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Busey On The Women Of Saint’s Row 2 DLC
After a slight delay, the first batch of Saint’s Row 2 downloadable content is now available, with THQ digging up Gary Busey to talk about the lovely ladies of Ultor Exposed. Uncle Gary’s power is simply amazing. The man can take something as wonderful as attractive, scantily-clad women running around with guns and transform it…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Virtua Tennis 2009 Makes Curling, Meat Protection Fun Again
The core Virtua Tennis gameplay is certainly strong enough to stand on its own, but the addition of bizarre, sometimes freakish "Court Games" is what makes the series so memorable. While “Court Curling” somehow manages to make the sport of curling intense, nothing appeals to me more than trying to secure as much fruit as…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Red Faction: Guerrilla Demo Available Now
THQ’s long anticipated third installment of the Red Faction series will be released June 2nd, but you can check out the demo for both platforms (Xbox 360 and PS3) starting today! Click here to find out more information and download the demo, then be sure to buy Red Faction: Guerrilla on June 2nd.
By Chrissie Lamond Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ease In The Weekend With The Braid Soundtrack
Ease your way out of work and into weekend mode with the lovely soundtrack from Jonathan Blow’s Braid, now available for free online play and purchase. As innovative as Braid’s gameplay is, one of the best aspects of that game is it’s music. Jonathan Blow licensed tracks from Magnatune artists Cheryl Ann Fulton, Shira Kammen…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Green Nintendo DS Bundle Is For Moms Only
Nintendo will be releasing a new Nintendo DS Lite bundle on May 3rd, one with a brand new color scheme—new to North America, anyway—and Personal Trainer Cooking software packed in. It’s perfect for Mother’s Day. Now, we’re not implying that only mom should be slaving over a hot stove all day, especially on Mother’s Day.…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
inFamous Shocks Us With Uncharted 2 Multiplayer Beta
The switch on Sony’s “electrifying announcement” may have just been flipped, as a Best Buy pre-order box for inFamous reveals the existence of a multiplayer beta test for Uncharted 2. Yesterday Sony began teasing “an electrifying announcement” to take place on April 27th regarding both Sucker Punch’s inFamous and Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bethesda Softworks Getting WET?
According to the latest issue of Famitsu, third-person “acrobatic” shooter WET has found a new publisher in Bethesda Softworks. Orphaned by Activision-Blizzard last Summer, the A2M-developed game has been without a publisher following Sierra’s extinction. Retail listings for WET also back up Famitsu’s mention (by way of Siliconera) the game’s new home, with GameFly listing…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Steam’s Weekend Orange Box Deal Is Insane
Steam’s weekend deal should take care of any leftover PC gamers who’ve yet to experience the glory of The Orange Box, with the whole shebang available now for 66% off. Unless you don’t have $10 to spare, there is officially no reason why you shouldn’t at least own The Orange Box by the end of…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
I’ll be Super Leg Smashing and Super Sandwich collecting this weekend, as I drive to perfect my Excitebots: Trick Racing scores, collecting all the useless digital trinkets that haunt my obsessive-compulsive video game collector streak. Damn you, Super Mario 64, for making the pursuit of collection and 100% completion so ingrained in every modern day…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
City Of Heroes Celebrates Five Years Of Heroism
NCsoft’s superhero simulation City of Heroes celebrates its five-year anniversary next week, with contests and events planned to keep the game’s super-powered denizens partying Paragon City into the ground. The festivities start on Wednesday, April 28th, continuing through to Sunday, May 3rd. Kicking things off will be an in-game event running from 11am Eastern to…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
It’s Good To Be The Saboteur
The latest batch of art and screens for Pandemic’s The Saboteur display some of the more tangible benefits of being an Irish racing mechanic liberating France from Nazi oppression. It’s been quite awhile since we’ve seen anything new from Pandemic’s free-roaming World War II adventure game, which is quite obviously looking rather lovely, and I’m…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 -
UncategorizedBurnout Paradise Cops & Robbers Go For The Gold
After teasing us for weeks with videos and pictures of Burnout Paradise’s Cops & Robbers update, Criterion finally delivers the first actual gameplay footage, along with some rather disturbing cosplay. While I probably could have done without the random dressing up, the team at Criterion look like they’re having a great deal of fun playing…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
UK Change4Life Campaign Changes Its Tune
Criticized in March for ads that equated playing video games with an early death, a new commercial for the UK government’s Change4Life campaign promotes healthy gaming. The colorful new ad is a big change from the campaign’s previous efforts, which depicted a sickly-looking young boy sitting on a couch holding a game controller underneath a…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ghostbusters: The Opening Cinematic
.html The opening cinematic for Atari’s Ghostbusters game isn’t all that much different from any other video game opening – until the music kicks in. If there was ever any doubt that Ray Parker Jr. is every bit a part of the Ghostbusters cast as the franchise’s four main characters, this trailer completely reinforces that…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nothing’s Shocking In Next Week’s Rock Band Update
The Harmonix crowd gets another full album release next week, as Jane Addiction’s best album, Nothing’s Shocking, hits the Rock Band Music Store. With the album’s :Mountain Song” already appearing in Rock Band 2, next week’s release of Nothing’s Shocking contains the remaining ten songs from the band’s controversial but critically acclaimed 1998 album. The ten…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Champions Online Heroically Dated
Strategy Informer reports on an event taking place over in the UK today, where Cryptic Executive Producer Bill Roper delivered a July released date for Champions Online in the U.S. and Europe. In what feels like the fastest massively-multiplayer online role-playing game development turnaround in the history of the genre, Roper told Strategy Informer that…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Star Trek Online Screens Explore Strange New Worlds
Following the official announcement of Paramount’s Star Trek D-A-C yesterday, Cryptic sent us a trio of exclusive Star Trek Online screens to remind fans that there’s much more than a top-down shooter in the works. Out of the three images that Cryptic passed along, the top one here is the one that truly spoke to…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Madden 10 Cover Athletes Revealed
The battle of the long-haired football players commences, as Larry Fitzgerald and Troy Polamalu score joint custody of the cover for EA’s Madden NFL 10, a first in the franchise’s 21-year history. EA can’t seem to commit to one cover athlete this year, with multiple sports stars sharing the covers for Fight Night: Round 4,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Who Said Packing Was Fun? You? How Dare You
To: Fahey From: Bashcraft RE: I Cannot Stop Playing Pet Society I’m bad at packing. Really bad. Packing for moving to our new place (on Monday!) has been taxing — taxing, and I haven’t even finished it yet. This is going to be a long weekend. What you missed last night PlayStation 3 Sales Get…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 24, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hong Kong’s Insanely-Detailed Resident Evil 5 Figures
In the West, we got little plastic Resident Evil 5 figures. But in the mysterious Orient? Well, they’re getting something a lot better. Hong Kong company Hot Toys – who specialise in incredibly detailed 1/6 scale figures – have taken the wraps off their Resident Evil 5 line, which at the moment features two characters,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 24, 2009