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Fat Princess Micro-Review: Let Them Eat Cake
Kidnap the princess. The sometimes fat, sometimes thin princess. Fat Princess is a new take on the multiplayer favorite, capture the flag. With cake. Developed by Titan Studios, the emphasis is team-based multiplayer — something that seems perfect fodder for a downloadable title like Fat Princess. There are five classes (mage, warrior, worker, archer and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
World Of Warcraft Patches To 3.2
Blizzard upgrades World of Warcraft to version 3.2 today, implementing the Crusaders’ Coliseum dungeons, PVP experience, level 20 mounts, Druid form changes, Rogue axe-wielding, and far fewer embarrassing raid looting situations. 3.2 is a huge patch, with changes to nearly every aspect of the game. Raiding guilds have several new places to play, while the…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Turtles In Time Re-Shelled: Oh The Nostalgia
The launch trailer for the Xbox Live Arcade remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time is jam-packed with sigh-inducing nostalgia. I remember going on a family vacation to Kiawah Island, South Carolina when I was 18 years old. I had been sent out to a nearby shopping complex to pick up pizza and…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2009 -
Uncategorized16 Attempts At Scribblenauts
I am in possession of an early build of DS game Scribblenauts and an imagination. I mixed the two yesterday morning to try to clear one of the game’s levels. It required multiple re-thinkings. To set this up you need to know that Scribblenauts is a Nintendo DS game developed by 5th Cell and published…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tokyo Drift Writer Signs On For Wheel Of Time Games
Hollywood screenwriter Chris Morgan has signed on with Red Eagle Games as the story director for games based on Robert Jordan‘s The Wheel of Time novel series. Having written The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Chris Morgan is no stranger to wheels, and as the screenplay writer for Wanted, he has a fair understanding…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dress Your Avatar In Fable II
Ever wonder what an avatar placeholder wearing a Fable II t-shirt looked like? Well BAM, there it is. A post by Sam Van Tilburgh on the Fable II development blog this morning reveals that Fable II avatar clothes are coming soon to an Xbox 360 near you. A package of Fable II clothing will be…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gang-Tackling Moves the Line in Madden 10
This trailer shows off Pro-Tak, the new tackle physics engine for EA Sports Madden NFL 10. If you get stacked up at the goal line, don’t expect to ricochet your way to paydirt. Similarly, it doesn’t mean it’s all over for the runner. Rather than animate a three- or four-man rodeo as a Quicktime event…
By Owen Good Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Exclusive Rides For Gran Turismo PSP Preorders
Preordering the long-awaited Gran Turismo for the PlayStation Portable scores you one of five rare rides, getting you ready to smoke your friends from the starting line. The five preorder vehicles might already be in the game, but preordering means that you don’t have to pay to unlock them, and you also score them in…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Taylor Swift Shakes Her Polys In Band Hero
Activision’s pop-ridden Guitar Hero spin-off Band Hero scores Taylor Swift as a playable character, and while I might not know who she is, she sure looks fine in polygons. Swift is actually one of pop’s finest songwriters, if Wikipedia and the New York Times are to be believed, regularly topping the country charts with songs…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Namco Eyes Tekken, Soulcalibur As It Expands iPhone Development
It’s a modern day gold rush and Namco’s not above admitting it, or trying to profit from it. Earlier this week the developer announced that they were opening up a new division dedicated solely to the creation of iPhone games. That means more Namco classics, new in-house titles and even third-party games for Apple’s inordinately…
By Brian Crecente Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
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By Stephen Totilo Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Don’t Let This Flower Die!
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Down and Out It’s summer vacation. Mini-Bash has been given homework: water this sunflower. So far, he seems to be remembering, and it hasn’t kicked the bucket just yet. Reminds me of that episode of Degrassi Junior High where the students had to carry an egg and pretend it was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Namco Bandai’s Best-Selling Games Are…
Namco Bandai today released their Q1 2010 earnings report. And buried amidst the boring money stuff (net sales are down 15.8%) is something a little more interesting: game sales data. Listed were the publisher’s top five-selling games for the quarter ending June 30, 2009 (as in, only those sold during that three-month period, not lifetime…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guy Mods Consoles, Could Do 10 Years In Prison
There are some people who modify their own consoles so they can play imported games. That’s fine. There are others, however, who do so for reasons of piracy and commercial gain. Those people are not fine. 27 year-old Matthew Crippen, who is a student at California State University, sounds like he might (might!) be one…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Over 3 Million DSi Units Sold in Japan
As of August 2, Nintendo has sold 3,062,920 DSi units domestically in Japan. The DSi went on sale in Japan last fall on November 1, 2008 for ¥18,900. The total number of DS units sold in Japan is 27 million. DSi hardware sales have been powered by the July release of DS title Dragon Quest.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Ramping Up PS3 Production For…Something
According to Taiwan’s DigiTimes, Sony have recently “placed significant orders for key Sony PS3 components” from local manufacturers, waaaaay above the quantities they normally source. Interesting. They say it’s enough parts to produce one million PS3 consoles in the third quarter of 2009, which is apparently twice as many as were manufactured last quarter. DigiTimes’…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Games Did Japan Buy In July?
July may be over, but it’s not forgotten. It lives on as the month that follows June, and at the same time the month that precedes August. July. Say it with me, July. The number crunchers at Famitsu publisher Enterbrain have crunched some numbers. Those numbers make up Japanese sales data for the month of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Scraps WipeOut HD Loading Ad
The people have spoken. Spoken angrily. And Sony have listened, removing the worst of the in-game advertising from WipeOut HD only 24 hours after it was first officially announced. “The ad has been removed from WipEout HD”, a Sony rep told Eurogamer, “and we are investigating the situation to ensure that any in-game advertising does…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hitman Actor Returning For Hitman 2?
The Hitman movie sequel is still very much in the early stages. Twentieth Century Fox has scribe Kyle Ward (Uncharted movie script, Kane & Lynch script) attached to the Hitman 2 script. But is actor Timothy Olyphant, who played lead Agent 47 in the first film, returning to reprise his role? “It’s not on my…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
LittleBigPlanet Does The Time Warp
Media Molecule, we fully endorse this continued move away from game characters and national holidays towards making LBP content a little more unique. A little more interesting. Case in point: this "history kit". It combines “objects, decorations, music, sounds, materials and 140 (zomg!) stickers” from a number of historical styles/civilizations, including Roman, Egyptian, Arabic, Oriental,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 4, 2009