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Phantasy Star Portable 2 Demo In Beta Form
In December, Phantasy Star Portable 2, with its online co-op play, is going on sale in Japan. A playable demo version of it will be given away by random drawing — make that, 20,000 versions of this. Starting on November and continuing through the 12th, 19th and the 26th, fifty-thousand individuals will receive demo code…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 27, 2009 - Uncategorized
Animator Says He’s Working on “GoldenEye 2010” for Wii
Grain-of-salt territory here, as it’s just one guy and his resume, but an animator named Craig Peck lists work on “GoldenEye 2010 (Wii),” spotted by – who else – SuperAnnuation. “Animator on Activision’s James Bond series for the Nintendo Wii,” is what the entry here [pdf] says. The work was done for Eurocom, responsible for…
By Owen Good Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Only By Taking Off Their Clothes Can Ar Tonelico III Heroines Save The World
When heroines in upcoming PS3 role-playing-game Ar Tonelico III activate in-game songs, their costumes show more and more flesh. This, explains producer Atsunori Kawachi, is for a very important reason. By showing more skin, they are able to absorb more of the planet’s energy,” said the producer at a recent press event. Continuing, he added,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Five New Screens to Get You Ready for Gay Tony
We’re three days and and five new screens closer to the release of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City and, more specifically, The Ballad of Gay Tony. Rockstar put out these five, foreshadowing what you can expect in the expansion. Luis scaling the Rotterdam Tower; flashing the Advanced MG machine gun, the titular Tony…
By Owen Good Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Sports Pushes Out Comprehensive NBA Patch
The NBA’s opening day tomorrow means also the beginning of NBA Live 10’s Dynamic Season, in which real-life results are melded with your own gameplay. It also means a sizeable patch release for the 360 version. Dynamic DNA, now in its second season, draws on analysis provided by Synergy Sports Technology, and breaks down the…
By Owen Good Published October 26, 2009 - Reviews
Forza Motorsport 3 Review: Definitively Maybe
Turn 10 ups its driving game with Forza Motorsport 3, the self-proclaimed “definitive” racer of this generation, a sim that strives to let the more casual racing fan into the fold with a series of options that are noob-friendly. Sure, it has pretty much everything one would expect from a serious driving game, ensuring that…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
More Pumpkins For The Patch — Featuring Borderlands
We’ve got several entries from all types of game to go up today. And one entry that puts my Bubs disaster completely to shame. Enjoy! The Half-Life pumpkin was carved last year by Gerard “OriginalGman.” Ghostbusters comes our way from Cameron Leatham, Joe Greene and his wife contributed Strong Bad pumpkins. Sean Lefebvre handled Mario…
By AJ Glasser Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed II: More than 80,000 Spoken Lines
So the British Board of Film Classification recently revealed that Assassin’s Creed II will feature more than three hours of cut scene footage. These aren’t the silent film days, of course, so they’ll need some a lot of dialogue. On Friday, Azaïzia Aymar, the Ubisoft community developer for Assassin’s Creed II, tweeted this fun fact:…
By Owen Good Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Modern Warfare 2’s Third Person Mode Is No Rumor
That footage of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 being played in the third person? Totally legit. The external camera view, a surprise late addition from Infinity Ward, is limited to the game’s multiplayer mode. How limited? IW explains. “3rd Person is a new playlist mode in Multiplayer,” Infinity Ward’s creative strategist Robert Bowling told…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Buzz! Quiz World Hands On: The Further Adventures of the Comeback Kid
For the first two thirds of any parlor game like Trivial Pursuit, I’m terrible. Then – for reasons I’m still not entirely clear on – I’ll rock the last third of the game and either place second, or win. This pattern has repeated itself for most of my life, so I can be reasonably sure…
By AJ Glasser Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
BioShock 2 Trailer Makes Everything Better, Wetter, Deader
“Siren Alley,” as this is titled, gives you a two-minute glimpse of the weapons and plasmids you’ll wield in the single-player mode of BioShock 2. The gameplay shows the firepower; the cinematics show a suspense factor to match. And pay attention to the final title card. Of course it’d behoove you to check back here…
By Owen Good Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Winter Wonder October
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: So I Tried Red Bean Pepsi I woke up this morning to a white backyard. No surprise there, it’s been snowing all weekend. But by this afternoon it looked like a typical snow-free fall day. I love Colorado. What you missed: Win One of Five Copies of Uncharted 2: Among…
By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
iPhone Game Piracy Rates Suck Too
The developers of iPhone beat ’em up Tap Fu have taken a look at the piracy percentages on their recently released game and, man, are they a black belt caliber kick in the balls. On day one, according to Neptune Interactive, the number of illegitimate copies of Tap Fu submitting high scores to the game’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Do Game Developers Need To Be On Facebook And Twitter?
Insomniac Games boss Ted Price recently confessed he’d been ignoring the world of Internet “community” that he’d been proselytizing as the future of gaming. Apology necessary? Over at the official website for the creators of this week’s Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time (aka the place I go to watch my Ratchet scores slide…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2009 -
UncategorizedWarning: WWE Smackdown 2010 Bug May Result In Naked Wrestlers
THQ’s latest grappler, WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2010 looks like it may have a glitch that could leave your WWE superstar embarrassingly pantsless, as shown in the above, potentially NSFW video that features virtual ladies sans underthings. Reader Nathan was on the unfortunate receiving end of that glitch, resulting in a user created WWE “diva”…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Braid Dev Seeks “Full Body Motion Tracking” Programmer
Number None, the developer behind swell time-manipulating platformer Braid, is getting into the motion control business, actively seeking a developer to do “very interesting work with full-body motion tracking,” according to a new job listing. That update to the official Braid web site, as spotted by the one man team of Superannuation, is hiring someone…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Willie Nelson “Addicted” To A Video Game
The world is running out of celebrities who haven’t admitted that they have been hooked on playing the Wii — or had their harmonica player admit it for them. At the tail end of the Binghamton, New York’s Press & Sun-Bulletin recent report about music legend Willie Nelson‘s Tuesday concert in upstate New York comes…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
This God of War III Box Art Is Not Final
It says so right on the recently released, still unofficially finalized box art, meaning your copy of God of War III could very well look different. Placeholder though it may be, it’s both attractive and subtle. Perhaps too subtle. Rarely do we see North American games veering from the standard box art path. But considering…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku’s Denver Fundraiser: Why You Should Come
For the kids of course. Not only are 100 percent of the proceeds going to Child’s Play, everything from the venue to the giveaways and help running the show has either been paid for by Kotaku or donated. Here’s another reason you should take the time to come to Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom: A mountain of…
By Brian Crecente Published October 26, 2009
