Image: Wired; original photo: Jason Langheine/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 It’s so close to being E3 time, and you know what that means: Baseless speculation. Or, you know. Speculation based on somethin...
Not content just to brickify the worlds of Star Wars, Harry Potter and Indiana Jones, Lego is expanding into even more beloved nerd universes. At E3, Warner Bros. will show two major new entries in t...
Collecting items in order to acquire rare cards is still a selling point of Japanese social game Bahamut.Screengrab Wired Gacha Watch is a semi-regular wrapup of stories concerning the government cra...
Image courtesy Snowbolt Interactive The moment I saw the trailer for Slingshot Racing, I knew I’d need to check it out. This iOS game has impressive 3-D graphics and a brilliant, original contr...
Image: Sony Starting Thursday, PlayStation 3 owners will be able to preorder Tokyo Jungle and download the game in advance of its June 7 release on the Japanese PlayStation Store. Digital preorders r...
R4 and other game-copying devices on sale in Akihabara in 2008. A new law passed in 2011 attaches criminal penalties to the sale of such devices.Photo: Jean Snow/Wired The first arrest has been made ...
An artists rendering of the 2.0 update to the Final Fantasy XIV MMO, released by Square Enix last year.Image courtesy Square Enix Square Enix will unveil a major update to its beleaguered massively-m...
Pictured: Simplified design document of Diablo III.Image: Wikimedia CommonsWe fall victim to operant conditioning in this episode of the Game|Life podcast. Specifically, we get into discussions about...
An exclusive still from the 10th season of Red vs. Blue, the Halo parody series that will premiere on May 28.Image courtesy Rooster Teeth At about 5 p.m. one weekday in 2002 in Austin, Texas, Michael...
Anarchy Reigns includes some previous Platinum Games characters such as MadWorlds Jack, now in color.Image courtesy Sega Osaka-based developer Platinum Games delivered some good news and bad news for...
<< Previous | Next >> Its only natural that Star Wars and videogames go hand in hand – in a sense, they were born right around the same time. The name "Star Wars" isnt that far of...
<< Previous | Next >> << Previous | Next >>View all You know that thing that movies sometimes do, where one of the characters says the movie’s title, and everyone in the...
The Umbrella logo from the Resident Evil series features prominently on the games official website.Screengrab: Wired Paging all masters of unlocking: a Sony subsidiary is presenting a “real esc...
Zombie mobsters from the Yakuza series at Tokyo Game Show 2010.Photo: Robert Gilhooly/Wired Sega will release a new Yakuza game in Japan this December for PlayStation 3, according to this week’...
We know that the Nintendo 3DS library isn’t exactly robust right now, but two musical games coming this July will have you dusting off that 3-D screen. If you like music games. If not, don̵...
The virtual card game Shin Sengoku Buster has changed its sales tactics in the wake of a Japanese ruling making a certain type of virtual-goods sale illegal. Images: KLab Japan’s social game ma...
Hell must have high ceilings.Image: Blizzard Cross another winner of multiple Vaporware Awards off the list: After many long years, Diablo III is finally available. Blizzard has clearly aimed to capt...
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan president Hiroshi Kawano discusses PlayStation Vita during Tokyo Game Show in 2011.Photo: Robert Gilhooly/Wired Establishing the PlayStation Vita platform is Sony...
Image courtesy of Epic Games. We might have been down a man this week for the Game|Life, but call us Humphrey Slocombe, because we’re still armed with CRAZY SCOOPS. (Seriously, WTF kind of flav...
Jane Jensen at home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.Image: Pinkerton Road When she launched her new game studio, Jane Jensen had to look no further for inspiration than her own doorstep. “My ...
E.X. Troopers emulates Japanese comic books right down to the onomatopoeia.Image courtesy Capcom Capcom announced E.X. Troopers, a cartoon-styled spin-off of its Lost Planet third-person shooting fra...
<< Previous | Next >> An image from Epic Games upcoming Unreal Engine 4 demo. Image: Courtesy of Epic Games<< Previous | Next >>View all When Tim Sweeney is out in the world d...
Image: Courtesy Blizzard It’s been just a little over a day since Blizzard performed one of the old rituals, releasing Diablo upon the world for the third time, and I’ve been doing my bes...
A Sony booth worker holds up a PlayStation Vita at Tokyo Game Show last September. Interest in Vita has since cooled.Photo: Robert Gilhooly/Wired.com Fewer than 8 percent of Japanese consumers want t...
Players can leap into the lava of Bowsers Castle 1, shown here, and end up ahead in the race.Photo: Wired A mandatory update will remove three extreme shortcuts from Mario Kart 7 online matches, Nint...
Tomb Raider has been delayed until 2013, but heres a new screenshot to make up for it.Image: Square Enix First it was BioShock Infinite. Now Square Enix’s reboot of Tomb Raider has been delayed...
Screengrab: Wired The arcade classic Xevious is now playable online at no cost, thanks to a Japanese campaign for Sprite. As part of a retro-themed campaign for the citrusy soft drink, which features...
Image courtesy Camouflaj At 7:58 a.m. Pacific Friday morning, a game called République (pronounced “Republic”) finally reached its $500,000 funding goal on Kickstarter with only six hours...
Original image: Irrational Games It’s a bad news bonanza on this week’s Game|Life! Yes, we here at the Game|Life podcast advise you to listen to this episode while sitting down drinking a...
The Aqua Blue 3DS, one of two colors available at launch, will be discontinued.Screengrab: Wired Nintendo’s Japanese branch will discontinue the Aqua Blue 3DS, one of the two colors available s...
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