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Capcom Won’t Say Lost Planet 2 Is An Xbox 360 Exclusive
This morning, Capcom officially announced Lost Planet 2 for the Xbox 360 with a very carefully worded press release. There were the words “Xbox 360” and the term “exclusive,” but not the phrase “Xbox 360 exclusive.” Capcom simply stated the game was “being developed for the Xbox 360.” Yet, the company was reluctant to state…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Brazilian Man Holds Woman Hostage For 10 Hours… With A Sega Light Gun
A man looking to collect on a debt broke into the house of 60-year-old woman in Brazil’s Federal District, holding her hostage for ten hours on the business end of a Sega Light Phaser. The Light Phaser, the light gun that shipped with the Sega Master System, must be fairly common in Brazil, considering how…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Sims 3 Preview: Smooth Criminal
Of all the career paths the Sims franchise ever offered, the criminal career track was the most morally unambiguous with the least amount of consequences… until now. Now, you can go to jail while working the criminal career path. Now, you can steal things from your friends’ and neighbors’ houses. Now is when The Sims…
By AJ Glasser Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Win A Big, Real Killzone 2 Gun
Just like the game itself, Killzone 2’s guns are big, loud and dirty. The Helghast’s StA52 Assault Rifle is particularly big, particularly loud, and, yes, dirty as well. Would you like one? Because Sony are giving some away. Big, heavy, replica models of the in-game weapons. For the first 14 days of March, Sony will…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
MadWorld Devs Give Behind The Scenes Studio Tour
As part of its continuing efforts to “get it,” MadWorld developers PlatinumGames give us a glimpse of something we rarely see—a behind-the-scenes tour of a Japanese video game developer. In English. PlatinumGames’ JP Kellams—who is also a swell fellow—gives the Wii-owning public an opportunity to see a typically unseen side of video game development, giving…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Sims 3’s Occult Connection, Plus New Screens
Ghosts push aside alien abductions, werewolf infections and nightclubbing vampires to become the sole element of the occult in The Sims 3. There’s always something supernatural in every Sims game. From werewolf babies in the Sims 2 Pets expansion all the way back to alien abductions in The Sims (which did not result in pregnancy),…
By AJ Glasser Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Xbox Live Sadly No Place For Lesbian Gamers
(Former) Xbox Live gamer Teresa found herself on the receiving end of a ban from the service for a surprising reason. She identified herself as a lesbian in her Live profile. That resulted in a ban from the service after her Xbox Live peers complained about her profile, according to a letter to the Consumerist.…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Welcome Your New PopCap Overlords In 2009
If you’re not already on board with PopCap Games‘ brand of casual thrills, you’ve never played Peggle. But you will bow before PopCap, as the publisher is expanding its casual efforts in a big way. Forbes writes of PopCap’s plans for 2009, some aspects of which we’re already aware of. It’s bringing Peggle to the…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Onion Asks: Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Our Kids For The Apocalypse?
Video games can be beneficial. They better our children’s hand-eye coordination, spatial relationship understanding and teach the basics of strategy. But are they doing enough to prepare them for a nuclear future and zombie infestations? The Onion’s “In The Know” program touches on this extremely topical debate, questioning whether our violent video game-playing youth are…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Is It Time For a New PSP?
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Today, I Dropped My Car Keys In Doggy Doo-Doo Lots of interesting information hitting today about a possible new Playstation Portable 2. Not sure why Acclaim’s David Perry would be spilling the beans, but I can’t imagine he’s just making it up. Besides, I’ve been hearing from other folks now…
By Brian Crecente Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Saints Row 2 Cameo Might Be A Good Example Of A “Don’t”
Showtime’s newest television series, United States of Tara, seems achingly desperate to court controversy. Maybe that’s why this Saints Row 2 cameo feels so inappropriate and out of place. In this clip from a recent episode, in which the son and daughter of the titular Tara—a woman with dissociative identity disorder resulting in four distinct…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mirror’s Edge, Dead Space Taught EA Hard Lesson About Release Dates
Electronic Arts has reflected on the ups and downs of 2008, realizing that, like the movie industry, not every single title needs to ship right before the holidays. You know, like every other game does. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, EA Redwood Shores GM Glen Schofield says that the company may be more choosy about what it…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dead to Rights: Retribution Coming This Year
Namco Bandai today officially unveiled Dead to Rights: Retribution for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, calling the 2009 game a gritty crime drama third-person shooter. The game will be set in Grant City where vice-cop Jack Slate is thrust into the epicenter of an “intensely dark, dangerous and tragic narrative” along with his dog…
By Brian Crecente Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Home’s New Siren Lounge: A Great Place To Cabbage Patch
Sony’s giving Japanese PlayStation 3 owners a place to chill—a PlayStation Home “lounge” dedicated to the horror game Siren. Looks like a lovely place to have a Home dance party! According to my shaky translation of the Sony Computer Entertainment Japan announcement, the Siren lounge will feature title-appropriate mini-games, including a hospital that your Home…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Frankenreview: Halo Wars
Twenty years before Halo: Combat Evolved the war between humanity and the Covenant was a much more strategic affair, as proven in Ensemble Studios’ swan song, Halo Wars. Halo Wars takes the familiar setting of the first-person shooter series Halo and translates into a console-based real-time strategy game, in which players build up and army,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Details, Trailer, Screens
Ubisoft today released the first trailer and game details for their upcoming western-shooter Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, due out this summer on the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The game, in development by Techland, will tell the story of the McCall brothers and take place in a variety of settings from “a…
By Brian Crecente Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Worms Armaggedon Decades Coming To Xbox Live Arcade
Looks like Xbox 360 owners will get to eat more worms, as Australia’s classification body has rated Worms Armageddon Decade, a release that appears to be a Live Arcade remake of the ten-year-old strategy title. While XBLA already has one Worms release, now about two-years-old, Worms Armageddon Decade represents a highlight for the series. The…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Warhammer Online’s Severely Limited Free Trial Offer
After months spent catering strictly to the game-purchasing crowd, Mythic has released a free 10-day trial for their massively multiplayer online role-playing game Warhammer Online. As part of Mythic’s plan to draw new players to Warhammer Online in the face of their Call to Arms live expansion, the company has launched a free 10-day trial…
By Mike Fahey Published February 25, 2009 - Reviews
The House Of The Dead: Overkill Review: A Blast From The Past
Sega’s classic shooter franchise meets 70’s exploitation horror in The House of the Dead: Overkill for the Nintendo Wii. Developer Headstrong re-imagines the House of the Dead franchise in Overkill, a prequel to the series that takes us back to a simpler time, when men were men, women were half-naked, and black policemen use the…
By Mike Fahey Published February 25, 2009 - Uncategorized
Team Fortress 2 Scout Update Live, Now Ridiculously Cheap
The newest update for Team Fortress 2 is live, bringing three new unlockables—the Sandman, Bonk! Energy Drink, and the Force-A-Nature—to the Scout class along with much, much more. The better news? The price! Team Fortress 2 is currently, like Left 4 Dead was last week, now 50% off for a limited time. That’s just $9.99…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2009