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My Highlight Of Red Dead Redemption Is…This Song
Anyone who’s played Red Dead Redemption should instantly recognise this song. It’s one of the highlights, not just of an amazing soundtrack, but of the entire game itself. If you haven’t played the game, and want to, I’d actually recommend you not hit play. A YouTube clip can’t do the “experience” justice. You’ll hear it…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2010 -
New Kingdom Hearts Game Will Be At E3
E3 may well be full of unexpected surprises, but one thing that’s for sure is we’ll see a new Kingdom Hearts game. Series director Tetsuya Nomura was interviewed in the latest issue of Game Informer, and while he stopped short of saying that one of two KH games currently in development is Kingdom Hearts 3,…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2010 -
Microsoft Changing Xbox 360 Box Art
As we get closer to the release of Project Natal, we get closer to the day the Xbox 360 makes its biggest push yet for an image makeover. Leading the way will be…new box art. Since the 360’s launch, every single game released on the system has featured the above white stripe running across the…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2010 -
Rumor: 3DS “Close To” 360, PS3 Graphics
Since the Game Boy Advance was a Super Nintendo, and the DS was a Nintendo 64, most people expect the upcoming 3DS to have the horsepower of a GameCube. IGN say that may be under-selling the machine somewhat. The website reports “Several developers that have experienced 3DS in its current form have reported, off the…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2010 -
First Look At New Red Faction Game
Red Faction Armageddon is the follow-up to last year’s surprise hit, Guerilla. Those hoping for more free-wheeling action under a Martian sky may be in for a rude shock. The game’s instead gone underground, having made a sharp turn at Survival Horror Boulevard. Sweeping vistas are being swapped out for underground chambers, and while this…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 -
Vanquish Gameplay Trailer Is A Disco Inferno
Vanquish, the upcoming shooter from Platinum Games and Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, sounded like Gears of War on an acid trip. This gameplay trailer only confirms that suspicion. The third-person viewpoint and Space Marine characters may look familiar to Western shooter fans, but everything else looks like a breath of fresh, Japanese air. Dull…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 -
Half-Life Has Never Looked This Cute
Wolf-Shadow77 has been doing these little Half-Life cartoons for a few years now, but only recently have they really hit their stride, showing Gordon Freeman’s universe in a way we’re not exactly accustomed to seeing it. The short animations use actual in-game sound clips, but then throw up visuals that upon first viewing, don’t exactly…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 -
See Fallout: New Vegas In Action
You may want to hit “mute”, but even in silence it’s probably still worth watching this Fallout: New Vegas clip, which features nothing but actual in-game footage. It’s…Fallout 3 in a new location, so it won’t exactly take your breath away, but fans sick of Washington should appreciate the new environments. I also was not…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 -
Lawsuit Filed Against Final Fantasy XIII
Daniel Wolf has filed a class-action lawsuit against both Sony and Square Enix, claiming that Final Fantasy XIII has caused “severe and widespread damage” to PlayStation 3 consoles. Wolf reckons that freezes some players have run into while playing the game have “caused their PS3 consoles to freeze and become totally and permanently inoperable.” “Both…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2010 -
360 Guide
Halo: Reach – After honing its skills over the course of Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, and ODST, Bungie brings us the definitive Halo experience. Dead Rising – One man, three days, 55,000 zombies. Can you survive and make it out of the mall? Grand Theft Auto IV – It may drag in…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2010 -
Team Fortress 2 Gets Real
If Valve was ever going to make a movie based on Team Fortress 2, we’d hope it was animated. If some studio executive insisted it be live action, however, we could tolerate it looking like this. Greg Peltz and Ryan Rasmussen may look like they’re late to the Team Fortress 2 cosplay party, which seemed…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2010 -
The First Video Game On The Cover Of Fangoria Magazine
Fangoria, the magazine that has been servicing horror fans the world over for over 30 years, has never had a video game on its cover. Until now. Yes, it’s hard to believe that for all the Resident Evils and Silent Hills and even Alone in the Darks of the world, no game has ever been…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2010 -
A First, Brief Look At Guitar Hero 6
Here, courtesy of music magazine Kerrang, is our first real look at footage from the upcoming Guitar Hero 6. Well, it’s your first look at some pre-rendered scenes showing the series’ trademark characters turning into monsters of rock. No real gameplay footage to be seen, but then, it’s Guitar Hero. You know what you’re getting…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2010 -
The Video Game Alphabet
A is for Apple. B is for Bastard. C is for Carrot, and D is for…DualShock 2? It is in “consolefont”, an alphabet (well, a font to be precise) designed by Dutchman Varun Vachhar, a student at the Royal Academy of Arts. Squint and you’ll see that all 26 letters, 10 numbers and 3 symbols…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2010 -
Street Fighters Find Facebook
It’s taken them long enough, but the World Warriors of Street Fighter II have finally found their way onto Facebook. And what are they doing? What everyone else does: flirt and play Farmville. Dorkly have put together this highlight reel, showing what would happen were the likes of Ryu, Ken and Balrog to actually take…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2010 -
3D To Be Bigger Than Motion Controls, Apparently
I don’t think I remember the last time a “trend” in entertainment technology generated such widespread loathing as 3D has in the past six months. If you’re one of the haters, brace yourself, because it’s only going to get worse. Going by what a number of publishers have told trade site MCV, it seems 3D…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2010 -
Mario’s Great And Terrible Secret
This won’t be news to anyone that knows enough about Mario to win a pub trivia night on the flora or the Mushroom Kingdom, but still. The delivery of this secret is as great as the secret itself. Yes, the clouds in Mario are the same as the bushes, just in different colours. Shocking, but…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2010 -
Rock Band Creators Working On A…Dancing Game?
Harmonix, the studio behind both the original Guitar Hero and Rock Band, could be working on something a little different at the moment: a dance game, built around Microsoft’s Project Natal. So says Game Informer, who report that a recent run of dance song licenses awarded to Harmonix only add further weight to the rumour.…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2010
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