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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 - Uncategorized
Crazy Eyes Chun-Li Invades Shadaloo Lounge Party
Did any of you make it out to Capcom’s Chun-Li wake last week in Chinatown? If you didn’t, you missed dipping into Capcom’s endless bar and hanging with a Kikoken of Chun-Li, including that one right there in the center. The one who’s eyes say “I really am Chun-Li and I’ll kick you in the…
By Brian Crecente Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
City Of Heroes Vigilantly Launches Issue 15
The heroes are much more heroic and the villains exponentially more vile with the release of City of Heroes Issue: 15: Anniversary, with cosmetic changes and mission architect tweaks the order of the day. Aside from a new 5th Column Task Force / Strike Force series of missions, the bulk of the Issue 15 update…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Glimpse At the Now Dead Aliens RPG
Last week Obsidian Entertainment confirmed what we’ve known for months: The Aliens RPG is officially dead. This morning pics from the now defunct game have surfaced. The images, especially the one of a hulking Alien, sorta make me glad the project isn’t moving forward. RPG Codex Forums [Via Polygamia]
By Brian Crecente Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gears Of War 2 Continues In Jacinto’s Remnant
New York Times bestselling author Karen Traviss picks up the story of Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago where Gears of War 2 left off, with next month’s release of Gears of War: Jacinto’s Remnant. As this novel is a direct sequel to Gears 2, those of you who haven’t finished it yet might want to…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Forza 3 Races Through Japan
We’re well aware that Forza Motorsports 3 looks amazing, but where will it look amazing? Microsoft highlights the legendary racing tracks of Japan in their latest update, revealing a handful of new cars in the process. The latest Turn 10 update for Forza 3 reveals four new tracks across three classic Japanese racing venues for…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Let’s Compare Monster Hunter Monster Sizes!
LET’S. This picture is not just a snazzy piece of art; it’s also a size comparison chart, letting you size up the beasts of Monster Hunter and see which is the biggest. As you can see, some are big, some are small. That shot above is just a sample. For the whole thing, hit the…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 30, 2009