Star Wars has a spotty history with massively multiplayer online fans. Who better to salvage the zero for one record than role-playing game developers Bioware? What Is It? Bioware’s take on a Star Wars massively multiplayer online game complete with full voice acting for all scenes, the ability to play as a number of classes…
New Super Mario Bros. Wii is, despite it’s name, a new experience. The game hopes to blend the fun of classic Super Mario Bros. side-scrollers with a new layer of what Shigeru Miyamoto calls competitive coop gameplay. What Is It? New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a simultaneous multiplayer a for up to four people.…
My first real introduction to Microsoft’s motion-controlling Project Natal occurred in a brightly-lit hotel room in LA’s The Standard Hotel. Standing in front of a television with Burnout Paradise on it, I held my hands out as if holding steering wheel and acted as if I was driving a car. It was that simple and…
Last night’s Nintendo party starred Grammy-nominated pop singer Natasha Bedingfield. It also starred, for a brief moment, an electric-blue Nintendo DSi. After belting out a number of songs, Bedingfield pulled out a DSi and started, I don’t know, sorta fondling it as she sang. Initially I thought she was going to use it to distort…
Archery on Motion-Plus-enabled Wii Sports Resort is a surprisingly satisfying experience. Like other motion-controlled sports games on the Wii, playing archery is fairly straight forward. You hold a remote in your off hand — left if you’re right handed, right if you’re left handed — and then lift the controller up at the screen as…
Shigeru Miyamoto just took the stage for his annual Developers Round Table. Each year the Nintendo developer sits down to talk about design choices, Nintendo and upcoming games. It’s always interesting. Let’s listen in why don’t we. Click to viewShigeru Liveblog
Super Mario Bros. Wii may have a surprise in store for gamers when it hits later this year. Speaking to Kotaku at E3 today, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto seem to let slip that the game may include at least an initial glimpse at a revolutionary save system first hinted at in a patent filed by Miyamoto…
It should be no surprise that the PSP Go is official. After confirming the device and saying it would be hitting for $250 on Oct. 1, we ran over to the Sony booth to manhandle the petite device. Check back in a few for our impressions, but until now watch as we tinker and play…
It’s svelte, it’s sexy, it’s sitting there in Totilo’s ugly hands: Meet the PSP Go.
Forza Motorsport 3 is simply an amazing racer. Visually it is stunning. The game attracts such a hardcore fanbase that the developers built in the ability to play the game on three consoles so you can use three monitors to simulate a full windshield. To take things one step further, Turn Ten put together a…
.html It’s been a long time since we’ve first heard about Alan Wake, now that we’re getting to see a bit more of it I’m pretty psyched. It is, as Mike McWhertor says, like a Silent Hill we want to play. I get a sort of Evil Dead vibe off of all of that running…
With less than two weeks of sales under its belt, EA Sports Active has already sold more than 600,000 copies, Electronic Arts said today. The personal training game for the Wii went on sale May 19. “We’re delighted by the overwhelming response to EA SPORTS Active,” said Peter Moore, President, EA SPORTS. “This is, by…
It’s time to hear what Ubisoft has to show us for this year’s press conference. Will we see Assassin’s Creed 2? Sure. But what about Beyond Good & Evil 2? Not so sure? Check it out below and follow along with us. Click to viewUbisoft’s E3 Presser
.html Short, but sweet for Xbox 360 owners, this trailer gives us a first brief glimpse at Metal Gear Solid: Rising, the first Metal Gear Solid title to hit the Xbox 360. According to Konami, the game will star Raiden, who first debuted in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and who appeared most…
Starting this fall, movies and television shows from Zune Video will be playable on the Xbox 360 in 1080p HD. Microsoft says that video start up using their new service will be “as close to instantaneous as possible” by transitioning between many different bitrates and resolutions of video. What that means, Microsoft says, is that…
.html One of the most stunning moments of the Xbox 360 press conference this morning, was the introduction of Peter Molyneux’s Milo. Milo appears to be a complex artificial intelligence that you can interact with through the Xbox 360 using it’s recently announced Project Natal motion controller. Molyneux says Milo can recognize your face, emotions…
.html Seen in person, Microsoft’s motion controller without a controller is pretty amazing to behold. But until we have it in our hot little hands, we’ll hold off on passing judgment. Until then here’s a video of it in… motion.
We saw a very brief glimpse of Left 4 Dead 2 this morning at Microsoft’s press conference, now we get a bit more details from publisher Valve. “A large part of how Left 4 Dead became 2008’s top-selling new IP on Xbox 360 and the PC was the custom-tailored gameplay made possible by the AI…
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