Your Guide To This Summer’s Movies

Summertime is more than beaches and barbecues. It’s also when Hollywood releases some of its biggest motion pictures. Here’s a look at the Hollywood’s upcoming summer blockbusters, both good and bad. SALT – Release Date: 7/23 Angelina Jolie, star of the Tomb Raider movies, does her best cloak and dagger in this espionage thriller. Salt…

SE Asian, Australasian Starcraft II Players Allowed Onto North American Servers

Anyone buying the SE Asian or Aus/NZ version of Starcraft II will be allowed to play on North American servers, Blizzard revealed today.

Unboxing Halo: Reach’s Games And Console

It’s one thing to see the guts of a Halo game spilled across a carefully-staged press photo, but it’s another entirely to see the actual product (or in this case products) opened by human hands. This video put together by Bungie shows Halo: Reach’s limited edition, legendary edition and special Xbox 360 console being taken…

What’s The Longest You’ve Gone Without Gaming?

It’s Thursday, know that that means? Time for Tell Us Dammit. Wait a minute! TUD runs on Friday. Today isn’t Friday. I know, it isn’t! Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes,…

Alien Invasion Movie Inspired By First-Person Shooters

Battle: Los Angeles is an upcoming movie from Sony, directed by Jonathan Liebesman and starring Aaron “Two-Face” Eckhart. By the director’s reckoning, it’s just like a video game. The film, about an alien invasion of Earth, is focused on – surprise surprise – the battle for Los Angeles, and some parts of the shooting, mayhem…

See Halo: Reach’s Forge World In Action

Halo 3’s forge mode – the game’s editing suite – is in for a serious revamp when Halo: Reach is released in September. As Mike saw earlier today at Comic-Con, Halo: Reach has replaced Forge with Forge World, a vastly improved editing tool that not only lets players craft much larger maps, but also have…

Summer Video Game Movie: T&C Surf Designs Wood & Water Rage

The summer of gaming continues, and we’re spending part of the week watching clips of the most summer-styled games. Today we’ve got surf and turf the hard way, courtesy of horrible NES class T&C Surf Designs Wood & Water Rage.

Halo: Reach Bundle Confirmed

At Comic-Con today, Microsoft revealed a Limited Edition Halo: Reach bundle, packing two controllers with an Xbox 360 Slim, all in special silver casings, for $399. A copy of the game is also included. It’s available Sept. 14. The bundle will be available on Sept. 14, when Halo: Reach also launches. It will cost $399.…

Comic-Con’s Most Pissed Statue? The God of War!

For the serious God of War fan, SideShow Collectibles offers a Kratos that’s more detailed, more massive and clearly more seething with Spartan rage. To wit, it’s also much more expensive than DC Direct’s Kratos action figure. On display at SideShow’s Comic-Con booth, always an impressive stop on the show floor, this polystone statue featuring…

Halo Reach Bundle Shots

Halo: Reach’s New ‘Firefight’ Covenant Mode, Forge World, More Debut At Comic-Con

Bungie brought the latest features for their latest shooter, Halo: Reach, to Comic-Con, including all-new multiplayer modes, new maps and a new vehicle. Finally, you will be able to drive a futuristic forklift in a Halo multiplayer. For the developers final Halo game, Bungie will be adding to the popular Firefight mode by adding a…

Dragon Quest, Fire Emblem End Wii Party’s Party In Japan

Last week‘s Japanese software champ, the brand-new Wii Party, had its first place festivities cut short this week after a strong showing from two other games, both on Nintendo’s platform. Nintendo DS remake Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu reigns supreme this week, with Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road Victory,…

Righteousness

Targeted for a demonstration by the tantrum-throwing hate whores of the Westboro Baptist Church, Comic-Con’s cosplayers fought fire with fire – very clever fire – in San Diego this afternoon. Rewind: Westboro Baptist – basically, they’re piece-of-shit griefers known for disrupting military funerals with their “God Hates Fags” picket lines, last week said they were…

We Played Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep For 10 Minutes, In English

The first time I played Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep I was in Tokyo, well aware that I couldn’t read the Japanese menus of the flashy new PSP installment. The second time was this week. The game was in English. A translation alone does not make a Kingdom Hearts game comprehensible. Latecomers to the Kingdom…

The Father Of Mega Man Explains Mega Man Universe

The creator of Mega Man, Keiji Inafune, and producer on the recently announced Mega Man Universe, Akiko Ito, explained—as best as they could—just what the hell this mysterious game is today at Comic-Con. Previously seen only in teaser trailer form, Mega Man Universe will let you “play as the Mega Man of your dreams,” according…

Sand Castle Contest Reminder

Don’t forget about our sand castle contest, due by this Sunday, for your chance to win one of ten copies of the new StarCraft 2 novel, Heaven’s Devils. To enter all you have to do is build a video game-themed sand castle and post a picture of it in the comments of the original post.…

Spawn Creator Todd McFarlane (With Friend) At Comic-Con

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning creative contributor and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane poses with a Troll before the 38 Studios game panel at Comic-Con 2010. Todd says “You can bludgeon your younger brother with it.” Neat!

Okamiden, Sengoku Basara and Ghost Trick in Motion

Capcom isn’t just about fighting games, they also make some delightfully quirky Wii and DS titles. Take for instance Wii Samurai hack-and-slash Sengoku Basara and DS games Okamiden and Ghost Trick. I’m not a fan of Sengoku Basara, but I love Okamiden’s portable take on Okami and the clever design and look of Ghost Trick.…

Three for Three

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: When It Gets Hot, All I Wanna Do… Earlier this week I asked for book suggestions from the Internet and got some dandies via Twitter. I ended up buying three books. So to return the favor I also suggested three great Sci-Fi reads to Twitter. Here’s the Sci-Fi books I…

The Ten Games of NBA 2K11‘s “Jordan Challenge”

When it arrives Oct. 5, NBA 2K11 will feature a 10-game “Jordan Challenge” that recreates Michael Jordan’s most famous performances. Here’s a breakdown of each game, its significance, and what you must do – plus one very notable omission. The Arrival When and Where: April 20, 1986. Game 2, 1st round playoffs vs. Celtics, at…