DLC Collection for ‘Gears of War 2′ Available
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Rockville, MD – As of today, the ‘All Fronts’ map pack for Gears of War 2 is available for download on Xbox Live. Another episode of DLC was released simultaneously, called ‘Dark Corners’. ‘All Fronts’ will serve as a collection of all previously released map packs and include the new ‘Dark Corners’ pack as well. [...]
2 CommentsEA Gets Backlash Over PR Campaigns
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Electronic Arts recently suffered a tide of negative tweets for its latest advertising effort on behalf of its upcoming epic-poetry-based action title, Dante’s Inferno. In order to drum up some attention for the title at last week’s San Diego Comic Con, an online contest was announced via the company’s official twitter page, asking for interested [...]
2 CommentsPSP Gets 3D Tech
Monday, July 27th, 20093-D technology has seen a resurgence of popularity lately, with many stalwart movie franchises implementing it alongside their normal theatrical release. Irish company RealView Innovations are taking the same idea to the gaming market, specifically to Sony’s handheld this upcoming Holiday season. The V-Screen, a new attachment for the system, enhance the perceived depth of [...]
2 CommentsPiracy Impacts Ubisoft Q1 Results
Monday, July 27th, 2009Montreuil, France – Following the release of Ubisoft’s results of the first quarter of the current fiscal year, the company has stated that a large portion of the 51% drop in year-on-year sales was due to piracy. Though the company had already expected a reduction in revenues, it still finished at 12.6% below expectations. While [...]
1 CommentSequel to ‘The Darkness’ in Development
Monday, July 27th, 2009San Diego, CA – More news surfaces during the aftermath of last weeks Comic Con, as during a panel interview at the conference a sequel to 2007′s The Darkness was announced by officers from comic-book publisher Top Cow Productions. Also, a feature film based on the comic books, that has been rumoured to be in [...]
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Monday, July 27th, 2009Atlanta, GA – Digital distribution platform Gametap announced today that it has renewed and expanded the distribution agreement it has with publisher Ubisoft for several recent titles. In addition to Prince of Persia and HAWX, which had been available on the platform since last month, Gametap may now also add several other popular games to [...]
No CommentsKipp Pietrantonio – Public Relations Director
Monday, July 27th, 2009My Name is Kipp Pietrantonio, A little background on me. I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and then traveled across the Macinack bridge to go to college. I graduated from Grand Valley State University in the year 2008 with a B.S. in Psychology and Sociology. After college I decided I wanted even [...]
No CommentsAlpha Protocol Interview
Monday, July 27th, 2009One of the most highly anticipated RPG projects in recent years is Alpha Protocol, a spy-action title with expansive character customization and branching dialogue components, from the esteemed team at Obsidian Entertainment: makers of games like Neverwinter Nights and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II. The game pits players against a missile theft [...]
1 CommentElder-Speek 17: Sex Games and Three Dudes!
Monday, July 27th, 2009This week Gavin tries his hand at hosting while Mats and Eliot argues semantics. As usual we go over our week in gaming and discuss the “massive” news bombs of the week. We also give sexuality in games a more then thorough work-around (ugh…) in this week’s question of the week.
5 CommentsNew ‘Dead Space’ Movie Announced
Monday, July 27th, 2009San Diego, CA – With the San Diego ‘Comic Con’ now a day behind us, news has surfaced that EA is working on a live-action film based on the Dead Space franchise. In 2008 an animated feature based on the game was released, which functioned as a prequel to the story laid out during Dead [...]
4 CommentsForum Integration Under Construction
Saturday, July 25th, 2009As we speak I’m in the process of integrating the forum onto the main page, with universal logins and everything. However this means that not everything will be 100% for a little while so I hope you can all hang in there. – Mats
1 CommentFlower
Saturday, July 25th, 2009Flower, a game by ThatGameCompany, the makers of FlOw, is in many ways an extension of their debut game. It might be referred to as the stereotypical “casual” game, and plays well to my tastes. Regardless of that this is a game that deserves some respect, from all gamers!
3 CommentsJames Wan to Write and Direct Castlevania Movie
Friday, July 24th, 2009James Wan writer and director famous for the Saw series have announced his involvement in an upcoming Castlevania movie. Wan is directing the movie that’s currently in “early stages of development.” “I’ll be working on the script with a writer to give it a new spin, different to the previous versions. This will have my [...]
1 CommentNew Instalment in ‘Command & Conquer’ Series Revealed
Friday, July 24th, 2009Los Angeles, CA – Following the announcement earlier this month that the EA Los Angeles studio (formerly known as WestWood studios) is currently working on a sequel to 2007′s Tiberium Wars, Gametrailers.com has revealed the first teaser-trailer for the currently unnamed Command and Conquer 4. The trailer shows the charismatic leader of the NOD faction [...]
No CommentsEliot Hagen – Video Editor/Media Specialist
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009I’m not exactly the oldest member on staff but I was consistently behind the times as a kid so it balances out somewhat. On other websites or places like Steam or PSN, I’m known as GrandConjurer and have been since 2007. My chief interests are film, video games, and writing and I’m glad to say [...]
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