Reader Sean was playing Popcap’s brilliant Plants vs Zombies the other day, when he looked at his fan. And had an idea.
EVE Online is a massively multiplayer game that is best-known for its in-game politics. Which is a shame, when it could be best-known for its epic space battles. The attacks in this clip culminated in the destruction of ships worth 300 billion of EVE’s in-game currency, translating roughly (roughly because it’s not a fair comparison)…
Having recently blocked the new PlayStation 3 piracy devices via a firmware update, Sony has finally released its first retail game that forces users to upgrade to the same firmware. The PlayStation 3 version of Medal of Honor is the first game to ship with the 3.42 firmware – which combats the use of devices…
I am intrigued by the upcoming zombie downloadable content for Red Dead Redemption. On the one hand, zombies are so 2008. I’m done with them. On the other…that’s John Marston riding a zombie horse Plus, it’s nice seeing some serious single-player added to the game, rather than more multiplayer, seeing as the appeal of Red…
The upcoming release of a Ferrari-branded game on the PlayStation Network, combined with the expiration of Sega’s licensing deal with the Italian car manufacturer, means Outrun Online Arcade just became an Xbox 360 exclusive. This licensing deal is the key to the game’s disappearance, as the latest Outrun game featured several authentic Ferrari cars; lose…
When a retail game from a noted PC developer launches and is then quickly found to be broken, who do you bring in to help fix things? In Stardock’s case, they hired a guy who made mods for Civilization. A few weeks back, Stardock released fantasy strategy title Elemental, and it was broken. Really broken.…
Super Scribblenauts, out yesterday, contains more words than its decidedly wordy predecessor. How many words is that? Try about 33,000. And here they all are! Pikimal went fishing in the game code and came up with a list of the roughly 24,000 objects, along with the 9000 or so adjectives to go with them. The…
So, Americans have finally joined the ranks of nations that can use their Xbox 360 to watch TV on. For those wondering, here’s how it all works. Sure sounds a lot more convoluted than, say, the British (or upcoming Australian) solution, which is…have a subscription to the relevant service, plug your Xbox 360 into the…
Xbox 360 and PC role-playing game Fable III, not one to shy away from the sexier side of humanity, contains prostitutes. Here are some of them. Warning: coin purses ahead. This image comes from an upcoming Fable III artbook, which is mostly full of beautiful images of uniforms, posters, characters and environments. Then you get…
Driving sim Gran Turismo 5 will allow users to create their own tracks. Here’s how you build one, then go race on it! You can’t build your own course out of thin air, of course. There’s six years worth of rendering on those stages and roads, so you won’t be playing LEGO Gran Turismo, making…
If you’re sick to death of Nintendo and its subtle, stylish colours for Wii Remotes, you could always pick up one of these official LEGO controllers. Due out later this week from Power A and selling for $40, it’s, well, exactly as advertised: it’s a LEGO-branded Wii Remote controller. Sadly, it’s not a complete kit,…
The very talented animation team at Blur Studio have produced two more cinematic trailers for upcoming Star Wars title Force Unleashed II. They’re very pretty. The one above shows that Stormtroopers combust just fine, while below, well…I’ve seen Darth Vader lose a lot of limbs in my time, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen…
If Red Dead Redemption had been released on the Super Nintendo, and hadn’t looked like Sunset Riders, it might have looked like this instead. This is Sombreros, a top-down shooter where you shoot Mexicans and collect their hats. It’s even got a “dead-eye” aiming system! You can download it here, if you feel like you…
Can we now have one where he’s in an 18th-century officer’s outfit, giant hunting dog at his feet? By Randy Liu, via Rampaged Reality
Steve Cable has whipped up this handy “family tree” of video game controllers (click through for the full thing). Informative and educational! As seen on CX Partners (thanks Josh!).
A former US Marine has delivered a thoughtful piece on many of the creative decisions surrounding the latest game in the Medal of Honor series. “I honestly don’t like that Medal of Honor depicts the war in Afghanistan right now, because – even as fiction – it equates the war with the leisure of games”…
This is sure to bring out either chuckles or frowns from anyone old enough to remember the console wars of the 1990s: the design of Sonic’s recent titles has been altered to appeal to Nintendo fans. Sonic Team’s Takashi Iizuka tells IGN: “From a general game design perspective, in recent years we’ve been able to…
It’s always fun seeing random Chinese hardware manufacturers with a sense of humour. Case in point: this hard drive case, shaped to look just like a Nintendo Wii. One of the Wii’s biggest drawbacks has long been its lack of internal storage space, so this would be a cute purchase for anyone who felt like…
Blizzard has released statistics showing how popular each of Starcraft II’s three races are amongst the game’s multiplayer users. And it’s the poor Zerg coming in last. Of course, that headline and intro could easily have said “Protoss are most popular!”, but I’ve never liked the Zerg, so felt like drawing attention to that instead.…
Minecraft is a game that’s difficult to really sell with words. It’s something you have to play to get a feel for. Or watch, in this case, as people do inspiring things. This video runs for 3:23. It’s sped-up for convenience’s sake. For information in how the clip was made, as well as what upgrades…
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