| Professor Layton And the Diabolical Box Coming Stateside?
May 22, 2009 at 7:30 pm
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|   Thanks, Lisa Kudrow. You're selfless shilling of Nintendo's DS puzzler Professor Layton and the Curious Village may have guaranteed the American appearance of the sequel. Amazon.com is listing the second game for an August release. The online retailer is showing Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box as arriving on these shores on August 24th...  Dead Space Extraction has a lot to live up to and a lot of preconceived notions to overcome, not just as a prequel to GameSpot's Best of 2008 award winner for Best Atmosphere and Best Sound Design, but also as an on-rails shooter.  The first episodic Watchmen game was awful. Which is probably why we've heard little of the second. Still, the game's publishers are soldiering on, and will be releasing the pair on a retail disc.  In less than two weeks, the Electronic Entertainment Expo will shirk off two years of stripped down shows with an event expected to draw roughly 40,000 attendees. The shindig is being put on by the Entertainment Software Association...
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| Dog About To Bite Man
May 22, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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| To: Owen I've been having a lot of fun messing around with Personal Trainer: Walking for the DS this week. None of the playing has really involved gameplay, but that's OK. The game lets you track your dog's walking habits too, so today I tracked down Tristan's puppy, LittleFoot, and slapped one of the pedometers to his collar. He looked so pathetic staring at me with those big puppy eyes, but he got used to it pretty quickly. Now it's like he's being tracked by National Geographic.  To go along with the new trailer, EA and DICE also released this morning some new screens for the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2.  Battlefield Bad Company 2 doesn't reinvent anything, but it doesn't really need to either.Earlier this month I had a chance to sit in on an 12-on-12 multiplayer match of the game in the spacious and snowpacked Snowbound level.  Personal Trainer: Walking is a DS title that comes packed with two digital pedometers that sync with your DS to track how far you walk each day. It also happens to include the ability to create Mii on your DS.  Go to the Mii Channel. Press A. Press B. Press 1. Press and hold 2. Nintendo sent Kotaku copies of Personal Trainer: Walking yesterday, and while we think we don't need that much training to walk (left foot and then right foot...
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| PlayStation 3 | The Agency Updated Impressions
May 22, 2009 at 6:52 pm
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|   It's safe to assume that James Bond isn't a big massively multiplayer online game player. Sure, he has probably dabbled with World of Warcraft on one of those long flights from England to Russia, but we doubt orcs and paladins are really his thing.  As you may have seen in my review of Final Fantasy XI's recent download-only 'add-on A Crystalline Prophecy I didn't give the time-wasting, $10 fetch-quest ($10 on top of the normal monthly fees...  This week's Japanese hardware contest wasn't a proud one, with total hardware unit sales just barely cracking the 100,000 mark. Not good. But it was a winning week for the Nintendo DSi and Wii.  Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5. Battlefield Bad Company 2 doesn't reinvent anything, but it doesn't really need to either.Earlier this month I had a chance to sit in on an 12-on-12 multiplayer match of the game in the spacious and snowpacked Snowbound level.
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| FFXI Developer Interview Reveals the Process Behind Their Latest Expansion
May 22, 2009 at 6:47 pm
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|  As you may have seen in my review of Final Fantasy XI's recent download-only 'add-on A Crystalline Prophecy I didn't give the time-wasting, $10 fetch-quest ($10 on top of the normal monthly fees, that is) particularly high marks for what should have been included free with the MMO's recent April update...  With 5, 560 square miles of accessible in-game terrain, Codemasters' Fuel is the biggest console game of all time, and they've got the Guinness World Records certificate to prove it.  The Batman: Arkham Asylum is co-ed facility, housing many of the caped crusader's most legendary adversaries, including the Joker and Bane, as well as more feminine foes, like Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy.  Last summer's indie darling Braid already stunned audiences on the Xbox 360 and PC, but what about those of us who spend most of our time in OS X rather than Windows? Thanks to a partnership with Penny Arcade Adventures developer Hothead Games...  ACE Team's original beautiful and bizarre first-person brawler Zeno Clash has been out for just shy of a month, but the Chilean developer is already hard at work on a sequel.
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| Meet The Players Unhappy With The New TF2 Update
May 22, 2009 at 6:30 pm
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|  After a week's worth of largely entertaining Team Fortress 2 "Spy Vs. Sniper" updates, Valve has officially released new content for two of the game's classes. But things aren't exactly going as planned. As with most TF2 class updates, general whining ensues about how everything is ruined, how the developers have phoned the update in, and just how unfair the game has become. But with the latest change in how players unlock new items and weapons, an attempt by Valve to limit Achievement gorging to be "First!!!1" to get weapon X or sandwich Y, things are taking a turn for the unbalanced.  Damnation hits store shelves tomorrow everywhere but North America, and to celebrate Codemasters has released a new multiplayer trailer to show us Americans what we'll be missing.  Valve has revealed the final weapon unlock, for the Sniper vs Spy update coming to Team Fortress 2. Using the ancient art of "Jarate," the jar of urine that the Sniper keeps while he stakes out a position can be thrown like a grenade.  Thanks to the doubly good update for the Spy and Sniper classes, Team Fortress 2 will be playable for free this weekend to Steam users who for some bizarre reason wouldn't already have the game.  Bad news, Team Fortress 2 Spy: your Summer is about to get wet and wild, as Valve has revealed the Sniper's final unlockable. And this time it's no joke. "Jarate" is a reality.
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| Nintendo Will Release New Hardware When They Have A "Very Interesting Idea"
May 22, 2009 at 6:06 pm
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|  The Nintendo Wii and DS obviously won't last forever -- certainly not in their current forms. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata admitted as much in an investor call (via Eurogamer), saying that Nintendo is "always researching and working on new hardware" so they can "be launched whenever we find a very interesting idea.""You may not be able to believe this, but even when Nintendo has completed a hardware, it does not mean that we will surely launch it," he said.  The 2009 holiday season might be a bit more jam-packed than you may have already expected, according to GameStop CFO David W. Carlson (via Eurogamer). During the brick-and-mortar gaming retailer's Q1 earnings call...  A game built entirely from the ground up, Overlord Dark Legend follows another evildoer from the long bloodline of overlords, but this story is set sometime before the events of the original game.  Nintendo does not rest, Nintendo does not stop. Even with the success of the Wii and the DS, Nintendo keeps going. "We do not think that Nintendo DS and Wii will last forever," Iwata told investors in a recent financial briefing.
