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E3 Recap: Day Three
Day three of E3 saw the flood of big news slow to a trickle, giving us all time to sit down and spend some quality times with the games on the showroom floor. Some of these impressions were posted today, others are to come in the days ahead, so stay tuned over the weekend for…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Burger King Returns To The 360, This Time For Kinect
Burker King’s cheap 360 games a few years back were a surprise success. Now that Kinect is due in stores for the holiday season, the food giant wants to take a second bite of the Xbox market. While exact details on the style or number of games aren’t being disclosed until later in the year,…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Gran Turismo 5’s Most Beautiful Screenshots Yet
Yes, the actual game never looks this good. That’s how it’s always been with Gran Turismo, and it’s how it will be with Gran Turismo 5. Just think of these as great pictures and we’ll get along just fine. These shots highlight the game’s Italian and Spanish tracks, the Top Gear test track from the…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Darksiders 2 Coming In 2012
Darksiders, one of the surprise hits of 2010, has done enough to deserve a sequel, publishers THQ revealing this week that Darksiders 2 will be out in 2012. That’s a while away, I know, but it’s also enough time to do a proper sequel, not your standard “crank out a new story on the same…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Closer Look At PlayStation Move’s Plastic Gun
That PlayStation Move gun sure looks…interesting, doesn’t it? I can see the reason it exists. As the Wii has shown, this kind of motion control is calling out for shooting titles. But does it have to look like an old prop from Star Trek: The Next Generation?
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Counter-Strike Source Hits Mac Next Week
It’s been nearly six years since Counter-Strike: Source, a fancy revamp of the original Counter-Strike, was released on PC. Next week, Macs will finally get in on the action. Valve says today that, despite the hustle and bustle of E3, there’s obviously enough lackeys left behind at the company’s headquarters to work on getting the…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
OnLive Goes Live, Did You Sign Up?
OnLive is either the future of video gaming come early, or snake oil dressed as cloud computing. What will determine which it ends up being is up to you, the user, and with the service now live, is anyone using? The switch on the service was flicked earlier today, meaning anyone that wants to use…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Japan’s Biggest Game Right Now Is A Wii RPG, Which Makes Sense
Xenoblade, the new Wii role-playing game made by the people who made Xenosaga, is Japan’s top selling game, dethroning previous champ Super Mario Galaxy 2, which crosses a milestone of its own. Super Mario Galaxy 2 owners in Japan now number more than half a million, putting the Wii game on its way to great…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Lord of the Rings: War in the North Eyes-On Impressions: A Party of Three
Two things described by J.R.R. Tolkein in his Lord of the Rings trilogy haven’t been seen yet in video games: Bloody, brutal violence, and the War in the North. An action RPG due out in 2011 will deliver both. The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is the first M-rated game for the…
By Owen Good Published June 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
Kratos Is Good With A Spear & Shield In Ghost of Sparta
You can’t see it any of these screen shots, but the star of God of War is pretty good with a spear and shield, one of the angry Spartan’s newest tricks in his new PSP adventure. God of War: Ghost of Sparta is the follow-up to God of War: Chains of Olympus, a PSP game…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 18, 2010 - Uncategorized
The 3DS Also Has A Pimp Range
While we’ve seen pictures of the Nintendo 3DS in black, red and blue, there are two other colours on display on E3’s showroom floor: a garish shade of orange, and a garish shade of purple. They look more like the kind of colours Sony would use on a Japan-exclusive PSP, but then seeing as these…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Super Scribblenauts Impressions: One Simple Word
It’s tough to beat the wow factor of the dizzying dictionary of usable words in last year’s Scribblenauts for the DS. This year’s followup: Super Scribblenauts, doesn’t try to outdo that as much as perfect other aspects of the game. For starters, the controls. A loud, frequent request of Scribblenauts devotees, Maxwell gets D-pad controls,…
By Owen Good Published June 17, 2010 -
UncategorizedUnreal Engine Puts BP Oil Spill Into Perspective
Initial estimates had the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico at 25,000 barrels a day. This clip, made using the same engine that powers many of today’s biggest games, shows how much oil that really is. And that’s only 25,000. When you consider that, a few months later, the best guess is…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rage’s E3 Screens Bring Ol’ Blighty To The Wastelands
Rage to me feels like one of those sneaky games. Like Arkham Asylum, or Red Dead, where you’re mildly interested in it before it comes out, then when it’s out, it blows you away. I’ve got nothing to base that on, of course! It’s just a feeling, based on that fact this is id and…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010