Getting Married with Portals
Monday, August 22nd, 2011[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8SdYz7cq04[/youtube] Hardly news, we know. But Portal 2 fan Gary Hudston went looking for a level designer to help him propose to his girlfriend Stephanie through his favorite game. Not only were several unique maps created for this most epic of marriage requests, but Ellen McLain reprised her role as GLaDOS specifically for the project. [...]
1 Comment‘Fable 4′ Scheduled for 2013
Monday, August 22nd, 2011Fable: The Journey won’t be the last we see of Albion. According to Official Xbox Magazine (discovered by Eurogamer), we can “look for the Fable cycle to continue with a proper, controller-based Fable 4 in 2013.” No other details were given, but the rumor mill has conjectured that this Fable 4 may be one of [...]
2 CommentsXBLA Getting ‘Sonic CD’
Monday, August 22nd, 2011UPDATE: Sonic CD has been confirmed for XBLA, PSN, PC, Android, the iOS, and Windows Phone. (via 1UP) Elder Geek’s #1 Sonic the Hedgehog game is coming to the Xbox Live Arcade. A post from Xbox’s Major Nelson advertising the playable games from Microsoft at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo included Sonic CD in the [...]
Comments OffUbisoft Announces Abba Dancing Game
Monday, August 22nd, 2011The Swedish Sensation joins Michael Jackson, The Smurfs, and the Black Eyed Peas as the focus for an Ubisoft-produced dance game. MCV confirms the budget-priced, untitled Abba music-rhyhtm title for Q4 2011 in Europe, exclusively on the Nintendo Wii. No release date in any other region has been reported.
Comments OffMetro 2033 Video Review
Monday, August 22nd, 2011It’s not S.T.A.L.K.E.R. It’s not Fallout. It’s something entirely different.
1 CommentHUD: Blaming Video Games Racist? True Crime Still Alive and More!
Friday, August 19th, 2011Heads Up Display or HUD for short is a fast paced news show featuring everything you need to know about the gaming industry, and nothing more.
Comments OffPaypal Founder Takes The Original ‘Bioshock’ Really Seriously
Friday, August 19th, 2011OK, be honest, who isn’t surprised that in this crazy, post-Bioshock world, a wealthy Libertarian invests in creating an isolationist space for the elite? Peter Thiel, creator of Paypal, hasn’t quite gone to the extent of building a complete city underwater, but he is planning on creating island micro-nations free from all national laws.
8 CommentsFirst ‘Portal 2′ DLC Pack Coming Next Month
Friday, August 19th, 2011Doug Lombardi, Vice President of Marketing at Valve, recently dropped the release for the first downloadable content pack for Portal 2. Speaking to Kotaku at Gamescom, Lombardi confirmed the pack will become available sometime in Mid-September. Considering earlier claims by the company that the DLC will arrive before the end of Summer, that means we [...]
3 CommentsNotch Wants to Settle Bethesda Lawsuit in ‘Quake 3′ Arena
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Proving yet again why he has become an icon amongst developers both independent and not, Markus “Notch” Persson has issued an official – and completely serious – challenge to Bethesda. The Zenimax-owned studio behind The Elder Scrolls franchise have threatened to go to court should the new game from Persson’s studio proceed with its current [...]
6 CommentsGamescom: Konami Debuts ‘Silent Hill: Book of Memories’
Thursday, August 18th, 2011As part of their morning press conference today, Konami introduced our first look at gameplay for the Vita-bound Silent Hill: Book of Memories. Expected to be a multiplayer action title of some variety, it was revealed that the designers at WayForward have taken the survival horror formula to the top-down shooter genre. The non-canon entry [...]
Comments OffGamescom: Wii Gets Non-Backwards Compatible SKU for Holiday Season
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Prospective PSP fans in Europe are getting a WiFi-less model of the handheld, and Nintendo has followed up with a similarly basic hardware revision to the Wii. The “Wii Family Edition” will debut for the Holiday season, and include all features of previous models save for backwards compatibility with the Gamecube (meaning both game disc [...]
1 CommentEA Gamescom Wrap-Up
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011There’s a lot of news floating around out there about Electronic Arts’ Gamescom press conference, so we decided to summarize the whole experience in one place for ya. Follow the jump for the complete portrait of EA’s presence this year at Gamescom.
4 CommentsHarmonix Details ‘VidRhythm’
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Alex Rigopulos, co-founder and CEO of Harmonix, recently spoke to Gamasutra about the company’s recent trademark, VidRhythm. The first iOS software from the house that Rock Band built, Harmonix Director of Communications John Drake later clarified on Twitter that VidRhythm is “not a game per se…it WILL, however, be funky”.
Comments OffBethesda Forums Possibly Hacked
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Bethesda was one of those hacked back in June, when cyber hacktivists roamed the internet in sudden droves. The developer may have suffered another attack, this time on its forums. Moderators issued a mass reset of user passwords, posting that there was a “potential breach of [the] forum user database” last Friday. Those on the [...]
Comments OffSony Gamescom Wrap-Up
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011UPDATE: Ubisoft also confirms Michael Jackson: The Experience, and new games in the Rayman and Lumines franchises for PS Vita. The Playstation brand was out in full force at Gamescom today, doling out a ton of information, most of it expected in some form. To help you wade through all the announcements, we’ve compiled all [...]
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