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The Comic-Con 2009 Schedule: Just The Games
The annual San Diego Comic-Con isn’t just about comic book culture. It’s the mecca for all things nerdy and obsessive, including video games. This year’s gaming presence at the convention is impressive, not to mention regularly double-booked. Expect games like Gears of War, Assassin’s Creed II, Halo, Bayonetta and Dead Space Extraction to get prominent…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 13, 2009 -
Reviews
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Review: Rebel Yell
Guilty Gear creators Arc System Works have, after churning out sequel after confusingly titled sequel to the fighting franchise they’re best known for, started fresh with BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, a 2D fighting game that’s wholly original. BlazBlue‘s blend of high-resolution, gorgeously animated sprite based fighters and three dimensional backgrounds makes for a stunning presentation. Pretty…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 13, 2009 -
Warner Bros. Now Owns Midway, Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat, This Is Vegas and the Midway trademark, as of today, are owned by Warner Bros., with the media conglomerate having completed the purchase of “substantially all of the assets” of the Chicago headquartered company. Where does that leave Midway? While the name may have changed, a company spokesperson told Kotaku today that “Midway…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 10, 2009 -
New Game Informer Unleashes Rage
id Software hasn’t shown much of its id Tech 5 powered Rage, the post-apocalyptic first-person shooter-slash-racer it announced almost two years ago. That’s about to change, thanks to the newest issue of Game Informer. Rage won’t be out until 2010, according to id’s Tim Hollenshead, meaning this summertime preview of the game will still mean…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 10, 2009 -
Analyst Sees StarCraft II Inevitably Delayed To 2010
Blizzard set its sights on one “front line release” for 2009, a title that we expected to be StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first of three StarCraft II games. One analyst isn’t so sure Blizzard can make it. The day after Activision pushed back sci-fi first person shooter Singularity, Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 10, 2009 -
TMNT: Turtles In Time Re-make Knocked Back By ‘Splosion Man
Here’s the bad news: the Xbox Live Arcade remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time has been pushed back, now no longer the first entry in Microsoft’s “Summer of Arcade” promotion. Now the good. You’ll be playing Twisted Pixel’s swell-looking Splosion Man much earlier than previously planned, on July 22nd, according to the…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 10, 2009 -
Valve Brings Left 4 Dead 2 To Comic-Con, Reveals “Swamp Fever”
Electronic Arts and Valve will be revealing all-new Left 4 Dead 2 content at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, including the new campaign “Swamp Fever,” darkly pictured above. Where and when can you play it? The “where” is the EA Gaming Lounge Presented by Xbox 360 at the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter Hotel. The…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 10, 2009 -
Japanese Hardware Sales News Is Good News For Nintendo
Thanks to a few chart-topping hits—Wii Sports Resort and Tomodachi Collection—the Wii and Nintendo DS had a good week in Japan, each platform seeing a boost in weekly hardware sales. The same goes for the PSP. Actually, it was a pretty good week for everyone, as hardware sales were up all over—with the exception of…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 10, 2009 -
Rock Band Weekly Updates Now In Three Part Harmony
MTV Games has accomplished what we once thought impossible, releasing a single, catch-all notification about downloadable track updates to Rock Band for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PSP and Wii. Brace for massive lists! Not only do we get the regular Friday update on what’s new and forthcoming for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 10, 2009 -
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Thank God it’s Friday. This has been a hell of a week, one I hope to forget with the help of thousands of Terran Marines dying at the claws of my Zerg swarm in a few games of StarCraft. I foolishly purchased a digital copy of the game via the Blizzard Online Store a few…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 10, 2009 -
Scribblenauts, As Hilariously Explained By The ESRB
5TH Cell’s Scribblenauts is an amazing piece of E3 award-winning game design, letting the player summon almost anything they can think to write on the Nintendo DS touchscreen. Despite being rated “Everyone 10+” the game features some potentially objectionable content. Perhaps most objectionable are the things one can do in Scribblenauts when babies, steak and…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 9, 2009 -
Reggie: Be Patient, The Wii Vitality Sensor Will “Wow” You
Nintendo’s announcement of the Wii Vitality Sensor at E3 was met with some amount of befuddlement and a heap of “WTF?” But Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime says, eventually, you will say “Wow, I get it.” Reggie tells Fast Company that the same confusion—and maybe even some mockery—followed the introduction of the…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 9, 2009 -
Konami Says Let’s Walk It Out
The Wii is about to get another workout from publisher Konami, seeking a bigger slice of the console’s fitness hungry userbase with Walk It Out, the game that brings the thrill of walking outside to your living room. With a soundtrack that spans more than a hundred songs, players will… well, they’ll walk. But that…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 9, 2009 -
Alien Breed Evolution Evokes Fond Amiga Memories Later This Year
Worms creators Team17 Software formally announced its plans to release Alien Breed Evolution, an Unreal Engine 3-powered remake of its Amiga top-down shooter. As the original Alien Breed is now 18-years-old, some of you may be too young to remember it. Think Gauntlet meets Aliens. Or, you know, think Alien Syndrome. (No, don’t think of…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 9, 2009 -
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Goes Free
Bethesda Softworks is doing its fans a solid today by giving away one of its older games, the second in the Elder Scrolls series, via its web site. Enjoy The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall for the low price of absolutely free. The only thing it’ll cost you is 148 megabytes of hard drive space, a…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 9, 2009 -
PlayStation Store Update: Go Robo!
You shan’t be wanting for downloadable games after this week’s North American PlayStation Store update, especially if you call yourself an XS Junior League Soccer fan. I know you’re out there! PlayStation 3 owners now have access to Buzz Jr. Robo Jam and Battlefield 1943, the latter of which we hope holds up! Two games…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 9, 2009 -
Wii Sports Resort Sales Pass 500,000 In Japan
Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort is ensuring that Wii MotionPlus penetration is off to a good start in Japan, with the Wii game moving another 150,000 copies in its second week on the market. That puts the Wii Sports sequel at more than a half million copies sold, according to Media Create, a feat sure to…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 9, 2009 -
Hey, Prototype’s Cheap Today!
Attention, budget conscious gamers, Amazon.com is giving you a chance to snag a copy of Prototype on the cheap. Well, maybe not cheap, but extremely reasonable. The PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC game is your deal of the day. Fahey seemed to like it enough in his Prototype review. And if you happened to…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 9, 2009 -
Trials HD Looks Beautiful, Painful
Regrettably, I did not get to play RedLynx’s XBLA game Trials HD at E3 2009. But some of my close, E3-attending friends did, gushing about how addictive and exciting it was. They didn’t tell me how painful it looked. This Trials HD “Emotion” trailer helps to illustrate why I never ride my motorcycle near bombs,…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 8, 2009 -
New Tornado Outbreak Screens Touch Down
Konami and Loose Cannon Studios’ Tornado Outbreak lands this September, causing destruction on the Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. You might recall the game from its previous title, Zephyr: Rise of the Elementals. Or maybe you don’t. Regardless, the game obviously features terrible weather, which you’ll control, causing destruction amidst “humor filled missions and…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 8, 2009
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