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  If Portal 2 Were a Badass 1970s Flick

  It’s not, of course, but if it were, then maybe it would look like Tristan Reidford’s stunning send-up. Reidford is an artist at Valve, where he does mainly modeling. He should do more movie posters. Check out Reidford’s site for more impressive work. Portal2 70s style movie poster! [Tristan Reidford Art via Reddit] Portal2 70s…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  Banned Clothes Ripping Game Tears up Android

  Rip! Mosatsu wasn’t family friendly enough for Apple’s iOS, but Android’s happy to have it. The app was based on the Mosatsu photobooks that feature “torn” photos of models, revealing their underwear. Apple banned the app a few months after it hit the App Store, apparently as part of the company’s war on smutty apps.…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  So, Where (or When) Do You Think Assassin’s Creed III Will Be?

  Turns out that new Assassin’s Creed title is another Ezio game. Good news, sure, as the last two have been great, but at the same time…people are getting the itch for somebody new. For that third Assassin’s Creed game. One that will get us out of the Renaissance and into not only the shoes of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  Why Play FarmVille When You Can Help Run an Actual Farm Online?

  Aimed at capitalising on the popularity of Facebook smash hit FarmVille, Britain’s National Trust has established MyFarm, which is in many ways a game of FarmVille, only for real. A real estate in Cambridgeshire, England has been set aside to be “run” by 10,000 “farmers”, who each month will determine via voting what gets built,…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  The Xbox 360 and Sony NGP’s Love Child

  If the Xbox 360 and the NGP ever mated, this would be their spawn. Dubbed the iReadyGo, the Chinese made handheld is open source and will run Android. The iReadyGo’s CPU apparently runs at 1GHZ, and the handheld supports 3G, GPS and WiFi—meaning those will probably work with some sort of dongle? Like with Sony’s…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  Europe, Your PSN Identity Protection Is Coming

  PlayStation Network users in the US are being given access to an identity protection scheme. In Europe? Sony is working on it, saying the number of countries, companies and laws involved means it’ll take a little longer to set up. [PlayStation]

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  Portal 2 Makes Us Want a 3D Printer. So Bad.

  Owning a 3D printer must be like owning magic. Because that’s all they seem to do. Just…spit out magic. Like these custom Portal 2 turrets. Michael Curry and Luis Rodriguez were showing these off at the recent RoboGames 2011. Looking at the scale, they appear to be around, what, two feet high? Meaning I really…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  A PC Game So Popular, It’s Appearing in Japanese Arcades

  The shoot’em up Touhou Project games are fan-made PC games created by a one-man game studio. Touhou Project‘s creator, Zun, has been free-wheeling about derivative work—something that changed earlier this year. Touhou Project games are starting to appear in small numbers in Japanese arcades. For a special event, one Akihabara arcade put Touhou Project games…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  This Guy Built a Working Assassin’s Creed Hidden Blade

  I can’t think of many/any places where this kind of concealed weapon would be legal, but I can think of one place we can admire its craftsmanship: here. YouTube user ammnra is the man behind it, wisely keeping the footage restricted to him testing the blade in his bathroom, and not running around on rooftops…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  Cosplaying Down by the River

  The Machi Asobi Festival, a game and anime event held in Tokushima, wrapped up recently. Part of the festivities included a cosplay fashion show down by the river, complete with red carpet. Machi Asobi Vol.6 started on May 3 and wrapped up on May 5. Besides the cosplay event, there were signings, panel discussions and…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  Shy Guy Is a Goddamned Sexual Tyrannosaurus

  Master toysmith Jin Saotome is back, and this time he’s making the Mushroom Kingdom a little more badass with this heavily-armed interpretation of the cute little Shy Guy Normally short and portly, this custom action figure is lean and packing a minigun, scythe, hammer and…scissors. His body was cannibalised from existing action figures based on…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  You Can All Play the New Age of Empires Game This Weekend

  Age of Empires Online, currently in closed beta, will this weekend throw open its doors and let any old person who downloads the game client in. I’ve been playing for a few weeks and…it’s not bad, not bad at all, so you could do worse things. [Age Of Empires]

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  Uncharted Creator Cool with Loosey-Goosey Movie

  The Uncharted movie sounds pretty stupid! It’s about a globe-trotting family of antiques collectors that dispense treasure-hunting justice. That doesn’t sound like Uncharted at all. What does Uncharted game designer Amy Henning think of the movie’s concept? Henning told MTV that the game’s developers are “protective” of the Uncharted games, just like the fans. To…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  It’s Deus Ex Running on Not One, Not Two, but Three Monitors

  It was just this morning we were taking a good, long look at using three monitors for your PC gaming. And now, whaddya know, we have footage of Deus Ex running across three monitors! There are some at the pointier edge of the glorious PC master race who will no doubt endorse this kind of…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  Toyota’s Nerd Marketing Sure Is Awkward

  Toyota is the world’s biggest auto maker. It must be doing something right. This ad, though, isn’t one of them. In the U.S., Toyota is rolling out a Corolla campaign that features virtual idol Miku Hatsune. With the character’s popularity and connection to motorspots, her appearance makes sense somewhat— just not in America. I know…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2011
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  Cops Catch Killer Using Bugged Xbox Game

  A teenager has been arrested in Saskatoon, Canada, after he was caught giving a murder confession. How was he caught? The cops bugged an Xbox 360 game The boy, who can’t be named because he’s under the age of 18, is accused of murdering 16 year-old Charlotte Jolly in 2009, who was shot with a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  You can now Make Your own Team Fortress 2 Videos

  Team Fortress 2 now has its own replay system, letting every user of the game (at least on PC and Mac) save and view footage from the match they just completed. If you’re playing on a server that has the option enabled, every second of a round will be recorded for posterity. Users can then…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  The Disney Civil War That Led to Arcade Video Game Classics

  We don’t often associate Disney with video games – not outside of its current push as a publisher, anyway – but in the late 1970’s, turmoil at the famous animation studio inadvertently led to the creation of two arcade classics. Don Bluth was an animator at Disney in the 60’s and 70’s, who worked on…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 6, 2011
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  Get a Good Look at Guardian Heroes HD In Motion for the First Time

  GameSpot takes a look at Sega’s newly announced Xbox Live Arcade port of Saturn classic Guardian Heroes in the latest On The Spot. Whether you prefer the original Saturn sprites or the filtered visual upgrade—not my cup of tea—you’re probably going to get excited about Guardian Heroes one more time today.

  By Michael McWhertor Published May 5, 2011
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  Kinectimals Creator Sets His Sights on Building the $25 PC

  David Braben, whose Frontier Developments studio has delivered Elite, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, LostWinds and, yes, Kinectimals, has now created Raspberry Pi. It’s not a game, it’s a working, Linux-based PC on something not much larger than a standard USB memory stick. Raspberry Pi, a nonprofit effort akin to the One Laptop Per Child effort, is…

  By Owen Good Published May 5, 2011