Developer Vector Unit is injecting a dose of downloadable content to its high speed motorboat racing game, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, with the forthcoming Tempest Pack. What’s new for the sequel to Midway’s classic racing game? Stuff! Specifically, three new race tracks: the volcanic Atlantis, Atlantis, the stormy Bermuda Triangle, and the exploding barrel-filled Castle Von…
Your regularly scheduled PlayStation Store update hit North America on Monday, a bit earlier than normal, thanks to some scheduled PlayStation Network maintenance. So let’s catch up on what’s new. Blade Kitten, DeathSpank, Sonic Adventure and a pair of PlayStation import titles lead the list of new additions, with a slew of PlayStation 3 demos…
The director of The Dark Knight and Memento wants to turn his latest film, the $750 million grossing Inception, into a video game. Just don’t expect it any time soon. Variety reports that Nolan has said “one thing we are looking at doing is developing a video game based on the world of the film,…
Your PlayStation 3 has just graduated to version 3.50, adding 3D Blu-ray support, more Facebook integration and better griefing reporting. More details at the official PlayStation.blog
The Tokyo Game Show is over. We’re home. We’re extremely sleepy. And we’d like for you to take this post by the reins and take it where you want to go. If that means, talking about TGS, so be it! Seriously, the commute via Friendly Airport Limousine to Narita Airport to LAX to home has…
PixelJunk Shooter 2, the sequel to Q-Games’ inventive PlayStation Network game, adds more than just light and acid to the list of new fluidic matter the developer is playing with. Bugs, bubbles and bullet hell also join the updated liquid arsenal. We’ve already experienced how PixelJunk Shooter 2 plays with the corrosive acids that spew…
When indie developer Jake Kazdal told me his studio’s game, the still in development Skulls of the Shogun, was heavily inspired by his love of Nintendo’s Advance Wars series, I was already on the hook. I was pleasantly surprised “inspired by” didn’t mean “a clone of.” While elements of Advance Wars are apparent in Skulls…
The battle between Sony and Nintendo in Japan is, once again, pretty darn even. Continued strong sales of the PSP gives Sony first place, with Nintendo’s DS doing what it does best: Sell! Sell! Sell! The PlayStation 3’s been ahead of the Wii for a little while now, at least on a weekly basis. Can…
Describing Konami’s new action-horror shoot ’em up NeverDead is something of a challenge for producer and game designer Shinta Nojiri. It’s a game that might require some re-education, due to its rather unique gameplay system. The basics are that NeverDead’s main character, Bryce, is immortal. He’s been that way for 500 years. And while age,…
Capcom isn’t the only Japanese game publisher ready, willing and thrilled to sell its licensed wares to Tokyo Game Show attendees. Square Enix always has a commanding presence at TGS, a space loaded with high quality crap for purchase. Whether you’re in the market for perfumes that will make you smell like a Final Fantasy…
On Sunday, Tokyo Game Show comes to a close. It also brings about day two of hot cosplaying action from artists around the globe. And by hot we mean it literally—we’ve never seen TGS cosplayers perspire like this. We braved the heat along with dozens of Lightnings from Final Fantasy XIII and tougher men in…
Suddenly in need of a new demon slaying action hero? Perhaps one with white hair? Maybe you should sign on for Knights Contract, Namco Bandai’s new action game starring the blade-wielding and burly Heinrich and his bewitching partner Gretchen. At the very least, Knights Contract is going to features some gorgeous pre-rendered cinematics on its…
THQ offered us a peek at a playable version of its downloadable Red Faction spin-off, the four-player vehicular combat action game Red Faction: Battlegrounds, at this week’s Tokyo Game Show. What did we learn? Well, not too much more beyond what was featured in the downloadable game’s debut trailer. Red Faction: Battlegrounds is a frantic,…
Sony is releasing a limited edition version of its popular (in Japan) PlayStation Portable, one designed to be easier on players’ thumbs and to capitalize on the highly anticipated release of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd. Let’s have a look… The new PSP analog nub on the limited edition features a concave design and a textured…
Well, it has a blow-up doll grenade. Is that loco enough for you, hombre? What if I told you that Gun Loco pits bizarre interstellar criminals based on vinyl figures against each other in mortal combat? And that Square Enix is responsible? That’s about as crazy as it gets. Having played Gun Loco, a third-person,…
D3 Publisher has made it 100% official—Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon is coming to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next spring, a chance to shoot bugs. Giant bugs! Thousands of them!! Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon touts an arsenal more than 150 weapons strong. Along with “four upgradeable armor sets,” D3 Publisher has a…
Apes go wild, again, in Furi Furi! Sarugechu—or Ape Escape Shake! Shake!, if you prefer—the first game in the monkey-snatching series to utilize Sony’s new PlayStation Move controller. The goal? Grab monkeys! With the Move! The Move-enabled version of Ape Escape puts things in first-person perspective, the motion controller acting as a floating net—to grab…
On Saturday, the public comes to Tokyo Game Show to play video games—and play dress up, posing for hours in Cosplay Alley. We spent a few hours in the battlegrounds of TGS cosplay and returned with this report. We’ll have more expert level cosplay from Japanese costume artists and those abroad soon, but while we…
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