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College Football Players Joining EA Madden Lawsuit Mob
A class action lawsuit filed against EA Tuesday alleges that National Collegiate Athletic Association allowed the company to use unpaid college athletes likenesses in Madden games unlawfully. A similar lawsuit went down not long ago where retired NFL players had their likenesses unlawfully used in Madden NFL games. The plaintiffs in that case won their…
By AJ Glasser Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Is Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms Gone For Good? [Update]
3D Realms, still plugging away at the slightly delayed Duke Nukem Forever, may have given up the ghost, as the Texas-based developer is rumored to have shut down. We heard from an anonymous tipster earlier today of 3D Realms demise, with Shacknews reporting the very same thing, citing a “very reliable source” close to the…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
THQ CEO Sees No PlayStation 3 Price Cut At E3
If the asking price for Sony’s PlayStation 3 is currently too rich for your blood, you may have to wait until later this year for a price drop. Or so thinks THQ boss Brian Farrell. The publishing head honcho said during today’s quarterly earnings call that the royal THQ “we” isn’t expecting Sony to cut…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Meme Created
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Earlier today I posted a pic of GameTrailer TV’s Geoff Keighley dual wielding an iPhone and a Blackberry as a lark. He’s been carrying around multiple devices for years, but I’d never seen him use both at the same time. The photo, I thought, was funny. But much funnier were…
By Brian Crecente Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Box Art Is Truly Next-Gen
How can we tell? It’s not the visual clarity or high-res 3D models on the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen box art. It’s the sparks! Everyone knows that particle effects like that require serious hardware. Unfortunately, my theory is blown when one realizes that the same box art is being used for the PlayStation 2…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Texas May Force Sex Offenders To Register Gamertags
Legislators in Texas have proposed a bill that would expand what registered sex offenders would be required to disclose, including the release of online screen names. That could potentially even cover online gaming social networks. While the bill, publicized by GamePolitics, doesn’t explicitly name video game communication services like Xbox Live and PlayStation Home, it…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Henry Hatsworth Creator Left EA On His Wedding Day
Kyle Gray achieved his biggest goal at EA and now has three or four more. Having filed his taxes early this year, Kyle Gray, 27, had April 15 free to do two other important things. Dressed in a suit and bowler hat, he went to work at EA Tiburon, the studio where he led the…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Prototype Pre-Order Promotional Products Pimped
Plan on picking up Prototype? Perhaps you’d prefer to pre-order, as Activision is pimping the pre-order possibilities from three of its partners, each proffering its own collectible pre-purchase products. Activision will be offering up three pre-order product possibilities at GameStop, Game Crazy and Amazon, giving serious fans of Radical Entertainment‘s upcoming open-world, super-powered action game…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
EVE Online Celebrates 6th Anniversary With Cake
With EVE Online turning six years-old today and surpassing the 300,000 active subscriber mark over the past few days, there was really only one way for developer CCP to celebrate – spaceship cake. While other massively multiplayer online games have drawn huge numbers and then struggled to retain them, CCP’s EVE Online has spent the…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mega Man 2 As Performed By The KU Winter Drumline
The Kansas University winter drumline lends credence the age-old belief that if you get together enough university students and percussion instruments, eventually an interpretive re-enactment of Mega Man 2 will break out. For your viewing pleasure, we present the Kansas University winter drumline’s performance of Mega Man 2. The costumes might be a bit thrown…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
THQ Has “Challenging” 2009, Loses $431.1 Million
Publisher THQ announced its quarterly and annual earnings today, pulling in $830 million worth of revenue last year. That’s down from the $1.03 billion the company made during its fiscal 2008, leading to substantial losses. THQ saw a fiscal 2009 deficit of $431.1 million, losses way, way up from the $35.3 million the company lost…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Capcom’s E3 Lineup Rife With Mystery
Capcom has revealed their game lineup for E3 2009, or perhaps it’s better to say mostly revealed, with two mystery titles making their debut at the show. For the most part, Capcom’s E3 2009 lineup is made up of games you have either already heard about or even already played. They’ll be showing off the…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Producer: Why There Isn’t A Star Trek Game Adapted From The Movie
X-Men Origins: Wolverine got its own movie-based game. This weekend’s Star Trek movie will not, unless you count the downloadable spin-off. We asked why. Big movies get video game adaptations, most of the time. For better or worse. But that’s not happening with this weekend’s Star Trek film, which is getting the spin-off space-combat game…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Bossman Shrugs Off Declining Wii Sales In Japan
Wii sales in Japan have been on the decline. But don’t expect that trend to be indicative of a worldwide shift in tastes, notes EA CEO John Riccitiello. He believes the Wii is still strong. While Wii sales have dipped in recent months, to the point where the more expensive PlayStation 3 is overtaking the…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
HAWX U.S. Eagles Pack Flies Tomorrow
Europe has had their go, and now it’s America’s turn as Ubisoft prepares to release to U.S. Eagles Pack for Tom Clancy’s HAWX. The U.S. Eagles pack for HAWX features five new U.S. aircraft for the game, which is one less than the previously released European pack, but then again we’re only one country. Besides,…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
1 vs 100 Could Be Achievement Treasure Trove
For Xbox Live Gold members playing Microsoft’s next experiment, Achievement points — lots of them — will be free. 1 vs 100 has one thing in common with every other Xbox 360 game. The massively multiplayer Xbox 360 game show will have Achievements. And that means that even people who don’t want to play it…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
First Red Dead Redemption Trailer Hits Tomorrow… Or Right Now
First footage of Rockstar Games follow up to 2004’s Red Dead Revolver should be making its way to you no later than tomorrow, in the form of the game’s first official trailer. Rockstar says we should expect Red Dead Redemption‘s debut trailer to arrive Thursday, May 7th, giving us a look at John Marston—”a notorious…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mommy Dearest: The Best and Worst Mothers in Video Games
Mothers have it tough in video games – they get killed off, turned evil, or their children leave the nest to save the world. And their kids probably don’t call home often enough. In honor of Mother’s Day, we celebrate moms in gaming – from the bit parts to the big players. Some are examples…
By AJ Glasser Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Beta Opt-In Process For StarCraft II
There’s a new beta opt-in procedure at Blizzard’s recently revamped Battle.net that StarCraft II beta hopefuls should probably go check out. Relatively quick and painless, the new beta opt-in procedure foregoes the usual uploading of DXDIAG files in favor of a more Blizzard-flavored method of obtaining your system specs. First log into or create a…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2009 - Uncategorized
Japanese Siren Home Space Creeps Westward
PlayStation Home is in the middle of one of their biggest content updates ever, and the North American release of the Japanese Siren: Blood Curse space plays a major part. It’s a big week for PlayStation Home. They’re giving away Patapon 2 t-shirts on Thursday; they’re adding a living room stage set perfect for machinima;…
By Mike Fahey Published May 6, 2009