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PC Sales Charts: Zombies vs Nazis vs Lich Kings
It’s a case of three different charts, two different weeks and three different games at the top, with WoW, Left 4 Dead and Tales of Valor all duking it out atop the PC charts. Yes, with the Christmas season and recent run of AAA “proper” games well and truly over, things are back to normal…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete Gave PS3 A Sales Bump
On April 16, Blu-ray flick Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete went on sale. Included was something many Japanese gamers had been waiting for: the Final Fantasy XIII demo. If early data is correct, the movie provided a boast to PS3 sales in The Land of the Rising Sun. The week before FFVII: ACC was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony: The Wii Owns The Closet
It’s a shame, but corporate smack talk seems to have gone out of style since the likes of Peter Moore and Ken Kutaragi left their posts. Today, though, Sony are bringing it back. And good for them! While some dismiss this kind of business as childish – purile, even – we don’t. Bring it on!…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Xbox Japan Trailer Shows Off Its New Games
At its Tokyo press conference, Microsoft showed off upcoming titles for the Xbox 360. Some of the titles, like Mass Effect, are localized games that have already gotten released outside Japan. Other titles aren’t. Games like visual novel TimeLeap or Mamoru-kun Has Been Cursed! are very much Japan Only. See anything that grabs your fancy?…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Velvet Assassin Celebrates Gold Status With New Screens
Southpeak Games has announced that Velvet Assassin, as every single game before it, has gone gold. The publisher celebrates this accomplishment with new screens, including one of heroine Summer Violette stabbin’ Nazis in the chest. While that may be enough to sell you on the World War II era game, the publisher’s proclamation that Velvet…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
A $500 PC That Can Kick Crysis’ Ass
Even though the game came out in 2007, people still go all “boo hoo” over Crysis’ graphics settings. Say they’re prohibitive, use them as a benchmark. Well, you can murder those settings for $500. At least, you can according to Maximum PC, who cobbled together the following rig for $509 (a bit over, we know,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Metal Gear Solid Touch Is Finally “Complete”
Kojima Productions has put the finishing… touches on Old Snake’s iPhone shoot ’em up. Konami has updated Metal Gear Solid Touch to version 2.0.0, which the publisher plainly admits is the “Complete Version.” The original version, released in March, ended somewhat abruptly after the game’s third act, leaving hardcore Metal Gear fans wanting. The new…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Celebrate Earth Day By Playing These Games
April is a busy month – April Fools, tax day, Hitler’s Birthday and of course that day where we all try and pretend our planet isn’t going to drift into the sun tomorrow: Earth Day. Earth Day got going back in 1970 with U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson declaring a teach-in to educate Americans about the…
By AJ Glasser Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
GameSpite Quarterly Gives Game Print Media 1-UP
The video game magazine business is not a healthy one. Nor is there much in the way of competition anymore. Nor is there anything like GameSpite, which has been announced as going to print quarterly. 1UP editor Jeremy “Toastyfrog” Parish announced that the former online-only magazine—annual print collection notwithstanding—will be changing formats, with new issues…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Red Dead Redemption Box Art Redeems Stylishly
Rockstar Games’ upcoming PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sequel to Red Dead Revolver is coming this Fall, four years after being unofficially announced by way of an E3 2005 teaser. Anticipation is high. So revelations as simple as Red Dead Redemption‘s box art are going to be of interest to fans of the first. The…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Finally, A Zombie Game For The Kids
With Doublesix Games’ Burn Zombie Burn and Konami’s Zombie Apocalypse infesting PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade this year, there is no lack of online undead destruction. But won’t somebody think of the children? Sierra Online has, reviving Zombie Wranglers for Xbox Live Arcade, due to land on Xbox 360s next month. The game was…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
How To Gift New Neighbors In My Neighborhood
To: Bashcraft From: Fahey RE: Nice To Meet You, Here Is Some Detergent, Be Nice To Me What a quaint little custom, and your assumption that we have a similar custom is entirely correct, at least here in my Atlanta suburb. It’s almost exactly the same thing, only we call it “Be quiet moving in…
By Mike Fahey Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Magna Carta II Artwork Is Anatomically Interesting
Korean developer Softmax is bringing the Magna Carta role-playing game series to the Xbox 360. And we’re bringing you Magna Carta II artwork, which if you’re a fan of designer Hyung-tae Kim, you’ll probably adore. While Magna Carta II has only been announced for the Xbox 360 in Japan at this point, that doesn’t stop…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mike Tyson Blissfully Unaware New Punch-Out!! Exists
As you’re likely well aware, Nintendo is readying a new Punch-Out!! for the Wii. It re-introduces Nintendo fans to classic characters from both the NES and Super NES entries, but does not include Mike Tyson. In fact, according to an MTV interview with Kid Dynamite himself, Iron Mike seems totally unaware that Punch-Out!! is hitting…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Banjo-Tooie Trailer Brings Back Memories
In case you’ve completely forgotten everything you remember about Rare’s bear and bird sequel Banjo-Tooie, the new trailer and screens for the Xbox Live Arcade version should jog your memory nicely. Isn’t it amazing how your mind flavors your recollection of older games? Thinking back to my time playing Banjo-Tooie on the Nintendo 64, the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Pure Devs Want To Revive “Dying” Racing Genre
Pure developers Black Rock Studios feel that the video game racer, as we know it, is “in a dire way,” that the genre “is in many respects dying out.” What can save it? Why, Black Rock Studios own Split/Second, the explosive reality show-meets-street racing game, of course. “We’re all fans of street racing here, but…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Punch-Out!! Multiplayer Has You Seeing Double
It’s Little Mac versus differently-colored Little Mac in these multiplayer screenshots from Punch-Out!! for the Nintendo Wii. It boggles the mind that in a game with such a great cast of characters, multiplayer is limited to a split-screen battle with Little Mac versus another Little Mac. Nintendo tries to mix things up by making one…
By Mike Fahey Published April 22, 2009 - Reviews
Demigod Review: Aspiring To Godhood
Supreme Commander developer Gas Powered Games seeks to take online PC strategy games to a higher plane with the release of Demigod. Demigod is an action real-time strategy game with role-playing game elements that obviously takes a great deal of inspiration from the popular Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients. Instead of commanding armies…
By Mike Fahey Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
Pepsi Rock Band Contest Is A Reality
Last month, we first told you about the upcoming Pepsi promotion that would see daily giveaways of Rock Band downloadable tracks, allegedly up to a million tracks. Details on that promotion have gone live. While the official site doesn’t make notable mention of the million Rock Band tracks rumored to be given away, it does…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 22, 2009 - Uncategorized
New LEGO Rock Band Details Reveal Giant Robot Battles
Yesterday’s official announcement of LEGO Rock Band had just enough details to get the ball rolling on the teen and tween targeted band game. But it didn’t reveal much about the giant robot battles. The Xbox.com description of LEGO Rock Band—the Xbox 360 version, anyway—sheds a bit more light on what will separate the LEGO…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 22, 2009