Monthly Archives: March 2013

Building (Critical) Consensus: Tomb Raider

Lara Croft is back and rebooted in the new Tomb Raider. While the title may not be original, it’s still better than that last reboot we saw called Devil May Cry: Devil May Cry. Also, it seems that Tomb Raider overall was better than DMC: DMC. Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix were so confident in their game that the review embargo for the game ended eight days before its release. It turns out that they gambled correctly on this one. Read the rest of this entry →

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Tags: Crystal Dynamics, Lara Croft, Square Enix, Tomb Raider

Is Gran Turismo 6 Coming This Year?

Mar 4

Posted by Steve Murray

As a PlayStation guy, the discussion of road car, grand touring and sports car racing sims begins and ends with the Gran Turismo series. Even my friends who weren’t racing fans talked about the game and I can remember one long and heated discussion about the relative 180 made in handling models from GT1 to GT2.

According to an interview with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Senior Vice President Michael Denny, it looks as though Gran Turismo 5 wasn’t our only taste of Polyphony Digital’s epic racing series on the PlayStation 3. Denny might have let it slip that Gran Turismo 6 will be out this year. Read the rest of this entry →

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Tags: Gran Turismo 6, PlayStation 3, Polyphony Digital, Sony Computer Entertainment

Can You Name All 26 Famous Video Game Locations in This Video?

Dutch artist Tim Hijlkema has put together a video featuring twenty-six different famous locations from video games. It’s not a compilation of game footage, however. Hijlkema created new stylized art and animation for each of the worlds he recreated in this video. While the levels all look different, they retain the feel of the original games they were based on.

If you want the full list of levels and games in the video and a collection of wallpapers to go with it, click through to the original video on YouTube.

Posted on March 4, 2013 | Video

Geek Links of the Week

Mar 1

Posted by Steve Murray

While you’d be forgiven if you think that millionaire Dennis Tito’s plan to send a privately funded space mission to Mars and back is a bit outlandish, not everyone thinks it’s impossible. [Wired]

Kickstarter has become the medium of choice (for lack of a better term) for small game developers looking for funding for a new game. We know how it works from our end as backer. Now, a one-man dev team explains the process from the other side. [Gamasutra]

Uncharted 3’s multiplayer went free-to-play this week. At first glance, it doesn’t make much sense but I think it’s a brilliant business move and it may be copied by other games. [The Lowdown Blog]

Who doesn’t love a good gaming glitch? Okay, apart from people who got hosed by a glitch. Anyhow, here’s a look at a half-dozen unintentionally hilarious glitches. [Cracked]

Normally, I don’t run videos in the Geek Links but I love Conan’s Clueless Gamer segments so much that I had to make an exception. Here’s Conan O’Brien reviewing the upcoming Tomb Raider game.

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GoldenEye 64 in Real Life

I could be wrong but I’m not sure that there was a more influential title than GoldenEye 64. It is not only one of the best-reviewed first-person shooters of all-time, it set the bar for both FPSs and FPS multiplayer modes on the home console. Prior to GoldenEye, the first-person shooter was largely seen as a PC genre.

And that history lesson brings us to this video recreating GoldenEye’s multiplayer in real-life. Not only does it recreate some of the tactics that people used but the You Only Live Twice game mode and paintball mode easter egg. It’s all that you remember about playing GoldenEye with your friends in one video.