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CultureHow To Beat A Final Fantasy Game In Under 2 Minutes
You’re a busy person, so this how-to on beating The Final Fantasy Legend for the original Game Boy in just under two minutes is perfect for your on-the-go role-playing game finishing lifestyle. Get ready to glitch! That’s because The Final Fantasy Legend—really the first entry in Square Enix’s SaGa series—is as glitchy as they come,…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
Shaun White Snowboarding World Stage Preview: Snow In Summer
What better way to cool down a group of games writers in the middle of summer than showing them a video game about snowboarding? I’m not a fan of the Wii Balance Board, so I wasn’t really looking forward to “feet-on time” with the game until I saw the demo master wipe out on a…
By AJ Glasser Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Announces Fight Night Round 4 DLC, Button Controls Slated For September
Following calls from fans critical of Fight Night Round 4’s current control options, EA is bringing a free alternative — and some other new content before that. EA Sports announced two upcoming free releases of downloadable content for Fight Night Round 4 today. The first, slated for early August, will add a new gym, “new…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe DLC That Could’ve Been
Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe‘s roster of “kombatants” was missing some key names on both sides. That was something series co-creator Ed Boon and the MK team had hoped to address with downloadable content, which never happened. Boon had hinted at appearances from characters like Kung Lao and Doomsday in interviews, showing designs for one…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
The History of Assassin’s Creed 2’s Protagonist
This first developer diary for upcoming Ubisoft action-title Assassin’s Creed 2 gives us a glimpse into the backstory of the main character. The graphics and some of the play looks improved for this latest iteration, but will it be enough to outperform it’s predecessor.
By Brian Crecente Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Look At ODST’s Halo 3 Maps
As promised, Bungie has delivered three shots of the new Halo 3 multiplayer maps included in the add-on disc shipping with Halo 3: ODST. If the above image seems familiar, that’s because the new Heretic map revisits Halo 2’s Midship map, allowing players to plasma grenade each other all over the interior of the Pious…
By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Nintendo Release Exacerbates Lefty Gamers’ Lament
One would think that the left-handed Shigeru Miyamoto wouldn’t let things like this happen. Not all games are for all people. This obvious statement somewhat less obviously pertains to more than just matters of taste, physical dexterity or tolerance of bad voice acting. It also pertains to handedness. The left-handed wing of Kotaku discovered this…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
Elves Add Classes To Runes Of Magic
The elves are bringing two new playable character classes to Runes of Magic, along with the usual pointy-ears and naked mailbox dancing. The Warden and the Druid join Runes of Magic’s diverse cast of character classes when the second chapter, The Elven Prophecy, hits the game this September. The Warden is at one with the…
By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
TMNT Smash-Up Preview: Will The Real April O’Neil Please Stand Up?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up aims to combine not only the best of Wii fighting games with the TMNT franchise, but also to combine the best parts of the franchise into one game. To that end, there will allegedly be different characters from the new kids TV show, the old kids TV show, the comic…
By AJ Glasser Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rabbids Go Home Preview: Rabbids Go In Your Wiimote
The Rabbids series has done pretty well for itself, considering that it’s all about about mentally challenged bunnies doing wacky things. Previous installments of Rayman Raving Rabbids games have all been about mini games that make use of the Wii’s unique controls in perverse and silly ways. Like the one where you used your butt…
By AJ Glasser Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes Preview: The Might Of Mana… and Puzzles
The Might & Magic series is more commonly associated with hardcore role-playing game or turn-based strategy combat – but Ubisoft is going for another reboot of the series with Clash of Heroes. The game is still turn-based and there’s still a lot of strategy involved. But this adorable DS game is more of a puzzle…
By AJ Glasser Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
Red Steel 2 Preview: Whack-tastic Fun
I like to think I come to every new game with a clean slate – but Red Steel was so bad, I couldn’ help but be pessimistic about what to expect from Red Steel 2. After five minutes with the demo though, I take back everything bad I ever even started to think about this…
By AJ Glasser Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
Duke Nukem 3D To Kick iAss On iPhone
Duke Nukem Forever might be dead, but the spirit of the name lives on, as MachineWorks Northwest prepares to release an updated version of Duke Nukem 3D for the iPhone. Yes, MachineWorks is delivering a smoothed-over but faithful port of the original Duke Nukem 3D to the iPhone. MachineWorks is the same team that brought…
By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
Happy Bungie Day!
On the seventh day of the seventh month, the team at Bungie crawled out of their darkened office to take on the world in Halo 3, during their annual Bungie Day celebration. Bungie has a thing for the number seven, documented by the research team at Halopedia, and so they picked July 7th (7/7) as…
By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
Jackson Five Track In LEGO Rock Band
The Jackson 5’s 1969 number-one hit single “I Want You Back” will be appearing in the upcoming LEGO Rock Band. Jonathan Smith from British developer Traveller’s Tales confirmed to game site VG247 that the Jackson 5 tune will be appearing in the game. Other newly announced titles are “Breakout” by the Foo Fighters and “A-Punk”…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
Champions Online Versus Your Computer
It’s an all-out battle between your computer and the forces of system requirements, as Cryptic reveals the stats your PC needs to roll to run Champions Online. Judging from the game’s simplistic, stylized look, you wouldn’t think you’d need a powerful machine to run it, and you’d be correct in that thinking. Champions will run…
By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
SimAnimals Bless The Rains Down In Africa
The wild dogs cry out in the night, as they grow restless looking for some solitary company in SimAnimals Africa, EA’s follow-up to their charming animal simulator for the Nintendo Wii and DS. If you want compelling animal drama, you go to Africa. Natsume knows this, as does Majesco. Now EA is getting in on…
By Mike Fahey Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
Who Needs Nintendo Chiptunes When You’ve Got Sega Rock?
Music inspired directly by video games tends to be fairly limited in scope. Chiptunes, hip-hop, some electronica, and the odd piece of folk. Sludgefeast are none of those things. They are instead a good, old-fashioned rock band. I picked up their album “Virtua Rock” a few weeks back in a second-hand record store purely because…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Is This?
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Summer Daze What did I end up doing during the weekend? Micro-Bash got sick for the first time — he barfed at the doctor’s office, so much so that Mrs. Bashcraft had to go home and get me a new pair of clothes. Shirt, pants and even all the way…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 7, 2009