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Sony: E3 Not Proper Venue To Announce Any PS3 Price Drop
Despite expectations that Sony would lower the price of the PS3 at E3, the company announced no price drop at the big show. We asked why. “From our perspective, this show is all about content,” Sony’s head of PlayStation marketing in the U.S., Peter Dille, told Kotaku in an interview yesterday. “We believe that our…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy XIII On Xbox 360 Looks Like This
To go with the announcement of a rough release timeframe for the game, Microsoft also released some screenshots of Final Fantasy XIII running on the Xbox 360. Can you spot the differences? Because, uh, we can’t. Especially since only one of them is an in-game shot.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bioshock 2 Multiplayer Impressions: That Sinking Feeling
Bioshock didn’t excel as a shooter. It excelled as a narrative, Rapture acting as a living, breathing story. So it’s a little strange seeing part of the game reduced to a standard multiplayer shooter. 2K showed us a few rounds of Bioshock 2’s multiplayer component yesterday, and in doing so, have revealed an aspect of…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Stylus-On With Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is a return to the stylus-controlled Link of Phantom Hourglass, but with a twist. In Spirit Tracks, not only do you get to play through segments of the game on a train, firing off shots from a canon, but you have a pet Phantom of sorts which is used…
By Brian Crecente Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony: PSP Go Priced Right, Games “Shipping” On Street Dates
While we haven’t gotten Sony to answer our question yet about how UMD games will or won’t be transferable to PSP Go yet, the company has addressed two other big topics: the unit’s price and the timing of game releases. Sony Computer Entertainment America’s head of marketing Peter Dille showed us his fully-functional white PSP…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
E3’s Unmentionables: What Microsoft, Nintendo & Sony Forgot To Say
Earlier this week Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony each hit the show with big news, unveiling a slew of major titles, major surprises and innovative technology. But despite a strong showing across the board at the big three press conferences, there were still quite a few things left unsaid. Like what about that rumored PlayStation 3…
By Brian Crecente Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
ModNation Racers Impressions: LittleBigRacer
Sony’s “Play Create Share” initiative picks up speed with the debut of ModNation Racers for the PlayStation 3, a kart racing title that lets you build the track, the kart, and the racer. United Front Games has plenty of experience building racing games, and they want to deliver that sort of power to the player.…
By Mike Fahey Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Conan’s Tonight Show Backdrop Looks Way Familiar
As seen on SERIOUS LUNCH
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mafia II Eyes-On: The More Things Change…
Funny thing, making a sequel to Mafia. A game that, for all its innovation, has been forgotten in the wake of the Grand Theft Auto series. Hopefully the same fate doesn’t await Mafia II. Because from what I saw of the game today, it’s looking like a game that may actually challenge, and in some…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2009 -
UncategorizedSnapshot Tinkers with Side-Scrolling Formula
E3 isn’t just about the big, triple-A games, there are also plenty of indie games as well. Yesterday I wandered over to the quiet indiecade corner of E3 to check out Snapshot and talk to its two man development team, Kyle Pulver and Peter Jones. The game is a side-scrolling platformer with a unique twist.…
By Brian Crecente Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Xbox 360 Will Have Ten Year Life Span
Hot off its Project Natal demonstration, Microsoft is saying the Xbox 360 will have a ten year life cycle. “We firmly believe that the Xbox 360 has a life cycle through 2015 (10 years after the launch),” explained Microsoft exec Shane Kim. Hrm. We could have sworn we heard that before. OH RIGHT. Sony’s been…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Saw Preview: Should I Be Enjoying This?
At Konami’s E3 Booth yesterday I got my first chance to play the video game adaptation of the smash hit horror film series Saw, leaving me questioning the limits of my violence tolerance. What Is It? Saw bridges the gap between the first two Saw movies, placing the player in the role of Danny Glover’s…
By Mike Fahey Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Impressions of Explosively Cute Critter Crunch
I was initially drawn to “Critter Crunch” by its unique art style, but once I picked up the controller I was sucked in by it’s simple and addicting, fast paced arcade gameplay. There is something unavoidably enticing about feeding cute little creatures to fatter cute creatures and then watching them explode to gain points. Nathan…
By Brian Crecente Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Grinder E3 Trailer
From the creators of Hunter: The Reckoning comes the trailer for The Grinder, the four-player co-op first-person survival horror game for the Nintendo Wii. Looks pretty damn good for a Wii title, doesn’t it? High Voltage seems to be positioning themselves as the premeir source for more mature games on Nintendo’s console, and they’ve certainly…
By Mike Fahey Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Day Three: What Announcements Did You Like? Dislike?
To: You From: Bashcraft We soldier on! E3 isn’t over by a damn site. What tickled your fancy about day three, and what got on your tits? What you missed last night Why Is Kobe Bryant Wearing A Knicks Uniform? First Image Of Metal Gear Arcade Nintendo Selling Black Wii in Japan This Summer Why…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Should We Expect More From Electronic Art’s Inferno
The three works of Dante’s Divine Comedy are ripe with possibility. Each of the books paint compelling pictures of the afterlife, describing heaven, hell and purgatory in vivid poetry. It’s these settings, so artfully detailed by Dante, that Electronic Arts hopes to tap into when turning the books into a video game, the developers told…
By Brian Crecente Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s Wii RPG Monado: Beginning of the World In Pictures
Monado: Beginning of the World didn’t get much attention from Nintendo during its E3 2009 media briefing this week, but it cared enough to upload media for the Wii role-playing game. The game, developed by Monolith Soft, the folks also responsible for Xenosaga and Baten Kaitos, looks like your standard Japanese action role-playing game with…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 4, 2009 - Uncategorized
Today’s Most Relaxing Trailer? Echochrono
Puzzle title Echochrono* is coming to the PSP with riddles to rack your brain and music to soothe your soul. We could listen to this all day! So..relaxing….. The game…has a new concept…called “Self Co-Op”, which…lets players use their…past…to…help solve the puz…zles… *work.ing…titl..e… GAH! That “PlayStation” shout at the end startled the snot outtta us!
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 4, 2009