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| Empire: Total War Picking Up 11 Free Units
May 22, 2009 at 6:06 pm
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|  Empire: Total War is getting a sizable content update in its next patch, including 11 free units. They aren't completely new, but they should shake things up a bit for the various factions.According to Creative Assembly (via Voodoo Extreme), the units are a "combination of new and replacement units." The replacements will take the place of generic units like the standard guard, which will now have unique uniforms and attributes depending on its faction. After a week's worth of largely entertaining Team Fortress 2 "Spy Vs. Sniper" updates, Valve has officially released new content for two of the game's classes. But things aren't exactly going as planned.  Demigod's network issues are well-known, with Stardock CEO Brad Wardell going so far as to post a complete breakdown of the game's troubles. Now Stardock is doing their best to apologize to their fans.  They're not exactly squeezing Little Big Planet into DS game Scribblenauts, but the potential for some interesting building, creating and sharing is there. When I asked... With 5, 560 square miles of accessible in-game terrain, Codemasters' Fuel is the biggest console game of all time, and they've got the Guinness World Records certificate to prove it.
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| Big News Bound For E3
May 22, 2009 at 6:00 pm
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|  This year, the first week of June belongs to video gaming. Over the course of four days every major video game developer and publisher in the world will gather in Los Angeles at the E3 Expo to talk about the future of gaming and battle to win over new fans. "The purpose of this show is for the world to see what's coming next to video games," said Mike Gallagher CEO of the Entertainment Software Association, which puts on the show annually. "E3 is the only show of its kind." Go to the Mii Channel. Press A. Press B. Press 1. Press and hold 2. Nintendo sent Kotaku copies of Personal Trainer: Walking yesterday, and while we think we don't need that much training to walk (left foot and then right foot...  Yesterday, Rose McGowan and Tricia Helfer joined Geoff Keighley for a special live taping of GameTrailers TV. The E3 2009-themed special was packed with news, some of which splashed our way from the audience.  2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Pandemic Studios' Lord of the Rings: Conquest probably wasn't what most fans of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy universe were hoping for when it launched earlier this year. In less than two weeks, the Electronic Entertainment Expo will shirk off two years of stripped down shows with an event expected to draw roughly 40,000 attendees. The shindig is being put on by the Entertainment Software Association...
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| Ju-On: The Grudge Bears Down On American Wiis This Fall
May 22, 2009 at 5:30 pm
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|  The Wii is getting its first "haunted house simulator" this Fall with the North American release of Ju-On: The Grudge, based upon the Japanese horror film Ju-On, XSEED Games announced today. The game was announced for release in Japan just a few weeks ago, but plans to localize it for a pre-Halloween release in the States are well underway. Ju-On: The Grudge is said to tap the creative consultant talent of the original film's creator Takashi Shimizu, clearly a master at haunted house simulation.  Tecmo's Fatal Frame for the Wii may be out of the picture, but horror-loving North American Nintendo fans have another title to look forward to. Xseed Games today announced... Go to the Mii Channel. Press A. Press B. Press 1. Press and hold 2. Nintendo sent Kotaku copies of Personal Trainer: Walking yesterday, and while we think we don't need that much training to walk (left foot and then right foot...  Inspired by Norse mythology, Grizzleheim is an airy, outdoorlandscape of snowy mountains, glacial ridges and towering trees that is home tothree new Wizard101 tribes - Bears, Wolves and Ravens.  The Wii version of Punch-Out!! does a decent enough implementation of shadow boxing controls, thanks to the Wii Remote and Nunchuk option. But what about when you really...
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| Stardock Sends Coupon To Demigod Customers
May 22, 2009 at 5:10 pm
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| Demigod's network issues are well-known, with Stardock CEO Brad Wardell going so far as to post a complete breakdown of the game's troubles. Now Stardock is doing their best to apologize to their fans.The Big Download is reporting that Stardock has sent Demigod customers coupons good for 50 percent off the game's $39.99 price on Impulse. After a week's worth of largely entertaining Team Fortress 2 "Spy Vs. Sniper" updates, Valve has officially released new content for two of the game's classes. But things aren't exactly going as planned. Empire: Total War is getting a sizable content update in its next patch, including 11 free units. They aren't completely new, but they should shake things up a bit for the various factions. This year, the first week of June belongs to video gaming. Over the course of four days every major video game developer and publisher in the world will gather in Los... They're not exactly squeezing Little Big Planet into DS game Scribblenauts, but the potential for some interesting building, creating and sharing is there. When I asked...
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| Scribblenauts Has A Little Bit Of LBP
May 22, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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| They're not exactly squeezing Little Big Planet into DS game Scribblenauts, but the potential for some interesting building, creating and sharing is there. When I asked earlier this week about any multiplayer options in this fall's will-render-whatever-you-write game Scribblenauts, I got a surprise response. After a week's worth of largely entertaining Team Fortress 2 "Spy Vs. Sniper" updates, Valve has officially released new content for two of the game's classes. But things aren't exactly going as planned. Empire: Total War is getting a sizable content update in its next patch, including 11 free units. They aren't completely new, but they should shake things up a bit for the various factions. Demigod's network issues are well-known, with Stardock CEO Brad Wardell going so far as to post a complete breakdown of the game's troubles. Now Stardock is doing their best to apologize to their fans. With 5, 560 square miles of accessible in-game terrain, Codemasters' Fuel is the biggest console game of all time, and they've got the Guinness World Records certificate to prove it.  While it would take a magician to repair the game's myriad AI glitches, STALKER's graphics are more easily improved. And boy, can they be improved. This is the "STALKER Complete 2009" mod (released last month)...
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| New Diablo III Screens, Artwork Introduce 'The Fallen Ones'
May 22, 2009 at 4:30 pm
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|  The latest batch of nasty, devilish things to join the Diablo III bestiary are the "Fallen Ones," a quintet of horned demons that feature some returning foes, with nary a hint of rainbow amongst them. Diablo II fans may recognize some of these terrors, including the rank and file Imp and Shaman, but the Hound, Lunatic and Overseer look to expand on the Fallen Ones species of demonic horde. Blizzard lays out the five additions to the ever expanding list of Diablo III enemies that you'll someday click click click into oblivion. To go along with the new trailer, EA and DICE also released this morning some new screens for the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2.  Here's some new concept art and screens from Sony Online Entertainment, showing how the Wally West version of The Flash appears in DC Universe Online. A profile shot. The Flash uses this for his Facebook listing.  The PlayStation 3's Blu-ray drive has its advantages, as proven by the Watchmen: The End is Nigh The Complete Experience, a two-disc set collecting the game and the film for the PlayStation 3.  Bizarre Creations' Blur is "completely focused on making racing 'fun' again," according to its creators. You know the details, but do you know what Blur looks like? Well, it looks like this.
