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The Tomorrow War Looks Good Today

One of the best parts of video-game classic Mass Effect was the ability to take your ship to different planets throughout the galaxy, and actually touch down, get out and explore the places. A new game, The Tomorrow War, takes that concept and expands on it exponentially, giving you a virtual sandbox of systems and worlds to explore. Of course, if you have to dole out some Soviet-style ass-kicking in the process, then so be it. At least you'll be tooling around in this cruiser that looks a lot like the U.S.S. Sulaco from Aliens. Check out a full gallery of new images from this game below. More »

12:00 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Kevin Kelly
3,187 views, 18 comments

Latest by Spakkenkhrist: Nobody has mentioned Frontier, this makes me sad. more »

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Massive Crabfort Crushes Your Landscape

Guild Wars isn't really known for having a science fiction element to it, but this concept art shows off an extremely steampunked Crab Fort, lumbering across the horizon. Enormous cogs and gears are evident in the construction work that looks like something straight out of a psychotic version of Burning Man. Everyone is standing around fairly calmly, not paying much attention to the GIANT FREAKING WALKING CRAB VILLAGE! More »

2:00 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Kevin Kelly
4,432 views, 26 comments

Latest by Ghede: The guy was raised in Transylvania? That was one of my life dreams, back when I thought it was filled with castles and movie-monsters. more »

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You Can Only Delay, Never Stop, The Space Invaders

It's been 30 years since Space Invaders started, but the game is making a huge comeback. This year we'll see both Space Invaders Extreme for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, as well as Space Invaders Get Even on the Wii, which lets you take control of the invading aliens and have them smash up cities. Like a line of aliens marching inexorably downward, the game continues to make its impact on our culture. But how much do you know about these pixellated extraterrestrials who are intent on wiping us out? Learn all the facts, and see a gallery — including more screens from the new Wii version — after the jump. More »

11:40 AM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Kevin Kelly
4,634 views, 12 comments

Latest by Chrysla: I loved playing space armada on our intellivision game system. (It was and still is far better than atari any day!) My brother is 6 1/2 years older than me, and I remember him crying when I, his baby sister, more »

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"Aliens" Game Dunks Your Whole Squad In Acid Blood

Have you ever wanted to play as a Colonial Marine in the Alien universe, blasting those acid-for-blood xenomorphs with your M41A pulse rifle and sweeping areas with a motion tracker? Now your dreams can come true when you slip into your body armor and pick up a controller. Based on these screenshots from Aliens: Colonial Marines, it looks like you'll only need Hicks yelling "Game over, man!" to make it feel like you're really there. More »

4:00 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Kevin Kelly
6,277 views, 43 comments

Latest by Chiper: The Wii lacks the graphical umph to use a modern FPS engine. Not to mention, so far the only FPS that's worked on the Wii was Metroid 3. Wiimote + nuncheck really isn't well suited to the genre. AVP2 more »

Peter Petrelli Channels Sylar In New Movie Milo Ventimiglia is getting away from the "lost little boy" look of Peter on Heroes, and playing a nasty dude in Game, the new Gerald Butler-starring dystopian action movie. His character is a "sick fuck" named "Rick Rape," he says. He says Game takes place in a "futuristic society" where prisoners fight on a battlefield for other people who control the prisoners using video-game controllers. "There's a lot of action and a lot of death in this movie. Amazingly beautiful shots." [SuperheroHype]

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Race Through A Day-Glo Hot Wheels Playset

People who have seen the trailer for the live-action version of Speed Racer say it looks more like a video game than a movie. But what's wrong with that? If you can make a film feel like the eyeball-blasting you get from a game these days, then the marketing department, the toy department, the sequel department, and yes, even the video game department will fall over backwards trying to kiss you on the ass. So it's no surprise that Speed Racer is getting a video game for the Wii and the Nintendo DS (which unfortunately means that graphics are less than amazing), and you can check out the new images from it in the gallery below. More »

