split/screen co-op

This nifty piece of furnishing is exactly what you hope it is upon first seeing it. It’s an R2D2 console rack that houses eight consoles and a projector. It will probably look much cooler with its eye ablaze and all unused controllers tucked away.

Incredible R2D2 Hack has 8 Consoles + Projector on Hack N’ Mod

• Retrospective: Homeworld Retro Article
  There are games that we love to play and then there are games that we love to… well, just love. Above all others Homeworld has established a place in my heart that will likely only ever be relinquished should its achievements become the norm rather than the rare exception in gaming.
• Wordplay with a Distracted Apprentice (Magical Wasteland)
  Space or not, “video game” is a pretty unsatisfactory term if you think about it. It shares a problem with “comic book” in that it is really a misnomer: most comic books are not comic at all, and “video” games depend on many vast domains besides the purely visual.

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The Tokio Game Show (TGS) starts on Monday, September 16, so I decided to look around and see what things they have planned for this year’s exhibition.

Hit the jump to read the info.

The new game of Activision combining tough racing action and zombies will be out in November this year,  as many gaming sites  recently reported.

Genre: Action

Platforms: Playstaion 3, Xbox 360

Gameplay: Choose a vehicle and prepare for a racing battle with other players and the swarms of undead coming your way. Hard metal meets dead meat, ’cause that what’s in these days, guys

Blood Drive should bring great variety of vehicles and enemies in six different environments, a single player and a multiplayer mode, which will allow up to four friends play together.

A screenshot from gamespot’s webpage :

I read a short article about the earlier Playstation logos and got curious if there were any other variations of the Xbox logo. Searching around the net for pictures about the Xbox I found this image in a Guardian article about Lara Croft going on Xbox. When I saw my first thought was : That’s a real gamers’ commitment!

And they say not enough people cared for games.

Hit the jump to see the image.

I’ve never played any of the Parasite Eve games but I have of course heard about the series and know it has a cult following. (Come to think of it: is there any game series without a cult following?)

Belatedly I watched this trailer for the upcoming PSP title The 3rd Birthday and mean to tell you what I thought about it. Hit the jump to find out.

DeTweet is a free tower-defence flash game which lets you create your own enemies by entering a keyword and then destroy all tweets that mention it. It is fun for 15 minutes, maybe even half an hour. Let me know if you make it past level 5.

Play DeTweet here.