Perhaps seeking to undo some of the damage done to the Call of Duty franchise on the PC wrought by Modern Warfare 2, Treyarch has revealed that Black Ops will feature mod tools. What these will be, we don’t know. How they’ll work, we don’t know. When they’ll be out, well, we don’t know that…
You get The Jacknife Chronicles, a piece of machinima that uses Source Engine editor Garry’s Mod and makes a gripping little short film out of it. Set (loosely) in the Half-Life universe and running for an impressive 12 minutes, The Jacknife Chronicles blends assets from Half-Life and Mirror’s Edge into something entirely different. And very…
The Wizard was pretty awful. Too much Nintendo advertising, not enough Sega CD and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I don’t know what’s happening here either. But I like it It’s the work of Docfuture, who also made probably the best Sonic rap ever. [via Tiny Cartridge]
The obstacles standing in the way of a Chinese release of World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King have been overcome, with the title due for release at the end of the month. The game had been held up due to its depiction of “questionable content” like skeletons. A localised version was submitted…
THQ’s Cory Ledesma has delivered a blunt message to consumers buying used copies of his company’s games: they’re cheating the publisher out of money. “I don’t think we really care whether used game buyers are upset because new game buyers get everything”, THQ’s creative director for wrestling titles told Gamasutra. “So if used game buyers…
If ever proof was needed of how important Valve’s Steam platform has become to many PC developers, look no further than the tale of Introversion, the developers of Defcon and Darwinia, whose company was saved by a Steam sale. Despite a string of cult successes like Uplink, Darwinia and Defcon (pictured), the British developers had…
These aren’t the games we think were the best of GamesCom. They’re the games that an “independent expert jury” has deemed to be the official best in show. This expert jury was made up of representatives from the German press, namely Michael Trier (IDG Entertainment), Petra Fröhlich (Computec Media), Christian Bigge (Computerbild Online), Harald Hesse…
Razer’s Onza control pad for the Xbox 360 sure looked nice when we saw it at CES earlier this year. Problem is, for some people, it’s too nice. Major League Gaming has banned the pad from its competitive play, officials citing the fact the controller has two buttons that are too easy programmable. MLG rep…
The new Xbox 360 S is not only smaller than its predecessor, it uses less power and should be more reliable. Who can we thank for these benefits? The new “Vejle” processor, that’s who. The Vejle, named after a Danish city (as most Microsoft projects are; Natal was named after a Brazilian city, for example),…
In this commercial for Samsung’s new Galaxy S phone, a guy who looks a lot like Halo’s Master Chief runs like a scared little girl, then jumps in a flying crayfish and takes his helmet off. Sounds bizarre, and it is, but watch the commercial and everything written above actually happens. This isn’t an ad…
Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training on the DS used to the biggest-selling video game of all time in the United Kingdom. It no longer holds that title. Instead, the honour now falls to Activision’s Modern Warfare 2, which has overtaken the venerable DS title to take top spot. It’s been on sale for 41 weeks and…
Sure, she’s no Yvonne Strahovski, the actual actress behind Mass Effect 2’s Miranda Lawson, but Polish model Jessika F is doing a pretty good job nonetheless in this cosplay photo shoot. Put together by Dark Stars Photography, this is a great shoot. And I’m not talking about the lady clad in spandex. I’m talking about…
The first of Valve’s new software survey results are in, and they provide a fascinating insight into the kind of crap the service’s users have installed on their PCs. The company’s surveys have long been a great source of general information on what’s popular amongst hardcore PC gamers on the hardware side of things, but…
The mythical tale of Pokémon Black may be an urban legend, but it’s great reading regardless. It’s even better when you read it on a DS with accompanying graphics and sound. Multiple: Option have made a “storybook” version of the tale, a visual novel that provides the text of the story with graphics on the…
Starcraft is big in Korea, but for some it can be too big, and they develope a serious addiction to the game. Ah well. Nothing some hard drugs can’t cure! A study at the Department of Psychiatry at Chung Ang University has found that those “suffering” from a video game addiction – in this particular…
Infinity Ward founders and Modern Warfare creators Vince Zampella and Jason West may have formed a new games studio, but don’t go expecting anything from them for a long time. They’re too busy…buying furniture. Yes, while everyone’s always figured the pair’s debut game for new developers Respawn would be a few years off, it’s easy…
This extinct species of turtle was five-feet wide and weighed half a ton. It also looks a lot like a certain Nintendo villain. The dog nose, the horns, the beaked mouth, the (relatively) enormous size…it’s official name is Meiolania platyceps, but it may as well have been called Meiolania Bowserus, so uncanny is the resemblance…
Valve revealed today The Sacrifice, a new expansion for the Left 4 Dead series that will be compatible with both the first and second games in the series. Along with this new chapter in the zombie survival saga, No Mercy – the hospital campaign from the first Left 4 Dead – will be updated and…
Oh man. If you were wondering how co-op would work in Valve’s upcoming Portal 2, wonder no more. It works a little something like this.
THQ has revealed the first playable race for the upcoming massively multiplayer online game based on the Warhammer 40K universe. And you’ll never guess who it is. Overlooking popular favourites like the Necron and Tau, THQ has instead opted to reveal peripheral species “The Imperium Of Man”. Strange choice. Who’d want to play as Space…
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