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Blur Punches Mario Kart In The Balls
Blur, the latest racing game from the team behind the Xbox’s Project Gotham series, has copped a little flak for being like Mario Kart, only with real cars. Instead of deflecting that argument, this ad just runs with it. To great effect! Sure, it does nothing to make me any more interested in picking up…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 21, 2010 -
Big Beautiful Call Of Duty: Black Ops Screens
So, you enjoyed last night’s boisterous Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer, but you wanted something even bigger, but running at a slower pace? A half dozen super-sized screens from the follow-up to Modern Warfare 2 might scratch that itch. You won’t see much new here. Instead, you’ll revisit many of the Vietnamese and Arctic…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 19, 2010 -
The Only Time You’ll Find A BMW At Kmart
Blur comes out next week, and should you choose to pick the game up at Kmart or Sears for some strange reason, you’ll find a chromed-out BMW waiting for you when you launch the game. People still shop at Kmart? I drive by a Sears every once in awhile, but in order to pass a…
By Mike Fahey Published May 19, 2010 -
The New Call of Duty: Black Ops Trailer: ‘Everything You Know Is Wrong’
Activision and Treyarch are done teasing, releasing an extended, gameplay-filled look at their next inevitable blockbuster shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops, one minute and forty-three seconds worth of shoot ’em up spectacle. Now that Treyarch has moved well past World War II and onto Vietnam and war-torn locations far beyond, the developer gets a…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 18, 2010 -
EA Closes Out Double Down Challenge By Raising $1,000
Enough. I am officially declaring this Double Down-eating developer competition over. Electronic Arts may not have really set the land-speed record for consuming Kentucky Fried lard, but it did raise $1,000 for – wait for it – cancer research. You may remember that when Disney Interactive claimed the record two weeks ago, its champion eaters…
By Owen Good Published May 18, 2010 -
Are You An Autobot Or A Decepticon?
The co-op campaign in Transformers: War for Cybertron allows players to experience the game as either an Autobot or Decepticon. Which one will you choose first? As game director and snappy dresser Matt Tieger points out during this clip covering the campaign mode in Transformers: War for Cybertron, Hasbro sells an Autobot toy for every…
By Mike Fahey Published May 18, 2010 -
EA Also Hopeful Of A Deal With Halo Creators
Halo creators Bungie may have signed a publishing deal with Activision, but let’s not forget, there’s always the possibility they can sign with rivals Electronic Arts as well. Remember: Bungie’s deal with Activision is for a single piece of intellectual property. With Bungie being a massive studio, however, there remains the distinct possibility it could…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 18, 2010 -
What Makes Spider-man Amazing? What Makes Him Noir?
Activision’s suiting up its Spider-man license again with the hopefully does not suck Spider-man: Shattered Dimensions. In one reality Spider-man’s stealthy. In another, he appears he may have been bitten by a radioactive Kratos. We’re still not clear on the alternate dimensions that old Spidey will find himself in—although the 2099 universe looks like a…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 17, 2010 -
Activision Learns Lesson, Drops Celebrities From Guitar Hero
Perhaps sensing that a string of lawsuits wasn’t terribly good for business, it appears publishers Activision will be dropping playable celebrity characters from the upcoming Guitar Hero 6. After Courtney Love, Jon Bon Jovi and No Doubt spoke out over the use of famous likenesses in the game – often inappropriately – the latest issue…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2010 -
The War For Cybertron Cast Is Now Complete
With the addition of Autobots Sideswipe and Jetfire and Decepticon Thundercracker, the armies participating in the War for Cybertron are now complete. Now all we need is a little energon, and a lot of luck. The war begins on June 22, when Transformers: War for Cybertron hits for the Xbox 360, PC, PlayStation 3, and…
By Mike Fahey Published May 14, 2010 -
What Was Call of Duty: Devil’s Brigade?
We’ve got a sighting of what may be a World War II Call of Duty game that was built for the Xbox 360. The website for visual artist Terry Allen shows three brief clips from what Allen refers to as a ” a COD game called Devil’s Brigade set in Italy in WWII.” The clips…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 14, 2010 -
Modern Warfare 2’s Resurgence Map Pack In Five Pictures
It’s hard to be angry about paying $15 for another mix of new and old maps in the Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence map pack when the Funhaus is staring you right in the face, now is it? Let’s visit the carnival! Sure, Vacant and Strike are rehashes of old Modern Warfare maps, but look at…
By Mike Fahey Published May 14, 2010 -
Modern Warfare 2’s Next DLC Brings More Old Maps
Repeating a pattern set by the game’s first batch of downloadable content, Modern Warfare 2’s “Resurgence” pack will contain a mix of maps, some new, some not so new. This, of course, was the focal point of many consumer’s anger over the first pack, being that they were spending $15 for something that only contained…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2010 -
Rumor: Call of Duty Has Another New Developer In Raven [Update]
With close to half of the team at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward bailing on the troubled developer, publisher Activision appears to have found a new source for Call of Duty development. Raven Software, the developer of sci-fi shooters Wolfenstein and the recently completed Singularity, has been pulled off its current…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 13, 2010 -
Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Map Pack Deploys Next Month
Enough whining about the high price of the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack! It’s time to whine about the likely high price of the Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Pack, due out early next month for the Xbox 360. During a company financial earnings call last week, Activision’s Thomas Tippl seemed to indicate that the next…
By Mike Fahey Published May 13, 2010 -
The Perils Of One-Band Music Games
Music games built around a single artist can be a tricky thing to plan for, because while you’ll attract fans of that single artist, many others just won’t give a toss. Especially, it seems, when that artist is Van Halen. According to retail analysts The NPD Group, Activision’s Guitar Hero: Van Halen has been a…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 13, 2010 -
Blur Tutorial Leaves Me Hot for Teacher
Now that Danica Patrick’s up to speed on things like multiplayer and power-ups, she has the credibility to hold our attention through this tutorial on Blur‘s basics. Or maybe it’s just the winks, shoulder-shimmys, and lip gloss. Definitely lip gloss. Blur’s due out, like, pretty damn soon. Or May 25, whichever is sooner.
By Owen Good Published May 12, 2010 -
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Has 4-Player Co-op
A few more details on Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops popped up today, answering a few of the more pointed questions arising from the game’s debut trailer Intrigued by the presence of an SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft in the clip? According to this report there’ll be another “C-130” sequence in Black Ops, with a…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 11, 2010 -
Which Multiplayer Transformer Type Are You?
High Moon Studios breaks down multiplayer characters in Transformers: War for Cybertron into four distinct classes represented by four different vehicle types. Are you a car, truck, tank, or plane? This is certainly an interesting solution to allowing players to create their own custom Autobots and Decepticons without having to build a ridiculously deep character…
By Mike Fahey Published May 10, 2010 -
Get Your World War II On With Call of Duty: The War Collection
Stop! Do not buy that copy of Call of Duty: World At War! If you really need a fix of World War II era shoot ‘em up action, cool your jets for this summer’s Call of Duty: The War Collection. Activision appears to be exploiting three of the Call of Duty franchise’s WWII-iest first-person shooters,…
By Michael McWhertor Published May 7, 2010