Until it was removed from the App Store yesterday you could, for a short while, get what was basically Minecraft for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Only difference was this game was called Minecrafted Despite proclamations that Minecrafted was “built without code or content from the original”, it looked like Minecraft, played like Minecraft…
There are lots of people out there who refuse to pay for video games. If you’re wondering how many, let’s take a look at illegal Starcraft II downloads, and you’ll see they number in the millions Last week, Torrent Freak posted a story revealing that the most popular illegal copy of Starcraft II had been…
Mercenaries developers Pandemic went bust last year, while members of the studio were hard at work on a third game in the sandbox warfare series. This is what it would have looked like, had it ever been released. The game had the working title of Mercenaries 3: No Limits and was still in the early…
That’s one of the only player instructions in this flash game, Sydney Shark. What more do you need? You are Sydney, a great white shark on the loose in…Sydney, Australia, and you’ve got a finite amount of coastline to roam, pulling down anything and everything you can cram into your toothy maw. That includes humans…
Sony’s PSPgo, a brave (if flawed) discless portable gaming system, looks to be on its last legs in the United Kingdom, with Sony making its second official price cut on the device in less than a month. Last month, October, Sony reduced the price of the handheld from £200 (USD$320) to £160 (USD$260). That reduction…
Hexen was one of the finest – and most underrated – shooters to come out during the 1990s. And it’s part of a franchise that hasn’t been seen since. Oh, until now! Last week, a fan-made Hexen mod for PC shooter Doom III was released, called Hexen: Edge of Chaos. It’s looking very slick, and…
I didn’t enjoy Black Ops as much as some others did, but it was still a pretty good shooter. Oh, except for the fact that a single casting decision nearly ruined the game for me. In the lead-up to the game’s release, publisher Activision was strangely quiet when it came to Black Ops’ roster of…
Japan’s “hacked” version of Super Mario Bros. isn’t the only modified classic included with red Wiis around the world. Turns out the copy of Donkey Kong hitting Europe has been messed with as well. Or, edited, at least. See, the original home console version of Donkey Kong had to run a little short, because the…
You’ve no doubt heard (or even seen) how Kinect works, by projecting thousands of points of infrared light around a room. Now see what it can do once it takes all that information in. Okreylos has posted this handy little video on YouTube – produced by hacking his Kinect, of course – showing how Microsoft’s…
There are plenty of game franchises that would be perfect for the LEGO treatment. Halo. Ratchet & Clank. Zelda. But God of War? Hrm. Samir Karmieh’s LEGO Kratos makes us wish the Danish toy giant would at least consider it, though. It could be one great ironic joke (much like most LEGO games are at…
The Call of Duty games are intricately-scripted affairs, ones that rush you along a pre-determined path at a pre-determined pace in order to maintain the illusion of excitement. Step off that ride, and everything falls apart. You could call this single-play griefing, you could call it Call of Duty as art, I just like that…
Most of the very best games on the PC need you to cough up at least a little cash, but if you absolutely must game for nothing, then let us show you how it’s done. If you look past the obvious avenues for playing on a PC – massively-multiplayer games like World of Warcraft (that…
See, here’s what I don’t get about Mortal Kombat: who cares how Sub-Zero became Sub-Zero? This is a fighting game. He’s there for the punching, and the kicking, and the killing, and that’s it Still, so long as there are Mortal Kombat fans out there who do care, Warner Bros. will keep releasing these story…
We can only hope it would have looked this good. By Jesse Griffin, as seen on Herochan
Starcraft in Korea falls somewhere between a national sport and a religion. So you’d think, then, that Starcraft II would have been a big hit there. Nope! A great report over on Edge highlights a bitter struggle between Starcraft developers Blizzard and Korean e-sports authorities, which has left many in Korea — which should be…
Ever wonder how many Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft consoles have been sold in the USA over the past six years? Allow Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime to fill you in. Speaking at the BMO Capital Markets Annual Digital Entertainment Conference in New York, Fils-Aime revealed that since launching in 2004, the Nintendo DS has…
Nintendo is trying to copyright the saying “It’s on like Donkey Kong”. It’s madness. Thankfully, Super Nerd Wil Wheaton has an elegant solution. It’s one we’d like to see come to fruition, if only because it’d give us all somewhere official to lump other “Are you fucking serious, Nintendo?” moments like Wii Music, the e-Reader…
Games now cost between $50-60. That’s a lot of money for something that in many cases is done with after 4-6 hours. It’s nice to see publishers THQ looking at whether that’s the right way to do business. “What we’re thinking about the business is we’re turning it on its head a little bit,” THQ…
Now that Kinect has been cracked open so that anyone with a PC (or Mac) can mess around with its code, people are free to improve on its current capabilities. Like this guy, who has “multitouch” working on the camera. In this demonstration video, we can see how user floemuc has been able to get…
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