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Kojima’s PSP Metal Gear Is Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker?

Metal Gear Solid is coming to the Xbox 360. We know that. But another Metal Gear Solid is also coming to the PSP. Oh, we knew that too! Here’s what we didn’t know until now. That new portable Metal Gear game is more than likely called Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, as GamesPress is listing…

Things Unmentioned At The Microsoft Press Conference

These are the things we thought Microsoft would mention today at the Xbox 360 press conference today, but didn’t: Assassin’s Creed 2 — One of the biggest games of two years ago has a sequel coming later this year and doesn’t get mentioned? Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony — Microsoft has an…

In the Interest of Time, A Modern Warfare 2 Gameplay Clip

A quick demo of Modern Warfare 2 features explosions, snow, controllable snowmobiles and an ice-climbing segment that would put the Ice Climbers to shame. The part that looks weird to me, though, is when the game ends the ice-climbing segment with a black screen that says “In the Interest of Time…” Then the player is…

XBLA Getting Free, DLC-Supported Racing Game

Free Avatar racing game Joy Ride is coming to XBLA, in the fashion of a Korean MMO. One of the more unusual announcements for the Xbox 360 today was the release of Avatar-supported racing game Joy Ride. It would be easy to dismiss amid the flurry of Natal tech demos and Facebook upgrades to Xbox…

Liveblogging Ubisoft’s E3 Press Conference

It’s time to hear what Ubisoft has to show us for this year’s press conference. Will we see Assassin’s Creed 2? Sure. But what about Beyond Good & Evil 2? Not so sure? Check it out below and follow along with us. Click to viewUbisoft’s E3 Presser

Microsoft’s E3 Round-Up: Day One

Lots of new broke at today’s the Xbox E3 press conference. Here it is all in one place for easy reading — for you, for me and that guy over there. Arguably, the biggest news was the announcement of Natal, Microsoft’s motion controller interface. Thing about this post is that if you stand up, wave…

All You Need Is The Beatles: Rock Band Debut Trailer

.html I may not be the biggest Beatles fan, but it was hard to deny the appeal of the first trailer for The Beatles: Rock Band. It looks fab. This career-spanning look at The Beatles first video game shows off the variety of visual styles that will be highlighted in The Beatles: Rock Band, as…

Forza Motorsport 3 Screens Zoom Into View

If there’s one word that Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios thought best described Forza Motorsport 3 five separate times, it was “definitive.” As in Forza 3 will be the definitive racing game of this generation. Turn 10’s competition Polyphony Digital may take issue with that, should it ever get Gran Turismo 5 out the door,…

Metal Gear Solid: Rising Teaser Trailer

.html Short, but sweet for Xbox 360 owners, this trailer gives us a first brief glimpse at Metal Gear Solid: Rising, the first Metal Gear Solid title to hit the Xbox 360. According to Konami, the game will star Raiden, who first debuted in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and who appeared most…

Kojima Productions Countdowns To… E3 Website.

We see a link to that “Mask” page and a Metal Gear Solid: Rising notice. There’s space for games that Kojima will announce at, guess, tomorrow’s Sony presser. Be sure to check our liveblog! Thoughts, feelings about this Kojima countdown drip fed hype — let them be known in our comment section. That’s what it’s…

EA Adding MMA To Sports Roster In 2010

EA announced today that an EA Sports MMA game is in development at Madden and Tiger Woods studio EA Tiburon. “We’re ready for the fight,” EA Sports chief Peter Moore said in a press release. No other details were given regarding fighters, arenas and so forth. Rival publisher THQ publishes games based on the world-famous…

Brutal Legend vs The Prince Of Darkness

Tim Schafer is showing off Brutal Legend at EA’s E3 press conference, and just announced that the last old-timey metal legend not in the game – Ozzy – is going to be in the game. To go with that announcement, creator Tim Schafer said that star Jack Black has done a whopping 26,000 lines of…

And EA’s Latest Partner Is…

EA have a lot of “partners”, developers with whom they share a close, special relationship. Like id. And Valve. And Grasshopper, and Epic. Now, welcome the latest EA partner: APB developers Realtime Worlds. Yes, the team behind 360 exclusive Crackdown – and helmed by GTA creator David Jones – have signed a deal with EA,…

Old Republic Is All-Talk (Literally)

BioWare and Lucasart’s Star Wars: Old Republic MMO is going to be the world’s first large-scale massively multiplayer game to be all talk. As in, no text messages whatsoever. The amount of voice acting work that’s going to require must be absolutely mind-blowing. And it also raises a few issues. Like, how can you personalise…

Halo 3 ODST Priced Like A Full Game, Loaded With Content

Halo 3 ODST may be a spin-off, but Microsoft wagers that enough content will be packed into the game’s box to warrant a $59.99 price tag. Bungie Studios has suggested that Halo 3 ODST won’t be as long as Halo 3. So why will it run the cost of a full game? Here’s a list…

Alan Wake Story Details, New Screens

Xbox 360 exclusive psychological action thriller Alan Wake is hitting Spring 2010, telling the story of a bestselling author’s battle with writer’s block. Obviously, that battle gets a little more interesting when shotguns are involved. Developer Remedy, responsible for the Max Payne series, is bringing “multilayered character interactions, unique problem-solving and intense combat against terrifying…

Zune Video Comes to Live In 1080p HD This Fall

Starting this fall, movies and television shows from Zune Video will be playable on the Xbox 360 in 1080p HD. Microsoft says that video start up using their new service will be “as close to instantaneous as possible” by transitioning between many different bitrates and resolutions of video. What that means, Microsoft says, is that…

Meet Left 4 Dead 2’s New Survivors, See First Screens

Valve is turning a sequel around in record Valve time, announcing today that Left 4 Dead 2 will be hitting the Xbox 360 and PC later this year. Meet the new zombie apocalypse Survivors. Since Left 4 Dead 2 takes place roughly at the same time as the events of the original and far away…

Molyneux’s Milo Brings a Virtual Child to the Xbox 360

.html One of the most stunning moments of the Xbox 360 press conference this morning, was the introduction of Peter Molyneux’s Milo. Milo appears to be a complex artificial intelligence that you can interact with through the Xbox 360 using it’s recently announced Project Natal motion controller. Molyneux says Milo can recognize your face, emotions…

Why Xbox 360 New Controller Is Called ‘Natal’

Sure, the Microsoft fact sheet for Project Natal explains that the XBox 360’s answer to Wii motion control has a special sensor, an RGB sensor, a depth sensor, a multiarray microphone and a special processor, but what’s that name mean? Here’s how the company explains it: “Alex Kipman, who incubated the project and is from…