Tweet Let’s get one thing straight before proceeding: I hated the original Far Cry. It was a long, soul-sucking siege in a Hawaiian shirt that would have made Mother Theresa shank a kitten. So when I heard about Far Cry 2 being developed, my first thought was “Bloody hell, didn’t they play the last one? [...]

Tweet Hellgate: London – we hardly knew ye. As an MMO you were announced with much pomp and circumstance, a FPS – brawler set in a dystopian cyperpunk London where demons arose to turn the Britain metropolis into a romper-room for the nefarious powers. Alas, it was not to be. While I and my fellow [...]

Tweet If you’re a gamer, this movie will be especially painful to watch.  My hope going in, was that the movie adaptation of the Max Payne video game would be full of Payne … and it was, just not the kind I had hoped for.

Tweet Mere days after Gears of War 2 began popping up on various torrent sites there has been an arrest made in the case. Rodney Gray, 43, is a security guard employed by Technicolor, the Memphis Tennessee company that packages and distributes games and DVD’s in the U.S. According to a Memphis Police Department affidavit, Gray [...]

Tweet Game designer, Richard Garriott, who brought us Ultima Online and Tabula Rasa, took to the International Space Station via the Russian space program which set him back more than $30 million – instead of investing it in the suffering Tabula Rasa. Garriott took with him the DNA of twenty Tabula Rasa players and while [...]

Tweet Game auteur Will Wright attended the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards ceremony in New York, and Jim Reilly of Kotaku was there to ask him what he thought about the controversy surrounding his game.

Tweet In a Nevada lawsuit filed last week against publisher Take-Two interactive, former executive Robert Alexander is suing the gaming giant for $50 million. The lawsuit is the result of what Alexander claims is a breach of an oral contract. Alexander’s time with the company is long-standing, having been with T2 in some shape and [...]

Tweet Illinois developer Volition, the makers of Saints Row 2, are under fire today as the New York Police department came out swinging their PR-25 side-handled baton at the e-thug simulator. NYPD union boss Patrick Lynch told the Daily News of New York that “horrible and violent video games desensitize young people to violence while [...]

Tweet If you’re like me – and I know you are – you have been enjoying the Schadenfreude as Republican vice-presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin has been routinely savaged in the media. It would seem now that Gov. Palin has now been rendered into a “Sackgirl” via LittleBigPlanet. Yes, someone actually took the time to [...]

Tweet Vault 101 just got plundered. The eagerly anticipated Fallout 3 is nearly upon us, yet a full three weeks before its release rapacious pig-fuckers cracked the game and offered it via various torrent sites. This is the third AAA title that has been hacked and cracked in as many months, leaving publishers frothing at [...]

Tweet Finally, it all makes sense. Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has been taking shots from the mainstream media for her dearth of credible political inexperience and inability to form a cohesive sentence, has an excuse for her lack of foreign policy street cred: she’s too busy hunting demons. Literally. It has come to our [...]

Tweet The lexicon of American politics includes many derogatory terms: carpetbagger, hatchet man, or flip-flopper. Now we can add “Halo player” to the list. In the Maricopa County District 1 Supervisor race in Arizona, incumbent Republican Fulton Brock is slamming Democratic challenger Ed Hermes in his campaign literature as a “Halo gamer.”

Tweet First there was the Lancer Assault Rifle replica. Now, for your consideration, the brain trust at Globe skate footwear bring you the Gears of War Special Edition Co-op shoe. Chainsaw bayonet not included. The website declares that: “Globe has teamed up with EPIC and their Gears of War video game, one of the best [...]

Tweet According to Canadian developer Silicon Knights, the layoff of 26 employees was – ahem – too human. Joystiq reports that Silicon Knights is currently reshuffling talent for a forthcoming game. I don’t know about you, but when I shuffle a deck, I don’t throw away 26 cards during a game of poker. The official [...]

Tweet With perhaps the most parasitic addition to gaming culture since Uwe Boll, I give you “Gamer Grub”. Gamer Grub, as described by Biosilo Foods, is “a great tasting snack that boosts your core gaming systems, such as visual input, cognitive processing, signal transmission and muscle reflexes for maximum gaming performance.” Curious as to how [...]