The Top 100-Selling Developers In Britain Are... [Britain]

Oooohhh, "top xx" charts! British industry mag types Develop have just released their "Develop 100", which lists the world's top 100 developers according to the amount of cash money they took in over the past 12 months (in the UK). In first place? Nintendo, who took in £129 million, almost twice that ...

World In Conflict: Soviet Assault [Clips]

Guy In Avatar Costume Gets Shoved By Dangerous Japanese Dude [Clips]

Design student Marc Ownes created a wearable device that simulates 3D person enviroments for the wearer. There's a head-mounted camera and VR googles that enable to folks to see themselves from a 3D perspective. While this experiment has already gotten webplay, Boing Boing TV has a clip of it in action. ...

Why Does Sam & Max Work While Other Episodic Stuff Fails? [Sam & Max]

It's an interesting question. Telltale's own Bone died before its time, SiN did likewise, and most full game sequels come around faster than Half-Life 2's "episodes". So why, the, does Sam & Max stand as the only successful episodic series to date? For the other companies, Valve and Ritual, they made ...

Michael Bay Responds To "Fucking Retard" Remark [Uwe Boll]

Michael Bay is a powerful man. He's not a fucking retard. So when Uwe Boll called Michael Bay a fucking retard, the Armageddon director thought he should, you know, say something. On his own official message board, Bay wrote: I find people who rant like that - calling shit about both me, and George ...

Karl Lagerfeld In Grand Theft Auto IV, Loves Being Politcially Incorrect [Rockstar]

And now announcing for Grand Theft Auto IV... Karl Lagerfeld? The influential fashion designer will be the game's radio station D.J. Makes sense as he apparently owns like over 70 iPods and 60,000 CDs. Lagerfeld said that his relationship with Rockstar was "friendship at first sight." What's more, the ...

Wii Gets A Pretty New GameCube Controller [Wii]

Gorgeous. Nintendo are releasing sometime later this month a new, white GameCube controller, no doubt to satisfy the growing throngs of not only Smash Bros (and soon to be Mario Kart) players, but Wii-white console colour fetishists as well. It'll retail for a suggested price of ¥2000 (around USD$20), ...

"8-Bit Investigation" Shirt Is Worth Investigating [Fashion]

"8-Bit Investigation" is among the more clever pixel art designs we've seen in some time. A tribute to Sierra's adventure games gone by, the shirt explores the aftermath of one character's graphic (pun definitely intended) fall from a building. From the splattered pixels on the pavement to the pixel ...

Hands on With GTA Multiplayer: City of Chaos [Impressions]

A couple of months ago, before I had a chance to play GTA4, I got into a discussion with an industry insider about Rockstar, and in particular, the Grand Theft Auto franchise. We were talking about whether the polarizing series, much beloved by gamers and reviled by non-gamers, had jumped the shark. Would ...

THQ Gamers' Day 2008

We had a chance to attend THQ's Gamers Day 2008 last week and play through a plethora of the publisher's upcoming titles, including new Red Faction, Saints Row and an impressive-looking Darksiders: Wrath of War. Check out our impressions and pictures from the event:Red Faction: Guerilla (360/PS3/PC) ...

Digital Kriegspiel Creator Under Fire From Dead Marxist [Law]

Alex Galloway has put together a lovely digital adaptation of a chess-like game created by French Marxist Guy Debord dubbed Kriegspiel; now the estate of Debord is sending cease and desist letters to Galloway, claiming the digital version is infringing on the intellectual property rights of Debord. ...

Interview With Blueberry Garden's Erik Svedäng [Indie Games]

A few weeks back, we mentioned a a funky little indie-in-production called Blueberry Garden; now the nice people at the Swedish Game Awards have let us know they've put up a short and sweet interview with Erik Svedäng about the game. There's not a ton of new information, but I'm getting a slightly ...

MGS4 Double-Secret Hands On [Just Not Our Hands On It]

GamePro got a hands-on with Metal Gear Solid 4, with some other "gaming insiders" (not us) at some Cheyenne Mountain-style hole-up for Konami and Kojima over in Japan. It's a comprehensive look at an A-list game for 2008, and I know a lot of you can't wait to get your hot little hands on it. By all means, ...

Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction [Red Vs. Blue]

Rooster Teeth has a trailer out for the sequel to Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles. Check it: Now, clearly, these are production values in the upper 1 percentile, and we'd expect no less of Rooster Teeth, and I'm not gonna hate on it. But can I ask a question? How come any elected-office ...

What Exactly Are Simulations Simulating? [Sports]

In a slightly different take on the old 'we take too much from film techniques' argument we're all familiar with, a post at the Brainy Gamer takes on television techniques in simulations. Madden et al. aren't simulating playing a sporting event, he says, but watching one on TV: Less has been written ...

Pretty Sure This Violates the Warranty [Xbox 360]

From reader Michael Hurt comes this: a watercooled Xbox 360. As casemods go, this one looks like someone locked the A-Team in a barn, Murdoch and B.A. improvised with some aquarium tank hose and an aerator, and the gang saved the day. I love it when a plan comes together. My first instinct was to call ...

Developer Going Down: Here's What You Missed [Unreleased Games]

GameSpot has word that Castaway Entertainment has suspended operations and is looking for a buyer. Kind of shoulder-shrug news, as the studio's been around since 2003 but released only one published title, described as "the Xbox Live advergame Yaris." Never like to hear of anyone losing work in this ...

Week in Games: We Had the Time of Our Lives [Week In Games]

There are 18 releases coming up this week, and the largest drop appears to be the PC versions of Assassin's Creed and Portal, plus a Half Life 2 Episode Pack. Those are the biggest names I spot anyway. The WTF drop of the week, hands down, is "Dirty Dancing." This movie was a favorite of 40-something ...

Back in the Saddle [Weekend Note]

To: Crecente From: Owen Re: The New Guy Good first weekend I think. Didn't miss with too many of the jokes (well, maybe, "white approved" in describing SF's gentrified districts. Honestly, that's what I meant to poke fun at.) Writing for this site is a huge ego trip, but of course, you knew that (wait, ...

Make Uwe Boll Disappear (Yeah, Riiiiight) [Hollywood]

Poor Uwe Boll. Beat up some game nerds and making some shitty movies and suddenly everyone hates your guts. What gives?! Some folks dislike Uwe so much that they've created an online petition hoping to do what online petitions typically do: Nothing. That, or convince Dr. Boll to stop making crappy movies. ...