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Xbox Live’s Return Brings Xbox Live Issues
Xbox Live has just successfully completed an entire day of downtime. Unfortunately, the current uptime isn’t quite as successful, with missing games, failing downloads, and unredeemable code issues abounding. Microsoft flipped Xbox Live’s on switch late last night, and while the snazzy new look of the Xbox.com website distracted many of us for a spell,…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2009 -
iPhone Firmware 3.0 Is Alive
iPhone Firmware update 3.0 just went live on iTunes, bringing with it the ability to play online games through the iPhone and iPod Touch and purchase content in-game. Now seems like as good a time as any for us to ask you: Is Gameloft right, are the iPhone and iPod Touch gaming platforms? Are the…
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2009 -
BioShock and Oblivion Get Bundle
BioShock and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion are going on sale as a bundle for the PC and Xbox 360 beginning next month, Bethesda Softworks announced today. The BioShock and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Bundle will sell for $40 on the Xbox 360 and $30 for the PC. Combined, the two games earned more…
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2009 -
Augmented Reality Game Fights Zombies With Skittles
The Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab has come up with a game that combines the joy of shooting zombies with the deliciousness of Skittles. The cleverly-titled ARhrrrr is a concept demonstration for an augmented reality mobile phone game that pits players armed with guns and Skittles bombs against an invading army of zombies, all superimposed…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2009 -
The Sad Story Of Two Homeless Sims
Meet Alice and Kev, a father/daughter pair of homeless Sims, struggling to survive in a Sim city that wants nothing to do with them. Alice and Kev are the creation of UK game development student Robin Burkinshaw, who decided to see how the old poverty challenge idea from The Sims 2 played out in the…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2009 -
Scribblenauts: Game of the Millenium?
As seen on IGN.
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2009 -
Pre-Order Aion, Score A Snappy Chapeau
NCsoft has dropped details on the North American pre-order program for Aion, and while the exclusive beta access and priority character privileges are nice, it’s all about the winged hats. The pre-order exclusive Black Cloud hat is the cherry on top of the pre-order goodness to be had by simply reserving your copy of NCsoft’s…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2009 -
Trouble In The Brutal Legend Cast?
Last night, Brutal Legend creator Tim Schafer hopped on a plane to fly across the sea, all to meet with “someone who’s threatening to cancel”. Who could it be? As you recall from earlier this week, Tim Curry has replaced Ronnie James Dio as Doviculus, the Brutal Legend’s main antagonist, but Tim Schafer assured Kotaku…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2009 -
Golden Tee at Sea: Watching the Game in Motion On the Ocean
Supercarrier USS John C Stennis is now home to one Golden Tee arcade machine. The folks at Incredible Technologies took a ride aboard the ship to capture the process of installing the system and what it means to those living aboard the floating city.
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2009 -
Ex-Factor 5 Employees Cry Fraud
Former employees of the recently shuttered Factor 5 studio in California are taking the company to court, claiming that it fraudulently transferred assets, including source code for the next Rogue Squadron title. When Factor 5 filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on May 13th of this year, they had an estimated $50,000 to $100,000 in assets,…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2009 -
New Champions Screens Save The Day
Just when the morning seemed destined to fall at the nefarious hands of evil, new Champions Online screenshots arrive to save the day, just in the nick of time! I still haven’t had a chance to try out the game, with my various beta applications falling on deaf eyes, which doesn’t even make any sense.…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2009 -
What Does The Future Hold For Apple Gaming?
The latest firmware for the iPhone and iPod Touch and a new, more powerful iPhone both hit this week. Gameloft CEO Michel Guillemot says that the two are the most significant changes to hit the still emerging gaming platform to date, but points out that Apple still has a ways to go before working out…
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2009 -
Wait, Turkey’s Not In Europe?!
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Mecho Wars Watching a Japanese quiz show tonight (Hexagon — a guilty, stupid pleasure) when the announcer corrected a contestant who said Turkey is an European country. The announcer said Turkey wasn’t. Hrm… What you missed last night Here’s Your Dragon Age: Origins PC Specs Meet Mr. Video Game Voiceover…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2009 -
Former Crackdown Devs A Little Upset Over Current Crackdown 2 Devs
The original Crackdown was developed by Realtime Worlds. At the moment, they’re busy with APB, so another developer, Ruffian, will be working on the sequel. Does that surprise you? It surprises Realtime. CEO David Jones has told GI.biz that he’s both surprised and “miffed” at…something. The bottom line is that what we thought would happen…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2009 -
New Ghostbusters Tips Hat To Old Ghostbusters
The new Ghostbusters game isn’t the only Ghostbusters game to have ever been made. Ghostbusters 2 had an awful platformer, for example. And the original had a pretty decent game on the C64 and Spectrum. That C64 game was actually one of the first I ever remember playing, and the entire I time i had…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2009 -
These Are New PEGI Symbols
The UK Government has adopted the PEGI (Pan European Game Information) standard as the sole game content rating system. PEGI has revealed its new ratings icons: Five age rating symbols that are colored green, yellow and red. Casual games get a “PEGI OK” mark, denoting that they are, well, okay for players of all ages.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2009 -
Tales Of Graces Lookin’ Graceful
With exclusive Tales of Graces, Namco’s Tales franchise is coming to the Wii. The game is the 12th in the role-playing series. It’s expected up last up to 70 hours, making it a big, meaty JRPG experience for the Wii. Graces has a battle system that allows characters to freely pick from two different fighting…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2009 -
This Is The Newest Dragon Quest IX Trailer
Here we go, the newest Dragon Quest IX trailer. Right here, you can watch it. The game is due out next month in Japan, but doesn’t have a release date for outside The Land of the Rising Sun. Alrighty, who’s excited for DQIX?
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 17, 2009 -
Here’s Your Dragon Age: Origins PC Specs
Oh, look out. There’s a BioWare RPG coming to the PC. Time to check its system requirements, see if your PC is able to pass muster. The good news? Most of you should be able to get by those minimum requirements. The…other news? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 20GB install before. Wonder what…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2009