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Resident Evil 5 Used Real World Virtual Camera

Resident Evil 5’s camera angles were created with a virtual camera, one of only four in the world. It will be the first game to use the tech, according to Gamers Weekly. Fox News’ Gamers Weekly also talked to Reuben Langdon, motion actor for Chris Redfield; Karen Dyer, voice of Sheva Alomar, and Ken Lally,…

Dead To Rights To Return With Retribution

Namco Bandai is giving tough cop Jack Slate another chance to shoot lots of bad guys—or throw them down flights of stairs—in Dead To Rights: Retribution for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The next entry in the Dead To Rights series will, according to 1UP’s first details on the game, be an origin story,…

Sacred 2: How German Metal Band Blind Guardian Got Involved

In this behind the scenes video for Ascaron’s Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, Blind Guardian vocalist Hansi Kürsch explains how a German heavy metal band gets into a video game. Apparently the answer is to give up hope altogether. Hansi reveals that Blind Guardian had been trying to get into a video game – any video…

Watch The Watchmen Invade PlayStation Home

Paramount Pictures is readying a major marketing push into Sony’s PlayStation Home service for the upcoming film Watchmen, with exclusive footage, a filmmaker Q&A session, and of course, Watchmen costumes for your avatar. The film adaptation of Alan Moore’s classic comic book series The Watchmen is a major deal for Paramount, and no on is…

GTA IV: The Lost and Damned Also Adds Full Frontal Nudity

Spoiler alert! If you’re going to play Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and find digitally rendered flaccid penises offensive, you may want to avert your sensitive eyes during one in-game cinematic. Rockstar Games, no stranger to controversy as marketing tool, will likely come under fire for its inclusion of completely uncensored, full…

Capcom Debit Cards Come With Gamer Perks

Not content to rock gamers in February and March with Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5, Capcom just signed a deal to slap their characters on debit cards. The co-branded Visa debit card is the first of its kind in North America. The cards will feature art from Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil 5…

This Week On Live Arcade: Death Tank

Old school gameplay gets an upgrade this week on Xbox Live Arcade, as Snowblind Studios releases Death Tank, a shiny new take on the classic tank-on-tank angle shooter. What’s an angle shooter, you ask? It’s any game that involves calculating the angle of projectiles based on terrain velocity in order to efficiently dispatch your foes.…

Toy Fair 2009: LittleBigPlanet Toys In Captivity

Geekanerd has posted several Toy Fair 2009 pictures of the LittleBigPlanet action figures recently announced by Sony, showing that even dirty pirates deserve a little sackboy loving. As promised by the PlayStation blog, visitors to the 2009 International Toy Fair in New York over the weekend caught a first glimpse of the 2 inch action…

Padres Reliever Credits Wii Fit For Weight Loss

Who says Wii Fit is a Fad? San Diego Padres reliever Heath Bell might want to have a word with you. Bell, in line to replace legendary closer Trevor Hoffman, says that Nintendo’s balance-board-sporting health game helped him lose 25 pounds. When the 6-foot-6, 270 pound Bell stepped on the Balance Board the first time,…

EA Sports Spawns Sports Toy Line

After more than two decades of encouraging us to sit on our asses playing sports video games, EA Sports and Toy Island team up for a line of sports toys that actually promote outdoor play. The new multi-year agreement between EA and Toy Island will produce a wide range of interactive sports toys bearing the…

See Movie Chun-Li Kick Generic Thug Ass

Witness as the Legend of Chun-Li from the upcoming feature film slowly grows, as star Kirsten Kreuk beats up some random guys you wouldn’t want to run into in a dark alley. Of course Chun-Li runs into them in a dark alley, but she apparently has the moves to make it in a dark alley,…

Get a Free Copy of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

D3 is throwing a party for Los Angeles Puzzle Quest fans and you might be invited. On Feb. 19, D3 is taking over Melt Comics on Sunset Boulevard and opening the doors to 100 gamers interesting in checking out and playing Puzzle Quest: Galactrix. The event will give gamers a chance to checkout the DS,…

New MadWorld Screens Display Stark Contrast

Here’s a whole slew of brand new screens for the upcoming brutal Wii brawler MadWorld, featuring entirely new black and white images, completely different from the preciously released black and white images…we think. I almost pity the public relations person who has to send out new screenshots for Sega and Platinum Games‘ MadWorld as it…

Playing F.E.A.R. 2 While Snakes, Rats and Bugs Crawl on You

Eight gamers playing in the official F.E.A.R. 2 competition had to compete with their hands in a box that was then filled with bugs, snakes, rats and other distracting objects. The winner then had to go through the underground floors of a haunted mansion in London and come face-to-face with Alma to win his prize:…

Metal Gear Solid 4 Goes Platinum In March

After an incredibly successful first run in the Europe, Konami is re-releasing PlayStation 3 blockbuster Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots at a reduced price as part of the PlayStation Platinum budget line. Hideo Kojima’s swan song for Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, is getting a re-release on…

The Weekly Wii Update Has a Secret

This week’s Nintendo Wii update not only includes Evasive Space for WiiWare and NES shooter Life Force on the virtual console, but also a secret surprise clue that we need your help to decipher. Nintendo’s weekly announcement of new content for WiiWare and the Virtual console today came complete with news of a “fun surprise”…

Time Warner Supports Square Enix Eidos Bid

The Square Enix takeover bid for UK publisher Eidos Interactive solidified even further today, as 20% Eidos shareholder Time Warner throws its support behind the Japanese company’s offer. Once thought to be a front runner to buy out the company themselves, Time Warner is now backing Square Enix‘s recently revealed bid to buy out Tomb…

Art Site Reveals DOA PS3 Robot Game

Concept art for a never published Playstation 3 robot game for concept art studio Leading Light. Titan was, it appears, a game set to be in development by now defunct studio Stormfront. The Playstation 3 game appeared to be about a giant robot in space. According to notes found in some of the art, it…

Chocolate From Mommy, Pretty Haircut Lady And Sonic The Hedgehog

To: Crecente From: Bash Last Friday being the day before Valentine’s Day, we asked Mini-Bash if he got any Valentine’s chocolate from any of the little girls in his class. (In Japan, girls give chocolate on Feb. 14. A month later on March 14, boys return the favor.) Mini-Bash had been looking forward to Valentine’s…

Red Xbox 360 Appears In Retail Listings

In January, rumours surfaced regarding a special, limited edition red Xbox 360 that would be released in conjunction with Resident Evil 5. Over the weekend, that Xbox 360 turned up in retail databases. A reader – an employee of Toys ‘R’ Us – sends us this pic, snapped from his store’s database. If it’s correct,…