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Frankenreview: Resistance: Retribution

The fight between humanity and the Chimera spills over onto the PlayStation Portable next week with the release of Resistance: Retribution. Developed by Sony Bend, the developers behind the Syphon Filter series, Retribution follows the story of former British Royal Marine James Grayson in the wake of the bombing of the Chimeran tower in London…

Ten Plus Spots Gamers Should Visit In Japan

It’s like clockwork. Every month, a handful of emails hit my inbox from readers with a singular purpose: What should I do on my trip to Japan? There are endless things to do in Japan that run the gamut of traditional to modern to fascinating to banal. What unites these emailers is that A). They’re…

New Conduit Trailer Channels Awesome

This new trailer for High Voltage Software‘s The Conduit makes it easy to believe that the game can live up to the title of "The definitive Wii first-person shooter." I wish I could say there were a whole bunch of amazing first-person experiences to compare it to on Nintendo’s console, but sadly that isn’t the…

Sega Does the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics

Sega continues to milk their license with license with the International Olympic Committee, announcing the development of Vancouver 2010, the Official Video Game of the Olympic Winter Games. Despite poor review scores on their previous outing, Beijing 2008 developer Eurocom once again steps up to the plate for Sega, this time taking on the wide…

Activision Bets on DJ Hero To Hit Younger Audience

Activision hopes that their upcoming DJ rhythm game DJ Hero will expand their Guitar Hero franchise to a much broader audience, according to Activision CFO Thomas Tippl. “We continue to add additional legs to the Guitar Hero franchise with the launch of DJ Hero,” Tippl told a gathering at the Wedbush Morgan Securities annual meeting.…

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Looks Incredible, Hits This Holiday

Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is “looking incredible” and will hit this holiday season, according to Activision CFO Thomas Tippl. Speaking at the Wedbush Morgan Securities annual meeting, Tippl said that Activision’s strategy for “leap-frogging development” between two developers has been paying out with back-to-back blockbusters for them. “Last year we had…

Sackboys Playing Hot Shots Golf In Japan

LittleBigPlanet’s Sackboy continues his relentless invasion of all things Sony, the Japanese version of Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds gets flooded with the little scamps tomorrow. Tomorrow, players of Minna no Golf 5 in Japan will be able to download the loveable stitched stars of LittleBigPlanet and take them out on the course. It…

Nintendo Raising UK Wii Trade Price

With the British pound continuing to depreciate, Nintendo has announced that they will be increasing the price they offer the Nintendo Wii to UK retailers, who could pass the increase on to consumers. While the recommended retail price of the Nintendo Wii in the United Kingdom will remain at £179.99, Nintendo is increasing the price…

DS Breaks 100M Sold Worldwide

First released in 2004, Nintendo’s portable DS topped 100 million consoles sold last week, Nintendo reports. That number includes combined total sales of DS, DS Lite and the soon to be released in North America DSi. “Consumers have shown their love for Nintendo DS – 100 million times over,” said Nintendo of America President Reggie…

We Rock: Drum King Track List Revealed

505 Games has released the full track list for We Rock: Drum King, with Queen, The Clash, and Fall Out Boy all providing music to drum your Wii remotes along to. The focus on drums makes the song list for We Rock: Drum King quite a bit different from what you’d see from Rock Band…

Warhammer Online Massively Merges Servers

With subscriber levels currently hovering at around 300,000, Warhammer Online developer Mythic is bringing down 63 servers in order to make sure everyone has other people to play with. It’s a common practice in the massively multiplayer online role-playing industry these days; popular games launch, opening server after server to deal with the flood of…

The Evolution Of Chris Redfield

.html Let’s take a look at how far Resident Evil 5’s Chris Redfield has come since his video game debut in the original 1996 PlayStation game. GameTrailers has posted a look back at Chris Redfield’s zombie-fighting career, from his first appearance in the original Resident Evil to his updated look for this week’s Resident Evil…

Disney Makes Split/Second Official With New Screens

Following last week’s early reveal via GameTrailers, Disney Interactive Studios makes battle racer Split/Second official, with a couple of new screens to sweeten the deal. Coming early next year for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, Split/Second is, as Crecente observed, a melding of Death Race and Burnout, crafted by Pure developer Black Rock…

Resident Evil 5 Trophies Reveal Online Multiplayer Modes

An updated list of trophies for Resident Evil 5 on the Playstation 3 revealed five traditional shooter online multiplayer modes for the game. The new modes listed are: Slayers, Survivors, Team Slayers, Team Survivors and Versus. The modes are all mentioned in a list of trophies currently unachievable in the game, so it sounds like…

Guinness List of Resident Evil and Grand Theft Auto Records

To celebrate the upcoming releases of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Resident Evil 5, the Guinness World Records folks released some records the two franchises set. GRAND THEFT AUTO RECORDS • Most Successful Entertainment Product Launch On April 29, 2008, Grand Theft Auto IV generated $310 million of sales worldwide in one day, five…

Allergies Run In The Family, It Seems

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Big Sis As a kid, I had really bad allergies. I had to get tested when I was still quite small, and I remember getting literally hundreds of shots to pinpoint what was causing my allergies. After getting tested, I had to get four shots every four days when I…

Two-Year-Old Girl Offered For Sale Over Xbox Live

Over the weekend, pranksters spammed Xbox Live users with a message advertising the sale of 23 year-old Christa Manos’ baby girl. The message included her phone number. Manos is not impressed. She was soon fielding angry, abusive phone calls from parents across the United States, some berating her for being a terrible parent, others content…

The Periodic Table of Video Game Characters

Not much explanation necessary here. It’s a periodic table, only with video game characters instead of those boring chemical elements. While some are a bit of a cop-out (Batman and Iron Man aren’t game characters, per se), the rest is a great mix, crossing decades, platforms and even sensibilities. Bonus points are awarded for not…

Sony: “The PSP Was Slightly Under-Supported”

For all the disparaging remarks Westerners make about the PSP, it is a successful platform. Sony has sold 50 million worldwide. That’s nothing to sneeze at! Still, Sony Computer Entertainment’s Ray Maguire does concede that support for that platform hasn’t been quite up to snuff in the past. I”t was slightly under-supported, mainly because a…

Insomniac Still A Great Place To Work

If you dream of some day working for a top-shelf games developer, and care about the little things (like colleagues, benefits and job security), you may want apply for a job with Insomniac. The development team behind Ratchet & Clank and the main Resistance games has been named the “fifth best place to work in…