Ouya's Android-based gaming console is reaching the hands of developers this week, and some lucky recipients have taken to YouTube to share impressions of the early hardware and its user interface. Code Zombie Games has uploaded a lengthy overview of the entire kit as the studio works to port an...
Promising even in non-final form
With their polygonal shapes and simple textures, classic video game characters make ideal subjects for papercraft, the origami-like art of creating 3D models using specially-printed sheets of paper. DeviantArt user Destro2k — real name Dominik...
Microsoft says it will provide affected users with an automatic one-month extension to the company's Xbox Live gold service following an outage related to a Cloud Saved Games feature. Everyone impacted by the outage will get the free extension after the cloud feature dropped offline for many late last week. Following a two-day outage over the weekend, Microsoft's engineers had "been working...
Following in the footsteps of a recent Command & Conquer remake, Russian developer Aleksander Guryanov has created a full HTML5/JavaScript port of the 1992 title Dune II, allowing gamers to enjoy classic real-time strategy (RTS) gameplay in most modern browsers. The implementation is based on the work of the OpenDune project, an effort to create a fully open source version of the seminal game, and is remarkably faithful to the original.
From DOS to JavaScript
As part of its ongoing Countdown to 2013 promotion, Microsoft is today offering episodes two through five of The Walking Dead for half off on Xbox Live. The game's first episode remains free after going on sale Christmas day; that discount will run until December 31st. But you'll have to act today if you want Episode 2: Starved for Help, Episode 3: Long Road Ahead, Episode 4: Around Every...
Episode one is still free for a limited time
At GameStop's refurbishment facility in Grapevine, Texas, wiping personal data off devices is one of the very first tasks workers perform. Still, that didn't stop two children from seeing pornographic images on a Nintendo 3DS this Christmas morning. According to KUSA 9News, Colorado father Mark Giles bought his five-year old son a refurbished Nintendo 3DS system with nine such images, and only...
Sony will no longer ship the PlayStation 2 to Japanese retailers, according to Famitsu. At over 150 million units sold worldwide since its launch in Japan on March 4th, 2000, the PS2 is the most popular home console of all time by some distance, and has demonstrated impressive staying power. It still sees occasional new software releases in Japan, despite the fact that its successor, the PlayStation 3, was released back in 2006, and a fourth home system from Sony is expected to make an appearance in 2013. There's no word on whether Sony plans to stop sales in other regions around the world,...
The Dead Space series is fundamentally about jump scares: the monster that bursts out of the wall or impales your favorite character, the hallucination that disappears when you turn your head. So it's supremely fitting that Dead Space 3's Kinect controls will respond to your reflexive swearing. In an interview with CVG, executive producer Steve Papoutsis says that certain voice commands will take advantage of the common reactions to horror games. "There are commands where you might be in a certain situation," he says, "and you might yell a specific expletive and it might behave in a way that you want it to." People will "need to figure...
The first developer kits for the highly-anticipated Ouya gaming console are shipping out earlier than expected. As pointed out by SlashGear, one customer has posted the text of their shipping notification in a thread over at the Ouya forums, with several individuals on Twitter also remarking that their devices are on the way. Ouya had originally announced that the first batch of developer kits would be shipping out tomorrow, December 28th —...
Developers, start your engines
The web page for self-styled "realistic" shooter series Medal of Honor no longer links to sites selling real weapons. As part of the promotion for Medal of Honor: Warfighter earlier this year, EA Games partnered with companies like Magpul, McMillan, and other makers and sellers of guns, knives,...
The first episode of Telltale's Walking Dead game may still be free on iOS, but if you'd rather play it on a full-sized console, here's your chance. For what Telltale calls a "limited time," you can get the first episode free through the Xbox Live...
By Dan Seifert and Andrew Webster
Traditionally, the holidays are for family. For many people, it’s a chance to see family members that may live a great distance away, spend time with new in-laws or new arrivals, and of course, exchange gifts. But frequently, those very...
Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP, the unique indie adventure game that blends beautiful pixel art with an atmospheric soundtrack from Jim Guthrie, is available now on the Google Play Store. It's not the first time the game has been playable on Android devices — a beta version came out as...
Rockstar Games has made available free printable maps for three games in the Grand Theft Auto series. Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas were all released first on the PlayStation 2, but have recently received a new lease of life on more modern platforms: GTA III came out on mobile devices late last year, Vice City joined it this month, and San Andreas was released...
In an attempt to open a dialog with torrent enthusiasts, the producers behind Minecraft: The Story of Mojang have willfully uploaded their movie to The Pirate Bay. The documentary, which premieres exclusively on Xbox Live today, traces Minecraft's...
After starting life as a Windows Phone game, Wordament soon picked up Xbox Live achievements on Microsoft's mobile operating system and made the jump to Windows 8. Microsoft is now taking it cross platform. Available for iPhone, Wordament is the first iOS game to use Xbox Live achievements....
Nintendo of America is offering some very practical advice on Twitter this holiday season. It's also possibly the most telling sign we've seen of...
A new exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image
Kingdom Rush is among the most addicting tower defense iOS games in the App Store, and it's currently available for free — down from a normal asking price of 99 cents. Be forewarned, however: this fantasy title is likely to consume you (and hours of time) as you work to defend your castle / tower from demons, trolls, orcs, wizards, and any...
In the middle of the night on November 30, 2012, Erin Palette's carefully kept world ended. During the last moments, her City of Heroes character Silence Do-Good held a torch aloft in her bright red-gloved left hand as a spiderweb of broken concrete spread out below her equally bright red,...
After temporarily suspending its operations on social media, the National Rifle Association held a press conference to address last week's shooting in Newtown, Connecticut — and among other things, it's placing some blame on Hollywood and the gaming industry. NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre told an audience that a "callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry" of video game, movie, and music video creators "portray life as a joke, portray murder as a way of life, and then have the nerve to call it entertainment."
Some of LaPierre's comments over games echoed discussion in recent days: he complained about "vicious violent...
Let's just lay it out there: Pyongyang Racer isn't going to take home any Game of the Year awards. But it does mark one notable achievement: the racer is reported to be the first game developed inside North Korea that's targeted at gamers outside the communist state. And that's really about the only praise we can level on the title, created by Nosotek as a marketing tool for Koryo — a travel company that specializes in arranging North Korea visits.
The "goal" of Pyongyang Racer is to...
Scuba, a free browser-based Flash game, may seem like a simple Minecraft or Terraria clone at first, but there’s a little bit more nuance to the game than that. Unlike Mojang’s runaway success, Scuba takes place underwater as you scavenge for...
22Cans, the new video game developer led by industry veteran Peter Molyneux, is celebrating tonight after its Godus project became the latest Kickstarter funding success. The goal of $450,000 was reached with under two days remaining, and at the...
Valve launched a limited beta of Steam for Linux back on November 6th — letting in just 1,000 users — but the company announced Tuesday that the program is now open to the public. Players participating in the beta can play Team Fortress 2, Portal, and Serious Sam BFE, and Valve plans to add additional titles including Left 4 Dead 2 in the future. While the effort to get Steam onto Linux is welcome news for gamers who already use the OS,...
Cut the Rope was a huge success on various mobile platforms, so it's no surprise that its Russian developer ZeptoLab went all-out on spin-offs and merchandising. Today, though, the company releases its first new game since that runaway hit: Pudding Monsters is now rolling out across the iOS App Store (unfortunately in separate iPhone and iPad versions), with an Android version also due today. It's a puzzle game that involves sticking blobs of...
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