Don’t be like John and stop playing Fallout: New Vegas because “you have no idea where to go.” It’s really not that hard: you help out that first small town (Goodsprings), then you walk down the road to adventure. Oh, and this is a DIY helmet. It’s quite nice. → Read More
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Golly gee, I sure would like to know what the insides of the 3DS look like,” then today is your lucky day. The CirclePad, like you’ve never seen it before~! → Read More
And here’s another non-iPhone story to sorta cleanse the pallet. (We recognize that not everybody necessarily goes nuts over the iPhone, but today is just one of those days.) Recognize this Jeep? You will if you’ve played Call of Duty: Black Ops, the Big Mac of the gaming world. → Read More
It would appear that Nintendo has region-locked the 3DS. That’s lame, yes, but outside of importing the rare game here or there—perhaps you want the latest Pokemon without having to wait several months for the localized version—it’s probably not a huge deal for the majority of Nintendo fans. An email sent from Nintendo of Japan to a perspective 3DS buyer says that both the system and… → Read More
And now for some World of Warcraft news. Blizzard says that they’ve sold some 4.7 million copies of Cataclysm since its release one month ago. Most of the sales came on the very first day of release, with 3.3 million copies moving on day one. Mighty impressive. → Read More
Nintendo has released the full list of 3DS launch titles—for Japan, that is. (Nintendo hosts a press conference next week in New York that, one would guess, will cover the North American 3DS launch details. We’ll be there, knock on wood.) Ten games will be available at launch on February 26: Konami’s Winning Eleven Soccer (known as Pro Evolution Soccer outside Japan); Namco Bandai’s Ridge… → Read More
Nintendo has let the world know that the DS is the single best selling video game console of all time in the U.S. Of all time~! It makes you wonder whether or not Nintendo really ought to be concerned at all with the likes of mobile phone-based gaming. After all, isn’t Angry Birds, the single most important video game of all time, now available on non-mobile phone platforms? → Read More
Duke Nukem Forever has popped up on Amazon and GameStop with a May 31, 2011 release date. Considering both pre-order pages are linked from the official Duke Nukem Forever Web site there’s probably a good chance that the game will be spinning inside your 360/PS3 on (or by) that date. → Read More
We’re rapidly approaching the release of the Nintendo 3DS, and all sorts of things are being speculated right now. The latest concerns the price: what will it be? Nintendo has already said that it’ll launch on February 26, and that it will retail for JP¥25,000. That converts, at time of writing, to around $306. But will it actually be that expensive? → Read More
Trusting in TorrentFreak’s numbers, Call of Duty: Black Ops was the most downloaded (read: pirated) game of 2010. You probably could have predicted that, but there’s something far more interesting in the Xbox 360 numbers, and it’s that Black Ops was only the fifth most pirated game of the year. The number one Xbox 360 game on this ignominious list is Dante’s Inferno. That’s an odd one. → Read More
How many of you played Resident Evil 4 and thought to yourself, “Man, Leon has a really nice jacket”? I certainly did. Like, I really did: I walked around stupid New York trying to find a jacket that even resembled his jacket. No luck. If only Capcom had thought of this sooner, then. → Read More
OK, this is great. It’s a “real life” version of Call of Duty, complete with a guy running around in an old Andriy Shevchenko shirt. Oh, how I laughed! → Read More
It’s the end of the year, and that means many publications are rolling out their annual “best of” list. I don’t know if *we’re* doing anything along those lines, but I *do* have a bone to pick with 1UP. They’ve a delightful little list of 10 things the Xbox 360 did to change gaming forever. You already know most of the list before reading it: Achievement Points, Microsoft Points (1UP calls… → Read More
It seems like it was only *the day before today* when in-game ads were all the rage. I even remember candidate Obama taking out campaign ads in one of those racing games. Those days may be coming to an end, with EA saying that micro-transactions, and not in-game ads, are the *true* source of additional revenue for publishers. That’s good news and bad news. It’s good news for those of you who… → Read More
Not to alarm you all, but Steam has just started its annual Holiday sale. There’s a new user interface going on and I have no idea how to navigate it. Exciting! → Read More
