The Week in Gaming News
Our round-up of notable news from the world of gaming for the week of January 31st, 2011.... read more
Recreating The World of New Orleans in Sucker Punch's InFamous 2
The phrase "world-building" gets tossed around quite a bit these days, and it's interesting to think about what it really means. After all, every game needs a space to occupy, so usually it's someone's job to actually go in and build one. As I mentioned in my column last week, videogames take us places. But no matter how real those places may feel, the fact remains that they are constructs, controlled digital spaces created by humans.... read more
Halo: Combat Evolved Celebrates 10th Anniversary With HD Makeover
The original Halo: Combat Evolved will be getting the HD treatment come this holiday season. Sources confirm that the game will receive a full overhaul, including new art assets and updated controls.... read more
Interview: Team Bondi's Brendan McNamara talks L.A. Noire
In early 1947, a young woman's murder rocked Los Angeles, California. Her name was Elizabeth Short, but newspapers called her “The Black Dahlia”, with photos of her mutilated corpse covering their front pages. In the years since, a good number of fictional tales have been crafted around the Black Dahlia case, but never one you can play. Until now, that is.... read more
The Voice-Actors of
Mass Effect, Placed Head-To-Head
As I mentioned in my review of the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2, it wasn't until I played the second game that I came to fully appreciate Jennifer Hale's great voice-over performance. Hale is the actor who plays the female version of the game's protagonist Commander Shepard, a version of the character affectionally referred by fans as "FemShep." Whether we chose to play her as a caring paragon or a queen-bitch renegade, Hale brings a welcome amount of guts and emotional range to her performance. But what's interesting about a game like Mass Effect is that it's possible to... read more
Arrested Development: The Board Game!
Critically-acclaimed (and perennial Paste headline generator) television show Arrested Development has been made into a board game by the people at Pleated-Jeans.... read more
New Angry Birds Game Due in March
Angry Birds developer Rovio has announced that a new version of the game is due out in March. That game, Angry Birds: Rio, will feature 45 new levels, and is a tie-in with upcoming Ice Age creator Carlos Saldanha’s animated feature film Rio.... read more
Dead Space Creator in Talks for Movie Adaptation
Ian Milham, co-creator of survival-horror videogame Dead Space, recently told BBC Newsbeat that there have been “lots of discussion” about a film adaptation of the popular game series.... read more
Mass Effect 2 Review (PS3)
When Mass Effect was released in 2007, buyers may have noticed a stamp on the box that read "Only on Xbox 360." BioWare's intergalactic RPG was touted as one of the highest-profile console exclusives of the generation—the acclaimed developer was returning to the sci-fi grounds they so thoroughly stomped in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Xbox owners were going to get to have all the fun. ... read more
The Week in Gaming News
Our round-up of notable news from the world of gaming for the week of January 24th, 2011.... read more
Nintendo Quarterly Profits Fall 46%
Q3 hasn’t been kind to Nintendo. The company saw a 46% decline in quarterly profits. The news comes just as Nintendo’s readying the launch of its new 3D-gaming system, 3DS, which may explain the large drop in sales of the original DS.... read more
Bit Player: Home Again
Videogames take us places. They do a lot of other things too, of course; they entertain us, challenge us, pit us against one another in brutal competition, tell us stories, let us make music and give us the tools to build amazing things. But for now, for my first column here at Paste, I wanted to talk about the places they take us—the epic voyage and the long journey home.... read more
Champions Online Now Partially Free-to-Play
Atari has announced that the MMORPG Champions Online is now free-to-play. Sort of.... read more
London Calling Coming to Rock Band 3
You'll be able to rock out to The Clash's 1979 classic next week... read more
The Sony PSP2 is Here, Codename: NGP
At a press conference in Tokyo last night, Sony officially unveiled its new handheld device. The second iteration of the Playstation Portable, the new device features dual analog sticks, a capacitive OLED touch screen, and a processor that rivals the PS3. Developmental codename? The Next Generation Portable, or NGP.... read more
Dead Space 2 Review
(Multi-Platform)
Oh, the aliens I have slain. Over the past ten or so hours I have decapitated, reamed, stomped, stabbed, incinerated, frozen, crushed, sliced, airlocked, vivisected, lanced, bludgeoned, impaled, electrocuted, detonated, blasted, buzz-sawed, and flame-throwered more space-beasts than I could hope to count. I have carved myself a horrible path of destruction, leaving in my wake a dripping trail of gore that would make Ash Williams himself a bit queasy. Forget about Doom and Serious Sam; Dead Space 2 is the new king of extra-terrestrial carnage.... read more
Angry Birds to Become Animated TV Show
Angry Birds, the popular iPhone and Android mobile game that pits slingshotting birds against barricaded pigs, is getting its own animated television show, according to Mikael Hed, CEO of the game’s creator, Rovio.... read more
The Nintendo 3DS is Still Not 3D
The Nintendo 3DS is Still Not 3D by Michael Thomsen read more
The Week in Gaming News
Our round-up of notable news from the world of gaming for the week of January 17th, 2011.... read more
PS3 Gets Steam Support, Cross-Platform Portal 2
Valve recently announced that the PS3 version of Portal 2, sequel to their 2007 breakout hit Portal, will come equipped with Steam support, allowing for cloud-based game saving and cross-platform multiplayer with PC/Mac players, a first for any console system.... read more
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