1:30 PM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Kevin Kelly
1,679 views, 2 comments

Latest by Cantonkid: @zenpoet: 'glo speed racer, glo speed racer, glo speed racer glooooo' ;P Add a pink pepto bismol chaser and I think you will have the whole color pallete down. :D more »

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Aircraft Carrier Condominiums In A Post-Nuclear Junkyard

Fallout 3 comes out later this year. Like the first two games, it's all about surviving in a post-nuclear world full of mutants, radiation, and other bad stuff that wants to kill you. In the concept artwork above, you can see how mankind has adapted to what's left of the world by building a makeshift bridge to a drydocked and marooned aircraft carrier, which appears to be one of the few sources of manmade light (or fire.) This melancholy image could have done double duty as concept art for that Life After People special on the History Channel. More »

2:30 PM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Kevin Kelly
5,676 views, 32 comments

Latest by bnpederson: @PeteRR: "They are not role playing games. What Doom taught me is I have to redo a scenario 5 times, hitting the jump button at just the right point each time."   So Doom taught you that fifteen years ago, right? Well what Final more »

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What's The Game In Ender's Game?

Chair Entertainment Group announced that they'll be developing a series of games based on Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game. However, it's not clear if they're developing the games from the novel, or if they'll try to tell the story of the novel in video game fashion. More »

11:10 AM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Kevin Kelly
2,217 views, 30 comments

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Become A 700-Year-Old Trash Robot

You can visit the desolate world of Wall-E, this summer's animated movie about a trash-compacting robot, in an upcoming xBox game. Judging from these early screen shots, it looks like the Wall-E game may do too good a job of capturing the robot's loneliness and the toll of time on his robotic circuits. You'll be able to explore 10 other worlds in the game, but if they all look like this we'd probably have to commit robo-suicide to stave off the inevitable boredom and insanity. Minor movie spoilers after the jump More »

3:30 PM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By Kevin Kelly
1,404 views, 10 comments

Latest by Jonn: @omg-ponies: GoldenEye 64. You lose. more »

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Fly the Same Airline Whose Plane Crashed in "Lost"

Fake billboards for Lost's Oceanic Airlines have been popping up all over the globe, touting their return to service and trips to "Places You Never Imagined," like Ames, Iowa and Tustin, California. They also promote their brand-new website at the bottom of each one of these billboards (which probably weren't cheap to rent). Of course, visiting this site takes you deeper into the rabbit hole. Soon you'll find yourself wasting precious hours while you try to unravel the "mystery" of flight 815. More »

1:20 PM on Fri Jan 4 2008
By Kevin Kelly
18,978 views, 14 comments

Latest by technotica: OMG, I saw this last night (in Ames, IA). I know nothing about Lost. I was more like WTF - why is there an airline advertising in Ames when we have no large airport. more »

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Bionic Arm Meets Desolate City

Capcom is releasing a new Bionic Commando game this year, which marries its main character with a bionic arm. However, this isn't your dad's bionic arm, or even a modern-day Jaime Sommers' nanobionic arm. This arm is a lot more rugged and testosterone-charged than her svelte limb. Check out what it can do down below, and just look at the desolate environments it'll be featured in. More »

4:00 PM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By Kevin Kelly
1,982 views, 12 comments

Latest by -TheMuffinMan-: I remember this game for the NES! It was definitely one of my favs. more »

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Gerard Butler's Game Is Tron 2.0

Directors Brian Neveldine and Mark Taylor brought the hyperactive film Crank to theaters last year, and now they're hard at work on Game with 300's Gerard Butler. We know it's a science fiction film set in the future when video games control the world, but what the hell is the movie all about? More »

11:30 AM on Mon Nov 26 2007
By Kevin Kelly
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Ludacris will be the leader of an underground resistance group called HUMANZ in the dystopian play-or-die film Game, also starring Gerald (300) Butler and Alison Lohman. Image by Splashnews.

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