Archive for February, 2010

FFXIII Xbox 360 Installation to Require 18GB

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Xbox owners may want to consider a hard drive upgrade if they wish to play Square Enix’s latest in the Final Fantasy series with minimum loading and pop-ins. XIII, between its three discs, is reported to take up 18.3GB of space on the HDD. Split evenly between Disc One (5.9GB), Disc Two (5.8GB), and Disc [...]

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Elder-Speek Issue 41: Wapeach and the 2D Resurgence

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Tom from Wapeach stopped by and we chatted quite a bit about the massive changes that Wapeach.com has been going through.

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Super Mario Galaxy 2 Gets Release Date

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Cammie Dunaway, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Nintendo of America, has announced that Super Mario Galaxy 2 will release on May 23rd in the United States. The news was revealed at the Nintendo Media Summit in San Francisco earlier today. A new trailer for the game, which was shown at this event, [...]

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Just Cause 2 Not on Windows XP

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Square Enix has released the system requirements for their upcoming sandbox action game Just Cause 2. Apparently, the game will require users to operate either Windows Vista or Windows 7, since the game will not be playable under Windows XP. Just Cause 2 will utilize DirectX 10, which is not available on the Windows XP [...]

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Project Natal: .1 Second Delay

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

During Microsoft’s showing of Project Natal last week in New York, Russ Frushtick from the MTV Multiplayer Blog has timed the supposed one-to-one motion capture of the device. Having played 5 demos and capturing 40 different movements form a variety of journalists, Frushtick has calculated that, “the fastest life-to-screen transition was .08 seconds, while the [...]

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Modern Warfare 2 Won’t Include Zombies

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Call of Duty: World at War DLC has sold millions with its Nazi-Zombie horde mode pitting you against endless waves of undead. Infinity Ward is planning not to follow in Treyarch footsteps and has announced they are going for a more realistic approach, “There will be no Nazis or zombies in any piece of Modern [...]

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No Install Required For God of War III

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Sony Santa Monica director of technology, Tim Moss has stated that the anticipated PlayStation 3 exclusive, God of War III won’t require a mandatory install and will only use up 5MB of HDD space per game save file. Moss has praised Blu-ray technology saying it was able to fit 35GB of game data on one [...]

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Batman: Brave and Bold to Receive VG Adaptation

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Batman: The Brave and the Bold has received a solid fan following since its 2008 Cartoon Network debut, garnering enough attention to become the latest video game adaptation featuring the Dark Knight. As with the original comic and television series, the video game features a co-op “team-up” motif with two or more superheroes joining forces [...]

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Rocksteady Absorbed by Warner Bros.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Rocksteady Studios flew down from the shadows to shock the community last year with their smart and fantastic take on the Dark Knight and his rogue’s gallery with Batman Arkham Asylum. With a sequel announced at the Video Game Awards this past December, analysts and consumers alike have high expectations for the London-based studio. Warner [...]

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Assassin’s Creed II: Repaired Memories Review

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Che miserie nascono dall’avidita. Muori col tuo orgoglio, per quanto vale. Requiescat in pace.

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Heavy Rain Review

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

It’s taken over four years, but Elder-Geek.com’s most anticipated game of the year is finally about to hit store shelves and make itself known.Is it the happy mesh of mediums it claims to be, or is this just a case file lost in translation?

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Bioshock 2 DLC Announced

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

2K Games has announced that it will pursue an aggressive post-launch DLC strategy for the recently released Bioshock 2, starting with a package known as the “Sinclair Solutions Test Pack” at some point next month. This first DLC package will be focused on expanding the multiplayer aspect of the game, and will add new playable [...]

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Super Meat Boy Coming to XBLA

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

In a secret released to everyone from Team Meat, it has been revealed today that the highly anticipated indie game Super Meat Boy will be released on Xbox Live Arcade in 2010. Super Meat Boy will also be released on PC and WiiWare. Get your thumbs warmed up for some platforming goodness, everyone!

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Pachter Makes Natal & ‘Arc’ Predictions

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Wedbush Morgan analyst and game industry-critic Michael Pachter, has stated that he expects that Project Natal, the upcoming motion-control camera system for the Xbox 360, will be available for approximately $50 when it launches later this year. Stating that he does not expect that Microsoft will be trying to make a profit on the hardware [...]

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Aliens Vs. Predator Review

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

In 1994, a developer called Rebellion made Aliens Vs Predator for the Atari Jaguar. 16 years later, they’re back for round two with the new AVP on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.

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