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OutRun Online Arcade Gallery Races By
Sega’s OutRun series races onto Xbox Live Arcade next week, and if you blink your eyes really fast, gameplay might look exactly like this latest set of screenshots. The North American version of OutRun Online Arcade is an Xbox 360 exclusive, for reasons we can only guess, which saddens me, seeing as it is beautiful,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wheel Of Fortune Spins On PlayStation Network Thursday
Sony will let wordsmiths buy not just one vowel, but seven six, as Wheel of Fortune arrives on the North American PlayStation Store this Thursday. With 9,000 puzzles and 11 cities to play in, the lack of a digital Vanna White will be less painfully felt. Not sure about that $14.99 price tag, though. That’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Target Confirms New PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits Bundle
Kotaku has confirmed with several Target locations that a new 80GB PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits bundle will be available on March 29th, with Motorstorm and Resistance thrown in for free. Target stores across the country are currently receiving, sitting on, or awaiting stock of a new 80GB PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits Bundle, which comes complete…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2009 - Reviews
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Review: Huang In A Million
Rockstar Games brings murder, mayhem, and a miniature Liberty City to the Nintendo DS with Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the developer’s first outing on the mega-hit dual-screen portable platform. In Chinatown Wars, Liberty City welcomes Huang Lee, the spoiled rotten son of a Chinese Triad crime syndicate leader. Lee journeys to the city to…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Console Sacred 2 Faces May Delay
Console owners wishing to travel the lands of Ancaria will have to delay their vacation plans, as the release date for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 slips to May. Released last November for the PC, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel is an expansive isometric action role-playing game with multiple character…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Ngmoco Details iPhone Pet Sim, WiFi First-Person Shooter
Ngmoco released more details on their upcoming pet sim, Touch Pets, and announced a new online first-person shooter for the iPhone during today’s Apple conference. LiveFire is a first-person shooter that uses a 3G connection for online WiFi multiplayer matches. The game is controllable by moving your finger around on the left side of the…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mainstream Media: Animal Crossing Mayor Could Be A Sexual Predator
The Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force is warning parents that Animal Crossing could be a haven for sexual predators, with ABC 17 News warning that Mayor Tortimer may want to see your child naked. Is Mayor Tortimer actually a man in California that asks for naked images from Missouri children? That’s what Missouri’s ABC 17…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
iPhone Sims 3 Unveiled, Features Streaming Music, DLC
The Sims 3 for the iPhone will sell in-game items for 99 cents and play music from your library, according to a presentation by Apple earlier today. Electronic Arts allowed the company to show off their upcoming iPhone game during the presentation for the 3.0 upgrade for their device. The game will have in-app commerce,…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
iPhone Update Brings Paid DLC, Better Multiplayer Support
At today’s unveiling of the upcoming 3.0 iPhone update, Apple announced that they will begin supporting the ability to sell downloadable content for games and other applications through the device. In App Purchase would allow developers to sell new levels, magazines to sell a subscription or Ebook publishers to sell books, to name a few.…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bioware: Mass Effect 2 Will Surpass Original
Much to no one’s surprise, Electronic Arts today officially, officially announced Mass Effect 2 for the PC and Xbox 360, due out next year. In the second of the trilogy Saren’s evil army of Geth soldiers has just been defeated, and humans, who are still struggling to make their mark on the galactic stage, are…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Live the Dream: Design the Games you Play!
Our unique program is your first step toward becoming an artist and designer in the multi-billion-dollar game design industry. Details after the jump. You’ll learn how to design game play and background, create characters and their environments, and apply your knowledge of video and computer games to evaluate products. You will also learn to plan…
By Chrissie Lamond Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Orc Choppas And Dwarf Slayers Invade Warhammer Online
Two new combatants join the war between Order and Destruction today, as Mythic unleashes the Orc Choppa and Dwarf Slayer classes for Warhammer Online. The two new berserker classes join Warhammer Online as part of the Call to Arms live expansion, which leads up to the opening of the expansive Land of the Dead dungeon…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
InstantAction Brings Tribes To Your Web Browser
The original jetpack shooter returns, as InstantAction gets ready to debut their web-based version of Starsiege: Tribes at the Game Developers Conference next week. When browser-based gaming destination first announced GarageGames’ Fallen Empires: Legions, people immediately started calling it a browser-based Tribes. InstantAction would rather we call it the spiritual successor, especially now that they’ve…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2009 -
UncategorizedNew Behemoth Game’s an Operatic Platformer
OK, so maybe, just maybe, this won’t be the game’s official soundtrack, but it certainly will be the game’s official gameplay. The trailer shows that the new game from The Behemoth, makers of Castle Crashers, appears to be a cooperative platformer. Due out in 2010, the title, price, platform or details beyond this trailer remain…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Many Weapons of Chinatown War’s Rampage Mode
With Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars now out, lets take a look at some of the weapons in the portable title that makes making mayhem in Rampage Mode so much fun. I spent a bit of time over the weekend with the game and found it quite fun, though it still hasn’t totally sunk its…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Analyst: GameStop Has Nothing To Fear From Amazon
Electronic Entertainment Design And Research compares used game trade-in values between GameStop and Amazon.com and finds that brick and mortar is still the way to go. While direct comparisons between trade-in values at Amazon, who recently entered the used game trade-in business, and retailer GameStop might make it look like a close race, EEDAR’s Jesse…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Pac-Man And Dig Dug With A Facebook Twist
Namco Networks and J2Play announce the launch of Namco All-Stars Pac-Man and Dig Dug, two classic games for your PC with built-in hooks to the Facebook community. So how are these versions of the two classic arcade titles different from every other version? Once downloaded and launched, the games will ask for your Facebook login…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Playstation Portable Getting Mammoth Comic Support
A recent Playstation Network opinion survey is asking gamers what they think about digital comic, graphic novel and manga distribution to the Playstation Portable, readers tell us. The survey asked about price points, subscriptions, sharing comics and Memory Stick sizes. The comic prices ranged from .99 cents to $2.99 per issue with up to 30…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Square Enix Snags Gamebryo Engine For Something
Square Enix continues to give other company’s game engines a chance, licensing Emergent Technology’s Gamebryo for an unannounced project. Square has licensed the Gamebryo engine, which has powered games like Fallout 3, Dark Age of Camelot, and Playboy: The Mansion, for use in a game that shall remain secret until they deem us worthy. Why…
By Mike Fahey Published March 17, 2009 - Uncategorized
Pokemon Launch Party Hits New York
To celebrate the release of Pokemon Platinum, Nintendo is throwing a launch party at their New York-based Nintendo World Store this weekend. The party, this Saturday, will let gamers buy the game a day earlier and give them a chance to receive a copy of the game autographed by Game Producer Junichi Masuda and Game…
By Brian Crecente Published March 17, 2009