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Starcraft II’s Tech Tree In All Its Glory
In the olden days, you used to get this sort of thing as a lovely big poster, which came folded neatly inside your game’s large cardboard box. These days, you’ll have to make do with viewing your Starcraft II tech trees online. These shots come courtesy of the gentlemen at Giant Bomb. And before you…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 1, 2009 -
Dream C Club or Dragon Quest IX?
Gemaga magazine has polled its readers about which upcoming title they want the most. The front runners: Hostess game Dream C Club and role-playing-game Dragon Quest IX. Before we start, realize that this list is not what the ENTIRE NATION OF JAPAN wants, but rather, the readers of Gemaga — the readers who respond to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 1, 2009 -
And Now There Is A Girl…
To recap: First there was a landscape and the number four. Then a dragon. After that, a boy. And now? A girl. There looks like there is enough space on the back of that dragon for at least another rider, maybe more. Check back tomorrow! It should be oh so thrilling. NEW Game [Square Enix…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 1, 2009 -
Xbox Game Creator Software Now Out, Available For Download
Microsoft’s “Kodu Game Lab” – often labelled the “LittleBigPlanet of the Xbox 360” – is now available for download via Xbox Live Community Games. It’s only $5, which considering that it lets you create many different types of game, is a pretty good deal. Kodu comes with some basic single and multiplayer game modes includes,…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 1, 2009 -
Tekken 6 CLAMP Outift In Focus
Worst thing about blurry magazine scans? They’re blurry. Here’s a crystal clear look at Jin Kazama’s outfit for TEKKEN 6‘s PS3 console version. So spiffy. Famed female manga collective CLAMP (xxxHolic) designed this home console exclusive. TEKKEN 5 on the PS2 also had costumes by various artists. Take A Closer Look At Clamp’s Tekken 6…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 1, 2009 -
Ads Coming To Xbox 360 Dashboard?
Sean Alexander, director at Microsoft’s Advertising Business Group, has suggested that you could soon be seeing advertisements every time you fire up your 360 dashboard. Apparently, Microsoft “plans to bring IAB specifications for rich media technologies, including Silverlight, to Xbox Live within the year”. With Silverlight being Microsoft’s version of/competitor to Flash, MediaPost say “Silverlight-powered…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 30, 2009 -
Why Is There A Tanned Fairy In Dragon Quest IX?
With golden skin and bleached blond hair, fairy Sandy doesn’t look like your typical Dragon Quest character. She talks and dresses like the Japanese equivalent of a Valley Girl. Dragon Quest IX producer Ryutaro Ichimura describes a meeting regarding what kind of character would be best for the pivotal role of guide for the adventure.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 30, 2009 -
Damnation Developers Laid Off
Several former employees at Blue Omega, developers behind the recent Damnation, have confirmed with Kotaku today that the entire dev team has been laid off following “issues” with Codemasters, Damnation’s publishers. They allege that there were a raft of lawsuits behind the sackings, which stem from Blue Omega being “taken off” their own game by…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 30, 2009 -
PS3 Slim Entering Production, Ready By July
According to Taiwanese site UDN, Sony have signed production contracts with two companies to begin manufacture of the rumoured PS3 “Slim”, with a delivery date of…oh, next month! Now, with a PS3 price cut heavily expected around August, and with stocks of the existing 80GB PS3 supposedly dwindling, a July delivery date for the “new”…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 30, 2009 -
MySims Agents Preview: Spy vs. Sims
MySims Agents marks a shift in the MySims series away from free-roaming Sim with adventure game elements to actual adventure game with Sim flavorings. The MySims series started out as a cutesy, cartoony version of the Sims series for PC and Wii that would let a younger generation of gamer take a crack at the…
By AJ Glasser Published June 30, 2009 -
And The StarCraft II LAN Petitioning Commences
Angered by news that Blizzard has decided to leave LAN multiplayer out of StarCraft II, fans are doing what fans have done in such situations since the dawn of time – signing a letter. The “LAN in StarCraft 2 Please” petition isn’t really all that much of a petition when you get right now to…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 -
Drinks at the Saucer
To: Ash From: Crecente We’re leaving for New Orleans tomorrow. Tonight Trish and I are going to head over to the Flying Saucer in Fort Worth to have a few drinks. If anyone wants to swing by around 7ish I’d love to say hi and talk games. If the flight time weren’t so long and…
By Brian Crecente Published June 30, 2009 -
Spectrobes Now In Convenient Novel Format
Disney continues to stand behind their answer to the Pokémon, releasing a series of junior novels based in the Spectrobes universe. Disney’s enthusiasm for the series they had created from the ground up is admirable, and there tenacity is something to see. They aren’t just fostering a video game franchise, but attempting to sow the…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 -
Vandal Hearts: Flames Of Judgment Falls Into Winter
Konami’s downloadable strategy RPG Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment looks to have slipped from its September release window, now listed with an ambiguous winter release date. When I spent some hands on time at E3 2009 with the prequel to the original Vandal Hearts on the PlayStation, I was told that the game was due…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 -
Resonance Of Fate Trailer Showered With Spent Bullet Casings
Sega is bringing tri-Ace’s Resonance of Fate is eventually coming to North America, and by the looks of this gameplay trailer we might not have enough bullets. I’ve not seen much of Resonance of Fate, formerly End of Eternity, outside of the Americanized butt rock trailer McWhertor posted back in May. It actually looks rather…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 -
2009 Is Half-Done: What’s Been Great So Far?
Let us not forget the following games six months from now (and prove that button wrong)… Today marks the halfway point of 2009, a year that brought Grand Theft Auto to the DS, our eyes to the bottom of an Avatar’s shoe and some other guy to my old MTV desk. We and the rest…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 30, 2009 -
Maloof Money Cup DLC Rolls To Skate 2
We’ve got some fresh screens from the Maloof Money Cup Pack for EA’s Skate 2, bringing the world’s largest skating championship to your console on July 9th. The Maloof Money Cup is the largest-pursed event in professional skateboarding, and EA is bringing both the park and the thirll of competition to both the PlayStation 3…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 -
Acclaim Re-Develops The Chronicles Of Spellborn
Acclaim is hanging out their “Please Pardon Our Re-Development” signs on their MMO The Chronicles of Spellborn, transforming it into a free-to-play, transaction-based game by next year. We’ve heard of patching, or major content updates…heck, we’ve even heard of an MMO game getting Star Wars Galaxied, but re-developed? That’s what Acclaim is called the process…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2009 -
Nintendo Patents WarioWare Take On Othello
The last time we unearthed a big new Nintendo patent, we found hints of a video game paradigm shift. This time, Nintendo may have locked up a multiplayer mode from a 2004 GameCube game. On June 23, the United States granted Nintendo patent number 7,5489,923 a more than 11,000-word patent invented by WarioWare director Goro…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 30, 2009