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UncategorizedBloodRayne Is Doing Its Best Castlevania Impression
When BloodRayne: Betrayal was announced so close to April 1, we met the reveal with a healthy dose of scepticism. A 3D brawler turned into a 2D platformer? Seemed a little weird, since it normally works the other way around. But here it is, in all its 2D, cel-shaded glory. A comment on the clip’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
PS3 Sales Up, Sony Makin’ Money
Over the past twelve months, Sony’s PlayStation group has made a profit of USD$430 million with PS3 sales up to 14.3 million consoles, an increase over the past year. You can read more, and see graphs, at Sony. [Sony]
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
The PSP’s Quickest (And Most Charming) Game Coming to Xbox Live
Back in 2009, PSP game Half-Minute Hero dazzled players with thirty-second bursts of gameplay and old school graphics. There is a sequel, out this August in Japan on the PSP. But don’t fret console gamers, Half-Minuter Hero is coming to Xbox Live. The game is called Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax and will be…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
The PSP Is Trying to Go Out with a Bang
With the PlayStation Portable on the brink of total irrelevance in the US, Sony is beginning the process of putting its last bundles together, which for anyone who hasn’t yet got a PSP and won’t be in the market for the upcoming NGP, aren’t too bad a deal! The first of these is the “Limited…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedMinecraft Links Help Indie Game Sell 200,000 Copies In Nine Days
Terraria is a 2D game that has often (and somewhat unfairly) been called “Minecraft in 2D”. Not that the four developers care, since they’ve just sold 200,000 copies in a little over a week. Spurred on by word-of-mouth, much of it stemming from the game’s supposed similarity to Minecraft, the $10 game was first released…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Horrible Family Secret of Japan’s Anime Envoy
Taro Aso was a shit prime minister, but in incidental things that count—shooting guns, collecting comics, and booze— Taro Aso excels. This week, he was named Japan’s official anime envoy to China. Cut off from Japanese pop culture for decades, China is getting into anime like Gundam in a big way. From June 8 to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedSouth Park Shreds EA Sports and Peter Moore
South Park never goes harder than when it goes after hypocrisy, and tonight, its allegorical tale involved the NCAA and the obscene profits reaped from what is essentially free labor. Yet EA Sports—and, of all people, its president, Peter Moore—ended up getting it the worst. Breaking down tonight’s show TV Guide-like, Cartman’s latest scheme is…
By Owen Good Published May 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Microsoft is (Not) Helping an Xbox Live Hacker “Develop His Talent” [Update]
Around a month ago, Xbox Live users were alerted to a phishing scam on popular online title Modern Warfare 2. You’d think this was the work of nefarious group, but no, it was a single perpetrator. Who Microsoft is now working with? According to Microsoft’s Paul Rellis, the culprit responsible has been caught, and discovered…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2011 -
UncategorizedDragon’s Dogma Gameplay Footage Is All About Killing Giant Animals
You know, I only just realised that Dragon’s Dogma is Capcom finding an excuse to put its Monster Hunter expertise to work in a game like Dragon Age This gameplay clip starts off fairly ho-hum, a few arrows here and there, and then WHAM, GIANT GRIFFIN. And then things get really interesting. Dragon’s Dogma is…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallSorry, Everyone, It’s Time to Talk About the Wing Commander Movie
When people look back on films based on video games, they tend to skew towards the good (Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia) or the bad (Mario, Double Dragon). They don’t talk about the greats because there haven’t been any. And they don’t talk about Wing Commander because it’s just too damn painful. Wing Commander, if…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2011 - Uncategorized
Backbreaker Studio Hits the Ice With Icebreaker for the iPhone
First spied in development seven months ago, Icebreaker will arrive on the iTunes App Store next week as a hockey-style complement to Backbreaker, the football title whose “Tackle Alley” minigame saw tremendous success as an iPhone port. Icebreaker mimics “Tackle Alley” (which became Backbreaker: Tackle Alley and Backbreaker: Vengeance for the iPhone) by pitting you…
By Owen Good Published May 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedHey! Look At What’s New In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
The Nintendo 3DS remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time does more than just give the Nintendo 64 original a visual makeover and bring it into magical stereoscopic 3D. It has (at least) three potentially exciting new features. As shown in the video above, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D has…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
New Features Aren’t All Free in NCAA Football 12
There may not be any optimal time to tell gamers about all the microtransactions and DLC for which they can expect to pay extra in an upcoming release. But the official reveal of a game’s main features – the stuff folks expect to come with the $59.99 retail price – would probably be the least…
By Owen Good Published May 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Check Isn’t in the Mail
The Postal Service lost something I mailed a week ago to my Dad. This kind of an occurrence may not be any less rare today than it was before e-mail and other services, but it’s definitely losing credibility as an excuse. “It must have gotten lost in the mail,” is never believable when money is…
By Owen Good Published May 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Chinese Prisoners ‘Forced’ to Play Video Games, Farm Your MMO Gold
Inmates at China’s Jixi prison labor camp are tasked with backbreaking, mind-numbing work: mining rock, carving chopsticks by hand, and assembly line work. Some are even forced to endure grueling video game play, farming for gold in online games. That’s no joke. The Guardian reports on the conditions at a Chinese labor camp that allegedly…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
Mega Man vs. Wolverine vs. Spider-Man vs. Batman
New comics come out in comics shops and on some of your favorite portable devices each Wednesday. Not all of them are worth your time and money, but some are. Some are even about video games (others are about Wolverine). As I do each week, I’ve got some recommendations: Comics You Should Consider Buying (from…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 25, 2011 -
UncategorizedGet Trenched, That World War I Tower Defense Mech Game, on June 22
The people at Double Fine Productions, of Brutal Legend, Costume Quest and Stacking fame, are releasing their next game in June. That’s Trenched, remember? You don’t remember? Well, if you’re not in the mood to click the link to Kotaku‘s preview of Trenched, it’s an entertaining blend of tower defense tactics, third-person shooting from the…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
NHL 2K12 Ain’t Happening
2K Sports yesterday confirmed that NHL 2K12 will not be published on any console, likely ending that simulation’s run. Unable to gain traction against EA Sports’ NHL series, 2K put NHL 2K on a one-year hiatus last year, ostensibly to return with a breakthrough game built on a two-year cycle. The series still published on…
By Owen Good Published May 25, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Flight of Joysticks
CURSE YOU RED BARON | French scientist, engineer and aviator Robert Esnault-Pelterie, inventor of joystick control in aircraft. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) I’m A Little in Love With My New iPad Arcade Machine Last night I sat in front of an arcade machine in a darkened room of my house and played ’80s…
By Brian Crecente Published May 25, 2011