Archive for September, 2009

TGS 09: PSP Gets Home…Sort of

Monday, September 28th, 2009

A delayed announcement from this year’s Tokyo Game Show, PSP owners will be getting a feature similar to the PS3′s social environment Home. Simply called Playstation Room (an infinity symbol replacing the two ‘o’s in the title,) the service will be made available via a firmware update, to be released sometime this Winter in Japan. [...]

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Battlefield Heroes Enlists 2 Million

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Over two million unique users have registered for the free-to-play cartoon shooter, Battlefield Heroes, according to publisher Electronic Arts. The benchmark comes only two months after Heroes hit one million users. In recognition of their achievement, the developers will be releasing a “Heroes of the Fall” update, including a new map.

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Borderlands to Get Extra-Rich Steam Version

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Gearbox Software’s RPG-cum-shooter Borderlands will be coming to the PC with a vest full of flair, if Steve Gibson has his way. Speaking to Destructoid, Gibson confirmed that the Steam launch of the title will come attached with various extra features not available on console. Proud gun owners can export image files of their boomsticks [...]

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Dead Rising 2 Details Revealed

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Capcom released new information today on Dead Rising 2, which is set for release on Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC early in 2010. For more information about the game, please follow the jump.

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LittleBig Watchmen! RorschSack!

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Who watches the Watchmen? Well apparently the guys at Media Molecule, because coming soon we have every fanboy’s dream in the form of Little Big Planet Watchmen downloadable content. This is one of many pop culture referenced Little Big Planet DLC that has emerged since the games launch almost a year ago, and would be [...]

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16,000 Items Available for Download at PSP Go Launch

Monday, September 28th, 2009

With mere days remaining before the PSP Go becomes available at retailers, Sony has told IGN that around 16,000 different pieces of downloadable content will be available at launch day. Additionally, Sony stated that game cards, which contain a unique code that enables the user to download a specific item from Playstation Network, would be made [...]

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Lucidity: Debut Trailer

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Lucasart’s newest, oddly non-Star Wars related, game has already raised some eye-brows for its storybook style and Braid-like gameplay, but now gamers have a chance to see it for themselves with the attached debut trailer. Don’t hesitate to let us know what you think by commenting below.

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Second Life Rakes in Billionth Dollar

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Ever the leader in the micro-transaction business model, online social empire Second Life has just reported its sales have pushed beyond the $1 billion mark. Linden Lab,  the minds behind the project, have also reported that the virtual economy grew an impressive 94% between the 2008 and 2009 second fiscal quarters. “Now at nearly USD50 [...]

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PSP-3000 Drops Price in Japan

Monday, September 28th, 2009

The Japanese market has been good to the PSP, picking up 12 million units of the portable hardware since its December 2004 launch. It’s this fervent support that Sony Computer Entertainment wants to maintain not only with the October 1st release of the PSP Go, but also with the cheaper, older SKUs of the system [...]

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TGS 09: New FFXIII Trailer

Monday, September 28th, 2009

The newest trailer for Final Fantasy XIII, straight from the 2009 Tokyo Game Show!

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F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn Video Review

Monday, September 28th, 2009

F.E.A.R. 2 Reborn delivers more big ass guns and little creepy girls. But for $10, should you bother with the bandwidth?

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Mass Effect 2: New Character Trailer – Subject Zero

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Looks like Bioware is teasing another addition you can have to your party once Mass Effect 2 hits store shelves in early 2010. The newest promo goes to Subject Zero, a self-proclaimed badass biotic with a history in cults and the wrong side of many tracks. Some rumors are floating around of a connection between [...]

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Crackdown

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Amongst all the open-world crime games, can a open-world crimefighter hold its own?

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Game Releases Week of Monday 9.27.09

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

The PSP Go is out this week on October 1st retailing $249.99 along with a handful of games to choose from. Among them you have Gran Turismo PSP, Motorstorm: Artic Edge and Undead Knights. We also get Dead Space: Extraction for the Wii, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 for PS3 and Risen for PC. Complete list [...]

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2GB Limit For XBLA

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

When Xbox Live Arcade first launched, Microsoft has set rules for developers for video game downloads not to exceed 50MB of data. Passing this limit would put the game unfit for sale in the library of arcade games. Later on, the size limit was increased to 150MB to accommodate for the smash hit Braid and [...]

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