Xbox

Is This A Leak Of Halo 4′s Multiplayer Beta?

We’re in the red zone for pre-E3 bullshit. A week before the show is usually when we get a dumptruck full of fakes, bogus retailer listings and LinkedIn resumes confirming everything but the return of the Dreamcast. This, however, is so bizarre I’m compelled to share it. Because someone may be having a little fun here.


April 30, 2012
Retro

The Worst Book Covers Of All Time Have Destroyed My Faith In Humanity

The worst album covers of all time made me miss the good old times of record shops. These books, however, just scare me. They scare me because, with the advent of personal digital book publishing, things are probably going to get even worse.


April 19, 2012
In Real Life

These Wonderful Drawings Of New Video Game Ideas Barely Make Sense

Some video games operate around incredibly innovative ideas and it’s natural that the people behind them would want to patent them. And while those awesome ideas gets explained in page after page of text, sometimes it’s just better to draw how a mechanic is going to work.


February 28, 2012
PC

At Least In The New Syndicate They Don’t Run You Over With A Car

I know a lot of people have nostalgia for the 1993 Bullfrog classic Syndicate (myself included). I also know that critical reception to the new game has been a bit mixed. But I will say one thing the new game has going for it: At least they don’t recruit agents by slamming into total strangers with a hover car.


November 4, 2011
PC

Second Life Winds Up In FBI Gang Intelligence Dossier

Second Life isn’t simply a virtual realm where people starve horses, troll others having sex, and traffic in counterfeit groovie-goolies sex devices. No, it’s also a network through which gangs discuss and plot their evil deeds, says none other than the Eff Bee Eye.


October 21, 2011
In Real Life

Harmonix Should Make A Shooter, Says Expert

Fast Company, the business magazine read by movers and/or shakers, uncorked some outside-the-box advice for companies stuck in a rut. Harmonix Music Systems is on the list, it seems, because of stagnation in the music gaming genre, not necessarily because it’s spinning its wheels, but whatever. They are being advised to make, wait for it, a shooter.


October 20, 2011
In Real Life

Ultima Creator’s House For Sale For A Cool $4 Mil

Richard Garriott, the Ultima creator and space tourist believed to be the only private citizen to own property on an extraterrestrial body, is selling real estate here on Earth. For about $US4 mil you may claim the stately Texas manor owned by Lord British.


September 18, 2011
PC

New Video Game Delivers The Immersive Realism Of Waiting 5 Hours In Line At A Museum

A year ago, the contemporary artist Marina Abramovic held a show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, at which patrons waited in line for a very, very long time just to meet her. The excitement of that encounter is now chronicled in a recently launched free-to-play online game.


September 17, 2011
In Real Life

Man Pooing On Dead Hedgehog Is Not Necessarily A Video Game Metaphor

Hi there, smart guy. Yes, this is not germane to video games. That said, a dude pulling down his pants and squatting in the middle of the road over a deceased hedgehog, maybe spreading his butt cheeks a little and squeezing out a fudge dragon on its carcass, is something we can argumentatively link to the lamented state of a certain game franchise for purposes of a humorous poop-joke post to close out the evening.


September 16, 2011
PlayStation

Honey Badgers? In NBA Jam? It’s More Likely Than You Think

With the NBA lockout looking like it will wipe out a lot of games this year, some basketball video game makers are looking outside the league’s real-life rosters to create enthusiasm and interest. NBA 2K12 for example, is bringing 15 of the sport’s greatest players to life. NBA Jam‘s going with goddamn honey badgers.