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| Boom Blox Downloadable Levels Feature Wii, IGN, White House
May 22, 2009 at 4:00 pm
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|  EA's Boom Blox Bash Party is out and people are already making levels for download featuring famous stuff to wreck. Crystalline II - A level made by EA's Boom Blox team. A gold medal if it can be toppled with three slingshot shots. World Domination - This is a competitive level also made by EA's developers. The map starts all in brown, but players throw paintballs to claim terrain. This week's Japanese hardware contest wasn't a proud one, with total hardware unit sales just barely cracking the 100,000 mark. Not good. But it was a winning week for the Nintendo DSi and Wii. To go along with the new trailer, EA and DICE also released this morning some new screens for the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2.  As far as first-person games on the Wii go, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption featured a pretty satisfying control scheme. That fact has evidently not escaped Nintendo, as they've... Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5.
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| XSEED Games Announces JU-ON: The Grudge for Wii
May 22, 2009 at 3:51 pm
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|  XSEED Games today announced that JU-ON:The Grudge is in development for Wii and scheduled for release in North Americain October, 2009. The title is inspired by the Japanese classic horror movie, “JU-ON”,on which the American release of the hit horror film “The Grudge” was basedupon. JU-ON: The Grudge for Wii is a “Haunted House Simulator” whereaccessibility and instant scares are given priority over all other game aspects,with the original creator of the movie, Takashi Shimizu, serving as a creativeconsultant to game development. The Wii is getting its first "haunted house simulator" this Fall with the North American release of Ju-On: The Grudge, based upon the Japanese horror film Ju-On, XSEED Games announced today. EA's Boom Blox Bash Party is out and people are already making levels for download featuring famous stuff to wreck. Crystalline II - A level made by EA's Boom Blox team. This week's Japanese hardware contest wasn't a proud one, with total hardware unit sales just barely cracking the 100,000 mark. Not good. But it was a winning week for the Nintendo DSi and Wii. As far as first-person games on the Wii go, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption featured a pretty satisfying control scheme. That fact has evidently not escaped Nintendo, as they've...  Surprise! The rumors that all three Metroid Prime games would receive a compilation release in the US with the "Wii-applied" control scheme were true. This might come...
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| Ministry to Make its Rock Band Debut with Three Pack of Industrial Metal Rock
May 22, 2009 at 3:43 pm
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| Harmonix and MTV Games todayannounced that three tracks from industrial metal pioneers Ministry will beadded to the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content next week for theXbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3 and the Wii. Also coming in next week’s lineup is musicfrom The Cranberries and The Zombies. This week's Japanese hardware contest wasn't a proud one, with total hardware unit sales just barely cracking the 100,000 mark. Not good. But it was a winning week for the Nintendo DSi and Wii. Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5. Dead Space Extraction has a lot to live up to and a lot of preconceived notions to overcome, not just as a prequel to GameSpot's Best of 2008 award winner for Best Atmosphere and Best Sound Design, but also as an on-rails shooter.  Pepsi has always been keenly interested in youth culture, adopting slogans like "The choice of a new generation," "Generation Next," and most recently, "Every generation refreshes the world.
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| Perfect World: Dawn of the Elementals Update Launches
May 22, 2009 at 3:42 pm
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| Games-Masters.com Ltd is proud topresent its biggest update for Perfect World MS - the Multilanguage-version(English, Spanish, German, French and Turkish) of the popular and successfulFree-to-Play MMORPG created by Perfect World Beijing. With "Dawn of the Elementals", awhole new set of features is available for the players, extending the alreadywide possibilities even further, way beyond expectations. Tecmo's Fatal Frame for the Wii may be out of the picture, but horror-loving North American Nintendo fans have another title to look forward to. Xseed Games today announced... Thanks, Lisa Kudrow. You're selfless shilling of Nintendo's DS puzzler Professor Layton and the Curious Village may have guaranteed the American appearance of the sequel. It's safe to assume that James Bond isn't a big massively multiplayer online game player. Sure, he has probably dabbled with World of Warcraft on one of those long flights from England to Russia, but we doubt orcs and paladins are really his thing.
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| The "i"s Have It In Slowing Japanese Hardware Race
May 22, 2009 at 3:30 pm
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| This week's Japanese hardware contest wasn't a proud one, with total hardware unit sales just barely cracking the 100,000 mark. Not good. But it was a winning week for the Nintendo DSi and Wii. Those two consoles won out against their PlayStation competition, holding on to first and third spots in the Media Create weekly hardware sales chart. Sales of the PSP and PlayStation 3 have cooled in Japan over the past few weeks, as the software lineups for each platform start to wind down from a big blockbuster Spring. Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5. Dead Space Extraction has a lot to live up to and a lot of preconceived notions to overcome, not just as a prequel to GameSpot's Best of 2008 award winner for Best Atmosphere and Best Sound Design, but also as an on-rails shooter.  Today, Activision pulled the trigger on its own official announcement for Guitar Hero 5, following on from Friday's inadvertent reveal by one of the publisher's European publicity partners.  The battle for Japanese hardware supremacy has been in a bit of flux for the past few months, with the once dominant Wii giving ground to the PlayStation 3. Not anymore.
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| Wii | Xseed bears Wii owners a Grudge
May 22, 2009 at 3:07 pm
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| Tecmo's Fatal Frame for the Wii may be out of the picture, but horror-loving North American Nintendo fans have another title to look forward to. Xseed Games today announced that it will be bringing over AQ Interactive's Ju-on: The Grudge for an October release. Developed by FeelPlus (which previously assisted on the development of Lost Odyssey for the Xbox 360 and Blue Dragon Plus for DS), The Grudge is a "haunted house simulator" with an emphasis on accessibility and quick scares... The Wii is getting its first "haunted house simulator" this Fall with the North American release of Ju-On: The Grudge, based upon the Japanese horror film Ju-On, XSEED Games announced today. This week's Japanese hardware contest wasn't a proud one, with total hardware unit sales just barely cracking the 100,000 mark. Not good. But it was a winning week for the Nintendo DSi and Wii. Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5. Dead Space Extraction has a lot to live up to and a lot of preconceived notions to overcome, not just as a prequel to GameSpot's Best of 2008 award winner for Best Atmosphere and Best Sound Design, but also as an on-rails shooter.
