Getting to Know Your Geek (Part 2)
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Check out Part 2 of Getting to Know Your Geek!
25 CommentsSony Introduces Playstation Apparel
Thursday, July 29th, 2010With Officially Licensed merchandise has always included hats and t-shirts, Sony has taken the game a step further and announced a new line of everything from clothing to appliances boasting the “iconic” Playstation logo. Sony Computer Entertainment will put out guidelines to designers on how best to incorporate the design, and will have final approval [...]
2 CommentsCapcom Announces Street Fighter x Tekken (Updated w/ Gameplay)
Thursday, July 29th, 2010The Capcom “Vs.” series has long been in the business of making dream match-ups come true, but one that never seemed likely – even from them – is a crossover between rival companies. Surprising even the most stalwart of fans at San Diego Comic Con, the joint announcement was made by Yoshinori Ono (Street Fighter [...]
11 CommentsAlice Cooper, The Runaways Re-Record Warriors of Rock Tracks
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock promises over 90 tracks in its setlist, the vast majority of which being the original master recordings. The exceptions, it turns out, are those tracks being completely re-recorded specifically for the game. Alice Cooper’s “No More Mr. Nice Guy”, and the Runaway’s “Cherry Bomb” have been recreated in the studio [...]
Comments OffTrademarks Hint at Extra 3DS Features
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Like registering domain names, the act of a company trademarking certain similar phrases could lead to some hints at their future products. Nintendo recently filed for copyright on the terms “CrossPass”, “CrossPass Network”, “CrossPass Mode”, leading some to believe that this is the new term for a promised “tag” system in the Big N’s upcoming [...]
Comments OffDarkspore Collaboration Update
Thursday, July 29th, 2010We recently reported on a supposed collaboration between Electronic Arts-developers Maxis and Bioware on the upcoming Spore spin-off, Darkspore. While indeed a former Bioware staff member – Mass Effect fiction writer Malcom Azania – is working on the project, that is the extent of any collaboration between the two studios. The original report used for [...]
Comments OffTactics Ogre Is Reborn
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010In the church of strategy role-playing games, a screenshot of Tactics Ogre is in stained glass above the rectory. So its no big surprise that the folks at Square Enix are interested in re-capturing the enthusiasm the game once held. Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, is a PSP-exclusive, from-the-ground-up remastering in the vein of [...]
1 CommentBioware Brought in for Spore Sequel
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Electronic Arts has a way with bringing developers together. In its recent Comic Con announcement of upcoming titles, EA is publishing Darkspore, a spin-off project to the popular life-sim Spore. While the character generation feature that captured millions of Youtube posters upon initial release is still intact, Darkspore will also contain an Action-RPG element similar [...]
1 CommentMy Baby Dev Responds to SouthPeak Suit
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Seemingly out of nowhere, the DS-child rearing simulator My Baby 3 & Friends has become the latest IP to attract a major lawsuit between game companies. SouthPeak Studios have filed suit with the franchise’s current publisher, Majesco over their respective rights to sell the title (at least in the US markets.) Nobilis, the French studio [...]
Comments OffHarmonix Announces New Tracks for Rock Band, Dance Central
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010The developers at Harmonix have been hard at work on their multiple music-rhythm games coming to market, and out of their labor announced new tracks for both Rock Band 3 and Dance Central. New artists were revealed for both titles at last week’s Comic Con, and can be found in their entirety after the jump. [...]
2 CommentsDisney Acquires Playdom
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Over the past few weeks, rumors regarding an impending acquisition of Playdom, a prominent supplier of online games on social networking sites such as Facebook or Myspace, by Disney continued to become more substantial. Today, Disney has finally confirmed that it is indeed acquiring the organization for a total sum of $563.2 million. Playdom itself [...]
Comments OffBlack Ops Hardened & Prestige Editions Confirmed
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010SKU’s have confirmed the eventual release of Hardened and Prestige editions of the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. There is no information on similar editions for versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops for other platforms. As for what’s inside the Hardened and Prestige editions, we don’t [...]
1 CommentGetting to Know Your Geek (Part 1)
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Find out more about your favorite geeks!
17 CommentsNew ME2 DLC to Finally Take on the Shadow Broker
Monday, July 26th, 2010A solid sub-plot of the first Mass Effect, the Shadow Broker was disappointingly downgraded to a single character’s job motivation in the disc content of Mass Effect 2. But with bigger fish to fry in the upcoming sequel, Bioware looks to be putting some DLC focus on the most infamous information-dealer in the galaxy. “The [...]
3 CommentsScott Pilgrim Release Date, Pre-Order Details
Monday, July 26th, 2010The deets have come in on the not-so-based-on-the-upcoming-film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and what you can get from pre-ordering the retro bad boy. Scheduled for an August 10th release on the Playstation Network for $10, those that order beforehand will get a “Sex Bob-omb” t-shirt for your Home avatar. No word if [...]
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