Upcoming title Jamestown has very little to do with the early colonization of North America, and everything to do with four-player co-op on 17th-century British colonial Mars. Yup, it’s the 1600s and Britain has taken possession of the planet Mars. Sounds like an excuse to use muskets against Martians, but instead, Jamestown is a retro-themed…
For the past few days, the video game industry has waged a beard war in our inbox, grown men doing battle not with fists or firearms, but with braids, themes and names. Names for their beards. What began as an innocent request for challengers last week has become an expedition into the darkest recesses of…
Some Xbox marketing material we got hold of over the weekend shows what looks like the box art for the Xbox 360’s upcoming motion-sensing camera, Kinect. It’s no game, sure, but box art is both an art and for some a fetish (especially with novel stuff like this), so here it is (along with that…
Enjoying your day off, Americans? Why not enjoy it with video games where you fight for your nation’s independence. Or the continuation of British rule! It’s 2010, we’re cool either way. There are plenty of games out there involving a struggle for American independence against foreign oppressors or invaders, some of them historical, some of…
I don’t mean the greatest Transformers character ever. That would be an exercise in folly. No, I mean the greatest Transformers toy ever. Autobot powerhouse Omega Supreme was already on the top shelf of Transformers figures, thanks to his scale and triple transforming threat (he could break into three separate things), but this new custom…
We’re at a stage in human scientific advancement where Tetris in 3D isn’t that mind-blowing. But Tetris in 3D using water, that’s impressive. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found a way to create three-dimensional images using a projector and layers of water droplets. The water drops in curtains, while the projector switches up what’s…
According to “developers working on the system”, games running on the Nintendo 3DS can look (and perform) even better than those we’ve seen on one condition: they lose the 3D. That’s what a report on IGN says, as developers “could theoretically use the extra processing power for additional texture passes and more complex object and…
So, that great font based around consoles and control pads? It’s now available for download
You know, I was playing Perfect Dark the other day, and thought to myself, “Man, you know what this game needs? More Crackdown cameos”. And whaddya know. Here we are. With a Crackdown unlockable now available within Perfect Dark XBLA. Now if only I’d actually thought that, instead of using it to set the scene!…
Well, there’s a headline I never thought I’d have to write. But behold! John Deere, masters of agricultural vehicles, have made the R-Gator, a small “utility” vehicle for the US Army that looks like a golf cart in olive green. It’s like a regular Gator, only this time the “R” stands for “Remote”, as it…
We know you wouldn’t buy an off-the-shelf Dell PC. You have gaming needs. But others aren’t as savvy as you. They bought off-the-shelf Dell PCs. And many of those people got shafted. Some documents related to a lawsuit against Dell have recently been unsealed, and reveal the company may have knowingly shipped faulty computers to…
It’s a story that involves good intentions, booze and DJ Krush. Having had one too many drinks last weekend, I found myself at a friend’s place watching a DJ Krush DVD. Not the worst way to end a boozey evening, as I like DJ Krush! Anyway, that reminded me I’d been on the lookout for…
Yesterday, I had the audacity to say that former Ubisoft man Patrice Désilets had the most beautiful beard in the video game industry. Other developers, however, disagree. I got a few emails overnight from bearded industry professionals, but my favourite was one from Matt MacLean, lead systems designer at Obsidian (Fallout: New Vegas, Dungeon Siege…
The upcoming NBA Jam reboot wasn’t always an NBA Jam game. It was originally called NBA Bounce, and looked very different. 1UP has a gallery of concept art for the title, showing the long creative road the game took from its days as an ad-filled Bounce to the classy NBA Jam remake it is today.…
The highlight (for me, anyways) of upcoming racer Gran Turismo 5 will be racing a full lap of the Top Gear Test Track. Until it’s out, I’ll have to make do watching this guy complete a circuit instead. It looks as amazing as you’d expect, even via shaky cam, but there’s something nagging at me.…
Some sneakers based on video games can be tasteful! Others, less so. These Street Fighter Dunks, rumoured to be part of an official collaboration between Capcom and Nike, are thankfully the former. Resisting the urge to plaster the shoes with character likenesses and tacky logos, the two pairs – based on Chun-Li and Ryu –…
Irrational Games, the studio behind BioShock and System Shock 2, has kicked off what looks to be a great series of podcasts in which they interview other top developers. To get things started, Ken Levine interviews Todd Howard. Who needs the media when developers can just interview each other? Not these guys, it seems, as…
For years, developers from computing giant Intel had been working on a game, called Project Offset. Note the use of past tense in that sentence. Intel has cancelled the game and scattered the development team to the winds, releasing the following statement to Big Download: Intel purchased Offset Software to improve our game development knowledge-base…
This whale does not sleep on the job. Not when that job is your ultimate destruction. As seen on Twitpic, via IndieGames
Sony and Nintendo may be mortal enemies in many regards, but there’s one area the two should be working together: 3D. At least, that’s what Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida reckons. “I have hope that they have a broader perspective with 3D,” he told IGN. “When you listen to what they are saying about…
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