Capcom’s plans for Street Fighter IV downloadable content are expansive… get it? They include a free Championship Mode expansion pack as well as alternate costume packs which will sell for $4 a pop. The Championship Mode Expansion Pack, which Capcom says will be out “post launch”, will include a replay mode, two new points systems…
Danny Johnson, Wednesday, set a new world record in Guitar Hero III, not only toppling the previous record set last August in Minnesota, but also landing a story in the New York Times. Seth Schiesel reports that Johnson recorded a score of 973,954 in a roughly seven-minute rendition of DragonForce’s Through the Fire and Flames…
The long-talked-about, much-anticipated Left 4 Dead expansion pack, first mentioned on Kotaku, hits the PC and Xbox 360 this spring. The L4D Survival Pack introduces a new multiplayer game mode entitled, Survival, plus two complete campaigns for Versus Mode, Valve announced today. They also say that a Critic’s Choice Edition of the game is heading…
Last month we put your minds at ease about Bionic Commanding, getting Capcom to tell us that the game will be coming out before this winter. Now we have an actual month. The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game will both be hitting this May, while the PC version will be available…
I loved Killzone 2, but don’t take my early impressions of it, go grab a demo of the game yourself and tell us what you think. Of course it’s only available to European readers and people who can put on a good cockney accent, via PSN duplicity.
Accessory maker Logic3 just released a half dozen colored nunchuk minis for the Wii. But don’t you dare call them nunchuks, because these bad boys are “FunChuks”… seriously or they’ll sue you. Ok maybe they won’t sue you, but making colorful knock-offs for Nintendo’s money-printing Wii is serious, big business. The FunChuks will come in…
Cinemash, a new video series that will feature film and TV actors re-enacting their dream parts, is headed to the Zune and, perhaps, the Xbox 360 Marketplace. Zune is co-developing the show along with MEAN magazine. So what scenes would you like to see reenacted by which actors? Besides Christopher Walken as Han Solo. Technology…
Popular Loco-Roco-esque iPhone game Rolando is getting a lite version, founder of the game’s publisher revealed earlier this week. Neil Young, founder of iPhone game developer and publisher Ngmoco, wrote in Facebook that Rolando Lite would be “coming soon.” While he didn’t offer up any other details about the new version of Rolando, lite versions…
Following in the footsteps of their California kin, India’s Bollywood has started courting the video game market with their own movie stars. A few weeks ago Indian film distributor Eros International released a 3D video game inspired by their hit thriller Ghajini and earlier this week a mobile game based on the classic Indian novella…
Here’s a glimpse at 24-person online multiplayer BattleField 1943 announced earlier this morning by Electronic Arts. If you’re at New York Comic Con this weekend you may want to go check it out.
Electronic Arts has been on a roll lately, churning out quite a selection of new and innovative titles over the past year. Sure it cost them, but building a new franchise isn’t cheap and at least some of their investments look like they will be paying off in the long run. But what about the…
With the Resident Evil 5 preview embargo lifting today expect lots of funny tidbits about the game, and how it plays, to hit throughout the day. We’ll be posting our own impressions of the game a bit later in the day. To hold you over here’s part one of Gametrailer’s Resident Evil retrospective.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is coming to the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 this winter and Battlefield 1943 to PC, PSN and Live this summer, Electronic Arts confirmed this morning. In this Bad Company sequel, B company fight their way through snowy mountaintops, dense jungles and dusty villages. With a heavy arsenal of deadly…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Did Gmail Change The Location Of The Delete Button? Man, this year has been rough. This season has been rough. Did you see that THQ plans to layoff 600 people? I can’t imagine what it must be like in places central to game development right now, like San Francisco. It’s…
We’ve talked in detail about Grand Theft Auto IV’s upcoming downloadable episode, but the Associated Press breaks down the music the game will feature, including at least one debut. The Lost and Damned expansion pack will include new music along with the hours of new play, AP reports. Among the artists signed up to include…
If you’re obsessed with Fable II and cartography, then you’re in luck. The fine folks at Lionhead Studios have whipped up a wall-hugging map of the land of Albion for you. The Albion map weighs in at 40 MB and, once printed at full size, measures 4,000 pixels by 4,000 pixels. Albion on the map
Troy Victorino, the ringleader behind the Florida Xbox murders, says that the trial that ended in a death sentence for him wasn’t fair. His attorney Tuesday told the Florida Superme Court that Victorino should have been tried separately from co-defendants, who blamed the now 32-year-old, for their involvement. Victorino was convicted in 2006 on six…
Gametrailers sits down with Uncharted 2’s director, Bruce Straley, to talk about lead Nathan Drake‘s motivation in the latest action title. I was a HUGE fan of the first game, so I can’t wait to see what Naughty Dog with Uncharted this time round. More from Straley on Uncharted 2 in this second clip, where…
The website Killzone2.com, it turns out, isn’t owned by Sony, but the websites Killzone and Killzone3 are, MTV Multiplayer reports in this look at domain name shenanigans. Multiplayer reports that Killzone2 is actually owned by Vegard Aure of GameDiscovery.com, which also owns DevilMayCry 2 and DevilMayCry3 websites. And apparently neither Sony nor Capcom have contacted…
Columbine: A True Crime Story offers a fresh perspective on the Columbine shooting, digging into the intricate web of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s lives, from video games to team sports, and how they went from cub scouts to killers. I used to work with Jeff Kass, the author of the book, at the Rocky…
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