It’s E3 so there’s a lot of news floating around. Here’s the important stuff. –Halo 4, Fable: The Journey, Battlefield 3 announced -Sony unveils PlayStation Vita handheld. –Far Cry 3 trailer. –Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim gameplay trailer. –BioShock Infinite teaser. –Fruit Ninja, MineCraft come to Kinect
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Jim Blackhurst works at Square Enix and collects data and metrics for player behavior. The above video is a creation he rendered from more than 11 million player deaths in Just Cause 2.
Tetris is gunning for the Peanuts model of brand ubiquity: When it began early 30 years ago, Tetris quickly became one of the most popular video games sold. Now, the Tetris Company, which owns the Tetris brand, says it plans to expand beyond videogames and soon hopes to introduce dozens of new Tetri
Street Pass is this nifty feature on the Nintendo 3DS that lets the device automatically exchange information with other devices while you’re walking. So naturally that works best when everyone’s doing it. Nintendo is making it easier for you with a global Street Pass day to get people out walking
Brooklyn Rail takes a closer look at the videogame-inspired art of Cory Arcangel: “My art is anti-technology,” says Arcangel softly, his flecked blue eyes fixed over his computer, as he clicks out of his Twitter feed and into one of his 15 websites. “Even though I spend almost all my waking hours on
Do you have any stories about George Lucas? Which you can print? Um, maybe. We always had a little bit of this inferiority complex, because we would go to these company meetings and the different groups would present what they’d been doing for the last year. Industrial Light & Magic would go up ther
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We know mainstream videogame news is tough to keep up with. Help has arrived: –Konami remasters Metal Gear Solid, Zone of Enders, & Silent Hill for PS3. -All hail Wappy, the Nintendo DS-controlled dog. -Zynga preps a public filing. -Best fan-made Team Fortress videos announced. -EA starts its own di
If Minecraft has the elegant structure of a haiku, Terraria is a washed-up Beat poet who hasn’t slept for three nights, scrawling on sheets of paper-eccentric, eclectic, but still able to enthrall. Minecraft boasts a Zen-like lack of objectives and worldly possessions, but Terrariais filled with gad
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Soccer star Maradona sues Chinese company that allegedly wronged him. Argentinian soccer star Diego Maradona (who knows a thing or two about foul play) is unhappy with a Chinese company that he says stole his likeness. From China Daily: The9 Limited, an online game operator and developer in China, l
We know mainstream videogame news can be a slog. Here’s some help. -The PlayStation Store returns. -Classic arcade X-Men surprises the App Store. –Minecraft doc makers want your story. –Dirt 3 charity DLC represents. -Another Portal 2 robot lives. -Two decades-old Madden lawsuit wrinkles EA. –Modern
tinycartridge: Playing games in the car while nature waits outside, shot by Lori Paulson (click for a larger image). This was shot during a road trip from Seattle to Redding, California. Four friends decided to take a 1,200-mile drive and back to In-N-Out Burger, and this double exposure image captu
–Carmageddon returns. -Zynga presents Empires & Allies. –Here’s ten minutes of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. –Games headed to your Roku Box. –Split/Second developers regroup. -Some (obv) disgruntled about Call of Duty subscription plans. -DS Lite receives a price cut. See that wasn’t so bad. Image via.
What’s with Cole Phelps’s rotten attitude? Maybe it has something to do with living in an inescapable city full of people who are seemingly obsessed with him. Maybe those people represent something he doesn’t want anyone to know. Kirk Hamilton runs through the claustrophobic yet curiously empty L.A.
We make getting mainstream videogame news easy for you. Here we go: -Dust off your old receipt because GameStop will honor old Duke Nukem pre-orders. -World rally champion Colin McRae’s name was dropped from Dirt 3. –Gears of War 3 to feature Black Sabbath’s War Pigs. -What is Fusion and why is M
This infographic should handily quash any remaining enthusiasm over videogame movies. Assuming there is any. See the rest of it here. –Lana Polansky
Dani Lischinski of Hebrew University and Johannes Kopf of Microsoft have developed an algorithm which automatically re-renders 8- and 16-bit console games with HD graphics. Now, don’t get mad: this could actually make it really easy to enjoy old games while they look good on your new T.V.: While th
As part of the Obama initiatives to extend space exploration into deep space, NASA will be sending an unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid near Earth, finally bringing Asteroids into the real world. But this mission will be more about research and less about blasting space rocks: Actually, the OSIRIS
With plenty of time to campaign before the November election, New Zealand opposition parties have taken to using computer games as a way to communicate their platforms to young voters. The Green Party reappropriated Tetris to warn against lignite coal mining, while the Labour Party took a decidely m
