In Real Life

Is It A Dead Ball Situation When MLB 2K12′s ‘Zombie Player’ Walks On The Field?

If this is the end of MLB 2K12, I suppose we couldn’t say goodbye to the series without one final, terribly embarrassing glitch. Everyone, say hello to the zombie player, thanks to this video by YouTube user bobtrain. Zombie player walks to his position in the middle of play when you pull a double switch, and you’ll only see it if the path the player takes to his position can be seen from the pitching view. Obviously, swapping the catcher delivers the most hilarious results, seen here.


February 27, 2012
Xbox

OK, Now We’re Just Being Trolled About Fez

How long has Fez been in development? I can remember my pal Sander going all OMFG showing me this video of the thing while we were goofing off at work. That was before I worked here.


In Real Life

This Probably Isn’t What EA Sports Had In Mind For SSX

In my demo impressions, I suggested that you lay off the stick because the physics lends itself (themselves?) to oversteer. Some dudes in Europe took that advice to the extreme and this what they got: You can finish a race without touching the controller.


December 23, 2011
Nintendo

Club Nintendo Calendar Invents A New Month

Announced this summer, Club Nintendo’s gifts were customarily dumped on, then turned out to be not that bad. For the platinum level, anyway. Elite level members had to settle for a desk calendar. And one containing a new month, between October and December, named “Nobember.”


November 25, 2011
PC

I Am Alive Creator Insists He’s Not Opposed To PC Port

Yesterday, Stanislas Mettra was quoted by IncGamers as saying some, well, very inflammatory things about why I Am Alive, the upcoming downloadable title for Xbox 360 and PS3, didn’t have a PC port. Mettra’s now written us — not to give the usual misquoted, or out-of-context dodge — but that if his words sound a little extreme, it’s because he is not a native English speaker.


November 24, 2011
PC

I Am Alive Creator Pisses Off PC Gamers

Here’s a heartwarming tale full of good holiday cheer. In an interview with IncGamers, Stanislas Mettra, the creative director behind Ubisoft’s thought-provoking survival tale I Am Alive said chances of a PC port are about zero because a) um, piracy and b) lol, nobody buys PC games anymore.


November 18, 2011
News

Modern Warfare 3 Developer Pleads For Better Metascores, Discovers That’s A Stupid Idea

Why someone from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 developer Sledgehammer would consider its fan-voted Metacritic score worth a get-out-the-vote tweet is utterly beyond me. It is by far the most polarising title among gaming’s annual releases, so a user score of 1.7 is probably to be expected, given how much gaming’s snobs cognoscenti despise all that it stands for.


November 7, 2011
PC

Pirates Unwelcome At Swedish Games Expo

Sweden’s Pirate Party had a booth all paid for at this weekend’s Gamex, the nation’s largest video games expo, until someone from Gamex came to their senses, phoned the pirates and said GTFO. The real head-scratcher is why, as Piratpartiet says, they were invited in the first place.


October 28, 2011
In Real Life

Bikini Babes, Midgets And Condoms Get A British Retailer Uninvited To Game Awards Show

Someone forgot to tell Grainger Games that the Games Media Awards are not the David Hasselhoff Roast. The games seller showed up at the UK gala with bikini-clad models, midgets, a giant orange Hummer and branded condoms and are henceforth retailer non grata, say organisers.


October 14, 2011
PC

EVE Apostates Receive A Deep Fiasco-Inspired Discount

Last week, the game’s CEO prostrated himself before the mercy of the community last week; this week, EVE Online declared it is offering deep discounts to those whose subscriptions to the sci-fi MMO lapsed before or during the unpleasantness of the summer.