Capybara Games‘ Critter Crunch for the PlayStation Network has more than just barf appeal, as one can glean from the puzzle game’s latest screens. It also has “poisonous” mushrooms and critter crushing anvils. Oh, and versus mode. The folks at Capy have passed on a new batch of screens from their downloadable PlayStation 3 game,…
The recently announced Ubisoft Toronto studio has a new boss, Assassin’s Creed producer Jade Raymond, Ubisoft announced today. She’ll be overseeing the new studio, focusing on “AAA games and new intellectual properties.” Raymond will be working under the “governance” of Yannis Mallat, CEO of Ubisoft’s Montreal and Toronto development studios, at Ubisoft Toronto which is…
Naughty Dog is finally offering details on Uncharted 2: Among Thieves‘ "Cinema Mode," a suite of machinima tools that lets PlayStation 3 owners replay, edit and tweak saved gameplay footage and share with friends. There’s nothing half-tucked about it. Justin Richmond, multiplayer designer on Uncharted 2, walks Machinima.com through the finer details of the game’s…
Xbox 360 owners can go on the offense of defense with this week’s Xbox Live Arcade update, as both tower defense game Defense Grid: The Awakening and multiplayer sea battle game Yo-Ho Kablamo arrive this Wednesday. Defense Grid: The Awakening, already available for the PC, offers a futuristic, single-player and story-driven experience with lots and…
Nintendo’s Masato Kuwahara, project lead on the Nintendo DSi hardware, revealed that games playable only on the latest revision Nintendo DS were in the works at this year’s GDC. Those first DSi-only games will hit this fall, sources tell Kotaku. Software that will only work on a Nintendo DSi will join titles playable on a…
Expect to see this television commercial for The Beatles: Rock Band more frequently than the insides of your eyelids this fall. Thank goodness it’s both interesting and technically impressive. While that close-up shot of John may border on slightly creepy, the blend of footage of the band and the people who could conceivably play The…
The still un-sexily named PlayStation 3 motion controller may have a feature or two you don’t yet know about. Thankfully, the PlayStation blog and creator of things neat Dr. Richard Marks are here to inform you. The PlayStation folks offer an insightful look at the research and development of the PS3’s motion control offering, the…
Japanese PlayStation 3 owners have been enjoying Ad Hoc Party for nearly a year now, but when will we get it here in North America? Maybe as early as next week? That’s when fighting game Fate/Unlimited Codes releases for the PlayStation Portable, according to the official PlayStation.blog. That game’s trailer promises that PSP owners can…
When Nintendo describes its software as “evergreen,” it means games like the Nintendo DS title Tomodachi Collection, which was released mid-June and sits atop this week’s Japanese software sales chart. The Mii collecting game beats out DS rival Dragon Quest IX to secure the top spot once again amid a non-eventful release week. Stuff like…
While neither game has been officially announced to the best of our knowledge, both Raystorm HD and Thexder NEO have recently been fully described by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board. So you can expect their respective North American announcements soon. Both Thexder NEO and Raystorm HD appear to be remakes of the 8-bit and 32-bit…
Electronic Arts’ recent attempt to “focus” Spore developer Maxis—which was a nicer way of saying some people got laid off—includes one of its more rant-ready folks, Chris Hecker, a Technology Fellow at the company. Remember him? If not, he’s probably best known—in addition to his contributions to Spore—for one of his Game Developers Conference talks,…
Not much activity in the Japanese hardware market these days, as the Nintendo DSi remains atop Media Create‘s weekly sales chart, with the PlayStation 3 an understandably distant third. Hey, when there are no PS3s to buy, the console can’t very well show itself in an impressive way in terms of console sales. Depleted stock…
While I was away in Germany and the Netherlands, a copy of Rock Band 2 “special edition” was shipped to my house. I already have the original full band set up, but thought a second was a “good” idea. It was actually just the solution to my broken drum set and the need for a…
This week’s North American PlayStation Store update is running just a little late. Technical difficulties, you see. Fortunately that tardiness has been largely made up for by way of the inclusion of new stuff to download. That includes the playable Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao—available in 3D!!—and a quartet of demos for Wet,…
When Sega of America opted for a January 2010 release date for Bayonetta—which hits Japan end-of-October—we thought “Oh, we’ll just import then.” According to Sega reps at Gamescom, that doesn’t sound like much of an option anymore. At our Bayonetta hands-off demo, we asked the Sega of Europe folks if the PlatinumGames developed action title…
Sony had a handful of its new minis available for the PSPgo available at Gamescom this week, including the platform puzzler Kahoots. For easy comparison’s sake, think of Kahoots along the same lines of Lemmings or echochrome. Your goal, like the goal of those aforementioned games, is to get the titular Kahoots to the exit,…
Resonance of Fate is role-playing game developer tri-Ace’s first game for Sega, its first not to be published by Japanese RPG giant Square Enix. It may also be the first Japanese role-playing game to feature dogs in neck ties. Sega reps at Gamescom said that Resonance of Fate is “not the traditional RPG” that one…
James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game is getting noticeably different treatment on the Wii, courtesy of publisher and developer Ubisoft. Like the Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 versions you’ll play as the alien Na’vi. But you won’t play the humans. Avatar for the Wii puts you in the role of a Na’vi warrior, meaning a…
Ubisoft had a newly playable copy of Red Steel 2 at Gamescom, its cowboy-samurai western now full of ninja and 360-degree Wii MotionPlus-powered sword swingin’. And I nearly had my delicate wrist snapped off playing the thing. After getting a brief overview of what’s new in Red Steel 2—including ninja, some fancy new moves like…
You’ve seen the best of what Gamescom’s varied halls had to offer, now see the rest—the PC gaming focused Hall 9, where NCSoft, Razer and numerous MMO vendors set up shop, and Hall 8, featuring Nintendo. Let’s take a quick journey through Halls 8 and 9, far faster than one could do it during one…
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