The next console Metal Gear game, Metal Gear Solid Rising, will bridge the gap between Metal Gear Solid 2 and MGS 4, the game’s developers revealed at E3 this week. Plus, we’ll finally find out how Raiden became cool. Metal Gear Solid Rising producer Shigenobu Matsuyama told reporters here in L.A. that the game will…
I shot this image of Castlevania: Harmony Of Despair from the new game’s E3 trailer. Harmony of Despair includes many characters and supports multiple players. But does it really ever look like this? Or is this a trailer trick? Castlevania games typically show a player’s hero in one room of a large castle or other…
Near the beginning of my trip out here in Los Angeles for E3, I heard the oddest of rumors: Microsoft’s controller-free sensor array, Kinect, would only work if you were standing up. No way, right? For the last several days I’ve been peppering the conversations I’ve had with game creators at this massive video game…
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These are the controls for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, that new 2011 Wii game I played earlier this week at E3. Let’s take a closer look, shall we? These Skyward Sword posters lined a wall back in Nintendo’s E3 2010 booth. People waiting to play the game were expected to stand along this…
Why? Because now, as nice as the special, revamped 2010 remake of Monkey Island 2 looks, I want it to look like this clip instead. Click to view
While Microsoft has yet to release pricing details for the Kinect motion control camera, retailers are having no such hesitation, Amazon now joining GameStop in charging $149 for the device. This is still not official confirmation, of course, as it’s only a pre-order and pre-order prices can change, but when two of the biggest gaming…
Swords and castles have been done to death in RPGs. So have spaceships. But tights, wigs, tricorn hats and muskets? That’s a bit fresher, especially given the slight whiff of Dickens emanating from those dim, cobblestone streets.
Yeah, we know. Day two wasn’t as big as day one. It never is! Just because it wasn’t as big, though, doesn’t mean it wasn’t big We still saw a ton of games. Wrote about a ton of games. And posted a ton of screenshots, photos and trailers from a lot of the games we…
Some people thought this would be the week Nintendo unveiled the successor to the Wii. It wasn’t. And while that day will inevitably come some day in the future, it doesn’t look like it’ll be any time soon. “I do not think that there is an immediate need to replace the Wii console”, Nintendo President…
Just because Marcus Fenix has a neck of steel doesn’t mean he has a heart of steel. He is a man, and men have feelings. Which he may indulge from time to time, when he’s not busy chainsawing things.
Sounds like a covert pitch for Nintengirls to us
It’s a feature that wasn’t disclosed during the public unveiling of the Nintendo 3DS, but Japanese business newspaper Nikkei is reporting that the new handheld will allow users to install games on its onboard storage. According to the paper’s report, “multiple games” can be installed off their original cart, meaning users could stock up on…
If Spec Ops: The Line was a movie instead of a game, and had released this trailer in 1994 instead of 2010, with all that slo-mo and Alice in Chains, it would be just about the most awesome thing ever Since it’s not, though, we have to take it for what it is: a shooter…
In an interview with Japan’s Nikkei, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has hinted that the company’s next home console may, like the freshly-unveiled 3DS, go 3D. “If you display a 3D image, the image quality becomes extremely bad, so we’d probably do it with the next system”, he said. “We’re thinking that the timing should be…
If you woke up as a clone of a man betrayed and killed, and were in a position to pick up a lightsaber and use it, would you? This guy is. The Force Unleashed II deftly side-steps the ending of the first game in just this manner, meaning you’re now back in (sort of) the…
I have been trying to tell you that Konami’s press conference was wacky. But if my liveblog didn’t convince you….if a photo didn’t convince you… then this video will. I guarantee it. I’m sure the developers of the Konami games you see here were trying well and speak better English than I do Japanese. A…
I’m not sure whether this is an upcoming game or a technical demo, but…actually, it’s Animal Crossing, of course this will eventually show up on the Nintendo 3DS. Interesting, too, that despite appearing on a handheld it’s easily the best-looking Animal Crossing game to date. And is that a character redesign I see? They look…
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Square Enix, don’t you ever change. Don’t change your trailers, either. You could blindfold me, punch me in the ear then hold me underwater and I’d still know this was Final Fantasy XIV, just from the soundtrack. Click to view
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