I was raised in the glory days of Japanese RPG's (JRPG's) on the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest were the biggest game franchises, and real gamers could debate their merits endlessly. We remained engaged in the stories of the games, even though ...more
April NPD Video Game Sales Every month around the second thursday the sales chart for video games and consoles are released for the previous month. They are released by the NPD group, the main company tracking video games sales in the US. Here are the top twenty games in the ...more
One of the best video makers on YouTube named Gigafide AKA Tinkernut has showed us how to make a Nyan Cat Game with Stencyl. youtube.com – Learn how to make a custom flash game from scratch without any coding knowledge using the free software from Stencyl. Important links: htt ...more
The makers of Call of Duty Black Ops clearly had a bit of a sense of humor about their work, as easter eggs are liberally scattered throughout the game's many maps. This video will teach you how to find the red phone easter egg in the Five map in Black Ops Zombies.
From the makers of Bayonetta (Platinum Games) comes Vanquish, their Japanese version of Halo. Not quite sure if this is good or bad, but since they made Bayonetta, this might turn out to be a really good game game play wise. The story already looks juvenile from the video. I l ...more
Red Dead Redemption is a hot new game from the makers of Grand Theft Auto. The game is available now for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox. In this video, you will get a walk through of how to find hidden treasures in your game. Follow along and do exactly as your trainer does and yo ...more
In this video we learn how to put a Sega Genesis emulator on your Nintendo DS R4 or M3 card. Putting the Sega Genesis emulator on your Nintendo DS R4 Card allows you to play games that were originally designed for the Sega Genesis on your Nintendo DS. The first step is to down ...more
This is a video walkthrough of Mission 2: "Little Resistance" in Call of Duty 4 World at War. This includes cheats, glitches and quick play strategies. This game is a first person shooter (FPS). Call of Duty World at War walkthroughs include general gameplay tips and a step b ...more
This is a video walkthrough of Mission 7: "Relentless" in Call of Duty 4 World at War. This includes cheats, glitches and quick play strategies. This game is a first person shooter (FPS). Call of Duty World at War walkthroughs include general gameplay tips and a step by step ...more
This is a video walkthrough of Mission 8: "Blood and Iron" in Call of Duty 4 World at War. This includes cheats, glitches and quick play strategies. This game is a first person shooter (FPS). Call of Duty World at War walkthroughs include general gameplay tips and a step by s ...more
This is a video walkthrough of Mission 10: "Eviction" in Call of Duty 4 World at War. This includes cheats, glitches and quick play strategies. This game is a first person shooter (FPS). Call of Duty World at War walkthroughs include general gameplay tips and a step by step l ...more
This is a video walkthrough of Mission 11: "Blackcats" in Call of Duty 4 World at War. This includes cheats, glitches and quick play strategies. This game is a first person shooter (FPS). Call of Duty World at War walkthroughs include general gameplay tips and a step by step ...more
This is a video walkthrough of Mission 12: "Blowtorch & Corkscrew" in Call of Duty 4 World at War. This includes cheats, glitches and quick play strategies. This game is a first person shooter (FPS). Call of Duty World at War walkthroughs include general gameplay tips and a s ...more
This is a video walkthrough of Mission 14: "Heart of the Reich" in Call of Duty 4 World at War. This includes cheats, glitches and quick play strategies. This game is a first person shooter (FPS). Call of Duty World at War walkthroughs include general gameplay tips and a step ...more
Most indie game developers will never see a million dollars in their bank accounts, and I certainly doubt that Eul, the anonymous developer responsible for the original version of Defense of the Ancients (DotA), expected to. But now even the fans can earn a little green. Some ...more
Planning the Trip Get lots of brochures Send for brochures of the places you will be visiting. Make a travel book with the brochures to get the grandchildren and their families excited. The best place to contact for these brochures are the Visitors Bureaus or the Chamber of ...more
Teppei Okada performs a live violin soundtrack to a real time game of Super Mario Bros. Gee whiz, that's some true fan dedication (and perhaps a waste of prodigious talent... you tell me). And that's not all he's got in his video game-meets-classical arsenal. Check it out. Pr ...more
Via WonderHowTo World, SCRABBLE: Dirty SCRABBLE. Everybody likes to play dirty, but we're not talking bluffing with fake words or closing up the board—we're talking actual "dirty" and offensive words. Despite the exclusion of offensive words in the bowdlerized Official SCRAB ...more
Dirty SCRABBLE. Everybody likes to play dirty, but we're not talking bluffing with fake words or closing up the board—we're talking actual "dirty" and offensive words. Despite the exclusion of offensive words in the bowdlerized Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary (OSPD), the ...more
This video shows you how-to install Nintendo DS roms on your iPhone or iPod touch so you can play all of those great Nintendo games right in the palm of your hands. You'll need a jailbroken Apple device to get this done.
