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What If The Xbox Kinect Virtual Child Simulator Is Great?
One of gaming’s big dreamers, game designer Peter Molyneux, showed us Project Milo — a controller-less game about a virtual boy — two Junes ago. There was potential. There were hitches. A year later, Milo’s made a lot of progress. In a just-released stage demo of Milo, Molyneux shows how the Milo project — which…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2010 -
Unusual Call of Duty: Black Ops Solo Campaign Hides Secrets
The line one of the makers of the next Call of Duty uses about the series is that these games are movies we can play. This one will be a war thriller that hides a mystery. A few weeks ago in New York, Josh Olin, community manager fort team creating November’s Call of Duty Black…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2010 -
Portal 2 Out In February
Portal 2, delayed from a 2010 release, won’t be out that far into 2011. The game will be out on February 9, according to a Tweet from the always-informed Geoff Keighley. He teases more on the game on Game Trailers TV this Friday. According to a Computer and Video Games report from Gamescom in Germany,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2010 -
Infamous 2 Hero Looks Like Himself Again In His Newest Trailer
Undoing a planned re-design for lead character Cole, Sucker Punch has a new trailer for 2011 PlayStation 3 game Infamous 2 for Gamescom this week. Cole looks good, so does the unusual style of this trailer — frozen gameplay. Neat. Click to view
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2010 -
How To Beat Your Friends In The Next Need For Speed While They’re Asleep
I like playing games with asynchronous multiplayer, but outside of Facebook, there aren’t many ways to compete against gaming friends in a non-simultaneous way. Thankfully, Criterion includes that sort of thing in their racing games. The video here shows the asynchronous multiplayer feature in the next Need For Speed, the first from Criterion. It was…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2010 -
Golden Sun Missing In Action For 2010?
Nintendo revealed the releases dates this morning for its big Wii and DS games that will be out in North America this fall. Missing among them was one for Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. Is the game slipping? We’re not sure. We’ve had a request in to Nintendo today to find out, and will let you…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2010 -
Spot Bulletstorm’s Four-Barreled Shotgun
As you watch this live gameplay demo from Germany today of next year’s Bulletstorm first-person shoter from Epic Games and People Can Fly, you’re listening for harsh language and looking for the four-barreled shotgun. And this demo’s obligatory end-of-demo massive boss is… bigger than all others?
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2010 -
The Sims Medieval Trailer Downplays The Dollhouse Torture
This Sims Medieval trailer is on odd one. It makes the gameplay seem heroic and noble, but when EA showed the game to reporters at Gamescom they knew what people will spend their time doing: torturing Sims. We all know that the Sims is the world’s favorite torture video game, yes? Ask anyone who plays…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2010 -
Talk Amongst Yourselves Delayed
So… Talk Amongst Yourselves. You know how this is usually a morning thing? Go toast a bagel and pretend it’s the morning. Um, I just wanted you to have more to talk about! Blame Gamescom. Thanks for the TAY image, reader TechTF. Everyone else, submit your own to #TAYpics
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2010 -
Rockstar Is In The Mood To Ban Red Dead Cheaters
The creators of his Western Red Dead Redemption “will be swiftly and indefinitely banishing from the world of Red Dead Redemption multiplayer all Gamertags and PSN IDs we’ve detected with hacked game saves” a week from today, they warn. Rockstar will have mercy on people who cheated for temporary boosts. But habitual cheaters are going…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2010 -
Resistance 3 Live-Action Trailer, Singing The Blues
Resistance 3 hits the PlayStation 3 next year. That’s Resistance, the Insomniac Games first-person shooter series that always looks good, plays solidly but has been accused of lacking personality. Watch the trailer. Things may have changed. There’s no gameplay here. No confirmation that Resistance 3 is even still a first-person shooter. We have an indication…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2010 -
New, Roomy PlayStation 3 Models Confirmed For North America
The leaked and now confirmed new versions of the PlayStation 3 coming to other markets are also coming to North America this fall. The next PS3 slim will be 160GB and sell for $299.99. A 320GB PS3 bundled with the September-launching PlayStation Move controller and a copy of Move game Sports Champions will be out…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2010 -
Resistance 3 Is Coming In 2011
Insominac Games just announced at Gamescom in Germany that Resistance 3 will be out on the PlayStation 3 in 2011. We first heard about the game in 2009, via… a billboard No gameplay was shown of the game. Instead, Gamescom press conference attendees got to see a live-action trailer that showed train tracks, dead cows,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2010 -
Co-Op Online Ratchet & Clank Game Hits In 2011
Insomniac Games may no longer be Sony-only developers, they are still backing Sony platforms. It’s a new Ratchet & Clank. At Gamescom in Germany, the studio just revealed Rachet & Clank: All 4 One. According to the Insomniac Twitter feed, the game is “4-player online and same screen drop in drop out co-op coming to…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2010
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