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Square Enix Sued For $5 Million
Square Enix of America is being sued for allegedly deceiving 100,000 customers for “unfair business practices, false advertising and unjust enrichment” regarding online title Final Fantasy XI. The plaintiff, San Francisco resident Esther Leong, claims that Square Enix “lied about or concealed its monthly fees, penalties for late payments, interest, restrictions and other things that…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Zeno Clash Gets New DLC, Goes On Sale To Celebrate
Quirky first-person brawler Zeno Clash will be getting some new DLC this weekend, in the form of a three-level challenge called "The Pit". But that’s not all. It’s also getting a price-cut. Anyone picking the game up over Steam this weekend won’t pay the standard $20 asking price. They’ll only pay $10. While I had…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Angelina Jolie Annoyed Megan Fox Might Be Lara Croft
According to The Sun (yes, we know), mega star Angelina Jolie is peeved that Transformers actress Megan Fox is being mentioned as her Tomb Raider replacement. The Tomb Raider franchise is getting a cinematic reboot with Dan Lin, the movie’s producer, saying, “It is an origin story so it is a younger Lara Croft. It…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Captain Legomar And His Blocky, Danish Pikmin
LEGO and video games. They go together like milk and cookies. Angelina and other people’s babies. And…LEGO and Pikmin. These delightful LEGO Pikmin are the work of Norwegian Filip Felberg. These are some of the highlights, but to see more of Captain Olimar and his sentient vegetables – along with Felberg’s other Nintendo-related LEGO sets…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Christian Bale Plays Metal Gear Solid, Hasn’t Talked MGS Film
Christian Bale, star of a Ms. Pac-Man commercial and other things, talks about Metal Gear Solid. Sorta. The incredibly talkative and very professional actor discusses the game and the MGS film with MTV: MTV: Metal Gear Solid, is this something you’ve ever talked about doing as a film? Bale: No. MTV: Are you a video…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Surviving Beatles “Helped” On Beatles: Rock Band
While the band broke up decades ago, and half of them are now dead, the remaining Beatles weren’t just going to sit by and watch somebody else make a game based on their career. So they helped. Harmonix’s Chris Foster, who is serving as lead designer on The Beatles: Rock Band, elaborates: The shareholders, as…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
The King of Fighters XII Delayed
SNK’s multi-platform fighter The King of Fighters XII was originally slated for release on July 16. That has changed. The game’s release date has been moved to a vague “July release”. The reason? According to the Japanese press release, this has been decided so that the SNK can improve the title. The 100 percent hand-drawn…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Original Final Fantasy, Mega Man Hit PSN (With A Catch)
(Sort of) Good news for anyone worried about the poor state of the retro game scene on the PSN: Final Fantasy 1 is out on the PSN, and a bunch of Mega Man games are coming. Only catch? Yup. They’re Japan-only. Final Fantasy was released yesterday. It’s the PS1 re-release, which means it’s the original…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
But What Does John Romero Think? [Updated]
ZeniMax Media, parent company of Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls studio Bethesda Softworks, announced today that it is purchasing legendary Doom and Wolfenstein developer id Software. What does id co-founder John Romero think? The estranged game designer, who’s no longer with id and currently developing iPhone games, tweeted this: “ZENIMAX??????? Disgusting.” He followed that up…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Scandal Of The Day: Aquatica iPhone
Earlier today, flOw creator Jenova Chen accused Aquatica iPhone developer Ketera Software of either improperly sourcing his game as inspiration or flat-out ripping off flOw’s source code. The two games do look mighty similar and have pretty much the same player objective. When people pointed that out in comments for a YouTube trailer of Aquatica,…
By AJ Glasser Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Modern Warfare 2 “Brand Awareness” Hit By Call Of Duty Drop
The decision to drop the Call of Duty from Infinity Ward’s follow-up to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has hit the present day shooter where it hurts, right in the sensitive brand awareness zone. Does that mean Modern Warfare 2 is in trouble? Hardly! While tracking firm OTX found that awareness of the game…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kid Icarus “Clone” Changes It’s Name To Something Less Icarian
Since Nintendo won’t be releasing a Kid Icarus game on the Wii any time soon, OTT Games decided to release something very similar in Icarian: Kindred Spirits. Turns out it might have been too similar. Despite the fact the WiiWare game has been reviewed by several outlets, and despite the fact it’s already out in…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Indie Dev To Make Biblical Striptease Game
As a nice Jewish girl, I don’t know much about the New Testament; but a game based on a biblical chick who dances the first-ever striptease and then demands a guy’s head sounds cool. Indie developer Tale of Tales is known for their creepy and often upsetting story games such as The Path and The…
By AJ Glasser Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Users Report EA’s Fight Night Round 4 Freezing Up At…
Xbox 360 owners are venting on the official EA forums (and our tips line) that EA Sports‘ Fight Night Round 4 is locking up and crashing at the game’s loading screen. A fix (of sorts) is seeing some success. While those complaints are typically vocal, they appear to be somewhat limited—the forum thread currently has…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Roll Metroid Prime Trilogy Box Art Up Into Your Life
Nintendo’s Metroid Prime collection for the Wii is due to land in North America on August 24th in a snazzy “collector’s edition” form that bundles up three games, a Metroid Prime Trilogy art booklet, special metal packaging and more. By more, we really mean a paper sleeve in which to slide the Metroid Prime Trilogy…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
I’ve Been To Colorado, New Mexico, Texas…
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: About The Time I Had My Phone Blessed We left this morning on our two-and-a-half week road trip with Trish’s parents and Tristan. As is often the case, Trish drove while I worked on my laptop with the help of a cell card. The trip was pretty uneventful despite offering…
By Brian Crecente Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gearbox Trademarks New “War Hero” Titles
Brothers In Arms and Borderlands developer Gearbox Software is either taking its World War II shooter series into the modern day or has designs on adding Guitar Hero controller support to military shooters. Or both. Or neither. Whatever its plans may be, Gearbox has protected a quartet of new, heroic trademarks, including “World War II…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Screens of Gran Turismo PSP
In these new batch of Gran Turismo screens we get a look at how the Playstation Portable version of the game treats cars like the Enzo and GTR. Built from the ground up for the PSP, Grant Turismo PSP will feature more than 800 vehicle models, and more than 30 tracks. The game will be…
By Brian Crecente Published June 24, 2009 - Reviews
Let’s Tap Review: Rhythm Limbo
When former Sonic Team lead Yuji Naka left Sega to form the semi-independent Prope, he said the studio would focus on “original entertainment.” Prope’s first major release, Let’s Tap, is certainly original, packing five multiplayer focused mini-games into one title. Mini-games? Original?! Yes, because Sega’s Let’s Tap plays unlike anything else on the Wii, as…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 24, 2009