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UncategorizedSee StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm In Action For the First Time
Blending campaign gameplay and scenes from the previously revealed cinematic teaser, here’s our first peek at StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, the second chapter in Blizzard’s ongoing space war trilogy. Watch Banelings evolve! See Zerg swarm! Witness the destruction of the Protoss on the planet Kaldir! Meet Abathur and Izsha, your Zerg buddies! Read…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 31, 2011 - Uncategorized
New StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Screen Shots, Annotated For Your Pleasure
New in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is the option to choose a “Battle Focus” for Kerrigan, the hero character of the campaign. Up to four Battle Focuses, each with five special abilities and attributes, will be available. Only two, Spec Ops and Corruption, were playable during a recent hands-on preview event In StarCraft…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 31, 2011 - Uncategorized
Hands On With StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm‘s Campaign, Now With More RPG and Space Yetis
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is a mutated beast of last year’s real-time strategy game infused with traces of point and click adventure. For StarCraft II‘s first expansion, the second chapter in Blizzard’s trilogy, the game is getting a dose of role-playing game elements. The evolutionary leap in Heart of the Swarm focuses on…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 31, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Fallout MMO Might Not Survive the Coming Apocalypse
The Fallout MMO, which has been chugging along for a while now with seemingly little progress made, is now in danger of going under completely as the game’s developers stare down the barrel of a rusty, post-apocalyptic gun. Interplay, which has been around for decades, is a few million in the hole at the moment,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2011 - Uncategorized
Not One Space Pirate, a Whole Squad of Them
They’re pirates in space. But they’ve got more than guns and swords. They’ve got cell phones and groovy collars. Arrgh! Earlier this year, the 35th Super Sentai show debuted on Japanese television. In the West, the Super Sentai series is known as Power Rangers and features a “sentai” or “battle squad” of color-coded super heroes.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 31, 2011 -
UncategorizedIf Portal Was a Movie, It Would Look This Good
This is Outside Aperture, a fan flick based on the aftermath of the first Portal game. It makes the assumption that, rather than being dragged back into Aperture, hero Chell escapes and finds a new home. Where she can bake. It was made by these guys, and really, get a cup of tea and settle…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2011 - Uncategorized
Uncharted 3‘s Beta Wanders Out of the Desert Next Month
Beginning on June 28, certain PlayStation 3 owners will be given access to a multiplayer beta for the upcoming Uncharted 3 Those certain users are those who picked up a preorder voucher from inFamous 2 or are PlayStation Plus subscribers. Sadly, for everyone else, the beta won’t kick off until a week later, on July…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallRemembering Capcom’s Great Nintendo Promise / Betrayal
Capcom and Nintendo have always had a rather close relationship. In 2002, though, the pair became blood brothers. Or so people thought. That was the year the infamous “Capcom Five” were announced by the Osaka-based publisher, a range of titles seemingly designed to give Nintendo’s fledgling GameCube a shot in the arm, and which ended…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2011 - Uncategorized
The PlayStation Network Should be Fully Armed and Operational by the End of the Week
Sony just announced that the PSN, down since April in the wake of an attack by hackers, will be fully restored (for most regions) by the end of the week. The only regions where it won’t be 100% back will be Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. For everyone else, that means the following suite…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Learn a Little About Call Of Duty’s Online Subscription Plans
Call of Duty, as has long been predicted/expected, is set to introduce a monthly subscription fee for its multiplayer users. Launching as an online service, rather than a standalone product, Call of Duty Elite will be part of Modern Warfare 3 (and future titles) when its released in November, and will include the option of…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2011 -
UncategorizedWill Sony’s Welcome Back Campaign Hurt or Help?
Developer Housemarque was supposed to release multiplatform title Outland on the PSN in late April, but the network was hacked. The game’s release was pushed back. Outland is a unique digital title that’s been getting rave reviews. In the wake of the PSN hack, the game might be getting something else: lost in the shuffle.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Here, Have Some Download Insurance
In case you forget, GameStop adds it to your shopping cart. The US$3.95 download insurance is a back up copy for future digital game download. That future is a short one, because the insurance expires after 18 months. Know the best download insurance? Steam What is this crap Gamestop? [Reddit via Boing Boing]
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Which Limited Edition PS3 Do You Fancy?
Japan is getting a new custom PS3, a limited Tales of Xillia one. This isn’t the first limited PS3 for Japan. There have been others. For example, Metal Gear Solid 4 got a “Gun Metal” PS3, while Yakuza got a yakuza-y one. Final Fantasy XIII got a white and pink job, and Gran Turismo 5…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Report: Mark Wahlberg Won’t Be in Uncharted Flick
Director David O. Russell dropped out of Uncharted. He’s taking his goofy-sounding script and Mark Wahlberg with him. Wahlberg was slated to star in Russell’s cinematic take on Uncharted, which was about “a crime family that metes out justice in the world of art and antiquities” and which didn’t sound like Uncharted According to the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
You May be Suffering From WASD Syndrome. Or Xbox Hypertrophy!
Or not, since these aren’t real conditions. But the Game Arthritis series of kind of makes us wish they were real. After all, scars tell a story, and it’s about time video gaming gave us more impressive ones than just a calloused thumb. Game Arthritis is a gallery by Matteo Bittanti and IOCOSE. There’s some…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2011 -
UncategorizedJedis Are Such Assholes
Some Jedi are unnervingly good. Others are evil to their very core. And others, well, they’re just bros, hangin’ out, bein’ assholes. If the humour and special effects seem a little better than your standard YouTube fare, this is another Facerocker joint. In this case, a sequel to last year’s just as awesome Jedi A-Holes
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
2011’s Best Looking Japanese Game Still has a Stupid Title
Dragon’s Dogma sounds rotten. It doesn’t roll off the tongue, and it’s ridiculous. It sounds like a title created by someone who just got a Thesaurus. If these screenshots are anything to go by, though, the game looks stunning. The game, a role-playing title, is from the Devil May Cry team. Read Kotaku‘s eyes-on impressions…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
Hold Your Horses on PlayStation 4 Chatter!
Late last week, Sony chief financial officer Masaru Kato said, “For the home equipment the PS3 still has a product life, but this is a platform business, so for the future platform—when we’ll be introducing what product I cannot discuss that—but our development work is already under way, so the costs are incurred there.” That…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2011 -
ReviewsThe Fretlight Guitar Sets a Shining Example for Hopeful Guitar Heroes
With Guitar Hero on extended leave and no new Rock Band title coming out this year, now is the perfect time to trade in our toy guitars for something a bit more substantial. Going from five colorful plastic buttons for six strings with 22 frets each is a daunting task however, especially when music games…
By Mike Fahey Published May 30, 2011 - Uncategorized
These Were Their E3 Promises, This is What Came True
For each of the last two years I’ve checked the E3 promises of Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. Sure, they make June/July tradition of telling us exciting things that will surely, definitely happen with the PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, 3DS, PSP and Wii. But do their E3 promises of one year turn out to…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 30, 2011