When I saw this morning that Peter Molyneux had slatedFable 3in order to hype the next one, I almost vomited a rainbow. The fact that he can keep doing this and not get called on his bullshit is astounding. Yep, the Molyneux hype train is ready for another ride! “I think we tookFable 3and realised it wasn’t quite up-to-date with [the best modern games] and that we need to go forward,” hetold CVG....
New toMonday Mind Teasers? No problem, here’s how it works. I’ve picked a few different video game covers, and disguised them each with shaky hand-drawn silhouettes. With the help of other Dtoiders, your job is to figure out every single one of the secret video game covers. This week there’s one easy picture, two mediums, and two hard teasers. To help make it easier for you though, each week’s group of games all share a theme with each other....
Traveller’s Tales has already delved intoStar Wars,Indiana Jones, andBatmanwith their successful LEGO games, but what’s next for the company? If you guessed “more LEGO games,” you’d be absolutely right. Talking to Variety, Traveller’s Tales president Jon Burton revealed that “we’ve gotten started doing some LEGO games on the Warner IP … down the line.” He also says that he’d like to make a TV show aimed at children and maybe even a CG film....
With the release ofStreet Fighter IVthis week, there’s no better time to present to you Kaiyodo’s Chun-Li, from their newStreet Fighter Onlineseries of Revoltech figures. This is a joint project between Kaiyodo and Capcom under Good Smile Company, to crack open the wallets ofStreet Fighterfans and help promoteStreet Fighter Online. SubtitledMouse Generation, the newSFOis apparently some PC iteration ofStreet Fighterthat is played with — you guessed it — a computer mouse....
NASA may not be officially launching shuttles or rockets out into space for the time being, but they’re not sitting around twiddling their thumbs until the next big space projects are ready. Earlier today, I was tipped off to the Kickstarter forAstronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond. It’s an MMO being made by NASA for the PC and iOS. Set in the year 2035, it takes place on the fictional Arthur C....
Make that footage from the Xbox LIVE Arcade version ofSpelunky, which is beefier and less pixel-y than the long-since-releasedPC freebie; I was one character over the limit in the headline there. In this latest slice ofIndie Game: The Movie, we’re shown the new game in motion for the first time. But more importantly, we get to see designer Derek Yu talk about how creating games is like wearing aHalf-Lifeheadcrab at all times....
This week is pretty dry as far as new releases go.Wolfensteinlooks like it will be a pretty good mindless shooter. Plus, killing Nazis is always fun, even though we’ve been killing them since the ’80s in videogames. I keep hearing nothing but great things forShadow Complextoo. I’ll definitely be checking that one out at some point. What’s looking sw33t to you all, Dtoiders? Hit the break for the full releases and trailers for most of the games....
I can’t say that I’m actively playing the Xbox LIVE Arcade release ofPerfect Dark, but if that was the case, today’s news of a title update would surely put a smile on my face. It’s packed full of stuff the community has undoubtedly been asking for, and best of all, it goes live tomorrow. What’s the verdict,Perfect Darkplayers? Will the issues you’ve potentially been having be addressed by this latest patch?...
Some people haven’t really learned from the mistakes of others. If you value your job, be very careful where you choose to complain about it, because watchful eyes can be everywhere. Nowhere is this more true than the Internet, where the views of millions are publicly shared with even greater numbers. If you work for Nintendo, as Jessica Zenner did, you better be careful about blogging your bitchery to the world …as Jessica Zenner wasn’t....
Satisfied with their E3 showing and proud of what Wii gamers can look forward to this holiday season, Nintendo decided that it may be in the best interest of everyone involved if they hold back a bit, and save something for the New Year’s glut. Speaking withCVG, they had this much to say: “For the holidays we have a huge line-up of Wii games already, including Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, Super Mario Galaxy, Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles and Pokemon Battle Revolution....
Coop Norway has announced that it will bar the sale of 51 game and toy brands following the Oslo massacre perpetrated by murdering idiotAnders Behring Breivik. These include games that Breivik himself praised as training tools, such asModern Warfare 2andWorld of Warcraft. The ban isn’t permanent, but the store says it has to “think carefully” about timing their return. This apparently out of respect to the victims of the attack and consideration for all affected....
After my first experience withTERAat gamescom a few weeks ago, I went from “meh” to “I wouldn’t mind playing this”. Read up on the core mechanicshereif you missed it. To see how the game has progressed, I gave it another shot at PAX Prime. After all, I only played it with a mage-type character and only for about half an hour. Luckily, they had some more characters for me to choose from and more importantly: a wired 360 controller!...
One of the big draws for PAX is the ability for people all over the world to meet in a centralized location with a couple hundred like-minded geeks for an orgy of blood and erratic jumping courtesy of the magic of an ethernet cable. For the past three days, in a room directly across from where all the fancy, shiny new titles are being shown off, sit hundreds of people bathed in the luminescent glow of the cathode ray tube (or glowing liquid crystals if your pedantry is such that you MUST screw with my phrasing)....
