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Here, Have Some Professor Layton Screens
We’ve been waiting since Game Developers Conference 2009 to get a look at Professor Layton’s next US-bound adventure, Diabolical Box. E3, where would we be without you? Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box is the second game in the Layton series. Expect more of the maddening puzzles and cute characters, as well as a thrilling…
By AJ Glasser Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fetching New EyePet Screens
Yes, you too can be the proud owner of that with Sony’s family title for the PlayStation 3, EyePet. Using the PlayStation Eye, the pet will interact with every object placed in front of it. For example, wave your fingers in front of the camera, and the EyePet will laugh. Roll a ball, and he’ll…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Alan Wake Preview: Shoot Twice
Since its announcement at E3 in 2005, Alan Wake has been a gaming Sasquatch. But we had a sighting this week, grabbed a controller and played it. Alan Wake has been touted as a more grown-up suspense game, a subtler and more sophisticated take on a genre more commonly infested with zombie nurses and chainsaw…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Playing LittleBigPlanet On The PSP Go
LittleBigPlanet for the PSP packs all of the character and creation of the original into a more portable format, but the PSP Go’s button layout presented a small stumbling block. During a tour of Sony’s booth at E3 2009 yesterday I got a chance to poke around in LittleBigPlanet on the PSP Go, and while…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Preview: Classic Mario, Endless Play
New Super Mario Bros. Wii is, despite it’s name, a new experience. The game hopes to blend the fun of classic Super Mario Bros. side-scrollers with a new layer of what Shigeru Miyamoto calls competitive coop gameplay. What Is It? New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a simultaneous multiplayer a for up to four people.…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s E3 Booth: Everything That’s Playable
Nintendo’s showing at the really big show of E3 is really big. An impressive number of first and third party titles that are actually playable by E3 attendees, including New Super Mario Bros. Wii. But wait… there’s more! There are core-focused games like Sin and Punishment 2 and Military Madness: Nectaris for the Wii. There’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo: New Metroid Is NOT Metroid Dread
Longtime Metroid director Yoshio Sakamoto acknowledged that the long-rumored Metroid Dread is real and may some day be released. During a Metroid interview yesterday with series director Yoshio Sakamoto and Team Ninja producer Yousuke Hayashi, we slipped in a question that was not about the newly announced Metroid: Other M. Well, we thought it might…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ratchet & Clank Future E3 Developer Trailer
Ratchet and Clank return once again, this time with Ratchet searching for his buddy Clank and trying to save the universe. A Crack in Time tries to tie-up loose ends from the previous titles and at the same time offer new game play elements like time manipulation. The game is slated for this fall. And…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy XIII Eyes-On Impressions: Lesbian Motorcycle Coupling [Update]
I was lucky enough to get the chance to check out Final Fantasy XIII in action on the PS3 yesterday, as well as speak with director Motomu Toriyama & producer Yoshinori Kitase. Well, I got to check it out eventually. I was kept waiting for over 30 minutes thanks to an insane level of security…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
South Park Still Coming To XBLA, Now That You Mention It
Microsoft announced at E3 2008 that a South Park game was coming to Xbox Live Arcade. We couldn’t find it at E3 2009, but we did get an update. “South Park actually is coming,” John Schappert, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of interactive entertainment LIVE, software and services said in an interview with Kotaku yesterday. “I…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gran Turismo 5 Trailer Has, Yes, Car Damage
This one kind of passed us all by first time around, but if you look closely at the Gran Turismo 5 trailer from Sony’s E3 press conference yesterday, you can clearly see some car damage. We’ve provided a screengrab above, but if you want to see it for yourself, head to the Subaru rally sequence…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Taking A Dip In Endless Ocean 2 Screenshots
Endless Ocean 2 is the sequel to Endless Ocean 1. Shocking, we know. Players can dive in the big blue, explore shipwrecks and escape sharks. Loot you find can be sold so you can decorate your reef to attract more fish. That’s much better than what I usually do. Saying “Here fishy fishy” doesn’t really…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
From Stick Figure To Mind-Blowing Controls
My first real introduction to Microsoft’s motion-controlling Project Natal occurred in a brightly-lit hotel room in LA’s The Standard Hotel. Standing in front of a television with Burnout Paradise on it, I held my hands out as if holding steering wheel and acted as if I was driving a car. It was that simple and…
By Brian Crecente Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
WarioWare Do-It-Yourself Art
Game art? These aren’t traditional screens, because WarioWare D.I.Y. isn’t your typical game. Released in Japan this April as Made In Ore, the game is outfitted with tools so that players can make their own mini-games and upload them for others to play. Check out Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai trying his expert hand at…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Beatles Rock Band: I Wanna Hold Your Hands-On Impressions
The Beatles: Rock Band has been playable at E3 this week. So, being fans of both The Beatles and Rock Band, we figured we’d go check it out. Thing is, while “we” may be fans of The Beatles, “I” am not. I don’t hate them, justā€¦never got into them. Which puts me in a unique…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Splinter Cell Conviction Preview: A Smoother Operator
Ubisoft hadn’t shown Splinter Cell Conviction to the public in two years but brought it back impressively this E3. The game’s creative director said it could be tricky for people to play during an E3 demo. But the game seemed to play quite well from what we witnessed. What has wowed people at E3 who…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Day Two: What Announcement Did You Like The Best? What Let You Down? (BLUE GRAPES)
To: You (Yes, you, you insolent strumpet!) From: Bashcraft Oh ho ho ho ho! E3 thunders on and guess who spent the entire day writing a buncha posts and now sees spots? Why, because there was a buncha news, a buncha announcements, and now, right now, I’d like a bunch of grapes. Blue grapes. Do…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy XIII “Targeting” A 2010 European Release
Final Fantasy XIII is due in Japan later this year. And in North America during Spring, 2010. But when can Europeans (and by extension, Australians) get their hands on it? Do they dare to hope for a speedier turnaround? After all, the last core Final Fantasy title, FFXII, was released in Europe a whole year…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Somehow They’re Squeezing Fat Princess Onto The PSP
Fitting the other team’s cake-engorged princess into the giant PlayStation 3 was easy; how they’ve managed to cram her into the PSP is something we don’t really want to think about. But cram they have, and Titan Game’s addictive action fantasy blend is indeed coming to the PlayStation Portable in the form of Fat Princess:…
By Mike Fahey Published June 3, 2009