Saw II: Flesh & Blood will be delivering a new story line that takes place between the first and second movie when the game hits the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 on Oct. 19. Gamers will be taking on the role of Detective Tapp’s estranged son Michael, who is trying to understand his father’s death.…
There are two things to know about the new Top Gun jet combat game: 1) Its creators have changed lines from its ’80s Tom Cruise inspiration for the worse and 2) it’d be better if it wasn’t about Top Gun. In 1986 everyone went to see the movie Top Gun, a movie about a fighter…
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I walked in on this bit of performance dance taking place at Playstation’s GamesCom booth. What game is it for? Who knows, who cares? Sorry I couldn’t get a higher angle on the video… I’m short.
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Beware The Ghost Writer I guess it’s a strange thing to be in the market for, but we’ve been looking at a couple of them: Sharp’s Plasmacluster and Panasonic’s Nanoe. The Nanoe seems like a better designed product (from a functional point of view), but I think I’ll hold any…
Catherine is the upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 game from Japanese developer Atlus. It is a spin-off of the Persona series of role-playing games. An adult one. As evident by the game’s launch trailer and now the promotional poster, Atlus wasn’t kidding when it said it was making a game for adult players. It is…
The UK’s Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox called for the ban of Medal of Honor for being “tasteless”. He later defended his remarks. EA, the game’s publisher, has now retorted. EA Games president Frank Gibeau tells website Develop that Medal of Honor will not be altered due to the outcry of politicians or…
Perhaps seeking to undo some of the damage done to the Call of Duty franchise on the PC wrought by Modern Warfare 2, Treyarch has revealed that Black Ops will feature mod tools. What these will be, we don’t know. How they’ll work, we don’t know. When they’ll be out, well, we don’t know that…
You get The Jacknife Chronicles, a piece of machinima that uses Source Engine editor Garry’s Mod and makes a gripping little short film out of it. Set (loosely) in the Half-Life universe and running for an impressive 12 minutes, The Jacknife Chronicles blends assets from Half-Life and Mirror’s Edge into something entirely different. And very…
Mysterious. Enigmatic. Mona Lisa might called a lot of things, but cute isn’t one of them. Until now. A Japanese morning program showed off recent trends in sticker picture machines. Sticker picture machines were originally developed by Persona developer Atlus in 1996 with the help of Sega. The machines were an arcade smash hit with…
The Wizard was pretty awful. Too much Nintendo advertising, not enough Sega CD and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I don’t know what’s happening here either. But I like it It’s the work of Docfuture, who also made probably the best Sonic rap ever. [via Tiny Cartridge]
Spotted at JFK by reader Marco.
The obstacles standing in the way of a Chinese release of World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King have been overcome, with the title due for release at the end of the month. The game had been held up due to its depiction of “questionable content” like skeletons. A localised version was submitted…
The creator of the Star Wars franchise, George Lucas, is suing the creators of the Jedi Mind thought technology tech. Jedi Mind, Inc. makes a handful of thought-controlled software and a brainwave detecting headset. Jedi Mind’s “Master Mind” is, according to the official website, “the revolutionary gaming application that allows users to play their favorite…
THQ’s Cory Ledesma has delivered a blunt message to consumers buying used copies of his company’s games: they’re cheating the publisher out of money. “I don’t think we really care whether used game buyers are upset because new game buyers get everything”, THQ’s creative director for wrestling titles told Gamasutra. “So if used game buyers…
PlayStation 3 game Valkyria Chronicles, Sega’s fictional version of World War II, got a sequel on the PSP. It might be getting another sequel. A website Valkryia3.jp has apparently be registered by Sega Japan on March 31. Previously, Valkyria.jp and Valkyria2.jp were registered. Valkyria Chronicles 3 has not yet been officially revealed. The series has…
If ever proof was needed of how important Valve’s Steam platform has become to many PC developers, look no further than the tale of Introversion, the developers of Defcon and Darwinia, whose company was saved by a Steam sale. Despite a string of cult successes like Uplink, Darwinia and Defcon (pictured), the British developers had…
The next entry in the Pocket Monster series, Pokemon: Black and White, isn’t out, but people in Japan are keen to buy it. Pre-orders for the game have surpassed the one million mark, making it the fastest Nintendo DS game to hit one million pre-orders. The game is on pace to hit 1.5 million pre-orders…
These aren’t the games we think were the best of GamesCom. They’re the games that an “independent expert jury” has deemed to be the official best in show. This expert jury was made up of representatives from the German press, namely Michael Trier (IDG Entertainment), Petra Fröhlich (Computec Media), Christian Bigge (Computerbild Online), Harald Hesse…
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves Comment by: Diamond Sea Nominated by: Slatz_Grobnik Ah, I see what you mean. The problem is, not every game wants to be that open-ended. The only one I can think of is Heavy Rain. First of all, it’s a question of budget. It takes millions of dollars to design an exciting,…
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