Brian Crecente

Mass Effect 2 Sets Its Sights on the Modern Warfare Crowd

Famed role-playing game developers Bioware are going after a surprising audience with their upcoming RPG, Mass Effect 2: Fans of first-person shooters. While Mass Effect 2 will remain very solidly in the realm of role-playing game, the combat has been reworked specifically to try and attract the same sort of gamer who plays Modern Warfare…

iPhone Chart Toppers: Trenches Hits the Charts

Zombies still cling to the top spot and only one new game managed to break into the list: Trenches. Have any of your played it yet? Here’s the full list: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our iPhone game reviews. Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Call…

Mad Catz Wants to Take on Fight Stick King Hori in Japan

Hot off the success of their licensed Street Fighter tournament edition fight sticks in the U.S., Mad Catz is hoping to expand their reach into the land of Street Fighter: Japan. Currently popular fight-stick manufacturer Hori has the licensing rights to Street Fighter in Japan, said Alex Verrey, the Mad Catz’ spokesman. But they’d like…

CES 2010 Aims to Resurrect 3D

Las Vegas is a city of smoke and mirrors. It’s appropriate then that the biggest new innovation of sin city’s Consumer Electronics Show this year is itself a bit of visual sleight of hand: 3D. Giving images a sense of substance and heft have long been a goal in video gaming. More than once, that…

Brian and Mike… in 3D!!! (Glasses)

It’s official: 3D is coming and you just can’t stop it. And better still, the headache-producing technology is bringing with it an array of gaudy and ill-fitting glasses. We spent the show playing games, watching TV and even checking out porn in 3D so you didn’t have to and we can confirm that none of…

Solid Steel, No Moving Parts, This Flight Stick Is A Pricey Wonder

Made of solid steel, Saitek’s X65F Pro Flight stick doesn’t actually move when you use it to fly a plane, instead the shaft sensing the pressure you’re exerting on the stick and translates it into movement. I had a chance to play arund with the X65F Pro Flight System a bit earlier this week and…

Hands-On With Street Fighter’s Juri Or: How I Stopped Playing Ken and Learned to Love Da Bomb

I get a lot of grief whenever I join Capcom to play a little Street Fighter IV or Super Street Fighter IV. I play Ken.. sometimes Ryu, and Capcom’s Seth Killian and our own Mike McWhertor can’t help but mock me about it. But I’ve played other characters before. There was a time when I…

Sinbad, But No Seven Seas, Spotted At CES

Overheard asking a Microsoft rep if they’d like his son to playtest games for them, Sinbad was seen wandering the Microsoft booth at CES this weekend. Other celebrities, B-list and below, who made appearances or were spotted perusing the gadget show included Stan Lee, Drew Carey, zombie Marilyn Monroe and Elivis and Pauley Perrette, NCIS’…

Vibrating Football and Pocket Chess: The Future Past of Gaming At CES

Excalibur isn’t just the name of a wicked-cool sword, it’s also the name of a company that makes retro gaming products. The Excalibur booth at CES was packed with a cornucopia of chintzy handheld games, wooden chessboards, mini air hockey tables and wooden puzzles. But what really caught our eye was their line up of…

The Shapeshifting PC Motion Controller

We saw this Wii PC peripheral knock-off while strolling through the halls of CES this weekend. The fact that the oddly-named CyWee Z lets you play the likes of Shaun White Snowboarding with motion on your PC wasn’t all that interesting. What was interesting was that the controller transformed from a straight Wii remote like…

Play Modern Warfare 2 With a Machine Gun

CTA Digital, makers of Wii bowling balls, tennis rackets and pool cues, aren’t content with cornering the market on bizarre Wii peripherals, they’re bringing their line of unorthodox controllers to the Playstation 3 too. While stalking the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center this week during the Consumer Electronics Show, past women in evening…

Playing Dark Void PC at CES… In 3D!!!

Nonplussed by the PS3’s Gran Turismo in 3D and sort of blown away by Super Stardust HD 3D, I was split on 3D gaming when it came time to check out Capcom’s upcoming Dark Void. Where Gran Turismo’s 3D seemed to add very little to the experience, giving you a slight sense of depth but…

Mega Man 10 Brings the Easy

Megaman 10 has an interesting little addition to the franchise not seen since 1988’s Megaman 2: An Easy mode. Technically, Mega Man 2’s easy mode was called normal mode, while the white-knuckled difficulty typically found in a Mega Man game was called difficult, but it was an easy mode. The difference this time around is…

Savage Cycle

Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono poses in front of the Resident Evil motorcycle created by Savage Cycles at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas during the CES launch party for Dark Void.

Dark Void Zero: Blow Me

It may only be two hours long, but Capcom’s 8-bit DSi Dark Void prequel doesn’t feel like a bit of fancy marketing. Dark Void Zero, expected to hit Nintendo’s download store in the next couple of weeks, features three levels, three bosses and an original 8-bit soundtrack composed by Battlestar Galactica’s Bear McCreary. I fiddled…

Motion Controlled Left 4 Dead 2 in Action

Yesterday Mike wrote up his impressions of a motion-control enabled version of Left 4 Dead 2 running on a PC with the help of Sixense TrueMotion wireless motion controllers. Now take a gander at a Razer rep playing a bit of the game with the dual, black sticks.

Sony’s Wireless Dash Can Play Games, Maybe Interact with PS3

Unveiled at Sony’s CES keynote earlier this week, the Dash is a "personal Internet viewer" that includes some pretty nifty technology. The little wireless device can run a bunch of different apps on its touch screen, letting you check weather, traffic, email, browse the net, all sorts of things. It also lets you play games…

Hands-On Intel’s Room-Sized Multi-Touch Screen

Man, imagine playing an iPhone game on this bad boy.

CES 2010 Feach. DJ PowerTie

As seen on the CES showfloor.

The Company That Paid $300K To Not Make Millions on Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero is a franchise that catapulted Red Octane and Harmonix directly into the money pit, but not everyone associated with the launch of the popular rhythm game came out of it crazy rich. There was a reason the original Guitar Hero only launched on the Playstation 2, and that reason was Mad Catz. “Guitar…