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Activision Unveils New Walking Dead: Survival Instinct Title, Looks Like Budget Game
In Activision’s new Walking Dead game, zombies are now LEGO minifigs, complete with plastic heads.
Guys, I’m so sorry. I’ve been trying to make my way through Telltale’s award-winning The Walking Dead series and I’ve only completed the first episode. You’ve heard it’s great. I’ve heard it’s great. I want to tell you how great it is and that time will probably come soon. You know who else heard about how great Telltale’s adventure series is? Activision. As such, they pushed out a trailer for their Walking Dead game (based on the TV series, rather than the original comics) which appears to be premature and quite awful. I’ve included the new trailer below.
Kickstarter Celebrates All Those Games You Funded With Kickstarter’s Help
The One Campaign To Rule Them All
You heard about a lot of gaming Kickstarter campaigns this past year. We wrote about a lot of them ourselves. So it makes sense that Kickstarter, as a relatively new company, would take a moment and thank you for using their platform to allow many new gaming projects to exist. From Double Fine’s definitive Kickstarter effort to Chris Roberts’ return to space simming, we’re happy that Kickstarter is around. So are they.
My Most-Used Productivity Apps For Android In 2012
If you don’t have these apps, get ’em.
Chances are you got a new Android phone this holiday, but you’re pining for some apps to get your phone to be the most productive it can be. The nine apps above ended up being the most important in my collection and while some come stock on the phone, I still found myself reaching for them regularly with some new additions for 2012 over last year’s edition. Also, if you’re not using SwiftKey, you should be.
Sony Discontinues PlayStation 2 In Japan, Era Begins its End
Still a hideous console.
Hard to believe, but March marks the thirteenth anniversary of the PlayStation 2’s release in Japan. It’ll also mark one of the last times that you’ll be able to purchase the console in its home country before the last shipment to retailers sells out. Americans flew to Japan to acquire one of these consoles at nearly $400 a pop (lots of dough in 2000!), long before the console’s October release in North America that year. It’s still one of the ugliest consoles I’ve ever seen and while I’m a bit of a hater, the PS2’s legacy involves a lot of popular games that defined a generation.
Tomb Raider, Now With Multiplayer For Better Or Worse
Imagine this, but with point totals in the corner.
Word has now leaked across the internet that the latest edition of Official Xbox Magazine will be revealing a whole new side to Tomb Raider: multiplayer. The once-solo adventure, already somewhat controversial in its tackling of mature topics, is now being fitted with a variety of multiplay modes developed by Eidos Montreal, developer of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. This is either the best idea or the worst idea, but I have no doubt it came down to one thing: money.
‘Minecraft: The Story Of Mojang’ Review: A Half-Baked Tribute
Unlike the game it covers, you can’t simply mash blocks of footage together and make it work.
If you asked me today what the best game of the past decade was, it would be Minecraft. Easily. I’ve turned in hundreds of hours across a variety of servers mining, crafting, building, and destroying worlds populated with billions of blocks. Minecraft became a global phenomenon because it was the first MMO-style game that allowed for both the intimacy of your own projects and the ability to grow communities in a world that can be edited as much as you’d like. 2 Player Productions (Penny Arcade TV’s first season, the new Double Fine Adventure documentary) has been working on The Story of Mojang for years, having launched a Kickstarter to document the development of the game and its influence on the world and gaming culture. Unfortunately, its haphazard construction left me wanting.
Gifting A Wii U This Holiday? Nintendo Says Rip Open That Box And Update It First
Imagine enjoying your Wii U on Christmas Day, but only after an hour of updates. Would you enjoy that? Would you?
In a message sure to never be received by your loving grandparents, Nintendo took to its Twitter account to recommend that anyone giving their beloved family or friends a new Wii U console should update their console first. It seems a little weird that the console manufacturer least associated with seamless online experiences would recommend that customers… wait a minute, this makes complete sense.
FEZ/PLAY: Max Payne 3 (Xbox 360)
Grgggrggg I’m Max Payne ggrrgrgrr
I decided to dig out my copy of Max Payne 3 that I keep on tap just so I can… I don’t know, start playing again? MP3 was a pretty epic game, but unfortunately, it just wasn’t Max Payne enough. Well, I’m granting you a one-off opportunity to see me play Max Payne 3 again before it’s inevitably buried at the bottom of my pile of junk. No spoilers, this is just the first level. It’s all I can take, really.
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine
Just one way out.
At the time of this posting, we are nine hours into December 21st, 2012, the fabled rejuvenation of the Mayan calendar and final historical reference to any definitive end of days. We enjoy this so much because we wonder how we would handle ourselves in such a scenario where people relied on us more than ever. What if we needed to be sturdier, craftier creatures than our neighbors? How smart are we? Could we truly survive the apocalypse? Let’s go over a few scenarios.
Nokia, Stop Wasting Your Talent And Make An Android Phone Already
I rock at Photoshop, guys. Photo credit: Wired
It’s been nearly two years since Nokia announced, before a truly precipitous change in fortune, they would be abandoning their once insanely popular Symbian OS and embracing Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform full-time for all of its smartphones. The coup, lead by newly-installed CEO Stephen Elop – and coincidentally, former Microsoft VP – seemed to be a huge leg up for Steve Ballmer’s camp as Windows Phone had failed to gain any market traction. Well, after two years, Microsof’t’s mobile platform has still failed to gain traction. So it makes sense that I plead, before Microsoft’ sinks Nokia’s boat entirely, that the Finnish phone giant should really take a stab at Android. It really, really should.
