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Capcom Has More HD Remixes Up Its Sleeve; Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 Next?
Capcom’s VP of Business Development and Strategic Planning, Christian Svensson, says the company is far from done making high def Remixes of its old-school games. So if you liked Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, make with the jumping for joy. If you liked Marvel vs. Capcom enough to want a third one, tough…
By AJ Glasser Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Osaka Schools Passing Out DSs
Reports say that about 10 middle and elementary schools in Osaka will start handing out Nintendo DS consoles to students next January. Nintendo’s plan to control the world: 80% complete. The Osaka Board of Education signed off on the measure, according to Japanator, potentially restoring my faith in public education systems. Students will use “education…
By AJ Glasser Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Lord of the Rings License Leaves EA, Journeys Back To WB
Don’t expect to see any further The Lord of the Rings games coming from Electronic Arts. The publisher’s license to the property has expired, with rights heading back to Warner Bros. Variety’s The Cut Scene reports that EA’s hold on The Lord of the Rings was up as of December of last year, with Pandemic…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Valve Implements Team Fortress 2 “Server Scoring” To Improve Game Experience
The official Team Fortress 2 blog reveals Valve’s plan to improve your experience while surfing the uncharted waters of public game servers. It has implemented a scoring system that demotes (and sometimes deletes) poor servers. Valve’s Robin Walker explains the scoring system at the official TF2 blog, writing that game servers will be scored higher…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Batman: Arkham Asylum Gameplay Trailer Is Mighty Stealthy
Eidos and Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Asylum game looks good. Possibly good enough to help me overcome my crippling fear of stealth gameplay and unique phobia of millionaire playboys in tights. The Mark Hamill voice over work will probably do it for you, if you were a fan of his work the Batman animated series. Frankly,…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
GDC Cometh
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: This Weekend’s Mission: Library Card We’re only a week and change away from this year’s Game Developers Conference. With this being the show’s year of Nintendo, and given what they introduced at their last GDC, I think that we could have a pretty exciting show on our hands. I spent…
By Brian Crecente Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
PlayStation Store Update: Double Your Diesel Demos
Today’s North American PlayStation Store update brings with it twice the Vin, double the Diesel, as demos for Wheelman and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena are now available for the PlayStation 3. There’s plenty of non-Vin Diesel related content, including four new (or new-ish) playable games for the PS3 and PSP, plus…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Namco Says It’s Not Evil, Dropped Splatterhouse Devs For “Performance Issues”
When Namco Bandai yanked the modern-day Splatterhouse from developers BottleRocket, it was met with boos and hisses from the angry internet mob. But Namco’s Makoto Iwai says the publisher wasn’t trying to be evil. “Basically, the only reason why publishers pull the project out from the developer is when the developer isn’t really meeting the…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
New inFamous Gameplay Trailer Crackles With Slow Motion
Slow motion makes everything more dramatic, as one can see proven in the new trailer for the PlayStation 3 exclusive inFamous. It cranks the slow motion knob to eleven and never lets up. The new trailer for the Sucker Punch-developed game has more than just a melodramatic soundtrack courtesy of the eminently soundtrack-able band If…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Beatles Game Gets Never Before Heard “Stuff”
MTV Games rhythm game based on The Beatles will feature more than just the Fab Four’s number ones and B-sides. The Beatles: Rock Band is getting “never been heard, never been released” content too. Dhani Harrison, son of Beatles guitarist George Harrison, tells Billboard that, in addition to being a “totally, historically accurate” trip through…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bayonetta Passing Out The Bad Hair Days
Every day is a bad hair day for the creatures that go up against Bayonetta, as these new screens from Platinum Games‘ upcoming witchy action title readily demonstrate. There’s not much more I can say about Bayonetta that hasn’t already been said. It’s what happens when the creator of the Devil May Cry series Hideki…
By Mike Fahey Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sega Makes U.S. Release Of Virtual On XBLA Official
Sega of Japan is bringing Cyber Troopers Virtual On Oratorio Tangram to Xbox Live Arcade. You probably knew that already. Sega wants you to also know that it’s not just for Japanese gamers. The XBLA release of the 3D mech arcade fighting game will be available to Xbox 360 owners “exclusively” sometime this Spring, Sega…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
The First Trailer For Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles
Today Capcom officially announced Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles for the Nintendo Wii, and we got our hands on the first trailer, sort of. Okay, so it’s technically the first trailer for Biohazard: The Darkside Chronicles, but it’s essentially the same thing. Just pretend the Japanese text is a strange code you have to decipher…
By Mike Fahey Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony: We Won’t Drop Blu-Ray For The PS3
In February, analyst Mike Hickey indicated a PlayStation 3 price drop would hit near the end of the month. Didn’t happen. He also passed on speculation that Sony would drop the PS3’s Blu-ray drive. Wait. What? Drop the thing that makes the entirety of the PlayStation 3’s physical game library playable? That’s what he said.…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Toronto Killzone 2 Ads Pulled Due To “Menacing Head”
Complaints about images of war and violence have caused Sony to pull around 300 Killzone 2 advertisements from bus shelters in Toronto, Canada. School teacher Davis Mirza is partially responsible for the ads being removed, having emailed Sony Computer Entertainment Canada after seeing shocking images of a “menacing head with glowing eyes” and scenes of…
By Mike Fahey Published March 12, 2009 - Reviews
Resident Evil 5 Review: A Mutation of Fun
It’s unfortunate that before its launch Resident Evil 5 became about everything, but the game. The most hotly debated questions had little to do with what should matter most to gamers: Is it fun? In Resident Evil 5, Chris Redfield returns, no longer a member of STARS, but as a member of the Bioterrorism Security…
By Brian Crecente Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Japanese Residents Snatch Up Massive Amounts Of Evil
Long lines at electronics stores in Japan translate to big sales of Resident Evil 5, with the survival horror game selling just shy of 400,000 copies in its first week on the market. About 80% of those were of the PlayStation 3 variety, which topped the Media Create charts by a considerable margin. The Xbox…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Shocking New G.I. Joe Screens
New screens have surfaced for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, EA’s game of the movie of the cartoon of the toy. The shots depict Snake Eyes doing various things, because Snake Eyes is pretty much G.I. Joe’s main draw. The rest of the original toy characters just looked like the extended cast of The…
By Mike Fahey Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Red Alert 3: Uprising’s Yuriko Campaign
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Uprising is now available. and EA has released this helpful video detailing the Yuriko campaign, which turns the real-time strategy title into a dungeon crawler. By far the most interesting addition is the Yuriko campaign, which follows the story of the little psychic Japanese girl who was kidnapped as…
By Mike Fahey Published March 12, 2009