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TweetCraft: World of Warcraft Twitter Client

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 18:00:00 EST

The Twitter Blog has a post about TweetCraft, a Twitter client that can be used within the World of Warcraft.

TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft, the wildly popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. If you're a WoW player you might like it because you can send and receive tweets in-game, upload screenshots to TwitPic, automatically tweet when you get an achievement, and more. Also, the overly dramatic video promo is fun.

Here's a video about the WoW client:

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How Tetris Blocks Are Made

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EST

A motion designer in South Korea that goes by the name WooDUS made this clever animation that shows how Tetris blocks are made. Tetris recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.

(via Offworld)

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ARhrrrr: Augmented Reality Zombie Game

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:00:00 EST

The Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab and the Savannah College of Art and Design have designed an interesting augmented reality game called "ARhrrrr." The game involves killing zombies but not the innocent people inside a zombie-stricken city.

The phone provides a window into a 3d town overrun with zombies. Point the camera at our special game map to mix virtual and real world content. Civilians are trapped in the town, and must escape before the zombies eat them! From your vantage point in a helicopter overhead, you must shoot the zombies to clear the path for the civilians to get out. Watch out though as the zombies will fight back, throwing bloody organs to bring down your copter. Move the phone quickly to dodge them. You can also use Skittles as tangible inputs to the game, placing one on the board and shooting it to trigger an explosion.

One interesting feature of the game is that you can place actually skittles inside the game and they turn into bombs. Take a look:

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Wow Mountain Dew Commercial

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:00:00 EST

Two women transform into Warcraft characters and begin dueling in the grocery store in this Mountain Dew World of Warcraft commercial. Take a look:

(via Geekologie)

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PDC Championship Darts for the Wii

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:00:00 EST

Dart champion Phil Taylor is helping promote the Wii darts game, PDC Championship Darts. The experts say the dart game is great practice for real darts. GameSpot has information about theg ame here. Here's a video from IDN showing Phil Taylor playing the game.

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Jimmy Fallon Tries Project Natal

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:00:00 EST
Jimmy Fallon got an opportunity to try out Microsoft's Project Natal on the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. The system looks just as impressive and innovative as it did Microsot's videos that introduced the system. It's too bad it may be a while before Microsoft actually has its novel controller-less console on the market.

(via Vulture)

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Conan Responds to Allegations His Set Resembles Super Mario

Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:00:00 EST
A blog called Serious Lunch speculated that the backdrop on Conan O'Brien's set resembles the Super Mario game. The speculation was false but Conan's reaction to it was pretty funny. Take a look:

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EA Staged Fake Dante's Inferno Protests

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:00:00 EST
Electronic Arts organized a fake protest at the E3 Expo. The fake protestors were upset about EA's Dante's Inferno title.
The game publisher hired a group of nearly 20 people to stand outside the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on Wednesday and appear to protest the upcoming EA game "Dante's Inferno." EA spokeswoman Holly Rockwood says the stunt was arranged by a viral marketing agency hired by EA.
The fake protesters claimed the game glorified eternal damnation. The fake protest organization even has a website here. It's pretty amusing but sometimes these publicity stunts can be confusing if they seem real and confuse journalists.

You can read more about EA's publicity stunt here, here and here.

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Pirates vs Ninjas Dodgeball

Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:00:00 EST

Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball is a great name and idea for a video game. The Wii controller can be used to hurl dodgeballs at your opponent. In additin to Ninjas and Pirates, OhGizmo says you can also play robots, zombies, aliens, and mushroom men. The game is published by SouthPeak Games. There is an Xbox version as well. Here's a trailer:

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Terminator Salvation: The Game

Sun, 31 May 2009 15:00:00 EST
You get to play John Connor and destroy Skynet in the Terminator Salvation video game. The third-person shooter is set two years ahead of the plot of the Teriminator Salvation movie. The game developers were in the same production studio as the film guys to make the film. Maybe that's what drove Christian Bale crazy on the set. The website for the game can be found at terminatorsalvationthegame.com.