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| Game Scoop! Podcast, Episode 121
May 22, 2009 at 3:04 pm
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|  May 22, 2009 - Scoop! It's Daemon Hatfield, Peer Schneider, Erik Brudvig, and Greg Miller this week. We're about to bounce for a three day weekend but you know we wouldn't leave without saying Scoop! The zombies of Dead Rising 2 have caught the swine flu. Who wants more old games for the Wii? The Metroid Prime Trilogy is being collected onto one disc. EA's Boom Blox Bash Party is out and people are already making levels for download featuring famous stuff to wreck. Crystalline II - A level made by EA's Boom Blox team. This week's Japanese hardware contest wasn't a proud one, with total hardware unit sales just barely cracking the 100,000 mark. Not good. But it was a winning week for the Nintendo DSi and Wii. As far as first-person games on the Wii go, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption featured a pretty satisfying control scheme. That fact has evidently not escaped Nintendo, as they've... Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5.
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| New Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Screenshots
May 22, 2009 at 3:00 pm
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| To go along with the new trailer, EA and DICE also released this morning some new screens for the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The latest batch of nasty, devilish things to join the Diablo III bestiary are the "Fallen Ones," a quintet of horned demons that feature some returning foes, with nary a hint of rainbow amongst them. EA's Boom Blox Bash Party is out and people are already making levels for download featuring famous stuff to wreck. Crystalline II - A level made by EA's Boom Blox team. Battlefield Bad Company 2 doesn't reinvent anything, but it doesn't really need to either.Earlier this month I had a chance to sit in on an 12-on-12 multiplayer match of the game in the spacious and snowpacked Snowbound level. Here's some new concept art and screens from Sony Online Entertainment, showing how the Wally West version of The Flash appears in DC Universe Online. A profile shot. The Flash uses this for his Facebook listing.
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| Metroid Prime Trilogy Coming in August
May 22, 2009 at 2:51 pm
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| As far as first-person games on the Wii go, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption featured a pretty satisfying control scheme. That fact has evidently not escaped Nintendo, as they've just announced an upcoming compilation of all the previous Metroid Prime games for the Wii -- all of which will now be equipped with motion controls, widescreen presentation, and other additional features.Nintendo plans on releasing the Metroid Prime Trilogy on a single disc on August 24, all at a suggested retail price of $49.99. Not a bad deal by any stretch, especially if you dug Corruption's waggle control setup. Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5. Dead Space Extraction has a lot to live up to and a lot of preconceived notions to overcome, not just as a prequel to GameSpot's Best of 2008 award winner for Best Atmosphere and Best Sound Design, but also as an on-rails shooter.  You'll never forget the first time you ducked behind cover in Gears of War or swung a bat in Wii Sports. Innovative features tend to create the most memorable gameplay experiences (and the biggest game sales). Surprise! The rumors that all three Metroid Prime games would receive a compilation release in the US with the "Wii-applied" control scheme were true. This might come...
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| GameStop Exec Talks Holiday Releases
May 22, 2009 at 2:02 pm
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| The 2009 holiday season might be a bit more jam-packed than you may have already expected, according to GameStop CFO David W. Carlson (via Eurogamer). During the brick-and-mortar gaming retailer's Q1 earnings call, the GameStop executive predicted October releases for Bioshock 2 and Tekken 6, followed by the November debuts of Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed 2, and "a couple of Nintendo titles that have not been announced...  Video game retailer GameStop reports record sales and earnings for first quarter 2009, with a slight drop in new game sales bolstered by a significant rise in used products.  A law that would restrict sales of violent videogames to California minors is on its way to the Supreme Court, GamePolitics reports. The law, signed in 2005 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, had an injunction issued against it by U.  May 19, 2009 - Astute bloggers over at NeoCrisis have noticed that mega-retailer Wal-Mart is quietly evaluating the used videogame market in the Northeastern United States.  It's barely been six months since the release of Lips, Microsoft's shameless swipe at SingStar's karaoke crown. And now, with E3 just around the corner, it seems it's already time for another Lips game.
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| Fuel Is The Biggest Console Game Ever
May 22, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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| With 5, 560 square miles of accessible in-game terrain, Codemasters' Fuel is the biggest console game of all time, and they've got the Guinness World Records certificate to prove it.The award for largest playable area in a console game was awarded to Fuel developer Asobo Studios. Guinness World Records presented the developer with a certificate to commemorate the achievement, which will be included in the next printing of the Guinness World Records Gamers Edition. Battlefield Bad Company 2 doesn't reinvent anything, but it doesn't really need to either.Earlier this month I had a chance to sit in on an 12-on-12 multiplayer match of the game in the spacious and snowpacked Snowbound level.  The News: Eidos has announced on their forums that an update is coming to Tomb Raider Underworld for the PlayStation 3. Next Thursday, May 28, the game will be patched to add Trophy support.  Gamer, the upcoming movie about MMOs with real people as avatar combatants, has a brand new trailer. This is it. The movie stars Gerard Butler, Ludacris and Kyra Sedgwick, and tells of a future in which MMOs have merged with mind control.
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| Susan Boyle As Video Game Character
May 22, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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|  Yes, the Sims 3 can render countless chipper versions of ordinary-looking people. But can EA's June juggernaut handle global singing sensation Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent? Sure. And Obama, too, in this EA clip.  What better way to market the latest version of EA's life simulation series than to tap into one of the biggest movies of the year?While I am a little disappointed at the lack of pointy-ear options indicated by this Star Trek send-up...  No doubt as a result of the brand's meteoric rise to fame, Guitar Hero has evolved into a bit of a video-game industry octopus. Bear with us here. While the core gameplay mechanics in Guitar Hero haven't changed much between iterations...  Talking to tall fir trees is just one of the many exciting activities planned for the iPhone version of The Sims 3. Judging by the latest set of screenshots for the smaller...  PC gamers can return to the islands this fall, as for North American release this September. The third title in the popular Tropico series of island management sims once again places players in the role of "El Presidente"...
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| Rock Band DLC Features Ministry, The Zombies
May 22, 2009 at 1:06 pm
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| Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5. Dead Space Extraction has a lot to live up to and a lot of preconceived notions to overcome, not just as a prequel to GameSpot's Best of 2008 award winner for Best Atmosphere and Best Sound Design, but also as an on-rails shooter.  How has Rock Band survived for a year and a half without the musical stylings of Ministry? Harmonix rectifies that terrible omission next week with a triple dose of industrial metal.  Just over a year ago at E3 2008, Microsoft announced it had secured Xbox 360/PC exclusivity for Fallout 3 downloadable content. Now, three releases down the line, that agreement has come to an end...  The wait is finally over for Playstation 3 owners, this morning Bethesda announced that downloadable content will be coming to the PS3 version of Fallout 3. They also revealed two new DLC packs for all.