My bad, guys. I had meant to post this two days ago, but I was busy meeting a super-secret company in preparation for CES. At the very least I now know CES will have at least one fun device to look forward to. Moving on. This here is a video talking about Rockstar’s brand new motion capture technology that’s being used in the creation of LA Noire. → Read More
Did we all beat Fallout: New Vegas yet? It’s been two months now, even if the latest game-saving patch only came out on Monday for the PC. (Xbox 360 users are still waiting for the patch, as a matter of fact.) In any event, I’ve just stumbled across this trailer for a fan-made movie called “Fallout: Nuka Break.” It is, in fact, surprisingly well done. → Read More
Bad news, sports fans. It looks like Square Enix has had to delay to the release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution from early 2011 to sometime in April. And that’s not even the worst news for Squeenix this day. → Read More
Nintendo has sent certain media outlets an invitation to some sort of event in Amsterdam on January 19, 2011. Considering Nintendo has already said that the 3DS will be released on February 26, 2011 in Japan (and in March elsewhere around the world), what could this mean? → Read More
Now available on an Xbox 360 console near you: Quake Arena Arcade. It looks to be a fairly straightforward port of Quake Live (which is to say, a fairly straightforward port of Quake III), but this time you’ll have to pay 1,200 Microsoft Points for the privilege. Then you have to convince yourself that playing the game with a console controller isn’t anything to be ashamed of—easier said… → Read More
Good Old Games is having itself a bit of a holiday sale (not that their prices aren’t already low!) that you’d be a fool to pass up. Highlights include Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate 2 for $6.99, Planescape: Torment for $6.99, Icewind Dale and Icewind Dale 2 for $6.99, Gothic and Gothic 2 for $6.99 each, and, to pick something that’s not an RPG, Duke Nukem 3D for $2.99. Why pay $60 for a… → Read More
Fact: if you install Gran Turismo 5 on your PS3′s hard drive you’ll speed up loading times. Additional fact: if you install Gran Turismo 5 on your PS3′s solid state drive (SSD) you’ll speed up loading times considerably. And yes, you can even try this at home—maybe! → Read More
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has become the fastest selling PC game of all time. Blizzard sold 3.3 million copies in a mere 24 hours. Assuming everyone paid $40 for the game, that works out to $132 million in first-day sales alone. Not too shabby! → Read More
Raise your hand if you watched the Spike TV video game awards on Saturday. There were a few noteworthy developments to come out of the program, but the biggest feeling I got out of it was, man, this is not what I envision when I think about games. At one point, one of the guys on stage said something along the lines of, “Heh, my GamerTag is ChokeNutz.” A grown man actually said that! That’s… → Read More
A handy e-mail I just received has brought good news: Nintendo‘s Shigeru Miyamoto has been profiled in the New Yorker! About time the man has been honored with a sufficiently fancy interview from the sufficiently fancy magazine. → Read More
There’s two big stories coming out of November’s NPD numbers. The first is that Microsoft somehow managed to sell more Xbox 360s than Nintendo sold Wiis, with Microsoft selling 1.37 million to Nintendo’s 1.27 million. That’s probably the result of the Kinect. The second is that, yes, Call of Duty: Black Ops sold a whopping 8.4 million units. Good on Activision, swimming in piles of coin. → Read More
One of the last “big” releases of the year is Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam, a multi-player expansion pack that’ll be available on December 21 (or three days earlier if you pre-order on Steam). It’s safe to say Matt and I are looking forward to it (I’d be looking forward to it even more if I could fix that weird crash-to-desktop bug I keep running into with my Radeon.) In any event… → Read More
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is now live all around the world! And of course, it wouldn’t be a Blizzard launch without an equal amount of bugs and QQ. So join me as we scour the Internet looking for reaction to Blizzard’s latest! → Read More
In walks Steam, trying to build an actual community around its handy little platform. It’s called the Great Steam Treasure Hunt, and it’ll have players doing all sorts of fun, community-type things, like earning achievements and jointing groups! Wheeeeee! → Read More
“There is definitely going to be an EA Sports MMA 2.” That’s the big news coming out of yesterday’s Figure Four Daily interview with EA Sports MMA producer Jeff Ecker, who said that it’s not “if” but “when” there will be a sequel. So, hooray! → Read More
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