Perhaps inspired by theNintendo 64 controller bongwe saw some time ago,Gizmodoreader James tried to make an even more compact one based on the classic Nintendo Entertainment System controller. Classy. It doesn’t look like the most effective bong ever, but kudos on the “cord” there. And being plastic, it’s probably not the safest — for both heat and plastic toxin reasons. But making an NES bong will get you 15 minutes of fame on games blogs....
With E3 just around the corner, the Turntable-based Game Wars are coming to a head. In one corner, we have Activision’s much-talked-aboutDJ Hero; in the other, Genius Inc.’sScratch. Both set for release later this year, and both of which we’ll see at next week’s E3. Today, we present to you the controller forScratch. The controller features a free-spinning, touch sensitive turntable with a crossfader, along with “5 Akai Pro MPC-style drum pads” (this means “buttons,” to us gamers)....
I’m about to make an incision…on my arm if I don’t get to play Trauma Team soon. Atlus is still working on it, but they sent along new screenshots of the upcoming Wii medical operation game as a sort of Christmas gift, they say. Christmas gift? How ’bout releasing that other half ofPersona 2. Sorry, didn’t mean to sound ungrateful. The new screens have bones, blobs, cuts and guts from each of the game’s six operation types: surgery, diagnostics, forensics, first response, orthopedics and endoscopy, the last of whichwe wrote up a previewof....
New York Comic Con has a lot of things this year. A handful of girls dressed up like Slave Leias. Some dudes wearing impressive Ghosbusters outfits. Thousands of dollars worth of things I want to buy, including a strange Pac-Man mask/hat thing that Namco Bandai is selling. There’s also games … lots of them.House of the Dead: Overkill;Legends of Wrestlemania;Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars;Prototype;Velvet Assassin;Roogoo Twisted Towers;Red Faction Guerilla;DC Universe Online; andGhosbusters:The Videogame, among others....
Industry analyst Michael “Was Angry At Jim For A Bit” Pachter has cut his estimates forDuke Nukem Forever‘s sales performance in half, claiming that the game didn’t have an impressive run at retail and won’t be among 2011’s biggest sellers. “We had previously expectedDuketo be one of the year’s top sellers due to a high degree of hype and a dedicated fan base, and expected solid profit contribution as the bulk of development had been previously expensed,” said the stallion....
Okay, first off, if you aren’t in this video, it doesn’t mean you’re NOT a Dtoid All-Star. You are sure to be seen in a future Dtoid All-Star feature, because you are important. For now, though, we have a video that contains a lineup of unquestionable prestige: ex-Dtoid Reviews Editor and current Epic Games writer Aaron Linde; ex-Dtoid Features Editor and current Gearbox Studios writer Anthony Burch; the most interesting man on the planet, Papa Burch; and current Dtoid Reviews Editor Jim Sterling — among many others....
I’m playingMass Effect 2right now, so I don’t have time to sell you on this week’s Podtoid. You can listen to ithere. It’s about exclusive preorder content,Mass Effect 2, and some other crap.
On this week’s particularly offensive Podtoid, we discuss the possibility of replacing American currency with berries, taking sexual advantage of the mentally infirm, and finally decide how the legal system should allow us to murder anybody who self-identifies as a vampire. Max also confesses his strange fixation with Katy Perry while Jim quite possibly attains true demonhood. On the game front, there’s a bit ofMass Effectdiscussion, a sprinking ofDeus Ex, and Holmes takes us through some WiiWare recommendations....
The Xbox 360’s window of exclusivity is up.Fallout: New Vegasplayers can get the ten-dollar add-on “Dead Money” for PC — by way ofSteamandDirect2Drive— and PlayStation 3. If the initial release slipped under your radar like it did mine, “Dead Money” involves your character being forced to find the Sierra Madre Casino’s treasure alongside a few other captives. There are spooky guys in gas masks who probably aren’t looking for a hug so much as a moving object to stab....
All that sci-fi stuff with the Strogg was great, but you know what I really miss? The originalQuake, with its Gothic overtones and nightmarish monsters. According to id Software overlord John Carmac, that style of game might return in the next installment! “We are at least tossing around the possibilities of going back to the bizarre, mixed up Cthulhu-ishQuake 1world and rebooting that direction,” he said. “We think that would be a more interesting direction than doing more Strogg stuff afterQuake 4....
A few weeks ago, indie game developer Arkedo sent me an e-mail titled “An Easy Game from Arkedo to Dtoid, with Love”: “Do you think it would be possible to have your mad skillz colleague try and beat Level 1 AND 2 of our game? That would be awesome. We put some bright and friendly colours, so he does not get scared too quickly. And a cat.” I’m not too sure, but I think Anthony’sgetting trolled....
It’s almost Halloween, and if you’re anything like me, you’re going to try to make the most of it. Playing survival horror games can be one way of doing that, but the way the genre has evolved (or devolved, depending on how you look at it), you might not be able to find many scares in recent survival horror releases.Resident Evil 5is notoriously un-scary,Silent Hill: Homecomingis considered too action-oriented for many series die-hards, and as good asDead Space: Extractionis, it’s definitely more of a shooter than anything else....
Kratos has pretty much done it all, having ridden on the backs of Titans and executed the Gods in a variety of needlessly brutal ways. Nevertheless, one’s work is never done in the world of videogames, not when there’s profit to be had. Who’s up forGod of War 4? A new rumor has bubbled to the surface, suggesting that a brand newGod of Wargame will arrive in 2012. As is often the case, this rumor comes from anANONYMOUS SOURCEwho spilled the beans to British magazinePSM3....
