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How Much Of New Mario Vs. DK Is Actually New
Some people who tried to download the Mario Vs. Donkey Kong game Nintendo recently placed on its DSiWare store might have been scared off by a pre-purchase warning about recycled content. Nintendo’s told us how much wasn’t original. In my review for Mario Vs. Donkey Kong: March of the Minis I made the educated guess…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! Goes PSN Exclusive
NIS America is dropping plans for a UMD release of Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?, opting to make the PlayStation Portable game exclusively a downloadable PlayStation Network game. Retailers began canceling pre-orders for the PSP game earlier this week, with online outlets like GameStop removing listings of Holy…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Fighters Of Samurai Showdown: Edge Of Destiny
The Samurai Showdown series continues in North America this fall with Samurai Showdown: Edge of Destiny, and Ignition Entertainment has sent along a video so we can keep track of who is fighting who. Thirteen classic SS characters and eleven newcomers gather in this latest entry to do battle with the villainous Golba, rendered in…
By Mike Fahey Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Leipzig Gamescon Lands Former SCEE Head as Speaker
Gamescon may be only a letter off from Gamescom, but the Leipzig Games Convention Online is many miles and weeks away from Cologne’s massive gaming event. Taking place on July 31 and August 1 in the former home of the once-massive Gamescon, the convention will focus on the online aspect of gaming. Former CEO of…
By Brian Crecente Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gaming online? DSL Just Won’t Cut It.
Trying to lead a raid on another clan with DSL is asking for disaster. Upgrade to Comcast’s High-Speed Internet and their advanced fiber-optic network, and you can kiss lag frag goodbye for good. With Comcast, get the fastest speeds available.
By Chrissie Lamond Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rockstar’s Agent “Very, Very Different” From GTA
What do we know about Rockstar North’s PlayStation 3 exclusive title Agent? Not much, other than that Rockstar founder Sam Houser believes that Agent, set in the 1970s and full of delicious espionage, will be “the ultimate action game.” Take-Two CEO Ben Feder sheds a little more light on the mysterious PS3 game to Eurogamer,…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Free Realms Gets Guilds
Free Realms might have had a lot to offer players in terms of game play, but it lacked one major massively multiplayer feature, until today that is. Sony Online Entertainment today finally launches a guild system for Free Realms, allowing friends and like-minded players to unite under a single chat channel and head tag. Any…
By Mike Fahey Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
id: Why We Sold To ZeniMax
In an interview with Kotaku, id’s John Carmack and Todd Hollenshead explained how changing circumstances with Activision and other studios spurred id’s sale to Bethesda parent ZeniMax. id Software is still a development studio that commands respect, but it’s one that had found itself not quite fitting in of late, its principals told us during…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
What’s New In Dungeons And Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited
Not just about making the game free-to-play, the upcoming Eberron Unlimited upgrade for Dungeons & Dragons Online brings new adventures, a raised level cap, and a whole new class – Favored Soul. While raising the level cap to 20 and adding in The Plane of Battle and Crime Syndicate Adventure Packs to Dungeons and Dragons…
By Mike Fahey Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Kotaku Bureau of Weights & Measures Studies Fallout, Physics, Also Beer
About a year ago, you may recall, my brother and I attempted to derive the product of Pac-Man’s metabolic functions. In that spirit, Kotaku has now created its own Bureau of Weights & Measures. The Bureau’s mission: To needlessly expose the wide gulf between video game physics and the laws of the real world; to…
By Owen Good Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Aion Video Podcast Series Start
If you’ve got questions about the upcoming massively multiplayer online roleplaying game Aion, NCsoft’s new video podcast series should provide all the answers you need. The first entry in the Aion video podcast series features members of the development team explaining everything you need to know about the game’s back story and lore. Why is…
By Mike Fahey Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Combines Mythic And BioWare Into A Giant RPG Robot
EA is merging their two top roleplaying game developers, BioWare and Mythic, into one massive RPG group, with BioWare’s co-founder Ray Muzyka taking the lead and Mythic’s Mark Jacobs taking a powder. Creating what is effectively a massively multiplayer RPG development juggernaut, EA has tapped Muzkya to become Group General Manager of their new RPG/MMO…
By Mike Fahey Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
DS Transformer Case and Stylus Lacking in Transformation
It’s sort of disappointing to get a Transformer DS case and stylus only to find that it doesn’t do anything other than sit there. The Bumblebee starter kit comes with a yellow, vaguely Bumblebee-ish DS case and an absurdly over-sized stylus. The case folks open and closed and has a sliding panel on the back…
By Brian Crecente Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
id Software Bought By Bethesda Parent Company, ZeniMax
Doom, Fallout, Oblivion, Wolfenstein, Carmack, Howard… all in one company. Two of the most acclaimed game development studios of all time are joining forces. ZeniMax Media, parent company of Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls development studio Bethesda Softworks, announced today that it is purchasing legendary Doom and Wolfenstein studio id. In an interview with Kotaku,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Second Hitman Movie Has A Writer
Love it or hate it, the movie adaptation of Eidos’ Hitman series made 20th Century Fox a great deal of money, and now they’ve hired screenwriter Kyle Ward to make them some more. The news of Ward’s hiring comes by way of IESB, who confirmed with 20th Century Fox that the young writer had been…
By Mike Fahey Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Vampire Origins Offers Bloody iPhone Action
Chillingo’s Vampire Origins is a isometric adventure title coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch in the next couple of weeks. While part of me watches this video and thinks how cool it would be if someone came out with Diablo for the platform, another part of me thinks that this looks an awful lot…
By Brian Crecente Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Age Of Conan Ventures Into Tarantia Commons
Funcom has just launched Update 5 – Gangs of Tarantia for their massively multiplayer online roleplaying game Age of Conan, introducing a whole new area, new storylines, and fundamentally changing how the game is played. Yes, along with the new areas, which can be seen in the lovely screenshots here, Update 5 is another step…
By Mike Fahey Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Lonely Island Plays Doubt: The Video Game
Who hasn’t been eagerly awaiting the video game adaptation of Doubt, the 2008 film that cast Phillip Seymore Hoffman as a Catholic priest involved in an inappropriate relationship with an altar boy? We missed out on this Lonely Island short, which originally aired during the 2009 MYV Movie Awards, as we were rather busy getting…
By Mike Fahey Published June 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Spot Crecente, Win Schwag
This morning my family and I are kicking off a two-and-a-half week road trip that will have us traveling across a dozen states or so. I figured that since I live in the middle of nowhere it would be fun to bring some schwag along. Here’s the deal, I’ve got a smallish stash of freebies…
By Brian Crecente Published June 24, 2009