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Xbox 360 Gamers Nearly Double Battlefield Kill Count Of PS3 Users, Unlock Map
Last Friday, EA started the clock on its challenge for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners of Battlefield 1943 to score 43 million kills and unlock a Coral Sea map. The Microsoft gamers achieved that goal today. The new map, Coral Sea, adds a fourth playing field for the downloadable World War II multiplayer shooter.…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nostalgia’s Airships Make Us Nostalgic
Ignition Entertainment‘s Nostalgia for the Nintendo DS lives up to its name, bringing to mind roleplaying games of ages past with battling airships. Nostalgia basically takes the same sort of airship travel as we’ve seen in earlier entries in the Final Fantasy series and countless other roleplaying games and pimps it out, letting the player…
By Mike Fahey Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
How Nintendo Has Described Itself From ’87 To ’09
Over the years, Nintendo, like most companies, has had to explain what in the world it is at the bottom of the press releases it issues. That description has changed. A lot. 1987 Nintendo financial earnings report… Nintendo of America Inc. is the U.S. marketing and sales arm of Kyoto, Japan-based Nintendo Co. Ltd., the…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wolfenstein Will Miss Its August 4 Due Date
Raven and id Software‘s Wolfenstein won’t be opening a portal to retail the first week of August, as previously planned. The latest game to be hit by a summer delay will now ship a few weeks later, Activision confirmed today. Why? According to an Activision spokesperson, the delay was made “in order to facilitate a…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Left 4 Dead’s Inevitable ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ Mod
Now that Valve has added custom campaign support, expect map makers to cross every pop culture zombie reference off the list of available mods. Dawn of the Dead? Check. Resident Evil? Check. Shaun of the Dead? Ch… yay!! While still early in development—and reportedly suffering a few bumps along the way—the Left 4 Winchester mod…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mana Khemia 2 Gets Premium Treatment In August
NIS America has narrowed down the release date for Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy to August, released as a premium package with the usual goodies. Developed by Gust, Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy is of course the sequel to Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis. New subjects have been added to Al-Revis Academy’s curriculum,…
By Mike Fahey Published July 14, 2009 -
UncategorizedHeroes of Might and Magic Knock-Off Heading to iPhone, Perhaps For Free
The team behind mobile game Palm Heroes is working on porting the popular turn-based strategy game to the iPhone. The team hopes to raise enough donations to deliver it to the platform for free, they say on their site. The turn based strategy game, originally developed for cell phones, includes six classes, 48 heroes, 4…
By Brian Crecente Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
A One-Two Shot Of Doc Louis’s Punch-Out!!
Club Nintendo of America is giving away a trio of exclusive prizes to members in good standing, the club announced earlier today. One of those is Doc Louis’s Punch-Out!!, a WiiWare title based on the Wii game Punch-Out!!. This is what it looks like. An awful lot like the Wii-imagined Punch-Out!!, obviously, but with the…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
League Of Legends Won’t Cost You A Dime
Riot Games announces today that its upcoming Warcraft III mod turned full game League of Legends will be free-to-play, with a premium retail edition available for those that would rather pay. League of Legends is an action-strategy game with roleplaying elements, fashion after the Warcraft III Defense of the Ancients game type. The player takes…
By Mike Fahey Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Times Square Getting A Wii Sports Resort Make-Over
A concrete island in New York’s Times Square will be getting a sandy beach, swimming pool and “tropical lounge” next week to help promote Nintendo’s upcoming release of Wii Sports Resort. The faux island getaway on Times Square’s Military Island, 7th and Broadway avenues, will be open to everyone from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.…
By Brian Crecente Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gearbox Named As Developer For Scrapped ‘Duke Begins’
The “well-known developer” behind the recently unearthed Duke Nukem series spin-off Duke Begins has been named in court documents. Borderlands and Brothers In Arms developer Gearbox Software was reportedly tasked with developing the title for Take-Two. The Dallas, Texas-based developer was named in a counterclaim from publisher Take-Two Interactive, as discovered by Shacknews. Gearbox’s development…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wolfenstein The Animated Graphic Novel Part Two
Now that Hitler is dead, it’s time to backtrack, stealing the Spear of Destiny back from the Nazi’s in part two of Activision’s Wolfenstein animated graphic novel series. I had almost forgotten that Spear of Destiny was a prequel to Wolfenstein 3D, but I suppose it makes sense. Once you kill Robo-Hitler you can pretty…
By Mike Fahey Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Thinning Video Game Fall Of 2009
It was a buzz topic last night at a still-embargoed event for an upcoming holiday 2009 game: Something’s wrong with this fall. At least for hardcore gamers. (Or maybe something’s finally right?) The delay to BioShock 2 was what was getting reporters and developers talking yesterday. This fall, stocked as it is with some very…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Darkfall Descends On North America
After months spent using Europe as one gigantic beta test, Adventurine’s massively-multiplayer online game Darkfall Online has finally launched its first North American server. Darkfall Online is an online roleplaying game that places an emphasis on player freedom and real-time action in an expansive fantasy world. The European servers opened in February, and despite some…
By Mike Fahey Published July 14, 2009 - Reviews
Rolando 2 Micro Review: Rolando Keeps On Rolling
We reviewed the first Rolando back in January. January 2009. Now, it’s only July, and the sequel is upon us. That’s a pretty swift turnaround, handheld platform or not. So should we be suspicious of this “sequel,” considering its short development time? Or will it show that a great game is a great game, no…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Blue Toad Murders On The PlayStation Network
PlayStation 3 owners are getting a bit of episodic adventure in their lives later this year, as Relentless Software announces Blue Toad Murder Files exclusively for the PlayStation Network. With Telltale trying to juggle putting out new games with porting their existing technology to the PlayStation3, PS3 owners are feeling a bit neglected when it…
By Mike Fahey Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Aion’s Pet Class: The Spiritmaster
NCsoft delivers a set of new Aion screens showcasing the Spiritmaster, the Mage class specialization that gets to hang out with all sorts of interesting elemental pets. When a Mage reaches level 10 in Aion, she can choose one of two paths. Those looking to be glass cannons can opt for the Sorcerer class, while…
By Mike Fahey Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mecho Wars Adds More Challenges, An Entire Second Campaign For Free
iPhone’s answer to Advance Wars, Mecho Wars, received a pretty substantial update to the game yesterday, free of charge. The latest patch for fairly fun real-time strategy game seems to answer a lot of the issues brought up in my and other reviews of the game. Most significant is the addition of info tiles for…
By Brian Crecente Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fight Historic Battles In The Next Halo Wars DLC
Explore the history of the UNSC/Covenant War through bloody battle this month, with four new skirmish maps for Halo Wars in the Historic Battle add-on pack. While the first round of Halo Wars downloadable content focused on new game modes, the Historic Battle pack is all about delivering new places to strategically kill the enemy.…
By Mike Fahey Published July 14, 2009 - Uncategorized
Midway: Newcastle Shut Down, Entire Staff Laid Off
Midway’s UK studio was shut down this morning and all staff let go as the time to find a buyer for the studio behind Wheelman and Necessary Force ran out, a Midway spokesman told Kotaku today. “We can confirm we closed the Newcastle studio this morning, our time,” said Geoffrey Mogilner, Midway spokesman. “During the…
By Brian Crecente Published July 14, 2009