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UncategorizedYahtzee’s GameDamage Evolves And Improves
Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw of Zero Punctuation fame and pals Yug and Matt polish off their GameDamage television show, removing a bit of the awkward in favor of more funny. When Crecente wrote about the original GameDamage pilot in December of last year, he suggested the dynamic trio keep at it and polish up the writing…
By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tripwire Brings Zeno Clash To Retail
ACE Team‘s first-person melee combat game Zeno Clash is getting the retail box treatment courtesy of Tripwire Interactive, a publisher that truly understands the plight of the independent developer. Tripwire Interactive started off as a modding team, taking its win in the Make Something Unreal contest for Red Orchestra and transforming themselves into a full-fledged…
By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rockstar Challenges MySpace Music Artists To A Beaterator-Off
Rockstar wants to see what MySpace Music artists can do with Beaterator, and they’re providing the PSPs, the games, and a $5,000 prize for the best track. Hopeful MySpace Music artists who want to take a stab at making music with Beaterator can visit http://beaterator.ign.com/ to apply for a chance at being one of up…
By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Other Wii Nerf Gun
Electronic Arts isn’t is the only company selling a Nerf gun that doubles as a Wii remote holder. Performance Designed Products sent me this N-Strike Switch Shot Ex-3 last week (which they produced in conjunction with EA). The Nerf gun comes with three whistler darts and a red viewfinder. You can take the viewfinder off…
By Brian Crecente Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dragon Age And Army Of Two Launch EA Comics Imprint
EA teams with IDW to release Army of Two and Dragon Age comic books under the EA Games imprint, with talent like Peter Milligan, Humberto Ramos, and Orson Scott Card already signed on. This isn’t your average video game comic book deal. The agreement between EA and publisher IDW actually creates a separate imprint, EA…
By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
More Prince Of Persia Now Costs Less
Xbox Live gold subscribers looking to for bit more enjoyment from Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia can do so a little cheaper, as the Prince of Persia: Epilogue becomes the Xbox Live Deal of the Week. The ending to the most recent Prince of Persia left a bad taste in the mouth of many a player,…
By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
PSP Game Price Check: Playstation Store Vs. Used UMD
As of last week the Playstation Store is the only place PSPgo owners can go to pick up their games. Just how do the prices of the Sony-operated online store compare to the prices of the same games sold as used at retailers? We checked with four online retailers and online shopping services to see…
By Brian Crecente Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
It’s Goal Time In Free Realms
Those soccer fields sprinkled about Sony Online Entertainment‘s Free Realms now has a purpose, 3-on-3 footy matches and 20 levels worth of Soccer Stardom now available. Soccer comes to Free Realms in a big way with today’s Goal Time update, which unlocks the various playing fields scattered across the land, allowing players to begin progressing…
By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Lego David Bowie Sways Under The Serious Moonlight
Number two on our list of musical artists least likely to become Lego figures becomes a Lego figure, as David Bowie joins Iggy Pop as a playable rocker in Lego Rock Band. This is not the David Bowie Lego minifigure I would have preferred, but seeing as he’ll be performing “Let’s Dance” with a Lego…
By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
iPhone Chart Toppers: Attack of the Diablo Clone
It’s that time again. Time to look at the top grossing games on iTunes for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Madden continues to cling to the top ten, but check out what hit the number one spot this week. Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Dungeon Hunter(Gameloft) $6.99 1 – 2 FIFA 10(EA) $9.99…
By Brian Crecente Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download: The First Of The Final Fantasies
The Final Fantasy that started it all makes its way to the Virtual Console this morning, and you all know the drill by now. First one to rescue the princess gets a bridge! I hope I didn’t just spoil a major plot point of Final Fantasy for you guys, but after playing it on the…
By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
“Kind Code” Demo Shows New Super Mario Bros on Auto-Pilot
The mysteries about Nintendo’s experimental helper-mode (aka the “kind code”) are no more, as today Kotaku was finally able to see the innovative feature in action in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. The assistance mode will be introduced in Nintendo’s marquee November title for the Wii and is officially called the Super Guide. Using it,…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Why Everyone Should Be Watching the PSPgo
Video games stored on a disc of plastic and tucked away in a case are approaching extinction. You can quibble about the when and the how of this happening, but the inevitability of games being sold online like music, free of their plastic prisons, is certain. The first real sign of that step away from…
By Brian Crecente Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Me With A Newspaper On My Face, Running
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Over the weekend, Mini-Bash had his field day at school. Kids ran races, play instruments, sang songs. It was a good time. There, of course, were a couple parent child races — you know, the stuff they do to embarrass the parents so the children can laugh and point. One of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
New 250GB Bundles Box Art Looks Like This, Apparently! [Update]
Europe is getting a bunch of 250GB PlayStation 3 bundles. Besides coming packaged with a game and sporting a bigger hard drive, the bundles also have something else going for them: New box color. Pictured is supposedly the box for Need for Speed: Shift. We dig the gray-silver. It’s so sophisticated. Update: Below is the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hideo Kojima Shows His Guns
Back when we interviewed Hideo Kojima at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Jin from Japanese blog My Game News Flash kept asking about Kojima’s muscles. Here’s why. The game designer has been pumping iron. But Kojima blogs that because of the Tokyo Game Show, he wasn’t able to hit the gym that much. He gained…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ready To Rat Out R4 Sellers? Nintendo Is Here To Help
Earlier this year, Nintendo announced that it and 54 software game companies were filing a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court against companies that import “R4 Revolution”-type devices, using the Unfair Competition Prevention Law as the legal grounding. According to Nintendo, such devices hurts the growth of the entire game industry and steps must be…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
ICO Creator Keen To Make First-Person Game [Update]
Team ICO head Fumito Ueda is best known for moody, emotional titles like ICO and Shadow of the Colossus. That doesn’t mean Ueda isn’t itchy to bust a cap in your ass. The game designer told G4 that he is interested in making a first-person shooters game. Just listen to him say it: “I have…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2009