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Meet The Lost And Damned’s Johnny Klebitz
Grand Theft Auto IV‘s first dose of downloadable episodic content will hit the Xbox 360 in less than three weeks. Rockstar’s new trailer for said episode, The Lost and Damned, introduces players to Johnny. He’s the episode’s anti-hero, the “reactionary prick” wrapped up in an ugly “ravaged, drug addled exterior,” if those are Mr. Klebitz’s…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Great Game Convention Schism
Things in Germany got nasty this week as the annual Games Convention, once the largest video game convention in the world, suffered a life-threatening schism. Despite bringing in more than 200,000 visitors to its Leipzig conference center last summer, game publishers decided to break away from the city to move things to the larger venues…
By Brian Crecente Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Valve Offers Embarrassing Early Look At The Scout
The next Team Fortress 2 class to get the upgrade treatment, the smack-talking Scout, should get his gameplay makeover any day now. Valve has taken the opportunity to reminisce on the Scout’s awkward, ugly-duckling past. Robin Walker, [insert title here] at Valve, walks us through a series of initial designs for the Scout, whose early…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
DICE 2009 Puts Gabe Newell Behind A Podium
The 2009 Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain Summit has updated its list of speakers, and right at the top of the precariously teetering pile is Valve co-founder and president Gabe Newell. Newell will be on hand at the 2009 D.I.C.E. Summit to deliver a keynote address, which I presume will have something to do with Valve,…
By Mike Fahey Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bayonetta, MadWorld, The Conduit Lookin’ Fine
In case you missed it, today turned out to be SEGA DAY! Happy Sega Day, go hug a hedgehog!* To celebrate we posted impressions, mostly hands-on, with The Conduit, Bayonetta and Madworld. Also a very red video for one of those. Check it out: MadWorld Paints the Wii Red: Hands-On Impressions The Conduit Channels Hardcore…
By Brian Crecente Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Top Oblivion DLC Revealed, Horse Armor Surprisingly Popular
Bethesda Softworks’ campaign to incrementally squeeze money from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion players has been a huge success. So much so that offering up downloadable horse armor wasn’t the flop it should have been. In fact, the infamous “Horse Armor” download for Oblivion, released in April of 2006, ranked ninth on the top ten…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
New Madworld Trailer Adds Cheese To The Bloodbath
There’s a new trailer for Platinum Games‘ Wii slaughterfest MadWorld to go along with today’s impressions, proving that even the most violent of games can be diluted with a bit a over-the-top bad acting. Playing out as a parody of your average sports commentary television show, this MadWorld Death Watch trailer features a couple of…
By Mike Fahey Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
MAKE the Games you play!
If so, graduate to a future in Game Art & Design with The Art Institute of Pittsburgh – Online Division. Our unique program is your first step toward becoming an artist and designer in the multi-billion-dollar game design industry. You’ll learn how to design game play and background, create characters and their environments, and apply…
By Chrissie Lamond Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Meet This Generation’s PS3 or Xbox 360-Toting Neo-Geo
The Game Gate VU, unveiled this week at the Amusement Trade Exhibition International in London, is a device that will let arcade operators charge people to play console video games. That’s right, it’s essentially a Neo-Geo-esque demo station with a coin slot acceptor. Though it does look like this machine will also sport online support…
By Brian Crecente Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
That’s right. Me, Fifty, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and DJ Whoo Kid will be spending some quality time together this weekend. I got some 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand previews that need doin’! I also got the old Xbox 360 debug back online, which means I need to poke around the Xbox Live Marketplace…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Midway Finds New Chairman In Booty
Following the resignation of former chairman Peter C Brown, struggling Midway Games appoints president and CEO Matthew Booty as their new chairman of the board. Financially challenged or not, Midway sure knows how to work that Booty. First appointed as interim CEO following the departure of David F. Zucker in March of last year, Booty…
By Mike Fahey Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Suspected U.S. Spy Paid By Russians in Cash-Stuffed Playstation Games
The son of convicted CIA spy, Harold Nicholson, is accused of selling national secrets to the Russians in return for cash that he snuck into the country stuffed in Playstation game cases. That’s really the only tie to gaming this bizarre espionage case, which now goes back more than ten years, has. But it’s intriguing…
By Brian Crecente Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Activision Boss Confirms Existence Of DJ Hero
If Activision’s filing of the trademark for DJ Hero and real-life DJ Paul Oakenfold’s verbal approval of the rhythm game wasn’t ample evidence of the still-unannounced project, hearing it straight from Activision’s boss should be. CEO Bobby Kotick matter-of-factly spoke of the game, rumored to be handled by Activision’s recently acquired FreeStyleGames and detailed first…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
F.E.A.R. 2 Takes The Show To London
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is packing up their dramatic F.E.A.R. 2 marketing efforts and shipping them across the ocean for a Project Origin Live event, taking place in London on February 12th. Interested players who’ll be in the London, England, area on on February 12th can visit whatisfearlive.com and enter for a chance to be…
By Mike Fahey Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
The Lich King Hero Classes That Might Have Been
In the latest episode of Blizzard’s Blizzcast, World of Warcraft lead game designer, Jeffrey Kaplan reveals that the Death Knight was one of three out of twenty-nine hero classes considered for the recent expansion. The Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack flooded the World of Warcraft serves with Death Knights, but it might not…
By Mike Fahey Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Wizard Outs Marv Wolfman As New DC Universe Online Talent
Wizard Magazine completely spoils Sony Online Entertainment‘s fun, outing comic book legend Marv Wolfman as the new DC Universe Online creative talent a week before the big reveal at the New York Comic Con. Sitting on the edge of our seats we eagerly awaited next weekend, when Sony Online Entertainment would reveal the comic book…
By Mike Fahey Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Bayonetta Brings Devil May Cry Aesthetic To a New Level
From Croft to Cammy, I’ll take a female protagonist over some cheesy line-spewing pretty boy any day of the week. So Bayonetta, the upcoming third-person actioner from Platinum Games (compiled of key members from Okami’s Clover Studio), is high on my list of games to play. While I’m inclined to focus on the the eponymous,…
By Brian Crecente Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dejobaan Games Announces Aaaaa – I’m Not Typing That Out
Dejobaan Games, the independent developers of the amazing The Wonderful End of the World, have just announced an intriguing base-jumping game that might just need a name change before we write about it again. The official title of Dejobaan’s base-jumping PC title, due out sometime this year, is AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity.…
By Mike Fahey Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Video Games Are Working On The Railroad
What does a one-hundred and fifty-seven year old railroad company like Union Pacific turn to in order to reach out to new, modern-age employees? Why video games, of course. Searching for new ways to train an influx of younger railroad workers, Union Pacific employees Jon Jensen and Steve Bakuna turned to our favorite hobby, helping…
By Mike Fahey Published January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized
Blagojevich Corruption Strategy Game Coming to iPhone
One of the visual effects team members for the Watchman movie just finished their first iPhone game, a title that has gamers selling off bits of Illinois government, Blagojevich-style, in Dope Wars-esque gameplay. Pa2Play was just submitted to Apple for final approval, in preparation for getting the App Store game out to the public. Described…
By Brian Crecente Published January 30, 2009