Click to viewPut a face, a name and a voice to the job of “Mayor of SimCity”, and suddenly it doesn’t seem so fun anymore. It seems…creepy. I mean, I wouldn’t vote for this guy. Not that my cities have ever been about “democracy”. I tend to let my bulldozers speak for themselves. Actually, now…
Last month, we showed you a brief glimpse of a little project James Benson was working on, bringing some smooth moves to the Team Fortress 2 universe. Well, he’s done. And the end result is glorious Be sure to click the little “HD” button and watch it in full-screen. Then watch it 6 or 7…
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Dave Roberts, boss of PopCap – the guys behind Plants vs Zombies and Peggle – has some none-too-subtle words to say about competitors and Farmville developers Zynga. [image]
When Street Fighter IV was first released, you couldn’t throw a fireball without tripping over somebody playing as Ken. Over a year on from its release, though, and it’s time to find out who’s really the most popular fighter. Fighting game mecca Shoryuken polled over 5000 of its users on which character they used as…
Man, fishing games (that aren’t on the Dreamcast and come with a plastic peripheral) are boooooooring. Know what’d make ’em more exciting? Blowing up the fish you catch. This is Radical Fishing. It looks pretty radical. You fish, you catch fish, you throw the fish in the air, and you make those fish explode. The…
Sorry if that sounds a little crass, but recently Metroid star Samus Aran took to the stage during a burlesque show in LA, and that’s exactly what she did. The lady under the armour is performer Courtney Cruz, who is part of Devil’s Playground, the same group behind other evenings of male nerd wish fulfillment…
Atari’s first prototype games machine, code-named “Stella”, which would go on to become the Atari 2600. As seen on Wired, via Boing-Boing
BioWare’s Paul Barnett, a man with a keen sense of history, realised this week that Wing Commander is now 20 years old. So he, like the rest of us, wants a re-release. So he’s kicked off a campaign to have the game ported over to DOSBox, a means of running old PC games on new…
Here’s something interesting: how would Warren Spector, of Deus Ex and Epic Mickey fame, go about making a Legend of Zelda title? Spector himself explains. Asked by NGamer what changes he’d make to Nintendo’s successful formula if given the chance, Spector quickly gets the “oh, they’ll never let me do that” talk out of the…
The Spartans of the Halo universe are capable of some pretty incredible stuff, but so they should: they’re soldiers in fancy robot suits from the 26th century. In the 21st century, it’s all about the baby steps. This is the XOS 2, or as we’re calling it, Spartan Armour Test Suit v1.0. It’s basically an…
Given the fact the game shut down after only three months, there weren’t many subscribers to MMO title APB. If you were one of the lucky/unlucky few, don’t go expecting a refund, because you won’t be getting one. Begbies Traynor, the firm responsible for administrating the remains of failed developer Realtime Worlds, says that anyone…
When Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath returns on the PS3, it won’t be a straight port of the original Xbox version. No, things will be looking decidedly less polygonal this time around. That’s because developers Just Add Water have decided to go to town on the number of polygons the characters in the game will be built…
Despite being reportedly sent PSPs down their fancy supply tube, the Chilean miners trapped underground have been told that they’re not allowed to play video games to help pass the time. Speaking with the Washington Post, Alberto Iturra Benavides – the “rescue effort’s lead psychiatrist” – has said the miners are being barred from using…
Ah, Cruis’n USA. Such pretty graphics, such awful everything else. It probably won’t be remembered as a significant title by many of you, but for one guy, it was important enough to justify writing a comic about it. What I like about this is that I’d imagine many, if not most of you could remember…
By Shane Parker, as seen on Super Punch
The Dreamcast’s Visual Memory Unit was one of the most novel and under-used gimmicks in all of console gaming history, one making a belated (and unofficial) comeback with this iPod Nano modification. To create, you crack open the VMU, insert the iPod Nano, patch up a few bits of wiring (for the headphone jack) and…
Those keen on taking part in the game’s open beta on October 4 – or just keen on playing the game when it’s out shortly afterwards – should probably check out Medal Of Honor’s PC system specs. Straight from Electronic Arts, then, here are both the minimum and recommended specifications. MINIMUM Operating System – Windows…
With Kinect’s November launch looming, Microsoft has kicked the peripheral’s marketing drive into top gear with these TV commercials. Don’t they look familiar? Front-on perspective, people waggling enthusiastically…yup, it’s the Wii launch commercials all over again, the only difference being there’s no catchy tune or humble little bowing Japanese men this time around. I will…
Take a good look at the new Medal of Honor’s multiplayer in action, with this trailer just released by Electronic Arts. PC owners, you’ll also note those graphics at the beginning and end, announcing an open beta beginning October 4.
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