In what I had thought was a video made by The Onion (it’s not), IKEA has announced a new piece of furniture, the UPPLEVA. The new all-in-one solution combines your media stand with your TV, bringing a Blu-ray player with it. The idea is to consolidate all of your living room’s tech goodies into one
Monday’s almost over so let’s get to it: – Nintendo has confirmed that they will be showing off a new Wii U Mario game at E3. – EA has weakly denied allegations that they have laid off anywhere from 500 to 1,000 employees. – Crysis 3 has been announced and will be coming out next Spring. – A demo fo
Cabin in the Woods has been getting massive amounts of hype. As The Guardian pointed out, it is credited as “a total game-changer,” “mind-blowing” and “the start of something new.” That’s a heavy burden for any film to carry and I’m not even sure that this one lives up to that. Don’t get me wrong,
Slashfilm recently featured the above teaser poster for Wreck-it Ralph, a video-game inspired animated film. Ralph is an 8-bit baddie who gets frustrated with constantly losing to the hero and breaks out into other games to try out life as the hero. The movie’s got a solid cast for the leads with Jo
Google’s Project Glass has made a big splash since it was announced last week. In the gaming sphere, Valve has hinted at something that seems like it’s in the same vein. Ars Technica has a write up, discussing the suggestions made by Valve developer Michael Abrash. While Abrash was quick to point ou
Here’s today’s mainstream news: – Sony president Kaz Hirai has confirmed the company cut 10,000 jobs to cope with losses. They’ve also teased what seems like a new God of War game. – The Better Business Bureau has decided that BioWare falsely advertised Mass Effect 3. – The first few screens from N
Wired‘s Chris Kohler recently interviewed Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune about his thoughts on the state of the Japanese games industry. Inafune has been very outspoken about his perception of Japanese developers, stating “our game industry is finished.” The designer has been trying to spur change w
Now we just need to get a moth to eat one… [via Reddit]
Man I love Game of Thrones. I haven’t read the books but if there’s one thing I’ve learned from the show, it’s that George R. R. Martin is really messed up. But regardless, I love watching his messed up mind at work. Video That was the trailer for the Game of Thrones-based RPG game coming out soon.
Video That’s the trailer for the upcoming documentary I Know That Voice. It’s all about voice acting, a profession most associated with cartoons which has made its way steadily in to videogames. The movie looks as though it will defnitely discuss the crossover of mediums and will feature some absolu
This short, created by Olan Rogers on just seven hundred dollars, makes me interested to see what a big budget Mega Man film could be like. Video [Via io9]
And now we’re back! From PAX East! We just walked in to see you here with all this news just released! – GTA V has been rumored to be launching this October. – The Wii U is rumored to be launching at a 300 dollar price point. – Epic games, makers of testosterone-fueld franchises like Gears of War an
In an article at Wired, Angela Watercutter spoke with a few proponents of the digital revolution in lterature. The landscape of eBooks is changing. Publishers have recognized their success and now creators are being freed to do with the medium what they had hoped for; they hope to “reinvent storytel
Here we go again! – BioWare will be releasing the extended ending DLC for free this summer. – Blizzard has come up with a tournament to rule them all and decide once and for all who is the best at Starcraft II. – The PS3 has added Amazon Video service. In more Amazon news, they’ve just announced ga
With the recent release of Angry Birds Space, developer Rovio has taken the game in a new direction by reimagining the physics, making gravity subservient rather than overpowering. If you’ve ever been curious about just how their model of gravity stacks up to the real one, Wired writer Rhett Alain h
Here’s something I didn’t know: The Mummy, the 1999 Brandon Fraser vehicle was based on a 1932 property of the same naeme. The property is being rebooted again by the original writer of Prometheus, the upcoming sci-fi film. With all this talk of rebeoots and 3D conversions, it’s hard to see any good
April fool’s is over, this is news you can trust: – BioWare is really excited about using the Kinect in the future after their voice integration with Mass Effect 3. – Worms: Revolution has been announced for the third quarter of 2012. – Planetside 2, the upcoming MMO-FPS has released a video showing
Slashfilm‘s Germain Lussier recently wrote about Mondo, an art collective that sprouted from the Alamo Drafthouse, a small series of cinemas famous for their treatment of the filmgoing expeience. Mondo is a group that has designed some of the most gorgeous collectible film posters over the past few
One of the better ways I’ve seen to support your team. [Via Reddit]
Tristan Louis, of TNL.net, has written an article discussing the ways that hacking and gaming culture have been perceived over time. The two groups have tended to get along rather well over time but now more than ever, they are both becoming accepted by the greater culture at large as well. The reas
MIT’s GAMBIT Game Lab will be holding the first ever Hokra tournament this weekend. The game premiered last year at NYU’s No Quarter event and has since become known as a great e-sport to those with access to it. Inspired by the soccer videogame FIFA, two teams of two players dodge, kick and score i
I feel like I’ve heard this before, but it was different… – Following the recent news of the game’s certification, Fez has announced the official XBLA release date and it’s actually really soon, April 13th! – After being hopsitalized a few days ago, Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono has announce
A beautiful collection of photos from Sol Neeman, via The New York Times, shows off what I love and what’s wonderful about games. Neeman’s series focuses on “weird sports” throughout the world. From outhouse racing to downhill ice skating, the games have varying intensities and audiences but all of
Video About a month ago, The Weinstein Company’s documentary Bully received an R rating from the MPAA. An R rating would mean that kids wouldn’t be able to see the film alone, a fact that Harvey Weinstein has argued is critical to the film’s message. Weinstein appealed the film’s rating and though h
Mega64 has spoofed theIndie Game the Movie trailer, making it an action movie rife with hilarious references to the (indie) gaming community as a whole. [via IndieGamingMag]
