The Japanese role-playing game craftspersons at Compile Heart and Idea Factory give us moe, moe, moe of the anthropomorphic video game hardware ladies we’ve been looking for (foe?) when Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk. 2 hits the PlayStation 3 on February 28. What a handful! More »
Remember back in the early 90s when the CD-Rom format made it possible for computer games like 1992′s Night Trap or The 7th Guest to feature extensive badly-acted full-motion video? Gamecade Production certainly does. They’ve just released Survival 2: Get Lucky, a FMV-style dating game starring Josh Knechtly of the band Rootbound. Who? More »
What you’re looking at is obviously not the official map of The Legend of Zelda; it’s what The Legend of Zelda’s map looks like to themadjuggler, one of the many contributors to Mapstalgia, a website dedicated to reproducing video game maps from memory. More »
iCade, the iPad accessory that started as a April Fool’s Day evolves into an all-new form just announced at CES. iCade Mobile lets you slide your iPhone or iPad touch into a d-pad style sheath that provides physical inputs for your on-the-go gaming. More »
A new contender steps into the 2D fighting ring when 7sixty brings Japanese developer 5pb Games’ brawler Phantom Breaker to the North American Xbox 360 this spring. More »
Thanks to previous mini-series, Mass Effect fans have been able to learn more about characters like The Illusive Man and Aria T’Loak. Now the fauxhawked soldier who’ll be running alongside your Commander Shepard gets the spotlight in the first issue of the new Mass Effect: Homeworlds series. You can take an exclusive look at issue one’s covers in the images above. Written by Mass Effect 3 lead writer Mac Walters, each instalment of Homeworlds will focus on one of the main characters of the game. You can look for Mass Effect: Homeworlds to hit comics shops and digital storefronts this April. More »
Back when Mass Effect 2 was a single-player only experience, fancy armour and special weapons didn’t count for very much. Sure, they helped you in the game’s campaign mode but that was a finite, non-competitive experience. More »
Some of the previous looks at Rockstar’s upcoming hard-boiled shooter showed off series hero Max Payne out in the sunny environs of Rio De Janeiro, vacation shirts and all. More »
Way before dumb-ass pundits called it a “terrorist fist jab”, the act of greeting a homie by touching clenched hands was called dap. (We’ll also accept ‘giving a pound’ as appropriate terminology.) More »
Most game developments projects soliciting funding on Kickstarter make contributors into producers, fronting money to help creators achieve their vision. The guys at Adanac Entertainment are configuring the fund-raising efforts for their in-development RPG Runes of Ashmore a little differently. More »
