Mortal Kombat Week is coming to a close, but we’ve still got a little Lin Kuei love left in us. You may have noticed we’ve been more than a little obsessed with the Mortal Kombat Theme as of late, so we hope you don’t mind us dragging out The Immortal’s timeless jam once again to punctuate highlights from this week’s best VG video. See all the trailers showcased in their entirety after the jump...
Registration for PAX Prime 2011 is now open. The event will take place in Seattle from August 26th through the 28th, just after this year's brand-new PAX Dev conference, which will bring together game designers, artists, programmers and producers to discuss their craft.
"The idea started with friends in the game dev community asking us to host an event where they could really focus on...
Gold farming may help poorer countries, but in the United States, the FBI looks views the peddling practice as a front for fraud. The agency recently raided the apartment of two University of Michigan undergraduates, seizing laptop computers, hard drives, videogame systems, credit cards, a cell phone, paperwork and other computer equipment, according to government documents...
Rumors that the completion of the Portal 2 ARG would result in an early release of Portal 2 on Steam were half right. The game isn't available just yet, but after GLaDOS' countdown completed, a new page appeared which indicates that more Potato Sack players are needed to generate the "computing power required for launch."
Two Worlds II is about to become rated arr! Sorry, I love that joke. In all seriousness (or as much seriousness as a game that could be written as '2 Worlds 2' is entitled to), TopWare Interactive and Reality Pump Studios are releasing a swash buckling expansion to the fantasy RPG entitled Pirates of the Flying Fortress.
The add-on will take players to a “gloomy pirate world” replete...
One misconception about Canadians is that we spend our lives obsessing over hockey, guzzling superior beer and adding extra vowels to our words. This is simply not true – we do all that, and also make and play a ton of videogames. In honour (that's honour with a 'u') of this, the Canadian Videogame Awards are returning to Vancouver this May for a second year, and today its producers released the list of finalists vying for the 2011 cup...
Today's new Battlefield 3 trailer, dubbed 'My Life,' largely contains footage from the previous three 'Fault Line' trailers. At the end of the video, however, we're treated to several glimpses of "oh shit" meant to promote the full trailer. Want to see the full trailer? Well, you can't just yet. We reported yesterday that the 12-minute promotional epic will be released after it receives one million 'likes' on its Facebook page...
After several years of meandering sequels, Mortal Kombat is finally going back to its roots. Just as Street Fighter IV reinvigorated Capcom’s flagging franchise, this year’s new Mortal Kombat hopes to kick-start a brand new chapter for the spine-tearing series. To ensure a successful reboot, developer NetherRealm has wisely chosen to focus on the three original games for inspiration; those three titles gripped arcades, sold millions on consoles and spawned TV shows, movies and comics, so it’s no surprise to see devs mimicking the glory days of the initial trilogy.
But before it erupted into a gaming powerhouse, Mortal Kombat was just one of countless Street Fighter II knockoffs itching for a chance in the spotlight. We’ll spend the most time on this title, then touch on how 2 and 3 set the stage for this year’s edition. Let’s begin in 1992 with…
These days, having a multiplayer component in the latest AAA blockbuster in-your-face awesome-fest is something of a given - and all but inescapable if that game is a first-person shooter. FPS games have been an online multiplayer staple for almost two decades now, so it's not entirely surprising to see that Warner Bros. and Day 1 Studios are building in a little some-some for gamers looking to shoot their friends in the face from afar...
Want 12 minutes of Battlefield 3 footage with commentary? 'Course ya do! But if you want to see it early, at least one million fingers must first click the 'like' button on the game's promotional Facebook page. At the time of writing, the page is at 641,915 likes, and steadily increasing...
As Brett said in his recent hands-on preview, Street Fighter X Tekken is far from the simple 'SFIV with expanded roster' cash-in you might expect it to be. While it's superficially very Street Fighter IV, in terms of the actual fighting it's a whole new game, blending SF's projectiles and cross-ups with Tekken's juggle game and a brand new two-button launcher system.
That 'X' in the title makes sense for multiple reasons. It's Street Fighter crossed with Tekken. It's Street Fighter multiplied by Tekken. But don't take our word for it. If you want a really strong impression of how this new game works, have a look at this new video that's just appeared. After 8 minutes of solid, uninterrupted fighting, you'll know exactly what we're talking about
Considering all the studio shutdowns, franchise cancellations, wayward Bobby Kotick quotes and accusations of rampant douchebaggery from ex-staffers, one could assume Activision is run by soulless fat cats who wipe their asses with dollar bills and kick puppies into wood chippers. They could assume this, but they would be wrong; at least, that's according to Activision, which recently defended its less-than-spectacular public image by claiming that the bad publicity it receives is simply a...
Oh, did you think Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm was the first time Sub-zero and friends assaulted the medium of animation with a big fat stupid stick? Before the awful animated TV series, MK brought the absurdity straight-to-video...
Treyarch has announced that it is readying the release of a Call of Duty: Black Ops PC mod tool kit for sometime this May, making good on its pre-release promise to give the non-console crowd the means by which to play god on the battelfield. Well, sort of.
The message was relayed in a tweet yesterday evening by 'pcdev', and was confirmed in a re-tweet by Treyarch's...
Much as we love Mortal Kombat, it feels like the series has had a progressively lamer cast of villains with every installment. Shao Kahn? When you get right down to it, he’s just a big, half-naked dude with a hammer and a super-cheap fighting style. Shinnok’s a pale old man in a stupid hat, Onaga’s the kind of villain a 12-year-old would draw on a binder, and Blaze is just another beefy guy made of fire. And don’t even get us started on their henchmen. Drahmin? Moloch? Quan Chi? Motaro? What an ugly bunch of sadsacks.
As far as we’re concerned, Mortal Kombat still hasn’t topped its original villains: the millennia-old shapeshifter Shang Tsung, the four-armed nightmare named Goro, and Shang Tsung’s creepy little helper-ninja, Reptile. And as luck would have it, all three are about to be shoved back into the limelight next week, when the new Mortal Kombat rewinds the series’ clock back to its beginning. Before that happens, however, let’s take a look at the ways those characters have evolved and changed since their first appearances 19 years ago...
Anomaly: Warzone Earth takes the concept of tower defense games and flips it on its head. Instead of being tasked with setting up a defense against insurmountable odds, Anomaly forces you to run the gauntlet through countless turrets, laser cannons, space monsters, etc. Turns out, this change of pace is exactly what the tower defense genre needed...
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