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Get Your Free APB Key To the City Codes Here
Upcoming cops-and-robbers massively multiplayer online computer game APB just kicked off their Key to the City event. If you’ve pre-ordered the game you’re all set with your code. If you haven’t, well, we’ve got your back. You can redeem the codes here Here are a monster list of codes for you to pick from, if…
By Brian Crecente Published June 18, 2010 -
InFamous 2 Brings Lightning-Spewing Tornadoes To The Big Easy
There are a lot of things you need to know about Sucker Punch’s upcoming Playstation 3 action sequel InFamous 2, but none are as important as this: You can use your powers to hurl city-demolishing, lightning-spewing tornadoes at people. The effect was so amazing the first time I saw it – the game’s star Cole…
By Brian Crecente Published June 18, 2010 -
Mario Sports Mix Puts The Bob-omb in Volleyball
With all of the buzz surrounding the Xbox 360’s controller-free motion gaming of Kinect and the Playstation 3’s motion-sensing Move, it might be easy to forget that Nintendo has been doing motion gaming for quite some time. They’re still doing it, of course, and quite well. There were at E3 a whole new crop of…
By Brian Crecente Published June 18, 2010 -
Kinect Adventures Is Surprisingly Fun
While my favorite Kinect game of the show was most certainly Dance Central, the game that had me jumping up and down on an imaginary river raft was my number two choice. Kinect Adventures has gamers playing along side a friend, or competing with one, to work their way through a series of “adventures” set…
By Brian Crecente Published June 18, 2010 -
Joy Ride May Highlight a Major Kinect Problem
The last time I saw Joy Ride was at last year’s E3 showing when the Xbox 360 title was a fun little free game due out for Xbox Live to help usher in the online service’s avatars. The mysteriously-absent game suddenly reappeared at this year’s E3, now designed to help usher in the Xbox 360’s…
By Brian Crecente Published June 18, 2010 -
Suicide Girls Are Big Fans of APB
Suicide Girl Dice on the hood of the APB mobile. Click to view
By Brian Crecente Published June 18, 2010 -
This is Why You Didn’t Get to Play with the 3DS at E3
Remember that video of the huge stampede of people we posted earlier today? The one showing all of those folks running to get to Nintendo’s booth to check out Nintendo’s 3D portable? They never stood a chance! Why? Because the line already wrapped entirely around Nintendo’s booth before the floor was open. And it was…
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2010 -
Kinect’s Best Game Could be The Most Important Game of E3
Playing around with some of the games designed for the Xbox 360’s controller-free Kinect earlier this week I discovered the game of the show that I think could have the biggest impact on gaming. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the game is the product of developers Harmonix, the folks who created Guitar Hero, Rock…
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2010 -
Nintendo 3DS Sparks Gamer Stampede
As the E3 of four years ago wrapped up there was a famously large stampede. The last day of that show, the show when Nintendo gave attendees a chance to get their hands on the Wii and its motion gaming, the second the doors opened people ran through the halls, past competitors, past other games…
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2010 -
Kinect Can Sense Children, Adjust Difficulty on the Fly
Microsoft’s Kinect may not be able to detect seated gamers, but it can make some educated about the age of gamers who are standing and put that information to good use. Playing around with upcoming Xbox 360 Kinect game Joy Ride I asked the developers about playing the game with friends and children. They told…
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2010 -
The Shirts of Pac-Man
As seen at the Namco E3 Party.
By Brian Crecente Published June 16, 2010 -
Playing Portal 2… For Science
It doesn’t take much to remind me why I, why so many people, loved the original Portal. The game is cheeky, it’s fun, it’s smart. Portal 2 is all of that, with a friend. Standing in the E3 offices of Valve earlier today I had a chance to take Portal 2’s coop mode for a…
By Brian Crecente Published June 15, 2010 -
Portal 2’s New Toys, New Friends and Old Enemies
Portal was such a masterful, smashing success because it was short, sweet and… a surprise. Even Valve didn’t expect the puzzle game with personality to become such an overwhelming, cultural phenomenon. And it scares Valve a little bit that they’re not trying to recapture that success without two of those elements: Portal 2 when it…
By Brian Crecente Published June 15, 2010 -
Hands-On With Seven Nintendo 3DS Games and Gadgets
It feels like a sleight of hand, of mind, of eye: But hold Nintendo’s 3DS in front of you, turn it on and the top screen drops away turning the imagined world 3D. There are some kinks that still need to be worked out for the upcoming, glasses-free 3D gaming device. The window in which…
By Brian Crecente Published June 15, 2010
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