With PAX East 2011 just around the corner, everyone on the internet is all a-Twitter (pun intended) about the panels, the parties, and the concerts. Except for me. For one omega-exciting reason: the Omegathon. Because randomly selected alongside 19 others out of tens of thousands of pre-regged attendees was none other than yours truly. My
Bethesda Softworks announced yesterday that Lucy Lawless (of Xena: Warrior Princess fame) will lend her voice to its upcoming game Hunted: The Demon’s Forge. Hunted is a fantasy action game that will be released June 1 in North America and June 3 in Europe for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Games for Windows. Lawless adds
In a shocking turn of events, the Nintendo 3DS sold out pretty much instantly when it became available in Japan. Customers began lining up at game stores often before midnight the night before the release of the 3DS, and most shops began announcing that they were sold out as early as 9:30 AM the morning
Earlier this month, French gaming website GameBlog.fr reported that a Blizzard theme park would be built in Wunjin district, China. Called Joyland, the park was supposedly themed around Blizzard’s two most popular games: World of Warcraft and StarCraft. But, thinking it was too good to be true, many discounted this report as nothing more than
Yesterday, an artist named Jayme Gordon slapped DreamWorks with a lawsuit for allegedly stealing his idea for a work titled Kung Fu Panda Power. Gordon, who is notably not the first to sue the company over this movie, claims that DreamWorks used both his title as well as characters that bore striking similarities to ones
Magicka is described as “an action-adventure game set in the fantasy world of MidgÃ¥rd, where elemental magic rules the land, goblins and trolls are perfectly harmless — well, perhaps not entirely, and all the villagers are wise-cracking smartalecks.” Though technically correct, to rely solely on this description would be to overlook some of the key
Back in the day, it took up so much time out my day to eat sushi and candy separately. But now that Japan has combined them, I have much more free time! Really though, Japan never ceases to come up with things shaped like other things. Mainly things shaped like sushi. Erasers, pillows, and now
Today OnLive launched PlayPack, its flat-rate, pay-per-month video game plan. The plan offers 38 video games and costs $9.99 per month, with the first month offered free as a trial. Steve Perlman, founder and CEO of OnLive, and John Spinale, the VP of Games and Media, both cite enormous consumer demand for all-you-can-play plans as