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Damnation Developers Laid Off
Several former employees at Blue Omega, developers behind the recent Damnation, have confirmed with Kotaku today that the entire dev team has been laid off following “issues” with Codemasters, Damnation’s publishers. They allege that there were a raft of lawsuits behind the sackings, which stem from Blue Omega being “taken off” their own game by…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
PS3 Slim Entering Production, Ready By July
According to Taiwanese site UDN, Sony have signed production contracts with two companies to begin manufacture of the rumoured PS3 “Slim”, with a delivery date of…oh, next month! Now, with a PS3 price cut heavily expected around August, and with stocks of the existing 80GB PS3 supposedly dwindling, a July delivery date for the “new”…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
MySims Agents Preview: Spy vs. Sims
MySims Agents marks a shift in the MySims series away from free-roaming Sim with adventure game elements to actual adventure game with Sim flavorings. The MySims series started out as a cutesy, cartoony version of the Sims series for PC and Wii that would let a younger generation of gamer take a crack at the…
By AJ Glasser Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
And The StarCraft II LAN Petitioning Commences
Angered by news that Blizzard has decided to leave LAN multiplayer out of StarCraft II, fans are doing what fans have done in such situations since the dawn of time – signing a letter. The “LAN in StarCraft 2 Please” petition isn’t really all that much of a petition when you get right now to…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Drinks at the Saucer
To: Ash From: Crecente We’re leaving for New Orleans tomorrow. Tonight Trish and I are going to head over to the Flying Saucer in Fort Worth to have a few drinks. If anyone wants to swing by around 7ish I’d love to say hi and talk games. If the flight time weren’t so long and…
By Brian Crecente Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Spectrobes Now In Convenient Novel Format
Disney continues to stand behind their answer to the Pokémon, releasing a series of junior novels based in the Spectrobes universe. Disney’s enthusiasm for the series they had created from the ground up is admirable, and there tenacity is something to see. They aren’t just fostering a video game franchise, but attempting to sow the…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Vandal Hearts: Flames Of Judgment Falls Into Winter
Konami’s downloadable strategy RPG Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment looks to have slipped from its September release window, now listed with an ambiguous winter release date. When I spent some hands on time at E3 2009 with the prequel to the original Vandal Hearts on the PlayStation, I was told that the game was due…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Resonance Of Fate Trailer Showered With Spent Bullet Casings
Sega is bringing tri-Ace’s Resonance of Fate is eventually coming to North America, and by the looks of this gameplay trailer we might not have enough bullets. I’ve not seen much of Resonance of Fate, formerly End of Eternity, outside of the Americanized butt rock trailer McWhertor posted back in May. It actually looks rather…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
2009 Is Half-Done: What’s Been Great So Far?
Let us not forget the following games six months from now (and prove that button wrong)… Today marks the halfway point of 2009, a year that brought Grand Theft Auto to the DS, our eyes to the bottom of an Avatar’s shoe and some other guy to my old MTV desk. We and the rest…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Maloof Money Cup DLC Rolls To Skate 2
We’ve got some fresh screens from the Maloof Money Cup Pack for EA’s Skate 2, bringing the world’s largest skating championship to your console on July 9th. The Maloof Money Cup is the largest-pursed event in professional skateboarding, and EA is bringing both the park and the thirll of competition to both the PlayStation 3…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Acclaim Re-Develops The Chronicles Of Spellborn
Acclaim is hanging out their “Please Pardon Our Re-Development” signs on their MMO The Chronicles of Spellborn, transforming it into a free-to-play, transaction-based game by next year. We’ve heard of patching, or major content updates…heck, we’ve even heard of an MMO game getting Star Wars Galaxied, but re-developed? That’s what Acclaim is called the process…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Patents WarioWare Take On Othello
The last time we unearthed a big new Nintendo patent, we found hints of a video game paradigm shift. This time, Nintendo may have locked up a multiplayer mode from a 2004 GameCube game. On June 23, the United States granted Nintendo patent number 7,5489,923 a more than 11,000-word patent invented by WarioWare director Goro…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Second Skin Coming To DVD In August
Second Skin, a documentary about virtual worlds and their inhabitants that we’ve been keeping tabs on since it started casting in 2006, is finally coming to DVD this August. Pure West’s Second Skin looks the lives of gamers and virtual world residents as they live out their lives playing World of Warcraft, Everquest, and of…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Check Out Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars This Weekend
Capcom will be showing off Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars to the public this weekend at the Anime Expo in LA. The game isn’t the final build, but it is the one that was shown off during E3. If you’re going to be at the expo check out the game at Booth 437/439. THQ will…
By Brian Crecente Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Network Undergoing A Bit Of Maintenence
The PlayStation Network has been giving readers a bit of trouble today, so we dropped a line to Sony to get the down low on the down time, most of which should be behind us. Both North America and Europe seem to have been affected by the PlayStation Network outage, though only Europe received any…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Red Faction: Guerrilla DLC Covers New Ground
Another victory for Martian guerillas today, as THQ announces three packs of downloadable content for Red Faction: Guerrilla, beginning with Demons of the Badlands, which takes players to an all-new section of the Martian landscape. Of course the new areas included in August’s Demons of the Badlands DLC are still a rather coppery color, but…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Reviews
Fight Night Round 4 Review: Boxing Beautiful
A graphical showpiece and a boxing game just a tad more authentic than the ones featuring King Hippo, Fight Night Round 4 apologizes for its sport and chases that unlikeliest of pugilistic goals: subtlety. MMA is hot and WWE never quite fades away. Boxing eternally hangs from a cliff. Since the 1970s, each decade of…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Three Factions of PS3’s MAG
Zipper Interactive’s massive Playstation 3 shooter MAG isn’t just about having 256 players in a single battle at a time. There’s more nuance than that. Take for instance the three factions in the game. In this video, Zipper developers walk us through the three private military companies that make up the factions of MAG. The…
By Brian Crecente Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sega Still Keen On Mature Wii Games
Despite the poor sales of House of the Dead: Overkill and MadWorld, Sega still has plenty of publishing love set aside for mature games on the Nintendo Wii. House of the Dead: Overkill only sold 45,000 copies in its first month. MadWorld sold 66,000. The numbers paint a dismal picture, but as Sega’s MD of…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Stationary Arcades May Be Dead, But What About One On Wheels?
With video arcades on the wane, a Florida couple are trying a different approach to public gaming: Packing an arcade’s worth of games into a van that can be rented out for parties. Games2U vehicles have flat screen TVs installed both inside and outside the vehicle, allowing up to 20 people to game at a…
By Brian Crecente Published June 30, 2009