Final Fantasy XIV Online Screens Are Online

Final Fantasy fans were shocked and/or delighted to see the fourteenth entry in the series officially announced at Sony’s E3 2009 media briefing. Final Fantasy XIV is taking the series back online, a PlayStation 3 and PC “exclusive” MMO. And it looks rather sharp, as seen in new-ish screens of the massively multiplayer online game,…

What are your views on digital content? I for one am all for it, it’s convenient for sure but I hate not being able to trade in games when I’m done with them.

Go Speed Racer, Gooo!

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Wearing Coke Bottles I keep watching that Forza video over and over again. It’s great stuff. Sure, it doesn’t show off realistic physics or car performance, but it’s not meant to. It’s meant to draw people like me in, and it’s succeeding. I’ll be posting my interview with the Turn…

New H2Overdrive Trailer Full Of Raw Thrills

Developer Specular Interactive‘s spiritual sequel to Hydro Thunder, known as H2Overdrive, looks to offer everything you’d want from a proper sequel to Midway’s high-speed, big jump-filled boat racing game. Specifically, that’s just more Hydro Thunder. It may not have the name, but after viewing the new trailer for the Raw Thrills‘ arcade game, H2Overdrive appears…

Shadow Complex Preview: Where’s The Morph Ball?

Does Xbox Live Arcade need a game inspired by 2D Metroid? Sure, unless Microsoft plans on buying Nintendo. Shadow Complex is the third exclusive game from Epic for the Xbox 360, a dramatic stylistic shift from two Gears of Wars. This one’s a just-about-modern-day side-scrolling adventure for Xbox Live Arcade primarily designed by Epic’s newly-acquired…

Max Payne 3 Inflicted Upon New Game Informer

Rockstar Games’ Max Payne 3 is apparently getting Game Informer cover treatment this month, as early issues of the magazine appear to be already in subscriber’s hands. So, what’s going on with Max Payne these days? According to early, still rumored details from the mag, Max Payne 3 will move the series to Sao Paulo,…

The Sims 3 Sells 1.4 Million During Week One

Was there ever any doubt that The Sims 3 would be a smashing success? If so, sweep away those doubts, because the Electronic Arts published game is now “the best-selling PC launch in EA’s history.” According to official word from EA, The Sims 3 has already moved 1.4 million copies of the PC and Mac…

Fat Princess: A Fistful of Cake Preview: Fatter

The downloadable PlayStation 3 version of lady-stealing, cake-eating Fat Princess isn’t out until mid-summer, but Sony’s already showing its PSP spin-off, which might become the beefier version, to mix food metaphors. What Is It? Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake is a the PSP spin-off of Titan Studio’s mid-summer-scheduled PlayStation Network game Fat Princess. The multiplayer-centric…

Gran Turismo Creator Explains PSP Delays, Talks Controls & Online Play

Prior to E3 2009, Gran Turismo for the PSP was largely considered vaporware, a driving simulation that felt like little more than a five-year-old announcement. But Gran Turismo is real—and it’s coming to the PlayStation Portable this October. Why the long wait? Kazunori Yamauchi, president of developer Polyphony Digital, says it was just a matter…

EA Considered Doing Its Own Natal, Backs Sensible Motion Gaming

In an interview with Kotaku, the head of EA disclosed some of his company’s experience and ideas involving Microsoft and Sony’s motion tech, predicting that half of the market will eventually go to motion-control games. On the final morning of E3, I sat at a closed bar with EA CEO John Riccitiello and learned that…

Eduardo Toasts WiiWare This Monday

The long wait is over, as Semnat Studios announces Eduardo the Samurai Toaster is coming to WiIWare on Monday, June 15th. Let us celebrate with screens, as a toast would be in poor taste.

Five Bloody Minutes Of Left 4 Dead 2 Gameplay

What’s new in Left 4 Dead 2? This collection of direct feed gameplay snippets from Valve’s quick sequel shows off the highlights: melee weapons, incendiary bullets, new Special Infected, zombie killin’ action set during day time and… tractors! Yes, this is the South, so you’ll come across a John Deere or two in your journey…

Supreme Commander 2 Impressions: Less Is More

After he finished delivering medical advice, Gas Powered Games founder and CEO Chris Taylor showed me a little of what Supreme Commander 2 was bringing to the real-time strategy title. It was a bit odd, seeing the next title in the Supreme Commander series behind closed doors in the Square Enix booth, but with the…

Army of Two: The 40th Day’s Smartest Feature Guarantees Arguments

Before you roll your eyes at yet another game infused with an innovative morality system, consider the arresting E3 2009 debut of Army of Two’s co-op morality. Fist-bumps and standing back-to-back while shooting machine guns…those were some of the signature elements of co-operative, two-player gaming in EA’s original 2008 shooter Army of Two. For the…

World Of Warcraft Flavored Mountain Dew Now Quenching Epic Thirsts

Have a massive thirst? Consider it slayed, as Mountain Dew (aka Mtn Dew) and Blizzard have officially made the soda based on World of Warcraft available, in either citrus-cherry-flavored Horde Red or wild fruit-flavored Alliance Blue. The previously announced sugary concoction should be raiding store shelves near you, according to word from PepsiCo, offering players…

Jason Sudeikis Pitches First Full-Penetration Game to Schafer

Focus Effect 4 isn’t just a game, it’s a seed in Jason Sudeikis‘ fevered mind. Jimmy Fallon sent Sudeikis to E3 this year to cover the conference and, apparently, pitch his idea for a new game which is one part every game every made and one part full-penetration sex. Brutal Legend dev Tim Schafer seems…

Alpha Protocol: You Got Some RPG In My Shooter

Alpha Protocol is a role-playing game disguised as a fast-paced third-person shooter. In the game you play as a highly customizable Michael Thorton, a CIA field agent on the run from his former superiors. Developers Obsidian Entertainment describe the game as a modern-day espionage role-playing game, but it plays just like a shooter. That’s not…

Shadow Of The Colossus Wanders Into LittleBigPlanet This Thursday

Phase two of Media Molecule‘s sinister plan to add Team Ico-themed content to LittleBigPlanet, forcing me to buy it, consists of three new Sackboys from Shadow of the Colossus. Meet Wander and Quadratus. But wait there’s more. Exactly one more Shadow of the Colossus Sack, that is. LittleBigPlanet will also get the Gaius colossus, albeit…

Forza’s Mind-Blowing Trailer Took a Month to Create

One of the most stunning moments for me during Microsoft’s press conference didn’t come from their new virtual controller, or Beatles appearance, in came from a car ballet. I’m not a big racing fan. I play racing sims, and occasionally enjoy them, but they’re certainly not my bread and butter. The same holds true for…

Bioshock 2 Big And Little Sisters, Anime Style

While terrifying glimpses of BioShock 2’s Big Sister and creepy Little Sisters are enough to satiate Western audiences, the cover of a recent issue of Taiwan’s Famitsu Weekly takes a decidedly more Eastern approach. GameSetWatch highlighted this anime take on two of gaming’s creepier characters, which takes a great deal of the creepy away, filling…