Holy balls of steel, we’re actually getting Duke Nukem Forever next year and this time, it’s for real. The big news at PAX yesterday was how 2K Games will now be publishing the game and that Gearbox Software (Borderlands, Brothers in Arms franchise) has been developing it since of 2009. Randy Pitchford, who is the president of Gearbox, has worked on Duke Nukem Forever before left 3D Realms to form Gearbox.

After over a decade, we’ll finally get to kick ass with Duke in Forever, and word is that the first thing you do in the game is to take a piss in a urinal, which you get to control. What a way to start by pissing all your frustration away. Is there any gamers out there who is happy to hear about the news that Forever will be coming out next year or do y’all think it’s way too late for Duke to make any sort of impact in this generation of video games.

Source: Destructoid

Oh Lego’s, you are filled with nothing but awesomeness where as Better Block was just okay (yeah, I was stuck with Better Blocks). The folks of Ninja Moped decided to make a NES Quiz video of guess that NES Game but the footage you see is recreated with Legos. That’s right, these guys have a lot of time in their hands to do so but with all that time, they were able to do such a great job in recreating these scenes. So check the video out and see if you recognize some of these memorable NES game and if you have more time on your hand (like these guys), check out episode 2.

Source: Dorkly

Back when Comic-Con 2010 started, we got a neat announcement trailer for Capcom’s upcoming Mega Man Universe game. While it didn’t show any game play, it did show Mega Man changing into Street Fighter’s Ryu and Ghost ‘n Goblins’ Arthur fighting memorable Mega Man enemies. We also got a glimpse of the bad box art version of Mega Man. Well, with PAX around the corner, it seems that Capcom decided to release not one, but a few different trailers.

While each one starts off with Keiji Inafune, the creator of Mega Man, talking about how the announcement trailer has led to to folks discussing what kind of game Universe is, he goes on to say that he hopes that people will get even more excited by the new trailers. From the trailers, it seems that players will go through stages like any other Mega Man game but with different characters. That’s right, there are three trailers and each one has a different version of a “Mega Man.” Also, each trailer ends with a tease of Ryu being chosen but no game play was shown.

I’m calling it now, players will be able to create stages for others to play and that a variety of Capcom characters will be playable, such as Viewtiful Joe and Dante. While I’ll be working during my Labor Day weekend, I’ll try to post any news and update from PAX about Mega Man Universe. Meanwhile, why don’t y’all check out the three trailers, where the other two is available after the jump, to check out the other playable Mega Mans.

Source: Destructoid, Gamespot, 1UP

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“Marty! Marty!” Looks like we’ll be hearing doc saying that and more quotes as it has been confirmed that Christopher Lloyd will be providing his voice. USA Today got a concept art (pictured above) and other details on Telltale Games (Sam & Max series, Tales of Monkey Island) upcoming game. Marty and Doc Brown will look like their movie counterparts and while there will be other returning characters, we don’t know if the any actors will give their likeness or voice. Series screenwriter, Bob Gale, is working on the story development of the game which is set for 5 episodic downloads.

Knowing Telltales history, I’m pretty optimistic as I have enjoy their past release and they are the king when it comes to episodic downloads. What do y’all think? Does any of these news excite you or are you still holding back because of the history of bad movie video games?

Source: /Film

Mortal Kombat!!! Cue techno song. I’ve been a fan of the franchise since the Genesis days and knowing that the 9th game will be going back to it’s roots, just makes me a happy fat boy. In the video, we get co-creator Ed Boon talking about the history of the franchise and how they are changing things up for the new game. He admits that Mortal Kombat has had it’s bad moments but it seems that he and the crew are trying to make a legit fighting game this time around.

All I know is that spring, 2011 can’t come any sooner as I’m excited about the new fatalities, the X-ray focus moves, and the new story that is suppose to change the history of MK 1 to MK 3. How about you guys? Any of y’all excited about the game and if so, leave a comment on how you feel about the upcoming game.

Source: Topless Robot

While I may not be a religious person or have much knowledge of the bible and such, I do know that this video sure as hell beat those bible games that couple of my friends have. Genesis System has created a video which shows God playing Supernatural Creator 2 (cause we all know sequels are better), which gives him the chance to create the world in 7 levels instead of 7 days. The video is done well and all the sound effects just puts a smile on my face. Check the video out and tell us what you thought about it by leaving a comment.

Source: BuzzFeed

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The man pictured above has given some people another reason to complain how video games are evil. Timothy Hammerstone is a 22 year old Florida resident who is facing 16 counts of possession of child porn. How did he get the child porn you ask? Why, he offered a 10 year old for $20 worth of Microsoft points for some naked pictures. When the police arrested Hammerstone, they found a flash drive containing 40 pictures (I guess he told the boy each picture gives him 40 MS points) of the boy naked.

It seems that the 360/PS3 has been used as a device for predators to find their young bait with the help of the chat and web camera feature. Both systems does have parental control options and stuff like this could have been prevented if parents supervise their young children, especially a 10 year olds, online activity.

Source: Kotaku

If there’s one thing that Bungie and Microsoft can do justice to, it’s all the live action Halo commercials they make. Hell, I still remember the funeral one as it for some reason made an impact to me (could be the military brat in me). Anyway, the second Halo: Reach commercial has been released on the internet and like always, it does not disappoint. Like the first Reach (which is posted after the jump) commercial, they are both directed by Noam Murro. So what are you waiting for, check the trailer out and tell us what you think and see if this trailer makes you want to finish the fight… once again. Or would it be start the fight since it’s a prequel?

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Leave it to Hollywood to try to make a movie out of something that got popular in no time. It seems that we may be getting a possible movie adaptation of Rockstars recent hit western game, Red Dead Redemption, and that Brad Pitt may be out John Marston (the main character of the game). If you haven’t played the RDR game, it’s an open world game set in the old west of 1911. The game has been selling well and has received many good reviews so it may not be a big surprise that Hollywood wants to make a movie out of it.

What do you guys think? You think Hollywood will be faithful and produce a good western flick or are we going to get something crappy since that is the faith of most video game movies? If this does indeed happen, I would like to see some people jumping off cliffs with their horses and see the awesome rag doll mechanic work its magic.

Source: Latino Review

Being the Playstation fan and overall gamer, I’ve always liked the Playstation controller, it felt right and once they added the analog sticks, it got close to perfection, although, I don’t like how the L2/R2 button feels on the PS3. Anyways, Teiyu Goto, who was one of the lead designers of the Playstation, has revealed what his initial ideas of using shapes and colors were meant to be. This is what he said:

“Other game companies at the time assigned alphabet letters or colors to the buttons. We wanted something simple to remember, which is why we went with icons or symbols, and I came up with the triangle-circle-X-square combination immediately afterward. I gave each symbol a meaning and a color. The triangle refers to viewpoint; I had it represent one’s head or direction and made it green. Square refers to a piece of paper; I had it represent menus or documents and made it pink. The circle and X represent ‘yes’ or ‘no’ decision-making and I made them red and blue respectively. People thought those colors were mixed up, and I had to reinforce to management that that’s what I wanted. ”

As far as I remember, these buttons initially were configured to do these over in Japan but for some reason when the Playstation came over to the US, X became the “X-cept” button and some RPG’s had the Triangle button as the menu button. Of course, later on we were introduce to the button configuration option which led us to have whatever button to do what we wanted and now games have it set to whatever works.

Source: Unreality Magazine