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| Here's Your Cover E3 With Kotaku Winner
May 22, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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|  It was a close contest, with the dozen finalists all turning in their copy just in time and with obvious care in crafting, but we had to pick a single winner. After careful deliberation, and a vote, we landed on Josiah Munsey as our lucky winner. He'll be joining us at E3, with the flight, hotel, local transport and meals, on us. He'll also be helping out by posting some stores from the show floor thanks to his credentials as press.  Heavy Rain's tagline--"How far are you prepared to go to save someone you love?"--is the real message behind this upcoming story-driven thriller, according to writer and director David Cage.  No More Heroes is a Wii game. Rumors have swirled for some time that the title was originally planned as an Xbox 360 title, but it ended up on the Wii instead. Game site 1UP asked Goichi Suda...  Joining the likes of Koei and Capcom, Square Enix is the latest Japanese developer to restrict employee travel to E3 because of Swine Flu. "Due to the recent worldwide spread of H1N1 flu...  After much waiting, mashing of the "reload" key, and mild swearing after hitting another "connection timed out" message, the latest cycle on the Kojima Productions "NEXT" countdown clock began anew just about an hour ago.
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| Tomb Raider: Underworld Unearths Trophies Next Week
May 22, 2009 at 12:40 pm
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|  PlayStation 3 owners tired of playing Tomb Raider: Underworld and getting nothing in return find relief next week, as Eidos readies a patch to add trophy support to Lara's latest. Just in time for the PlayStation 3 version to become a £19.99 Platinum Hit in the UK, Eidos has announced that a patch to add trophy support to Tomb Raider: Underworld will be released on May28th. The announcement was delivered via the Eidos forums by community manager Keir Edmonds. Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5. Heavy Rain's tagline--"How far are you prepared to go to save someone you love?"--is the real message behind this upcoming story-driven thriller, according to writer and director David Cage.  Destruction and mayhem were what the original Overlord was all about, and that trend continues in Overlord II, in which you start off as a little tyke known as the Overlad--eager and ready to conquer the world. Dead Space Extraction has a lot to live up to and a lot of preconceived notions to overcome, not just as a prequel to GameSpot's Best of 2008 award winner for Best Atmosphere and Best Sound Design, but also as an on-rails shooter.
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| The Adventure Company Ships Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper for Windows to Retail
May 22, 2009 at 12:36 pm
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| The Adventure Company todayannounced the Adventure Game Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper for Windows hasshipped to retail stores in North America. The Sherlock Holmes franchise hasproved to be one of the top franchises in adventure gaming, with top-sellingtitles such as Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened and Sherlock Holmes: Mystery of theMummy, titles known for their impressive graphics and challenging puzzles. Thisterrifying new game pairs Sherlock Holmes against one of the world’s most famousserial killers, Jack the Ripper.  It's Memorial Day weekend, so Microsoft has gone ahead and revealed next week's Xbox Live Arcade titles so they can completely devote Monday to memorializing. Sure it's been out for two months on the PC...  Back in December, we ran an interview with Quantic Dream co-CEO David Cage in which he said the company was looking to start work on a pair of projects in addition to PS3 adventure game Heavy Rain (which...  When word first got out on Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain, many assumed it would be a sequel to their adventure game Indigo Prophecy. That theory didn't pan out, with the...  While some Japanese game companies are keeping their best brains at home out of swine flu concerns, one popular developer made his way out of the country to attend an industry event.  Spore has been a topic of conversation for so long that it's hard to think of a time when people weren't talking about it. The PC version was released in the fall of 2008...
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| Battlefield Bad Company 2 Multiplayer Impressions
May 22, 2009 at 12:20 pm
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| Battlefield Bad Company 2 doesn't reinvent anything, but it doesn't really need to either.Earlier this month I had a chance to sit in on an 12-on-12 multiplayer match of the game in the spacious and snowpacked Snowbound level. The game's essentially a sleeker, more nuanced version of the original Battlefield Bad Company. You can still blow buildings and scenery apart. You can still hop into different positions of a vehicle, from tanks to armored personnel carriers. And the controls are as tight as ever. Dead Space Extraction has a lot to live up to and a lot of preconceived notions to overcome, not just as a prequel to GameSpot's Best of 2008 award winner for Best Atmosphere and Best Sound Design, but also as an on-rails shooter.  Hi-Rez Studios is heading to E3 2009, yanking their action-oriented massively multiplayer game Global Agenda away from alpha testers long enough to give the convention going public a little taste.  Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood builds upon the multiplayer mode from the original Call of Juarez by adding a lot more character classes. The new classes are trapper, gunsmith, spy, officer, duelist, veteran, scout, native and hombre.  World War II was an epic conflict, and developer Wargaming.net has partnered with Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix in the hopes that its real-time strategy game Order of War will be a comparably epic game.
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| Wii | Dead Space Extraction Hands-On
May 22, 2009 at 12:08 pm
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| Dead Space Extraction has a lot to live up to and a lot of preconceived notions to overcome, not just as a prequel to GameSpot's Best of 2008 award winner for Best Atmosphere and Best Sound Design, but also as an on-rails shooter. Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5.  One of the most common--and cost-effective--marketing tactics employed by game companies is the so-called "drip campaign." As perhaps most famously seen during hype tsunamis prior to the Halo 2 and the Xbox 360 launches... No More Heroes is a Wii game. Rumors have swirled for some time that the title was originally planned as an Xbox 360 title, but it ended up on the Wii instead. Game site 1UP asked Goichi Suda... The battle for Japanese hardware supremacy has been in a bit of flux for the past few months, with the once dominant Wii giving ground to the PlayStation 3. Not anymore.
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| PS3 Tomb Raider Underworld Trophies Coming May 28
May 22, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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| The News: Eidos has announced on their forums that an update is coming to Tomb Raider Underworld for the PlayStation 3. Next Thursday, May 28, the game will be patched to add Trophy support. "Sorry for the delay and thank you very much to those who were able to wait patiently," said the Eidos rep. "It's really appreciated and I hope you get some great Raiding out of it."Our Take: Tomb Raider Underworld just barely missed the January deadline for mandatory Trophies. Even six months after the release, it's better late than never. Maybe this will inspire some Trophy hunters to raid some tombs. Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5. PlayStation 3 owners tired of playing Tomb Raider: Underworld and getting nothing in return find relief next week, as Eidos readies a patch to add trophy support to Lara's latest. Heavy Rain's tagline--"How far are you prepared to go to save someone you love?"--is the real message behind this upcoming story-driven thriller, according to writer and director David Cage.
