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Left 4 Dead Valentines May Induce Vomiting, Romance
Want to express your love eternal to the Left 4 Dead-loving dork or dorkess this Valentine’s Day? Say “I love you enough to print this out from the internet” with “special infected”-filled “Valventines.” Alexandria “Beavotron” Neonakis’ romantic contributions for this year bring out the romantic, fun-loving side of Left 4 Dead‘s survivors and its undead,…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Killzone 2 Impressions
Yes, impressions. Not the review. We decided to hold off on our formal review until we can play the Playstation 3 game online under more typical conditions. Instead I’ve written up some of my initial thoughts from playing through the entire single-player campaign on the average difficulty setting. It’s easy when playing a game in…
By Brian Crecente Published February 2, 2009 -
UncategorizedD-Pad Hero Brings Guitar Hero (Unofficially) To NES
Add another fan-made Guitar Hero-inspired creation to the pile! While the Commodore 64 version may have followed the path set by the Harmonix-developed music game more closely, D-Pad Hero drops guitar controllers altogether. D-Pad Hero, a retro “demake,” uses rather simple-looking pad controls — simply press a button and one of the directional pad’s axes…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 2, 2009 - Reviews
Puzzle Quest: The Battle Of Grulkar Micro-Review: A Piece Of The Puzzle
D3publisher takes the award-winning combination of roleplaying game and gem-based puzzler and brings it to the iPhone with Puzzle Quest: The Battle of Grulkar. Rather than release the entire game in one large chunk, D3 and TransGaming instead decided to split the original Puzzle Quest and its expansion, Bane of the Plague Lord, into three…
By Mike Fahey Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Love Life Game Design Challenge Kicks Off
The second annual Life. Love Game Design Challenge went live today, the first day of National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week in the U.S. The object of the competition is for people to create a Flash game about teen dating violence prevention and to do so without violent content or a violent theme.…
By Brian Crecente Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
This Week On Live Arcade: R-Type Dimensions
This Wednesday on Xbox Live Arcade, shoot-em up fans get a healthy dose of redone retro goodness with R-Type Dimensions, repackaging and repolishing the first two games in the R-Type series. R-Type and R-Type II return this Wednesday in R-Type Dimensions, which takes the classic gameplay of the original shooters and updates them with all…
By Mike Fahey Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
iPhone Acconts for 14 Percent of All Mobile Game Downloads
iPhone appears to be one of the main drivers behind mobile gaming growth, according to the comScore report released on Friday. iPhone owners accounted for 14 percent of mobile game downloaders in November, with 32.4 percent of all iPhone users reporting they downloaded a game in the month, compared with a market average of 3.8…
By Brian Crecente Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Become an artist and designer in the game industry
Our unique program is your first step toward becoming an artist and designer in the multi-billion-dollar game design industry. Details after the jump. You’ll learn how to design game play and background, create characters and their environments, and apply your knowledge of video and computer games to evaluate products. You will also learn to plan…
By Chrissie Lamond Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Here’s What Snowboard Riot Looks Like
Here’s the launch trailer for Hudson’s Snowboard Riot, for those of you sitting there staring back and forth between your Wii Points card and your television, frozen with indecision. It might not be the highest quality snowboarding game out there, but then I’ve disliked most snowboard titles since the heyday of SSX. As far as…
By Mike Fahey Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Della Rocca Steps Down As IGDA Director
The International Game Developers Association is officially searching for a new head honcho, as long-time executive director Jason Della Rocca steps down in order to pursue a new venture. Della Rocca has served the IGDA tirelessly since 2000, overseeing the group’s growth from a 500 member-strong group to a 15,000 member force to be reckoned…
By Mike Fahey Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
SouthPeak’s NYCC Plans Include Real Velvet Assassin
The 2009 New York Comic Con is kicking off this weekend, and SouthPeak Games plans on making their presence felt, throwing everything from space bears to live-action velvety assassins at convention goers. SouthPeak is showing off a wide variety of titles at the NYCC this year, from the cute and cuddly Roogoo Twisted Towers! for…
By Mike Fahey Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
The First Resident Evil 5 Review Is In
The U.S. Official PlayStation Magazine has finished putting Capcom’s latest survival horror romp through its paces, delivering their final verdict on the eagerly anticipated Resident Evil 5. So how did it fare? In a massive seven-page review, OPM sings the praises of the latest entry in the epic saga of Resident Evil, paying particularly close…
By Mike Fahey Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Killzone 2 Demo On PSN This Week
PlayStation 3 owners will be getting a bit more time with Killzone 2 before release than originally anticipated, as Sony’s semi-official blog ThreeSpeech announces a demo for the eagerly anticipated game dropping this week. A demo for Killzone 2 will be hitting the PlayStation Network on Thursday, February 5th, several weeks ahead of the originally…
By Mike Fahey Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
CellFactor: Now With More Post-Apocalyptic Snack Sausage Nipples
Immersion Games and Ubisoft have created a somewhat humorous machinima video with their upcoming downloadable first-person shooter CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars, featuring references to Cobra Commander, Osama Bin Laden, and yes – snausage nipples. CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars is a first-person shooter being released on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade early this year, which mixes…
By Mike Fahey Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Fate Of Free Radical Has Been Decided
The final fate of Timesplitters developer Free Radical will be revealed this week, with a formal announcement from the company’s administrator ReSolve Partners to take place later this week. Free Radical went into administrator late last year, following several canceled projects and the dismal performance of their PlayStation 3 exclusive, Haze, earlier in 2008. After…
By Mike Fahey Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Madden NFL 09’s Super Bowl Prediction Eerily Accurate
The dust has settled and the Pittsburgh Steelers again return to Pennsylvania with some lovely new Super Bowl rings on their fingers, as prophetically predicted by Madden NFL 09. A yearly tradition, EA has been using the Madden football franchise to predict the outcome of the Super Bowl since 2004, when it forecast the New…
By Mike Fahey Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
iPhone Gets Its GTA (Knock Off)
I’ve been playing around with Payback on my iPhone for the past week or so. The game is a top down action game very reminiscent of the original Grand Theft Auto. Did I say reminiscent? It’s really closer to a copycat. I haven’t really played it enough yet to write up a formal review, but…
By Brian Crecente Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Weekly Wii Update – Snowboards, Sonic, And Space Puzzles
It’s Monday morning, and the Nintendo Wii downloadables delivery van is making its weekly rounds with a mix of alpine sports adventure, space-filling puzzles, and yet another installment of brazen blue hedgehog. Mixing things up today, we’ll kick things off with the solo Virtual Console title dropping this week, Sonic Chaos for the Sega Master…
By Mike Fahey Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
EA Gets Ludlum, Starbreeze Does Bourne
Ludlum Entertainment has struck a deal with Electronic Arts, granting them exclusive worldwide rights to the works of author Robert London, with a new Jason Bourne game currently in development at Starbreeze Studios. Chronicles of Riddick developer Starbreeze Studios is already hard at work on a new Jason Bourne game as EA and Ludlum Entertainment…
By Mike Fahey Published February 2, 2009 - Uncategorized
Activision and Booth Babes Return to an E3 Ten Times Bigger Than Last Year’s
This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo is taking a giant step towards returning to the glitzy, people-packed shows of three years ago, with attendance expected to be about ten times last year’s show and the exhibit halls nearly the same size as the shows that once included ear-splitting rock bands, fire juggling and bikini-clad models. E3…
By Brian Crecente Published February 2, 2009