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UncategorizedThe Boxing Game That Starts In Prison Should Be The Better Boxing Game
In the second scene of Fight Night Champion, the most unusual boxing game EA has ever made, you’re getting beat up in a prison bathroom. You’re a guy named Andre Bishop, and you’ve just beaten a neo-Nazi-looking guy fair and square in a bareknuckle fight in the middle of a ring. Prisoners in orange jumpsuits…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
A Million Demo Downloads Unlocks Dragon Age II Prizes
If one million players download the Dragon Age II demo in the week following its February 22 release on the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3, magic artifacts will be theirs for the taking. BioWare issues its Dragon Age II Call to Arms. A million downloads may seem like quite a lot, but when you’re…
By Mike Fahey Published February 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedFelicia Day Teaches Us Proper Dragon Age Dagger Techniques
Felicia Day, star of the Internet series The Guild, will also be the star of Dragon Age: Redemption a web spin-off to the dark fantasy Dragon Age series that will debut this summer. She also has a huge crush on Thane, the dying green alien from Mass Effect 2 (“He is not a lizard man!”…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
Epic Promises Bulletstorm Will Make Your Computer Weep
Getting a brand new computer gaming rig soon? Mike Capps, president of Epic Games, says you should let it rest up for the release of Bulletstorm next week. I asked Capps, as he strolled down the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences red carpet last week, how he’d break in a new gaming computer. “Right…
By Brian Crecente Published February 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedCan You Save Humanity from RAGE?
On August 23, 2037, an asteroid carrying the force of 2.4 million megatons called Apophis 99942 strikes Earth’s eastern hemisphere, rendering 30 % of life extinct in 26 seconds. Within one year, 80% of all life has vanished. Darkness blankets the planet, and Earth falls into an impact winter lasting almost 50 years. Prior to the…
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The Massive Chaos-Causing Solar Flares Are Just Getting Started
This week the sun shot off a massive class X solar flare. Its effects on radio broadcasts, electronics, and power are still being felt today, and this is only the beginning. The sun is our shiny friend in the sky, generating heat and light and basically making life a whole lot more livable, so we’ll…
By Mike Fahey Published February 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedAssassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Finally Gets New Single Player Content
The Da Vinci Disappearance brings eight new single-player missions, two new mulitplayer modes and plenty more to Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood when the add-on pack hits the PS3 and Xbox 360 next month. After the fall of the Borgias in Rome, Leonardo Da Vinci is kidnapped by the Hermeticists, an underground cult dedicated to transforming mankind.…
By Brian Crecente Published February 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedMillions Of Music Tracks Now Available On North American PlayStation 3
Music Unlimited, Sony’s streaming music service, hits North American PlayStation 3 consoles today, giving users 30 days access to millions of musical tracks before subscription fees kick in. Music Unlimited powered by Qriosity debuted in the UK and Ireland in December, spreading to France, Germany, Italy, and Spain last month. Now it’s time for North…
By Mike Fahey Published February 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedMeet The Lovable Mumbling Supporting Cast Of Okamiden
While the story of Capcom’s upcoming DS adventure Okamiden is that of tiny wolf god Chibiterasu, it’s the characters the young deity meets that paint the picture of a Nippon worthy of being saved from rampaging demons. Let’s meet some! First up we have the dog Mushi and his human mother. Mushi was one of…
By Mike Fahey Published February 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
If This Is How PC Gaming Will Live, Maybe It Should Die
There was a time when Brian Reynolds was best known for his work on epic computer strategy games like Civilization II, Rise of Nations and Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. But nowadays he’s the poster child for the casualfication of gaming. It was Reynolds and his work on FrontierVille that proved to a lot of people,…
By Brian Crecente Published February 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedCheck Out The Action-Packed Debut Trailer For Dragon Age: Redemption
Felicia Day runs, tumbles, and generally kicks ass in the trailer for the episodic live-action Dragon Age II tie-in Dragon Age: Redemption, as seen on last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
By Mike Fahey Published February 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedCreating An Entirely New Heroic Tale Of Middle-Earth
In this behind-the-scenes trailer for The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, developer Snowblind Studios tackles the daunting task of filling out areas and stories of Middle-Earth that J. R. R. Tolkien only hinted at. It’s the sort of thing that sends die-hard Lord of the Rings fans into convulsions. Creating new works…
By Mike Fahey Published February 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
If Only We Could Forget Gaming’s Greatest Moments
What would you give to relive the greatest moments in your gaming history as if it were the first time? That’s the question commenter Taggart451 ponders in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. WARNING: Spoilers ahead. What I wouldn’t give to forget. (spoilerific here) As a person who has been playing games my entire life, I constantly…
By Mike Fahey Published February 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedEpic Mickey Creator Starts Spinning DuckTales
Proving his deep love for classic Disney characters in Epic Mickey, acclaimed video game creator Warren Spector takes on Disney’s first feathered family as the writer for BOOM! Studios’ DuckTales comic book. Will he solve a mystery, or rewrite history? It’s never too late for a career change, as the 55-year-old Warren Spector demonstrates with…
By Mike Fahey Published February 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
The Excellent Beginning of Portal 2
There are games you can play in a very loud nightclub, with public relations people hovering, reporters sharing the couch, notebook in your lap, distractions everywhere and yet you can tell: This game is very good. I played the first few minutes of Portal 2 yesterday in such a setting. Wow. This could be a…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 17, 2011 -
UncategorizedScrew FarmVille, This Is Real (Casual) Farming
Who wants to farm in the virtual space when there is real land to till? Quite like the idea of casual farming, and if I had the extra time and scratch, I’d totally do it. Metal Gear Nut Turned Stripper Is Now A Fugitive Since she was 15 years of age, Minako Komukai worked as…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
When Your First Game Design Is Destroyed By Dad
Atsushi Inaba’s credits are impressive. He’s produced titles like Okami, Viewtiful Joe and, most recently, Vanquish. When he was young, he dreamed of becoming a game creator. Then his dad found out. After a friend got a NEC PC-6001, 11-year-old Inaba got bitten by the programming bug. “I couldn’t afford it, though, so I started…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 17, 2011 - Uncategorized
The PlayStation 4 Is Still Pie In The Sky Talk
The PlayStation 3 came out in 2006. That doesn’t matter, people want to know about the PlayStation 4. Thing is, Sony’s still focusing on the PS3. Oh, and the NGP. From the get-go, Sony said that the PS3 will have a ten year lifecycle. That doesn’t mean, Sony can’t or won’t release the inevitable PS4…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 17, 2011