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Dragon Age Goes Pen And Paper
BioWare is giving players a whole new old way to experience Dragon Age: Origins, announcing a pen and paper role-playing game based in the Dragon Age universe. Following in the footsteps of games like EverQuest and Street Fighter, Dragon Age is making the leap from video game to pen and paper role-playing game. Green Ronin…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ken Levine’s Other Games
[As seen on A Life Well Wasted] [Others]
By Brian Crecente Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sacred 2 Looks Fine On The PlayStation 3
We’re a week away from the console release for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, and Ascaron has released a lovely set of PlayStation 3 screens just in case anyone doubted that version existed. Sacred 2 media has skewed heavily towards the Xbox 360 up until now, so it’s nice to see some images from the PlayStation…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Battleforge Receives Strategic Price Reduction
EA has announced that their card-based real time strategy game BattleForge is getting a new “competitive pricing strategy”, with the retail price dropping to $29.99. I love the term “competitive pricing strategy”. It’s a lovely way to say that not enough people were buying the game, so we lowered the price. The new price makes…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
PC Broken Steel Error Is A Games For Windows Live Problem
The Broken Steel update for the PC version of Fallout 3 has been taken down for repair. Bethesda explains why. As we reported previously, PC users who downloaded the Broken Steel downloadable content via Games for Windows Live this morning were treated to a “cryptographic message is not formatted correctly” error. We contacted Bethesda’s Pete…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo World Store Hosts Punch-Out!! Challenge
Punch-Out!! fans in the New York City can visit the Nintendo World Store on May 16th for a chance to take part in the Punch-Out!! Challenge and pick up an early copy of the game. On Saturday, May 16th from 1pm to 4pm at the Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Plaza, Nintendo will be celebrating…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Beatles: Rock Band Gets The Beatles Guitars
Harmonix and MTV today announce two new Beatles-themed guitar controllers going on sale when The Beatles: Rock Band hits stores in September – the Rickenbacker 325 and Gretsch Duo Jet. The Rickenbacker 325 and Gretsch Duo Jet are a pair of full-bodied, classic guitars used extensively by John Lennon and George Harrison throughout their careers.…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
I Like My Women Like I Like My Gamers – Covered In Fingers
To: Mike From: Luke Re: Where In Greater Los Angeles Is Brian Crecente? Thanks, Mike. Woke up this morning intending to do a full day’s work, not mash my F5 key into dust. Anyway, here’s what you missed while scouring the city looking for stray Crecentes in fetching red fedoras: I’M A MULLET! I’M A…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
So, How Long Until Final Fantasy XIII Is Out In Europe?
As we’ve pointed out with numbers, few Japanese publishers are as tardy with their European releases as Square Enix. So how’s the Final Fantasy XIII localisation coming along, then? In a statement that’s not exactly encouraging for European fans, Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase has told Videogamer: Obviously we would like to release [in Europe] as…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Make Your Own Modded Console Handhelds
Console modder Ben Heckendorn has made quite a name for himself chopping machines apart and making them smaller, sleeker, more portable. Now you can do as he does. To help him sell his book “Hacking Videogame Consoles”, Heckendorn has posted on his website a series of design documents and shopping lists for some of his…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Surprise, Fallout 3’s New DLC Is Broken
Seems that Fallout 3’s latest piece of trouble-plagued downloadable content, Broken Steel, has launched broken. Least, it is on PC. Shocking, I know. A ton of people keen enough to install the game as soon as it went live this morning have been met with the following message: Not a cryptographic message or the cryptographic…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Earthbound Fans Are Crazy, Yo
Somehow a fresh, unopened copy of Earthbound turned up on eBay the other day. Bidding was fierce. And at the auction’s closing bell, the winner had parted with, oh, over $1000. To be exact, the final amount was $1,025.01. For an unopened, store-bought copy of the 1995 classic, is that a steal? We’d say no,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Activision Gets A New Chairman
It’s been announced overnight that Activision Blizzard‘s chairman, who is due to retire later this year, is to be replaced by the Chief Executive of partners Vivendi. The mega-publishers’s current chairman – Rene Penisson – will be stepping down because his “mandate expires this year”. His replacement, Jean-Bernard Levy, has been with Vivendi since 2002,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
50 Cent Wants To Make A Game (That Doesn’t Feature 50 Cent)
Former “rapper” now “multimedia personality” Curtis James Jackson III has already been the star of two video games. But he wants to be involved in more! Just, not ones where he’s the star. Speaking with MTV, Fiddy says that he’s already had talks with publisher THQ about the possibility of some day being “a part…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
French Kid Beats 500,000 To Claim World FIFA Title
Madden is…serious, kinda, but EA Sports’ other tentpole sports game, FIFA, is really serious. Take the game’s “World Cup”, which saw an amazing 500,000 gamers enter for $20,000 cash and a new car. Yup. 500,000. Emerging victorious at the top of that mountain of broken dreams was 22 year-old Frenchman Bruce Grannec, who beat Mexico’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Psychonauts Art Will Make Tuesday Bearable
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By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dead Space: 1.4 Million Sold
There seems to be an impression amongst people that Dead Space under-performed. That such a fantastic game deserved “better” sales. I don’t know. 1.4 million copies sold sounds pretty good to me. The figure was disclosed by EA Redwood Shores’ Visceral’s Glen Schofield in an interview with GameSpot, and when you consider EA’s other “under-performing”…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
PC Sales Charts: Sales Screw Everything Up
They do! While the NPD charts are, grimly, business as usual, the Steam and Direct2Drive charts are a mess, courtesy of some weekend sales. HAWX? Assassin’s Creed? Far Cry 2? Great for the publishers and those gamers picking up some older games on the cheap, but for the hardcore PC sales charts enthusiast, it just…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Let’s Run A PS3 Through A Medical Scanner!
X-rays of consoles and controllers are neat and all, but for those after something a little more 21st-century, why not take a look at a controller and console run through a medical CT scanner. These game-related examples are just two of the items artist (and medical student) Satre Stuelke was able to pass through a…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2009
