Peter Molyneux is crying. I'm not sure how to react to this. Legendary game designers don't often get emotional with the press. But here's Molyneux, who has made so many games and done so many interviews over the past two decades, openly weeping into my voice recorder.
From the marketing to the name of the game itself, Titanfall pitches itself as a game defined by its use of giant combat mechs. And indeed, in your first few hours with the game, that'll be all you really pay attention to.
DsiderThis is exactly the kind of dangerous information one could bring into the past to COMPLETELY throw history off its course. And I love it.
One thing many Pokémon fans have in common is that growing up, we'd hear all sorts of stories about glitches and legendaries you could capture if you did something random and esoteric. Most kids, as we now know, were lying. Or well: it's more like they didn't know how to pull the glitches off, exactly.
Here is a full-screen version of Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 on several computer monitors. Just look at it all scrolled out before you. Do it!
DsiderKinda want to watch this instead.
Who would have thought that pulling key dialogue from the first season of HBO's True Detective (which ended last night) and matching it up with Looney Tunes, the results would be pretty neat.
DsiderSure, I needed more reasons to not own an xbone, go for it
Video games can be great place to escape the drudgery of the real world. No need to think about tax rates, paying utility bills or contractor rates when you're in a Halo multiplayer match. But the dirtiest competition in the real world—jockeying for elected office—might be landing up on an Xbox near you, if Microsoft can get political ads running on their platforms.
DsiderWhy
DsiderStrangely amusing, slightly unintelligble.
Sorry Kirk . You did a good job with all those words and feelings, but you're nae a Scottish man in a plush brown bathrobe and police hat.
I'm not sure what's most impressive here. The mere fact this looks like a working keyboard, the fact it works like a real keyboard, or that instead of a "Home" button it's got a little house that you press.
DsiderThe last odd rivalry I played became one of my favorite games of all time, so let's see how this one fares.
It's about time a game developer explored the complex relationship between members of the Ursidae family and pretentious art installations. And with a trailer narrated by The Stanley Parable's Kevan Brighting, no less!
I'd probably have panicked if back in the 80s G.I. Joes had watering cans and coffee jars as accessories instead of plasma rifles. But there are no such things in Twin Peaks, and it just makes artist Max Dalton's Twin Peaks action figure collection perfect.
Dsider:O
By now, with all the press about China, you've probably have some idea in your heads that certain Chinese cities are like the real life version of the dystopian cyberpunk worlds of Blade Runner and Star Wars. Sadly, China isn't all that advanced, but one building in Beijing definitely is.
DsiderTo which he responded, "GRANDSON I AM DISAPPOINT"
In Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, 66 year-old Kenichi Okada began building a 2 meter tall Z Gundam statue for his grandchild. He spent eight months working on the statue, which weighs 40 kilograms.
Dsidersigh
That's according to a Naruto fan site in Japan, known for posting spoilers. The site apparently received a message from a publisher, telling them to delete their articles and kindly asking them to shut down their site. Oh boy.
DsiderPretty amazing
There's no better way to beat The Rock than with a custom, skinny Conan character. Conan O'Brien is back with "Clueless Gamer" and this time he plays WWE 2K14. I'm glad they've spent time with the game's best feature: character customization.
DsiderI think we can all relate to this VERY well.
Back in mid-2012, for four minutes and six seconds, I thought the coolest big-budget video game I'd seen in years didn't have guns. I was wrong.
DsiderAGH STOP GETTING MY HOPES UP NOOOOOOO
Here's the newest trailer for the third Dragon Age game, out this fall for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, and PC. Damn, I say. DAMN. Just this one trailer is already more interesting and exciting than all of Dragon Age II. It's all in-game footage, too, according to BioWare boss Aaryn Flynn.
DsiderGot the email this morning... I'm so fucking sick of this shit.
Comixology—the digital comics storefront that pushes hundreds of thousands of comics to millions of readers all over the world—just informed users that they suffered a security breach. Okay, True Believers, you should know the drill by now: time to pick a new password.
DsiderThey sound like winners so far. We still need some field tests.
I eat a lot of cookies. Really, it's kind of a financial burden. One that just got worse when I walked into the grocery store and saw four new varieties of ice cream-themed Chips Ahoy, which I immediately bought and ran home to try.
DsiderI guess since they killed off all the GOOD game development arms already, they're finally going after the far lesser department. It's still not right, but at least we're not losing any quality products from this for once.
Disney has laid off 700 employees from their gaming division today, as the New York Times reports. That's 26% of their staff, and it's mostly in mobile, social, and web-based gaming.
DsiderHonest to god, I've never had a friend for that express purpose. I was, however, ALWAYS REALLY JEALOUS of anyone who had a handheld console of any kind. Even Tiger Handhelds. The day I finally got a Game Boy Pocket was easily a milestone in my life.
Admit it: as a kid you had at least one friend you hung out with simply because he had cool video games. It's a time honored tradition!
Forget typical 3D movies. Using virtual reality, you can now strap on a headset and walk through famous scenes of your favorite movies—like say, Miyazaki's fantastical anime film, Spirited Away.
DsiderIt's about a family of famous outbreak survivors who-- nah I'm just kidding.
One might wonder: how the hell do you turn a game as cinematic as The Last of Us into a movie? One will keep wondering. Sony's doing it, working alongside Naughty Dog and Screen Gems to make their PS3 hit into a film.
DsiderUh, okay? Also, get your shit together. Kirby is still the happiest gaming series. Yoshi's Island actually could get really difficult from what I remember, especially when a single hit from a boss meant no perfect score and you'd have to redo the entire level.
I don't remember any other Nintendo games starting with the above message, but, hey, sure, Nintendo. Why not? I've rated a level or two in Assassin's Creed. I've agreed to let my crash bugs be sent back to Microsoft. I just never thought that you, Nintendo, would need to see my gameplay data to make better games. World changed!
It seems like a spaceship arriving to another planet, but it just happened right here on Earth. It's an actual image from the successful Morpheus vehicle test completed today at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility. There's great video too.
Dsiderfffffffffffff
DsiderTakes a really long time to actually get interesting, but I like the concept. Just not the musical piece itself that much.
It's always lovely when the cultural iconography of gaming fuses with other forms of art to become something new, wonderful and different. Six Pacmen is one such work of art.
DsiderNo, it's not that *other* World Domination series. Sounds like the powers are a little too vague just like Hamatora. Kinda interested but I'll wait until I hear more.
First you take a world-shaking event, add some superpowers, and you've got, well, the basis for most of your generic superhero stories out there. Now add messed up character relations involving romance and murder, and welcome to Big Order.
Our desks say a lot about our work—and a lot about us. Let's have a look at the desks and tables of many of Japan's biggest manga artists. These are the birthplaces of some of your favorite manga—and anime.
DsiderI saw a trailer for this a long time ago, I would say I'm looking forward to it but I don't even fucking know if it'll come out here.
Freedom Wars is the upcoming hunting game for the PS Vita where you play a prisoner working off a million year sentence . In the game, players work together along with android companions called "Accessories." Apparently these Accessories can talk and I want to hear what they have to say.
