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Why Facebook, Twitter on Game Consoles Miss The Point
Adding Twitter and Facebook to game consoles is a good idea, but both Sony and Microsoft are missing the point.
These social networks are tools that can be used for all kinds of things. Their usefulness to gamers doesn’t spawn from the ability to learn in real time that your best friend’s wife is psyched to [...]
Collected 2 days ago from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged console games, online gaming, facebook, playstation 3, sony
Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii Is Nostalgic, Chaotic
Don’t let the name fool you. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is actually a little old. This traditional, 2-D action game brings back everything you loved about classics like 1991’s Super Mario World.
Hey, it’s the totally ’80s, totally radical Koopa Kids! Fire Chomps! And Micro-Goombas!

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Miyamoto: New Mario Tests Your Hard-Core Gaming Chops



The big [...]
Collected Nov 17, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged console games, reviews, mario, new super mario bros. wii, nintendo
Review: Assassin’s Creed II Is the Ultimate Killer App
You can’t see me. I’m there in the shadows, crouched down on the roof above you, dangling on the ledge below you. Maybe you know I’m nearby. Maybe you’re afraid for your life. You should be. Because by the time you realize where I am, you’ll be dead.
That’s the promise of Assassin’s Creed, a promise [...]
Collected Nov 17, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged console games, reviews, assassin's creed, assassin's creed ii, playstation 3
Music Games Aren’t Dead, Just Waiting to Be Reborn
Much of the wailing and gnashing of teeth coming out of last week’s videogame sales reports seems centered around the music game genre and its failure to stay on the charts.
Let’s not confuse the decline of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band brands with the death of music games as a genre, though.
In October 2007, [...]
Collected Nov 16, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged business matters, console games, activision, guitar hero, harmonix
Review: Modern Warfare 2 Kills Well With Others
Here’s what you need to know about Modern Warfare 2: It’s a magnificent multiplayer game.
Yes, the incredibly popular new shooter for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (reviewed) comes bundled with an entertaining and substantial single-player storyline, one that has already stirred up a little controversy.

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Test-Driving Modern Warfare 2’s Night-Vision Goggles

