Monthly Archives: January 2011

Warner Bros. seem to really, really like demonic “hottie” Mileena. To celebrate the cementing of the Australian release date, they’ve sent along a third trailer showing off a slab of gory gameplay.

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The Guinness World Record for “most people simultaneously playing on the same handheld” has been snatched up by a group of Odawara school kids armed with over eight hundred DS consoles.

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The attraction of virtual sports for me is correcting history. To go back and win the key match that doomed the season. To make the play that your star player fumbled. To ensure those legendary perfect games – every game.

The latest trailer for MLB 2K11 plugs right into that die-hard-fan section of the brain. Check out the Perfect Game through the jump.

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Kinect hacker extraordinaire Martin Szarski has built a homebrew analogue of Google Maps’ street view in full 3D, using a Kinect and a mobile phone. What did you do this weekend?

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Visceral Games’ Steve Papoutsis has said the original Dead Space’s weaponry needed tweaking for the sequel, to make it “more fun”.

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If the YouTube counter is anything to go by, you’ve probably already seen Beyond Black Mesa, the Half-life fan film. In which case you probably want to watch it again – or you’re sadly behind the times. Everybody through the jump!

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When Zeboyd Games started a donation drive to fund the PC port of Cthulhu Saves the World, the team set a goal of $3000 in one month.

They did it in days, and the numbers continue to climb.

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Are you tired of looking at 2D screenshots of 3D games? Then, my friend, you are tired of games media for the foreseeable future.

Samurai Warriors: Chronicles has the advantage over many Japanese launch 3DS titles in that it seems like you might not be done with it fourteen seconds in. Have a look at these 19 screens and tell me I’m wrong.

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Media Molecule co-founder David Smith has said that even before it completed global launch, LittleBigPlanet 2 left its precursor in the dust in terms of online users.

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Nikkei (via Andriasang) is reporting that PSP2 with come with 3G on-board, as previously rumoured, but won’t allow for phone calls.

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In what has to be the bargains of the century, UK retailer Argos is stocking the 360 version of Mass Effect 2 for the ridiculous price of £8, while Gamestop.ie (via Savygamer) has dropped its knickers as far as €6.

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The official box art for Mortal Kombat on PS3 has been revealed, Kratos included.

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EA Sports has provided some details of FIFA 12 in the latest issue of OPM UK, promising an “enormous shopping list” of improvements it wishes to make in its new game.

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Independent documentary company 2 Player Productions, famous for the first season of Penny Arcade: The Series and short behind-the-scenes videos for Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch, is to create a documentary with Mojang Studios, the developer of indie blockbuster Minecraft.

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Independent British consumer group Gamers’ Voice is planning to petition the Office of Fair Trading to investigate the persistent freezing and glitches it says are littering the PS3 and PC versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops.

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Sony Online Entertainment is to continue investigating problems with voice chat in DC Universe Online, and asked that anyone experiencing issues drop word via the official forums.

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Nintendo’s announced some 3DS tour dates for the UK, although at the moment only select members of the public will be getting their hands on the new handheld.

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SOE has released a new patch for DC Universe Online on both PC and PS3, which has been designed to fix some glitches and adjust the difficulty.

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A few new videos apparently showing Evil Ryu strutting his stuff in Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition have appeared.

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If, when you scamper out to buy your 3DS for somewhere between £220 and £240 on March 25, you find yourself unable to scrape together the extra cash to buy an actual game for it, don’t worry – there’s some pre-installed software on the system that you can play with in the meantime. And in typical Nintendo fashion, it’s all pretty inspired.

Face Raiders, aside from having the best name of any game ever except possibly WARFACE, is a quirky, surreal and hilarious minigame in which you use the 3DS camera to shoot at 3D images of your own winking, laughing face before they get close enough to give you a smooch. Mii Maker uses a photo of you to (almost) instantly recreate you as a Nintendified avatar. There are six different alternate-reality games, played with six different patterned cards. And the bundled 3D photo software is pretty cool, too.

I messed around with all of these bits and bobs at Nintendo’s event on Wednesday – find out what they are and what they’re like below.

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