News

Blizzard Would Do A ‘StarCraft’ Movie With James Cameron

StarCraft and Diablo maker Blizzard already has a World of Warcraft film in development with Spider-Man director Sam Raimi. What might twist the arm of Blizzard’s top creators to get a StarCraft movie underway? James Cameron might!


August 28, 2010
News

A Closer Look At The Kinect Beta’s Avatars And Dashboards

With the official Kinect Beta flooding out to those select few whom Microsoft invited to test out their upcoming motion gaming add-on, the images are already starting to stream in.


August 13, 2010
News

Give Your Avatar A Free Jordan Jersey

Preordering NBA 2K11 from GameStop will land your Xbox Live or PlayStation Home avatar a Michael Jordan No. 23 Bulls jersey for free. I hear if you pre-order Rock Band: Lollapalooza you get a Gary Trent Miami Heat model instead.


August 5, 2010
News

Smash Bros. Creator: Once You Go 3D, It’s Hard To Go Back To 2D

Masahiro Sakurai, the man behind Smash Bros., is now the man behind Nintendo 3DS game Kid Icarus Uprising. Is it his first 3D game?


June 15, 2010
In Real Life

Kinect Gives Free Helicopters To VIPs

At first I thought this was a Marine CH-46 ferrying a extremely large, green hot dog. No, it’s actually an Army Chinook carrying a raft. Microsoft gave out this Kinect Adventures Avatar toy to everyone at last night’s Kinect event.


May 12, 2010
News

Francis Ford Coppola Doesn’t Really Like Today’s 3D

Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the Godfather and Apocalypse Now, is not a fan of today’s 3D, stating it is no different from the technology available in the 1950s.


May 7, 2010

Every Girl’s Crazy ‘Bout A Sharp Dressed Avatar

Clothing puts flesh on the avatar.


News

Monopoly Gets The Grand Theft Auto III Treatment

After years of top-down and isometric views, EA is taking the Monopoly franchise to the streets, transforming it from board game to a “dynamic, living, 3D world”. Will this be Monopoly’s Grand Theft Auto III?


April 29, 2010
In Real Life

If Only The Avatar Game Manual Was This Amusing

It’s not. This is a pirated game manual. A really, really funny one.

Reader Andrew noticed this Avatar for the Nintendo DS manual at the game retailer where he works. The non-legit pirated game was inadvertently accepted as a trade-in — and whoever pirated this title went as far as creating a 20-something-page instruction manual that doesn’t so much explain how the game works, but ultimately roasts the hell out of it.

Choice bits from the manual:

“This is a pretty game that gives you a glimpse at the inviting world of Pandora, and there are a few interesting ideas buried within. However, the broken targeting system and inconsistent aiming constantly yank you from the reverie, and the story’s overt moralizing doesn’t do the game world any favours.”

“Avatar is sometimes boring and sometimes frustrating but rarely satisfying, and it can be safely categorized as ‘another movie game you don’t need to play.’”

“It’s like the Neverending Story, expect it ends, and the story stinks.”

The images in the manual are of the PC version of the game based on the Hollywood film.


April 23, 2010
News

Why Did The Avatar Game Fail?

Avatar is the biggest grossing movie of all time. It’s video game version is not. It is, instead, a miserable failure. Why?