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  • 19 April 2012

  • Opinion: The Most Annoying Android Apps

    Not all Android apps are created equal, and most are far from perfect.

  • 18 April 2012

  • Opinion: Fibble for iPhone and iPad

    Fibble feels like what Pixar might come up with if the animation studio tried its hand at a puzzle game. The premise behind the game from Crytek even kind of sounds like a Disney movie waiting to happen: When a lovable alien the size of a marble gets knocked from orbit, it has to navigate its way through the hazards of a human household as efficiently as possible. Also, there’s a lot of hugging. And an octopus with a monocle.

  • 13 April 2012

  • Opinion: Epic Mario Project Re-Creates Super Mario Bros Level 1-1 With Lego

    We've already seen the insane amount of labor needed to create a virtual version of a Super Mario Land level. Zachary Pollock, an adult fan of Lego and brick artist, wants to wants to go one step further and recreate the entire first level (1-1) from Super Mario Bros. with Lego blocks.

  • 12 April 2012

  • Opinion: World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria Preview

    It's a Wednesday evening in the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria beta and almost everything is broken. Needed items for quests just won't spawn. I'm given abilities that only function when used with other abilities that I won't get for another twenty levels. I sometimes have to just kill enemies for hours at a time to continue leveling up.

  • Opinion: Jordan Mechner Made An Apple II Game Called Deathbounce

    Last week, Jordan Mechner was the keynote speaker at PAX East, Penny Arcade's annual three-day celebration of gaming and gamers. Mechner kicked off the event with his personal story of how creating Karateka and Prince of Persia indirectly led him to fulfill his life goal of breaking into Hollywood, and how he has since revisited those properties many times across various media.

  • 10 April 2012

  • Opinion: Castlevania Re-created in Minecraft With Candles, Holy Water, Dracula, and All

    We've seen some awesome video game re-creations in Minecraft, like Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and World of Warcraft. But what we love even more are the retro, 2D re-creations like this one made for the Nintendo classic Castlevania.

  • 09 April 2012

  • Opinion: SNES Wireless Controller Hack Means No More Tripping Over Cords

    The greatest thing about modern consoles--even more so than graphics or online multiplayer support--has to be the wireless controllers. I can't tell you the number of times I've died thanks to diving eagles in the original Ninja Gaiden because of someone blocking my screen as they carefully stepped over the controller cord, which they would just trip over anyway.

  • 07 April 2012

  • Opinion: Mass Effect 3 Face Import To Be Fixed Next Week

    When Mass Effect 3 was released, longstanding fans were horrified by the mutant aberrations that stared back at them once they imported their Mass Effect 2 save games. Some shrugged off this bug that butchers any Shepard created back in the original Mass Effect, electing to accept either the male or the female default model; others struggled to meticulously recreate their personalized hero; and many more reluctantly settled in to wait for a fix, steadfastly refusing to play through the conclusion to the series with any character other than their own.

  • 06 April 2012

  • Opinion: Hands On With Sins of A Solar Empire: Rebellion

    The second phase of the Sins of A Solar Empire: Rebellion beta went live this week, so I spent some time playing with the new units and factions to figure out how Rebellion changes the slow, strategic pace that the space-based RTS Sins of A Solar Empire is famous for. While the average match remains the same (you'll still spend hours conquering planets and blasting pirates), the division of each side into Loyalist/Rebel factions and the addition of four new victory conditions make playing Sins of A Solar Empire: Rebellion feel like a new adventure.

  • Opinion: How Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut Plans To Save The Galaxy

    Fans disappointed by Mass Effect 3's conclusion as well as critics dismayed by the spectacle of a storyteller giving into its audience's demands all turn today with skeptical anticipation towards Bioware as the beleaguered developer announces a free downloadable content pack to redress grievances. Due out sometime this summer on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3, the Extended Cut will supplement the game's existing endings rather than rewrite them or add new ones.