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| PlayStation 3 | Overlord II Updated Hands-On
May 22, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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| Destruction and mayhem were what the original Overlord was all about, and that trend continues in Overlord II, in which you start off as a little tyke known as the Overlad--eager and ready to conquer the world. We saw the game several months ago at Codemasters' press event, but this time a representative from Triumph Studios stopped by our offices to give us a more detailed look at our budding evil villain. Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5. PlayStation 3 owners tired of playing Tomb Raider: Underworld and getting nothing in return find relief next week, as Eidos readies a patch to add trophy support to Lara's latest. Heavy Rain's tagline--"How far are you prepared to go to save someone you love?"--is the real message behind this upcoming story-driven thriller, according to writer and director David Cage.
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| Wii | Overlord Dark Legend Updated Hands-On
May 22, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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| A game built entirely from the ground up, Overlord Dark Legend follows another evildoer from the long bloodline of overlords, but this story is set sometime before the events of the original game. Keeping with the same sense of humor as Overlord II on the other consoles, Dark Legend's script is by the same writer, Rhianna Pratchett, and the voice actors from the other games have lent their talents to the Nintendo Wii version so that the humor and overall feel of the game is consistent...  The relentless march of DJ rhythm games continues, as TransGaming launches their new development studio with Armin van Buuren – In the Mix for the Nintendo Wii. Perhaps best known for enabling PC games to play on the Mac...  Everything old is new again, as Nintendo and developer Next Level Games brings the classic boxing game Punch-Out!! to the Nintendo Wii. It's the original game all over again...  In this week's issue of Famitsu magazine, Namco Bandai announced the latest additions to the character cast of Tales of VS., the PSP fighter featuring the stars of all 13 games in the Tales series.  Need for Speed: Nitro isn't the first Need for Speed game on the Nintendo Wii, but it does hold the distinction of being the first game developed specifically for the Nintendo console.
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| Metroid Trilogy Preview: The Game So Nice, You Can Play It Thrice
May 22, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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| Surprise! The rumors that all three Metroid Prime games would receive a compilation release in the US with the "Wii-applied" control scheme were true. This might come as a blow to Metroid fans who were really looking forward to a fourth game; however, Nintendo of America makes the point that not everybody who owns a Wii owned the GameCube... Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5. Dead Space Extraction has a lot to live up to and a lot of preconceived notions to overcome, not just as a prequel to GameSpot's Best of 2008 award winner for Best Atmosphere and Best Sound Design, but also as an on-rails shooter. You'll never forget the first time you ducked behind cover in Gears of War or swung a bat in Wii Sports. Innovative features tend to create the most memorable gameplay experiences (and the biggest game sales). No More Heroes is a Wii game. Rumors have swirled for some time that the title was originally planned as an Xbox 360 title, but it ended up on the Wii instead. Game site 1UP asked Goichi Suda...
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| Stardock Sending Out Demigod Apology Coupons
May 22, 2009 at 11:40 am
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|  Stardock has begun distributing the promised apology coupons, entitling players who've purchased the previously problem-riddled real-time strategy game Demigod to a second copy at 50% off. Now that the vast majority of their networking issues have subsided, Stardock is making good with their promise of discounts on additional copies of Demigod. If you've picked up a copy and registered it, you might want to keep an eye on your email, as the coupons are only good for a limited time.  The Kotaku crew is headed to E3 2009 in just ten days. As we do every year, we're throwing a little get together on the eve of E3. And you're invited, dear reader! The...  Chalk this one up as curious: we've seen a DS Lego strategy game from the people who brought Supreme Commander to the Xbox 360. Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment was in New York City yesterday to show off a bunch of games...  Ensemble Studios may not be around anymore, but its swan song lives on this week with the first batch of downloadable content for the Xbox 360-exclusive Halo Wars. The Strategic Options add-on pack includes three new game modes--Keepaway...
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| Ghostbusters The Video Game
May 22, 2009 at 11:20 am
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|  One of the best films of theeighties, Ghostbusters still resonates today amongst hardcore fans and is stillone of the most revered and loved films of all time even 25 years after theoriginal film’s release.  Three things we have never done: Won seven Grand Slam tennis titles, married Tatum O'Neal or played a video game version of ourselves. John McEnroe has done all three.  GamePro names nine classic instances where audience members in the background steal the spotlight from the games themselves! Most fighting, sports, and music games do...  Regular followers of the works of actor Matthew Perry, of Friends fame, know that the man is deadly serious about Fallout 3. He claims to have played it so much, that he required medical attention.
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| Ministry Storms Rock Band Next Week
May 22, 2009 at 11:20 am
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| How has Rock Band survived for a year and a half without the musical stylings of Ministry? Harmonix rectifies that terrible omission next week with a triple dose of industrial metal. Al Jourgensen may have retired Ministry last year, but you can keep the dream alive next week with three songs from the band that laid the foundation for American industrial metal. The Ministry Pack 01 consists of "The Great Satan" and "LiesLiesLies" from the album Rio Grande Blood, as well as "Cuz U R Next," from The Wicked Soundtrack by Al Jourgensen. Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5. Pepsi has always been keenly interested in youth culture, adopting slogans like "The choice of a new generation," "Generation Next," and most recently, "Every generation refreshes the world.  Videogames and caffeinated beverages are often considered an inseparable duo -- especially from a marketing standpoint. First Mountain Dew concocted their Halo 3 and World of Warcraft varieties of Game Fuel...
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| Burnout Paradise Goes Big Surf Hunting
May 22, 2009 at 11:00 am
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|  Burnout Paradise: Big Surf Island DLC is coming to the racer this summer. Here's a quick peek at what exactly a "Burnout Vacation of a Lifetime" will entail.Rollercoaster? Yes thank you. Bridge jumps through concrete tubes? I'll take that. Dune Buggies. Don't mind if I do. And seven other new cars as well as new events and challenges. Rock Band addicts have a three-pack from industrial rock pioneers Ministry to look forward to next week, in addition to DLC from The Cranberries and The Zombies. The Ministry bundle will set you back $5.  Fight your way down memory lane in Beach Head and Southern Hills maps: two original Killzone PlayStation 2 maps remade for PlayStation 3. London, 20th May 2009: The next...  Say what you will about Saints Row 2, you can't say Volition aren't supporting the game post-release. They've just announced a second DLC pack for the game, called "Corporate Warfare".  The second batch of downloadable content for Killzone 2 is due out next month, bringing two maps from the first Killzone to the PlayStation 3. The Flash and Thunder Pack contains two classic Killzone maps remade from the ground up for Killzone 2.
