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If this game had existed in the early 90s, by the gods this game would have been an incredible smash hit. The industriousness and creativity behind such a project defies description. I’d rather leave it at: if you know, you know. Here’s the thing: It’s a real game. They made this. You can download it […] Add comment
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, announced today that it has purchased Snowblind Studios, best known for producing Fantasy action games like Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, and Champions of Norrath. Warner Bros. will be keeping the entire studio intact, and allow them to continue to follow their own creative […] Add comment
Lonpos is a puzzle game out for WiiWare this week. Players are challenged to fit a series of shapes completely into a grid. The game allows multiple players to control the puzzle with the Wiimotes, similar to the photo channel functions. Nintendo is bringing the 1996 classic PC game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the […] Add comment
Gameloft’s Brain Challenge recently became available for download on the Xbox 360 Arcade. A small download, it is a compendium of over twenty different games based on memory, visual skill, logic, math, and focus. At the start of each game you are subjected to a series of questions from the five categories. Each category has its […] Add comment
ComScore. com, a company which makes Internet traffic measurements its business, today released statistics showing that online, ad supported gaming, has increased 27 percent over the last year (for comparison, the total internet audience has only grown 4 percent in that same time). Speculating that the increase is caused by the economic downturn, they provided […] Add comment
Perhaps this is timely for the Icrontic community, considering some of us just started playing a very popular MMORPG together. The Daedalus Project is a long-term research project run by Nick Yee, a Stanford graduate who now works for the Palo Alto Research Center. Daedalus conducts various surveys in behaviors, opinions, and attitudes about MMORPGS, […] Add comment
Eyezmaze has always had a special place in my heart with the quirky Grow series of games. They defy explanation—you’ll just have to go figure it out on your own. Today I dropped in and to my delight, a new Grow game is out: GrowTower. The idea of Grow games is relatively simple. Pick an […] Add comment
Now that Left 4 Dead is wrapped up, the dev team that stopped production on the TF2 updates seems to be back in action, as yesterday’s Official TF2 Blog post seems to indicate. Expect a patch tomorrow that fixes “bugs and exploits” and prepares us for the official Scout update pack. Since moving to the […] Add comment
January is always a slow month for game releases, with the studios having just pushed to get their games out for Christmas, and this January was no exception, so rather than post a releases guide each week, we decided to wait and get you this summary of the entire month. The major cross platform release […] Add comment
This was the sixth year of the Child’s Play charity, run by Tycho and Gabe of Penny Arcade, and touted as “The Gamers Charity”. As in all past years, it surpassed its previous best year. Last year, Child’s Play raised $1.3mil in toys, books, and money for children’s hospitals. As of the official closing of […] Add comment
Back in the days of yore, the Icrontic forum had a built-in arcade. In this arcade was Chopper Challenge. At first, it was a fun diversion. The mechanic was so simple that anyone could enjoy it, and friendly competition heated up. The scoreboards climbed higher and higher. First place was traded gleefully between several people. […] Add comment
Remember this? Back in the day, Icrontians used to get extremely competitive about this simple game. There is only one control mechanism—you click to go up, and… don’t click to go down. Try to get as far as possible. There was a time…. there was a time when competition with this game got straight-up fierce, […] Add comment
The Gamerscore Blog has been a steady source of information regarding the Xbox and Microsoft LIVE service since October of 2005. Today Microsoft’s Global Games Online Community Manager Tony Hynes posted that the blog has been retired permanently. According to today’s post, there are many places to find important Microsoft gaming information, and this is […] Add comment
Valve announced that Sony Online Entertainment has chosen the Steam content distribution platform to engage a new generation of gamers with some of their venerable MMO lineup. SoE’s Everquest, EverQuest II, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, and Pirates of the Burning Sea are now available via Steam. More and more major game publishers are using Valve’s […] Add comment
We did it with TF2. We did it with Left4Dead, we did it with WaR, and now we’re doing it with WoW. Pigflipper, primesuspect, MasterbuilderK, and MiracleManS are starting an Icrontic guild on Tortheldrin (PvP). We are all low level right now (under 25) so we’re just getting started. Roll a new character on Tortheldrin […] Add comment
At CES today, Peavey was showing their next generation cross-console compatible Rockmaster controllers. The Rockmaster is a full size, “real” guitar. For those who prefer the feel, heft, and balance of a wooden instrument, this is leagues beyond other rhythm game guitar controllers. Previously only available for the PS2, they are releasing their updated version […] Add comment
Have you ever seen a war zone post-battle? It’s not a clean picture. Walls are rendered to the likeness of Swiss cheese with bullet holes, terrain is blackened and charred by scorch marks from open flames, and in most cases blood runs red where bullets have met flesh. This is a picture of total destruction, […] Add comment
Each of the three DLC libraries is adding an interesting casual game this week. Anyone who has seen the bridge and tower building games on the casual and flash game sites will recognize the mechanics of the WiiWare release Tiki Towers right away. As the leader of a band of monkeys, the player must get […] Add comment
A very cool diagram of every major video game controller over the last 25 years. The best part is the family tree they made, though. It’s an intriguing way of showing how they’ve evolved over time. Add comment
Steam is having its after Christmas sale. 10%-75% off everything on Steam. Examples are Bioshock for $4.99, Left 4 Dead for $37.99, and many package deals from particular developers. So get that TF2 or L4D and join us on our own private Icrontic servers this weekend! Add comment
I love video game fans. This guy reminds me of Trey Parker singing “Now You’re a MANN-uh. A MAN MAN MAN” in “Orgazmo”. Got kind of a James Hetfield thing goin’ on there-UH. Add comment
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