Can Microsoft’s New Online Store Compete With Steam?

As expected, Microsoft’s new online shopfront for PC games has gone live. We were promised a bigger, better store. So has it delivered? I don’t like it. Not yet, anyways. It certainly looks pretty, its minimal appearance a nice break from Steam’s clutter of buttons and menus and buttons within menus within menus. This theme…

Review: The Fight: Lights Out Swings & Misses

If you feel like destroying something ugly, take a shot at The Fight: Lights Out, a dark, dreary brawler for the PlayStation Move that’s an unpleasant blend of Fight Club aesthetics and wild, Bumfights-style fist flailing. The Fight: Lights Out is a third-person fighting game lets players experience the thrill of brawling in underground fight…

Minecraft…On The iPhone?

Until it was removed from the App Store yesterday you could, for a short while, get what was basically Minecraft for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Only difference was this game was called Minecrafted Despite proclamations that Minecrafted was “built without code or content from the original”, it looked like Minecraft, played like Minecraft…

Pirates Are All Over Starcraft II

There are lots of people out there who refuse to pay for video games. If you’re wondering how many, let’s take a look at illegal Starcraft II downloads, and you’ll see they number in the millions Last week, Torrent Freak posted a story revealing that the most popular illegal copy of Starcraft II had been…

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Turn Off The Dark, Please

Use this nightly thread to talk amongst yourselves, please, where the conversation runs from Spider-Man to alien invasion movies to music to video games. What happens in this thread tends to stray in this thread. The following links are more interesting than I’ll say here, so I’ll shut up now. Oh, and this Unstoppable trailer…

Your MLB 2K11 Pitchman Is…

Philadelphia Phillies perfect game-pitcher Roy Halladay will grace next year’s edition of MLB 2K when 2K Sports’ baseball sim comes back to console, portables and PC. The predicted Cy Young award winner is, unsurprisingly, honored to be this year’s coverboy. Last year, 2K Sports offered a million bucks to the first person who pitched a…

The Scariest Snorlax & Venusaur You May Ever See

The Pokémon of your nightmares, as frighteningly re-imagined by Pixiv artist Yoshio, as seen on Reddit. (Click to evolve into larger picture.)

Add Pac-Man Championship Edition DX To Your Budget This Week

One addition to this week’s list of new releases is the highly anticipated Pac-Man Championship Edition DX which hits Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday. It’s joined by Alien Breed 3: Descent.

Night Of The Living Dead Returns As Graphical Adventure On YouTube

Using YouTube’s in-video linking feature, design studio Analogue has sliced up George Romero’s horror film Night of the Living Dead into a piece of choose your own adventure interactive fiction. Want to toy with the lives of the stars of the 1968 zombie classic? Editing The Dead lets you decide the fate of zombie and…

Report: Gears of War Getting Kinect Control [Update]

Epic Games’ beefed up Xbox 360 shooter series may be adding a little motion control to its Locust-chainsawing action, according to one report that says Gears of War is getting Kinect enabled. IGN claims that a “reliable source” has indicated to the publication that some type of Gears of War experience with Kinect support will…

The Spider-Man musical delivers 8-legged chorus girls…and Carnage!

Annie Leibovitz used the cast of the new Spider-Man musical for a Vogue fashion shoot. Take a closer look at the $60 million musical. Fingers crossed for a Carnage solo where he writes on the walls with his own blood. Here’s a collection of images from the Vogue fashion shoot, which revealed the villain Swiss…

Shopping

To: Ash From: Crecente I published our first gift guide today. You know what that means? You’d better start looking around for presents for your loved ones, if you do that sort of thing. Only a month and a half till the holidays. Get to it. What you missed Killing Castro Marvel Pinball: From Comics…

WSJ Reports Tomorrow’s iTunes Event Is Beatlemania

We’ve been waiting. And waiting. And, really, sort of gave up. But after years of speculation and dispute, the Wall Street Journal says The Beatles are arriving on iTunes, tomorrow. Streaming will have to wait for another day. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. Details are scant, but they don’t really matter—all the WSJ claims is that EMI, Apple,…

Dead Nation Comes Alive On PlayStation Network Soon

The PlayStation 3 may get its next great top-down shooter later this month when the zombie-infested Dead Nation—you know, from the creators of the most excellent Super Stardust HD—comes to the PlayStation Network. Dead Nation is due for release (at least in North America, anyway) on November 30 via the PlayStation Store. Cost to you…

Blitz Through Time With Back To The Future

You have one minute to reach 88 miles per hour before being trapped forever at the bottom of the leaderboards in Telltale Games’ Back to the Future: Blitz Through Time, now available on Facebook. It’s Bejeweled Blitz with a Back to the Future twist, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Back to the Future: Blitz…

Kinect Sees A Million Sales In 10 Days

Microsoft says it has already sold one million Kinect sensors to Xbox 360 owners since the add-on for the console launched in the U.S. earlier this month. Xbox man Don Mattrick calls the 10 days worth of sales “a great start to the holiday season.” The Xbox 360 maker hopes to sell 5 million of…

Review: Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 Improves With Age

Sure, you’ve weathered plenty of ninja storms in your day, but are you prepared to face the Ultimate Ninja Storm… 2? Developer CyberConnect2 has been telling the story of the absurdly popular Japanese martial arts anime Naruto through the Ninja Storm series since 2003. Part adventure game and part fighting game, each successive title fleshes…

The 20 Most-Loved Wii Games, Breaking The 80-Hour Barrier

Every month we dig into the numbers to find out which 20 Wii games are played the most by the average person who has them. For November, one game finally breaks the 80-hour barrier. That game, of course, is Monster Hunter Tri, the newly-crowned most-played/most-loved Wii game. This is the latest chart we’ve pulled for…

Mafia Wars Is Partially Responsible For The New Shenmue

If you’re still rooting for Sega’s ambitious Shenmue series, you may, someday, have Mafia Wars and Farmville maker Zynga to thank. Yu Suzuki, creative force behind games like Outrun, Space Harrier, Virtua Fighter and Shenmue, tells Famitsu in a new interview that he was in part inspired to create social game Shenmue City after playing…