Having watched my talented co-worker Tim Turi play Mega Man games
before, I know how incredible a human can be at challenging old NES
games. But even Tim has never had a run quite this incredible.
We've heard plenty of rumors
about both Sony and Microsoft prepping new console reveals for E3 later
this year, but if the publisher itself is to be believed, at least one
of these isn't happening.
Before shutting down in 2009, developer Factor 5 was working on a
Superman game for also-now-defunct publisher Brash Entertainment. That
title never saw the light of day, but some new character designs from it
have found their way online.
Sly PC programmers have been playing around with Microsoft's
motion-sensing Kinect device to create interesting PC-powered
applications since the device debuted in 2010, but soon Microsoft will
support Kinect use on the PC officially.
We're back from break, and would you believe we wasted most of our holiday time off playing the freshly-launched Star Wars: The Old Republic? Of course we did.
We've talked endlessly about how amazingly massive the world of The
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is, but do you need more evidence? Alright.
Skyrim is so big that it has its own crackpot, tinfoil-hat-level,
end-of-days conspiracy theorists!
This year's excellent action-RPG Dark Souls felt sort of like an
old-school NES game in terms of its brutal difficulty. Now thanks to a
mystery package that showed up in the Game Informer office, it's even
easier to imagine this team-up having existed.
I'm terrible at naming things, but it looks like I'm not the only one.
Pinball FX creator Zen Studios is running a contest asking fans to help
name its latest project.
