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Game Reviewers Battle PR Antics to Stay Honest
An interesting discussion going on over on Ars about how game journalists and reviewers can sometimes find themseves in a battle between the PR company that can get them early-access to titles and their readers that they need to stay true to in order to get advertisement revenue. Unfortunately for game reviewers, it seems that the [...]
Continue reading...Rock Band 2 Drum Pictures
5. September 2008
Kotaku is rocking the Rock Band 2 news as they got a set of the drums in and snapped off some great shots of them up close, far away and comparing the two (Rock Band 1 vs Rock Band 2) drum sets. Overall the Rock Band 2 drum set looks about 15% bigger pads, Kotaku claims [...]
Continue reading...Castle Crashers Getting Patched Soon
4. September 2008
Bought Castle Crashers last week only to be welcomed with broken netcode and a buggy save system? Me too. Thankfully, we’re all in luck as The Behemoth has posted on an update on their developer blog that everyone is hard at work getting an update out that should clear up all the issues us gamers [...]
Continue reading...Soulcalibur IV Review (PS3)
4. September 2008
Summary [9.0 out of 10] Soulcalibur IV oozes style, polish and clear design around every corner. Namco Bandai took everything that was right with the last Soulcalibur title on the Dreamcast, made it better and then polished the hell out of the whole package to deliver one of the best fighting games on the market. Outline Graphics Sound & [...]
Continue reading...Mercenaries 2 Mini Review, Definite Rental (Skip Buying It)
2. September 2008
We love hate to say it, but we were right: Mercenaries 2 is a rental (not even a “must rent” at that), not a game for buying. While this isn’t an official review of it, we will hit the highlights for anyone interested right now: The Bad The overall fidelity (graphical, audio, etc.) of the game is about [...]
Continue reading...AlterEgo Facial Animation Studio Launched
2. September 2008
Pendulum Studios has launched their facial-animation studio branch: AlterEgo. AlterEgo is also the name of the cutting edge facial mo-cap and animation software that Pendulum has developed and integrated with a handful of other developer studios (Konami, Digital Extremes, Lion Head, THQ, etc.) and projects out there (Silent Hill 5, Dark Sector, Stuntman: Ignition, etc), [...]
Continue reading...New Releases for The Week of 9/01 - 9/06
2. September 2008
Xbox 360 Facebreaker (Sep 5) Shred Nebula 3 (Sep 3) Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball (Sep 3) NFL Head Coach 09 (Sep 3) Rapala Fishing Frenzy (Sep 2) Warhammer: Battle March (Sep 2) Infinite Undiscovery (Sep 2) Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (Sep 2) Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (Sep 2) PC My Dream Job: Babysitter (Sep 4) Ford Racing: Off Road (Sep 2) Baseball Mogul 2009 (Sep 2) Flatout: [...]
Continue reading...Reports of All NVIDIA Cards Being Bad (65nm and 55nm Parts)
29. August 2008
Just after news leaking out (unconfirmed by NVIDIA) that all G84 and G86-based GPUs from NVIDIA were fundamentally flawed, it looks like the news continues to get worse as apparently all G92s and G92b-based cards (8800 series, 9600 series, etc.) are suffering the same fate. The realization that there was an epic problem across the board [...]
Continue reading...New Gears of War 2 Screenshots
29. August 2008
As we inch our way closer and closer to November, the need for Gears of War 2 grows… here are 5 more screenshots to whet our appetites: Thanks VE3D!
Continue reading...Indie Game of the Week: Choke on my Groundhog, YOU BASTARD ROBOTS
29. August 2008
Welcome to the first of many installments of ‘Indie Game of the Week’. Every week we’ll pick one of our favorite indie games to showcase for all you readers out there. The games may range from downloadable titles to very well made flash games that can be play in your browser. This week we’d like to [...]
Continue reading...New Releases for The Week of 8/24 - 8/30
27. August 2008
Xbox 360 Tales of Vesperia (Aug 26) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 (Aug 26) Castle Crashers (Aug 27) PC GTR Evolution (Aug 26) Sims 2 Apartment Life (Aug 26) Nintendo Wii Mario Super Sluggers (Aug 25) Nintendo DS Garfield’s Fun Fest (Aug 29) Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness (Aug 25) Commando: Steel Disaster (Aug 25) From the Abyss (Aug 26) N+(Aug 26) PlayStation 3 Vampire Rain: Altered Species (Aug 26) Disgaea 3: [...]
Continue reading...‘Lich King’ Content to Come Early
27. August 2008
Over at the official World of Warcraft forums, Blizzard has announced that in the next few weeks a patch will be released containing some of the content annouced for the release of Wrath of the Lich King. Some of the big features in this update include Barbershops in capital cities, New class spells and talents [...]
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