Jim Sterling owns Microsoft completely in song in this week’s edition of Jim & Yahtzee’s Rhymedown Spectacular. [The Escapist]
Despite the fact that Microsoft’s used games policy for the Xbox One seems geared to benefit Gamestop, it seems a war is brewing between the two. Rumours suggest that Gamestop is handing out flyers explaining some of the Xbone’s restrictive “features.” [Gimme Gimme Games]
The developers of Oddworld say that they’re ready to release their game on Xbox consoles but can’t because Microsoft is stonewalling them with their no self-publishing rule. [Eurogamer]
Have you been looking for a fully-interactive map of the world of A Song of Fire and Ice (on TV as Game of Thrones)? I’ve got it for you. [QuarterMaester]
The WWE is really into mobile apps because it’s the latest shiny thing to grab Vince McMahon’s attention. The WWE is working on their second mobile game starring a wrestler as a race car driver. So wrestling writer extraordinaire Brandon Stroud recasts Mario Kart using WWE wrestlers. [With Leather]
Didn’t getting a PlayStation 4 launch title for free for being a PlayStation Plus subscriber sound almost too good to be true? Well, that’s because it actually is too good to be true.
Sony confirmed that the PlayStation Plus Edition of the PS4 launch title Driveclub is going to operate on a free-to-play business model. You can get the game for free but some of the game’s tracks and cars will be locked out until you buy them.
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There’s no Game of Thrones this week and won’t be until next year after last Sunday’s season finale. I’m not really sure what to watch on Sunday nights now. I suppose that I could watch The Killing… Ha! Like I’m going to waste my time with that (again)! Anyway, let’s do a Friday GoT post […]
It’s a common phrase from classic Superman stories. “It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Superman! … I think it’s Superman. He looks a little different, don’t you think?”
Okay, that hasn’t actually been said but you could certainly understand why someone would say it. Over the 75 years since Superman made his first appearance in Action Comics #1, he’s changed his look a few times. In fact, the man of steel has sported over 20 different looks between comics, movies and TV.
For a timeline at those different looks, we have a handy infographic to show all of Supes different costumes.
Love him or hate him, Phil Fish made a damn good video game when he and his team at Polytron made Fez. (Review coming eventually, I promise.)
In an announcement at the Horizon conference, a one-day video game arts show run by Venus Patrol and the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, Fish officially announced that Fez 2 is in development and would be coming eventually on consoles to be named later. Hey, Phil, the Wii U doesn’t charge indies for patches!
Regardless of what you think about their most recent movies, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg know a thing or two about movies, entertainment and storytelling. So when they start talking about video games, we should probably pay attention.
Both men said that it was the human connection between the players and the characters on-screen that was what video games struggled with the most when compared to other narrative-based forms of entertainment and that was where the next evolution of video games lied.
Good news, Man of Steel premieres tomorrow! Better news, no matter what happens, there’s no way that it can be a worse Superman movie than Superman Returns. In case you’ve forgotten how bad that movie was, here’s everything that was wrong with Superman Returns in six minutes (or less).
Do you live in Portugal, the Czech Republic, South Africa, South Korea, China or India and want to play on your Xbox One this holiday season? Well, you’re completely SOL.
Microsoft has posted a list of 21 countries which is calls Xbox One-supported Xbox Live countries which are the only countries where you can access Xbox Live from your Xbox One to activate games and perform the required online check-in to play games when the console launches in November.
When the folks behind the Ouya console decided that they were going to do E3 in a parking lot near the Los Angeles Convention Centre, you knew they were going to be ruffling a few feather with the establishment. Well, the Ouya got the attention they desired from their setup but not from the gaming press and fans but from the Los Angeles Police Department.
Yesterday afternoon, the LAPD were called to shut down the Ouya’s parking lot display and they allege that it was the ESA who put the LAPD up to it.
While Microsoft tried to get as much info about the Xbox One out ahead of E3 this year, Sony went the opposite direction with the PlayStation 4. As a result, it looks like the whole week could have PS4 hype, especially when compared to what we’ve heard about the Xbone.
Some new info has come out about the upcoming next-gen console about the PS4’s new user interface and the how it handles the hard drive.
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