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TODAY ON KS: How Bulletstorm outdoes Michael Bay.
Unlike many first-person shooters, Bulletstorm doesn’t ask players to plod through a human meat-grinder with awkward mechanics. Rather, it allows them to swish easily through a cascade of gore and flailing body parts. Brian Howe talks about how this game is more fun than any action movie: Bulletsto
PAUSE: Survive the apocalypse with this Pip-Boy 3000 replica.
No one yet knows who made this Pip-Boy 3000, the trusty wrist-worn HUD from the Fallout series. But whomever it was has mounted it with an iPhone. And has won our respect. See more images here. –Lana Polansky
Stay on top of PSN status with this new iPhone app.
How many gamers learned of the Great PSN Crisis of 2011 when they vainly tried signing into their PSN accounts? Now that can all be avoided, because the PSN Status app has made it to the App Store: If you are amongst the millions of iPhone owners who also happen to have PS3’s, I’ve got the perfect
TODAY ON KS: Capsized aims high, but bangs its head on the cave ceiling.
Alien Trap’s Capsized wants to let you soar freely. It wants to give you the giddy joy of flinging your mini space marine into the despair of a gaseous hole. But Dennis Kogel reveals why Capsized, despite promising freedom of movement, is still too claustrophobic: For a short time, Capsized allows
Cheat Sheet 5/26: Minecraft is taking to the skies, Microsoft loses last Xbox founder
Here’s your mainstream videogame news for the day, made easy. –Australians who pre-order LoZ: Ocarina of Time for 3DS can get an actual ocarina and sheet music. -Developer Hothead Games announced a game based on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy book series. -The last remaining founder of the
NBC Universal’s SyFy Channel and Trion World to create a T.V. show/videogame hybrid.
In theory, this sounds kind of interesting. NBC Universal’s SyFy Channel and game developer and publisher Trion Worlds will be bringing a new kind of T.V. show to the summer of 2012. The show, entitled Defiance, will follow the general plot of a future Earth populated both by humans and by aliens. B
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