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Key Bragging Stat: How Your Demo Did
Word just hit from EA that their Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo is “on pace to become the fastest downloaded demo in EA history.” It has been downloaded to Xbox 360s and PS3s more than two million times. In the past week EA has also said that its Dante’s Inferno demo was downloaded three million…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Scenes From Samurai Shodown Sen
So Samurai Shodown Sen is coming to the North American Xbox 360 this spring, courtesy of XSEED. What’s that going to look like? Pretty lifeless, if you ask me. It’s a problem that crops up whenever classic 2D characters are rendered in 3D, though some companies have done a much better job of it recently.…
By Mike Fahey Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
How To Play The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Demo
If you’re having trouble making any progress in the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer demo, this tutorial video should help. Or you could just ignore it and keep sniping me for no reason. Did you know the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer demo had goals? You did? Well if I’ve played it with you on…
By Mike Fahey Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Married By Master Chief, One Year Later
A year ago, I attended a Halo wedding. It was in Orlando. The bride entered to a live rendition of the Halo 3 menu music. A man dressed as Master Chief married bride and groom. Here’s what happened next. A year past their wedding, Desirai Labrada and John Henry have become an inspiration to the…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
If All You Need Is Love, Then You’re In Luck
The Beatles’ classic “All You Need is Love,” once exclusive to the Xbox 360 version of The Beatles: Rock Band, is finally making its way to the PlayStation 3 and Wii, with its charitable intentions intact. Released for the Xbox 360 in September of last year, “All You Need is Love,” quickly became the fastest…
By Mike Fahey Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Shockwave Cares Not For Your GameStop War On Cybertron Preorder
Shockwave is confounded by your impulsive, irrational excitement at his appearance as a preorder bonus multiplayer character for Transformers: War for Cybertron. Shockwave is a cold, calculating machine that only cares for usurping Megatron as leader of the Decepticons, not because he holds any hatred for him, but because it is logical that he do…
By Mike Fahey Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Dev Eyes Call of Duty: World at War for iPhone
Treyarch wasn’t really interested in the business of making cell phone games, at least not before the iPhone. But the tremendous success of Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies on the iPhone has the developer, best known for their hardcore console shooters, reconsidering. “We are very interested (in bringing more games to the iPhone),”…
By Brian Crecente Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Apparently, Playing Xbox Is Not An Infidelity Solution
A person writes in to UK Daily Star sex advice columnist Just Jane. He’s got some problems. He’s dodging the consequences by playing Xbox. Jane says that’s no good. The problem: He was caught having sex with his boss’ secretary in the boardroom, was fired, can’t get the courage to confess any of this to…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 11, 2010 -
UncategorizedMile Marker 28: Trauma
Tired of stodgy corporate games made by The Man and his minions? We’re playing the 31 best indie games for a change of pace —- and so we can judge them. Today, Trauma. In A Sentence Trauma is the point-and-click love child of Kafkaesque confusion and Myst exploration. State Of Completion The PC game will…
By Brian Crecente Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
This Is It
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: X10 Is it any good? Borrowing it from a friend. Enjoy the sixteen hour work day you have ahead of yourself, Crecente! 🙁 What you missed last night Imperial Hot Has Heard of Imperial Hot Most World Of Warcraft Players Don’t Go Past Level 10 Something’s Not Quite Right About…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
PAL PlayStation Store: Premature Commercialisation
Normally, I don’t write these until Friday Australian time. Yet here it is, Thursday night, and I’m writing up the PAL PlayStation Store update. What could possibly compel Sony to release it half a day early? Turns out, not much. The Heavy Rain demo is officially out, but then we told you how to get…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
No, Cliff Bleszinski Is Not Making A Horror Game
Cliff Bleszinski, designer of the Gears of War series, was rumored to be doing a horror game. He is not doing a horror game. “I’m NOT doing a horror game,” the developer, known as Dude Huge, tweeted. “I don’t know how that rumor started.” Well, I’ll tell you! It started in EGM’s “Quartermann” rumor column,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Retailer Slashes Final Fantasy XIII’s Price In Half
Not only are used copies of Final Fantasy XIII not worth very much money, new copies of the game are cheap, cheap, cheap. Great news if you haven’t bought the game. The PS3 game went on sale on December 17 for ¥9,240 (US$102). Shops have been buying back the game for ¥1,500. Retailer Sofmap in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
I Guess You Could…Build A Fort?
As seen on Blast.
By Luke Plunkett Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
What Are the Chances of Final Fantasy XIII in 3D?
With 3D becoming increasingly dominant, people are starting to ask questions that they never would have before. Questions like: Are you considering releasing the game in 3D? That’s what some dude asked Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase. “We don’t know how possible it is to build the game in 3D but we are interested…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Want To Use The 360 For Health Care
As of right now, you can use an Xbox 360 to play games, watch movies, listen to music and communicate with people. In the future, however, Microsoft would like you to also use it for health care. The R&D guys at Microsoft Research are hard at work finding ways for new uses for the Xbox…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Report: Menace II Society Directors To Helm Akira Flick
The Hughes brothers, best known for their urban crime drama Menace II Society and more recently The Book of Eli, will be bringing the cyberpunk Akira manga to the silver screen, says New York magazine. The screen version will be penned by Iron Man writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Apparently, We Need More Advertising In Sports Games
According to a report conducted by research company TNS and sports broadcaster ESPN, there simply aren’t enough ads in today’s sports games. Using EA’s major titles as an example, the report found that 38% of sports gamers spend as much time playing their favourite sports games as they do watching their favourite sport. It also…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 11, 2010 - Uncategorized
Imperial Hot Has Heard of Imperial Hot
Imperial Hot is our nickname for Square Enix president Yoichi Wada. Big important guy like him, managing an international corporation, he probably has no idea about the internet meme we started, right? Wrong. See Yoichi Wada has begun twittering (feel free to follow him, he’s @yoichiw) and answering questions in Japanese from regular folks. Questions…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 11, 2010