, if it was an even older adventure game, maybe it would have looked like this! Artist Andy Rash, who did the delightful collection of pixellated Star Wars characters we featured a few weeks back, has done another set from the Indiana Jones movies. Like the Star Wars ones,…
A group of former shareholders in Rock Band developers Harmonix – including company CEO Alex Rigopulos and his co-founder Eran Egozy – are suing parent company Viacom, amid claims massive bonus payments are being avoided. According to a report on Gamasutra, it appears that as part of the deal which saw Viacom purchase Harmonix back…
Online clothing store Threadless, purveyors of t-shirts for nerds, turned ten this year. Happy Birthday, guys! In celebration, here are some of the site’s best gaming t-shirts. Note these are the ones that have made it into production, not simply turned up for voting. As a fan of the site, I actually grabbed one of…
Indie darling Minecraft took a big step towards a final, proper release today, with the game officially leaving “alpha” stage and entering “beta”. Next time you play, you’ll be playing Minecraft v1.0. The shift to beta was made with the promise of improvements and additions to the game, and the first of those come in…
As we expected, seeing as it was leaked earlier in the year, Ubisoft will next year be re-releasing a box set of older Splinter Cell games on the PlayStation 3. Called The Splinter Cell Trilogy, it’s looks like it’s a second release of a box set first put out on the PlayStation 2, only this…
Video game trailers are now such a key part of the landscape that they’ve taken on a life of their own, often times more exciting than the games they’re trying to sell. So we want to know: what are your favourites? Remember, we want to know what your favourite trailer from 2010 was. Not the…
Donkey Kong meets Star Wars. By Carlos Escárrega, as seen on it 8-bit
While most Xbox 360 games make using a control pad enjoyable, there are still a lot of people who prefer using a mouse and keyboard, especially on shooters. This peripheral lets you combine the best of both worlds. The XIM series of controller adapters for the Xbox 360 have been around for a while now,…
And now they know for sure, there are six guys in the wolf pack. Six wolves, running around the Bay Area together, in San Francisco, looking for rupees and heart containers. So tonight, we make a toast! The six guys (well, five and one lady) — Ashley Raj, Josh Kulinski, Willie Harper, Ehren Tye, Josh…
Toy company NECA has an action figure based on upcoming shooter Crysis 2. For a future soldier, he looks decidedly…simian. The figure boasts 25 points of articulation, which for collectors who like to pose their figures is great, but doing so on one of the Crysis’ trademark Nanosuits has this guy looking all out of…
When it was first shown off, BioWare’s Dragon Age II seemed very different to the first game. I don’t know, this combat trailer for the PC version of the game looks pretty similar to Dragon Age to me. I mean, you pause the game, there’s a ton of commands, there’s all kinds of words and…
The first downloadable content for Call of Duty: Black Ops has been revealed. It’ll go on sale on the Xbox 360 on February 1, and cost $15. The DLC comes in the form of a multiplayer map pack, containing four “regular” levels and one for the game’s zombie mode. Two of the regular maps are…
ThriXXX, the developer behind a title claiming to be Kinect’s first sex game, won’t be doing anything of the sort after platform holder Microsoft decided to block its release. “Xbox is a family friendly games and entertainment console and does not allow Adults Only (AO) content to be certified for use on its platform, and…
Provided, that is, you decide to play the role-playing title on “insane” difficulty. Which gives you one life. For a game that could take anywhere from 30-60 hours to finish. While this mode allows you to save your game, if you die, those saved games will be locked and you won’t be able to load…
While Kinect’s hardware is locked in and finalised, the firmware that controls it is flexible and able to be upgraded. And that’s exactly what Microsoft is planning on doing, according to a report on Eurogamer. It’s being reported that Microsoft is currently investigating ways of improving the compression technology that dictates how much code can…
So, there’s a reason the trailer for the US version of the Gran Turismo Academy looked so slick: the inaugural American leg of the competition is being turned into a reality television series. The Academy has been running in PAL territories for a while now, giving the best Gran Turismo 5 drivers the chance to…
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