Infinity Ward may have created Call of Duty but publisher Activision has always wanted to take the hit war-game series into different directions. Most of those efforts stalled — like the third-person variant that dev studio Sledgehammer was working on — and the public never gets to see what might have been.
Here is how you take a three-inch high plastic figurine and pull him into your 3DS, without wires, memory cards, or the device’s camera. Just set your character from Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure on that portal, and aim the 3DS at him, and wait for the beam of light. When I did it, I swear I felt the slightest tug when I lined it up correctly.
If you’re asking industry heavyweights to make a video to fire up kids about math and science, it’s probably no surprise that the video game maker is the one getting the most views.
Activision reveals the next entry in the Guitar Hero franchise, Warriors of Rock, featuring more than 90 tracks, a Gene Simmons-powered quest mode, and new challenges for every track in the Guitar Hero catalogue. Check out the first 35 tracks!
When Dead Space hits the Wii later this month it will be a mostly on-the-rails shooter. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be scary.
There aren’t quite enough DSi owners around yet to justify Vicarious Visions adapting their portable version of Guitar Hero to work with Nintendo’s latest portable, the developers told Kotaku this week.
If Bob Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower”, The Rolling Stone’s “Sympathy for the Devil”, Santana’s “No One to Depend On” and Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” can’t convince my hippie parents to play Guitar Hero 5, nothing will.
