Back in the 90’s there was a brief explosion of games that used claymation. It was awesome. Anyone who lived through that era can tell you that playing a claymation videogame is sweet. In fact if you haven’t playedThe NeverhoodI would suggest taking off your gamer badge and turning it in to your local chief of gamer police. Also released in this spurt of clay gaming glory wasClayFighter, a cartoony fighting game that rocked many clay socks....
Funny thing about Green Arrow — he wears green, but he certainly isn’t anarrow. I mean, his arrows aren’t even green. So maybe this name should be Guy In Green Who Shoots Arrows And Has A Fancy Goatee or something? I don’t know. Whatever the case, the Justice League of America stalwart has been revealed as a character that will appear in Sony Online Entertainment’sDC Universe Online. He’ll be bringing his bow and arrow along, and according to SOE, “enhanced strength and stamina” are “matched only by his politics....
According to an investigative report attowardsfreedom, a decade-long war has been fought in the Congo over a metallic ore called coltan. Coltan can be refined to a powder called tantalum, which is then used in the manufacturing of several electronic products, including the PlayStation. The Congo is not the only place the coltan can be found, but it has become a major player in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s economy....
It makes me laugh how GameStop will sell unboxed, scratched up, stained-to-Hell discs in its stores, yet pretends to have enough class not to stock Adult-Only games. Indeed, the AO-rating is almost a defacto ban in the United States, with console platforms shunning them and nearly every retail store refusing to accept such wares. GameStop, practically America’s only retail game store, was among those who refused AO games, butthat might change in the futurenow that EB Games is part of the GameStop hive....
As promised, Electronic Arts will be delivering aDante’s Infernodemo this month. Small caveat — PlayStation 3 owners will be getting a two-week head start. The publisher has confirmed that the demo will hit PlayStation Network on December 10, with the demo being made available for Xbox LIVE Gold Members on December 24. Let the “PSN vs. Xbox LIVE” arguments erupt. Called “Gates of Hell,” the demo will includeDante’s Inferno‘s entire opening level, which should help you decide whether or not you’ll want to drop $59....
Dear Namco & Interplay, You may be wondering why I am addressing this humble letter to both of you, for on the surface, you have nothing to do with each other. You are two completely different companies in two completely different places. However, you are inextricably mentally linked right now due to the proximity with which announcements were made regarding two of your venerable retro IPs — namelySplatterhouseandEarthworm Jim, respectively....
This is a big deal. Possibly? Server things and gizmos and clankertickers don’t usually make that much of a difference to the general way we play games, but as something new this is a very interesting bit of information.Section 8, the upcoming FPSfeaturing skydiving from space,will bethe first 360 game to feature user-created dedicated servers to the platform. How will this be possible? Players can download a program onto their computer that will allow them create the servers for the game....
We only just found out aboutDestroy the Web, a Firefox add-on from late last year — it’s such a perfect mix of silly, dumb fun we figured it was worth sharing. Since the video above or even screenshot will almost certainly make no sense whatsoever, allow me to explain the basic premise of this game. It adds a button to your browser that initiates a 30 second game where you click to blow up parts of the page....
Pixeljam has made its feel-good dinosaur racing game free to download today and tomorrow. You can grabDino Run SEon either theMac App Store, or fromBandcamp, which is also home to the newly released Pixeljams Volume 1. Anyone who is a fan of dinosaurs or dinosaurs wearing hats ought to download this game. I can only imagine that sentiment applies to 99.9% of our population, so get to it! If for no other reason, partake in the generosity for those excellent tunes....
If you needed further proof that theOnline Passwas a shitty idea which inconveniences all paying customers, then here’s a nice little slice of evidence. Day-oneDiRT 3buyers cannot play the hot looking racing game because they can’t redeem their Pass codes. The problem stems from the fact that Sony has not yet reinstated the PlayStation Store. Without it, there is no other way to redeem codes, so nobody can get online in spite of the PlayStation Network running fine....
Apparently, some images from an upcoming issue of Famitsu magazinewere recently leaked. Ordinarily, this would not be that big of a deal, but the amount of confusion and mystery surrounding these images makes them stand out. Much discussion has beenhappening at NeoGAFover these scans. Multiple theories have been circulating as well as a few translations of the actual image text.Other sourcesindicate that these new IPs are being developed by the Sony/Namco Bandai game studio, Cellius....
Roleplaying games: They take a long time to play. Everybody loves to hear a developer make stuff up about how long it takes for a game to be beaten, and BioWare’s Ray Muzykahas kindly obliged, boasting thatDragon Age: Originswill take over 120 hours to complete. Apparently, it took him five days of straight play to achieve 90% completion … thenerd. “On one of the play-throughs I spent 120 hours,” he claims....
Platinum Games is quite the industry darling, with quite a few critically acclaimed action titles under its belt.Bayonettais the latest title from the studio famed for its hardcore (and hard) action games, and has been generating quite a lot of buzz from fans. We got a special viewing of the game in action, and are more than happy to tell you what we saw. Hit that jump for our first look atBayonetta....