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| Bill Clinton Was Offered A Role In Fallout 3
May 22, 2009 at 10:44 am
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|  When trying to cast the President of the United States, who's better suited for the role than the pres himself? That was Hollywood-based talent acquisition agency Blindlight's thinking, as they tried to get none other than former president Bill Clinton for Fallout 3. Regular followers of the works of actor Matthew Perry, of Friends fame, know that the man is deadly serious about Fallout 3. He claims to have played it so much, that he required medical attention.  The recent announcement of a PlayStation 3 release of Fallout 3 content that was previously announced as exclusive to Microsoft sent us searching for answers about what constitutes an "exclusive.  If you own the PS3 or 360 versions of Terminator Salvation, you're fine. If you own the PC version, however...well, you probably already know the thing doesn't work. Users have been complaining about serious install errors all week...
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| A Little inFamous To Tide You Over
May 22, 2009 at 10:40 am
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|  If you can't wait until next week and the demo just isn't giving you enough inFamous, perhaps the official inFamous Mini-Game can be of service. Developed by Kerb and hosted exclusively at Spil Games' network of online casual gaming portals, the inFamous Mini-Game is a 2D platformer starring the full game's protagonist Cole, who must make his way to a power generator atop the roof of an abandoned precinct house... The relentless march of DJ rhythm games continues, as TransGaming launches their new development studio with Armin van Buuren – In the Mix for the Nintendo Wii. Perhaps best known for enabling PC games to play on the Mac...  Things heat up on PlayStation Home this Thursday, as the long-promised Resistance home space finally appears in a hail of turret-fire. The ruined cityscapes of Resistance comes to life tomorrow...  Nintendo's sequel to Wii Sports arrives this July, bearing new Wii Remote waggling fun, this time with the added precision of Wii MotionPlus. Wii Sports Resort will usher in fresh mini-games, including two new additions.
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| STALKER Dragged Kicking And Screaming Into 2009
May 22, 2009 at 8:30 am
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| While it would take a magician to repair the game's myriad AI glitches, STALKER's graphics are more easily improved. And boy, can they be improved. This is the "STALKER Complete 2009" mod (released last month), which does an admirable job of making the game look like it was, well, made in 2009. New textures, new lighting and new weather effects help get the game looking ship-shape, and while this won't improve any of the game's more fundamental flaws, you can at least enjoy the sunset while wondering how your waypoints disappeared.  Well, according to Dylan Hayes, it would probably look a lot like this. Can't help but think of those Degenatron commercials from Vice City... Gamer, the upcoming movie about MMOs with real people as avatar combatants, has a brand new trailer. This is it. The movie stars Gerard Butler, Ludacris and Kyra Sedgwick, and tells of a future in which MMOs have merged with mind control.  You've seen the gameplay footage, now see the screenshots of the gameplay footage. And they're worth a look, giving you a better idea of the "They Live" interface than a grainy web video can manage.  No, no, not Street Fighter character Chun-Li's standard blue duds. Classic, but typical! The outfit that Japanese figure maker MERSA dresses her in is anything but That, after the jump.
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| Hey, It's Another "Gamer" Trailer
May 22, 2009 at 8:00 am
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| Gamer, the upcoming movie about MMOs with real people as avatar combatants, has a brand new trailer. This is it. The movie stars Gerard Butler, Ludacris and Kyra Sedgwick, and tells of a future in which MMOs have merged with mind control. The story will revolves around one game in particular, Slayers, which is a "savage, ultraviolent" first-person shooter. While it would take a magician to repair the game's myriad AI glitches, STALKER's graphics are more easily improved. And boy, can they be improved. This is the "STALKER Complete 2009" mod (released last month)...  It's been a terrible week for drip-fed PR stunts, but hey, it's a few brief seconds of Modern Warfare 2 footage we're talking about here. Some people are cool with that.  SBK Superbike World Championship for the PSP tries to be everything to everyone: an accessible arcade racer for those looking for some pick-up-and-play fun and a technical simulation of motorcycle racing for those seeking a deeper...  Heather Mills, the one-legged ex-wife of Paul McCartney, was apparently approached by Capcom to appear in Bionic Commando. Mills, prime UK tabloid fodder, reportedly asked for a six-figure-sum and demanded to be the game's star.
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| What If Street Fighter II Had Come Out In 1981?
May 22, 2009 at 7:30 am
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| Well, according to Dylan Hayes, it would probably look a lot like this. Can't help but think of those Degenatron commercials from Vice City... Gamer, the upcoming movie about MMOs with real people as avatar combatants, has a brand new trailer. This is it. The movie stars Gerard Butler, Ludacris and Kyra Sedgwick, and tells of a future in which MMOs have merged with mind control. While it would take a magician to repair the game's myriad AI glitches, STALKER's graphics are more easily improved. And boy, can they be improved. This is the "STALKER Complete 2009" mod (released last month)... Nintendo does not rest, Nintendo does not stop. Even with the success of the Wii and the DS, Nintendo keeps going. "We do not think that Nintendo DS and Wii will last forever," Iwata told investors in a recent financial briefing.
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| Iwata: We Always Work On New Hardware
May 22, 2009 at 7:00 am
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| Nintendo does not rest, Nintendo does not stop. Even with the success of the Wii and the DS, Nintendo keeps going. "We do not think that Nintendo DS and Wii will last forever," Iwata told investors in a recent financial briefing. "Our internal hardware teams are always researching and working on new hardware so that we can launch them whenever we find a very interesting idea."  For a long time, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has maintained a stance that the Nintendo DS and Apple's iPhone aren't competing. A stance he seems to have let slide for a day. No More Heroes is a Wii game. Rumors have swirled for some time that the title was originally planned as an Xbox 360 title, but it ended up on the Wii instead. Game site 1UP asked Goichi Suda...  Capcom's Chief Financial Officer, Abe Kazuhiko, has offered a glimmer of hope for Wii owners hoping to some day see a downgraded release of PS3 and 360 games on the system.  Nintendo president Satoru Iwata reminded attendees of the company's financial results briefing that it does not employ a powerful deity, as famed Nintendo game designer is not, in reality, a god walking the Earth.