Posted in Movies

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Big Games at E3 Expo 2009

Fri, 29 May 2009 22:00:00 EST
G4TV previews some of the big games expected to be revealed at E3 Expo 2009. G4TV will have its E3 coverage here beginning June 1st. Some of the big titles at E3 include Alpha Protocol, God of War 3, Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Heavy Rain, Bayonetta, Bioshock 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Final Fantasy XIII and Halo 3. Take a look:

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Tetris in Real Life

Mon, 25 May 2009 21:00:00 EST

Neatorama says Swedish photographer Erik Johansson created this awesome image of what Tetris would look like as a construction company.

(via Super Punch)

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Punch-Out Comes to the Wii

Tue, 19 May 2009 15:40:00 EST

The classic game Punch Out is now available for the Wii. If the name "Glass Joe" rings a bell then you have probably played the game before. He is the easiest opponent weighing just 110 pounds. Joystiq has gathered up several reviews for Punch-Out here. They say it may not be a TKO but it is "is certainly a knock-out."

The website for Punch-Out can be found at punchout.nintendo.com.

Here's the trailer.

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Swineflighter: Kill the Swine Flu

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:00:00 EST

Swinefighter allows you to get revenge on the virus that has been dominated the news. It's a pretty simple game. You just go around trying to disinfect flying pigs.Reuters has a video of someone playing the game if you would prefer to watch. Reuters notes that the game also offers recommendations from the U.S. Center of Disease Control on how to avoid contracting the flu. You can find the CDC's official swine flu resources here. Links to more H1N1 swine flu resources can be found here.

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Game Webby Award Nominees

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:00:00 EST

Here's the nominees for this year's Webby awards in the games category. Pictured above is a screenshot from Rock Paper Scissors: Extreme Deathmatch.

Cartoon Network's FusionFall
Club Penguin
Kongregate
Mafia Wars
Adult Swim's Rock Paper Scissors: Extreme Deathmatch

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Wolfenstein Opening Cinema

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:00:00 EST
The Castle Wolfenstein games have been around since the early days of computing. There's a new Wolfenstein in development from Activision Blizzard. Here's a promotional cinematic trailer for the game. It's great when the games take plot seriously. Destructoid has more details about the game - which will have a supernatural element - here.

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Moshi Monsters Growing in Popularity in Japan

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:00:00 EST

Moshi Monsters is growing in popularity. The site has 1.8 million users. Reuters says the game combines elements of Japan's tamagotchi craze with educational challenges and online networking. Moshi Monsters also includes a virtual world that has its own currency called Rox. You gain more currency by solving puzzles.

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Resident Evil Series Needs a Reboot

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:00:00 EST
Wired's Game|Life takes a look at the Resident Evil series, which is now on its fifth version. Wired says Resident Evil 5 for the Xbox 360 is a lot more fun than the past sequels because you can play with other people and you aren't left alone with the zombies. Unfortunately, they also say that the game is no longer scary. Wired says the game in the Resident Evil series is promised to be a "total reboot."

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Save Jim Cramer in Crashteroids

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:00:00 EST

Jim Cramer has been in the new a lot lately because he and the CNBC network have been under attack by Jon Stewart and the Daily Show. The Big Money has created a humorous Flash game that lets you stop Jim Cramer's many enemies.
TBM presents Jim Cramer's Crashteroids, an exclusive Flash game in which Cramer tries to survive as his greatest enemies have only one mission: kill Jim Cramer. Avenge Cramer's disgrace at the hands of Jon Stewart by blasting his smug grin into space dust. Defeat Business Insider's Henry Blodget, a man who once called Cramer "a chair-throwing, self-aggrandizing clown." Protect Cramer from Fox Business, a network that sneered, "[T]he last thing you need is Jim Cramer." Shred Barron's magazine, a publication that has tried to prove Cramer gives crappy investment advice. And, of course, keep the grizzly hordes of bear-market economists at bay.
Jim Cramer may not have a bunch of people rushing to help him after being soundly beaten by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show but it is an amusing time waster. You can play the game here. (via Mercury News)

