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This summer's animated robot superstar Wall-E threatens to squash us under his mammoth treads and obliterate us with his laser blast. In these new screens from the upcoming game to coincide with the film, the cuddly bot has whipped out some sort of a beam weapon and he's using it to destroy something just offscreen while a terrified Other-Bot cowers in the rafters above. Does cute little Wall-E have a vicious streak that we weren't aware of previously? Click through for more game screens, which showcase some key moments from the film and give more clues to Wall-E's unsuspected abilities.
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Wall-E Goes Terminator on Your Ass
This summer's animated robot superstar Wall-E threatens to squash us under his mammoth treads and obliterate us with his laser blast. In these new screens from the upcoming game to coincide with the film, the cuddly bot has whipped out some sort of a beam weapon and he's using it to destroy something just offscreen while a terrified Other-Bot cowers in the rafters above. Does cute little Wall-E have a vicious streak that we weren't aware of previously? Click through for more game screens, which showcase some key moments from the film and give more clues to Wall-E's unsuspected abilities.
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The Greatest Science Fiction Pinball Machines Of All Time
Long before the current obsession with console processing power and how many billions of polygons can be display onscreen at the same time, the only way to get your game on was via pinball machines. There have been tons of scifi pinball machines, with some amazingly garish artwork. Besides all of the Star Trek, Star Wars, and other licensed games, take a look at some of the forgotten scifi pinball machines of yesteryear. We'd give our eyeteeth for one of those The Machine: Bride of Pin-Bot games. 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 »
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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.
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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.
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Gary Gygax, co-inventor of Dungeons and Dragons, will probably be best remembered as the man who brought role playing games into the lives of millions of teenagers in the 1970s, and who helped spawn an entire industry. If you've ever rolled an eight-sided dice in a game, it's thanks to him. While his bread and butter was swords and sworcery, he was also an avid science fiction fan (he even designed a scifi D&D module, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, whose artwork is pictured here). He worked on several scifi games, as well as writing several science fiction stories. With the sad news today that Gary passed away in his home, we take a long, triviatastic look at his love for gaming and science fiction.
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The Scifi Obsession Of Dungeons and Dragons Creator Gary Gygax
Gary Gygax, co-inventor of Dungeons and Dragons, will probably be best remembered as the man who brought role playing games into the lives of millions of teenagers in the 1970s, and who helped spawn an entire industry. If you've ever rolled an eight-sided dice in a game, it's thanks to him. While his bread and butter was swords and sworcery, he was also an avid science fiction fan (he even designed a scifi D&D module, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, whose artwork is pictured here). He worked on several scifi games, as well as writing several science fiction stories. With the sad news today that Gary passed away in his home, we take a long, triviatastic look at his love for gaming and science fiction.
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AT 43 is a new miniatures game out from Rackham with bots who battle it out on your tabletop for interstellar dominance. The shot above features a relentless advance of U.N.A. (United Nations of Ava) soldiers, who look a lot more formidable in concept artwork than they will sitting an inch high on your cubicle wall at work. The game is set 43 years after a race called the Therians tried to destroy humanity. This time homo sapiens is launching a counter-attack with the combined might of U.N.A. forces, the Russian Red Blok Army, and super-sentient gorillas wearing armor.
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The Relentless March Of Miniature Warsuits
AT 43 is a new miniatures game out from Rackham with bots who battle it out on your tabletop for interstellar dominance. The shot above features a relentless advance of U.N.A. (United Nations of Ava) soldiers, who look a lot more formidable in concept artwork than they will sitting an inch high on your cubicle wall at work. The game is set 43 years after a race called the Therians tried to destroy humanity. This time homo sapiens is launching a counter-attack with the combined might of U.N.A. forces, the Russian Red Blok Army, and super-sentient gorillas wearing armor.
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The arrival of dystopian scifi video game Mass Effect has us reaching for our Prozac . . . and our controllers. The darker and weirder the world a video game gives us, the better. Whether it involves an alien invasion, or a maniacal artificial intelligence, we love games that crush our dreams in an orgy of hopeless shootouts. Mass Effect is just the latest in a whole crop of disturbing, scifi thriller games you should stockpile for the long, cold months ahead. More »
Video Games That Plunge You Into Existential Dispair
The arrival of dystopian scifi video game Mass Effect has us reaching for our Prozac . . . and our controllers. The darker and weirder the world a video game gives us, the better. Whether it involves an alien invasion, or a maniacal artificial intelligence, we love games that crush our dreams in an orgy of hopeless shootouts. Mass Effect is just the latest in a whole crop of disturbing, scifi thriller games you should stockpile for the long, cold months ahead. More »
