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Guild Wars 2 Coming In 2011
Teased in 2007 and finally revealed earlier this year, Guild Wars 2 still has a long road ahead of it, with NCsoft revealing that the game won’t be out until sometime in 2011. We’ve been following Guild Wars 2 since the first stirrings back in 2007, through the scrapped beta and onwards to this year’s…
By Mike Fahey Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Party at the Mushroom Kingdom, New York
Don’t forget: One of Nintendo’s biggest game launches this year will be turning the Nintendo World Store into Mushroom Kingdom this weekend. This Saturday, Nov. 14, Nintendo will be be bringing interactive gaming stations, costumed characters, trivia, prize giveaways and live tournaments to their New York store to celebrate the release of Wii must-have New…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s Pizza Delivery Boy
When a string of successful pizza restaurants starts to go under, only on boy can step in and save the day – Pizza Delivery Boy. Guess which platform Majesco’s latest is an exclusive on? If you guessed the Nintendo Wii, we aren’t even going to give you credit, because it’s pretty much a no brainer.…
By Mike Fahey Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Darkstalkers Return…To Comics
UDON Entertainment can take a hint. After the tremendous response to the recently release Darkstalkers Tribute art book, the publisher is bringing Capcom’s monster fighters back to comic book stands this January. At least one company realizes how much fans of the Darkstalkers series are aching for more. A new Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors three-issue…
By Mike Fahey Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wordspit’s Joystick Madness Delivers Music To SF Fan’s Ears
Wordspit’s video of Joystick Madness features plenty of references to fighter game culture. It’s also, as Capcom’s Chris Kramer points out, packed with sampled Street Fighter sound effects. Thumbs up or thumbs down? Wordspit hadoukens backpackers ear’s with Joystick Madness (The Music Video) [Capcom-Unity]
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2009 - Reviews
LocoRoco Midnight Carnival Review: Up All Night
Sony brings LocoRoco back to the PSP with a new game play interface and a late night look in LocoRoco: Midnight Carnival. The mischievous Bui Bui have interrupted the LocoRoco’s slumber and sent them into a midnight maze. While the previous LocoRoco games had players roll and bounce, the new mechanic in Midnight Carnival is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Write a Walk-Through, Maybe Win Stuff
Don’t forget, if you want to grab some free gaming stuff, you need to get with the walk-through writing. In case you did forget, here’s the deal: We want you to write up a complete walk-through of a game in our comments using the #walkthroughs tag. It will show up right in the page for…
By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
{Insert Night Note Here}
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: PR For Noobs [HERE] What you missed last night Modern Warfare 2 On Fox & Friends Father Of PlayStation Makes New Company Rumor: Project Natal Launches November 2010, 14 Games, Might Be Cheap Measuring The Hype: Modern Warfare 2 Gold-Dipped PS3 Does Not Include 250GB Hard Drive
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hitman Devs Working On Something Involving Neither Assassins Nor Small Ninjas
IO Interactive, the guys behind the Hitman series and the excellent Mini Ninjas, have moved onto something else. Something that’s nothing like either of those games, apparently. According to a report on CVG, IO’s mystery game (so, it’s not Kane & Lynch 2 or Hitman 5) is “unlike anything else”, Unlike anything? Not quite. “Imagine…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2009 -
UncategorizedCute Alert: Team Fortress 2 Babies
I was actually in the US for Halloween this year. And found something out: it’s not about pumpkins and scary things. It’s about parents dressing their kids up in stuff they, not the kids, like. Not that we’re complaining! No, not when it’s Team Fortress 2. It doesn’t matter this poor girl has no idea…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Modern Warfare 2 On Fox & Friends
This morning, Fox brought its “fair and balanced” reporting to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The headline? “A game that lets you play as a terrorist?” That was followed with this pre-commercial quip: “Is the game going too far? We’re going to have a fair and balance debate to find out.” Jon Christensen of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Modern Warfare 2 Ships Three Million…In One Country
Need an idea of just how big Modern Warfare 2’s launch has been? Here’s one: over the past week, Activision shipped three million copies of the game…to the United Kingdom. Yes, while most other games on the planet would be happy to ship one million copies across the entire planet, three million units were sent…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Next Medal of Honor Set In Present Day
Modern is the new World War II. Sources tell website MCV that the next entry in EA’s Medal of Honor series will be set in the present day. The source tells the site, “It’s a new take on the modern warfare idea — and will really help give the series the kick up the arse…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Father Of PlayStation Makes New Company
Another new company. Back in January 2007, PlayStation father Ken Kutaragi spearheaded Bandai Namco/Sony start-up Cellius. Today, it was announced he’s heading up another company. Established at the end of October in Tokyo, the name of the company is “Cyber Ai Entertainment” with “ai” being Japanese for “love” and a pun on the word “eye”.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Project Natal Launches November 2010, 14 Games, Might Be Cheap
According to sources speaking with British trade site MCV, Microsoft’s Project Natal will be released worldwide in November 2010, and may retail for under $80. The details apparently leaked during a round of developer visits in the UK, in which Microsoft toured studios showing off the technology. The same sources reckon 14 games will be…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dragon Quest VI DS Dated For Japan
Square Enix has announced the release date for the DS version of Dragon Quest VI. It is January 28, 2010. After being delayed by Enix for a year plus, the game was originally released on the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo Entertainment System in the West) in December 1995 for the rough equivalent of US$100, going…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Boss A Little Bummed With Wii Performance
Poor EA. They bet heavy on the Wii and, of late, the Wii hasn’t been doing so well, contributing at least partly to EA’s recent fiscal/employee issues. Think boss John Riccitiello is happy? Well, no, he is not happy. “To be honest with you, I think the Wii platform has been a little weaker than…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2009