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Blizzard Puts Up Orc on Wolf Statue

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:00:00 EST

Blizzard put up a lovely 12-foot orc and wolf sculpture to celebrate the opening of their new offices in Orange County, California. The statue was created by the Weta Workshop, the special-effects company behind the LOTR films. (via ocregister.com via Wonderland)

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World of Warcraft Deemed as Addictive as Crack Cocaine

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:00:00 EST
The Daily Mail reports that Sweden's Youth Care Foundation believe World of Warcraft is dangerous. The report follows news that a boy collapsed after playing Warcraft for 24 consecutive hours.
However, a report from Sweden's Youth Care Foundation describes it as 'the most dangerous game on the market'.

The report's author Sven Rollenhagen said: 'There is not a single case of game addiction that we have worked with in which World of Warcraft has not played a part.

'It is the crack cocaine of the computer game world. Some will play it till they drop.'

The Swedish National Institute of Public Health has backed the report, adding: 'Computer game addiction is becoming more widespread across the world.'

The warning comes after a Swedish boy of 15 collapsed after playing it for for 24 hours earlier this month.
The Daily Mail also says that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no more than one to two hours per day of "screen time" for Warcraft. People can get addicted to just about anything. If Warcraft is something that causes certain people problems then maybe they should avoid video games. Warcraft has been around long enough now that it is clear that most people aren't playing Warcraft until they are exhausted and then collapsing on the ground.

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50 Cent Pursues Diamond Skull in Iraq in New Video Game

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:00:00 EST
50 Cent pursues his stolen diamond-embedded skull of legends in Iraq in his latest video game adventure. GamePro explains the new 50 Cent Blood on the Sand game with a rap. They do say the game is worth picking up. Take a look below. You can also find the game's website here and a trailer here. The game is rated M for mature.

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Sims 3 Launch Delayed Until June

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:00:00 EST

Electronic Arts has delayed the launch of Sims 3 has been delayed until June. PC Magazine says the delay is so EA can creating more awareness for the franchise.
EA claimed the delay was designed to "create awareness" for the franchise, which, along with its add-ons, sold a total of 100 million units in April 2008.

"The June launch combined with the break-through game the team is building gives us the perfect runway to create awareness for The Sims 3," said Russell Arons, vice president of marketing for EA, in a statement. "The Sims 3 will be the original IP summer blockbuster of 2009 as we build off the success of the best-selling PC franchise of all time to create awareness with both loyal Sims fans and new players."
The delay could also be related to the economy. EA recently cut 1,100 jobs. The website for Sims 3 can be found here.

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Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Trailer

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:00:00 EST
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is a new Wii and DS game being devloped by Sega under the guidance of Shigeru Miyamoto. The game will take players to Olympic venues where they can choose from a cast of playable characters. The Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games video game sold over 10 million copies worldwide so Sega is hoping this Winter Games sequel will be another big hit. Alpine Skiing and Speed Skating are a couple of the events that will be part of Winter Games with more events to be announced throughout the year. The game is due out by the end of 2009. MTV has more details. Here's the trailer:

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Billy Bob Thornton Talks Wii's Deadly Creatures

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:00:00 EST
Billy Bob Thornton plays both a scorpion and a hunter in an upcoming Wii game called Deadly Creatures. Thornton says he can't play the game and that Pong is more his speed. Joystiq says Deadly Creatures will be out in February - a delay pushed the game from an initial December release. You can find more about the game on the official website.

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Hooray for Flying Pizza Kitty

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:00:00 EST

Flying Pizza Kitty is a website with interesting animated comic strips and little time killer online games. The graphics are low quality and old school but that just seems to make the concept of this pizza flinging kitty more fun and amusing.

