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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 - Uncategorized
Rolando Getting a Lite Version
Popular Loco-Roco-esque iPhone game Rolando is getting a lite version, founder of the game’s publisher revealed earlier this week. Neil Young, founder of iPhone game developer and publisher Ngmoco, wrote in Facebook that Rolando Lite would be “coming soon.” While he didn’t offer up any other details about the new version of Rolando, lite versions…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bollywood Gets Into Gaming
Following in the footsteps of their California kin, India’s Bollywood has started courting the video game market with their own movie stars. A few weeks ago Indian film distributor Eros International released a 3D video game inspired by their hit thriller Ghajini and earlier this week a mobile game based on the classic Indian novella…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mixed Martial Arts Title, New Shooter In Works At EA?
Electronic Arts has been on a roll lately, churning out quite a selection of new and innovative titles over the past year. Sure it cost them, but building a new franchise isn’t cheap and at least some of their investments look like they will be paying off in the long run. But what about the…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Resident Evil Retrospective
With the Resident Evil 5 preview embargo lifting today expect lots of funny tidbits about the game, and how it plays, to hit throughout the day. We’ll be posting our own impressions of the game a bit later in the day. To hold you over here’s part one of Gametrailer’s Resident Evil retrospective.
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bad Company 2 Hits This Winter, Battlefield 1943 This Summer
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is coming to the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 this winter and Battlefield 1943 to PC, PSN and Live this summer, Electronic Arts confirmed this morning. In this Bad Company sequel, B company fight their way through snowy mountaintops, dense jungles and dusty villages. With a heavy arsenal of deadly…
By Brian Crecente Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Infinity Ward Tweets Modern Warfare 2 Deets
Infinity Ward PR man Robert Bowling, like the rest of the world these days, is all up in this Twitter business. And when he tweets about the next Call of Duty, we listen. Earlier today, Bowling posted the following, seemingly confirming a return to the present day with a second Call of Duty: Modern Warfare…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Time To Get Excited For Valentine’s Day!
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: More Sackings Is Mini-Bash excited about Valentine’s Day? Oh yeah. In Japan, girls give boys chocolates on Valentine’s Day. Boys do not. They instead return the favor a month later on White Day. After initially having a crush on a teacher, Mini-Bash now likes a little girl in his class.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Phil Harrison Originally Wanted To Found His Own Company
Phil Harrison, the game industry’s gentlest, most sharply-dressed giant, worked at Sony for 15 years. Then he left. While he ended up joining Atari, turns out the original plan was to start his own company. Speaking with Edge, Harrison says: This isn’t new information, but our original plan was to start our own company. It…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Iwata: Wii Music Didn’t Reach Potential
Wii Music didn’t become the breakout hit Nintendo was hoping for. It was a sales disappointment of sorts. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata thinks the software elicits one of two reactions. Nintendo Co., Ltd. just released a Q&A that was held during last week’s Nintendo Third Quarter Financial Results Briefing in Tokyo, where president Iwata conceded:…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Don’t Like The Resistance 2 Cover? Print Your Own
Last August, Sony asked you to vote for your favourite Resistance 2 cover. One option was the classy European cover, the other two, they looked like PS1 games. The classy one didn’t win. Today, perhaps realising their mistake in letting Joe Public in on artistic decisions, Sony have released all three covers as large, printable…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Telegraph, Brought To You By Nintendo DS Flash Carts
Interesting example of “different horses, different courses” at work here. While companies in Japan are trying to erase the very thought of the R4 flash cart, in Britain, the R4 can advertise on the Telegraph! You can see the proof above. The ad – proclaiming the device to be a “featured partner” of the paper’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009 - Uncategorized
Go Get Your Halo Wars Demo
It’s a Halo game without Bungie! It’s a real-time strategy game on a console! Halo Wars is all kinds of unexpected. So with a demo now out, feel to try before you buy/vomit opinions. It’s well over 1GB, and while at time of writing there were still a few kinks in downloading it (namely, despite…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2009