News

‘PlayStation Is The Most Powerful Game Brand In The World’

6:00PM Today | Steve Peterson

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … More »


In Real Life

Game Jam Letters: No Country For Old Men

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5:00PM Today | Mark Serrels

Tracey,

This is no country for old men. The young developers come in swarms, in t-shirts featuring slogans, jokes I’m not cool enough to understand. They speak in tongues that my fragile brain rejects. They devour pizza at speeds I cannot comprehend.

This is no country for old men. More »


In Real Life

Red Dead Redemption Voice-Actor Details Cast’s ‘Redneck Zombie Romantic Comedy’ Quasi-Reunion

5:00PM Today | Kirk Hamilton

The cast of Red Dead Redemption are no strangers to rednecks, nor to zombies — Rockstar’s wild-west open world game featured plenty of the former in its original incarnation, and added an invasion of the latter added to the game via downloadable content. More »


In Real Life

Game Jam Letters: I’m At A Racecourse

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2:00PM Today | Tracey Lien

“Well, I have no idea where we are.” My dad has offered to drive me to Sydney’s Game Jam because its Rosehill Racecourse location is awkward to get to. “What do you mean you have no idea where we are?” I say in a high-pitched voice that is almost breaking. We’ve been in the car for a while. I’m kind of sweaty. “Didn’t you say you used to work at Rosehill?” “Yeah, I did,” my Dad replies. “Back in 1986.”

And so begins my first Global Game Jam, stuck in a car circling Sydney’s South-West in search of a racecourse. More »


PC

Delayed! Aliens: Colonial Marines For Spring 2012

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1:30PM Today | Logan Booker

It’s the worst kind of surprise, and I feel bad because we just posted the new trailer. But it’s been confirmed — we won’t be seeing Aliens: Colonial Marines until September, at the earliest. More »


In Real Life

The Week In Unbelievably Gorgeous Screenshots: Bioshock And Mass Effect 2

1:00PM Today | Kirk Hamilton

Since we ran a feature on Duncan Harris, the groovy “video game photographer” behind the website DeadEndThrills, I’ve been sharing some of his work each week here. More »


PlayStation

No More Resistances, Says Insomniac CEO [Updated]

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12:30PM Today | Logan Booker

Games are wont to end as trilogies. Going by Gears of War, Mass Effect, Halo and countless others, you could say it’s an unwritten law. Much like The Dude, Insomniac’s PlayStation-exclusive Resistance franchise will abide, with CEO Ted Price informing VG247 that the developer “won’t be making any more Resistances”. More »


News

101 Seconds Of Soulcalibur V, Which Sure Seems Better Than IV

12:00PM Today | Nick Vannucci

I played a little bit of Soulcalibur V today. I recorded some of it, cut out all the parts where I lost horribly, and made this video for you to watch. More »


PC

Dramatic New Trailer For Aliens: Colonial Marines

12:00PM Today | Kirk Hamilton

Slow-mo trailers are all the rage these days, usually depicting extreme violence set to moody, emo pop music. It’s certainly become a popular practice in gaming advertising, and with good reason — those moody, introspective ads for intense action games can be pretty cool. More »


In Real Life

Why I Don’t Want To Smell Video Games

11:30AM Today | Tim Rogers

The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone, and still no smell-o-vision inventor has stepped forward to wave the flag violently enough. More »