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| Heavy Rain: The Screenshots
May 22, 2009 at 6:30 am
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| You've seen the gameplay footage, now see the screenshots of the gameplay footage. And they're worth a look, giving you a better idea of the "They Live" interface than a grainy web video can manage.  It's been a bad week for PR stunts, yes. So it's heartening to see that when Heavy Rain comes out with gameplay footage, it actually comes out with a decent amount of gameplay footage.  What riches await patient Metal Gear Solid fans at the end of Kojima Productions days long countdown, now that the teaser timer has reached the zero hour? Why, more waiting of course! Kojima Productions... Back in December, we ran an interview with Quantic Dream co-CEO David Cage in which he said the company was looking to start work on a pair of projects in addition to PS3 adventure game Heavy Rain (which...  Eager for any morsel you can get from Modern Warfare 2 and Heavy Rain? Then you'd best tune in to tonight's episode of GameTrailers TV, as both games will be featured. When word first got out on Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain, many assumed it would be a sequel to their adventure game Indigo Prophecy. That theory didn't pan out, with the...
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| Chun-Li In A Spectacular Outfit
May 22, 2009 at 6:00 am
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| No, no, not Street Fighter character Chun-Li's standard blue duds. Classic, but typical! The outfit that Japanese figure maker MERSA dresses her in is anything but That, after the jump. Spotted at big-time figure event Hobboy Complex 07 earlier this month in Tokyo. All kinds of fantastic.  At the Reuters Global Technology Summit in Tokyo, Capcom's Chief Financial Officer Kazuhiko Abe has revealed that the company will, in 2009, be getting into iPhone games in a big way.  Work has started on the "life-sized" Gundam. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the mecha anime/manga/toy/video game franchise, an 18-meter-tall (59-foot-tall) Gundam statue will be erected in Tokyo this July.  These Street Fighter gashapon figures (small, collectible figures) will be out in Japan next month. Chun Li fans may want to look into purchasing some. Why? Look at those thighs! Perfect.
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| Blood of Bahamut Dated For Japan
May 22, 2009 at 5:30 am
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|  Square Enix's latest effort to expand its role-playing-game horizons Blood of Bahamut has a release date. That is August 6. Blood of Bahamut is an action RPG set in a city constructed on the back of a giant creature called Gigant. Featuring 2D sprites fighting in a 3D environment, the game sees protagonists Ibuki and Yui, joined by Kamos Ogrekin and Santiago, battling big, burly bad guys in a 2.5D four-player adventure.  When Kojima Productions launched a web teaser, many noticed "April 2007" written at the bottom of the page. People wondered what it referred to and if it was code for something.  A new teaser has been posted on The Beatles Rock Band site, depicting a painstakingly modeled Ed Sullivan set along with the game's release date. So will the Ed Sullivan Show be an actual venue in the game? Seems like it...  Square Enix has still only provided a rough release date for Final Fantasy XIII: Winter 2009. At the company's financial briefing, it was asked about the Final Fantasy XIII release.  Rolling Stone magazine has teamed up with 505 Games to announce Rolling Stone: Drum King for the Nintendo Wii. The game uses the Wii Remote and Nunchuck to simulate the drumming experience...
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| Chiptune's 8-Bit Profit
May 22, 2009 at 5:00 am
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|  Ah, yes, 8-bit chiptune. It's music that is performed and composed by using retro game hardware like the Famicom and the Gameboy as instruments. Love it, great stuff. And as far as Japanese indie chiptune record labels go, Vorc Records is right up there. Vorc was chiptune-centeric website originally launched way back in 2001, and the record label is an off-shoot of that dating from 2006. Well, according to Dylan Hayes, it would probably look a lot like this. Can't help but think of those Degenatron commercials from Vice City... Gamer, the upcoming movie about MMOs with real people as avatar combatants, has a brand new trailer. This is it. The movie stars Gerard Butler, Ludacris and Kyra Sedgwick, and tells of a future in which MMOs have merged with mind control. While it would take a magician to repair the game's myriad AI glitches, STALKER's graphics are more easily improved. And boy, can they be improved. This is the "STALKER Complete 2009" mod (released last month)... You've seen the gameplay footage, now see the screenshots of the gameplay footage. And they're worth a look, giving you a better idea of the "They Live" interface than a grainy web video can manage.
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| Finally, Some Heavy Rain Gameplay Footage
May 22, 2009 at 4:30 am
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| It's been a bad week for PR stunts, yes. So it's heartening to see that when Heavy Rain comes out with gameplay footage, it actually comes out with a decent amount of gameplay footage. What you make of it all is another matter. It...looks a lot like Indigo Prophecy to me. Indigo Prophecy meets They Live. You've seen the gameplay footage, now see the screenshots of the gameplay footage. And they're worth a look, giving you a better idea of the "They Live" interface than a grainy web video can manage. It's been a terrible week for drip-fed PR stunts, but hey, it's a few brief seconds of Modern Warfare 2 footage we're talking about here. Some people are cool with that. What riches await patient Metal Gear Solid fans at the end of Kojima Productions days long countdown, now that the teaser timer has reached the zero hour? Why, more waiting of course! Kojima Productions... Back in December, we ran an interview with Quantic Dream co-CEO David Cage in which he said the company was looking to start work on a pair of projects in addition to PS3 adventure game Heavy Rain (which... Eager for any morsel you can get from Modern Warfare 2 and Heavy Rain? Then you'd best tune in to tonight's episode of GameTrailers TV, as both games will be featured.
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| John McEnroe Is "Pretty Good" At Playing Himself
May 22, 2009 at 4:00 am
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| Three things we have never done: Won seven Grand Slam tennis titles, married Tatum O'Neal or played a video game version of ourselves. John McEnroe has done all three. (Though, we have played tennis once, watched Paper Moon and do play video games.) When Electronic Arts interviewed John McEnroe — yeah, we know — about the game he appears in for EA, the temperamental tennis superstar replied that simulating playing tennis moves Grand Slam Tennis closer to actual tennis. Especially if you play it outside on a grass court while wearing combat boots. Combat boots only add to the realism.  In our recent reader question and answer session with NCAA Football 10's Ben Haumiller, the producer promised some new camera tricks in EA Sports' upcoming college-football game.  Sega has announced that Virtua Tennis 2009 has been delayed from its originally planned release in May, with the publisher now shooting for a release on June 2."As you may have already noticed...  , Idea Factory and Nippon Ichi all collide in an epic turn-based role-playing game. This means we get all kinds of characters from the cute to the scary and the fugly to the sexy.  The Wii ships with a free tennis game bundled in with a clutch of other sports titles, so how can you convince Nintendo gamers they should spend more money on a stand alone tennis title? What Is It? Based on the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments...
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