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PlayStation Store Update: Go 4D Under The Sea
This week’s North American PlayStation Store update is lean and mean, featuring very little in the way of fluff, with just enough SpongeBob SquarePants downloadable content to get the job done. Two playable games join the ranks with Comet Crash for the PlayStation 3 and 7 Wonders of the Ancient World for PSP leading the…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Even League Of Legends Needs A Snow Level
In case you needed further proof that Riot Games‘ League of Legends: Clash of Fates was a real game, we give you…the snow level. I wouldn’t go as far as saying a game requires a snow level in order to be considered a real game, but it certainly helps. As it stood, I was pretty…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Flock Playset Is Painfully Endearing
This has to be one of the cutest game-themed playsets I’ve seen in quite awhile. OK, maybe it’s the only game-themed playset I’ve seen in ever. The mother ship is surrounded by a farm’s worth of animals and a lone ship ready to do some gathering and probing. The best part is that the whole…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Killzone 2’s Interactive “4D” Ad Hits PlayStation Store Today
The PlayStation 3 goes 4D, thanks to the arrival of the interactive Killzone 2 television spot “Bullet Journey.” Downloadable from the PlayStation Store today, the “Behind The Bullet” app let’s you explore that dramatic ad. The “three minute interactive demonstration” can be downloaded for free via the PlayStation Store, letting players manipulate the camera that…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Funcom “Opens The Floodgates” With Conan Free Trial
Funcom really, really wants new players to come try out Age of Conan, releasing a persuasive video and a free trial offer to try and make that happen. Age of Conan has gotten off to a bit of a slow start. Well, that’s not entirely true. More like it got off to a quick start,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2009 - Reviews
BattleForge Review: Collectible Card-Time Strategy
What happens when you mix together real-time strategy gameplay with collectible card game sensibilities? BattleForge happens. Developed by EA’s Phenomic, BattleForge is an intriguing mix of real-time strategy and collectible card game on a massively multiplayer online level. Where a standard real-time strategy game has units with various powers and abilities, BattleForge has a set…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Konami Picks Up Saw, Releases First Screens
Konami has confirmed that it has picked up rights to publish a video game based on the Saw movie franchise, one of many titles abandoned by the implosion of Brash Entertainment. Variety’s The Cut Scene has first details and a handful of screen shots of Konami’s newest acquisition, confirming earlier reports that Saw would join…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Arkham Asylum, Punch-Out, Wolfenstein: The Previews of GDC
This year’s Game Developers Conference was, as is often the case, quite a bit of fun. It was packed with opportunities to sit down and talk with the people behind some of the greatest games, past, present and future. This year, though, it was also quite loaded up with the chance to play soon-to-be-released games.…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Foot Locker has some sweet kicks. You love a trivia challenge.
Together you can create something beautiful, namely a $100 gift card in your pocket. Go here, hunt around for trivia facts, and answer the questions after the jump. Correct responses could earn you a $100 gift card to revamp your style with the PUMA Archive Collection. Standard Rules Apply. Trivia Questions • In 2000, PUMA…
By Chrissie Lamond Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Giant Robot Games Still Tops In Japan
Mechs? Japan loves ’em! We know, because last week, Super Robot Taisen K topped Media Create software charts and this week it’s Mobile Suit Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna Portable outselling everything else. The PlayStation Portable title handily bested all non-giant robot games with a sales missile barrage to the tune of 85,000 units. It was…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wolverine Behind-The-Scenes Is Best There is At What It Does
Activision unleashes the first behind-the-scenes video for X-Men Origins: Wolverine is definitely the best at what it does: proving that the developers at Raven are a bunch of drooling Wolverine fanboys. Activision seems to have a knack for passing their Marvel properties on to developers in love with the characters, though as was the case…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Runes Of Magic Channels Mario Kart
Frogster continues to throw all the gameplay they can possibly find into Runes of Magic, introducing a suspiciously kart-like horse racing mini-game, complete with mystery power-ups. The Wind-Runner Race is an 8-person horse race that players sign up for in the city of Varanas in the game world. Once the race card is full the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Atlus Delays Steal Princess Until People Know About It
Atlus has officially delayed their DS puzzle platformer hybrid Steal Princess until May, in order to make sure more people are aware that Steal Princess exists. Atlus is mastering the art of the delay lately, having pushed back the DS title Class of Heroes to June just a few short days ago. Now it’s Steal…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
All That Jazz: Video Game Musicals
Last month, Phoenix Wright came to life on stage in Japan courtesy of the all-female musical theater group, Takarazuka Revue. It was bright, it was catchy, it sold like hotcakes — and it was downright uncanny. Takarazuka is no stranger to adaptations; their five troupes have each put on works based on Western literature and…
By AJ Glasser Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Battlestar Galactica Composer Scores Dark Void
Capcom has scored Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary to provide musical accompaniment for their upcoming parallel universe shooter, Dark Void. Battlestar Galactica may be gone, but perhaps a bit of its music can live on in Dark Void’s McCreary-created score. Bear was the sole composer for Battlestar after the miniseries, and is currently employed doing…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Jumpgate Evolution: When Darkness Falls
The latest trailer and screens for Net Devil‘s massively mutiplayer online space combat extravaganza Jumpgate Evolution wants to know which side you’ll be on when darkness falls. Is that some special, dramatic way of asking who I am going to shoot? I only ask because both the trailer and the accompanying screen shots only serve…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Conduit Control Customization
There are plenty of things to talk about when it comes to Wii shooter The Conduit, but none are more important then the controls and the absurd number of ways you can customize them. Matt Corso, art and creative director at High Voltage, walked me through the options, which not only rival, but may surpass…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Crytek: The Internet Isn’t Ready For Streaming Game Services
Crysis developer Crytek reveals that they have done research into providing streaming game services like the ones Onlive is promising, only to conclude that the internet wouldn’t be ready for them until at least 2013. According to Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli, the company began research the potential of a service that allowed games played on…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Top-Selling PS1 Games In The PlayStation Store
Since the launch of the PlayStation 3, Sony has published nearly 30 original PlayStation Classics on the North American PlayStation Store. Which have sold the best? Gamasutra procured a list of the top ten most popular PSone Classics in the PlayStation Store for North America, and the results really aren’t that surprising, especially the top…
By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
SCEA: PS2 Price Drop Will Cut Into Wii, Eventually Help PS3 Sales
With a price drop to $99, the Playstation 2 is being repositioned as a family friendly video game console for the casual gamer. Something that could put the Playstation 2 directly in the Nintendo Wii’s big blue ocean, says John Koller, SCEA’s director of hardware marketing. “I think you can look at the PS2 as…
By Brian Crecente Published April 2, 2009