Valve issued an update for Team Fortress 2 earlier this week, full of bug fixes and gameplay tweaks. One of the more substantial, was a change to TF2‘s “critical hits” system, which Valve explains. For those unfamiliar with how Team Fortress 2 handles “crits,” all you really need to know is that the game hands…
.html We’ll be checking out Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 later on today at a pre-New York Comic Con event in New York. But here’s your chance to go eyes on with the game a bit early.
Capcom’s plans for Street Fighter IV downloadable content are expansive… get it? They include a free Championship Mode expansion pack as well as alternate costume packs which will sell for $4 a pop. The Championship Mode Expansion Pack, which Capcom says will be out “post launch”, will include a replay mode, two new points systems…
Danny Johnson, Wednesday, set a new world record in Guitar Hero III, not only toppling the previous record set last August in Minnesota, but also landing a story in the New York Times. Seth Schiesel reports that Johnson recorded a score of 973,954 in a roughly seven-minute rendition of DragonForce’s Through the Fire and Flames…
The long-talked-about, much-anticipated Left 4 Dead expansion pack, first mentioned on Kotaku, hits the PC and Xbox 360 this spring. The L4D Survival Pack introduces a new multiplayer game mode entitled, Survival, plus two complete campaigns for Versus Mode, Valve announced today. They also say that a Critic’s Choice Edition of the game is heading…
Last month we put your minds at ease about Bionic Commanding, getting Capcom to tell us that the game will be coming out before this winter. Now we have an actual month. The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game will both be hitting this May, while the PC version will be available…
I loved Killzone 2, but don’t take my early impressions of it, go grab a demo of the game yourself and tell us what you think. Of course it’s only available to European readers and people who can put on a good cockney accent, via PSN duplicity.
Accessory maker Logic3 just released a half dozen colored nunchuk minis for the Wii. But don’t you dare call them nunchuks, because these bad boys are “FunChuks”… seriously or they’ll sue you. Ok maybe they won’t sue you, but making colorful knock-offs for Nintendo’s money-printing Wii is serious, big business. The FunChuks will come in…
Cinemash, a new video series that will feature film and TV actors re-enacting their dream parts, is headed to the Zune and, perhaps, the Xbox 360 Marketplace. Zune is co-developing the show along with MEAN magazine. So what scenes would you like to see reenacted by which actors? Besides Christopher Walken as Han Solo. Technology…
Popular Loco-Roco-esque iPhone game Rolando is getting a lite version, founder of the game’s publisher revealed earlier this week. Neil Young, founder of iPhone game developer and publisher Ngmoco, wrote in Facebook that Rolando Lite would be “coming soon.” While he didn’t offer up any other details about the new version of Rolando, lite versions…
Following in the footsteps of their California kin, India’s Bollywood has started courting the video game market with their own movie stars. A few weeks ago Indian film distributor Eros International released a 3D video game inspired by their hit thriller Ghajini and earlier this week a mobile game based on the classic Indian novella…
Here’s a glimpse at 24-person online multiplayer BattleField 1943 announced earlier this morning by Electronic Arts. If you’re at New York Comic Con this weekend you may want to go check it out.
Electronic Arts has been on a roll lately, churning out quite a selection of new and innovative titles over the past year. Sure it cost them, but building a new franchise isn’t cheap and at least some of their investments look like they will be paying off in the long run. But what about the…
With the Resident Evil 5 preview embargo lifting today expect lots of funny tidbits about the game, and how it plays, to hit throughout the day. We’ll be posting our own impressions of the game a bit later in the day. To hold you over here’s part one of Gametrailer’s Resident Evil retrospective.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is coming to the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 this winter and Battlefield 1943 to PC, PSN and Live this summer, Electronic Arts confirmed this morning. In this Bad Company sequel, B company fight their way through snowy mountaintops, dense jungles and dusty villages. With a heavy arsenal of deadly…
Infinity Ward PR man Robert Bowling, like the rest of the world these days, is all up in this Twitter business. And when he tweets about the next Call of Duty, we listen. Earlier today, Bowling posted the following, seemingly confirming a return to the present day with a second Call of Duty: Modern Warfare…
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: More Sackings Is Mini-Bash excited about Valentine’s Day? Oh yeah. In Japan, girls give boys chocolates on Valentine’s Day. Boys do not. They instead return the favor a month later on White Day. After initially having a crush on a teacher, Mini-Bash now likes a little girl in his class.…
Phil Harrison, the game industry’s gentlest, most sharply-dressed giant, worked at Sony for 15 years. Then he left. While he ended up joining Atari, turns out the original plan was to start his own company. Speaking with Edge, Harrison says: This isn’t new information, but our original plan was to start our own company. It…
Wii Music didn’t become the breakout hit Nintendo was hoping for. It was a sales disappointment of sorts. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata thinks the software elicits one of two reactions. Nintendo Co., Ltd. just released a Q&A that was held during last week’s Nintendo Third Quarter Financial Results Briefing in Tokyo, where president Iwata conceded:…
Last August, Sony asked you to vote for your favourite Resistance 2 cover. One option was the classy European cover, the other two, they looked like PS1 games. The classy one didn’t win. Today, perhaps realising their mistake in letting Joe Public in on artistic decisions, Sony have released all three covers as large, printable…
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