Krome Studios, the Australian developer behind Ty the Tasmanian Tiger and more recently the Xbox 360’s Game Room, has shut down, online reports are suggesting. If true, it’s not entirely unexpected, with the developer shedding staff from its Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne studios earlier in the year It now appears the remaining staff at Krome’s…
Asian American pop culture mag Giant Robot has been in a bit of financial trouble lately, so its asked some friends to help out. And who has answered the call? Some male cheerleaders, that’s who. Meat Bun’s newest shirt, Osu! Giant Robot, channels the spirit of 2005’s amazing Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, a DS game where…
The rescue of 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for weeks has made for great TV, but how does it shape up as a video game? Not so great. Chilean design firm Root33 came up with this flash game recreating the rescue, and what it lacks in production values and raw thrills, it makes up for…
A new Xbox 360 means new Xbox 360 bundles for the holiday season, and one of the first cabs off that yuletide rank for 2010 seems to be this Canadian offer, including two full games with a 250GB console. Those two games, both Microsoft exclusives, are a boxed copy of Forza 3 and a download…
There’s a reason people are excited about the Nintendo 3DS, and are not excited about 3D on a TV set: because nobody wants to wear those stupid glasses. And it’s going to stay that way for some time. “The first challenge (for 3D TVs) is the inconvenience of wearing glasses,” Samsung’s Visual Display President B.K.…
It is 2010, and this is what the world has come to. Didn’t the short girl make the show famous for getting punched in the face? And now this? It makes me wish I wrote for a blog covering wireless transistors and the telegraph. Just Dance 2 is out on the Wii this month.
Starcraft II has been updated for the second time in a month with Blizzard again venturing under the game’s hood with a spanner and thing-a-me-jig to make changes to cooldowns, build times and energy levels. Tweaks have been made to all three of the game’s races, five minor bugs have been addressed and a couple…
For a game where you know how it ends before you even fire it up, the fact Halo: Reach has sold over 3 million copies since its release a month ago is some tidy work on the part of Bungie. Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg took to Twitter earlier today to reveal that the game, the fourth…
For the rest of October, if you spend a certain amount of Microsoft Points on Xbox Live stuff, you’ll be given points in return, which you can then spend on more stuff. Specifically, if you spend 2400 points on “Xbox LIVE Arcade and/or game add-on content” you’ll get 800 points dumped back into your account.…
Comic Jumper is what happens when a developer sets out to make a funny game, then forgets all about the game part. A side-scrolling shooter in the vein of classic titles like Gunstar Heroes, Comic Jumper is a video game parody of comic books, as you journey through the pages of 70’s fantasy, the Silver…
People always ask why there hasn’t been a Zelda movie. I always wonder why there hasn’t been a Zelda cartoon. That looks like this. By Genzoman, via Rampaged Reality
Ah, driving games. They all end up feeling so similar, and increasingly boring to many, but the graphics, they just keep getting prettier. There’s so much shiny metal in this trailer for Test Drive Unlimited 2 that you could blind someone with it, which would be a problem were the rest of the clip not…
Deciding to see how minimalist he could get before iconic video game characters became unrecognisable, artist Alexander Shen limited himself to a 5×5 pixel block. As you can see, even at such low resolution, you can still pick ’em. Street Fighter, Mario, Sonic, they all shine through (though at first glance I’ll admit I thought…
As a kid, I loved pandas. My teddy bear was a panda. I thought they were adorable. It’s not until I got older that I found out they can be mean Panda Rampage plays to that fact, putting you in control of China’s fearsome killing machine as it goes on a rampage through London’s Hyde…
Toyota’s stand at this year’s Australian International Motor Show in Sydney will be playing host to a 24-hour race of Gran Turismo 5, beginning at 3pm next Tuesday, October 19, and running until 3pm the following day. Sadly, while the race will be taking place on GT5’s rendition of Germany’s famous Nürburgring Nordschleife, that’s about…
Most video games, even the craziest ones, are about very real things. Driving. Shooting. Flying. And the more you play these games, you more you learn about those things. I’ve been playing games for 26 years now, and in that time, have flown countless aircraft, countless spacecraft, fired off millions upon millions of rounds of…
Duke Nukem: Next-Gen, that ambitious attempt to remake the original Duke Nukem 3D using the Unreal Engine, has been granted a “personal non-commercial license” by Gearbox Studios. Meaning it may actually be released. The license means it’s completely cool for the project to not only remake the original game, but to use the Duke Nukem…
The Prince of Persia movie, which was great by virtue of not sucking, could have been a little better had the production team stuck to the original script handed in by the game’s original creator, Jordan Mechner. Mechner has posted what he calls his “final draft” of the screenplay, which he pitched to Disney and…
I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Civilization V, but like any game, it wasn’t perfect. It was a little buggy, and there were some AI missteps. Hopefully, those two issues will be fixed in the game’s first major patch. A “laundry list” of tweaks, additions, fixes and upgrades has been posted online by developers Firaxis,…
Right now, if you buy a game from Steam, finish it and don’t want it, well, you can…delete it. You can’t go trade it in. But there are whispers that the digital purchase giant is considering implementing such a scheme. Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, taking a break from wildly speculating about the future of…
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