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People Played Real Plane Crash Web Game 4.6 Million Times
Hero On The Hudson, a gameplay-light web game about Captain “Sully” Sullenberger’s successful landing of an Airbus A320 on the Hudson River, is just one popular game based on that stuff most commercial video games don’t deal with: current events. The LA Times’ Ben Fritz (formerly blogging about games for Variety) recently visited San Francisco-based…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rock Band Weekly Updates Now In Three Part Harmony
MTV Games has accomplished what we once thought impossible, releasing a single, catch-all notification about downloadable track updates to Rock Band for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PSP and Wii. Brace for massive lists! Not only do we get the regular Friday update on what’s new and forthcoming for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Louisiana Cuts Game Developers A Break
The state that once passed the Thompson Game Law became a great deal more developer friendly today, as Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signs extensive tax credits for game development into law. The Louisiana Digital Media Act, sponsored by Senator Ann Duplessis, grants a 25% credit to game developers for digital interactive media expenditures, as well…
By Mike Fahey Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
One Weird Wii Control Scheme
Imagine, if you will, a flying game called Sky Crawlers controlled by Wii remote and nunchuck. Guess the control scheme. You probably guessed wrong. To control an airplane in a Wii game, I have held the Wii Remote like a paper airplane. I have held it like a flashlight, dipping and raising it to orient…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Thank God it’s Friday. This has been a hell of a week, one I hope to forget with the help of thousands of Terran Marines dying at the claws of my Zerg swarm in a few games of StarCraft. I foolishly purchased a digital copy of the game via the Blizzard Online Store a few…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Play Street Fighter II CE In Your Web Browser
Celebrating the release of Street Fighter IV for the PC, Capcom and GameTap parent Metaboli have teamed up to deliver Street Fighter II Championship Edition to your browser window. It might not be the best adaptation of the classic fighting game, but it does the trick, allowing you to put your keyboard-controlled fighting skills to…
By Mike Fahey Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Saboteur Impressions: A New Way To Kill Nazis
There is a game that will let you shoot Nazis, fire rockets at zeppelins, hang out in a brothel, climb the Eiffel Tower, oh, and try to maintain your career as a race car driver during all this. Sound good? Novelty is not a predictor of quality. So, really, who knows how good EA’s holiday…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
First ModNation Racers Trailer Played, Created, And Shared
Here’s the first official trailer for ModNation Racers, United Front Games’ urban vinyl meets kart racing take on Sony’s Play – Create – Share concept. As I mentioned in my E3 impressions of ModNation Racers, you can see the game certainly doesn’t skimp on charm, and the amount of options for customizing your racer, kart,…
By Mike Fahey Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Plants VS Zombies Pollinating Other Platforms
One of the strangest tower defense variations around is spreading its seed, as PopCap Games reveals plans to spread the Plants VS Zombies PC love to other platforms. In an interview with Kombo, PopCap’s senior director of public relations Garth Chouteau talks about migrating the company’s more popular games to other platforms, and PC title…
By Mike Fahey Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Star Wars: The Old Republic Script More Than 40 Novels Long
In a blog post on the Star Wars: The Old Republic website, director of audio and localization Shauna Perry talks about the challenge of recording voice overs for every character in a massively-multiplayer universe. When they first announced that The Old Republic would be fully-voiced during E3 2009, those of us involved in the more…
By Mike Fahey Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Forza 3 Will Deliver Nearly Limitless Online Multiplayer Variety
More than anything, Forza Motorsport 3’s greatest challenge is perhaps its greatest strength. As racing franchises continue down a diminishing road of more, with detailed engine tuning, real world physics, realistic damage modeling and road wear, they often leave all but the most devoted fans of their games and autophiles in the dust. But not…
By Brian Crecente Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Japanese LittleBigPlanet Site Ain’t Afraid Of Posting Ghostbusters DLC
The Japanese LittleBigPlanet website beats North America to the punch, revealing downloadable Ghostbusters costumes of Slimer, all four Ghostbusters, and the Littlest Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Media Molecule and Sony have been teasing the Ghostbusters downloadable content for LittleBigPlanet for a good week now. While we’re still waiting for the big reveal as of this…
By Mike Fahey Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Are These Cat Lips On DC Universe’s Comic-Con Poster?
Match the lips to the character in this teaser image from the San Diego Comic-Con exclusive poster for DC Universe Online. This teaser image popped up on the DC Universe Online MySpace page yesterday, along with a bit of overly-obvious teaser text: “I just saw the poster that we’re giving out at San Diego Comic-Con…
By Mike Fahey Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dante’s Inferno Lust Level Could Have Been Packed With Sex
Dante’s Inferno is a complex undertakling. While the source material and it’s use in a game still doesn’t sit well with me, the setting is rich, deep and, if you trust this video, being fully explored. Now about those Doggy-Style enemy creatures.
By Brian Crecente Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hudson Soft Dials Up The Horror With Calling
Hudson Soft takes a stab at the horror genre with Calling for the Nintendo Wii, which transforms your Wii remote into a cell phone with direct dial service to the damned. The Calling plays on classic Japanese horror films like Ringu, with a mysterious website called the Page of Black. A simple black page with…
By Mike Fahey Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Starfy Parties In Rockefeller Plaza
Nintendo celebrates the release of the first Starfy title in the United States this weekend, inviting children of all ages to the Nintendo World Store in New York City for hot face painting action. The Legendary Starfy for the Nintendo DS might have been released in North America early last month, but it’s never too…
By Mike Fahey Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
[UPDATE] Eidos Once Again Attempting To Mess With Review Scores?
Longtime silent champion/nitpicker of the British gaming press, The RAM Raider, has a post on their blog highlighting Eidos’ latest alleged public relations faux pas, this time involving review scores and cover placement for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum. Yes, this is the same Eidos behind the Kane & Lynch fiasco with GameSpot. Behind voting…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Dictionary Of Bad Video Game Names
In an industry driven by creativity there sure are a lot of very similar titles for video games out there. Game Daily points out 20 words that show up way too often attached to the name of a game. The list includes everything from the innocuous (age, legend) to adjectives (darkness, eternal) to a simple…
By Brian Crecente Published July 10, 2009 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves (New Comments Edition)
No witticism today. But please read this important update about our new comments system and how it will affect TAY. We’re still working out the kinks of the new comments system (we know there are bugs, bear with us). But here are the key ways that I believe TAY conversation will be affected: -The new…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 10, 2009