The Atari Museum is reconstructing several of the original company’s proprietary chips – including those from the 2600/VCS, 5200, and the 8-bit personal computer line – using data recovered from the reel-to-reel tapes used in their original manufacture.
Epic Games’ huge dude shooter Gears of War has been added to the list of Xbox 360 games available “on demand”, in the unlikely event that you don’t already have the seminal third-person chainsaw and shoot ‘em up.
Defolma may not be a massive boss monster, but with squid-like arms, a mouth on the top of its head, and a penchant for tight spaces, the latest addition to Lost Planet 2′s akrid population is nothing to scoff at.
Good news! While the Japanese have been enjoying three-dimensional nonogram bliss for the better part of the year with Rittai Picross, the localised, announced, but not dated Picross 3D has been pegged for a February 2010 release date! In Europe!
The previously featured DM_Spectrum, the lovely looking, brightly colour-coded map for Unreal Tournament 3 that lets you make another killing on the dance floor, is now available for download, developer Matt Bradley tells us today. Now we’re telling you.
Russ Frushtick at MTV Multiplayer was following the progress of a musical group that wanted to remake the music in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time with a real orchestra. Today, he reports, they’ve finally finished their work.
The countdown of my personal picks for the best games of 2009 is now underway. For the next two weeks I’ll be running down my top ten. At #8 we discover how one man wall-jumps through the military-industrial complex…