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GameTrailers TV Gets Earlier, Much Earlier Time Slot
Spike TV‘s video game exclusive packed weekly video game show, GameTrailers TV, is getting a slightly more sane time slot and giving you some weekly Geoff Keighley face time an entire day earlier. The show is moving from “Friday nights at 1 AM”—which was technically early Saturday morning at 1 AM—to “Thursday nights at 12:30…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits Is Now Guitar Hero: Smash Hits
When Activision ships its “best of” Guitar Hero compilation this summer, it will be called Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, not Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits, as previously announced. Why? You got me. Perhaps Activision is saving Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits for yet another installment, as it’s due to run out of Guitar Hero sequel and spin-off…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Chi Town
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: When Your Last Name Is First, Where Is Your Middle Name? I’m in Chicago for a long weekend. One of my many cousins is getting married here and we decided to fly in for an extended-family visit. So far I’ve managed to cram a stuffed pizza, some Chicago dogs, and…
By Brian Crecente Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Dishwasher Rewards You For Peter Moore-ing
This week’s Xbox Live Arcade addition The Dishwasher features a great shout out to EA Sports bossman Peter Moore, formerly of Microsoft and Rock Band flub infamy. How does one get “The Peter Moore Achievement”? Simply hit the Xbox 360 guide button “while playing a killer solo,” just like ol’ Pete did way back at…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
PlayStation 3 Outsells Wii In Japan For Second Month In A Row
Last year, the Wii made headlines for its trouncing of the PlayStation 3, when Nintendo’s console was outselling its current-gen competition from Sony in Japan. But 2009 has started to work out a little differently. For the past two months, Sony’s PlayStation 3 has outsold the Wii. It hasn’t outsold it by the impressive margins…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
This LEGO Nintendo DSi Could Crush You
Built from over 50,000 LEGO bricks and weighing at 250 pounds, this nearly seven foot wide Nintendo DSi could do some serious damage should gravity have its way with it. Built for the upcoming North American launch of Nintendo’s latest handheld—and installed at the Nintendo World Store at Rockefeller Center in New York City—the electric…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Atari Busts Hopes Of Ghostbusters For PSP
Normally, the ESRB is a great resource for leaked information, such as the unannounced PSP version of Atari’s Ghostbusters: The Videogame it rated the other day. Sometimes it’s not such a great resource. Case in point: Atari has denied that Ghostbusters: The Videogame is actually coming to the PSP and the Entertainment Software Ratings Board…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Alpha Protocol: Obsidian Evolves
The team at Obsidian talk about how they’ve evolved over the years leading up to the development of the real-world espionage role-playing game Alpha Protocol. Looking at Alpha Protocol in action, it’s hard to imagine this is the same team that worked on classic role-playing games like Planescape: Torment. Despite their fine relatively performance working…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mortal Kombat Team Looking To Split From Midway
Midway’s team of developers responsible for the 17-year-old Mortal Kombat franchise is currently in active talks with other publishers to leave the company and for its own studio, sources tell Kotaku. The MK team, which comprises about 50 developers, is said to be in discussions with a handful of unnamed publishers, with senior members of…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sweet Noby Noby Kicks Give Me Nightmares
Reader Tonks sends us a picture of this amazing Noby Noby Boy shoe he made. On the shoe you can see that Noby Noby boy has stretched himself through the eyelets of the shoe. Pretty amazing. But as much as I love shoes, and shoes featuring games, I don’t think I could ever wear these.…
By Brian Crecente Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Xbox Live’s April Deals Of Darkness
Microsoft has revealed the game and add-on discounts coming your way as part of the Xbox Live Deal of the Week program, and odds are you might find something worth spending points on. Heading up the deals for this month is Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, on sale next week for…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Hands On With iPhone Multiplayer Shooter LiveFire
Ngmoco’s LiveFire, a multiplayer first-person shooter designed from the ground up for the iPhone, is a valiant attempt to bring the fast-paced genre to the portable, but still needs quite a bit of work. When Ngmoco founder Neil Young handed over a playable build of LiveFire to me during GDC, he was sure to point…
By Brian Crecente Published April 3, 2009 - Reviews
Rhythm Heaven Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Nintendo’s Rhythm Heaven is the beat-matching Nintendo DS sequel to a Game Boy Advance title that never made it out of Japan—but did somehow manage to get an arcade port. The collection of more than 50 music mini-games is surprisingly deep for a title that relies on two touchscreen mechanics: tapping and flicking. (Okay, there…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
BioShock 2 Isn’t Sea of Dreams Again
BioShock 2’s on again, off again love affair with the subtitle “Sea of Dreams” is finally officially off…or we hope so, for the sake of our sanity. Despite official word given to Eurogamer last month after the first time we discovered the subtitle wouldn’t stick, IGN now has the official official words, and they are…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
R.U.S.E. Tweaks, Slows Real-Time Strategy
By all appearances, R.U.S.E. is another attempt by Ubisoft to redefine strategy gaming in a way to be more attractive for casual fans, slowing the pace of real-time strategy and adding depth to the genre. “We wanted to create something new, and we followed that creative vision for several years,” said developer Mathieu Girard. R.U.S.E.…
By Brian Crecente Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Even though I’ve already “completed” Rhythm Heaven, there are still medals to acquire, perfect ratings to… perfect, and things still unlocked. That’s why I’ll be playing it, hopefully on a new Nintendo DSi by Sunday. Outside of that, I don’t expect to be playing much else, unless I get the gumption to hook the Dreamcast…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Eating The Story Of Prototype
Poor Alex Mercer. The Prototype antagonist wakes up in a morgue and has to eat people to regain his memories. Yum. There’s a bit more to it than that, but the idea of consuming other people as a storytelling technique is certainly a novel way of putting a fresh spin on the overly-used amnesia mechanic.…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Fallout 3 360 Pitt DLC: Take 3
The Xbox 360 version of Fallout 3‘s The Pitt downloadable content has been revised once again, with users experiencing crashes urged to delete the old files and download the new. Third time’s the charm, right? The first batch was corrupted; the second plagued with random freezing. Now the third version of The Pitt is up…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Register Extremely Early For PAX East
The website for the East Coast version of the Penny Arcade Expo quietly went live last week, with registrations now being accepted for the 2010 event. The Penny Arcade boys are giving the East Coast a little loving in 2010, with PAX East taking place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston from March 26th…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Battlestations Pacific: Lets You Win the War With Japan
In Battlestations: Pacific you don’t just have a chance to play on the side of Japan, you can experience a World War II where Japan wins the war. The game features both a U.S. And Japanese campaign in the game, both built around historically authentic archived missions. “Authenticity and historical accuracy we take quite seriously,…
By Brian Crecente Published April 3, 2009