Couldn’t scrape together $550 for that sweet KOS-MOS statue, Xenosaga fans? Maybe this $50 figure is more to your liking. It’s a Figma figure, meaning that unlike the statue it’s got joints and lines everywhere. Those joints and lines are there for a reason, though, as it’s highly posable, the inclusion of a stand meaning…
Having first been revealed in, oh, 2007, it seems that the Xbox 360 is finally going to be able to play nice with AT&T’s U-Verse streaming TV service. Thing is, there’s a catch. Well, catches For one, you can’t just sign up and use the Xbox 360 on its own like you can with, say,…
US President Barack Obama is in the new NBA Jam, alongside a bunch of other prominent past and current politicians. Sounds like it’s worth a chuckle when you read it, but man, you have to see it. This is how elections should be fought. Not with votes, or advertising dollars, but with boomshakalakas.
While Nintendo is yet to release concrete figures on the battery usage of the 3DS – not that you can ever trust official figures – company president Satoru Iwata has hinted that it won’t last as long as the DS. “As for the battery, it is inevitable that Nintendo 3DS will be a device which…
In 2010, Microsoft’s Kinect is a motion-sensing camera that requires no control pad. You are, as the marketing goes, the controller. In the beginning, though, things weren’t so fancy. According to a big write-up on the history of Kinect on Wired, in 2007, Xbox boss Don Mattrick had called for a “reimagining of the way…
While Hollywood director Sam Raimi is keen to make a World of Warcraft movie, whether he made it soon was always going to come down to the result of a tussle for his attention between it and another project. And it looks like that other project – Disney’s Oz: The Great And Powerful – has…
A prototype version of Pirates of New Horizons, the game that gave us vivid Skies of Arcadia flashbacks a few weeks back, is now available for download. It’s like the old shareware days from games like Doom; the developers have put out a short game as a proof of concept, and if enough people dig…
The always-impressive James Hance does it again, this time showing the Mario Bros. may be more “Soulful” than “Super”.
You hear someone has a Jigglypuff tattoo on their arm, you begin to think horrible, horrible thoughts, but Danielle White’s forearm piece looks…well, it works As seen on ALBOTAS Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
That lovely re-release of Super Mario All-Stars, presumed only for the Japanese market, will also be released in Europe, Nintendo has revealed. The company’s Swedish website has posted a listing (Update: now backed up by a press release stating it’s a Europe-wide release) for the collection, with a release date set for December 3. Included…
Deathspank is coming to PC later this month, and a little later, to the Mac as well. Oh, and it’ll be joined by Shank!
Though he hasn’t got his hands on the system himself, Epic’s Mark Rein reckons he knows what’s under the hood of Nintendo’s new 3D handheld. And from what he knows, he says there’ll be no Unreal Engine on the thing. “It’s below our [minimum specifications], from what we can tell” Rein said to Joystiq. “We…
According to a report on French site PSPGen, Sony has informed those in the relevant communities that come November 15, they won’t be able to order development kits for the handheld any more. Wonder why that would be? The news reportedly comes via a message Sony Computer Entertainment sent to PSP developers, part of which…
Super Mario Bros. is 25 this month, and to mark the occasion Nintendo is releasing this hot new variant of the Wii in, what else, Mario Red. It’ll be out in Japan on November 11, and will retail for ¥20,000 (USD$240). What’s more, it’ll also include not a Wii Remote, but one of the new…
Sadly, this is off-screen footage of the game, not raw, delicious high-definition video, but you can still see that Beyond Good & Evil is looking quite nice at a more contemporary resolution. I went back and played the original on a PS2 last week to compare, and…yeah, as often happens, our memories of the game…
From the Quest for Glory days right through to BioWare’s own Mass Effect, role-playing sequels have allowed you to import your old character into the new game. So, uh, how is this going to work for Dragon Age II? Well, it’ll work a little differently, what with you not taking control of the same player.…
EA today revealed that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is making its way to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Due out next month, the game retains the first-person perspective of its console sibling, taking place across 14 missions based on those found in the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC version. It’ll also feature online multiplayer, and…
You probably never stopped to look at one too closely, but if you had, you’d have noticed the Boos of the Mushroom Kingdom are made of thousands of tiny, individual horrors. As seen on Teefury
Granted, this mod – turning Starcraft II into what’s essentially Dead Space in the Blizzard universe – may never see the light of the day. But its creators deserve credit just for this demonstration video. The basic goal of the mod, called Project Vector, is to turn Starcraft II – a real-time strategy game –…
Ryan recently modified this Dreamcast as a commission piece, giving it this amazing Skies of Arcadia theme. He e-mailed us saying “People said I should email your website as you might enjoy it”. People were right It may not look like much at first, but that detailing on the case is some beautiful work (it’s…
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