Pages tagged “video games”

Paste's Holiday Gift Guide for Gamers

Here are some gift ideas for the gamers in your life:...  read more

Found in: Blogs, Form&Function

Ryan Adams: Video Game Blogger

Keeping up with Ryan Adams has always been a bit of an adventure. Be it following his rumor-mill dating life and eventual marriage to former pop-queen Mandy Moore , his on and off-stage dramatics and, of course, his desire to consistently release music, the ride of being a die-hard Ryan Adams fan is more of a wooden rollercoaster than a carousel. Recently, Adams threw a new and arguably exciting turn in his career trajectory: video game blogger. Sort of....  read more

Found in: Games, News

Rock Band Network Provides Platform for Lesser-Known Musicians

If there is anyone left in the gaming community who doesn't agree that Rock Band at least looks like an outlet of face-melting fun, the next addition to the game should might help convince them....  read more

Found in: Games, News

Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony on the Way

Uh oh. In this age of renewed Prop. 8 outrage and rigged upsets for gay American Idol contestants, Rockstar Games has announced that the latest downloadable episode for Grand Theft Auto IV will be The Ballad of Gay Tony, which will follow “legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (aka 'Gay Tony')" and his dutiful thug assistant....  read more

Found in: Games, News

OnLive to phase out video-game consoles?

The replacement, not just for a single video-game console, but this entire generation of consoles, may have emerged with the development of OnLive, a service that claims to have perfected the compression technique needed to stream games from a server at an impressive rate....  read more

Found in: Movies, News

Watchmen: The End is Nigh game gets sneak peak

A two-part episodic video game, Watchmen: The End is Nigh, will be the official video game release for the most celebrated graphic novel of all time, according to MTV Multiplayer. The video game is set for a March release and is available for download-only through Xbox 360, Play Station 3 and PC. The End is Nigh is another release to add to the growing list of download-only titles, a new trend among video games....  read more

Found in: Games, News

The Dark Knight video game halts production

As previously reported, The Dark Knight video game was in the works. However, due to various technical difficulties and licensing rights, the game project collapsed....  read more

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Playing With Gunfire: A Report on the Military-Video-Game Complex

In Capcom’s 1985 coin-op smash, Commando, you fire white pellets at endless streams of generic enemies. When hit, they simply vanish, leaving no trace on the stylized tropical environments behind them. In real war...  read more

Found in: Games, Features

Interview: Will Wright (Spore Creator)

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Will Wright’s Spore seemed destined for controversy. The game is, after all, about evolution. And we know that a significant chunk of the American public believes that a loving God created the heavens, earth and everything in between. Yet the game has shipped with nary a peep from detractors. The only cannonball fired in the game’s direction—a fairly whacked-out blog called Anti-Spore—turned out to be a hoax (and a Rickroll, to add insult to injury). Regardless, we were eager to speak with Wright and discuss the intriguing push and pull at work in a "God game" that’s goal is to...  read more

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Interview: Will Wright (Spore Creator)

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Will Wright’s Spore seemed destined for controversy. The game is, after all, about evolution. And we know that a significant chunk of the American public believes that a loving God created the heavens, earth and everything in between. Yet the game has shipped with nary a peep from detractors. The only cannonball fired in the game’s direction—a fairly whacked-out blog called Anti-Spore—turned out to be a hoax (and a Rickroll, to add insult to injury). Regardless, we were eager to speak with Wright and discuss the intriguing push and pull at work in a "God game" that’s goal is to...  read more

Found in: Games