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Star Trek D-A-C, Texas Cheat ‘Em Beam To Xbox Live Arcade This Week
This week’s new additions to the Xbox Live Arcade library are both out of this world and down to earth, as Star Trek D-A-C and Texas Cheat ‘Em become Xbox 360 digital downloads on Wednesday. Both Naked Sky Entertainment’s Star Trek D-A-C and Wideload’s Texas Cheat ‘Em will set Xbox Live subscribers 800 Microsoft Points,…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Live Rock Band Pearl Jam “Project” Coming Next Year
Pearl Jam fans are being asked to curate the live performances of the Seattle-based band’s best, a cross-promotional project that will result in a forthcoming Rock Band release. The currently untitled Rock Band project—which combines the efforts of Pearl Jam’s Ten Club, MTV Games, Harmonix and music subscription service Rhapsody—will feature the best of the…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
GameStop Gives Away Movie Tickets With Movie Games
Beginning now through June 30th, purchasing select movie tie-in games at GameStop scores you a free movie ticket to help curb the buyer’s remorse that sets in soon after said purchase. All you have to do is purchase one game that GameStop considers a movie game between now and June 30th in order to receive…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Top Gun Devs Upgraded Jets, Added Cole Trickle
While making the world’s latest video game about the Tom Cruise classic, the Top Gun iPhone development team took a few liberties — in the name of both fun and air supremacy. There’s a man called Maverick and a guy nicknamed Iceman giving you orders as you fly missions under their tutelage. There are fighter…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Terminator Salvation Rains Death From Above
The only thing worse than unstoppable mechanical creatures hell-bent on humanity’s extinction? Flying unstoppable mechanical creatures hell-bent on humanity’s extinction. After reading Crecente’s preview of the game and seeing this and other trailers of the title in action, I lack the will to even come up with a satisfyingly witty “Gears of ____* remark. This…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Game Informer Offers First Look At Modern Warfare 2
The newest issue of exclusive-hoarding magazine Game Informer has landed Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2 for its “world exclusive first look” at the upcoming shooter. Ten pages worth of coverage promises “to blow your mind.” Oh sure, technically we’ve already had a first look at the follow up to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare,…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Famous People Sell Games Better Than Game Reviewers
Publishers should recognize that the televised appearance of celebrities in their underwear hyping Guitar Hero is helping that series beat its better-reviewed competition, according to a gaming analyst. There are many ways that star game reviewer and Giant Bomb honcho Jeff Gerstmann and star model Heidi Klum are unalike. One of those, may be their…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Tony Hawk Game “With A Twist” Revealed This Week
The newest skateboarding game to bear the Tony Hawk name will be revealed to the public on GameTrailers TV this week. In Mr. Hawk’s own words, "It’s a whole new deal." After Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground proved to be a bit of a miss with critics, Activision and crew took a year off from the…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sega Vintage Collection 2 Brings GunStar Heroes To XBLA, PSN
Sega delivers the official details on the Sega Vintage Collection 2, which brings seven classic Sega games to Xbox Live Arcade and a great deal less to the PlayStation Network this summer. In fact, the only game in Vintage Collection 2 coming to the PlayStation 3 is GunStar Heroes, which hardly qualifies it as a…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Last of The Great Arcade Fighters
Online. Kicking and punching cold, invisible opponents you’ll never see, you’ll never meet. Alex Valle is a Street Fighter II player living in a Street Fighter IV world. And he’s ready to kick your ass. “Arcades are where you can truly level up your game against many opponents with no lag issues or rage-quitters,” Valle…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Even More Duke Nukem Forever Art Showcases Duke, Strippers And MILFs
While the passing of 3D Realms may be sad, the flood of behind-the-scenes peeks at Duke Nukem Forever helps to fill the void, warming one’s heart with character art, renders and gameplay footage. And strippers. The latest batch of potentially NSFW Duke Nukem Forever “leaks” shows off the work of 3D artist Mark Skelton. He’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wolverine iPhone App Features Intriguing Innovation
While the free X-Men Origins: Wolverine Feral Senses application for the iPhone is little more than a marketing tool for the console game, its image recognition feature definitely has potential. The free application, now available via iTunes, has users unlock various bits of exclusive game content by using their iPhone camera to photograph icons that…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
How Long People Play M-Rated Wii Games
Who cares if M-rated Wii games do or don’t sell? We’ve crunched numbers in our latest Wii Stats Report to learn how much the people who get these games actually play them. MadWorld included. Last week, we showed you the 10 most-played gamers, per gamer, on the Wii. Few people could have been surprised that…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Trumps Nintendo In Develop 100
Develop has released their yearly guide to the 100 most bankable game development studios in the world, with Blizzard Entertainment jumping 46 spots from last year to take Nintendo down a notch. While last year’s top developer Nintendo still performed admirable, Blizzard Entertainment pulled ahead this year to score the top spot in the Develop…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
DC Universe Online Preview: Doomsday Smack Down
DC Universe Online gives gamers a chance to become a super hero or villain in a world familiar to any comic book fan. You may not be able to play as Batman and Superman, but that doesn’t mean you won’t see them, talk to them, and maybe even help them at times. What Is It?…
By Brian Crecente Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wii Rock Band Scores 25 Songs This Week
This week’s update to the Wii Rock Band Music Store is truly massive, with 25 new tracks covering everything from Duran Duran to Siouxsie & The Banshees. Along with the nine tracks announced last week for Rock Band across all platforms, which included tunes by Steely Dan, Social Distortion, and The Replacements, the Wii gets…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tour Aion’s Lovely Eltnen Zone
The latest zone tour video for NCsoft’s Aion: The Tower of Eternity showcases the slowly dying Eltnen zone, where gods battle to restore Elysea’s breadbasket. Once again I find myself impressed by the sheer variety found in each zone NCsoft has revealed for the eagerly anticipated massively multiplayer game, though in Eltnen’s case, I’m even…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes Detailed
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes is being developed by LucasArts and Krome Studios as a two-player coop action game. In Republic Heroes gamers will take on the roles of Jedi and clone troopers, including Anakin Skywalker and Clone Captain Rex. The storyline will bridge the game between season one and two of the…
By Brian Crecente Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Binary Tweed Launches Politically-Charged Clover
Binary Tweed Launches Politically-Charged Clover Independent developer Binary Tweed has finally released the politically-pointed watercolor platforming adventure Clover via the Xbox Live Community Games Program. Clover may look like a game painted by the hand of a child, but underneath its simplistic look lies a game riddled with political and historical references inspired by the…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2009 - Uncategorized
Cooking Mama Sells Four Million…Domestically
Majesco proudly announces that the mini-game powered Cooking Mama series has sold more than 4 million units domestically. How else would a cooking franchise sell? Of course by domestically they mean in North America, with the company’s number one franchise racking up more than four million sales between the five games in the series, which…
By Mike Fahey Published May 11, 2009