An article on Teknylate has claimed that Microsoft is planning to integrate Xbox 360 software with their next computer operating system, Windows 8. In other words, Windows 8 will allow users to play Xbox 360 games on their PCs, at least according to Teknylate’s anonymous source.
Earlier today, Electronic Arts released a list of digital retailers that will be selling the highly anticipated Battlefield 3 when it gets released in October. While the list featured numerous online retailers such as Direct2Drive and GamesGate, the biggest digital distribution platform of the lot, Steam, was mysteriously absent.
Those horrible, evil scientists at Big Science are at it again. Back in 2009 they created an insane, mutated exploding man named Splosion Man, but this time around they’ve mixed sugar, spice and everything nitroglycerin to make the exploding woman called Ms. Splosion Man. Note the neo-feminist “Ms.” instead of the old-fashioned “Miss” like in Miss Pac Man. Yes, Ms. Splosion Man is one of them liberated dames, and she’ll probably blow you up if you call her a dame to her face.
This year has been a fantastic year so far for
games. No matter what you’re into there has been something released that is for
you. Our PS3 department of Thomas Markey, Aaron Betts, Josh Margolis, Joe
Button and Matt Jacobs bring their personal top three games of the year so far.
Modal
Kombat is a classical
guitar performance art piece that calls itself “The First Ever
Guitar-Controlled Video Game Battle.” In it, Dave Hindman and Evan
Drummond, two Klassical guitarists have hacked a pair of acoustic guitars to
serve as video game controllers. Over the course of the show, the duo
have music fights in games like Pong, Mario Kart and Mortal Kombat. It had a very
brief run in New York City this weekend as part of the Game Play Theater
Festival at the Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
Just to
be clear, these are not Guitar Hero controllers, but actual guitars that have been modified to
control classic game consoles. A
giant projection screen on the back wall of the theatre shows the games being
played while Hindman and Drummond control them live. The duo use different cords to turn left and right in Mario
Kart; they guide a Pong paddle up and down by raising or
lowering the pitch, and hitting certain notes will trigger special attacks in Mortal
Kombat. All of this is
accompanied by classical guitar music.
Steampowered.com is having a huge sale, and today is your last chance to get games on the cheap. Here’s a rundown on the final offerings from Steam’s Summer Camp Sale, along with the other big sales of the day.
Most of the digital distributors are having a big, Huge MEGA SALE this weekend. We’re coming up on the last day of Steam’s Summer Camp Sale, while others like Gog.com, and Direct 2 Drive are just getting into their summer sales. These include big price breaks on recent releases like Portal 2, Dead Space 2 and Duke Nukem Forever.
