“Audition Online” Developers Announces North American Presence
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009Redbana, the Western development and publishing arm of T3 Entertainment, officially announced their presence in the North American market as a publishing studio. The first order of business is the increased support and localization of the immensely popular online dance-rhythm game, Audition, host to a stunning 300 million users. Redbana took over duties from former [...]
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009ZEN studios recently announced the production of first-person-shooter title based on Marvel’s “The Punisher” comic-book license, set to release exclusively on the Playstation Network on July 2nd. The Punisher: No Mercy, was designed with frenetic online gameplay in mind, the game will ship with a variety of solo and squad-based gameplay modes with many playable [...]
Comments Off"Aion" Set For September Release
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009Korean MMO-Publisher / Developer NCSoft announced today that their upcoming and highly anticipated MMO Aion will be release in Western territories in September this year. Specifically, the game will be released on September 22nd in North America and will released in Europe soon afterwards, on September 25th. The game was released in Korea in November [...]
1 CommentNinja Gaiden Sigma 2
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009The Tecmo booth was sparsely populated one by the time I had flown by, although to be fair to the company, it was in the last hour of that day. In a frustrating sort of hurry, I tossed a glance around the company’s offerings for something worthy of the Elder-Geek crowd, and settled on the [...]
Comments OffScribblenauts
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Beneath an opaque, wall-sized banner showing an over-exuberant model having too much fun with his Nintendo DS, lay a trio of unassuming kiosks boasting one of the most enjoyable and open-ended hand-held games of this generation, Scribblenauts. Unprofessional of me to pass judgment at this point in the development cycle, I know, but a simple [...]
Comments OffTeam Fortress 2
Monday, June 22nd, 2009By John Jinneman Another day. Another First Person Shooter (FPS). What garners your attention towards one FPS over another? Well the major difference between Team Fortress 2 (TF2) and many other shooters is the simple fact of class-based characters and multiple types of online-only play. The other major difference between TF2 and many other FPSs [...]
Comments OffTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Thankfully able to avoid the four assumedly lonely men dressed up in Halloween-store Turtle costumes, I landed a quick session with the reptile-on-reptile Wii-brawler, TMNT: Smash Up in the waning E3 hours. As if the abbreviation of the famous “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” moniker isn’t enough of an indication, the game takes its visual look [...]
Comments OffPlaystation Cloud Leaked Photo?
Monday, June 22nd, 2009This photo emerged on the intertubes recently. It is of a supposed new feature entitled “Playstation Cloud” which from the looks of it is the Facebook newsfeed for your video games. Some of the other supposed features are creating groups, live friend updates from home, and integrating more and more social networking capabilities into the [...]
Comments OffFirst Look At Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Johnny Depp, Helena Bonhan Carter, Anne Hathaway
Comments OffBomberman Ultra
Friday, June 19th, 2009It’s finally here. The perfect Bomberman game. The series has been on a long journey—from the original box art that looked conspicuously like a certain first party Nintendo title to the abhorrent Bomberman Act Zero, everything has culminated in Bomberman Ultra: the sum of all the best parts of the series, presented exactly how fans [...]
Comments OffActivision to Stop Playstation Development?
Friday, June 19th, 2009As discussed in the upcoming podcast, Activision head Bobby Kotick has recently let loose some very personal complaints about third-party development on the Playstation 3 in an interview with the New York Times, and has mentioned the possibility of ending all future production for the company if the situation doesn’t improve. While the context of [...]
Comments Off"Second Life" Gets Max-ed Out
Friday, June 19th, 2009Now even the visually impaired can enjoy the social spectrum of the virtual space known as Second Life…really. The PC social gaming environment has just released details on a new virtual guide dog to be in use when blind users log on. Using text-to-speech interactivity software, the dog, a german shepard named Max, can relay [...]
Comments Off“StarCraft 2″ To Hit Shelves this Year?
Friday, June 19th, 2009At this year’s installment of the world’s largest computer festival, DreamHack, Press2Play.tv managed to snag an interview with two of Blizzard’s leading staff about the company’s upcoming RTS, Starcraft II. Admist many other questions, the eternal release date query was asked, and one of the Blizzard heads present, Starcraft II lead designer Chris Sigaty, mentioned [...]
Comments Off"Bioshock" and "Oblivion" To Be Released as Bundle
Friday, June 19th, 2009Rethink The Orange Box as being the top gaming value, 2K Games and Bethesda Softworks have made a joint announcement of the future bundled release of the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and the 2007 Game of the Year, Bioshock. Available together for a meager ($)40 gold in the States, [...]
Comments OffTiger Woods PGA Tour 10
Thursday, June 18th, 2009By John Jinneman This year, sports games on the Wii have changed for the better with the release of Wii Motion Plus (WMP). The difference between Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 on the Wii and PS3/360/PC has been the inclusion of Motion controls on the Wii and traditional controls on the PS3/360/PC. Does Tiger Woods [...]
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