Archive for June, 2009

In Soviet Russia…they had video games. Not particularly special ones, mind you, but they had them. And those dusty old machines now have pride of place in a new museum in the Russian capital, Moscow. window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines (the Soviet ethic lives on in the place’s name, then) is [...]

window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; About 30 seconds in you see the clip that probably inspired this 5 minute masterpiece: “I must stop little baby!” Readers soccerboy33 and Hugo M. tipped this collection of nut-shots, bike crashes, failed stunts and America’s Funniest Home Videos runners-up, which of course are infinitely funnier when set to an antic soundtrack [...]

window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; The PC version of Cyanide Studios‘ adaptation of classic Games Workshop board game Blood Bowl is less than a week away, and all eight fantasy football teams are raring to go. After a bit of legal wrangling over Cyanide’s last fantasy football release, Chaos League, the developer and Games Workshop settled their [...]

Blizzard have released the third of their “Battle Reports“, in-depth videos showing off some of the finer features of upcoming RTS powerhouse Starcraft II.

UK publisher Mastertronic, who you may know as the owners of the Sold Out software range, have launched a new publishing label called ‘Great Indie Games’. Designed specifically to bring indie titles to a games store near you, Mastertronic’s Andy Payne explained that they want to try to give the best indie games a wider [...]

Even more classic Worms-style gameplay is coming to Xbox Live Arcade with Worms 2: Armageddon, a proper numerical sequel to Team17′s 1999 classic turn-based strategy game Worms Armageddon. Worms 2: Armageddon‘s trailer highlights the changes coming to the XBLA version—and eventually to the PC and Mac—including new vertical levels and other landscape types, all-new weapons [...]

Via Offworld columnist Jim Rossignol‘s Twitter stream comes this fantastic piece of amateur modeling – a Japanese garage kit of the legendary third stage boss from R-Type. Visible as a whole, rather than spread across multiple screens-worth of scroll, it’s really quite striking – and there’s even a little R9 fighter for scale. [R-Type Warship [...]

Last week, Microsoft’s Shane Kim told us that the launch of the 360′s motion-controlled camera system – Project Natal – would be as big as a console launch. Maybe he was onto something with that. Because 1UP are reporting a rumour that while Natal will be released next year for existing 360 consoles, it will [...]

Pokemon’s beauty lies in its simplicity. Much like other Nintendo RPGs. Pixels upon pixels, building a world that’s like a digital LEGO land come to life. Here’s Pokemon disassembled, pixel by pixel. Wonderful, isn’t it? One shot: Pokemon , pixel by pixel [Offworld]

Here’s some more screenshots for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed 2. And yes, in one of them, he is flying.