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Square Enix Creates Puzzle RPG With A Bejeweled Twist
What do you get when the puzzle game masters at PopCap team up with RPG kings Square Enix for a Puzzle-RPG for Xbox Live Arcade and Steam? Sounds like countless productive hours lost to me. Puzzle Quest showed us that the puzzle game and the RPG could be successfully married into an entertaining and highly-addictive…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Alan Wake Impressions: Bad Time To Lose The Flashlight
What we thought we knew of the ages-in-development Xbox 360 game Alan Wake is that it stars a writer who faces psychological and physical horrors in a town and forest in the Pacific Northwest, with light as his scarce ally. I learned in Tokyo, however, that sometimes Alan won’t have his flashlight or a gun.…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Brutal Legend and Forza Demos Hit Xbox Live
Two highly anticipated demos make their way onto Xbox Live today, with Brutal Legend escaping from preorder exclusive hell and Forza 3 edging closer to the finish line. Free up some hard disk space as two of the most eagerly awaited games get their demo on. The heavy metal action of the Brutal Legend demo…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Introducing Mr. Yusuf Amir of Liberty City
Meet Yusuf Amir, who’s a successful businessman gangster and rival of Gay Tony. Yusuf enjoys dancing in his tightie-whities, but that’s not why this is NSFW. Huge F-bomb about 10 seconds in; it might rupture your chaste workplace speakers. Rockstar’s news release accompanying this video describes Amir as “The affable, cutthroat real estate and construction…
By Owen Good Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
PSPgo Costs as Much as a PS3 in Denmark
Either Sony’s gotta cut its price or the Danish kroner’s gotta get a lot weaker against the dollar for the PSPgo’s sake. It’s listed at 2,000 DKK – or $396 US, one reason retailers there aren’t stocking the thing. Denmark’s Ekstra Bladet reports (translation) that Fona will not sell the PSPGo in any of its…
By Owen Good Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Exploring The Shard Of Love In EQ2
The Shards of Destiny, The latest content update for EverQuest 2, is now live, opening up Erollisi Marr’s Shard of Love to players and adding achievements to the game. The goddess Erollisi Marr has gone missing, and only your stalwart band of adventurers can infiltrate her home shard of Love and get as much loot…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Looks This Good, This Stylish
I had a blast playing Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, partially because of its great looks. This post is topped with an image from the PSP game’s interactive cutscenes, but gameplay and a render of Battle Dress Snake hide below.
By Stephen Totilo Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guild Wars 2 Art Book Now On Sale
You know that splendid and poignant Guild Wars 2 art book NCsoft was handing out at PAX? Now it can be yours for a price! It’s just like getting it for free, only with money! We’ve learned how big a focus ArenaNet was putting on the art for Guild Wars 2 during our annual pilgrimage…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Scene It? Brings Twilight’s Sparkle Pony Vampires To The Wii
Konami takes the Scene It? franchise in a decidedly darkly romantic direction with Scene It? Twilight for the Nintendo Wii, based on the ridiculously popular “vampire” movie. There’s just no escaping Twilight. It’s in the supermarkets, video stores, and books stores. It’s in the food we eat, and the women we date. To survive as…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Drops PSP-3000 Price Tag
Today at Sony’s Japanese, the company announced a price drop for its PSP-3000 — the PlayStation Portable will now cost ¥16,800 (US$185) in The Land of the Rising Sun, starting October 1. Keep in mind, in the US, the PSP-3000 is $169 in the US, while the PSPgo is $249. In Japan, the PSP-3000 is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
But Will There Be No More No More Heroes?
“I originally didn’t want to make another No More Heroes,” says game designer Goichi Suda. The game was supposed to be a one off dealio, but when the title did well, sequels do happen. “It’s not just that,” Suda explains. “I wanted to revisit Travis Touchdown. I wanted to write the continuation of his story.”…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Splinter Cell Conviction Coming February 23
Ubisoft announced at the Tokyo Game Show today that Splinter Cell Conviction will be out on both Xbox 360 and PC early next year. As the headline says, that exact date is February 23. To celebrate, Ubi released the video below, which I like, because it features the lost art of shooting another man in…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
TGS Round-Up: Day 1
If you’re in the Americas, or even Europe, the Tokyo Game Show‘s timing isn’t exactly convenient. So you may have missed some of the news coming out of the show’s first day. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Microsoft Announce Natal Partners: Everyone Plus Kojima Sony’s TGS Keynote Liveblog Nintendo Announces Official Wii Price Cut…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Preview: Competitors, Take Notes
The 30 minutes I spent playing Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker on the first day of the Tokyo Game Show left me with the best first impression I’ve ever had of a game on the PlayStation Portable. I may have rolled my eyes when Konami’s Hideo Kojima started telling the press this past summer that…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Giving Away Free PSP Games To PSPgo Upgraders
Sony’s mysterious goodwill program for PlayStation Portable owners saddled with UMD collections will be rewarded, should they choose to upgrade to a PSPgo. In Europe, at least, Sony will be giving away three free games to new PSPgo investors. PSPgo buyers will be given three free games from a list of seventeen PlayStation Portable titles.…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Forza 3 Getting Ferrari DLC
Yesterday we ran a trailer for the PS3’s Gran Turismo 5, showing of the new Ferrari 458 Italia. In the interests of platform parity, you should know the car is also to be found in the 360’s Forza 3. Problem being, while Polyphony Digital are still working on GT5 – meaning they can just throw…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Get A Good Look At Sony’s PS3 Motion Controller
Ever since it was first announced, Sony’s motion controller has been kept out of the public eye. No product renders, no press shots, and its always shown with someone’s hand covering most of it. But not today. No, here’s a good, proper look at the thing itself. Lights, buttons, PS button, the works. Not so…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Some New Last Guardian Footage
Click to view Sony ran a mini-press conference earlier today, just for White Knight Chronicles and Last Guardian. During that event, some new Last Guardian footage was shown. Here it is! It’s at the end, past the Team Ico retrospective, but then, that’s worth watching in its own right.
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
White Knight Chronicles 2 Revealed
Level 5 took to the stage during Sony’s TGS press conference this afternoon to take the wraps off a sequel to PS3 RPG White Knight Chronicles 2. It’s called White Knight Chronicles: Awakening of Light and Darkness, which you may already know if you’ve laid eyes on this week’s copy of Famitsu. No real info…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2009