The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena demo should now be available on Xbox Live and should be hitting the Playstation Network later this month. The playable demo lets gamers play through the Athena Main Decks level and includes melee combat, some stealth play and of course lots of shooting. The demo will also…
Friday will be popular gaming pundit N’Gai Croal’s last day at Newsweek. The well-known game journalist took a buyout from the magazine publisher and plans to move more toward the development side of gaming. Today, Croal posted his final update on Newsweek’s Level Up. I had a chance to speak with Croal recently about why…
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Today I Saw Snow So, our first syndicated column hit the wires this afternoon. The first paper to pick it up and run it online? The Boston Herald. In theory, tomorrow should see the column in print in some of the wire service’s 200 or so newspapers, somewhere. I’m hoping…
Nearly all of Volition’s quality assurance department were laid off today in Champaign, Illinois, THQ confirmed to Kotaku. “Today we notified 86 of the 102 employees in the Volition quality assurance department that they will be let go,” a THQ spokesman told Kotaku. “Our quality assurance will now be primarily conducted through THQ’s centralized QA…
National newspaper USA Today, today, launched their official video game blog. Game Hunters is moderated by Mike Snider and Brett Molina will be covering all things gaming from video game consoles to handheld devices to personal computers and promises to provide news, reviews, contests, giveaways, demo codes and sneak peeks. It’s nice to see another…
They’ve dabbled in used video games buy backs and sales before, but we’re hearing that Best Buy is once more rolling out a test program to a number of their stories this month. Just a day after word of Toys R Us testing out used game sales, a source tells us that a used game…
Speaking to USA Today, Halo franchise development director Frank O’Connor hints that we may have more Master Chief in store for us in the future. “I doubt we have seen the last of Master Chief,” O’Connor told the paper. The bulk of the article is about upcoming Halo 3: ODST, which O’Connor says is significantly…
Packed with zombies, the real U.S. Army and a short fright show, the Stroudsburg, PA Best Buy‘s launch event for Resident Evil 5 now has its own backstory. The folks in Stroudsburg have been putting together a five-part video series to fill people in on the events leading up to the zombie infestation of the…
Remember that amazing Street Fighter IV Training Manual Capcom sent out to the press for the launch of their new fighter? Now you can print your very own version. Capcom has uploaded a PDF of the entire manual on their Unity site for downloading, perusal and printing. Pretty neat. I hope they do the same…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Wedding Anniversary I did something this weekend that I haven’t done in quite awhile. I spent a big chunk of Sunday playing video games. Specifically, playing Killzone 2 online. Have you picked it up yet? Are you going to? What you missed: Resistance: Retribution Multiplayer in Action Toys R Us…
The free South Central upgrade for Midnight Club: Los Angeles includes four new neighborhoods, increasing the game’s total map size by a third. For $10 on the Playstation Network, or 800 points on Xbox Live, you can download the premium upgrade which includes the map expansion plus new vehicles, parts, music, vinyls, hydraulics and more.
BioWare is forming a new studio within Electronic Arts Montreal, hiring 30 staffers to help develop Mass Effect 2, Gamasutra reports. “Our new presence… will be located within the existing EA Montreal facilities,” BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka tells Gamasutra today. “It’s great that we have a strong foundation to build out of.” The developer is…
Starting tomorrow you will be able to browse through your Playstation Trophies on Playstation.com. While this first step only lets you look at your own trophies via the web, Playstation promises that later this year they will be adding the ability to compare and sort trophies in new ways. In the meantime, take a gander…
Despite the fact that we hated it… and every other reviewer in the country hated it, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li managed to break the top ten for the weekend box office. The Legend of Chun-Li pulled in $4.65 million over its first weekend, landing it in the eight spot for the top ten…
Toys R Us is testing out a new program to buy used video games for store credit at some stores in the New York area, the national toy retailer told Kotaku today. “We are testing out a program at a couple of our stores in the New York area,” said Bob Friedland, senior public relations…
Starting next weekend you’ll be able to download a Colossal Pokemon Regigigas from Toys R Us on your DS. To get the free critter you just need to bring your DS and a copy of Pokemon Diamond or Pokemon Pearl to your local Toys R Us anytime from March 8 through March 21. Make sure…
The Playstation Blog sat down with Resistance: Retribution to talk about the upcoming Playstation Portable‘s multiplayer modes. The game includes five multiplayer modes: Team Deathmatch: Eliminate the players on the opposing team. The team with the highest score wins. Capture The Flag: Grab the opposing team’s flag and deliver it to your base to score…
Starting March 27 Konami will be start selling a collection of double packs for the Playstation Portable in the UK. The two-pack of games will keep their original packaging but will sell in a special slip case for £19.99. The first two double packs will be Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops and Silent Hill Origins,…
TABLE OF CONTENTS February 2009 Rare Spawn A Brief History of Getting Knocked Up In Video Games by AJ Glasser Fear And Loathing Down Under No, World Of Warcraft Has Not Been Banned In Australia by Luke Plunkett You’re Fired The Face of The New Gaming Economy by Brian Ashcraft Obsessive Game Design From Warcraft…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Where Special Effects Go When They Get Old… Busy, busy day. Wrapped up my Well Played column, worked a bit onK2 with Mike and reviewed Killzone 2, all while trying to resist the urge to spend the entire day immersed in Killzone 2 multiplayer gaming. Are you going to get…
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