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Five Non Sequel Games for 2009

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:00:00 EST
The AP's Derrik Lang describes several games he is looking forward to in 2009 that are not sequels of other games. One of the games on his list is the intricately detailed Heavy Rain. He also likes Prototype, a parkour inspired game where players became a shape-shifting superhero. Others he mentions: Madworld, a violent Wii game; Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Ghostbusters.

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Cool Graffiti in Left 4 Dead

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:00:00 EST

This message was spotted written on a blackboard in the zombie survival game, Left 4 Dead. Losing the Internet is just one of many unhappy things that would happen if there was a real zombie uprising. (via Offworld)

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Diary Queen Game Lets You Mange the Store

Sat, 3 Jan 2009 15:00:00 EST

The New York Times reports that Dairy Queen has launched a game called DQ Tycoon that lets you run a DQ store.
Now, a new game created with the help of Dairy Queen, DQ Tycoon, lets players run their own fast-food franchise.

"Oh, come on, who hasn't wanted to run and own a DQ?" Michael Keller, the chief brand officer of Dairy Queen International, said. "Maybe everybody doesn't, but so many Americans have grown up with the DQ brand, and have had that experience of stepping up to a DQ window on a hot summer day."

DQ Tycoon is a time-management game, one of a genre of anxiety-inducing games requiring players to race against the clock to complete mundane tasks - in this case, preparing Peanut Buster Parfaits, taking orders, restocking the refrigerator, and dipping cones.
We aren't sure DQ really needs a game to convince kids to want ice cream. If they really wanted to use a game to brand their store they should have given it away completely for free. Instead the game costs $19.99 to be downloaded from BigFishGames.com. You can play the game free for one hour.

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Bush Shoe Incident Muse For Online Game Makers

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:00:00 EST

President Bush showed quick reflexes when an Iraqi journalist threw shoes at him two weeks ago during a press conference in Iraq. No one should be throwing things at the U.S. President but the incident has provided inspiration for the creation of funny animated graphics and free web games. Dvice has posted a round-up of the top ten Bush shoe dodging games. Some of the better ones include Sock and Awe, Bush Shoe Incident and Bush vs. Attack of the Shoes. In the last two games you play the President as you try and avoid incoming shoes.

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Wrist Controlled Asteroids Watch

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:00:00 EST

John Maushammer has created a watch that lets you play asteroids. What's really unique about it is that you control the asteroid blasting spaceship by moving your wrist. Maushammer did something similar with Pong on a watch last year. These are cool enough that the watchmaking Maushammer should be selling them. Here's a video of the watch in action. (via Dvice via Didn't You Hear)

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The Most Played PC Games in 2008

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:00:00 EST
Nielsen has issued a year-end look at the most played PC games during 2008. The titles below are ranked by the time PC Gamers spend playing the games. World of Warcraft nad Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare were well ahead of the pack as you can see in the more detailed chart here.

World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
Halo: Combat Evolved (Microsoft Game Studios)
The Sims (Electronic Arts Inc.)
The Sims 2 (Electronic Arts Inc.)
RuneScape (Jagex Ltd. )
Diablo II (Blizzard Entertainment)
Team Fortress 2 (Valve)
Counter-Strike (Sierra Studios)
Counter-Strike: Source (Valve)

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PlayStation's Virtual World Called Home Debuts

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:00:00 EST

PlayStation Home is a 3-D gaming community for PlayStation 3 that debuted this week. MSNBC's reviewer Winda Benedetti called home a "theater of the absurd" and a "testosterone-fueled meat market" because men greatly outnumber the women. However, Winda Benedetti also said the virtual world is a fascinating experiment.
Last Thursday, Sony launched the open beta for Home - a 3-D virtual world that anyone who owns a PlayStation 3 can visit for free. It is at once a grand, fascinating experiment in virtual community and social gaming ... as well as a theater of the absurd.