This video shows you how-to install Nintendo DS roms on your iPhone or iPod touch so you can play all of those great Nintendo games right in the palm of your hands. You'll need a jailbroken Apple device to get this done.
A new game from the makers of No More Heroes and Resident Evil coming out on 2011 from EA. It looks like something like out of a Quentin Tarantino movie. A third person shooter, it's probably another attempt by creators in Japan to tap into the lucrative shooter market in the US.
From the makers of Aquaria, this is their next game. http://infiniteammo.ca/blog/announcing-marian/
Over time, the touch screen on the DS Lite can get out of whack. Watch this electronics tutorial video to learn how to recalibrate it. This how-to video will help you fix your Nintendo DS touch screen so you can play your video games the right way.
R4DS is a cartridge-based system that fits right into SLOT-! on a NIntedo DS. Here's how to install R4DS and be able to support ROMS, multimedia files, and homebrew games on your Nintendo DS.
BuildCraft Mod enhances everything about fuel and making things run. Not only that thought, BuildCraft Mod adds new and awesome things inside it! Like all those pipes, quarries, and energy makers. Well all those things will help you enhance your same old Minecraft! Some Mods a ...more
Without Japan, video games would not be very fun. Atari's early work was important, but Japanese developers, publishers, and hardware makers were responsible for almost every major advance in video games for the first 25 years of their mainstream existence. In recent years, it ...more
Written by JD Coverly of WonderHowTo World, LoadSave: Want to take a break from all that Red Dead redemption stuff? Well Ubisoft, the makers of the hit game Just Dance, is bringing you Dance on Broadway! The new game releases today, June 15th. Price: $39.99 From Ubisoft's we ...more
Does that (hopefully somewhat correct) tune ring any bells? Here's a reminder: Once upon a time there were two Italian plumbers named Mario and Luigi. Mario and his sidekick resided in the Mushroom Kingdom, a monarchy ruled by the beautiful Princess Peach. Mario's mission: st ...more
Want to take a break from all that Red Dead redemption stuff? Well Ubisoft, the makers of the hit game Just Dance, is bringing you Dance on Broadway! Rock band is enough for us truthfully, but seeing people dance to these games never gets old. I actually really liked their J ...more
3D Dot Heroes Preview Release Date: May 11th, 2010 for the PS3 Official English Trailer. 3D Dot Heroes is a homage to the old type of rpgs. Think of it as The Legend of Zelda 3D. It has a very unique and quirky look: I'm exited for this. I hope it's not too much of a homage ...more
Video game controllers are our windows into the soul of the machine, our sole means of interacting with them. More often than not, consumers seem displeased by their controllers; it's comforting to blame sticky, poorly laid out buttons for messing up your game than your own la ...more
In last week's guide, we covered the best places to purchase digital copies of computer games online. This week we'll cover another type of downloadable content: those available for video game consoles. Every major console out today either has or plans to have a DLC platform, ...more
Jeb just announced a great new feature that will be added in the 1.2 update. This map format, titled "Anvil," will open Minecraft to so many more possibilities with the new update to mod compatibility. "The purpose of the new format is to prepare for modding, especially to al ...more
We've covered Glitch before, the oddball indie social MMO involving the minds behind Flickr, Katamari Damacy, and Game Neverending. Yesterday, the game officially left Beta and entered general release. Anyone can create an account and start playing for free, although there are ...more
Today we pay homage to a phenomenon. One as diffuse and amusing as the internet itself, and as pointless as dog Halloween costumes. I'm speaking, of course, of giant games. Not Supergiant Games, makers of the forthcoming and awesome-looking indie RPG Bastion, but giant games ...more
When I used to play Magic every day during 7th grade, one of my regular opponents was a kid named Eddie. He played an all-Blue, deck, the first I'd ever seen. At that point I was even more creature-obsessed than I am now and my deck were unwieldy hulks practically begging to b ...more
Real-time strategy (RTS) was the most popular genre in PC games at one time. It put Blizzard on the map—one of the biggest game developers in the world. And it buried the once venerable turn-based strategy genre, the only survivor being the Civilization series. But like hair m ...more
In the past 25 years, there have been five generations of home video games systems. Since Nintendo changed the world by releasing the NES in 1987, there has always been at least two consoles competing for dominance in the wild west of the games industry. This competition— coup ...more
Make a whole planet explode! This two-part tutorial series shows you how to use the particle array function in Autodesk 3DS Max to create the animation of a whole planet blowing up. Good for film makers or video game artists! Part 1 of 2 - How to Blow up a planet using particl ...more
One of the Nintendo DSi's advantages over the standard DS is that it has an SD slot, allowing you to put all sorts of files on it, including music. Unfortunately, it doesn't play MP3 files. This video will demonstrate how to transfer the music files from your computer to you D ...more
