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Fourteen Big Titles Hitting This Year
Earlier this week Totilo detailed the thinning of the fall release schedule, pointing out all of the games that have been getting bumped back to next year. GameDaily, always ready to find the silver lining, put together this list of more than a dozen titles that will be making the year. Who needs Bioshock 2…
By Brian Crecente Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
APB Won’t Have Normal Subscription Fees
While players will still have to pay to play Realtime Worlds’ massively-multiplayer online game APD, head honcho David Jones says they won’t be paying a flat monthly fee. APB has cost Realtime Worlds around $30 million between development data centers, and hardware, so we’d certainly forgive them if they wanted us to pay a monthly…
By Mike Fahey Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bayonetta Joins Ranks of Delayed Games
Bayonetta, the over-the-top action brawler from Platinum Games, just got bumped into January 2010, Sega announced this morning. It will, however, still be launching in Japan on Oct. 29. “Bayonetta is an extremely important new IP for SEGA and adds a new level of depth to our growing portfolio. As a result of market analysis…
By Brian Crecente Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Vaughn Gittin Jr. Drifts Through Need For Speed: Shift
Slightly Mad Studios is serious about drifting in the upcoming Need for Speed Shift, tapping champion drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr, to make sure everything feels just right. Vaughn, commonly referred to as JR in racing circles, is a world-class drifter, which sounds an awful lot like a guy who just moves around from place to…
By Mike Fahey Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Shadow Complex Preview: To Get Past Metroid
It would take more than a double-jump, grappling hook and a screw attack to reach the lofty goal of being a new generation’s 2D Metroid or Castlevania. But that’s what Shadow Complex could hope to be. I’ve spent two hours and twenty minutes this morning with the game, a game made with great love for…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
WipEout HD Fury Add-on Drops Next Week
Three new race types, twelve new tracks, thirteen new ships, and six new music tracks are coming to WipEout HD next week, when the Fury add-on pack hits the PlayStation Store. Thursday, June 23rd is when the WipEout HD Fury pack races onto the PlayStation Network, trailing along tons of new game play in its…
By Mike Fahey Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rock Band Network Lets Anyone Upload Their Music, Launches In ’09
MTV Games and Harmonix are opening up the Rock Band music store to everyone later this year. The Rock Band Network allows any artist to upload and price their own tracks for users to download from the game’s music store. According to a report from Billboard, that service will launch sometime this year for the…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
City Of Heroes Issue 16: Power Spectrum Revealed
Last month’s teasing comes to fruition as NCsoft pulls back the curtain on City of Heroes Issue 16: Power Spectrum, putting the power to customize powers in the players’ hands. It really wasn’t much of a secret, now was it? My biggest gripe about City of Heroes has long been the fact that I can…
By Mike Fahey Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kings Of Leon And Rancid Debut In Rock Band
The first tracks from Kings of Leon and Rancid hit Rock Band next week, topping a massive list of tracks dropping across all three consoles. The addition of Rancid’s “Ruby Soho” to Rock Band next week fills a hole in my heart that I didn’t realize was there until just now. It’s part of the…
By Mike Fahey Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Many Shapes of Stylus To Come
Tired of your boring old DS stylus? Is the Transformer’s stylus a bit too much? Maybe you should look into a custom stylus from Shapeways. The company has a service that lets people customize a number of pre-designed styluses, including ones shaped like a Wii remote, a Pokemon and Link’s shield, by selecting the material…
By Brian Crecente Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wolfenstein The Animated Graphic Novel Part Three
Activision returns to Castle Wolfenstein in the third chapter of their animated graphic novel….Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Return to Castle Wolfenstein is yet another prequel to the original Wolfenstein 3D, because that’s what you have to do when your protagonists kills Hitler in the first act. U.S. Army Ranger William “B.J.” Blazkowicz is back, taking…
By Mike Fahey Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Gears Up For Fall Opening Of Retail Stores
Those Microsoft retail stores we’ve seen and been told about are going to stop popping up near Apple stores this fall, Microsoft told Cnet. “As we progress on our retail strategy there will be scenarios where we have stores in proximity to Apple,” a representative told CNET News. “We are on track to open stores…
By Brian Crecente Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
There Is A Severe Shortage of Picture Frames
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Fun With Feynman Dunno why I’m so jazzed about it being Friday, and I don’t really have any plans this weekend. No, wait. I do. I am going to buy picture frames. There seems to be a shortage of picture frames. I mean frames that you hang on the wall,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Uh, Britain, About Your Modern Warfare 2 Pricing…
While Europeans are sadly used to paying more for games, we don’t think they’re quite as used to paying as much as Britons are being asked to fork out for Modern Warfare 2 when it hits this holiday season. The standard version will be priced at £55 (USD$90), making it one of, if not the…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Zeno Clash 2 Headed For Retail, Consoles
Zeno Clash was a bold, quirky little thing, and for that, people loved it. That’s also why it was released solely on the PC, as a low-risk digital download. But for the sequel, developers ACE Team are thinking big. Chatting with That VideoGame Blog, ACE Team’s Andres Bordeu hsa said, “The sequel will be developed…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Saints Row PSP Apparently Confirmed By…Swedish Metal Band
According to a posting on the website of Nordic rocker band Opeth, THQ’s sandbox title Saints Row is coming to the PSP. Did you know this? I didn’t. *throws up devil’s horns* As of posting, the band’s website reads: We may not like playing video games all that much but we do like it when…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
PAL PlayStation Store Update: Sincerest Apologies
As is the standard for the PAL PlayStation Store, there’s not much on offer this week. So much so that Sony Europe’s blog has issued a brief apology. SCEE’s Mike Kebby writes “I know this update looks light on content, and I do apologise for that”, before promising that in the coming weeks, there’s not…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Katamari Forever Gets Nutty New Trailer, Rolls Into PlayStation Home
Continuing their support of Sony’s PlayStation Home, Namco Bandai have today announced that they’ll be bringing some Katamari Damacy stuff to the PS3 service. To be released to help promote the upcoming Katamari Tribute (or Katamari Forever as it’s known here), Japanese users will soon be able to pick up a Katamari t-shirt and adorable…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Closes Game Development Program
Microsoft have been getting into user-created gaming in a big way of late. First Xbox LIVE Community Games, then Kodu. Which means they have little use for their original games creator, Popfly. Released to minimal fanfare last year as a set of templates upon which people could build games with little or no programming experience,…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 17, 2009