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iPhone Chart Toppers: Rock Band Retains Top Spot
It’s that time again. Time to look at the top grossing games on iTunes for the iPhone and iPod Touch. NBA Live and Doom Classic make their first appearance on the charts this week, while Rock Band retains the top spot. Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Rock Band (EA) $9.99 2 1 2…
By Brian Crecente Published November 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Ponders Kindle-Style 3G DS
Could a future version of the Nintendo DS hardware use 3G for digital downloads? Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says the company could take a cue from Amazon’s Kindle business model. Unlike today’s smart phones and mobile 3G cards, which require monthly fees to access the network, Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader figures in the price of…
By Mike Fahey Published November 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
iPhone Red Alert Goes Live With Paid DLC
Command and Conquer: Red Alert for the iPhone is now available in the iTunes App Store, with an optional skirmish map pack and more paid DLC on the horizon. Red Alert for the iPhone is a new handheld version of the classic real-time strategy game. It’s trimmed down quite a bit, but it uses the…
By Mike Fahey Published November 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Party Chat Not Fully Supported in Modern Warfare 2
The Xbox 360 version of Modern Warfare 2 won’t allow gamers to be in Party Chat while playing some modes of the game, according to a screen uploaded by a NeoGaf poster. That means that gamers on different teams won’t be able to cross talk and cheat. Of course, it also means that gamers won’t…
By Brian Crecente Published November 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
November brings some new art to TAY. We’ve got Gustave Caillebotte’s “Paris Street; Rainy Day.” Thanks for suggestions, readers, but I pulled rank and went with this one, which I recently saw in a museum. Oh, and a warning.. We’ve had some tech hiccups with the comments. They’re still being worked on. You can comment…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
An Early Look At Interplay’s Fallout MMO
The legal back and forth between Interplay and Bethesda over the rights to make a Fallout massively multiplayer game had some interesting… fallout recently: Concept art. Over on the Interplay website, the development team posted that some of the concept art for the still-in-work MMO have been released due to the lawsuit. So they decided…
By Brian Crecente Published November 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Harley Quinn Hearts Kotaku
Back in July, Lisa Foiles (of Nickelodeon’s All That fame) wrote up a blog response to a post Owen Good wrote up about Girl Gamers. In it she argued that girls who play games are not rare, but girl gamers are. Tonight she sent along this pic of her dressed as Harley Quinn with a…
By Brian Crecente Published November 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Star Trek And Transformers Get Elite Bundles [UPDATE]
MCV reports that Gem and Paramount Pictures are putting together two Xbox 360 Elite bundles to trumpet the DVD releases of Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in the United Kingdom. UPDATE: These bundles are both UK-only Paramount says. Each bundle comes with an Elite console and an extra controller. What it doesn’t…
By AJ Glasser Published November 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Who’s Got Halloween Costumes To Share?
A few of you sent in choice pictures of video game-themed Halloween costumes you were brave enough to wear. Lucky for you, we’re brave enough to post them. If anybody else has got gamer-themed costumes they want to share, throw ’em in the comments field. I would say email ’em to me — but given…
By AJ Glasser Published November 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tekken 6 Ships (Not Sells) 2.5 Million Copies
While a bird in the hand is worth more than 2.5 million copies shipped worldwide, Tekken 6 is nothing to sneer at. Wait, that came out wrong… See, just because Tekken 6 shipped 2.5 million copies doesn’t mean its sold 2.5 million copies all over the world. Hence the whole bird-in-the-hand/bush analogy that I messed…
By AJ Glasser Published November 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bayonetta PS3 Outsells Bayonetta 360 — No Surprise There
Unofficial day-one sales are in for Bayonetta and boy does Japan love its PlayStation 3s. Ninety-three thousand copies sold for Sony’s home console compared to the 45,000 sold on Xbox 360. But that’s nothing new for the market. Compare Bayonetta’s sales to these other games to see just how much day-one sales favor PS3 over…
By AJ Glasser Published November 2, 2009 -
UncategorizedReturn of Alice: The Creepy Trailer
It’s hard not to get excited about the return of American McGee’s Alice. Aptly named Return of Alice, American McGee’s next twisted Alice game is shooting to outdo the original. EA Partners said they went to McGee because he had a passion for the IP and gave him a blank canvas to work with. And…
By Brian Crecente Published November 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Spring Back
To: Bash From: Owen Re: Tristan Vs. Zombies Time was, forgetting to adjust your clock back to standard time was like finding an old $20 bill the first time you put on your winter coat in November. You’d wake up, something wouldn’t feel right, and remember you had an extra hour of the most blissful…
By Owen Good Published November 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Alan Wake Devs Might Withhold Ending from Preview Copies
Alan Wake‘s developers are concerned enough about spoilers getting out that they’ll talk with Microsoft about keeping the game’s ending out of copies sent to the press in advance of its release. G4TV quotes the Remedy Entertainment managing director Matias Myllrinne as saying the studio is “insanely careful” about how much of the story it’ll…
By Owen Good Published November 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
And Here are the Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Perks
Well, fresh on the heels of the killstreak list, we’ve got another claim to the multiplayer perk set. You know the drill, rumor, not official, spoiler alert. This comes from the site MW2blog.com, which though it might look official (it even cites “Copyright Modern Warfare 2”), is registered through GoDaddy to someone in the U.K.…
By Owen Good Published November 1, 2009 - Reviews
NBA Live Micro-Review: More than Pick-Up Hoops
EA Sports continues its full-court press into the mobile games space with NBA Live. Madden and FIFA delivered enjoyable football and soccer experiences, can the iPhone and iPod Touch hope to contain five-on-five basketball? Loved Under control: Honestly thought I’d hate the controls, considering this is five-on-five basketball with not a joystick in sight. But…
By Owen Good Published November 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fake Gabe Newell — Show Yourself!
Some of you might have noticed my “zombiedogs” snafu earlier today. “Gabe Newell” did. Well, the guy masquerading on Twitter as the Valve boss, anyway. That’s when I knew for sure there were no zombiedogs in Left 4 Dead 2. Quick recap: We got sent a screengrab of some files in the Left 4 Dead…
By Owen Good Published November 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Warns Against Bogus Bad Company 2 Beta Signups
Apparently there are some phishing emails going around – for what other purpose would someone fake an invitation to a sign-up for a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta? EA says no such thing exists. Says the Battlefield producer Gordon Van Dyke on the Battlefield Blog: As of today there is no official Battlefield Bad Company…
By Owen Good Published November 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Modern Warfare 2 Killstreak Rewards Revealed?
The early PC Xbox 360 leak of Modern Warfare 2 continues to churn spoilers. Yesterday we saw the video of what you get for an eyepopping kill streak of 25. Someone’s posted a list of rewards for all the others. The site Gamepex has posted, without attribution, the full list. Take it with a heaping…
By Owen Good Published November 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tune In Tomorrow for a Live Chat with Mike Laidlaw of BioWare to Talk Dragon Age: Origins
Mike Laidlaw, lead designer at BioWare, is dropping by for a live chat in the comments tomorrow to discuss his work creating Dragon Age: Origins. So join us at 3pm EST and unleash your questions on our guest of honor!
By Chrissie Lamond Published November 1, 2009