  • Opinion: Free Friday: A Twist on Portal Puzzles and Free Games Inspired By Peter Molyneux

    The big story in free games this week is undoubtedly last weekend's 2012 Molyjam, a competition to create games in 48 hours based on the tweets of @PeterMolyduex. @PeterMolyduex is a twitter account that parodies the pronouncements of game designer Peter Molyneux (creator of games such as Black & White and Fable), known for his insistence that game designers need to think outside the box and create new ways of playing games.

  • Opinion: The Witcher 2 and Fallout Available for Free

    CD Projekt RED, the Polish developer of The Witcher series and the owner of GOG.com, held its Spring Conference yesterday and made a series of announcements for both the game franchise and the digital distribution service. Marcin Iwinski, the co-founder and CEO of CD Projekt, began by thanking fans for the success of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, which has sold over 1.1 million units and received widespread acclaim. Iwinski presented a brief preview of a forthcoming 6-minute trailer whose narrative illustrates what The Witcher is all about; the full trailer will be released to market the debut of the series on the Xbox 360 later this month.

  • Opinion: Advertising in Free Apps Saps Your Smartphone's Battery Life

    As much as 75 percent of the energy spent by some popular smartphone apps, such as Angry Birds and Fchess, is spent on marketing and advertising aimed at you.

  • 04 April 2012

  • Opinion: thatgamecompany Moves Beyond Its Journey With Sony

    Last month, thatgamecompany released Journey on the PlayStation Network to widespread critical acclaim and, happily, an equally favorable commercial reception. In fact, Journey has become the fastest-selling title in the history of the PSN both in the US and in Europe. The number of fan letters that the developer has received also surpassed those for Flower, Journey's predecessor, after only three days. This success is likely to hold steady as Journey's soundtrack, by Austin Wintory, is released on April 10th and the Smithsonian continues to feature Flower in its Art of Video Games exhibit.

  • Opinion: 5 Hot iPhone Apps that Android Still Lacks

    With Instagram's arrival on Android, some snobbish iPhone users are making their disdain known for the new users who they claim are crowding and disrupting the Instagram social order.

  • Opinion: This Kinect Project Uses Your Tongue as the Controller

    The Kinect is a revolutionary device that's turned you and your body into the controller. Now, a Japanese research group out of The University of Electro-Communications is developing a way for the depth-sensing camera interface to detect tongue movement and use it as a control mechanism.

  • 03 April 2012

  • Opinion: 'Angry Birds' Video Series, Feature Film in the Works

    The success of Rovio's Angry Birds franchise has a lot to do with the quirkiness of its characters, a dynamic that the Finnish game developer hopes to explore in a series of upcoming video shorts, as well as a feature film.

  • 02 April 2012

  • Opinion: Next Xbox May Have Blu-ray, Require Constant Internet Connection

    Microsoft's next Xbox console may include a Blu-ray player and require a steady Internet connection, according to a new report.

  • Opinion: Indie Darling Fez Finally Takes Form

    Fez has gathered quite a résumé for a game that hasn't sold even a single copy. A longstanding presence at conventions, it first caught the public's eye during the Independent Games Festival of 2008, when it received the award for Excellence in Visual Art. After it was featured among the PAX 10 at 2011's Penny Arcade Expo, the game went on to reappear at the IGF awards in 2012, receiving the coveted Seamus McNally Grand Prize amid heated controversy, most vocally from indie developer and critic Anna Anthropy.

  • Opinion: How to Get the Most From Your 3D HDTV

    Gamers, tech enthusiasts, and early adopters were the first to benefit from the shift to HDTV, and now they're reaping the rewards of jumping on the 3D train before everyone else. Good 3D TV programming and Blu-ray movies are still in short supply, but the amount of killer stereoscopic games is growing by the day. In fact, some of last year's biggest games came with support for 3D television sets. But just as in the early years of HD technology, discerning how to get the most out of your cutting-edge tech is no simple task.

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