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Square Enix Is Bringing These Games To GamesCom
Germany’s annual gaming convention is moving from Leipzig to Cologne this year, redubbed GamesCom, but retaining the spectacle of its eastern predecessor. Everyone’s going, including Square Enix, which will be armed with Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and much, much more. Square Enix will be showing largely what you’d expect, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIV…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 28, 2009 -
Nintendo Breaks Its Silence About Silence
Nintendo’s lead characters are rare among modern gaming heroes in that they seldom talk out loud. But rarer still is a Nintendo game that does include recorded speech. Punch-Out Wii did, and its creators explained why. “Nintendo’s tradition is that the hero or central character never vocally speaks,” the game’s producer, Nintendo’s Kensuke Tanabe, told…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 28, 2009 -
NBA 2K10: Draft Combine Gives Fans A Head Start
2K Sports takes advantage of today’s download friendly consoles, giving fans an early taste of this year’s basketball with NBA 2K10: Draft Combine. Available in September on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network, the NBA 2K10: Draft Combine is a downloadable game that allows players to fully customize their own player and put them…
By Mike Fahey Published July 28, 2009 -
Risen Trailer Flaunts Symphonic Gothic Metal
This new trailer for Piranha Bytes‘ RPG Risen features music by Nightwish, "the most successful symphonic/gothic metal band world-wide." I’m not sure what that means. I’m sure there’s a large symphonic/gothic metal band scene that I am completely unaware of. In fact, the comments section could potentially fill up with arguments on which of those…
By Mike Fahey Published July 28, 2009 -
Scott Pilgrim VS. Your Game Console
Scott Pilgrim, the heroic comic tale of triumph over evil ex-boyfriends, is getting a movie adaptation next year, and Ubisoft has signed on to create the game of the movie of the comic. Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim is a digest-sized comic series from Oni Press that follows the tale of Canadian slacker bassist Scott…
By Mike Fahey Published July 28, 2009 -
Poor Rock Band Sales Blamed For Declining Viacom Revenues
Viacom’s second quarter 2009 financials dropped this morning, singling out lower than expected Rock Band sales as one of the primary causes of the company’s 14% drop in revenue over the previous year. A little over a year ago Viacom was singing the praises of Rock Band, heralding the rhythm game as the driving force…
By Mike Fahey Published July 28, 2009 -
Splinter Cell Conviction Delay Won’t Lead To Major Changes
Splinter Cell Conviction‘s delay is all about meeting expectations and nothing about major changes or additions, an Ubisoft community developer says. Yesterday Ubisoft announced the delay of four of their big titles, including Splinter Cell Conviction. The news popped up on the official forums for the game with a statement from Ubisoft Community Developer UbiRazz.…
By Brian Crecente Published July 28, 2009 -
Ryu And Momiji Work Well Together
Here’s five minutes or so worth of the co-op gameplay PS3 owners will see when Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 launches this September. It looks like a great deal of fun, doesn’t it? I haven’t really gotten into the Ninja Gaiden games since the first one on the original Xbox kicked my ass from here to…
By Mike Fahey Published July 28, 2009 -
GameStop Has Street Fighter IV Ridiculously Cheap
In case you were either holding out or saving up for Street Fighter IV on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, now would be an excellent time to scrape up those pennies and head to GameStop. How cheap is cheap? How about $40 off the normal retail price? That’s right, GameStop has marked down Street…
By Mike Fahey Published July 28, 2009 -
Space Invaders Reimagined For iPhone
Space Invaders Infinity Gene hit the iPhone today for $4.99. The remake of the classic features a customizable “evolutionary tree” and the ability to play original stages based on your own music. It sort of looks like it’s getting the shmup treatment.
By Brian Crecente Published July 28, 2009 -
More Quantum Screens Emerge From Cover
This new set of screens Tecmo’s East-meets-West third-person shooter Quantum highlights the game’s strange mix of Gears of War-esque characters in a high fantasy setting. I first saw Quantum (formerly Quantum Theory) at E3 this year, and boy was I confused. It looks and plays a bit like Gears of War, but the environments are…
By Mike Fahey Published July 28, 2009 -
Bionic Commando PC Swings Into Action
Nathan Spencer is back and he’s pissed, as Capcom’s remake of Bionic Commando attempts to grab PC gamers where it counts – Steam and retail. Ascension City has been taken over by terrorists, which turns out to be good news for Nathan R.A.D. Spencer, pardoned from execution at the very last minute and sent behind…
By Mike Fahey Published July 28, 2009 -
Preorder Scribblenauts, Get a Rooster Hat
As if the ability to create mayhem and blend zombies with pirates using just the words you write on a screen weren’t enough of a reason to pick up DS-bound Scribblenauts, the publishers are throwing in a hat to sweeten the deal. People who pre-order the 5th Cell-developed game at GameStop in the U.S. or…
By Brian Crecente Published July 28, 2009 -
Today’s Delicious Snack? Dinosaur Boogers
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: It’s Con Season A present (gee, thanks) from Mini-Bash. I’m pretty sure they’re not real dinosaur boogers. Call it a hunch, like the kind Columbo used to get. (That, and the delightful packaging tells me they’re peanuts.) What you missed last night EGM Writer Passes Away Mommy, Where Do PS3…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 28, 2009 -
China Bans All Online Games Featuring “Gangs”
China has a problem. A problem with gangs. And as part of the government’s plan to tackle that problem, all websites offering online games glorifying organised crime have been banned. The Culture ministry says all games that “advocate obscenity, gambling, or violence,” and “undermine morality and Chinese traditional culture” will be outlawed, and any net…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2009 -
Check Out This KOS-MOS Figure
Spotted at Japanese figure event Wonder Festival, this ALMECHA Xenosaga III KOS-MOS Ver.4 sample was on display. Looks nice! The poseable figure won’t be released until 2010 in Japan. Pricing is TBA. Click through the click to check out some more figure samples (Strike Witches, ToHeart2, etc.). Some of it might be NSFW, depending on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 28, 2009 -
New Forza 3 Screens: Exclusive Cars
There are a number of Forza 3 cars that are quite “exclusive”, in that they require you to either preorder the game, buy the Collector’s Edition or become a VIP member of the game’s community. These are those cars. If you sign up and become a VIP member of the Forza 3 community, you’ll get…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2009
