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Old Republic Is EA’s Biggest Ever Development Project
According to the man who’s had to write the cheques for the game’s development, Electronic Arts is taking massive multiplayer online title The Old Republic seriously. Very seriously. Speaking at a Wedbush Morgan Securities get-together earlier today, EA’s Eric Brown revealed that the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO is the “largest ever development…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Medal of Honor Is Coming Back The Hard Way
Bringing back an old franchise that withered isn’t easy. Bringing back Medal of Honor the way it’s coming back this year? That’s hard. At an Electronic Arts press event in New York City, I recently had a chance to check out the new Medal of Honor, witnessing a small piece of the game’s military adventure…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
2010, The Year of Tron Legacy Billboards
Tron Legacy won’t be out until this December, meaning there’s plenty of time for Disney to promote the crud out of the flick. Know what that calls for? Giant billboards. Lightbikes! According to /Film, Disney bought the billboard at Santa Monica/Westwood in LA for the whole year. Since last December, Disney has been rotating out…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
True Crime Impressions: Finally, Dumpster Kills
Activision’s True Crime series goes back to the drawing board with a Hong Kong action-adventure reboot, a game that puts the player in the role of an undercover cop, one who knows how to use a freezer door in a fight. In True Crime, players infiltrate a low level Triad crime syndicate as Wei Shen,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
These Companies Are Making Games For The PlayStation Move
When the PlayStation Move is released later this year, it won’t just be Sony making games for the thing. A grand total of 36 third-party publishers are also signed up to develop games for the motion-sensing peripheral. That tally includes some big names, like Capcom, Activision, Sega, EA, Konami, Square Enix and Ubisoft, and some…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Play With Me
A life-sized pixel person with a crotch joystick standing at attention. It may be art, but it’s perfect for hanging coats and hats. Titled Play With Me, the painting is by Silvio Porretta, who has been a game industry veteran since 1990 and a not-so-subtitle commentary on phallic imagery. The work will be part of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
What’s Up With The PlayStation Move’s Colored Balls?
The first press shots of the PlayStation Move look delicious, courtesy of the bright coloured balls perched atop the peripheral. Wondering why there’s so much variety? So were we. While many people’s first instinct is that the Move will ship with different coloured spheres, or that perhaps they’re interchangeable, truth is that while at rest,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
The Final Prince of Persia Movie Poster
This is it, here we go. From “Courage” to Russia, there have been a couple of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie posters. You are looking at the final one. It is a tweaked version of the earlier North American poster, but with added Gemma Arterton and Ben Kingsley. Ben Kingsley makes everything…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Move Gets Its First Wii Port
With the PlayStation Move looking, well, similar to Nintendo’s Wii Remote, you may have wondered how long it would take until it was announced a Wii game was being ported to the PS3. The answer? How about, oh, a few hours Warner Bros let us know today that The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: Yaarrr First Screenshots
Just like we told you, there will be a Monkey Island 2: Special Edition. Here are your first screenshots! And not just screenshots, comparison shots! So we can all see how far video games have come in the past 19 years, and then fill a comments section of a video game website with calls for…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
SOCOM 4 On The Move
Zipper Interactive’s recently revealed SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs is one of the games we were least expecting to be fully playable with the PlayStation Move controller. Can a hardcore online shooter stay competitive with a motion control scheme ? Fortunately for the less curious SOCOM fan, the Move controller is not a requirement. The game…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Move’s The Shoot Has A Major Twist
The Shoot is Sony’s first light gun shooter for the newly named PlayStation Move controller, an arcade-style sci-fi shoot ’em up with a twist, in that you have to twist. Set in an environment that looks like an alien cyborg invasion of a Hollywood film shoot—at least in the levels we played; later levels appear…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition Hits this Summer
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge is coming to the iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac, PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this summer. Lucas Arts revealed the games to kick off their annual Game Developers Conference party, bringing Tim Schaefer and Ron Gilbert, the originals creators of the game, to the front of the room for…
By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2010 -
UncategorizedThe Party Moves onto the PlayStation 3
Another title shown off at the PlayStation Move’s unveiling today is “Move Party” the working title of a PlayStation Eye-enabled casual game that puts the player on screen in the action. Based on the video and the six screenshots Sony released, this figures to be another anthology of casual games for the Move.
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2010 -
UncategorizedSwords and Paddles: Sports Champions on PlayStation Move
Here’s video of two of the six games available in Sports Champions for the PlayStation Move, a table tennis game and a gladiator competition. First the sword battle (above) – which obviously isn’t just limited to swords. One had serves as the melee weapon control with the off-hand wielding the shield. Now here’s the table…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
First Screens of PlayStation Move’s “Motion Fighter”
“Motion Fighter” is the working title of the fighting game showcasing the new PlayStation Move, revealed this afternoon at the Game Developers Conference. Sony’s published eight screens of the game. Here they are. The demonstration showed the 1:1 motion capability of the Move controller applied to a street-fighting beat-em-up. Sony said the project is estimated…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
Hands-On With Playstation Move’s Wii Sports Resort
Among the titles for the PS3’s Move motion controller being shown off at the Game Developers Conference today is Sports Champions, a very familiar sounding casual sports title. Sports Champions will include half a dozen casual sports that can be played with one or two of the microphone-like Move controllers in hand. On display at…
By Brian Crecente Published March 10, 2010 - Uncategorized
How The PlayStation Move Is NOT A Wii Remote
I just played SOCOM 4 with the newly-named PlayStation Move controller. And now I know how the PlayStation 3’s motion-sensitive controller is not just a me-too Wii controller. For those who need the basics, the PlayStation Move is a remote-like motion-sensitive controller with a sphere at the end. The sub-controller is an off-hand controller being…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 10, 2010 -
UncategorizedGet a Move on … with SOCOM 4
We’ve seen how a fighter operates with the PlayStation Move, now let’s get a look at how a shooter functions under Sony’s new motion controller. Here’s SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs. Looks like the Move enables not only the expected point-and-shoot aspect of a tactical shooter, but also the tactics as well, using the wand…
By Owen Good Published March 10, 2010
