Archive for January, 2010

window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Print this off, stick it to the back of your bedroom/toilet door, and get to memorising. Occasional questionable figure aside, this will definitely help you win fights on the playground/at the pub. Videogame statistics [Online Education]

[From now until mid-January, IndieGames.com: The Weblog will be counting down the best independent and freeware games of 2009, with descriptions, screenshots, and links of the best games in each major category. Previously: Top 10 Shoot 'em Ups, Top 10 Puzzle Games, Top 10 Browser Platformers, Top 20 Freeware Platformers] The fifth of our in-depth [...]

window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Microsoft’s experiment in casual game creation, Kodu, is now available in preview form online. PC gamers can download the “Technical Preview” version of the game right here, which features a revamped UI sporting mouse and keyboard controls. Microsoft also added other tweaks, enhancing the “move” verb (allowing for scripted camera movements), “streamlined [...]

In Darksiders, you play as War, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The other three, though, you never see them. They’re away, at a volleyball tournament. If they were around, though, this is what they’d look like. Vigil’s Joe Madureira originally designed all four horsemen. He of course took some liberties; instead of [...]

It’s called, “try hitting on anyone while you’re wearing that thing.” That’s right, Harry Potter there is someone’s husband. So if this sweater makes him the world’s biggest geek, it also makes her the world’s most awesome wife. Reasoning that “knitting stitches are basically pixels, right?” The Happy Seamstress converted World 1-1 into a “ginormous [...]

[From now until mid-January, IndieGames.com: The Weblog will be counting down the best independent and freeware games of 2009, with descriptions, screenshots, and links of the best games in each major category. Previously: Top 10 Shoot 'em Ups, Top 10 Puzzle Games, Top 10 Browser Platformers] The fourth of our in-depth 2009 Best Of Features [...]

Our Swedish friends weren’t just working on a Final Fantasy project when the studio went belly-up last year. A former GRIN artist has posted concepts from a ninja action/adventure game, and it sounds like it was a new IP. Joakim Hellstedt classified these under “various pitches” and “various gameplay and misc,” so if it even [...]

Car maker Toyota unveiled the FT-CH “dedicated hybrid concept” at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, a car notable for its younger skewing design, cheaper price and, in Toyota’s own words, its “8-bit generation” inspired design. According to the official announcement, the Toyota Europe Design and Development (ED2) center in Nice designed the [...]

While amazing, the LEGO Universe trailer was short on in-game action. These screenshots are comprised of nothing but. I’m digging the look, but don’t remember LEGO figures ever being that shiny. Hopefully NetDevil tone down the sheen before the game’s release.