The Nintendo DS is one of the most technologically advanced handheld gaming devices out there. Not only does it have dual screens, but a touch screen as well. Some of the more recent DS' even have a built in camera. But with all great technologies, problems are sure to rise. I ...more
Always wanted to play classic NES games on your DS but don't know where to start? Well TheCondowit makes it easy for you to get the classic NES feel on your Nintendo DS without damaging your pocketbook. He shows us how to put an NES emulator onto a Nintendo DS by using MicroSD ...more
TheCondowit shows you how to put a Gameboy and Gameboy Color emulator on your R4/M3. First go and download the lameboy software. Open the lameboy.mds file and make a new folder for it. Go to the bottom of the descriptions and you will go to a site that will give you ROMs. Afte ...more
What's one of the best things you can do with your Nintendo DS? Read. Yeah, is it really better than playing video games? Only if you like to read. And you can read your favorite books anytime or anywhere with the Nintendo DS! Download as much as your Micro SD card can handle. ...more
The noble board game has stalwartly staved off elimination in the face of more technologically advanced video games for four decades. Try as they might, video games just can't seem to surpass them as an easy-to-use diversion for large groups of seated indoor people. Since the ...more
It's been a busy week here at Indie Games Ichiban, between attending PAX and breaking news stories about Stabyourself and Playdead Studios, that there's been relatively little time for some honest, good old-fashioned game playing. But time was made and here are two excellent i ...more
Every year at the big video game trade shows around the world, like E3 and gamescon, the big three console makers each do a hot-ticket exclusive press conference to let the media know what's coming for their system. Computer games have no such press conference. Who would give ...more
Advancements in technology usually lead to the miniaturization of old technologies, and video games are no exception. Since at least 1990, game hardware manufacturers and enterprising DIY electronics enthusiasts have poured their efforts into making full-size video game consol ...more
Video game makers have never had great name recognition amongst the American public. Shigeru Miyamoto, Cliff Bleszinski, and Will Wright are names most Americans can't be bothered to remember, whatever their contribution to games have been. Most people are familiar with their ...more
Our hacked Kinect series has demonstrated amply how the Kinect is changing the worlds of business, art, medicine and robotics. But where does it go from here? That will be determined by the thousands of dedicated DIYers out there doing work like you've seen here over the last ...more
Get a little perspective on FarmVille hysteria, via FarmVille World, written by tenebrism: Did you know it only took five weeks to make FarmVille? That it currently has over 80,000,000 users? That FarmVille farmers outnumber real farmers in the United States by a ration of ...more
Did you know it only took five weeks to make FarmVille? That it currently has over 80,000,000 users? That FarmVille farmers outnumber real farmers in the United States by a ration of 80 to 1? Crazy, right? And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's plenty of other od ...more
Sometimes an iDevice is best used for idle, pointless fun. Today's segment of Making Art on Your iOS Deviceis a mixed bag of time-wasting cool effects and random, but useful art-making tools. Below, 10 apps for creating anything from erratic hand-shaken digital effects to your ...more
This has got to be one of the most clever Easter Eggs I've seen in a long time, especially considering current relations between Mojang (makers of Minecraft), and Bethesda (makers of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout). As seen in the video below, if you go to a certain part of The ...more
A century ago there wasn't much life available for quadriplegic people. Handicap accessibility was barely even a concept, and lacking medical technology kept any semblance of independence out of reach. Today those unfortunate enough to be paralyzed from the neck down have brig ...more
Apple's iPhone is considered one of the best smartphones in the world. Many cell phone makers have tried to take down the juggernaut, with some Android-based devices coming close, but in order to become an actual iPhone killer, something revolutionary needs to happen in the mo ...more
The Xbox 360 is America's video game system. It was designed in America, it has better market share in America than anywhere else, and it has the most overtly macho game catalog of any console. For many Xbox fanboys, gaming heaven is shooting hordes of really well-animated thi ...more
In 2007, Nintendo introduced the world to motion control video games with the Wii. Microsoft and Sony built on Nintendo's phenomenal success and released their own motion control products for the XBox 360 and Playstation 3 late in 2010: the Kinect and the Move. The Move is bas ...more
So what's all the fuss about World of Warcraft? I guess the first question would be 'is there a fuss?' and the simple answer is Yes there is, very much so. World of Warcraft now has over 12 million subscribers, it is by far the most popular MMORPG (massively multiplayer onli ...more