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USA Today Launches Game Blog
National newspaper USA Today, today, launched their official video game blog. Game Hunters is moderated by Mike Snider and Brett Molina will be covering all things gaming from video game consoles to handheld devices to personal computers and promises to provide news, reviews, contests, giveaways, demo codes and sneak peeks. It’s nice to see another…
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony’s Buzz! Devs Have A “Secret Project”
The men and women who toil away at Sony’s popular Buzz! franchise, churning out sequels and expansions to please their overlords, are hard at work on a secret project, currently known as “Secret Project.” Catchy, eh? Yes, very. While the UK-based Relentless Software isn’t divulging details on its “Secret Project” yet, it has put out…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Concept Art: God Of War III’s Fire Titan
This fine bit of work from God of War series concept artist Cecil Kim depicts the mighty Fire Titan, displaying the epic scale Sony is aiming for with God of War III. At Cecil Kim’s website you’ll find tons of concept art for God of War and God of War II, along with a few…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Knights In The Nightmare Gets Atlus Spoils Treatment
Atlus’ upcoming strategy action hybrid Knights in the Nightmare for the Nintendo DS will ship with a soundtrack CD and a pre-order art book, all because of a monkey. Well, a chimpanzee at least. Atlus’ press release puts the full blame for the extra-added Knights in the Nightmare swag on Atlus Spoils program manager Charlie…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Analyst: One In Three God Of War III Buyers Don’t Own A PS3
God of War III could truly be a killer app for the PlayStation 3, as one analyst’s data indicates that one in three potential buyers of the game don’t own the console yet. Speaking to Gamasutra, OTX analyst Nick Williams suggests that a price drop is in order before God of War III hits retails…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Resident Evil 5’s Mine Level
Check out never before scene footage of the Resident Evil 5 mine level, courtesy of the folks behind this weekend’s Resident Evil 5 Bravo UK television special. Richard Wilcox, the executive producer behind the Playr Resident Evil 5 special that aired this weekend on cable network Bravo in the UK, passes along this unused footage…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
King of Fighters XII Strikes Worldwide In July
The beautiful hand-drawn graphics of King of Fighters XII are coming to an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 near you, as SNK Playmore and Ignition Entertainment announce a worldwide release for July. The King of Fighters series finally makes the jump to current generation hardware with The King of Fighters XII, coming this July to…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guitar Hero Marches On With Queen, Hendrix, and James Bond
Activision details their downloadable content lineup for Guitar Hero World Tour this month, bringing players more Hendrix, a little Queen, a smattering of European tracks, and the James Bond theme song. The month’s downloadable songs kick off this Thursday with the third European track pack, with Italy, Finland, and France represented by Vanilla Sky, The…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Best Buy Reexamining Used Game Sales
They’ve dabbled in used video games buy backs and sales before, but we’re hearing that Best Buy is once more rolling out a test program to a number of their stories this month. Just a day after word of Toys R Us testing out used game sales, a source tells us that a used game…
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Msoft: I Doubt We’ve Seen the Last of Master Chief
Speaking to USA Today, Halo franchise development director Frank O’Connor hints that we may have more Master Chief in store for us in the future. “I doubt we have seen the last of Master Chief,” O’Connor told the paper. The bulk of the article is about upcoming Halo 3: ODST, which O’Connor says is significantly…
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
H.A.W.X. Launches With Attack On The White House
The launch trailer for Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. shows how heavy the air-to-air combat action is going to get, with an attack on the White House and a missile aimed at Air Force One. Of course it isn’t the real White House or Air Force one. This is the White House and Air Force One of…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Best Buy Zombie Invasion Gets Viral Ads
Packed with zombies, the real U.S. Army and a short fright show, the Stroudsburg, PA Best Buy‘s launch event for Resident Evil 5 now has its own backstory. The folks in Stroudsburg have been putting together a five-part video series to fill people in on the events leading up to the zombie infestation of the…
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
ESA Foundation Doubles Up On Developer Scholarships
The ESA Foundation, representing the charitable arm of the games industry, has announced that they will be making 30 scholarships available this year to aspiring female and minority game developers. The 30 scholarships represent a doubling of the foundations scholarship offerings over their first two years of operation, granting qualified applicants $3,000 towards their continued…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Burnout Paradise Toy Cars Really Coming Out Thursday
After a false start in the middle of last month, Criterion is finally ready to release the Toy Car pack for Burnout Paradise, with the tiny racers speeding your way this Thursday. Nine little racers make their way to the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace this Thursday, adding a whole new, much smaller dimension…
By Mike Fahey Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Print Your Own Street Fighter IV Manual
Remember that amazing Street Fighter IV Training Manual Capcom sent out to the press for the launch of their new fighter? Now you can print your very own version. Capcom has uploaded a PDF of the entire manual on their Unity site for downloading, perusal and printing. Pretty neat. I hope they do the same…
By Brian Crecente Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Today I Saw Snow
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Killzone 2 Gaming Haven’t picked up Killzone 2, but really want to… Yes, I know Denver is covered in snow until mid-July or something, but today, for about an hour, it snowed big, clumpy wet snow that didn’t stick, but sure looked nice from my warm apartment. Boy I hate…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Why Capcom Bet 360, And Not PS3 Or Wii
Sure, these days Capcom are true multiplatform developers, but for a while they, they were leaning 360. Dead Rising, Lost Planet, both were originally 360-only. So why did a Japanese developer make that call? Capcom talisman Keiji Inafune – the creator of Mega Man, Onimusha and Dead Rising – explains that, despite a lot of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
British Sales Charts
Two big first-party titles faced off last week in Britain: Killzone 2 and Halo Wars. Only one of them could come out victorious, and it wasn’t going to be Halo Wars. Instead, it was Killzone 2 taking the #1 spot, in the process becoming Britain’s second-fastest-selling PS3 game of all time (behind GT5 Prologue), the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
Nintendo UK: Buy Your DSi Christmas Presents Now
In early April, the Nintendo DSi will go on sale in North America, Europe and Australia. It may be spring, but it’s not to early for Christmas DSi shopping. When asked by The Times whether it would be a good idea to buy the DSi early for Christmas, Nintendo UK exec David Yarnton replied: I…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 3, 2009 - Uncategorized
EVE Online Scandals Are Good For Business
Massively-multiplayer game EVE Online has had its fair share of scandals and controversies. That’s what happens when you let the gamers run themselves. But they’ve hardly been a deterrent to subscriptions. Speaking with MTV, Noah Ward, from developers CCP, reveals that after the latest user-induced meltdown to hit the game – in the form of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 3, 2009