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Dante’s Inferno Comic Premiers At Comic-Con (Updated)
EA and DC Comics have teamed up to create a comic book mini-series based off of the upcoming Dante’s Inferno video game, with preview copies available at the San Diego Comic-Con later this week. DC Comics adds another video game license to their Wildstorm imprint with Dante’s Inferno, the action-adventure game adopted loosely from Dante…
By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wizard of Oz Preview: Partying Up With The Tin Man
Thank goodness the new Wizard of Oz game for the DS doesn’t closely follow the movie’s plot, because this reporter, who played the game recently, could never get through that movie. What Is It? The Wizard of Oz is a newly announced (today!) game for the DS coming this fall from publisher XSeed. It’s a…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mad Catz Brings Exclusive Street Fighter Sticks To Comic-Con
The San-Diego Comic-Con is all about exclusive goodies, and in that spirit Mad Catz is hawking a limited number of exclusive Street Fighter IV arcade sticks and pads to show attendees. Visitors to the San-Diego Comic-Con this week will have a chance to pick up one of 500 of these exclusive Street Fighter IV accessories,…
By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rabbids Go Home On The DS
The Nintendo Wii couldn’t contain the Raving Rabbids‘ first solo game, so Ubisoft is bringing Rabbids Go Home to the DS as well, with extra-added functionality for those who’ve upgraded to the DSi. Featuring the same storyline as the Wii version, Rabbids Go Home DS trades in the console’s Katamari-esque collecting gameplay for a puzzle-adventure…
By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Preview The Next 360 System Update
Microsoft is inviting thousands of Xbox 360 owners to help beta test the next big Xbox 360 system update, and your chance is just a modest survey away. As they did with the New Xbox Experience last year, so Microsoft is doing with the next big system update, inviting users by the thousands to test…
By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed 2 Short Films Hit This Holiday
Assassin’s Creed II: Lineage, the short film series inspired by the game, will kick off this holiday, Ubisoft said today. The three short movies willl focus on the story of Ezio’s father, Giovanni Auditore da Firenze, and will be a prelude to the Assassin’s Creed II storyline, offering insight into the Assassin’s Creed II storyline…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
World At War Map Pack 3 Deploys In August
It’s another set of three normal maps and one zombie map in Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3, coming to consoles next month from the fine folks at Treyarch. Three screens accompanied today’s announcement, showing off the three regular multiplayer maps coming as part of World at War’s third dose of downloadable…
By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Greenpeace Turns PS3, Wii, 360 Into Spokesmen Against Toxicity in Consoles
Greenpeace today released three videos to highlight what they say is the presence of “highly toxic substances” in video game consoles. The stop-motion videos turn the bits and pieces of the Playstation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 into fictional spokesman defending the companies decisions. About two years ago Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony were added to…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
New WoW Races Hinted At By Halloween Masks?
A set of four Halloween masks discovered in the latest test patch for World of Warcraft has players debating over whether or not they’ve uncovered the next two races for Blizzards massively-popular MMO. The four masks in question, shown above courtesy of But Wait, There’s Lore, depict a goblin male and goblin female, which are…
By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Virtual Carlos Santana Wails In Guitar Hero 5
Rock, salsa and jazz fusion spring to life in Guitar Hero 5, which will feature the guitar legend Santana in all his 3D-rendered glory. A live version of Santana’s “No One to Depend On” will be featured in the next version of Activision’s band game, and an eerily-lifelike Carlos Santana will be on hand to…
By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Which Game Character Would Star in the Game of Your Life?
Stealing a page from Jezebel (and GameSpy), I’d love to hear which game character would play you in the video game of your life. It’s pretty simple to answer: Just drop in picture of yourself and pictures of which character you’d like to play you in a game, and which actually would. No contest, just…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Shattered Horizon: One Giant Whoops For Mankind
On this, the 40th anniversary of man walking on the moon, Shattered Horizon developer Futuremark Games Studio reminds us why humanity can’t have nice things. Shattered Horizon is a first-person shooter which has players fighting in zero-gravity amidst the remnants of the moon, blown to bits during a mining explosion. In case you were wondering…
By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download: My Life As A Darklord
Nintendo only adds four titles to the Wii and DS this week, with the Virtual Console passed up completely, but hey…one of the games has “Final Fantasy” in it, and the kids love Final Fantasy. Of course it also has “Crystal Chronicles” in it, which tends to make many a Final Fantasy fan cringe, but…
By Mike Fahey Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Frak to Cleveland Steamer: Xbox Live’s Big Book of Forbidden Words
In the 70s there were just seven words you couldn’t say on TV. Today there are thousands you can’t say on Xbox Live. The seven words deemed verboten by the 1973 Federal Communication Commission were scatological, anatomical and, well, nasty. What they all had in common, though, was that pretty much everyone over a certain…
By Brian Crecente Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Sunday Was Actually Lazy
To: Bashcraft From: Crecente Like…… I played some Battlefield 1943, drank a glass of wine, watched it rain and read a book on the sofa. It was great — don’t remember the last time I actually was able to do this. How was your weekend? What you missed last night New Dashboard Commercials Bring Ad…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Valve: Let Fans Fund Games Development
Here’s how most games are made: idea is pitched to publisher, publisher likes idea, risks millions of dollars funding said idea. Most of those risks end up as busts. So is there a better way of doing things? Valve like to think so. Company boss Gabe Newell has said that, rather than allow conservative publishers…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 20, 2009 -
UncategorizedNew Dashboard Commercials Bring Ad Breaks To Your 360
As many of you have no doubt probably seen by now if you’ve been connected to Xbox Live, Microsoft’s new dashboard advertisements have begun appearing for Xbox 360 owners. Rather than the standard, static advertisements you’re used to seeing, these bring running commercials to your 360, in some cases complete with video and, more annoyingly,…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Streets Of Rage, Now On iPhone
Open up. Time for your weekly dose of “let’s port a game to the iPhone for a quick buck”, this time featuring Sega, and a re-release of Streets of Rage. The game was released on Friday, and is going for $5 on the App Store. As is standard policy with these things, I’m not touching…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 20, 2009 - Uncategorized
Your N64 Case Mod Is In Another Castle
As seen on Technabob.
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 20, 2009