Monthly Archives: January 2011

Kotaku has obtained a video demonstrating how Avatar Kinect models the user’s face in order to create an expressive, speaking animation.

Check it out through the break.

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Epic’s released system specs for People Can Fly’s Bulletstorm. See if your PC is able to say “cock” with the best of them after the drop.

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PixelJunk Shooter 2 is the first proper sequel in Q-Games’ quirky series so far, and if new information is to be believed, it could very soon land in our eager little paws, complete with new bosses, loads of additional content, and a hard-fought multiplayer mode.

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Internet: [shouting] “Hey everyone, did you hear what Randy Pitchford said about Aliens: Colonial Marines?”

[Everyone stares forward in silent horror]

Internet: “Oh god… He’s right behind me, isn’t he?”

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In a detailed Q&A session with the Japanese site 4gamer.net, newly incumbent Final Fantasy XIV Online director Naoki Yoshida has detailed his approach to rescuing the floundering Square Enix MMORPG, commenting that he wants to bring the impact and atmosphere of global bestseller Final Fantasy VII to Eorzea.

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MegaLo Mania, Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer designer Jon Hare has trolled the 3DS, describing stereoscopic 3D as “a hardware gimmick” and criticising big budget production’s focus on showy graphics over design.

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Put it in your diary. EA will finally unveil much-antcipated DICE shooter sequel Battlefield 3 on that date.

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The game you love to love, then love to hate, then love to fling against a wall in frustration is back.

But now, everyone on the bus gets to kick back and watch your daily installments of Emotional Breakdown Theater.

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Former modders collective turned dev studio Unknown Worlds seems to be riding out from hobbyist to independent developer with their follow-up title Natural Selection 2, but the transition from Valve’s Half-Life engine to their own internally developed Spark is a little bumpier.

To ensure the new engine is competitive, founder Charlie Cleveland told Hooked Gamers that the team “are constantly loading Natural Selection 1, Team Fortress 2 and other games to compare Natural Selection 2 side-by-side with them.”

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The hotly contested Donkey Kong title has returned to New York’s Hank Chien, after a snowstorm kept the plastic surgeon inside long enough to tot up a whopping 1,068,000 points in a single session.

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Gamershell reports that Chillingo’s casual killer app, Angry Birds, has arrived on European and North American PlayStation Stores.

You’ll find it in the Minis section, so you can pop it onto your PSP or PlayStation 3 and find out what all the iPhoners are raving about.

This version contains 195 levels and 7 golden eggs, which is a lot of irritated avians.

Minecraft creator Notch and his team spend a lot of time tinkering with effects that never feel the light of day, but if you’d like to see the bug-ridden, wildly experimental, occasionally disastrously game-breaking results, you’ll soon be welcome to a daily install of the very lastest build.

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A new Dragon Age 2 developer diary has gone up on Gamespot. Lead writer David Gaider, lead designer Mike Laidlaw, senior writer Jennifer Hepler and executive producer Mark Darrah discuss Hawk’s varying personality, the world’s first interactive frame narrative, and the changing landscape of Kirkwall.

See the full thing through the break.

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Behemoth has a question – Who is the best Castle Crashers Arena Fighter in all the world? The answer will be found during the Tournament of Champions, and the newly identified king of the castle will walk away with a 24-karat gold-plated Xbox 360. It works, too.

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The Square Enix media blitz for Kingdom Hearts Re:coded continues ahead of this week’s release with a neat new trailer; feast your eyes through the break.

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Stardock CEO Brad Wardell has said redeeming his company’s products in PC gamers’ eyes is more important than a projected financial loss on Elemental: War of Magic.

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Is it any wonder we avoid Wii Fit when its only method of motivation is declaring us overweight every time we log on? The 3DS has a better idea; unlock exclusive in-game content as a reward for exercising. Goodness, Nintendo, that’s almost fiendishly clever.

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Qore episode 32 splashes across the North American PlayStation Network tomorrow, bringing with it many and varied delights, including a scintillating romp across the year that was, a gleeful flick through DC Universe Online, and most interestingly, bonus goodies in the form of a Qore subscribers-exclusive Killzone 3 desktop theme and Mass Effect 2 artworks.

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Everybody wants to go to E3, but this year it’s going to be harder to slip in unnoticed: the ESA has introduced a new ticketing system in order to combat counterfeit, scalped, and misplaced badge passes, and will no long pre-mail badges to journalists.

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The PlayStation 3 root key’s publication may well enable a plethora of useful, clever and harmless homebrew development, but it has also enabled this: a pirated copy of Konami’s Castlevania nestled on a PS3′s hard drive, for all the world as if it belonged there.

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