It is a place where people get together and connect over the games they love ? and it's also a testosterone-fueled meat market where the men massively outnumber the women. It is absorbing, cool and frequently hilarious. But it also feels, at times, like a world where the madhouse inmates have been set free to run amok.
Director for PlayStation Home Jack Buser gave a detailed 24-minute behind-the-scenes look at PlayStation Home to GameStop. Take a look:

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Ridemakerz Launches a Virtual World

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:00:00 EST

Ridemakerz, a retailer of custom-built toy cars, has launched a virtual world for boys with the help of Gamelab and The Electric Sheep Company. Ridemakerz could fill a virtual world niche for kissed missed by more cutesy virtual worlds like Club Penguin and Webkinz.

Ridemakerz Founder and ZEO Larry Andreini says Ridemakerz, "does not draw a distinction between on- and off-line activities, but rather integrates them into a best-of-both-worlds experience. We believe this is particularly important for boys, especially those up to the age of 12, who before Ridemakerz have been overlooked in both real and virtual environments such as American Girl, Build-A-Bear Workshop Buildabearville.com, Club Penguin and Webkinz. Ridemakerz is in a unique position to connect with boys virtually just as we do in the real world - through cars and authentic car culture. Our online experience is an extension of the interactive, off-line experience that boys have customizing RIDEZ and learning about cars at home or in one of our SHOPZ. And while the boys are having fun playing, what they're also doing is being creative, making choices, collaborating with friends and family, and building confidence."

Here's some of what they are promising in the Ridemakerz online universe.

Larger play area - providing a fully immersive look and feel
More sophisticated - improving quality of game play
Higher-quality graphics - increasing authenticity and taking on movie-like qualities
Console game attributes - a dynamic driving experience that puts players in the action
Advanced effects - smoke, flames and other particle effects (including farts!)
Yes, they are really promising virtual farts. The virtual world move is probably a smart one for a company like Ridemakerz. It is starting to feel like most toy brands are going to have a virtual counterpart. TechCrunch has more details on the virtual world in this article form earlier this month.

Here's a video preview.

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The Intense Faces of Video Gamers

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:00:00 EST
Photographer Robbie Cooper shows how intensely focused video gamers are when they are playing games. (via New York Times via Videogum)

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Ghostbusters Game Out June, 2009

Fri, 5 Dec 2008 21:00:00 EST
This trailer for a Ghostbusters video game is getting a lot of buzz. The graphics look great. It won't be out until June, 2009. The official website for the game is at ghostbustersgame.com but it's just a teaser site as of this writing. There is a new Ghostbusters movie in the works as well.

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Eidos Releases Tomb Raider Underworld

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:00 EST
Eidos has released Tomb Raider Underworld, the latest video game in the ongoing Tomb Raider series. The offical website is at tombraider.com. Actress Alison Carrol - who has been playing Lara Croft in the real world - explains how Lara Croft has been motion captured for the first time in Underworld the AP clip below. More about Alison here.

The new game received generally favorable ratings according to Metacritic although they were criticized by Kotaku for trying to control review scores. Wikipedia's entry says Underworld is the eighth game in the series and we have a feeling it won't be the last.

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Apple Pushes Its Way Into Gaming With iPhone and iPod Touch

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:00:00 EST
Can Apple push its way into the gaming industry with the iPod Touch and iPhone? It sure looks like it. They obviously cannot challenge the game consoles with these small devices but they can challenge Nintendo DS and Sony PSP.

The WSJ reports in the video below that Apple recently started marketing some of its games in an advertisement for the iPod Touch. There are also startups making games just for Apple's gadgets like ngmoco - that's a screenshot of ngmoco's Rolando iPod Touch game pictured on the right. Other articles about Apple's entrance into the gaming market can be found here, here, here, here and here. If Apple is successful then could an Apple game console be far away? It would be a surprise if Apple tried to take on the Nintendo, Xbox 360 or PlayStation when they have so much riding on the iPhone but nothing should be completely ruled out.

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