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Welcome to another week of mainstream videogame news, made easy! -BioWare announces its PAX 2011 plan for Star Wars: The Old Republic. –Get the skinny on upcoming DeathSpank sequel, The Baconing. –See the latest screens for Goldeneye 007: Reloaded. -Activision’s Eric Hirshberg on why Call of Du
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Can anyone tell me what on earth is going on here? And also, can anyone remember ever actually playing this game? Because its existence is news to me. Still, this fast-cut shock-heavy ad seems to sum up the 90s pretty well. Well done, Midway! -Richard Clark [via]
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Author Maria Bustillos has penned an interesting article on criticism over at The Awl. She questions the presumed requirement of experience, that a critic needs only to have consumed more than others in order to be ready for the task at hand. What we really need is a critic who has got something int
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The future of toys is here, and it’s quadrilateral! Well, maybe—but this is nonetheless pretty cool. Meet Sifteo’s Cubes, the brainchild of MIT graduate David Merrill. These cute, “smart” little building blocks, set for release this September, made their debut as Siftables at the 2009 TED conference
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It’s that time again. Get ready for more mainstream videogame news! –Deus Ex gear infiltrates Team Fortress 2. -EA and Activision are still going at it. -Activision isn’t making friends with some social game companies, either. -The PixelJunk series is now taking on sidescrollers. Take a look. -E
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Nintendo’s shareholders have had a rough few weeks. But a dip in stock prices is not quite as earth-shattering as, well, the earth shattering. Realizing this, the Japanese company sent a small token of appreciation, a special-edition DSiLL (XL in America) with TV tuner capabilities, to families stru
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You know how it is. You’re minding your own business, eating a sandwich when you hear your aquarium shatter. You find your goldfish dying. Your room destroyed, you discover the source of all this destruction: Tekken 3. Also, note the end of the commercial, when claiming that a game isn’t, in fact, a
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Fear no more: instant mainstream videogame news has come to the rescue! -Sony panel looks into the future at Gamescom. -Take a look at Dante’s new moves in these new Devil May Cry photos and videos. –Borderlands 2 offering “millions upon millions of possible weapons.” Oh, joy! –Fall in love with th
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Get ready for a blast of mainstream videogame news! -Sony follows Nintendo’s lead and slashes PS3 price tag. -PS Vita to get social networking, Assassin’s Creed, more. -Epic Games confirms 5 new titles are in development. -Gameloft looking to hire 145 new employees. -Windows Phone 7 enthusiasts c
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Inspired by Islamic, Gothic, Archimedean and modern architecture, and reminiscent of the colors, caverns and trippiness of games like Psychonauts and Child of Eden, Architects of Air’s Luminaria have inflated all over the world. Designed by AoA leader Alan Parkinson, these interactive displays are m
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Permadeath. Fatalities. 1-Ups. Health regeneration. Dysentery. We understand these as part of the history of videogame mortality. While we recognize the conventions of death in videogames, we rarely think of videogame death treatment in terms of chronology. And that’s exactly what Patrick Shaw, ove
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A recent study from an unlikely source has put a spotlight on the importance of games to their female players. Seems that women are just as likely to play online as their male counterparts. The survey of 2,052 people was commissioned by Doritos and found that 49 per cent of women play online games,