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Rock Band Getting A Texas Flood Next Week
Next week’s downloadable content has been a long time coming, but Stevie Ray Vaughn‘s classic 1983 blues album Texas Flood is finally coming to Rock Band and Rock Band 2. Harmonix revealed the full album’s availability via the Rock Band Music Store to subscribers of the Rock Band Community Zine, with ten tracks from Stevie…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Apple Struggles With Flood of iPhone Games
As I see it, the biggest problem Apple’s iPhone faces as a gaming platform is the flood, the sheer wall of games now available on the system. The last I heard, and I’m sure it’s well past this by now, is that there are 15,000 applications on the App Store right now, many of them…
By Brian Crecente Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dead Space Gets Wii MotionPlus Support, Sexy New Genre
The Wii translation of Dead Space will do one thing right, at the very least—it will support the Wii MotionPlus peripheral for one-to-one motion tracking, making first-person shooting that much easier. That was confirmed by Electronic Arts Chief Operating Officer John Pleasants during his talk at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2009, who…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Diablo III Bestiary: The Unburied
Blizzard has updated the Diablo III bestiary with a new entry and new screens featuring The Unburied, undead beasts born from the improperly cared-for dead. As you can see, The Unburied are large, shambling beasts made up of the discarded body parts of people disposed of unceremoniously in mass graves. Better yet, let’s let Diablo…
By Mike Fahey Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
A Look at MadWorld’s Bosses
In this latest episode of MadWorld’s Death Watch we catch a glimpse of some of the over-the-top brutal game’s bosses. First up, we catch a glimpse of Little Eddie, a ball-and-chain-wielding behemoth. The trailer also shows us glimpses of Herr Frederick von Twirlenkiller and the female boss of Asiantown. The video wraps up with quick…
By Brian Crecente Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Square Enix Rockets To The Top Of Japan’s Sales Charts With Star Ocean
Square Enix’s Star Ocean 4 helped propel the Xbox 360 to the front of the console pack in Japan, thanks to an impressive 162,000 copies sold in just one week. That’s damn good. The new role-playing game knocked off last week’s champ, Mario & Luigi RPG3!!!, a Nintendo DS title whose fall was cushioned by…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Stormrise: Real-Time Strategy From A Different Point Of View
A new trailer for The Creative Assembly‘s new real-time strategy game Stormrise shows off a dynamic camera system worthy of a blockbuster action title. While I enjoy the odd real-time strategy title, I’m not a huge fan of the overhead perspective so many games in the genre employ. I like to feel a little more…
By Mike Fahey Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Microsoft Looking To Change Xbox Live Sexual “Discrimination”
Been a bit of a fuss lately over Xbox Live and people’s sexual orientation. People being banned left and right for wearing said orientation on their sleeves (well, gamertag/profile). It’s a mess. But it’s a mess Microsoft are looking into, with Xbox Live Police Chief Stephen Toulouse saying: Expression of any sexual orientation (straight or…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Silent Hill Wii-make Coming From Climax
Konami may be bringing the Silent Hill series to the Wii, giving the Nintendo faithful their first stateside taste of foggy psychological horror. The game is rumored to be a remake of the PlayStation original. According to a report from VG247, Konami’s next Silent Hill outing will be a port of the decade-old first entry…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
New World At War Patch Brings “New” World At War Map
The latest patch for Call of Duty World at War hits the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 today, bringing with it a free daytime version of the Makin multiplayer map. Just a re-lit multiplayer map? Isn’t that a bit cheap? No, it’s not cheap – it’s free, and they’ve done a little more than simply…
By Mike Fahey Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Official GTA: Chinatown Wars Trailer
Rockstar just dropped the first official trailer for the Nintendo DS-bound Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. The snippets—very brief snippets—of gameplay shown might be missed during your first viewing. Oh, they’re in there… In Chinatown Wars, you will play as Huang Lee out to avenge his father’s death and restore his family’s “honor,” something that…
By Brian Crecente Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Xbox 360 Outsells Wii, PS3 In Japan
How did Microsoft manage to sell more Xbox 360s than the competition this week in Japan? With a little help from Square Enix’s Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope. The role-playing game shot the Xbox 360 from its regular second-to-last place showing to third—it was still behind the Nintendo DSi and PSP—besting sales of both…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Stoked Hits Store Shelves With Musical Accompaniment
It’s time for your lunchtime musical interlude, courtesy of this new trailer for Destineer’s snowboarder Stoked, featuring the music stylings of pop punk band Quietdrive with "Deliverance". Say what you will about pop punk music…how it all sounds the same and the bands generally look the same and probably smell the same…it’s still damn infectious…
By Mike Fahey Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sega Lands On Planet 51
Sega taps the always lucrative computer-animated film tie-in market with Planet 51, the story of an astronaut who becomes the alien invader on a planet of little green men. Planet 51’s premise is simply brilliant. Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker lands on a supposedly uninhabited planet, only to discover the world is populated by little green…
By Mike Fahey Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sam & Max Hit The Xbox Live Arcade
Telltale brings their dog and rabbity-thing adventures to a whole new audience, announcing both seasons of the award-winning Sam & Max series for Xbox Live Arcade. Telltale follows up their Wallace & Gromit Xbox Live Arcade debut with seasons one and two of the Sam & Max series of point and click adventure games. Originally…
By Mike Fahey Published February 26, 2009 - Reviews
Dawn Of War II Review: Once More, With Tyranids
Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War was a big hit. Relic’s next game, Company of Heroes, was even better. So the company’s next game, Dawn of War II, will continue the trend, yes? Sort of. Fans of Relic’s previous two games will be surprised to find that Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II bears little resemblance…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Steampunk Cowboys On The Road To Damnation
Codemasters has released 10 new screenshots of their upcoming alternate-history shooter Damnation, serving up a heapin’ helping of that Western steampunk style. Yes, Damnation is indeed set in a steampunk world, even if the women aren’t wandering around in frilly dresses and the men don’t all wear top hats with monocles. There are other steampunk…
By Mike Fahey Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Lips Getting Better Scoring, Leaderboards, and Coldplay
March brings a slew of fixes, features, and fan favorites to the Xbox 360 karaoke game Lips, with an early March title update delivering improved scoring and international leaderboards, just in time for Coldplay. As a proud owner of Lips, I’ve often felt the game has given me far too much credit for my vibrato.…
By Mike Fahey Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
Super Mario Kart: Most Influential Video Game in History
Super Mario Kart has the longest legacy and the biggest impact on video games in history, according to Guinness World Records which compiled a list of the top 50 consoles games of all time. Tasked with selecting the best console games of all time, contributors of this year’s Gamer’s Edition reviewed hundreds of releases to…
By Brian Crecente Published February 26, 2009 - Uncategorized
League of Legends Gameplay Is Colorfully Chaotic
In case our feature on Riot Games‘ upcoming mod turned action-strategy game League of Legends didn’t adequately explain what the game was, perhaps the official gameplay trailer will. Even writing up a lengthy feature on the game and it’s evolution from the Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients into a full-fledged game didn’t give…
By Mike Fahey Published February 26, 2009