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Smithsonian Art of Games Exhibit Needs Your Vote

Chris Cerami
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While the whole “video games as art” debate may still be raging in some communities (I’m looking at you, Ebert), the Smithsonian American Art Museum seems convinced. Between March and September of 2012 they will have on display an exhibit titled The Art of Video Games. The exhibit is intended to display 80 games from five different eras over the 40 year course of video game history. The games chosen for the exhibit are those that are “visually spectacular or boast innovative design” and are being selected by popular vote on the exhibit’s website.

That means that each one of you has a say in which video games are represented as the pinnacle of artistic expression in our medium. All you have to do is head on over to The Art of Video Games site and “register” with your email address (seriously the easiest registration ever) and vote! There are four categories within each of the five eras: Target, Adventure, Action, and Combat/Strategy, and each category has four nominees which I suppose were chosen by the folks at the Smithsonian.

There are some great games nominated and this is an excellent opportunity for gamers to share their opinion on what games we love. Remember to vote for the games that you consider the most artistic or innovative and while this may be hard for many of us, try to remain unbiased.

Homefront launch trailer prepares the resistance

Travis Bruno
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With Homefront’s release coming in only a few short days the good people at THQ have released their final trailer for the game in an effort to try and sway anybody who may be on the fence about Kaos Studios’ action game. There have been many war games but never has one been so close to home considering the fact that the North Koreans have taken over nearly the entire Western United States.

Of course that is where you come in as a member of the resistance. In an effort to overthrow the hostile occupation and eliminate The Great Leader you must work with your fellow resistance members despite the fact that some may sell you down the river as much as help you. Catch the launch trailer below and be sure to take a look at Homefront when it releases on March 15th on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Android RPG Cyberlords – Arcology released

Chris Cerami
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While I love my Android phone, I find it more useful for its web applications than for the games that are available on the marketplace. There are some quality titles on the Google powered OS, but they tend to be tower defense games or somewhat shallow time killers like Angry Birds and Paper Toss. When the chance arises to download a fun and engrossing game on my Droid arises I jump on it.

Lucky for me (and all Android phone users) HandyGames has released Cyberlords – Arcology to the Anroid marketplace today and have made it available to download for free should you desire. HandyGames describes Cyberlords – Arcology as “squad-based tactical real-time combat in a persistant game world”, and it looks similar to other top down action games with heavy RPG elements like finding new weapons and equipment. Combine all of this with a futuristic cyberpunk storyline and you have an awesome on-the-go experience.

Catch the trailer for Cyberlords – Arcology below and see if it looks like something you need on your phone.

Dark Horse set to publish Rage prequel comic series

Travis Bruno
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It sounds like there will be a lot of story development occurring id Software’s Rage. So much so that the publisher of the game, Bethesda, has organized a partnership with Dark Horse Comics which will help publish a three issue prequel comic for the events that will occur during the main game. The first issue of the comic will be released in stores on June 22nd.

The comic’s story will be written by Arvid Nelson who has had previous work done by Dark Horse comics in the form of Rex Mundi and will be drawn by Andrea Mutti who also worked on DMZ. The cover that you see below is drawn by Glenn Fabry who has previously drawn cover art for Hellblazer and Preacher. The series will present a new twist on the post-apocalyptic future as one woman finds out that the survival of humankind isn’t the same thing as the survival of humanity.

Katamari Damacy rolling up your webpage

Justin Mienkiewicz
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Katamari Damacy is an amazing, creative and unique game.  Those of you who haven’t played one of the games yet or don’t like the franchise, shame on you.  Much like my asteroids hack I did a while back, there is now a clever hack floating around that allows you to control your very own Katamari on your webpage, able to roll up anything and everything.

One caveat, you must be using Chrome as your browser.  Check out the page for details on how to use this.  Basically load up whatever page you want to have fun on, copy the code into the URL and hit enter.  It starts out small but eventually grows and is able to pick up larger objects.  Pretty fun hack and timewaster.  Enjoy.

