Gadgets and Video Games

Click to Super Mario-size We like a pretty picture just as much as the next Tom, Dick or Monet, but the art featured in the Into The Pixel exhibit – which opened to the public last night at GDC – is some of our favorite. You can experience the aesthetic splendor second-hand by checking out the gallery posted below. See if you can identify the games each painting is based on! (Spoiler alert: You’ll never , ever guess some of them. Not in a billion, trillion years.) Gallery: GDC 2010: Into the Pixel GDC: Gaming gets framed for Into The Pixel exhibit originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:30:00 EST.

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GDC: Gaming gets framed for Into The Pixel exhibit

We know we’ve already been diligent in keeping you abreast of the status of Bear McCreary’s epic soundtrack for Dark Void , so consider this our penultimate update on the topic: The game’s score is now available to download through iTunes , Amazon and a number of other retailers. It’s very, very good . If you have some extra cash lying around, and enjoy the occasional non-lyrical musical offering, you should purchase it post-haste

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PSA: Dark Void soundtrack now available on iTunes, Amazon

Felt like your copy of Dragon Age: Origins was missing something, eh? Say, maybe, slugs with demonically mutated children’s faces? Perfect — we’ve got just the trailer for you today, care of upcoming DA:O expansion Awakening , full of creepy-crawly things called “The Children.” There’s not much in the way of an explanation of exactly what or why they are, but there are some pretty awful birth pods full of (presumably) amniotic fluid — well, y’know, evil amniotic fluid (they’re bad guys, after all). Hopefully the Children aren’t working in concert with that terrifying blue dragon we saw last week

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Dragon Age Awakening: now with creepy Children!

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We’re not big fans of teaser pages, but we do wish there were a few more like the one hinting at more Sam & Max in 2010 . The site has now evolved beyond rambling about “a power-mad space gorilla” to … well, there’s still some rambling, but there’s also a real deal: The whole first season of Telltale’s Sam & Max for just $4.99. If you haven’t touched the series or just like buying things really, really cheap, now would be the time to act.

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Sam & Max Season 1 on sale for $5

Mark Hamill has made a name for himself over the years with his game work, with high-profile roles in games like Full Throttle and Wing Commander 3 . Not to mention his legendary performance as the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series , which he reprised for Arkham Asylum . But Mark Hamill already had a name, and it was “Luke Skywalker.” An interview with CVG suggests that the move was intentional.

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Mark Hamill talks about game voice acting, Batman role

PS3 heroes heeding the call of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 may have noticed all of the game’s DLC has been pulled from PSN. Users on the game’s official forums, the Hero HQ , and folks over at the official PlayStation boards are complaining all of the game’s DLC has up and vanished from PSN — something Joystiq can also confirm. So, what gives? Well, we don’t know right now, but we’ve put in word to both Sony and Activision and will let you know when we hear back. [Thanks, @freemantim] Source – PlayStation forums Source – Hero HQ forums Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 DLC pulls a Sue Storm on PSN, vanishes originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:45:00 EST

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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 DLC pulls a Sue Storm on PSN, vanishes

In an AP interview , Sony executive VP Kaz Hirai declared the upcoming Sony Online Service , which adds PSN-like features (possibly including game, music and movie downloads) to a wide variety of Sony devices, a major selling point. “That’s the kind of combination that I think is not seen anywhere else,” Hirai said. “That I think is where our core competence lies, and that’s a differentiator for Sony.” Additionally, Hirai told Business Week that Sony hopes to get the service into other devices next year and, “Earlier in the year would be a lot more preferable.” In the interview, Hirai said that the Sony Online Service would take the iTunes-like approach of registering users as soon as the device is powered on, to register their accounts immediately

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Sony Online Service aims to achieve brand loyalty

This four-and-a-half-minute walkthrough preview of Badass: The Game (a.k.a. Splinter Cell Conviction ) is not for the faint of heart. “We really wanted to bring out Sam’s brutality,” observes an unseen narrator, as the rogue agent stabs a terrorist in the hand in a torture scene that would make Jack Bauer feel at home. Certainly, Amnesty International wouldn’t approve of these tactics — but we’re a rather depraved bunch here at Joystiq HQ. It’s pretty clear Splinter Cell Conviction is one of our most anticipated games targeted for the crowded Q1 season next year

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Splinter Cell walkthrough video brings out the brutality

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These new Red Dead Redemption screens aren’t horsing around