Powerful [...]
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged console games, pc gaming, reviews, activision, call of duty
Final Fantasy XIII Gets U.S. Release Date, New Theme Song
The long-delayed Final Fantasy XIII will be released in the U.S. and Europe on March 9, 2010, Square Enix said Friday.
Square Enix also said that the Western releases of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game would feature a new theme song — “My Hands,” by RCA Music Group recording artist Leona Lewis. The Japanese [...]
Collected Nov 13, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged business matters, console games, final fantasy, final fantasy xiii, playstation 3
Avatar: The Game Trailer Sidesteps Uncanny Valley
The folks behind James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game didn’t have to struggle too hard to make their videogame look lifelike. Director Cameron did most of the heavy lifting (and reportedly spent $500 million) when it came to clawing up and out of the uncanny valley.
The new trailer for the Avatar videogame underlines the lengths [...]
Collected Nov 12, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged console games, marketing, avatar: the game
Powerful Modern Warfare 2 Plot Hits Close to Home
The early hours of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 take gamers around the world and back again, but the new game’s story hits close to home.
Military scenarios, violent police actions and straight-from-the-big-screen massive firefights take place in such far-flung locales as Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Brazil. But things don’t really get interesting until the action [...]
Collected Nov 10, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged console games, call of duty, infinity ward, modern warfare 2, playstation 3
Four Warriors of Light, Old-School in the Oddest Ways
Final Fantasy Gaiden: Four Warriors of Light is billed as a role-playing game from the old school. And it is — but not in the way you’d expect.
Released on October 29 in Japan, this Nintendo DS game is created by Matrix, the development house that did the 3-D remakes of Final Fantasy III and IV [...]
Collected Nov 4, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged japan, portable gaming, final fantasy, four warriors of light, nintendo ds
High-Flying Prince of Persia Movie Trailer Feels Like Live-Action Game
SAN FRANCISCO — Disney’s trailer for its Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie emphasizes the project’s videogame roots.
In the trailer, Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince clambers up buildings, takes massive flying leaps over rooftops — and yes, even does some wall jumps. The high-flying action sequences will likely give the [...]
Collected Nov 4, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged culture, disney, jerry bruckheimer, movies, prince of persia
Gay Tony’s Timely Jokes Justify Episodic Gaming
There’s a surprising moment in the opening scenes of Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony, as you’re driving the title character to one of his struggling Liberty City nightclubs.
“Forget the banks,” Gay Tony says. “We’re the ones who needed a bailout!”
Shortly after, during an altercation with the club’s bouncer, one of the game’s [...]
Collected Nov 3, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged console games, culture, grand theft auto, rockstar, the ballad of gay tony
Game|Life Video: Inside Akihabara’s Game Stores
What secret gaming treasures await inside the stores of Akihabara?
On our recent trip to Tokyo Game Show, I decided to bring a video camera along and document my wanderings through the city’s game stores. You’ve already heard about my cheap bargain bin finds, now watch this video of stores like Super Potato and Sofmap, with [...]
Collected Nov 3, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged game|life video, japan, akihabara, dragon quest ix, thrifting
Sony Online Brings Magic the Gathering Tactics to PC, PS3
Wizards of the Coast will team with Sony Online Entertainment to create Magic: The Gathering — Tactics, a turn-based tactics game based on the popular collectible card game franchise, the companies said Monday.
Sony Online Entertainment’s Denver studio will develop the game first for the PC, and plans to release it in early 2010. A version of [...]
Collected Nov 2, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged online gaming, pc gaming, magic: the gathering, magic: the gathering – tactics, playstation 3
Video Gallery: 10 Creepy Games That Go Bump in the Night
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It’s one thing to shout “Don’t open that door!” to the clueless protagonist of a slasher film, but what do you do when you’re controlling that endangered character and you’ve got to twist that doorknob? From zombies to ghosts to the just plain criminally insane, the horror videogames in [...]
Collected Oct 28, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged culture, trailers
Leaked Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer Highlights Characters, Terrible Odds
An extended trailer for Left 4 Dead 2 has leaked to the Internet. The cinematic, embedded above, feels like an intro video. But it goes way further than the opening video for the original Left 4 Dead.
Here we see hints of encounters that will happen throughout the game, such as the clown zombies that turn [...]
Collected Oct 23, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged console games, pc gaming, leaks, left 4 dead 2, valve
Video: ‘Eight Bits of Jam’ Jazz Up NES Classic Tunes
Classic Nintendo games had awesome music, and two musicians prove it in this video.
Hartford, Connecticut-based jazz pianist Scott Bradlee and saxophonist Ben Golder-Novick have created a video called Eight Bits of Jam, featuring piano-sax versions of music from Super Mario Bros. 2, Zelda and Punch-Out!! among others. The joke is that they will come to [...]
Collected Oct 21, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged culture, retrogames, music, nintendo, youtube
Brütal Legend’s Botched TV Ad: Welcome to ‘Hell No’
Even before its release, Brütal Legend, the new head-banging videogame that stars Jack Black as a guitar-wielding roadie thrust into a heavy metal fantasy land, has earned heaps of street cred. The game’s immaculate soundtrack features deep cuts by beloved metal gods and respected up-and-comers, and the gameplay is full of metal in-jokes and references. [...]
Collected Oct 12, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged marketing, brutal legend, jack black, kabbage boy
Modder Creates PlayStation 3 Laptop
If we did a story every time serial console modder Benjamin Heckendorn put the insides of one machine into the outsides of another, we’d never cover anything else. But his latest work, the PlayStation 3 laptop, is too fascinating not to share.
That this device exists and works is testament to the hardware skills of not [...]
Collected Oct 2, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged hacks, console mods, playstation 3, sony
How Felicia Day Recruited Millions for Her Guild
Felicia Day’s stardom wasn’t handed down to her from on high by Hollywood. She’s guest-starred on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and House, but most of her legions of fans still know her because of a show she wrote and produced herself that doesn’t air on any network.
Now in its third season, The Guild — Day’s [...]
Collected Sep 29, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged people, felicia day, internet, the guild
Dead Space: Extraction Brings Fright to Wii
Collected Sep 25, 2009 from feeds.wired.com via blog import
tagged console games, dead space: extraction, wii
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