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Lara Croft Breaks Her Date To Go Beneath The Ashes
Due to an “unexpected technical issue,” the first batch of downloadable goodies for Tomb Raider: Underworld will not make its planned February 10th launch date. This is the bonus level’s second delay. Previously planned for a December launch, the two new downloadable levels from Eidos and Crystal Dynamics will give Tomb Raider: Underworld fans new…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
First Brief Details On Left 4 Dead’s New “Survival” Mode
As promised, first concrete details on the Left 4 Dead “Survival Pack” were released on the most recent episode of GameTrailers TV. As expected, the new downloadable content brings two campaigns to Versus Mode. And? The “Survival” multiplayer mode, which is separate from Versus and the cooperative Campaign modes, will allow “up to four players…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Force Unleashed Wins Writers Guild Award
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was honored for best videogame writing at the annual 2009 Writers Guild Awards over the weekend. The awards, presented by the Writers Guild of America, West and Writers Guild of America, East, are for achievement in writing for screen, television, radio, news, promotional and video games. The writing was OK…
By Brian Crecente Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Why Dead Rising 2 May Not Have Photography
The first thing most of us noticed when Capcom confirmed Dead Rising 2 was the lack of the original title’s lead Frank West. The second? Where’s the camera? There’s an argument for not including the camera, so prevalent, so beloved in the first Dead Rising, in this sequel. In the original Dead Rising you play…
By Brian Crecente Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
3 On 3 NHL Arcade: Your XBLA Game of the Week
EA’s big-headed hockey game 3 On 3 NHL Arcade checks into Xbox Live Arcade this week, bringing zany, powered-up puck handling to gamers who like buying things with Microsoft Points as currency. The EA Sports Freestyle game, which hit the PlayStation Network last Thursday, features support for up to six players online, eight wacky power-ups,…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
New York Comic Con Cosplay, Previews and Toys
Jim Reilly spent a good chunk of his weekend hanging out at the New York Comic Con so you didn’t have to. Here’s a run down of the posts filed so far from the event: Prototype Preview: Slick, But Not A Stand Out New Wolfenstein Features Otherworld X-Men Origins: Wolverine Preview: A Bloody Good Time…
By Brian Crecente Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
F.E.A.R. 2 TV Ad Is Almariffic
Warner Bros. Interactive just dropped this new television advertisements for upcoming shooter F.E.A.R. 2 on us. Not as creepy as I think it should have been, but it still manages to work a couple of good startles in there.
By Brian Crecente Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
LittleBigPlanet, Braid Lead Game Developers Choice Award Finalists
Organizers of the ninth annual Game Developers Choice Awards have announced this year’s finalists, with Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet leading the nominees with seven nominations, including Best Game Design and Game of the Year. Hot on the heels of the PlayStation 3 exclusive was Braid, which saw five GDCA nominations, including Best Debut and Innovation. Other…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Red Faction: Guerrilla Preview: Search And Destroy
There were a lot of games the New York Comic Con this year, but of the ones I saw none were more technically impressive than Red Faction: Guerrilla. What Is It? Red Faction: Guerrilla is the third game in the series from Volition. This is a somewhat substantial change to the series has the first…
By Jim Reilly Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Namco Confirms Ditching Splatterhouse Developers
California-based developer Bottlerocket Entertainment is no longer working on Splatterhouse for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, Namco confirmed to Kotaku today. “We have decided to part ways with BottleRocket Entertainment but we are committed to bringing Splatterhouse to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 later this year,” a Namco spokesperson told Kotaku. “At this…
By Brian Crecente Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Knocked Up: A Look At Pregnancy In Video Games
What’s the last time you got knocked up in-game? Was it The Sims 2? Fable II? Or all the way back in 1992 with Dragon Quest V, featuring the first known playable pregnancy? The choice to make pregnancy a part of gameplay adds a whole layer of moral issues to development, as well as some…
By AJ Glasser Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Now Is Not The Time To Be Selling $1000 Halo Costumes
One vendor at the Comic-Con must have thought it was 2004 and not 2009. Seriously. $1000 for that hunk of crap? I saw plenty of homemade Master Chief costumes this weekend that looked just as good and at probably 1/10 of the cost. I just hope none of you actually bought one of these.
By Jim Reilly Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Velvet Assassin Preview: Metal Gear Lite
Southpeak had their very own Violette Summer on hand to pose for pictures with fans. But, I was at their booth to check out their game, not the babe. What Is it? Velvet Assassin is a third-person heavily stealth focused PC and Xbox 360 game from Reply Studios. The story follows Violette Summer, a World…
By Jim Reilly Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Indie Games Summit Includes Rants, iPhone HowTos and a Little Love
This year’s Independent Games Summit will include talks from the people behind World of Goo, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Audiosurf, Flower and EA’s Play label. To name just a few. The full list for the Game Developers Conference indie fest just hit the site. Here’s a run down of what looks like some of the more…
By Brian Crecente Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Michael Buffer Gives A Wii To The Best “Rumbler”
Atari held tryouts at their Ready 2 Rumble Revolution booth to see who could pull off best “Let’s Get Ready To Rumble!” impression. What better judge to have than the man himself. Atari reps screened over 100 applicants and thankfully only picked the 10 best to go head-to-head in front of the crowd. As you…
By Jim Reilly Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sonic And The Black Knight Preview: It’s Probably Not For You
Much to my surprise, shoved in between games like House of the Dead: Overkill, Mad World, and The Conduit, was another Sonic game. I decided to take a (very) quick look at it. What Is It Sonic and the Black Knight is a fast-action Wii game that mixes going really really fast with some action…
By Jim Reilly Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Pokemon Boutique Invades Toys R Us
Pokemon, already a mainstay at Toys R Us nationwide, are getting dedicated areas inside the national toy story chain and the chain’s flagship Times Square store is getting a Pokemon boutique. The Toys R Us Times Square Pokemon boutique opens in April and will remain open until the end of the year. Other stores around…
By Brian Crecente Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Blue Dragon ‘Shu’ Mascot Is Really Creepy
Konami was staging tournaments and demos for their Blue Dragon Role Playing Card Game at their booth. Stalking the aisles was this Shu mascot, which did nothing but startle everyone. I’m not sure what it is about “life-like” Anime mascots. Maybe it’s the blank stare or the irregular combination of human and cartoon anatomy, but…
By Jim Reilly Published February 9, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dead Rising 2: It’s Real And It’s Spectacular
We were pretty sure that Dead Rising 2 video was real on Friday, now we’re positive, with Capcom officially announcing the game coming to PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Capcom says that Dead Rising 2 will take the franchise to a “new level of zombie-killing fun with tens of thousands of zombies” and a…
By Brian Crecente Published February 9, 2009