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Ghostbusters™: The Video Game!
The Ghostbusters are back in Ghostbusters™: The Video Game! 2009 is the 25th anniversary of the original theatrical release of Ghostbusters and original writers Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd have teamed to script the video game, releasing June 16th in North America. Click through to check out a preview of Ghostbusters action. With Manhattan overrun…
By Chrissie Lamond Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Echochrome Adds PlayStation Eye Support, “Cloud” Level Sharing
Sony’s PlayStation Network release echochrome is getting a substantial update, one that will lengthen the lifespan of the PlayStation 3 puzzler. echochrome‘s getting PlayStation Eye support and a new level sharing option soon. The PlayStation Eye support, according to the official PlayStation Japan web site, will let players film themselves while solving the game’s puzzles,…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
High Voltage To Reveal New Original Title At E3
With The Conduit as good as released, High Voltage Software plans to use this year’s E3 to reveal their all-new original IP to the world at large, and they couldn’t wait until then to tease it. No matter how you feel about announcement announcements, there’s no way we’re going to get the game companies from…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
GameStop Class Action Attorney Investigating Latest Used as New Claims
GameStop’s alleged practice of selling games played by employees as new could be a violation of the class action lawsuit settlement that the national retailer agreed to, according to the attorney who handled the case. Reached for comment today, GameStop officials said they fulfilled the stipulations outlined in the 2003 suit. Chris Olivera, vice president,…
By Brian Crecente Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wii Sports Resort Adds Two “New” Activities
Nintendo’s sequel to Wii Sports arrives this July, bearing new Wii Remote waggling fun, this time with the added precision of Wii MotionPlus. Wii Sports Resort will usher in fresh mini-games, including two new additions. Nintendo of Japan has confirmed, via new commercials for the Wii MotionPlus peripheral, that Wii Sports Resort will include… table…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dead To Rights: Retribution – Welcome To Grant City
Dead to Rights: Retribution‘s Grant City has gotten one hell of a makeover since last we visited. I believe the team at Volatile Games was going for filthier, slightly more industrialized New York City, or at least I hope they were, because that’s certainly what they ended up with. A few of the new shots…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
“Video Game Conventions Let Down The Super-Hero Genre”
Batman notwithstanding, most super-heroes are too powerful to fit well in standard video games, so say some veteran gaming reporters, following a discussion hatched at nearby urinals. During the latest installment of the Listen Up podcast, host Garnett Lee tore into a design decision made in the recent Wolverine game that strips the hero of…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
How About A Bonus Character For Each Wii Peripheral?
Capcom’s Spyborgs producer sees something else his team could do to their game to possibly support Wii MotionPlus, something no other developer has pondered publicly yet. Developers are adding MotionPlus controls to their Wii games as you read this. They’re making their controls more responsive thanks to Nintendo’s add-on. But what if they went another…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 18, 2009 - Reviews
Peggle iPhone Micro-Review: Touching Balls Never Felt So Good
Peggle is conquering gaming one platform at a time. First it was PC, next Nintendo DS, then Xbox Live Arcade before doubling back to PC via World of Warcraft. Now it’s on the iPhone, and there’s goes all your free time. There’s something powerfully addicting about the part-pachinko, part-puzzle, part-crack downloadable game. Mercifully the short…
By AJ Glasser Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
More Modern Warefare 2 Footage Hits This Week
This Thursday’s GameTrailers will be showing off a new Modern Warfare 2 gameplay teaser, I’m told. The teaser, while similar in style to the brief tune-in commercial aired earlier this month, will include brand new scenes from the game. I’ve heard that there are some surprises in store for us from the game. What do…
By Brian Crecente Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
ArmA II Pushed Up A Week
With Codemasters’ Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising missing its originally planned summer release, original Flashpoint developer Bohemia Interactive scootches its spiritual successor’s release up a week. ArmA II will now be shipping for the PC on the 19th of June, one full week ahead of the originally planned release date. For awhile it seemed like Codemasters’…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2009 -
UncategorizedXbox Live Arcade This Week: Gel and Blazing Birds
It’s obscure game week on Xbox Live Arcade, with Wednesday seeing the release of Gastronaut Studio’s Gel: Set & Match and Vector 2 Games’ Blazing Birds. Gel: Set & Match is a puzzle game which features multicolored blocks that melt as you match them together, with an Action mode that adds a little side-scrolling to…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Champions Online Heroically Delayed
A true superhero knows when to boldly charge into battle and when to delay your game for a couple of months in order to make sure it’s solid. And that’s just what Champions Online developer Cryptic is doing. Originally slated for a July 14th release, the developer is delaying the game until September 1st, in…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Madden NFL 10 Screens
Madden NFL 10 offers a lot of little changes, as has its predecessors. Among the tweaks is the ability to do up to nine man gang tackles and fight for fumbles, new throwing and kicking styles unique to each quarterback starter and tweaks to the injury system, allowing a gamer to keep players in the…
By Brian Crecente Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rock Band Unplugged DLC Detailed
Harmonix has released the full track list for Rock Band Unplugged, which we already knew, but they’ve also announced the first batch of downloadable content, which we didn’t know. This weekend’s video reveal of the full track listing for Rock Band Unplugged for the PSP looks a little more legitimate today, as the official listing…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wal-Mart Launching Video Game Trade-In Kiosks
Wal-Mart has teamed up with kiosk company e-Play to test automated video game trade-in kiosks in several store locations throughout the Northeastern United States. The machines, currently being tested in 77 Wal-Mart locations in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, should be relatively simple to use. You scan the bar code on the game…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
E3 Round Table: Microsoft’s Big Play
During last week’s Bonus Round, GameTrailers’ Geoff Keighley, Game Informer’s Andy McNamara, N’Gai Croal’s N’Gai Croal and Kotaku’s me sat down to talk third-party developers. This week: Microsoft’s E3 plans.
By Brian Crecente Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Download: A Milestone Marked By Majora’s Mask
We’ve struck a major milestone in this week’s Nintendo Download, as The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask becomes the 300th game to grace the Wii Virtual Console. If I have to explain what The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is to you people, then you might be at the wrong website. The second outing for…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guitar Hero 5 Brings New Look, New Features, And New Bands
Determined to deliver more than just another band game sequel, Neversoft gives Guitar Hero 5 a brand new look, innovative new features, and introduces more than 25 new artists to the rhythm game genre. More than 25 new artists means that we’ll find at least 26 songs we’ve never played before included on the disc…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hello Swine Flu, Welcome To Japan
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft Late last week there were something like four or five Swine Flu cases in the Osaka-Kobe area. Now there are over 130! I doubt that’s its mushroomed over the weekend, and I’m more inclined to believe previously infected people got tested for Swine Flu, but hey, I’m no doctor. Then again,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 18, 2009