Video Games

Five Crucial Deus Ex Mods

Deus Ex is a PC game whose reputation precedes it. Warren Spectre’s dystopian shooter/RPG hybrid is a game that is still remembered by gamers today and to many fans, it’s a game that no other has matched. Since it was first released on the PC in 2000, Deus Ex has been a hugely popular game for PC gamers and a popular choice for PC modders who have added all sorts of cool new content to an already massively. Here are five mods that anyone looking to play or wanting to replay Deus Ex in anticipation of the new game should get their hands on:

Lollipop Chainsaw Announced

As
a big Sudo 51 fan, I can tell you that the second you mention his
involvement in any project I have to at least look at the game. If you
want a super different game that is bizarre in the best way, you want
one of his games. His newest project, Lollipop Chainsaw, looks to be just that.

Lollipop Chainsaw
stars the seemingly cute and sweet cheerleader Juliet Starling. But as
the trailer states she has a big secret: She’s a zombie hunter fighting
off a local zombie outbreak at her high school. I wouldn’t think it
could really get much odder than that, but apparently it does. She
sports a very large chainsaw with heart decals on it, and did I mention
it has a rocket launcher? Yes, this is going to be a strange game, but
as you can kind of see (from the trailer below), it does seem very No
More Heroes-ish in its combat. I’m already sold, but watch the trailer
and judge for yourself. Lollipop Chainsaw will be out next year for both the PS3 and Xbox 360.

On Its Way: Portal 2 DLC

Valve is bringing DLC to Portal 2.  Valve’s Doug Lombardi spoke with Kotaku
at Gamescom and confirmed the DLC may be released
mid-September for all platforms (Xbox 360, PS3, Mac, and PC). Best of all, it will be free. 

NYC Fringe Festival: Theater Of The Arcade – Review

Whether you’re a theater fan, or a video game buff, Theater of the Arcade is something you need to see.  Especially if you’re a fan of both.  It’s a live theater production currently running in the New York City Fringe Festival, and it features five short plays, each one following the story of a famous video game, but told as though they were written by a famous playwright.  Although it’s completely absurd, it’s all done with complete deadpan seriousness, you wouldn’t know that you’re watching parody if you weren’t in on the joke before entering the theater.

Gamescom 2011: Mass Effect 3

If you’ve never played one of the Mass Effect games, then you’ve either
been living under a rock for the past three years or your 360 has been sitting
in the garage gathering dust.  The final
part in Bioware’s Mass Effect trilogy
is arguably one of the most-anticipated games to be released on the 360, and is
currently scheduled for release on March 6, 2012.

NC Soft Unveils Wildstar MMO

NC Soft, the company behind City of Heroes, Guild Wars, Aion and Lineage showed off their new MMO today at Gamescom.  It’s a sci-fi adventure set in outer space, and seems to emphasize humor and cartoony design over realism.

Gamescom 2011: Soul Calibur V

Soul Calibur is one of those fighting game series
which has been happily chugging along for well over ten years now, refining its
gameplay systems with each incarnation in order to remain relevant. The last installment of the series, Soul Calibur IV, dropped in 2008, a fair
while ago, which would suggest that Namco Bandai has spent the intervening
three years coming up with more ways to alter the newest entry in the series
without changing it too much and alienating their core fanbase.