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Funcom Brings The Fun To Montreal
Incentive programs, an excellent talent pool, and that famous Canadian hospitality has MMO developer Funcom setting up a new development house in Montreal. Funcom’s new Canadian headquarters will be put to use immediately, with skilled teams being formed to work on both Age of Conan and the upcoming MMO The Secret World, which the company…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
45th Beatles Rock Band Song To Be A Surprise
The world knows of 44 songs that are featured on the The Beatles: Rock Band disc. The world does not know of the 45th. What could it be? It’s a “surprise,” non-spoiling MTV PR tells me. The Beatles Rock Band will be released next week, which puts us in that pre-release timeframe during which secrets…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 1, 2009 -
UncategorizedNew Modern Warfare 2 Clip Debuts Knife Throw Kills, Host Migration
Infinity Ward’s latest multiplayer reveal for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 features, according to the developer, “uncut” direct feed Capture The Flag gameplay. Neat, yes, but there are some newish details seen for the first time within. Some of those details you may have heard creep out from recent GameStop and Game Crazy get…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
PS3 Bayonetta Not Looking So Good
At an event held in Tokyo over the weekend, Sega invited gamers to come and witness the debut of Bayonetta on the PlayStation 3 in all its blurry, stuttering glory. Up until now, Sega and Platinum have chosen to show off Bayonetta on the Xbox 360, and judging from 1UP’s reaction to the title, the…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Network’s Typical User Is 28, Male, Educated, Moneyed
Are you the typical PlayStation Network user? It depends on whether you match the criteria shared by U.S. PSN director of operations Eric Lempel to the publication Video Business. Lempel was discussing the PS3 and PSP’s PlayStation Network, which Sony says now has more than 12/5 million users (It’s unclear if the current count includes…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Here The Wild Things Are
Where are the wild things? They are sprinkled copiously amidst these screenshots for the Nintendo Wii, DS, and Xbox 360 screenshots for the video game adaptation of the new Where the Wild Things Are movie. Two different developers contributed to these screenshots, with Amaze Entertainment handling Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 development while WayForward handles…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
GTA IV: The Ballad Of Gay Tony Trailer Goes Over The Top
Rockstar’s second expansion of Grand Theft Auto IV, The Ballad of Gay Tony goes on sale next month, but first let’s watch the first trailer which, in Rockstar tradition, is named: You’ll Always Be The King Of This Town. The company’s press release that accompanied the trailer promises guns, glitz and glamor and the most…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
McFarlane Does The Prince of Persia
McFarlane Toys and Disney are teaming up to deliver a little shirtless Jake Gyllenhaal to the masses, with a massive toy line planned to coincide with the release of the film. Looks like LEGO isn’t the only toy line getting a piece of the Prince next year, with McFarlane Toys getting ready to roll out…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Codemasters Says Goodbye To ArchLord
Codemasters has lost the rights to operate its first free-to-play MMO ArchLord in North America and Europe, but a new operator is stepping up to make sure the players can keep playing. The Orcs, Elves, and Humans of Chantra will be moving to a new home on October 3rd, when Korean publisher Webzen takes over…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Best Buy Celebrates The Beatles: Rock Band With London Tour
Best Buy is giving away trips to London to tour Abbey Road Studios as well as t-shirts and copies of The Beatles: Rock Band to celebrate the Sept. 9 launch of the title. On Sept. 9, ten Best Buys will kick off celebrations for the game at 8 a.m. with prize and memorabilia giveaways including…
By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Play Dragonica Online, Win Real Loot
Players who participate in the open beta test for THQ*ICE’s Dragonica Online could find themselves on the receiving end of fabulous prizes, including a trip to Korea to meet the game’s developers. The Dragonica Online open beta kicks off this week, running from September 3rd to October 27th. During the open beta, monsters will be…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Splinter Cell: Double Agent And GRAW Now Slightly On Demand
Two Tom Clancy titles are added to the Xbox 360 Games on Demand service, unless you don’t live in the UK or Europe (excluding Germany), in which case there’s just the one. The first Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter game is now available everywhere but Australia, New Zeeland, and Korea for the low price…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Now, Where’s Yoshtse
As seen on Shark Robot.
By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Red VS. Blue VS. Halo 3 ODST
The Red vs. Blue team from Rooster Teeth‘s machinima series take a look at the "normal soldiers" of Halo 3: ODST. Their reaction was pretty much the same reaction I have to a new Halo game. I think, “Hooray! I shall be at the same skill level as many other people for a short period…
By Mike Fahey Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Godfather II Did Better Than GTA
This is the first in a series (maybe) of posts labeled “Hindsight” that discuss games you may have thought we were done writing about. Earlier this year, a couple of game developers let me in on one of their secrets: They intentionally play bad games. They play the stuff you or I would avoid not…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Netflix Offers Credit For 360 Service Interrupt
Netflix is offering credit for people who were unable to stream movies or TV shows to their Xbox 360 on Sunday. In an email sent out to members of its service Monday evening, Netflix said technical issues may have made it hard for members to stream video from the service to the Xbox 360 on…
By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Is It Me, Or Is Does It Feel Like Fall Earlier?
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: New PC Apologies to those who live where it will soon be spring or those who don’t like talking about the weather, but yeah, it seems very fall-like here where I live — and it’s usually hot and gross all throughout September. What you missed last night What Square Enix…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gears Of War’s Imulsion Canned, Available On Earth
Imulsion, the glowy resource at the heart of all things Gears of War, has been canned, laced with sugar and preservatives, and put on sale in the United States for $2.99 a pop. The drinks – of which, sadly, we have no nutritional information – are put out by Boston America, who are also the…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2009 - Uncategorized
Meet Your New Galaga World Record-Holder
Galaga may be nearly two decades old, but its previous world record score could only last two years, with Andrew Laidlaw’s 2007 mark broken over the weekend by Phil Day. Day, from the small Australian town of Braidwood (not too far from my abode in Canberra), had been practising for six months on an original…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2009