This weekend will be nothing but zydeco and zombies as I rack up the hours playing Left 4 Dead 2 multiplayer, hopefully finding a few Survivors via Xbox Live to play with. What may muck with those plans? More Modern Warfare 2. While it seems everyone on my Xbox Live friends list is playing that…
This week’s North American PlayStation Store update hit a little late yesterday, meaning our weekly recap is also running a little late. If only we could rewind time, as in this week’s PSN highlight Braid. PlayStation 3 owners who haven’t enjoyed Number None’s time twisting platformer should really drop the $14.99 USD and do so.…
TNA Wrestling fans will get their future fix of dramatic squared circle action courtesy of publisher Southpeak Interactive. The company has apparently looted the TNA Wrestling license from the corpse of Midway, responsible for TNA iMPACT!, pictured above. Southpeak will release TNA iMPACT: Cross the Line for PSP, PSPgo and Nintendo DS at an unspecified…
Naughty Dog’s PlayStation 3 exclusive Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, as expected, trounced the competition in October moving over a half-million copies, according to the NPD Group. But competitors Wii Fit Plus and Borderlands racked up impressive sales of their own. The month was packed with new software, including Forza Motorsport 3, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days…
Nintendo’s late September price cut on the Wii in the U.S. had a big impact on October’s sales, making the Wii the bestselling console in the country last month, after being outsold by the PlayStation 3 the previous month. The Wii moved more than a half-million units to consumers in the United States last month,…
Don’t be surprised if Naughty Dog‘s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves grabs the number one spot on today’s NPD Group sales chart. In fact, count on it, since PlayStation VP Phil Rosenberg says the game has already sold over million copies. The Senior Vice President of Business Development at Sony Computer Entertainment says that as of…
Because from what we’ve been hearing, New Super Mario Bros. Wii is no cake walk, especially in multiplayer games. Nintendo was nice enough to pass along some pre-release tips in video form, strategies that will definitely come in handy. While watching the creative use of Penguin Suit-spawned ice blocks and synchronized butt stomps, try not…
Last week‘s queen of Japan’s video game sales charts Bayonetta didn’t have the legs to stay on top for very long. Konami’s latest soccer game, World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010, is this week’s new software champ. Sega’s Bayonetta was reduced to an eighth place showing, falling behind perennial bestsellers like Pokemon, Wii Fit Plus and…
With New Super Mario Bros. Wii hitting this weekend, you’d think the bros would be on their best behavior. But cops are on the lookout for Mario and Luigi following an assault on a New York cabbie. Granted these may be Mario and Luigi lookalikes, given that the robbery and beatdown took place on Halloween…
Obviously, something Final Fantasy XIII is going down this Friday because even PlayStation Home is getting some love from Square Enix in the form of a “special, never-before-seen” video for the epically developed role-playing game. Since we’re expecting an announcement from Square Enix on the FFXIII front this Friday anyway—and expecting a North American release…
Final Fantasy XI stalwarts hotly anticipating starting the grind all over again in Square Enix’s newest MMO, Final Fantasy XIV, have two more character class updates to pore over, the Gladiator and Pugilist. The former specializes in swords and shields, specializing in close combat. The latter prefers to engage in even closer combat, using hand-to-hand…
Microsoft’s ban hammer may have whacked as many as one million Xbox 360 owners following a new wave of cracking down on modified consoles. That figure comes from InformationWeek who reports on the bans that effectively lock out consoles, not just Xbox Live gamertags, from playing games online. Microsoft spokesperson Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb warned…
Nintendo’s new DSi model—dubbed the DSi LL in Japan, DSi XL elsewhere—is huge. How huge? Nintendo of Japan’s new DSi LL promo video helps to illustrate just how huge, offering an attractive Japanese family to show scale. There’s not much to this recently released Japanese language clip, but it does show the Nintendo DSi LL…
With Electronic Arts cutting back in a major way, fans of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot are justifiably concerned about rumored layoffs at Mythic Entertainment, development home to those online multiplayer games. In a soothing letter to the community, Jeff Hickman, executive producer at Mythic, says that despite…
Plumber and princess recovery specialist Mario has secured the year’s most coveted game award, a silver medal from ASEFOSAM, Spain’s professional plumbers association. How convenient, given this weekend’s release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. We’re not trying to accuse ASEFOSAM of glomming on to Mario’s highly anticipate Wii release, but to honor Mario for…
Having problems getting online to play Modern Warfare 2, PlayStation 3 owners? You’re not the only one. The game is experiencing connectivity issues, but they’re not related to the software patch issued earlier today, says Infinity Ward. Robert Bowling, the developer’s creative strategist, says that server capacity is to blame, not the recent patch that…
The PlayStation 3 may follow in the Xbox 360 and Nintendo DSi’s footsteps, adding Facebook integration to the console’s Cross Media Bar, according to reportedly leaked images from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Images of PlayStation 3 dashboard screens spotted by ScrawlFX highlight a few possible additions coming in future firmware updates. Also rumored to be…
Hell rides in from the East. And it does so on black t-shirts, as Double Fine Productions, creators of metal epic Brütal Legend, summoning the powers of Brooklyn-based label Mishka NYC to deliver a pair of epically brutal tees. The Mishka NYC × Brütal Legend collaboration not only gives metalheads an opportunity to proudly display…
Amazon.com, hearing your cries for more Modern Warfare 2 coverage, brings word today that Infinity Ward’s newly released first-person shooter is the online retailer’s “biggest selling pre-order video game of all time.” Yes, it’s selling a lot! The latest Call of Duty kill-fest has overtaken Amazon’s previous pre-order record holder, World of Warcraft: Wrath of…
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