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By Chrissie Lamond Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Virtua Fighter 5, FIFA Street 3 Join Xbox 360 Games On Demand
The Xbox 360 Games On Demand options expand by two, as Microsoft has added brawler Virtua Fighter 5 and footballer FIFA Street 3 to the downloadable games service, making it easier to be a game-buying sloth. Or, so they say. Looks like FIFA Street 3 is available to download according to the online Xbox Live…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Star Wars Galaxies Servers Closing
Sony Online Entertainment’s free character transfer service for Star Wars Galaxies was so successful, they’re closing a dozen severs next month. That’s right, free character transfers are so popular that everything must go by October 15th! Go from the twelve closing servers to the remaining thirteen, that is. From the SOE forum post on the…
By Mike Fahey Published September 15, 2009 - Reviews
Scribblenauts Review: Embrace Your Inner Geek
Riding on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex into a crowd of robot zombies: It’s a pretty powerful image, one that taps into the basic instincts of most geeks and screams “Buy this game.” Scribblenauts is out to prove that it’s more than just a clever, a really clever, game mechanic and that the “Write…
By Brian Crecente Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Peter Moore: EA Sports Tennis To Use Natal, Sony Motion Control
Electronic Arts “indefinitely” delayed the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of its foray into pro tennis, citing the success of EA Sports Active as root cause of the high-def Grand Slam Tennis slip. Turns out there was another reason. According to comments made by EA Sports boss Peter Moore to VG247, it sounds like…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Borderlands Is An Exhilirating But Oddly Hollow Experience
I’ve scoured the Arid Hills in search of the monstrous Moe and Marley, hunted the winged and clawed predators of Skag Gully and blown off the legs, arms, heads of more bandits in the Arid Badands than I can remember. But after all of the time spent in Borderlands, collecting weapons, finding upgrades, earning experience…
By Brian Crecente Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Lessons Learned — Or Resisted — While Making Assassin’s Creed II
The man in charge of Assassin’s Creed II wants to continue his dialogue with you. He’s changed his game in some ways you requested. But he still wants to send obsessive collectors a message and struggles with a grand idea. “A game is a dialogue,” Patrice Desilets was telling me earlier this month when we…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Spyborgs Webisode 2: Webisode Harder
When we last left our intrepid half-human heroes, armless guy and ninja girl were hang gliding, Kinetic was missing, and Jackal was nowhere to be found. The Spyborgs action continues in webisode 2! It looks like Capcom has toned down the corny dialog a bit in the second webisode for its upcoming Wii beat-em up.…
By Mike Fahey Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
DC Universe Online: Visit Scenic S.T.A.R. Labs
The Austin Game Developers Conference kicks off today, and Sony Online Entertainment celebrates with new DC Universe Online Screens featuring S.T.A.R. Labs, Metropolis General, and some random DC guys. Not sure that I really see a theme here running between all five screenshots. There’s S.T.A.R. Labs in two or possibly three of the shots, but…
By Mike Fahey Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels
PlaySega.com has recently launched a flash version of the original Sonic the Hedgehog, complete with a level editor that allows fans to create, share, and play their own Sonic levels online. The Sonic the Hedgehog level editor, a creation of Mediatonic, lets VIP members of PlaySega create Sonic levels relatively easily. Using a simple interface…
By Mike Fahey Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
WoW Cataclysm: The Abyssal Maw
Blizzard has updated the webpage for the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion with a look at the aquatic realm of the water elementals, the Abyssal Maw. The Abyssal Maw is an important area in the Cataclysm expansion. So important that Blizzard has created a whole new swimming combat mechanic to make it work. The elemental…
By Mike Fahey Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gaming’s Slingbox Backed By $1M Funding
Announced earlier this week, Spawn Labs version of the Slingbox for gamers is backed by $1 million in Series A round funding, according to the Austin Business Journal. Spawn Labs’ HD-720 is a set-top box that plugs into your console and allows you to play streamed console video games over WiFi via your PC laptop…
By Brian Crecente Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Try Darkest Of Days On Your Xbox 360
For those of you who’d rather not blindly buy into a new intellectual property no matter how cool its premise is, time-traveling FPS Darkest of Days now has a demo up on Xbox Live. Darkest of Days is a first-person shooter from developer 8monkey Labs and publisher Phantom EFX featuring a time-travelling protagonist who must…
By Mike Fahey Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Runes Of Magic Gets Flooded With Elves
Frogster’s free-to-play Runes of Magic turns the page today with Chapter II: The Elven Prophecy, opening up new lands and filling the world of Taborea with scantily-clad, mailbox dancing Elves. The Elven Prophecy went live around 3AM Pacific, with players flocking in droves to get their hands on the first new playable race for Runes…
By Mike Fahey Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tekken Much?
As seen by Stance Is Everything At Importfest in Toronto. [Thanks Dave]
By Brian Crecente Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dragon Age Novel Saga Continues
The epic tale that began in The Stolen Throne continues in October as Tor Books releases Dragon Age: The Calling, further expanding the Dragon Age fiction beyond the video game. In The Stolen Throne, Dragon Age: Origins lead writer David Gaider told the story of Maric’s mission of vengeance to reclaim the throne from those…
By Mike Fahey Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Skate 3 Rolls Out In 2010
The third entry in EA’s growing skateboarding franchise is coming in 2010, with rival street crews vying for prime Port Carverton turf in Skate 3. So how is EA’s Skate franchise evolving in the face of Activision’s new peripheral-based entry in the Tony Hawk franchise? This time around it’s all about the community and teamwork,…
By Mike Fahey Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
iPhone Chart Toppers
With the inclusion of a new “Top Grossing” category in the iTunes’ App Store we finally get a more realistic look at which games are bringing in the most money. As a new feature we will be tracking these, posting the results as a top ten list every week. Here’s your first look: Position Title…
By Brian Crecente Published September 15, 2009 - Uncategorized
Headache, Headache, Headache
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: T-Minus Man, I’ve got a doooooozy. Star Ocean 4 Sails Onto PS3 What Is Microsoft Bringing To Tokyo Game Show? PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.01 Is Live Xbox 360’s Processor Delivers Budget Supercomputing Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story Review: A Fawful Good Time Beatles: Rock Band Required Six Months of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 15, 2009