People, for reasons we still can't quite understand, love the iOS game Fruit Ninja. And the first people to obey the Law Of Turning Everything Into A Video are these two guys who filmed themselves as IRL Fruit Ninjas. The videos are hard to watch—in part because the guys are bearded and shirtless (hellooooo, Timmy!)—;but you still end up watching the whole thing waiting for one of these fools to gut themselves and bleed out.[Geek]
The question: how do you freak a gamer out more than hitting him with endless hordes of alien space zombies intent on maiming his flesh? The answer: limit the amount of times they can save the game. If you complete Dead Space 2, which hits shelves today, you unlock Hardcore Mode, which lets you save the game only three times. For those with the moxie, patience, and skill to beat the game without their unlimited save game security blanket, Visceral Games promises a “really cool unlock”. For that nightmare, we hope the unlock involves the Panamanian women's cricket team. [Destructoid]
There’s proof that gamers are slowly taking over the world. A series of 15-square-foot touchscreen games can be found at almost two dozen bus stops around San Francisco. While you wait for your bus, you can play four different titles and even compete against other bus stop players. At the end of this experimental trial run, winning neighborhoods will be announced. Seems like a good idea . . . except for the whole part where no one in their right mind would ever touch anything at a bus stop in San Francisco. [Joystick Division]
Typically, when you reboot a retro franchise, you update it to make it look incredible based on modern expectations. Atari, however, has released a trailer of the upcoming downloadable game Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime which looks like it was made to coincide with the movies original release in 1984 (and possibly to remove the ectoplasmic taste of 2009's console title). Prepared to be slimed on Xbox Live Arcade, PSN, and PC when the title releases this spring. [The BIt Bag]
Yoostar 2 allows you to record yourself saying lines from famous movies, then replays the scene from the movie using your performance instead of the original actors' using Xbox Kinect or PlayStation Move. While some may argue that this barely qualifies as a game, at least we're bound to get some humiliating interesting YouTube videos out of it. Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to go prepare for our Original Sin sex scenes with Angelina Jolie. [Game Trailers]
By Richie Procopio
The question: how do you freak a gamer out more than hitting him with endless hordes of alien space zombies intent on maiming his flesh? The answer: limit the amount of times they can save the game. If you complete Dead Space 2, which hits shelves today, you unlock Hardcore Mode, which lets you save the game only three times. For those with the moxie, patience, and skill to beat the game without their unlimited save game security blanket, Visceral Games promises a “really cool unlock”. For that nightmare, we hope the unlock involves the Panamanian women's cricket team. [Destructoid]
There’s proof that gamers are slowly taking over the world. A series of 15-square-foot touchscreen games can be found at almost two dozen bus stops around San Francisco. While you wait for your bus, you can play four different titles and even compete against other bus stop players. At the end of this experimental trial run, winning neighborhoods will be announced. Seems like a good idea . . . except for the whole part where no one in their right mind would ever touch anything at a bus stop in San Francisco. [Joystick Division]
Typically, when you reboot a retro franchise, you update it to make it look incredible based on modern expectations. Atari, however, has released a trailer of the upcoming downloadable game Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime which looks like it was made to coincide with the movies original release in 1984 (and possibly to remove the ectoplasmic taste of 2009's console title). Prepared to be slimed on Xbox Live Arcade, PSN, and PC when the title releases this spring. [The BIt Bag]
Yoostar 2 allows you to record yourself saying lines from famous movies, then replays the scene from the movie using your performance instead of the original actors' using Xbox Kinect or PlayStation Move. While some may argue that this barely qualifies as a game, at least we're bound to get some humiliating interesting YouTube videos out of it. Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to go prepare for our Original Sin sex scenes with Angelina Jolie. [Game Trailers]
By Richie Procopio
