By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] At the moment, I am hopelessly addicted to Mario Kart for the Nintendo DS so this article by the Daily Telegraph was quite interesting. It asks who the greatest ever gaming sidekicks are and offers ten candidates. I vote for Yoshi! Quite often, as I am finding with Mario […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Last night, Google announced the beta launch of its AdSense for Games program, which will focus on placing ads in casual flash games as well as some larger titles. This move doesn’t come as a huge surprise, since Google bought AdScape Media for $23 million last year. In fact, […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Last night, CBS’s geektastic sitcom The Big Bang Theory featured the MMORPG Age of Conan. Without giving too much away, I’ll just say that it explored the perils of game addiction in a humorous way. Like the rest of the show, it’s not framed in a way to mock […]
If there’s a game I remember enjoying as a kid, it was certainly Punch Out! For the time, the game had fantastic graphics, and as far as I’m concerned, it was one of the best titles released for the old NES. So this morning, when I learned that Nintendo was working on a new version […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] What do United Airlines, War of the Worlds, and the upcoming “massively-multiplayer forecasting game” Superstruct have in common? According to one of the game’s designers at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, more than you might think. When I was in high school in the nineties, a friend […]
Judging from the newest trailer for the upcoming LEGO Batman game, Batman and his friends may be a little square themselves, but they’ve got some pretty sleek rides. They’ve got the Batmobile, Robin’s Bat-Bike, planes, trains, boats… and apparently the same sort of humor we’ve come to expect from the previous Star Wars and Indiana […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you’re a gamer, you’ll know from experience that PC shooters are very common and mostly very enjoyable. Who doesn’t enjoy shooting opponents on the screen? A lot of those games are also available free of charge and online, and one of them is currently causing a huge amount of […]
Directed by John Moore and featuring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, the movie adaption of Max Payne – the game, will apparently be released on October 17, 2008. If the movie is as any good as the trailer looks, I think we’ll be in for a great time at the big screen. What do you […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] A lot of “World of Warcraft” gamers apparently don’t want to go through the huge amounts of time needed to build up the gold to initially create their characters. Either because they can’t be bothered or because they have day jobs which stop them from gaming all day. So […]
Ok, before I say anything, try to watch the full 11 minutes of this thing, and we’ll talk after. Big screen adaptation of video games are usually awful, and up to now, Uwe Boll has always taken “awful” to the next level. Can anyone think of a movie of his that was actually just “decent”? […]