L.A. Noire may be the epitome of cool in video gaming. From the opening trailer, it seems as if Rockstar has emulated the best of Francis Ford Copolla and Martin Scorsese. Now, if this game has found a way to infuse Quentin Tarantino’s badassery, well, we won’t be putting down the controller for quite some time.

We especially like the way the trailer starts off. It’s engaging; it reminds us of our winters in the city. The car headlights warming the roads, the snow gently falling amidst the skyscrapers, and music fit for a nice glass of scotch and a cigar. Rockstar is maturing.

Rockstar’s 2010 release, Red Dead Redemption, showed us that they can create a character we can empathize with. Sure, running around the streets of Liberty City was a riot, but riding the Texas dirt trails as John Marston brought a whole new level of appreciation for game design.

If Rockstar can not only duplicate their previous success, but can build upon it another character worth living vicariously through, this may just be the game we talk about another six months from now.

L.A. Noire releases tonight (May 17th) at midnight at select locations.

For anybody who has paid one iota of attention to gaming in the past five years, the original Gears of War trailer punched the gaming community in the collective cock by using Mad World performed by Gary Jules.  In all reality, Jules covered Tears for Fears better than we covered our man bits. Continue Reading

2010 was a great year in gaming.  For Americans, it showed that the video game industry can thrive even during tough economic times.  For story buffs, we were blessed with a breakout year from Bioware.  FPS loyalists saw more action from Bungie and Call of Duty.

What did we learn though?  We see the trends, hell we even play them, but what did the last 365 days actually teach us about the industry?  Click below to read what permeated the collective braintrust at Glitchoris.com.

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What were you doing in 1987?   Were you watching Red Dawn on VHS?  Or were you cuffing your jeans and bedazzling your White Snake jean jacket? Probably neither, considering the majority of you probably hadn’t even reached sperm phase yet.  I know you most definitely were not on Glitchoris, because I was only five years old, and I had much better things to do at that age than blog: like hit on girls, beat Super Mario Bros for the umpteenth fucking time, and play a new game from Konami called, “Castlevania”.   Alright, so I wasn’t quite playing Nintendo at that age, but two years later I was, and loving it.   I actually remember watching my friend play as Simon Belmont for the first time, and the music in that game still creeps me out today.   It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty three years since Konami’s original hit store shelves, but you know what’s even tougher – that it’s newest effort at the series, Lords of Shadow, looks like it will finally be that Castlevania game that we’ve all been dreaming about.  Check out the trailer right here, then the link below for Glitchoris’ full preview.

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As if public speaking isn’t terrifying enough for people, many who stand up in front of a crowd will start off their speech or brief with easily the worst thing you can say to your audience. In the public speaking world, it’s called brief suicide, and I would argue that we’ve all done it at some point in our lives. Starting off a speech with, “I’m sorry you have to sit through this thing”, or, “I know this isn’t the best but …”, will immediately turn off your audience and force you to fight uphill to turn the crowd back in your favor. So WTF does this have to do with Too Human and Jason Statham, aka The Transporter up there? It starts with Silicon Knights, who after releasing Eternal Darkness for the GameCube back in the day (2002), announced a new upcoming “trilogy”, which is (3) different games for all my home-schoolers out there, called “Too Human”, starring a dude who ends up looking mysteriously like Mr. Statham (with a really girnormous, bloated head). By announcing that, Silicon Knights essentially committed game suicide, or at least threatened, because when Too Human finally hit shelves in 2008, it was all over.

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