The Knights of the Round Table song is one of the highlights of the film The Holy Grail. It’s now also the highlight of your weekend, Team Fortress 2 fans. In the same week that Python’s Holy Hand Grenades turned up in the game, Unlimited Productions have released this homage to Grail’s medieval ditty, replicating…
Telltale, the team behind the new Sam & Max and Monkey Island series, have a new game on the way. One that’s teasing a crossover of epic proportions. What could it all mean? We’ll find out this Thursday, according to the trailer. Feel free to sound off with your wildest dreams and wishes below!
Having been out in the wild for almost a month now, Blizzard has decided that changes are in order for Starcraft II, and will soon be making a number of balance tweaks for the game’s first major update. Patch 1.1, due sometime next month, will make a number of alterations to the game’s balance, including:…
LA Noire, a crime thriller to be published by Rockstar, was first revealed in 2005. It’s now 2010, and despite an early glimmer of hope, it’s still not out. So when will it be out? Try late 2011, at the earliest. Evan Wilson, an analyst with Pacific Crest Securities, has said that following chats with…
In the interest of spoilers, you’ll have to click through for the punchline. Welcome back, Waffle House Ninja. As seen on 1UP, via 4CR
Reader Sean was strolling down the street in his native Toronto when he spotted this monolithic hulk, which is one of the more unique game advertisements we’ve ever seen. It’s a 2001-esque cylinder that seems to exist solely to pulse a red light and point people towards Halo: Reach’s web portals. It might succeed at…
Yesterday, Sony Computer Entertainment Australia was granted a temporary injunction by the nation’s Federal Court to block the importation and sale of the new PS3 modchips The injunction means that until August 31, none of the modchip’s Australian distributors will be able to import, sell or otherwise offload the devices. What’s more, they have to…
Portal was a singleplayer game. Portal 2 adds co-op, but did you know it was at one stage also going to add competitive multiplayer? “Along with co-op, [we had] the idea of sort of a competitive Portal multiplayer,” Valve’s Erik “Old Man Murray” Wolpaw told 1UP. “We went down that path, actually, for a little…
Surcease? You used the word surcease? Square Enix, we know you’ve a penchant for flowery words, but this is 2010, not 1710. Aside from that, everything else in this epic Final Fantasy XIV trailer looks good, as there’s plenty of gorgeous cinematic stuff to go with some actual gameplay footage. Meanwhile, Square Enix has also…
Chime is great on Xbox 360. Should be just as great on PC when its released on September 7!
Sideshow Collectibles want to make sure it’s Brewfest all year-long at your place, with this replica of World of Warcraft’s Tankard O’ Terror. The tankard, modelled on the in-game item used in WoW’s once-a-year Brewfest spectacular, weighs three pounds and stands just shy of ten inches high. It’s also made of stoneware, and holds around…
Microsoft’s Surface device has already shown its worth for board games, but let’s not forget, it has a lot of potential for strategy games as well. Especially after you watch this video. This program, made by the University of Massachusetts’ Mark Micire, is actually intended for the real-world deployment and control of robots. But look…
Beleaguered rental chain Blockbuster’s financial woes have gone from bad to really bad, with the LA Times reporting that the company will next month file for bankruptcy. According to “people who have been briefed on the matter”, Blockbuster has already begun meeting with Hollywood’s big movie studios to discuss the move, which its hoped will…
Call of Duty developers Treyarch, a studio that made its name developing World War Two games, is done with World War Two. Phew. Having developed first Call of Duty 3 and then Call of Duty: World at War, the team behind the upcoming Black Ops has all but ruled out a return to the 20th…
Before Valve roped the gang at Turtle Rock to come on over and make Left 4 Dead, the Half-Life developer was working on something else. Something with…fairies. Yup. Not aliens, or cops, or super-soldiers, or valiant knights, or space marines. A game about fairies. Valve’s Erik Johnson tells PC Gamer that the game, a “weird…
If you’re one of the lucky ones receiving an invitation to Kinect’s beta testing program tonight, a word of caution before you accept: you’ll be losing some of your means of communicating over Xbox Live. Because of the 360’s improved voice chat tech – or, if you’re the tin-hat-wearing type, because Microsoft is crazy-paranoid about…
Xbox Live Studios boss Jerry Johnson has revealed that the Xbox 360’s voice chat feature is in for an upgrade, aimed at improving the quality of player-to-player communication over Xbox Live. “The codec we used when we first launched was a low bit rate codec and we stuck with that”, he said at the Edinburgh…
As good as Dragon Age II’s first trailer looked at GamesCom, it looks even better with an extra 40 seconds of blood, stabbing and dismemberment.
Reader Ryan spotted this in a gas station in Texas.
Most signs point towards the future being a place free of clumsy plastic instruments with our video games. On the off chance they are still around, though, we hope Rock Band plays a little like this concept clip by Freddiew. Only a little. Because while the mechanics look workable, if there was going to be…
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