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Brink Is The Breakthrough That Makes 2011 Feel So Far Away
The game I most wish I was playing right now is Brink. I played it a week ago. It delivered on an unusual promise. Brink is a first-person team shooter set on an advanced seaborne city of the future. You can play it solo or with up to eight players against either others. It’s one…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2010 -
Wii Party Keeps The Festivities Going In Japan
Nintendo’s latest Wii hit shows its impressive legs once again this week, with mini-game collection Wii Party returning to its first place spot on the Japanese video game sales charts. Almost zero competition certainly helped. Really. There wasn’t much in the way of competition for Wii Party—or anything else for that matter. New PSP game…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 19, 2010 -
EA Predicted Poor Reviews For APB
Electronic Arts provided distribution support for APB, whose bankrupt studio is being sold off; today a senior EA executive said the game’s poor reviews were somewhat predicted internally and suggested to Realtime Worlds. “We did suggest that where it landed from a review score standpoint was where we thought it was going to land from…
By Owen Good Published August 19, 2010 -
Today We Dined In Gardens of Beer
To: Ash From: Crecente Sorry I keep talking about food while we’re here in Germany, I just can’t help myself. And not just because the food is so great, but because we have such a small amount of time to eat it. Today, for instance I missed lunch again, but did manage to snag a…
By Brian Crecente Published August 19, 2010 -
How Multiplayer Kinect Dancing Works
Dance Central, the body-controlled dancing game from the makers of Rock Band, has multiplayer. It’s no Kinect Adventures multiplayer where you’d be standing side-by-side, in a gesture vs. gesture frenzy. No. It does dance battles. You take turns. I chickened out of participating in a two-player Dance Central dance battle last week at MTV’s offices,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2010 -
Madden’s Facebook Version Slips Out
Back in February, EA Sports president Peter Moore said the Madden franchise would be coming to Facebook; Yesterday, Bitmob stumbled across an error page that calls the game “Madden NFL Superstars.” That’s the screenshot Bitmob took of the page. EA Sports already has published a well-received FIFA Superstars game to Facebook. It’s essentially a football-management…
By Owen Good Published August 19, 2010 -
Doom’s Warfare Gets A Little More Modern
Doom was released in 1993, so most guns in the game that didn’t have the word fucking in the middle of them are looking a little antiquated by now. To give the game a more contemporary – dare I say Modern – touch, some enterprising souls have released a mod for both Doom and Doom…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2010 -
Diablo III Fans, You Better Prepare for BlizzCon
Blizzard hasn’t been very talkative at this week’s Gamescom show, preferring to hold all of their big news for October’s BlizzCon convention. While Blizzard did talk a bit about their new artisan system for Diablo III, they remained mostly tight-lipped about the game at the show, not even bringing a new build of the game…
By Brian Crecente Published August 19, 2010 -
Knights Contract Cuts Its Way Through A Quickly Crowded Genre
Namco Bandai’s Knights Contract is an action adventure game that combines bloody melee combat with magical spells. It’s also a game that shares a major similarity to a handful of other games on the verge of release. The “slash action” game is set in a stylized Middle Ages in Europe. The game’s producer, Ryo Mito,…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 19, 2010 -
Well, Limbo Certainly Sold A Ton Of Copies
Creepy indie platformer Limbo is one of the surprise hits of 2010, not just with critics, but with the game-buying public, too. Developers Playdead have told Gamasutra that the game has sold over 300,000 copies since it was released last month. For a game about a creepy little kid dying a million times in a…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 19, 2010 -
If People Make It To Mars, Give The Wii Some Credit
There are six men currently living in cramped isolation in Moscow, enjoying and suffering 520 days of isolation as the Russian Space Federation simulates the loneliness of a manned flight to Mars. Good thing these guys have a Wii. Can they make it through 520 days? And what will happen to them in the process?…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2010 -
Video Game Tracks How Long You Stare At Playboy Centerfolds
There are video games that track the calories you burn while playing them. There are games that count the number of virtual miles you race in them. Mafia II tallies how long you “read” its in-game Playboy centerfolds. I played a press demo of Mafia II several weeks ago and poked around in the game’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2010 -
LittleBigPlanet 2 Lets You Make Music (That Makes Levels)
I played a LittleBigPlanet 2 basketball game with Media Molecule co-founder Alex Evans today, then watched someone else control multiple Sackbots in a puzzle game. Both were very different from LittleBigPlanet’s platforming sections. Neither was as cool as the racing game Evans demonstrated. The racing game itself, which saw a Sackboy ride on a fuzzy…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 19, 2010 -
Is That An EyePet In Your Pocket?
Have you ever wanted to have a furry little friend in your pocket that you could pull out and play with whenever you felt like it? EyePet for the PSP can make that dream come true. EyePet is an adorable little augmented reality critter you can play with using your EyeToy and PlayStation Move. All…
By Mike Fahey Published August 19, 2010 -
Metal Gear Solid: Rising Lets You Cut With A Conscience, Continues No-Kill Tradition
One of the Metal Gear Solid series’ trademarks is the option to complete the game without killing a single human being. Despite Metal Gear Solid: Rising‘s gloriously gory debut trailer, you can clear it too without registering one kill. Metal Gear Solid: Rising producer Shigenobu Matsuyama says that he’s trying to change the series with…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 19, 2010 -
Ubisoft: Beyond Good & Evil 2 Must Be Perfect
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot assured me today that work continues and has never stopped on the highly anticipated sequel to 2003’s Beyond Good & Evil. “We were, as we are, working on the game,” Guillemot told me during a meeting at Germany’s Gamescom this week. “What is very import with this next product is that…
By Brian Crecente Published August 19, 2010 -
Playing Through Medal of Honor’s Apache Helicopter Level
Good news and bad news for Medal of Honor fans: Gunfighters, the level shown off at Gamescom that has you controlling a gunner in an Apache helicopter, is a blast to play… but it’s also the only one that takes place in the gunship. Playing through the level earlier today in a behind-closed-doors meeting with…
By Brian Crecente Published August 19, 2010 -
Working PlayStation 3 Modchip Is ‘Not A Hoax,’ Australian Retailer Says
An Australian seller of Wii, PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 modchips has posted video showing the famously impregnable PlayStation 3 running “back-up” copies of disc games saved in the hacked console. It’s the real deal, they tell Kotaku. OzModChips.com has posted three videos to YouTube showing the alleged hack, marketed as PS Jailbreak, which purportedly…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 19, 2010
