Videogame Matchmaker: Ten Blind Dates For Valentine’s Day

Naming the best videogame romances has been done has been done to death, so we decided to put on our matchmaking hats and focus on the best cross-title hookups that haven’t happened yet (and barring any imaginative fanfic, never will).

Interesting Numbers from GameFly’s IPO Filing

GameFly, the Netflix-like videogame rental service, filed for an initial public offering this morning that could raise up to $50 million. According to the  S-1 registration document filed with the SEC, the company:

EA’s Future Release Calendar Portends Weak Holiday Lineup, Awesome 1Q 2011

Electronic Arts just wrapped up their fiscal 3Q 2010 earnings conference call. Quite a few games were mentioned during the call and within the accompanying press release, some that were previously announced through other channels and some that weren’t. Somewhat troubling for EA is that other than Crysis 2 and the new mixed martial arts [...]

Shocking: Nintendo Is Developing New Hardware…

…and this picture of a black Wii isn’t it. According to this report from the 13th Annual Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo over the weekend, Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed Nintendo is working on a new piece of gaming hardware. Unless he was talking about another Nintendo DS redesign (DSi XXL?), Miyamoto was referring to a [...]

Casting Call: Imagining A Live-Action Mass Effect Movie

Now that Mass Effect 2 is a critical (a stellar 96 score on Metacritic) and commercial (over 2 million copies sold worldwide in its first week) blockbuster, buzz about a big-budget movie version is sure to heat up. Even though there’s a “tremendous amount of interest” in Hollywood for a live-action Mass Effect, don’t expect [...]

New Lego Harry Potter Trailer: Predictably Cute, But…

WB Interactive Entertainment released a few new screenshots and this trailer for LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 today. It looks adorable, but after Lego Star Wars: The Video Game, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues, [...]

Go Figure: Other Ways To Spend EA’s Super Bowl Ad Money

Electronic Arts is spending big bucks on Super Bowl XLIV, reportedly to air a commercial for their new action game Dante’s Inferno. It’s a risky gamble for EA, one that’s probably not going to pay off considering CBS is charging $2.6 million for a 30-second spot. In gamer terms, here’s what else $2.6 million can [...]

Vanquish: Is This The Next Great Sci-Fi Shooter?

The trailer for Vanquish, a new shooter from famed game designer Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil series), debuted last night on GameTrailers TV. It’s definitely a must-see. There’s zero chance the actual gameplay will look this amazing in the final product but the concept (guy in Master Chief-style battle armor wards off what looks like an [...]

The Curious Case of DC Universe Online

Some day you’ll be able to play DC Universe Online on the PC and PlayStation 3. This, along with a few other scraps of random screenshots and information, is all anyone knows about the massively multiplayer online game. Video footage of actual gameplay is scarcer than gold Kryptonite. The trickle of information reached new levels [...]

Five iPad Games That Need To Be Made ASAP

Playing up-rezzed iPhone games on the iPad will keep us satisfied for only so long. iPad-only titles, optimized for the device, are what everyone really wants. Here’s a short list of the hypothetical games I’d really like to see. I don’t know if any of these are in development, but if they’re not, my question [...]