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The French Won’t Be Blocked From Enjoying Modern Warfare 2’s Goggles
In a bit of triumphant news for the French, word to Kotaku via Infinity Ward’s chief Twitterer is that the Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition will be available in the land of the Eiffel Tower. The tweet came out of the blue today from Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling: fourzerotwo @stephentotilo – good news,…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kojima On Peace Walker: “This game is an MGS5-class game”
In a press release Q&A issued by Konami today, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima stresses the importance of the PSP installment of the Metal Gear Solid series, calling it, “a MGS5-class game.” While the PlayStation Portable is no stranger to side stories and throwaway tie-ins to otherwise major game franchises, that simply isn’t the case…
By Mike Fahey Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Mixes It Up With Club Fight Night
EA beats Acitivision’s DJ Hero to the punch, launching its own DJ game as part of Club Fight Night, the newly-opened addition to the EA Sports Complex in PlayStation Home. While the Club DJ mini-game looks rather entertaining, the real action is in the main ring, where two giant, player-controlled robots rock and sock each…
By Mike Fahey Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
PSP’s Assassin’s Creed Will Have Free Running, Open World and PS3 Connectivity
In development by Griptonite Studio, Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines for the Playstation Portable promises to deliver the “core gameplay” of the original console title including free-running and an intuitive combat system. “As it was the case in Assassin’s Creed, Altair will get to explore various large cities,” Frederic Lefrancois, third party producer for the game, said…
By Brian Crecente Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Runes Of Magic: The Changing Face Of Taborea
September’s Chapter II update for Runes of Magic isn’t just adding elves to the game, but a rather large chunk of new real estate as well. The Elven Legacy free expansion for Runes of Magic adds several new areas to the Taborean map, from the Northeast’s Weeping Coast to the Savage Lands, a rainforest area…
By Mike Fahey Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Marvel VS Capcom 2 PS3 Coming In August
PlayStation 3 owners are going to have to wait a couple of weeks longer than Xbox 360 owners to get their hands on Marvel VS Capcom 2. At the time the July 29th release date was announced for the Xbox Live Arcade version of Marvel VS Capcom, the Capcom Europe website contained an image showing…
By Mike Fahey Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
The PSP’s Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines in Action
The Playstation Portable version of Assassin’s Creed explains the link between Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed 2. This video starts to show how, though we still don’t get to see how the game is actually played.
By Brian Crecente Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dirt 2 Release Date Set In Mud
The PC version might have been pushed back, but Codemasters is still dumping Dirt 2 onto consoles and handhelds in early September. September 8th is when the next version of Codemasters’ venerable rally racing series hits North America, dishing Dirt 2 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, DS, and PlayStation Portable. Three days…
By Mike Fahey Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Two Madden 10 Demos Out This Month
The latest version of EA Sports‘ NFL game has gone gold, with a demo coming later this month to help fans determine if they should buy Madden 10 at midnight or wait til morning. I mean, let’s be real here. Those who are going to purchase Madden NFL 10, are going to buy Madden NFL…
By Mike Fahey Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Building Your Ultimate Game Room
GamePro, ignoring costs and the current economy, put together a list of the pricey items you need to build your own luxurious game room. Their set-up includes a 52-inch LCD, bunches of consoles and a high-end PC rig, 5.1 surround sound, a mini-fridge, air purifier and robotic vacuum cleaner. Interesting decisions across the board. How…
By Brian Crecente Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mini Ninjas: Meet Futo
Eidos introduces us to the least-mini of the Mini Ninjas, Futo, with the stirring story of the love that forms between a young overweight child and his sledgehammer. Futo is of course the powerhouse of Mini Ninjas’ trio of characters, which in video game terms means he is slow but powerful. He (literally) rounds out…
By Mike Fahey Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Rolls Out WoW Mobile Armory
Clean those third-party World of Warcraft applications off of your iPhone or iPod Touch, because Blizzard’s free official Mobile Armory application is go. The World of Warcraft Mobile Armory takes all the functionality of the full armory website and places it at your fingertips. The iPhone app allows players to immediately access character, guild, and…
By Mike Fahey Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Infinity Ward Talks Modern Warfare 2, 43 Stories Up
Infinity Ward brought Modern Warfare 2 to New York City last night and educated us a bit about the game’s lengthy co-op, ever-changing name, suspiciously inexpensive night vision goggles and more. The developers of Activision’s first-person-shooter fall juggernaut showed their game on the 43rd floor of a midtown Manhattan hotel, with drinks offered, a big…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Photoshop Alternative?
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Journalist or Gamer? Put this in my Twitter… Sorry for the double posting, but…….. Looking for a program that’s like Photoshop, but not Photoshop — which, sadly, causes my computer to drag ass. So far, I’ve been using the demo for a program called Pixelmator for my Mac. It’s not…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Some Guys Get “Portal” Running On The iPhone
Now, we don’t even know if this is real. And if it is, whether it’s Portal, or just a pared-down imitation of it. But it certainly looks like other iPhone ports – less stuff and clunky controls – so if it is fake, at least they got that part right. The Cake May Be a…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
DS Sales Double In Japan (Thanks Dragon Quest IX!)
According to Ascii Media Works, the release of Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS hasn’t just been good business for Square Enix. It’s been good news for Nintendo as well. The market research firm says that in the week before the game went on sale, Nintendo shifted 51,601 DS handhelds. But last week, after…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ys Seven Trailer Shows Ys Seven Footage
Hero Adol returns once again in Nihon Falcom’s action role-playing-game franchise Ys. Slated for this September in Japan, Ys Seven features a brand new battle system for this PSP title. Rockin’ music, too.
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Yelling Gamer Vs. Cops And SWAT Tea
Screams coming from inside a New Jersey house prompted a woman taking a stroll to call the cops. Police arrived on the scene and knocked on the door. That’s when things got bizarre. The resident said he was screaming because he was playing video games. According to MyCentralJersey.com, the man became “irrational” and more police…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 16, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony’s New Motion Controller Tracks “True 3D”
Today in Brighton, UK at conference Develop 2009, Sony has shown off its new PS3 motion controller, which was first debuted at this year’s E3 in Los Angeles (pictured). Sony promised to display “a lot more of the new controller” and give “several real-world examples of such techniques as used in recent and soon to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 16, 2009