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PlayStation Store Update: Bloomin’
Sony kicks off its “Spring Fever” promotion with the arrival of thatgamecompany’s Flower, this week’s most outstanding PlayStation Store addition. But if you don’t feel like opening up the wallet, there are plenty of freebies. Not much that’s playable, mind you, but plenty to download, including a slew of themes for your PlayStation 3 and…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Snazziest Art To Grace a Game Disc
Crispy Gamer compiled a short list of what they think is the best art displayed on a gaming disc. The gallery of 20 discs starts with Grand Theft Auto III’s disc and wraps up by naming PaRappa the Rapper’s disc as the best bit of on-disc gaming art. The list certainly missed quite a few…
By Brian Crecente Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guitar Hero Metallica Comes With Slice Of Lemmy
Metallica announced today that Guitar Hero Metallica will feature Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister as a playable character, presumably when one plays the band’s hit “Ace of Spades,” one of many guest tracks in the game. It should be a very profitable year for the English bassist, as he’ll also be appearing in the similarly umlauted Brütal…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
World Of Warcraft Lead Moves To Blizzard’s Next Online Game
World of Warcraft lead designer Jeffrey Kaplan has announced that he is leaving the team behind the popular massively-multiplayer online game in order to work on Blizzard’s next massively-multiplayer project. In a post on the official World of Warcraft forums, Kaplan, who goes by the forum handle Tigole, thanked the fans and the development team…
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Happy Darwin Day From Spore
Happy Darwin Day! Two hundred years ago evolutionary biologist Charles Dawrin was born. Today Maxis points out that his theories are being put to good use in Spore. More than 35 million creatures are online on Spore’s Sporepedia, which is more than 22 times the current known number of species that existence on the real…
By Brian Crecente Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Tales Still Has The Sales To Rank #1 In Japan
A batch of new software debuts couldn’t unseat Namco Bandai’s Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 as Japan’s bestselling game, including a better than expected showing of the PlayStation 3 exclusive Demon’s Souls. The continued impressive sales of the latest Tales role-playing game and Konami’s World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 gave the PlayStation family…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
How 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand Works
In the latest developer diary for 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, members of the development team explain how the hardcore rapper and his crew take on a fictional Middle Eastern country. The video takes us through most if not all of the gameplay mechanics for the new 50 Cent game, covering weapons, vehicle combat,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Majesco Urges Families To Go Play Lumberjax
It’s okay to work all night and sleep all day with Go Play Lumberjax, the first game in Majesco’s new line of family friendly games for the Nintendo Wii. Go Play Lumberjax is the first in the new Go Play line of games from New Jersey-based developer and publisher Majesco. According to Majesco VP of…
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Namco Bandai Plans Buyout Of D3
First Square Enix announces its bid for Eidos, and now Namco Bandai reveals its intentions to purchase Japanese publisher D3, the parent company of Puzzle Quest’s D3 Publisher. According to a press release issued today by Namco Bandai, the company seeks to turn D3 into a full subsidiary, with agreements already having been reached with…
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Midway’s Wheelman Is Now Ubisoft’s Wheelman [Update]
Wheelman, the open world Vin Diesel racer, may be the first title to be properly reorganized under Midway’s chapter 11 bankruptcy, as Kotaku has heard that the game has found a new home at Ubisoft. We’d learned from a source last week that the game was planned to change publishers, with an announcement from Ubisoft…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
The House Of The Dead: Overkill Tastefully Launched
The grindhouse-flavored prequel to the original zombie shooter, The House of the Dead: Overkill hits stores this week. Here’s the official launch trailer to help you determine if it’s your kind of tasteless. The trailer is chock full of jazzy music and gore, along with quotes from various publications heralding the disgusting fun to be…
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Sacred 2 Screens Show Off Console Co-op
The cooperative multiplayer fun of the PC version of CDV’s action role-playing game Sacred 2: Fallen Angel is alive and well in the upcoming console versions, and we’ve got the screenshots to prove it. This latest set of screens for the Xbox 360 version of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel show off the Diablo-esque co-op gameplay…
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
BioWare Reveals Six Beginnings For Dragon Age: Origins
BioWare pulls back on the curtains of the origins portion of their upcoming PC role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins, revealing the six different roles players can take on as they start their adventure. Players will begin their adventure in Dragon Age: Origin by selecting one of six different characters, each with different stories, backgrounds, and…
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Lost and Damned Trailer Has A Little Wild Side
In anticipation of next week’s launch of the first downloadable episode for Grand Theft Auto IV, The Lost and Damned, Rockstar Games has unleashed a bigger, more leathery taste of the expansion’s motley crew. The trailer not only features some fantastic metal flashbacks, but also a few guest appearances from familiar GTA IV faces, including…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Beatles Game Features the Different Periods of the Band
From the early days in Liverpool to psychedelia of Magical Mystery Tour and beyond, the Harmonix-developed Beatles game will let feature the band’s different periods. In a short question and answer session with Entertainment Weekly Paul McCartney dishes tidbits of dirt on the upcoming game first announced last year: Can you tell me about this…
By Brian Crecente Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Lips Delivers Xanadu Magic For Valentine’s Day
The classic 1980 film Xanadu finally gets some video game loving, as Microsoft announce Olivia Newton John’s “Magic” as part of their Valentine’s Day downloadable content for karaoke game Lips. Three new tracks drop for Lips on February 13th, celebrating the holiday of love with the songs such as Avril Lavigne’s “My Happy Ending” and…
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Imagine Yourself In Street Fighter IV
Paste your face over the fighters of Street Fighter IV with My Fist Your Face, a viral website from The Picture Production Company that allows you create customized Street Fighter IV video clips. The website is pretty straightforward. Choose a clip, upload a photo of your face, wait while the site does its internet magic,…
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Rumor: Aliens RPG Canceled, Layoffs Hit
Sources tell Kotaku that Sega has pulled the plug on their upcoming Aliens Roleplaying Game under development by California-based developer Obsidian. We’ve also been told that Obsidian, no longer working on the Sega project, laid off more than 20 people last night. With lack of official confirmation from anyone at the two companies involved, take…
By Brian Crecente Published February 12, 2009 - Uncategorized
Eidos Stock Explodes In Wake Of Square Enix Bid
Shares of Eidos on the London Stock Exchange skyrocketed today, more than doubling following the announcement of a generous buyout bid by Japanese RPG giant Square Enix. Closing at only 14 pence yesterday, shares of Eidos stock on the London Stock Exchange are currently trading at 31.75 pence, or .25 pence below the 32 pence…
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2009