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OnLive’s Monthly Subscription Fees Are Dead
Games on demand service OnLive is now free and free from now on, according to the company’s founder, who brings word that the streaming game service has dropped plans for monthly subscription fees. Steve Perlman, founder and CEO of OnLive, says today that the previously pricey ($14.95 USD per month) subscription plans have been scrapped,…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2010 -
Costume Quest Will Be Out Before Halloween
Costume Quest, the next game from the Psychonauts and Brutal Legend studio DoubleFine — and more importantly, the only trick-or-treating role-playing game of the year — will be released on October 20, the game’s publisher THQ revealed today. Price: $15.
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2010 -
Treasure’s Bangai-O HD Delayed For A Very Good Reason
Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury, the Xbox Live Arcade update to the Treasure series that gets a surprising amount of attention, will not be coming out this year as originally planned. Don’t worry, there’s a happy ending to this story. D3 Publisher, the folks bringing Treasure’s missile barrage of a shooter to XBLA, says that the…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2010 -
In The Spring, It Will Be Time To Shoot Giant Ants Again
Next spring, we can play a sequel to the only imported PlayStation 2 game I own. This is a new trailer for Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, a game that will hopefully be as insane as its framerate-limit-ignoring PS2 predecessor. Earth Defense Force; Insect Armageddon is set for a spring release on the Xbox 360…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2010 -
F1 2010 Contest Puts You in the Driver’s Seat…Literally
F1 2010, the official game of the 2010 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP™, is giving race fans a chance to drive like the pros at the world famous Skip Barber Racing School. The Grand Prize winner in the F1 2010 contest will hit the track with a One-Day Racing School Package where they’ll get to…
By Gawkercreative Published October 4, 2010 -
Cladun Guide
This is Cladun: This is an RPG’s English trailer. This is where I first learned about the game’s built-in screenshot function. Handy! Just an example of the game’s strange sense of humor. It’s gushing! Inside one of the earlier dungeons. One of the earliest new characters you meet not only parties with you, but also…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2010 -
Minecraft Adds Pumpkins, Scary Depths To Big Halloween Update
Runaway indie success Minecraft will treat players to a deeper, scarier, more difficult version of the game later this month, when developer Notch has promised a new Halloween-themed update, complete with a new element—pumpkins! The next big Minecraft update promises more than just fewer bugs, more music and new monsters. The update, planned to hit…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2010 -
Mario Used To Attack Mario’s Son
New York Republican Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino invokes a certain video game plumber in the latest flyer attack on his opponent, Democrat Andrew Cuomo, eldest son of former New York governor Mario Cuomo. See what he did there? We’re not here to drag Carl Paladino through the mud for his laundry list of faults. That’s…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2010 -
GameStop Gives Better Rewards To Used-Game Purchasers
Twenty points per dollar if you buy a game used; 10 if you buy it new. Part of the promotional flyer from GameStop advertising the gaming chain’s new rewards system. Points net you Nintendo Wallets, iTunes cards, Call of Duty dog tags and more
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2010 -
The Importance Of Story In Epic Mickey
According to Warren Spector, it isn’t the story of Epic Mickey that’s important; it’s how you relate to the story. It’s true. You can tell the most amazing story ever told in a video game, but it means nothing if the player doesn’t connect with it. As Spector explains, Epic Mickey is the tale of…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2010 -
A Visual Guide To Enslaved: Odyssey To The West
Andy Serkis, the lead voice and body-acting talent behind Ninja Theory’s Heavenly Sword and Enslaved acting as the digital Gollum in The Lord of the Rings. Heavenly Sword, Enslaved studio Ninja Theory’s 2007 debut PlayStation 3 game. Monkey and Trip in Enslaved: Odyssey To The West Devil May Cry, the next game from the people…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2010 -
Report: New Gaming Hardware Revealed Today Via MTV
According to a very cryptic report from Gaming Age, a “major consumer electronics company” will unveil a new “gaming related” product today. And they’ll do so tonight, via MTV. That report claims that MTV reality show Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory will see the unveiling (or “teasing”) of a new product—hardware? software? a combination of both?—from…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 4, 2010 -
DC Universe Online Knocked Into Early 2011
Not even the combined powers of all of DC’s super heroes could keep Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online from being pushed back to early 2011, but new beta testing details cast light to the game’s blackest night. A fall release for DC Universe seemed like the sort of unlikely scenario you’d only find in…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2010 -
A Game About Insurgency
The sounds of guns echoed throughout Al-Assad Library Book Exhibition in Damascus, Syria. The guns weren’t tangible, but virtual. The conflict, however, was from real life. It was late 2000, and a crowd gathered around the television set that was running first-person-shooter Under Ash. The game’s designer, Radwan Kasmiya, thought all those long hours he…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2010 -
iTunes Chart Toppers: Angry Birds Have Taken Over My Home
Last week I made the mistake of gifting Angry Birds to my wife’s iPhone. She hasn’t stopped playing since. Please help… Here’s the full list of games for both platforms: iPhone Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com) $0.99 21 1 2 Super Monkey Ball 2 (Sega) $.99 1 — 3 Call…
By Brian Crecente Published October 4, 2010 -
How Are Gamers Hurting Themselves?
Between January 1, 2004 and January 1, 2009, 696 gaming-related injuries were reported in the United States. How are gamers hurting themselves? Researchers from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia gathered together data on five years of gaming-related injuries in an attempt to identify how gamers are getting hurt while playing their games. Polling the National…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2010 -
Who Wants To Play Disc Golf With Death?
A trio of sinister skeletal figures joins the cast of Sony’s PlayStation Move sports game this week, as the Haunted Pack brings the undead back to Sports Champions. I say back, because when the PlayStation Move first debuted at E3 in 2009, we were shown a tech demo that starred a skeleton. The person demonstrating…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2010 -
Unreal Engine Powers Upcoming Tower Defense of the Ancients iPhone, iPad Game
Surprise! Dungeon Defenders, which seems to combine the best of tower defense games with the combat of Defense of the Ancients, is also coming to mobile platforms. Due out later this year on Xbox Live Arcade, the Playstation Network and PC, this video shows Dungeon Defenders being played on two iPhone 4s, an iPad and…
By Brian Crecente Published October 4, 2010 -
Nintendo’s Former Mommy Helps Create Kiddy Cities
Last week Cammie Dunaway left the gaming industry after three years as Nintendo’s executive vice president of sales and marketing. Where is Cammie going? She’s taken on a role that will generate countless jobs for children 13 and under. Now that she’s left Nintendo, Cammie Dunaway tells GamesBeat’s Dean Takahashi that she has become the…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2010