#Video Games
Video: ‘Skyrim’ Sizzle Reel Is One Week Of Amazing Additions.
[Caff Edit: First video was taken down. Pratfalls of queuing posts! Added new video, jump to 21:25]
When the motherfuckers at Bethesda were done putting the wraps on Skyrim, they were given a task: spend one week doing whatever they want, putting whatever they want in the day. The results? Pure awesomeness. Dragon mounts. Building your own home. Pitch black dungeons. Adoption. Seasonal foliage. Plus more. They’re noncommital as to whether any of it will actually make the game, but man. To dream.
Hit the jump to check out the staff’s dream conjurings.
Tim Schafer’s ‘Adventure’ Game Destroys Kickstarter Records.
Tim Schafer and Double Fine took to Kickstarter to fund a new point-and-click adventure, and in doing so they’ve shattered everything in their wake. Most backers and money pledged in a 24 hour period. Ever.
‘Skyrim’ Has Shipped Over 10 Million Units, Average PC Playtime Is 75 Hours. Hell Yeah.
Maybe I’m losing it, but I consider Skyrim rather special. What may have previously been considered only a dorky fantasy game thwacked the gaming cultural consciousness over the winter, ripping the season away from Battlefield Warfare: Covert Ops for the first time in years. It generated memes, produced sprawling personal stories, and was fun as fuck. So I love hearing monuments to its success.
Producer: ‘Mass Effect’ Isn’t Done After Third Game. Me: No S**t.
Money talks. Established franchises churn money. So color me not surprised when executive producer Casey Hudson commented that Mass Effect isn’t done at the end of the first trilogy.
Video: Ending Theme To Indie Hit ‘Bastion’ Performed Live. Goosey Bumpy Time.
I loved Bastion, the indie game that dropped on XBLA last year. A grindy little game with heart that also featured a hell of a soundtrack. Last week at the New York Video Game Critics Circle Awards, songwriter Darren Korb and singer Ashley Barrett performed the ending theme to the game. It’s awesome.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Naughty Dog Almost Made New ‘Jak and Daxter’ Before Choosing ‘The Last of Us’
Jak and Daxter! Oh how I love you, though you continue to recede into the recesses of my brain-skull. Naughty Dog almost revived you, and then realized they could make way, way, way more money making that Ellen Page Zombies Game they’re working on.
New ‘The Last of Us’ Screens Are Pittsburghpocalypse.
Just snap “pocalypse” onto anything. Makes it way, way, cooler. I’m really excited for this game.
Hit the jump for a couple of new screens.
Video: Mega Man and Pac-Man In Street Fighter X Tekken? G’damn Amazing.
I’m not going to play Street Fighter X Tekken, but if I would I’d be totally rocking out as horrible US Box Art version of Mega Man. There’s Pac-Man too, and good lord if that isn’t chock full of win.
Hit the jump for details and the intro video.
