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Sony Completely Rebrands The PlayStation 3
This won’t have any real effect on you, the consumer, but it’s still interesting to note that with yesterday’s launch of the PS3 Slim, Sony were doing more than redesigning a plastic shell. They were rebranding the entire console. One of the countless press releases we received from Sony yesterday gave implicit instructions that we…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gallery: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare On Wii
As we first broke earlier this month, Activision is bringing Call of Duty 4 to the Nintendo Wii. It looks like you might expect Modern Warfare on the Wii would look like. Developed by Infinity Ward, Call of Duty 4 was originally released on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC back in November 2007. Treyarch…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Diablo III Impressions: Hands On With The Barbarian
We just played Diablo III. For fifteen painfully brief minutes, our lady Barbarian tore through hordes of Fallen, clicking them back to the Hell they came from. It was good. The Gamescom (and Blizzcon) demo of Diablo III playable at Blizzard’s booth features the three announced classes: Wizard, Barbarian and Witchdoctor, with male and female…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Jet-Pack Flying Clone Trooper For Reals
The first minute and some-odd seconds of this clip is dull, boring, blergh. From the 1:15 point, things get exciting, thrilling even! Don’t skip ahead. Skipping is for wussies. From the 1:50 point, though, things get boring again.
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
First Details On Fable III
As early as March of this year, Fable designer Peter Molyneux teased to us that the series might take a different direction. The “See The Future” DLC strongly and bluntly alluded to that new direction as well, and today’s press conference in Germany seems to have cemented that into fact. “Third in a series and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fable II Goes Episodic, Pay-To-Play
In addition to announcing Fable III, Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has also revealed that Fable II is to be re-released as an episodic, pay-per-episode title. It’ll launch on September 29, with the game broken up into five chapters. The first chapter will be free, and when you get to the end of it, you’ll be…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft To Announce Fable III
Peter Molyneux plans to announce Fable III this morning at Germany’s Gamescom. Molyneux will be talking about the setting and the story of this third role-playing game during Microsoft’s Gamescom press conference, which is scheduled to commence later this morning. We’ll bring you all the details of the announcement – and everything else Microsoft have…
By Brian Crecente Published August 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Harmonix: SingStar Beatles Is A “Misheard Rumor”
Interesting. Yesterday, we ran a story from British trade site MCV, who claimed that Sony had signed a deal with EA for the PS3-exclusive release of Singstar: Beatles. Thing is, Harmonix are being all…funny about it. Harmonix’s Sean Baptiste has issued a short, blunt statement on the matter, saying “This isn’t true, just a misheard…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Talk PlayStation Lifetime Sales, PSN Revenue
During their big press conference earlier today at Gamescom, Sony took the time to reveal some facts, figures and numbers for both the PlayStation family of consoles as well as the PlayStation Network. Disclosed were the lifetime sales figures for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. Those numbers (and these are worldwide figures)…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
PS3 Slim Already Has A Bundle Deal
The newly announced PS3 Slim is getting a special PS3 bundle — for Japan, that is. And it’s a Gundam bundle. Surprise! To mark the 30th anniversary of the mecha franchise, the bundle comes bundled with a copy of PS3 title Gundam Senki with new box design, a 120GB PS3 Slim, a wireless controller and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 19, 2009 - Uncategorized
Aion Version 1.5 Impressions – What NCSoft Learned In A Year
It’s been one year since I first saw Aion: Tower of Eternity and those wings I admired are about ready to take flight in the US. Developer NCSoft has learned a lot since the massively multiplayer online game went live in Korea last year and they’ve integrated as much as they could into version 1.5,…
By AJ Glasser Published August 19, 2009