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First Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Trailer
Ubisoft’s upcoming Wii fighter Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up may be trying a little too hard to capitalize on its Game Arts pedigree in this new trailer. But, hey, this is Ubisoft. This teaser for the four-player waggle-filled brawler — from the developers of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and just recently officially announced — is…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Saw Video Game To Torture Us Thanks To Konami
Konami is expanding its horror franchise stable, reports Variety, picking up the orphaned video game based on the Saw movie franchise, abandoned by the closure of Brash Entertainment. Do try to contain your enthusiasm. Variety writes that the Saw video game, developed by Zombie Studios, is expected to ship alongside the sixth (sixth!) Saw movie,…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
No, Blizzard Will Not Be At E3 This Year
Sorry, but we won’t be playing StarCraft II, Diablo III or World of Warcraft at this year’s E3 expo. Activision will be there, but corporate sibling Blizzard, and its many in-development wares, will not. The Giant Bomb crew received a potent quotable confirmation from Blizzard reps today on the matter, clearly indicating that the developer…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sega Makes Virtua Tennis 2009 A Reality
Fans of Sega’s Virtua Tennis have one more reason to love 2009: Virtua Tennis 2009. According to Sega, not only does it have new players, but crocodiles, fruit and pirates as well. Those pirates will appear in the series’ trademark “Court Games,” the surreal mini-games that make Virtua Tennis so beloved. Fruit and crocodiles will…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Guitar Hero Car Repeatedly Turning Left At Daytona 500
Activision will once again throw tons of cash at the Guitar Hero franchise via NASCAR endorsement, as it sponsors cars at the Daytona 500 race and beyond promoting “upcoming Guitar Hero titles.” One of those titles, Guitar Hero World Tour, will get the NASCAR treatment courtesy of Aric Almirola #8 Chevy, which is expected to…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Punisher: No Mercy Hits PSN This Spring
Zen Studios released a half dozen screens and a trailer today for their upcoming “arena-based” first-person shooter The Punisher: No Mercy. The game is set for a spring release on the PlayStation Network. The online multiplayer shooter runs on the Unreal Engine 3 and allows players to choose from Punisher allies and villains. The areas…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Insider Trading: You Give Us Data, We’ll Give You Money
We could make some clever comment about the economy, but we’ll spare you. Take our survey, and someone will win a $300 AMEX card. Survey ends Wednesday at 6pm EST, so get at it. [Rules]
By Chrissie Lamond Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Newest ‘Tales’ Tops Japanese Charts As ‘Ninja Blade’ Bombs
Namco Bandai’s latest game in the Tales series, Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 rocketed to the top spot in Japan in its debut week, while From Software’s Ninja Blade showed poorly. The Xbox 360 may have experienced a brief resurgence in Japan, following a series of high profile role-playing game releases late last…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Tekken 6 Trailer Full Of Pandering Angles
Namco Bandai’s latest media update for Tekken 6 included more than just new screen shots. There’s a new trailer too! And, in the interest of luring in horny boys, its filled with inappropriate angles. We’ve rarely seen this many slow motion crotch shots (in a video game trailer), but we’re willing to overlook them in…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
LittleBigPlanet’s Co-Creator Speaking at DICE
Alex Evans, co-founder of Media Molecule and co-creator of PS3 gem LittleBigPlanet, will be talking about the design philosophy behind the gamer-drive title at this year’s DICE Summit. “Our take on ‘Creative Gaming’ is that it’s an incredibly broad church, and Little Big Planet represents our particular first take on User Generated Content,” said Alex…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Inevitable Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Video Game Officially Announced
Activision has officially, undeniably announced that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be given a video game adaptation, bringing Michael Bay’s two-hour Summer explode-a-thon to every platform it currently has license to develop for. IGN writes that the game, currently slated for a June release alongside the movie, will be coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Team Fortress 2 Crits Explained In Charts And Graphs
Valve issued an update for Team Fortress 2 earlier this week, full of bug fixes and gameplay tweaks. One of the more substantial, was a change to TF2‘s “critical hits” system, which Valve explains. For those unfamiliar with how Team Fortress 2 handles “crits,” all you really need to know is that the game hands…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Capcom Catalogs Street Figher IV’s Many Downloadables
Capcom’s plans for Street Fighter IV downloadable content are expansive… get it? They include a free Championship Mode expansion pack as well as alternate costume packs which will sell for $4 a pop. The Championship Mode Expansion Pack, which Capcom says will be out “post launch”, will include a replay mode, two new points systems…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Path to Record-Setting Guitar Hero Session Paved With Shattered Axes
Danny Johnson, Wednesday, set a new world record in Guitar Hero III, not only toppling the previous record set last August in Minnesota, but also landing a story in the New York Times. Seth Schiesel reports that Johnson recorded a score of 973,954 in a roughly seven-minute rendition of DragonForce’s Through the Fire and Flames…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Left 4 Dead Survival Pack Unveiled
The long-talked-about, much-anticipated Left 4 Dead expansion pack, first mentioned on Kotaku, hits the PC and Xbox 360 this spring. The L4D Survival Pack introduces a new multiplayer game mode entitled, Survival, plus two complete campaigns for Versus Mode, Valve announced today. They also say that a Critic’s Choice Edition of the game is heading…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bionic Commando Hits This May
Last month we put your minds at ease about Bionic Commanding, getting Capcom to tell us that the game will be coming out before this winter. Now we have an actual month. The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game will both be hitting this May, while the PC version will be available…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Go Grab Killzone 2’s Demo and Tell Us What You Think
I loved Killzone 2, but don’t take my early impressions of it, go grab a demo of the game yourself and tell us what you think. Of course it’s only available to European readers and people who can put on a good cockney accent, via PSN duplicity.
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Colorful Nunchuks Hit Wii
Accessory maker Logic3 just released a half dozen colored nunchuk minis for the Wii. But don’t you dare call them nunchuks, because these bad boys are “FunChuks”… seriously or they’ll sue you. Ok maybe they won’t sue you, but making colorful knock-offs for Nintendo’s money-printing Wii is serious, big business. The FunChuks will come in…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Zune Co-Developed Video Series May Land on Live Too
Cinemash, a new video series that will feature film and TV actors re-enacting their dream parts, is headed to the Zune and, perhaps, the Xbox 360 Marketplace. Zune is co-developing the show along with MEAN magazine. So what scenes would you like to see reenacted by which actors? Besides Christopher Walken as Han Solo. Technology…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009