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Sony One Step Closer To PSP Ad Hoc Party Support In U.S.
A recently filed trademark from Sony may be good news for PSP and PlayStation 3 owners in the West, as better wireless multiplayer support on the PlayStation Portable may be in our future. Sony Computer Entertainment filed for the trademark “adhocParty” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week, the name of the service…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Red Faction: Guerrilla’s Road Warriors Of The Badlands
See Red Faction: Guerrilla‘s chief mechanic Samanya channel her inner road warrior in this set of screens from the upcoming Demons of the Badlands downloadable content. Demons of the Badlands, the first of three planned DLC packs for Red Faction: Guerrilla, is a new story arc that takes place three years before the start of…
By Mike Fahey Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Surprise! Your Disgaea 3 Saves Are Safe After All
NIS America‘s warning that the Disgaea 3 trophy patch would render previous saved games useless turns out to have been a false alarm, with multiple readers reporting that their saves work just fine. We’ve been emails since yesterday regarding the Disgaea 3 update, which was originally thought to provide trophy support for the PlayStation 3…
By Mike Fahey Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
See Just How Well Dragon Quest IX Helped The DS In Japan
Dragon Quest IX went on sale in Japan last week. It sold a lot. It also sold a lot of Nintendo DSis. And it certainly didn’t help the competition. While Nintendo DSi sales more than doubled—in part, thanks to a limited edition Dragon Quest-branded version of the device—every other platform saw a decline in sales…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Layoffs Hit Sony Online Entertainment
Despite the runaway success of Free Realms and the growing anticipation for DC Universe Online, Sony Online Entertainment feels the layoff lash, confirming a 5% workforce reduction with Kotaku. Upon getting word of the layoffs from IndustryGamers, we contacted our SOE rep to see if we could glean any more information regarding the layoffs, which…
By Mike Fahey Published July 17, 2009 - Reviews
Battlefield 1943 Review: Battling In The Pacific
EA DICE, the developers behind Mirror’s Edge and Battlefield 1942, bring us Battlefield 1943, a PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Arcade downloadable first person shooter set against the backdrop of World War II’s Pacific front. This is the latest entry in the Battlefield franchise and the first downloadable-only console version. The shooter rolls out three…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
I’ll be giving Twisted Pixel’s ‘Splosion Man a go this weekend, the Xbox Live Arcade game that will kick off Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade festivities. With Totilo going on about Shadow Complex lately, a side-scroller sounds good right about now. In between playing that and prepping for another Blizzard and Comic-Con next week, I will…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Harmonix, Msoft Will Filter Artist Music Uploads
News of Rock Band‘s new gamer-driven network which allows artists to upload and price their own music, didn’t come without a warning and some help from Microsoft’s Xbox Live Enforcement Squad. The Rock Band Network, which launches later this year for the 360, has artists submit their songs to a group of “Harmonix-trained freelance game…
By Brian Crecente Published July 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
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