#epic
What is it with Epic games and GIANT BOOTS? Does everyone in the dark, gun-riddled, post-apocalyptic future suffer from severe orthopaedic ailments? And if so, who makes them? Was Marcus Fenix once a cobbler? More »
Milo may have wandered off from the safety of the pond and into the jaws of a balverine. A Eurogamer source tells the site that Lionhead's Kinect-powered Project Milo was canceled yesterday, with 19 contractors let go. Surviving staffers on the boy simulator team will allegedly use the tech on a "Fable themed Kinect game."
Lionhead told Joystiq today that it "cannot comment on rumors or speculation." In late June, the studio dismissed prior cancellation rumors by showing a photo of the team hard at work. That didn't happen this time. Studio head Peter Molyneux had mentioned in recent months that Milo had become a "very, very big tech demo." Perhaps it was time to finally focus on a commercial product and bury the boy alive. (Wow, that's terrifying imagery.)
D2D introducing new daily discounts and weekly $6 titles this week, with slate of more than 20 heavily discounted games introduced throughout the month.
#clips
Perhaps calls out is too harsh a phrase. Really Lucas Molyneux just asks, almost begs, Valve's Gabe Newell for more details on the perpetually not-finished Half-Life 3. More »
Writing about games always comes with a peculiar kind of self-defeating dissonance. This morning, I might have grabbed a metaphorical megaphone and shoved it in some ebert's ear, right before laying out why Shadow of the Colossus is such a magnificent meditation on loss and sacrifice and etc. "Games involve and encourage and inspire!" I'd say. "It's for grownups, you know."
And then, just a few hours later, I'll write about a game that's awesome because it lets you kick people to death.
#mods
This is such a great idea I can't believe this is the first I'm hearing of it: it's a Team Fortress 2 mod where one team plays as a team, and the other team plays as Saxton Hale. More »
Here's why it's important to beat the ESRB when spilling details on your game. We were so excited to see a listing for THQ's revamped You Don't Know Jack on Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 ... until we read the description and examples of YDKJ's "crude humor."
"The ending credits contain audio commercials of fictitious TV reality programs (e.g., "Farting with the Stars"), which are accompanied by loud flatulent sound effects."
#121
Irrational Games was founded in 1997. Lucasarts in 1982. Sega in 1940. Each of those three companies may feel like old-timers relative to their field, but they've got nothing on Nintendo, which todaycelebrates its 121st birthday. More »
#lego
While Blizzard and LEGO continue to sleep on what would surely be a trillion-dollar industry, it's left to fans to come up with their own brick-based creations based on Starcraft II. More »
#art
Artist Jon Hansen walked into a second-hand store, saw a pile of awful Thomas Kinkade rip-offs, and had an idea: to make them better. By adding some Street Fighter. And Space Harrier. More »
Sony-owned studio Media Molecule has announced that LittleBigPlanet 2 will miss its original November 2010 release date and arrive sometime during January 2011. Writing on the official website, the development team expressed disappointment, but deemed the extra time necessary to deliver "the experience that our great fans and community deserve."
"We've all been working like powered-up space ninjas and we're almost there, but because we love what we've made, and we love our little sack-friends, and most of all we love all our fans out there, we couldn't let you all get together until we knew we were giving you the best experience imaginable."
Considering the complexity seen in some of the game types and levels in the LBP2 beta so far, fans can clearly imagine some impressive experiences already. We'll see you next year, Sackboy.
#crime
Angie L. Jenkins told a boy she played World of Warcraft with that she was 21. She's actually 35. He told her he was 20. He was actually 15. More »
#ruhroh
Denby Grace, the senior producer for 2K Games' Mafia II has apologized for a flip answer to a rather stock interview question in which he said "gay space marines" were the biggest problem facing video games. More »
#clips
Yun and Yang, the two new characters in the Japanese arcade release of Super Street Fighter IV, are going at it in this gameplay footage. More »
#nintendo
The sharp-eyed bloggers over at Aggrogate noticed something amiss with today's issue of freebie New York newspaper Metro. Instead of a sexy cover for the pub's Sex Issue, the Metro was wrapped with a faux cover dedicated to the panic in London caused by puzzles. More »
#streetfighter
As someone who actually owns Street Fighter IV on PC, this makes me a little sad: it doesn't look like Super Street Fighter IV will be gracing the platform. More »
