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Square’s New WiiWare Games Are Unbearably Cute
Enter the picture-book world of Kumanage, Square Enix’s adorable WiiWare title that’s actually two different games. Will you choose action or puzzles? According to Japanese gaming news website andriasang, Square Enix’s Kumanage is actually two different games: Kumanage: The Blue Gem that Kiina Hates -Battle Version and Kumanage: The Red Candy that Piina Likes –…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
APB Needs 2Ghz, 2GB, 20 GB
For those of you waiting for the free-roaming cops vs. robbers massively multiplayer APB: All Points Bulletin to hit later this month, here are the PC minimum specs: Core 2 Duo 2Ghz or equivalent, 2GB RAM (3GB for Vista64 / Windows 7 64), nVidia GeForce 7800 – 256MB or equivalent, 20GB Hard disk space, headset…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Sandstorm Kicks Up In Global Agenda
Atlanta-based Hi-Rez Studios launches phase one of the massive Sandstorm patch to Global Agenda today, bringing many much-needed additions to the massively multiplayer online shooter, including revamped Agency-vs-Agency combat, epic weapons, and single player content. Global Agenda is a nifty little online multiplayer shooter that received a relatively warm reception when it launched back in…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Demo Hits This Month
A demo for LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Demo hits Xbox Live on June 7. The demo comes to the PC and PS3 later this month. The actual game comes out on June 26 in Europe and June 29 in North America.
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Unicorn Shirt Is Inspirational, Realistic
Adult Swim’s Robot Unicorn is here! On your iPhone now. And the shirt, the shirt hit my back the second it showed up on my doorstep. Is it bad that my wife asked me if I realized that I was still wearing the shirt, after we left the house?
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
The First Killzone 3 Trailer Is A Real Kick In The Face
Celebrating the relaunch of the official Killzone website, Sony delivers the first trailer for Killzone 3, showing off the game’s brutal new melee system. Looks painful! Michael McWhertor got his hands on Killzone 3’s new melee attack system last month, and wasn’t particularly impressed. Perhaps if Sony had shown him this rendered trailer, with its…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dungeon and Dragons Online Gets Airships, Crazy Carnival
Dungeon and Dragons Online’s next update,Update 5: Rise of the Guilds, amplifies the guild experience for players by adding such elements as Guild Levels and Special Guild Trophies, even enticing players with an airship as a possible guild headquarters. The update also adds a Carnival of Shadow adventure pack which looks to deliver an intriguing…
By Amber Nichols Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
A Massively Multiplayer Mummy? Madness!
Why does it always have to be mummies? Bigpoint is bringing Brendan Fraser-powered film franchise The Mummy online, with a massively multiplayer online game due out in winter 2010. Developed by Pittsburgh-based Schell Games in partnership with Universal Partnerships and Licensing, The Mummy Online is a free-to-play massively multiplayer action RPG set in the 1930’s…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Games Convention Online Shuts Its Doors to the Public
You’re not welcome at this year’s Games Convention Online. No, the former GamesCon, which runs from July 8 to July 10, is open to industry folk only due to a lack of interest from the public. It sounds like GamesCom killed the GamesCon.
By Lauren Orsini Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
First Batch Of BlizzCon 2010 Tickets Hit eBay
Blizzard’s first batch of tickets to BlizzCon 2010 sold out quickly yesterday. As expected, a nice chunk of them are now available on eBay for more than double the price. Now how much would you pay? BlizzCon tickets went on sale yesterday at 7 PM Pacific, and sold out moments later, which should come as…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Egyptian Assassins And Other UbiWorkshop Teases
The UbiWorkshop Twitter account sprung to life today, delivering this teasing glimpse of an Egyptian assassin from Polish artist Gabz, along with news of a secret project from acclaimed comic book artists Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl. “Oh, and before you ask, this has nothing to do with Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood,” Tweets UbiWorkshop, in response…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Why Can’t We Make Another Shadow of the Colossus?
I have a couple topics to write about boiling around in my head, but this one seems to be the most timely considering the rumor going around of a Shadow of the Colossus/Ico HD re-release next year. Shadow of the Colossus (and not Beatles Rock Band, inserting snarky jab at the New York Times here)…
By Lauren Orsini Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
One Year Later, Did These PS3 and PSP Promises Come True?
The PlayStation people promise a lot of things. They did one year ago. Now those promises and plans are being checked, by me, to see which elements of their E3 2009 Sony hype came true and which did not. Sony is the third victim this week, following the Kotaku promise-checking of Microsoft’s E3 2009 festivities…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Company of Heroes Online in Glorious Motion
Company of Heroes Online isn’t just a straight remake of the original, addictive real-time strategy game, it takes that experience and fixes almost everything wrong with it. Not that Company of Heroes mulitplayer gaming was tragically broken. But as Tim Holman, Relic’s director of Company of Heroes Online said at a recent event for the…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
We’re giving away Call of Duty Codes Later Today
Remember when I said we’d be giving away codes for Armored Core Last Raven Portable on Facebook today? Well, we’re also going to be giving away ten codes for the Xbox 360 version of the Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence DLC on Facebook as well today.
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Do You Live In Dallas? You Busy This Week?
To: Crecente From: Bash RE: Quincy Not you Crecente. I know where you live. You live in Denver. Or so you say. Dun dun dun I live in Osaka, but I’m from Dallas. Got pinged today with word that at the A-Kon 21 convention in Dallas Japanese gaming circle Zero Zigen will be doing a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
If Katamari Damacy Was Art Nouveau
It would look like this. Artist Kate Elizabeth, an New Orleans-based illustrator, created this stunning piece. As website Boing Boing points out, here is the original sketch, and here is her animation process Impressive stuff. Bravo! [Alex Litel via Boing Boing]
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Yes, This Is A Ferrari
A Prism Magical itasha sports car as seen by AkibaOS
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2010 - Uncategorized
Rapstar Out In October, Is On The Right Track
Def Jam Rapstar, the hip hop karaoke title from 4mm Games, will be out on October 5 for the 360, PS3 and Wii. And it’ll live and die on the strength of its tracklist, which at the moment, looks…decent! In addition to the tracks we already know about, 4mm this morning revealed seven more, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2010