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Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier PSP Preview: A Blast From The Past
I used to work as a QA tester at Sony Computer Entertainment and while there I met a a Lombax, man named Caley and developed a desperate need for a barrel roll. Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier brought back all of this within seconds because first of all, Jak & Daxter have obvious parallels…
By AJ Glasser Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Army of Two: The 40th Day PSP Preview: A Fixed Perspective
I missed the first 39 days of whatever this game is talking about, but the 40th day is pretty exciting. Stuff explodes, people shoot at me and I have a dude to boss around. It’s like one-third of my life in Oakland, California. But enough about me, let’s talk about how to get a third…
By AJ Glasser Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines Opens Up Gameplay And Closes The Book On Altair
Ubisoft listened carefully to criticisms of Assassin’s Creed to craft an improved outing for the sequel – but some of that feedback also made its way into Bloodlines on the Playstation Portable. That means that we spend less time with Desmond and actually get to find out what happens to Altair at the end of…
By AJ Glasser Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter Preview: Improved DS Scribbling
When is a Scribblenauts story not about Scribblenauts? When it’s about the other ambitious game development studio 5th Cell is releasing on the DS this fall. Before their most recent game became the talk of E3 and the most buzzed about release of the past week, Washington-based 5th Cell was best known for making Drawn…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
This is Getting Wii-diculous
More evidence? Sent from a Best Buy source.
By Brian Crecente Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
APB Is So Very GTA
If the latest gameplay trailer for Realtime Worlds’ APB doesn’t have you drawing comparisons to Grand Theft Auto, then you probably haven’t played Grand Theft Auto. McWhertor mentioned the similarities between the two titles in his impressions of APB from Gamescom in Germany last month, and this gameplay clip completely backs him up. Of course…
By Mike Fahey Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
And Here’s A Wii Football Accessory
We mention a plastic football accessory for the Wii in our radio show this week, and a plastic Wii football accessory appears! Coincidence? Probably! Could a plastic football accessory make Madden sell better on the Wii? CTA Digital, the company behind the Wii bowling ball and iPhone steering wheel accessories would like to think so.…
By Mike Fahey Published September 18, 2009 - Reviews
WET Review: Swords, Guns and Flawed Fun
Armed with one sword and two of lots of other things, Rubi Malone is a leather-pants wearing, wall-running, pole-spinning death machine. She can shoot two shotguns while flipping through the air, slide under tables to hamstring and gut with her sword, and regains health by swigging liquor. But does the heroine deliver enough fun in…
By Brian Crecente Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Sims 3 World Adventures Goes Underground
The Sims 3 expansion pack World Adventures brings with it a basement tool, which everyone will use to build tombs, and not underground Sim torture chambers. The new basement tool allows The Sims 3 players to create underground structures up to four levels deep, and EA has plenty of new tomb objects in store in…
By Mike Fahey Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Next Week On Rock Band: Backspacer
Next week is Pearl Jam week in the Rock Band Music Store, as their brand-new album, Backspacer, is released for the Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Pearl Jam reinvents themselves a bit in Backspacer, their 9th studio album, due out in stores on September 20th. As reported previously, the entire album will be up…
By Mike Fahey Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Brutal Thoughts: Roadies Have Giant…
Jack Black takes us through the anatomy of a roadie, highlighting some larger-than-normal body parts in this latest installment of Brutal Thoughts. I don’t know. I think having those particular body parts enlarged would be more of a liability than anything. You might as well paint a target down there. Okay, a larger target then…
By Mike Fahey Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
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By Brian Crecente Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
PlatinumGames On PS3 Bayonetta: Sega Did It
Don’t blame PlatinumGames too much for the potential failings of the PlayStation 3 version of Bayonetta. According to the company’s CEO Tatsuya Minami, that ball is in Sega’s court. When Sega showed off the PS3 version of Bayonetta at an event in Tokyo late last month, spectators were disappointed by the blurry graphics and erratic…
By Mike Fahey Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hooray! Aion Drops GameGuard For Launch
NCsoft thrills the Aion community with the news that it’s dropping INCA Internet’s intrusive, problem causing GameGuard anti-cheating software from the game in order to ensure a smooth launch. It certainly says something about nProtect GameGuard when a major MMO developer out of Korea decides that removing it is the best course of action. Commonly…
By Mike Fahey Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
WHO IS READY FOR THE TOKYO GAME SHOW?!
TO: CRECENTE FROM: BASHCRAFT RE: SOMETHING ABOUT SAMMICHES I AM. KNOW HOW YOU KNOW? ALL CAPS. NO, I’M NOT SCREAMING! WHAT YOU MISSED LAST NIGHT SOMETHING ABOUT NINJA GAIDEN SIGMA 2 BOOBS SOMETHING ABOUT YAKUZA 2 TEASING WESTERNERS SOMETHING ABOUT THE WITCHER 2 DEBUT TRAILER SOMETHING ABOUT DEVELOPERS BEING DELIGHTED SOMETHING ABOUT XBOX GAMES IN…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
PAL PlayStation Store Update: Trine, Bitches
I could tell you all about how this week’s PAL PlayStation Store update features a premium “Union Jack” theme. Or how you can get a free FIFA 10 wallpaper. But you’ll probably be interested in something else. Like Trine. The long-awaited PSN version of the PC platformer – which we like very much – is…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 18, 2009