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You rememberSkate‘s live-actionintroduction, right? Y’know, the one where your character gets rushed to the hospital after being run over while a montage of famous skaters is displayed on-screen. Yep, itwasprettycool. The guys and gals at EA Black Box decided to go the same route for the intro toSkate 2, and you’re not going to hear me complain. While the look may be similar, the pacing has definitely been slowed down and I feel like this intro had better directing....

I can’t wait forKings of Power 4 Billion%so I’m digitally stalking Paul Robertson. Over on theMecha Fetus Visual Blogwhere Paul contributes, Persona made this short little animation based on theMega Manuniverse. It ends abruptly, but for the first minute or so, it’s pretty awesome.The Destructainment gets started with Conan O’Brien annoying people playingRock Band.Then it’s a weird glitch from Super Mario 64 where Mario is a sign post. Next, a NES gets blown up with fire works....

A column of flames plummets from an orbital ship. The scorching pillar smashes into the middle of a boisterous battlefield laced with rocket fire, magnetic rounds, sensor arrays, war walkers, and lumbering tanks. What fell wasn’t another weapon, although it is an instrument of destruction. It was a man, a suicide soldier from the 8th Armored Infantry. Southpeak Games has dubbed his method of combat entry asburn in. The friction from the 15,000-foot fall makes it easy to see why....

I was reading the latest issue ofEdgemagazine which had an article about Hollywood’s recent preoccupation with turning videogames into films. It talked about the reasons that movie makers have for picking games as their new cash cow, and lightly touched on the number of creative and commercial flops that have occurred as a result. What the article did not do is discusswhy, exactly, these game-based movies are so bad. It’s a question that has been asked by ourselves before, but one that Hollywood doesn’t seem keen on thinking about as it spews out yet another licensed film into the slavering maws of cynical critics and despondent gamers alike....

[Community member and fellowFlixistwriter Xander Markham offers his view of the future of Nintendo’s new console. Do you think Nintendo will bring over converts from other platforms? Let us know in the comments! Want to see your own writing on the front page? Write something awesome andput it in the C Blogs. — Kauza] The prospect of a new console launch is always fun, especially when Nintendo’s ‘Project Café’ has to follow an experiment both so successful and divisive as the Wii....

Where a lot of developers focus on hitting all of the major bullet points in terms of “must-have” game features, I feel as if Valve almost always focuses on making the most out of what’s given; the studio recognizes when it’s appropriate to trim the fat. One such example of this isPortal 2. Writer Erik Wolpaw talked with 1UP about the game’s now-removed competitive multiplayer. “The best way to describe it is sort of speedball meetsPortal....

Time to pull out your joysticks, old-school PC gamers, because the fine folks at Good Old Games have finally…finallysecured one of the, er, good-est old games of all,Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger.That’s right, friends, it’s time to strap yourselves in to shoot down a bunch of cat-people in space alongside the likes of Mark Hamill, Malcom McDowell, John Rhys-Davies and that guy fromBack to the Future, plus a whole lot of live-action video....

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottomis one helluva downloadable videogame — to the point where it puts many retail games to shame with its quality and high-level polish — and now that it’s on Steam, you have very few decent excuses for not owning it. For whatever insane reason, it’s only five dollars.Grab it here, even if it means skipping a meal. To be honest, that might make the game simultaneously awful and amazing; there’s a great deal of pies inP....

It’s not often that you’ll see Nintendo go out of its way to promoteKirby, but the upcoming DS game,Kirby Mass Attackis getting the full tour treatment with a range of customized “Snack Attack Trucks.” These trucks will be traveling across America, spreading cheer and food. “Nintendo is deploying customized Kirby Snack Attack Trucks to deliver frozen fruit treats to consumers and fans in select U.S. cities,” states the company. “While enjoying these tasty snacks, participants can enjoy hands-on demos ofKirby Mass Attack, in which gobbling up fruit allows players to accumulate a mass of up to 10 Kirbys at a time....