Lost Planet 2 Features Gears of War Marcus and Dom
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Capcom has announced Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago from Gears of War will appear in Lost Planet 2 in a form of bonus costumes. Lost Planet 2 is scheduled for worldwide release on May 18th for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3*. *Unfortunately the PS3 version won’t include Gears of War characters.
2 CommentsCapcom: Monster Hunter for Xbox 360
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Capcom has announced Monster Hunter Frontier Online for the Xbox 360 and PC hitting stores this summer in Japan. Monster Hunter is a big domestic franchise in Japan selling million for the Wii last year and is a huge gain for Microsoft. Both versions of the game will be using separate servers and a closed [...]
No CommentsEuropean Release Date for Supreme Commander 2, New Screenshots
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Even though a release date for the United States was announced back in November 2009, European gamers who are interested in Supreme Commander 2 were forced to wait until today to receive news on when the real time strategy game would be available on their side of the Atlantic. While the game will release in the [...]
No CommentsVideo Blitz: Mass Effect 2
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Explore the stars with Mass Effect 2 in our new edition of the Video Blitz!
1 CommentIndie Game: Continuity
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Continuity is defined as the state or quality of being continuous, a quality I’m sure we all could appreciate.
3 CommentsCapcom Reveals Spring Line-Up
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Today, Capcom has issued a press release in which its line-up for the Spring season was detailed. First of all, the Wii-exclusive RPG Monster Hunter Tri will be released in the United States and Europe in April. The game was released in Japan in August 2009 and has become the best selling third party game for the [...]
2 CommentsMass Effect to Extend Beyond Trilogy, Drawing Hollywood Interest
Monday, January 25th, 2010Bioware fully expects their space-opera RPG Mass Effect 2 to be the biggest hit of Q1 2010, and as the franchise name builds up a reputation for a deep story and a complex universe, the developer finds the possibility of the series extending beyond its proposed trilogy, and even beyond its indigenous medium.
No CommentsThe Sims 3 Best Selling PC-Title of 2009
Monday, January 25th, 2010In a list recently released by market researcher NPD, it was revealed that EA’s The Sims 3 was the best selling PC-title of 2009 in the United States. The game was released in June 2009. A first expansions to The Sims 3 known as The Sims 3: World Adventures was released in November 2009, and [...]
2 CommentsWhy Gamer OCD is Holding the Game Industry Back
Monday, January 25th, 2010Remake after remake after remake… and we still scream for more.
13 CommentsTony Hawk Ride 2 in the Works?
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Talk of a sequel to Tony Hawk Ride was already up in the E3 air last year, and despite the game’s horrid sales and almost universal panning from reviewers (including Elder-Geek) the titular skateboard-guru remains optimistic about the possibilities of a new disc, vocally calling out the critics of the recently released peripheral-based sports game. Activision [...]
1 CommentGaming Only 4th Most Popular Children’s Entertainment
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010The under 14 crowd is an essential demographic for any product seeking massive gains, ask Miley Cyrus. But despite popular opinion thinking otherwise, either positive or negative, children ages 2-14 aren’t as enamored with video games as television, movies, or even music. According to the NPD Group’s Kids and Entertainment Content report, the age group [...]
1 CommentTim Gunn of Project Runway Critiques Super Mario’s Sense of Style
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Like most people out there, chances are you come to Elder-Geek for the latest news in video game character fashion…well perhaps thats a bit of a stretch, but in this video in preparation for Project Runway the Game, Tim Gunn host and star of the show has come forward to lend his expertise to our [...]
5 CommentsFrom the Editor: The Elder-Geek Community and Future Podcast Guests
Friday, January 22nd, 2010My revived love of MST3K and my desire to build a MAME cabinet are still alive and kicking, but that’s not what I wanted to blab about today.
12 CommentsRated Teen Wii Games Now in Black Boxes
Friday, January 22nd, 2010With the recent success of New Super Mario Bros Wii (in a red box) outselling Super Mario Galaxy in just a few sort months, Nintendo decided to follow the same marketing strategy and change their box colors on unfavorable Teen + (compared to E 10+) games to attract more hardcore gamers. Nintendo is testing this [...]
5 CommentsCapcom and Microsoft Teasing Xbox 360 Announcement
Friday, January 22nd, 2010A Japanese xbox.com website is teasing a collaborative surprise announcement between Microsoft and Capcom come Tuesday, January 26th
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