The whole drama surrounding whistle-blower organisation WikiLeaks has made for the juiciest political story in years. So it was only a matter of time before people started turning it into a video game. Freshly-minted project WikiLeaks Stories is more interesting than just a single game based on Julian Assange and his team of international activists,…
As someone who is more often on the receiving end of Street FIghter combos, I can only look at this man string together 149 hits in a row and applaud. Street Fighter IV player Desk has found what must surely be the “perfect” combo in the game, using Chun-Li to string together 149 uninterrupted blows…
According to reports circulating online this evening, the latest issue of the Official Playstation Magazine contains the news that Kratos, star of the God of War series, will be a playable character in the upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot. While he won’t be a part of Mortal Kombat’s story mode, he will be available in regular…
One of Gran Turismo 5’s more hardcore features is the game’s “B-Spec” mode, which lets you manage a car race instead of driving one. Soon, part of this feature will be coming to a PC (or Mac!) near you. Since all you’re doing in B-Spec mode is issuing basic commands like “enter the pits” or…
Though it could easily be. No, this is “mere” cosplay, Ben Van Dyken giving it 1001% with his John Marston costume, getting not only the threads right, but the dirty dirt and even the locale for the photo shoot. These shots in the gallery to your left are just the start; Van Dyken has also…
Super Meat Boy is getting a limited run of actual, physical boxed copies for the PC. To mark the occasion, artist Dave Rapoza handled the cover illustration, and made it appropriately epic
As part of the marketing campaign for the new Deus Ex title, publishers Square Enix have set up a “viral site” for some of the technology found in the game. And it’s gorgeous We normally couldn’t give a rat’s behind about this kind of thing (as they’re normally only slightly less tedious than developer diaries),…
Car damage, a feature that has confused many of the game’s owners since Gran Turismo 5’s release a couple of weeks ago, has just gotten a lot less confusing, courtesy of a 149mb update released overnight. Once you’ve downloaded the update, car destruction options can be accessed from the game’s main menu, users able to…
That’s what a lawyer representing Universal Music Publishing Group told the creator of 8-Bit DJ Hero, which resulted in one of the year’s best parody games being yanked off the internet. 8-Bit DJ Hero, developed by Eric Ruth, took the premise (and name) of Activision’s mash-up music game and took it back in time to…
How would video game cheats work in a real gunfight? Let’s see! They work pretty well! Hopefully these guys can make a series out of this, because while staple cheats of action games are fun, some strategy game cheats in the real world would be more fun. The clip was made by visual FX studio…
Creative Assembly’s Total War series is one of the few remaining blockbuster franchises on the PC that is, at heart, a truly PC game. That hasn’t stopped the developers from exploring how the game would work on a console. “We have actually solved the problem with controlling Total War games using a control pad anyway”,…
Yeah, we’ve seen amazing gaming tattoos before, but this guy’s full-sleeve piece – covering a wide array of platforms, genres and characters – must surely rank up there as one of the best. In the one piece, spanning his arm and parts of his shoulder, PerfectCr has included art from Super Mario Galaxy, Metal Gear…
According to a major James Bond universe fan site, a “stealth” game starring Britain’s most famous secret agent is being worked on by Raven Software, the guys behind Singularity, Hexen and Jedi Knight II. The game was believed to have previously been put on ice, but with MGM Studios – owners of the Bond rights…
After over a month of various technical woes, particularly on the PC version of the game, it seems as though Fallout: New Vegas may actually be fixed soon. Maybe. Publishers Bethesda have hit the game’s support page to let gamers know that a cross-platform patch for all three versions of the game – believed to…
The PlayStation 3 just got updated, bringing the machine’s firmware to v3.55. Sony say “this is a minor update that adds a security patch”. What ever could they mean? They’re surely referring to a recent upsurge in “jailbreaks” for the console. A few months ago, devices went on sale that allowed the copying of PlayStation…
Next week Tonight, the world of Warcraft will change forever with the release of Cataclysm. Here’s everything you need to know before Deathwing the Destroyer comes over and trashes the place. [Republished for the launch of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.] What Is Cataclysm? Cataclysm is the third expansion pack for World of Warcraft, which with…
This may not be to everyone’s tastes, but it’s certainly to mine, as a man freestyle raps his way through an entire round of Call of Duty: Black Ops’ multiplayer. It shows you all it’s going to show you by around 1:30, so if it’s grating you don’t feel required to sit around and watch…
I’ve been playing, and enjoying, Killzone 3’s multiplayer beta for a few weeks now. But singleplayer? Hadn’t seen so much. Until this video showed up! It’s ten unedited minutes of raw gameplay from Killzone 3’s singleplayer campaign, taking in a boss fight and lots of trudging through corridors shooting bad guys. It says a lot…
As nice as Sony’s PlayStation Move is, we can’t help but look at this old patent for the device and think one of its original designs was a little nicer Filed last year but only recently being released to the public, this patent highlights just how much more Sony was looking at including in the…
In his spare time over the course of a year, Matt Rix bought two laptops, paid Apple a little cash and made a video game called Trainyard. That’s all it took to develop one of the year’s biggest video games. Released in June to little fanfare, it was only when Trainyard was featured on the…
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