For quick use, copy this code into the URL field in Chrome and get a rolling.

javascript:var h=’http://ec2-50-17-2-177.compute-1.amazonaws.com/js/’,i,n,ss=[‘http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js’,h+’Renderables.js’,h+’Game.js’];for(i=0;i<ss.length;i++){n=document.createElement(“script”);n.src=ss[i]+’?’+Date.now();document.head.appendChild(n);}

Dead or Alive: Dimensions SpotPass given free costume DLC in Japan

Travis Bruno
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In an effort to promote the use of the 3DS’ SpotPass system Team Ninja is offering daily downloadable costumes for their upcoming 3DS game Dead or Alive: Dimensions. The system will make use of the 3DS’ connection to a wi-fi signal and will automatically download one of 28 costumes that will be released periodically by Tecmo Koei.

There will be a certain costume that will be “release day only” according to Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi as he spoke with Famitsu. This means that the specific costume will only be available on March 24th when the game releases in Japan but there currently is no set date for a Western release though it is coming.  Some of the expected costumes can be seen below courtesy of Andriasang. There has been no mention as to whether or not the SpotPass system will be used in the U.S. to distribute character costumes as well or not but we have contacted Tecmo Koei to find out more.

Batman: Arkham City arrives on October 18th

Travis Bruno
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Warner Brothers Interactive has released information regarding Batman: Arkham City’s release date and it is sure to make everyone quite happy since it is going to be released this year. It was announced that the sequel to the well-recieved Batman: Arkham Ayslum would be released on October 18th in the U.S., October 19th in Australia and October 21st everywhere else.

Arkham City will feature two familiar faces in the form of Harley Quinn and the Joker but there are new villains thrown in to help spice up the pot. Catwoman makes an appearance while Hugo Strange and Two-Face also serve as main enemies this time around. It looks like the Batman will be haunting the streets of Arkham City just in time for Halloween then.

The Oregon Trail now headed to the 3DS…

Dustin Spencer
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There are a lot of franchises being reborn this year on the 3DS, but the news that a new Oregon Trail title will be making it’s way to the system comes as a (welcome) surprise. Gamefly recently listed Oregon Trail for the system with a release date still unknown from developer Red Wagon Games. If you think about it though, this release makes perfect sense as 2011 is a very special year for the age-old franchise. 1971 saw the original inception of the classic tale for survival, making 2011 the now 40th anniversary of the game itself.

Now that we know it is coming, many questions can now be asked of just how this new version will work, especially with the 3D effects and system features. This also appears to not be a download but a full cartridge release, which clearly shows signs of a full reboot now in the works. If you remember, a port for the DSiWare for Oregon Trail was released a few years ago along with the many mobile versions we have seen since. For now though everything is pure speculation and we must now wait until more of an official announcement is made, so keep checking back as when more news drops, we will be sure to let you know.

Star Wars: The Old Republic trailer places the galaxy’s fate in your hands

Travis Bruno
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Despite a few missteps in the past few years the best way to ensure that your game is going to sell like hotcakes is to put the Star Wars name in front of it, but then again if you build your game from the ground up and base it around the whole Star Wars galaxy then you may as well just take people’s wallets. Bioware and Lucasarts have done this for the past few years and are getting ready to release Star Wars: The Old Republic this year.

A new trailer was released out of PAX East today that shows just a little bit of what players will be in for when they create their character for the first time. From the looks of the trailer there will be plenty of references to favorite characters and plenty of action to be had between Jedi and Sith. Unfortunately they still have not announced a release date but fans of MMO’s and Star Wars should just leave some money on the side to pick this up when it comes out.

New CG Trailer Emerges for Okamiden;Available Early at Gamestop…

Dustin Spencer
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If you haven’t yet noticed, we are just a few days away from seeing the launch of Okamiden in the states. Of course with this launch also comes a new trailer from Capcom, but this clip is quite different than what we have seen before for the title as it is a CG trailer.

The clip shows the young Chibiterasu nudging at a Nintendo DS with Kuni bursting out and hopping on the pup, which is shortly followed by a few clips of the actual gameplay. It isn’t much, but it does make me want to get this title even more as the art style and gameplay looks to be sharp and fluid. What I have also noticed though is oddly enough, Gamestop seems to already have the game in stock and selling it live on their website, so for those who want the game now, feel free to grab it a few days early from the retailer via online or in store. The rest of you though can check out the trailer below and stay tuned as our own review will be coming shortly.

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