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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 - Uncategorized
Lionsgate Sees Wii Movie Streaming In The Near Future
A top executive for Canadian film and television distributor Lionsgate thinks that the Nintendo Wii could be streaming movies by the end of this year. Curt Marvis heads up the digital media division of Lionsgate, so he knows all about the digital distribution of movies and televisions shows. The question is, how well does he…
By Mike Fahey Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Three More Fallout 3 Screens Emerge From The Pitt
Bethesda continues it’s fine tradition of releasing three screenshots at a time, with a trio of shots depicting life in the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout 3’s The Pitt downloadable content. The top screen has to be my favorite of the three. The one depicting the arena is nice, and you can never have too many…
By Mike Fahey Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
New York Drops DLC Tax Plans
New York Governor David Paterson‘s December tax proposal that would see the state nickel and diming downloadable content has been scrapped in favor of large amounts of federal stimulus money. Paterson’s proposal, issued in December, included a section titled “Close Digital Property Taxation Loophole”, which would impose taxes on all digitally-delivered items, including iPod songs,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Fable II Downloadable Content In The Works
A post on the Fable II development blog reveals that Lionhead is currently hard at work on new downloadable content for their award-winning role-playing game. Lionhead’s Sam Van Tilburgh tipped us off to the blog post, perhaps in order to make sure that you all weren’t simply trading in Fable II after you finished the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Red Faction: Guerrilla Weapons and Vehicles Trailer
In this latest video for Red Faction: Guerrilla we get a better look at the upcoming destructible shooter’s weapons and vehicles. We also get a look at some pretty explosions and the hammer, oh the hammer action.
By Brian Crecente Published March 12, 2009