When Axl Rose makes a date, you can trust it. If the lead singer of Guns n’ Roses says you can expect the decade-in-the-making album Chinese Democracy for Rock Band in February, ready your pen. Wait, sorry. Get a pencil, because it looks like the previously rumored release of Chinese Democracy for Rock Band and…
Xbox Live Arcade will be turf for an upcoming retro gang war as The Warriors get a second video game beat ’em up, thanks to Paramount Digital Entertainment. MTV Multiplayer has first details on the upcoming four-player brawler, which looks to be in the vein of classic Capcom and Konami side-scrolling beat ’em ups like…
Halo Wars! Yes, after publicly proclaiming that I would play the Ensemble Studios developed strategy game at CES, I walked away from the Las Vegas Convention Center unsatisfied. Why? The lines were too long. Now that I’ve got a review copy of the Xbox 360 game, I’ll give it a spin in the comfort of…
Microsoft’s public bragging about its success with Netflix adoption among Xbox Live subscribers did not go unnoticed by the press release conjurers at Sony. Which is unfortunate, really. So how does Sony respond? In a media “highlight,” one which gave us horrible flashbacks to this episode, Sony attempted to chip away at the Netflix service’s…
This week’s North American PlayStation Store update is no slouch, bringing a little something for everyone. Downloadable games, demos, freely downloadable goodies and… a little bit of sadness, better known as “Evil Clown” premium themes. But let’s focus on the positives, like the new Phantasy Star Portable demo (where’s my PSP charger?!) and the Burnout…
This Friday’s episode of GameTrailers TV promises us a look at two highly anticipated downloads for both Grand Theft Auto IV and Left 4 Dead, including exclusive footage of “what’s next” for the latter. We really hope that means that Valve will explain what that recently announced “Survival” gameplay mode is all about and clear…
Ubisoft’s upcoming Wii fighter Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up may be trying a little too hard to capitalize on its Game Arts pedigree in this new trailer. But, hey, this is Ubisoft. This teaser for the four-player waggle-filled brawler — from the developers of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and just recently officially announced — is…
Konami is expanding its horror franchise stable, reports Variety, picking up the orphaned video game based on the Saw movie franchise, abandoned by the closure of Brash Entertainment. Do try to contain your enthusiasm. Variety writes that the Saw video game, developed by Zombie Studios, is expected to ship alongside the sixth (sixth!) Saw movie,…
Sorry, but we won’t be playing StarCraft II, Diablo III or World of Warcraft at this year’s E3 expo. Activision will be there, but corporate sibling Blizzard, and its many in-development wares, will not. The Giant Bomb crew received a potent quotable confirmation from Blizzard reps today on the matter, clearly indicating that the developer…
Fans of Sega’s Virtua Tennis have one more reason to love 2009: Virtua Tennis 2009. According to Sega, not only does it have new players, but crocodiles, fruit and pirates as well. Those pirates will appear in the series’ trademark “Court Games,” the surreal mini-games that make Virtua Tennis so beloved. Fruit and crocodiles will…
Activision will once again throw tons of cash at the Guitar Hero franchise via NASCAR endorsement, as it sponsors cars at the Daytona 500 race and beyond promoting “upcoming Guitar Hero titles.” One of those titles, Guitar Hero World Tour, will get the NASCAR treatment courtesy of Aric Almirola #8 Chevy, which is expected to…
Namco Bandai’s latest game in the Tales series, Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 rocketed to the top spot in Japan in its debut week, while From Software’s Ninja Blade showed poorly. The Xbox 360 may have experienced a brief resurgence in Japan, following a series of high profile role-playing game releases late last…
Namco Bandai’s latest media update for Tekken 6 included more than just new screen shots. There’s a new trailer too! And, in the interest of luring in horny boys, its filled with inappropriate angles. We’ve rarely seen this many slow motion crotch shots (in a video game trailer), but we’re willing to overlook them in…
Activision has officially, undeniably announced that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be given a video game adaptation, bringing Michael Bay’s two-hour Summer explode-a-thon to every platform it currently has license to develop for. IGN writes that the game, currently slated for a June release alongside the movie, will be coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation…
Valve issued an update for Team Fortress 2 earlier this week, full of bug fixes and gameplay tweaks. One of the more substantial, was a change to TF2‘s “critical hits” system, which Valve explains. For those unfamiliar with how Team Fortress 2 handles “crits,” all you really need to know is that the game hands…
Oh, look. Namco Bandai has another kick and punch packed video game on the way, announcing Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network today. As Han Tao, you’ll attempt to reclaim the Star of Destiny from the ever-so-descriptively named Evil Overlord, kicking, punching and generally beating the stuffing…
Namco Bandai hit us with a six-part combo of new Tekken 6 screen shots today, each more bear fight-filled and eye-laser packed than the last. Oh, it’s Tekken alright. Crazy, insane Tekken. We really ought to run caption contests for these things, as whatever justification you, the reader, can provide as to why Paul would…
Looks like EA may be bringing the Battlefield series back to World War II, as listings — and a supposed announcement — for Battlefield 1943: Pacific indicate a New York Comic Con showing. Talk of another Battlefield title due in 2009 has been swirling on the on the official EA forums, with users rooting out…
Hudson Entertainment is giving WiiWare its first (brief pause) first-person shooter in Onslaught, which also happens to be the first online, 4-player cooperative first-person shooter on WiiWare. In other words, FIRST! Onslaught is pitched by Hudson as a futuristic sci-fi shooter, pitting a squad of up to four players in a battle against “mysterious creatures”…
Former Sonic Team head honcho Yuji Naka is a Dreamcast fanboy. And he was very much against Sega’s decision to bail on the hardware business, to kill off the Dreamcast, he says in a new interview. Naka, now at Sega funded start up Prope, tells Kikizo “until the very final moments, I was really against…
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