By Tim Hage on Feb 28th, 2011 at 10:11AM
Video-making team DefendTheHouse posted a new video detailing their special plans for the month of March. Each day in the month of March, the team will release a new “Black Ops Mythbusters” video testing a new myth. Now’s the time to subscribe to their YouTube channel if you want to catch all 31 videos over the next month. Check out their announcement video after the break.
By Tim Hage on Feb 28th, 2011 at 10:05AM
After several delays, the PC release of Fable 3 slipped into the unknown and we were left with only an undelivered promise and some teasing gameplay at this year’s CES. Well, it seems publisher Microsoft has once again returned to the project, and we’ve been given a new date for release: May 17th, 2011. The PC release will bring Nvidia’s 3D Vision technology as well as a hardcore difficulty that isn’t available on console versions.
via [Big Download]
By Tim Hage on Feb 24th, 2011 at 9:09PM
As BioWare foretold earlier this month, Dragon Age II‘s demo released to the masses. For completing the demo and importing your demo save when starting your full retail gaming experience, you will be given Hayder’s Razor, a special dwarven blade to help you jump-start your epic quest. Furthermore, if 1,000,000 fans download the Dragon Age II demo, BioWare will add two new in-game items to the final game: Lothering’s Lament and The Far Cliffs of Kirkwall.
By Tim Hage on Feb 24th, 2011 at 8:52PM
Although the Razer Chimaera was first announced over a year ago at CES 2010, Razer has finally caught up and fired the product into their production line, with preordering now open. The Chimaera comes in two variations, as outlined in the following chart:
By Tim Hage on Feb 24th, 2011 at 8:33PM
Sooner than anyone could have expected, Bethesda has released another Skyrim trailer. This time with actual, honest-to-God in-game footage. I will warn you, however: There is no message mid-video reminding you to continue blinking or breathing, so be responsible and try to keep up.
By Tim Hage on Feb 22nd, 2011 at 11:17AM
After months of rumors and a ton of community hacks, Microsoft has officially announced that Kinect will receive PC support for Windows 7 users. The free Windows driver pack will come with an SDK (Software Development Kit) that will allow gamers to code Kinect support into their own games and applications.
The driver kit and SDK are scheduled to release this Spring. Of course, the hardware itself is already widely available in the Xbox 360 section of your local electronics store.
via [Big Download]
By Tim Hage on Feb 19th, 2011 at 1:17PM
Best known for their uniquely-styled point-and-click adventure titles, Telltale Games have announced their upcoming plans for several new franchises for release this year. Telltale is bringing popular comic series The Walking Dead and Fables to gaming immortality. Also in the works is Jurassic Park, Puzzle Agent 2, King’s Quest, as well as continuing their newest Back to the Future episodic series (episode 2 just released) and others. It seems Telltale is planning to make 2011 a busy year for gamers.
For all the details on Telltale Games’ new projects, check out their development blog.
By Tim Hage on Feb 18th, 2011 at 10:33AM
Finally deemed worthy of receiving the PC port of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, PC gamers can now pre-order Brotherhood through Steam, to ensure you’ve got your hands on it as soon as it releases on March 17th. By pre-ordering, you will automatically be upgraded to the “Digital Deluxe Edition”. What does the Digital Deluxe Edition include? I’m glad you asked:
By Craig Lloyd on Feb 15th, 2011 at 8:14PM
IBM’s Watson supercomputer opened up the second night of Jeopardy completely obliterating Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, and topped it off with a $6,000-and-some-change Daily Double wager and nailing it. There was really no stopping the IBM supercomputer. The night ended with Watson at $35,734, Brad Rutter at $10,400, and Ken Jennings at $4,800. Obviously, Watson still makes some stupid mistakes like all of us, especially when he thought Toronto was a U.S. city during Final Jeopardy.
By Tim Hage on Feb 15th, 2011 at 1:17PM
A newly announced exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum will feature art from games across the medium’s 40 years of history. The exhibition will run from March 16th, 2012 to September 30th, 2012.
The Art of Video Games exhibition will explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects, the creative use of new technologies, and the most influential artists and designers. We want you to help us select the eighty video games that will be represented in the exhibition. Remember, this is an art exhibition, so be sure to vote for games that you think are visually spectacular or boast innovative design!
There are concerns that gamers will simply vote for their favorite game(s) in the bunch and not actually think about it from an artistic point of view, but that’s a variable one just cannot control. You should be able to vote over at the exhibit’s landing page, but voting is currently disabled due to the overwhelming response causing issues, so bookmark it for now and check back later.
via [Rock, Paper, Shotgun]
