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If you've ever tried to get all the orbs in Crackdown, or all the Crusader flags in Assassin's Creed, or all the pigeons in Grand Theft Auto IV, you know what it's like to stare at a 198/200 stat with...
POSTED Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Like kids untaping one corner of a Christmas gift, some nosy fans went snooping through the files of the demo for Resident Evil 5, the upcoming entry into Capcom's survival horror series. And they seem to have uncovered a major...
POSTED Friday, December 19, 2008
You ever read an interview that has you all but screaming at the page or screen for the interviewer to ask the obvious follow-up question? Because that's what I was doing at a Strategy Informer interview with F.E.A.R. 2 art...
POSTED Friday, December 19, 2008
From the main city in Sacred 2, you can now find a kobold with a big ship's wheel icon over his head. He'll send you to Christmas Island, an unmappable area sequestered in the upper right hand corner of the...
POSTED Thursday, December 18, 2008
As any fight choreographer will tell you, a staged fight isn't that different from a dance routine. Some guys from a Soulcalibur fan site, all of whom seem to be named Shen, have put together an impressive display of this...
POSTED Wednesday, December 17, 2008
The "Blow It Up Again" missions are now available for Mercenaries 2. Just go into the Extras menu, selected Downloadable Content, and you should see it there as a 400MB download. It's free, so I suspect it's rude of me...
POSTED Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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POSTED Monday, December 15, 2008
One strike against the new Prince of Persia game actually should have been a positive: a talented actor providing the voice of the lead character. The latest prince is played by Nolan North, a longtime voice actor who's probably best...
POSTED Friday, December 12, 2008
A patch is on its way to fix a few minor problems in Fable 2. For instance:- Your child - will no longer be chosen as an assassination target Too bad they're "fixing" that. What an awesome Shakespearean dilemma that...
POSTED Thursday, December 11, 2008
Wait, hold the presses, 2008 isn't over yet, at least in terms of big releases. For whatever reason, the Greek-themed RPG Rise of the Argonauts has suddenly gone from being a 2009 release to a December 16, 2008 release. Uh,...
POSTED Wednesday, December 10, 2008
If you're inclined to mess around with the graphics settings for Grand Theft Auto IV on the PC because you think your system can handle more than the auto-configuration suggests, allow me to give you some advice: don't. You're just...
POSTED Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Here's a small excerpt from a nicely weird Capcom press release, minus about a hundred "It came from Kijujus".It came from Kijuju. It came from Kijuju. It came from Kijuju. It came from Kijuju. It came from Kijuju. It came...
POSTED Tuesday, December 9, 2008
You don't see this very often (but neither do you see a game that sells as well as Grand Theft Auto IV very often): Nvidia has posted beta drivers specifically for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV. I...
POSTED Sunday, December 7, 2008
Electronic Arts has posted a huge list of changes to Red Alert 3, their superfast action-oriented real time strategy game. This is how the EALA studio rolls. They release a game, then sit back to gather feedback, complaints, and statistics...
POSTED Friday, December 5, 2008
One of the my favorite games this year is Far Cry 2. Unfortunately, it's published by Ubisoft, who's never met an ingame ad they didn't like. I'm a bit worried what's going to become of all the billboards strewn around...
POSTED Thursday, December 4, 2008
Okay, I was totally down with Square Enix taking Space Invaders and turning it into a pumped up techo thriller for the PSP and Nintendo DS. But I don't know about Space Invaders Get Even, this new take for Nintendo's...
POSTED Thursday, December 4, 2008
The Banjo-Kazooie games have always been insufferably angled towards kids. Even more so than developer Rare's other titles. I can get into their Viva Pinata games, partly because under all that saccharine there's a brutally adult ecology: mortality, predators, the...
POSTED Wednesday, December 3, 2008
It's no secret Naughty Dog is working on a sequel to Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, which I think is the best Playstation 3 exclusive game you can play. But it's even less of a secret now that there's a teaser online...
POSTED Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Unless you're writing for one of the major gaming sites, it's probably not a good idea to close a 1400-word article on how much you like Dead Space with the following line:I'm still not sure why I like Dead Space...
POSTED Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Now that I've ironed out my technical problems with Sacred 2, the sequel to the fastidious German RPG from 2004, I can finally get down to the business of saving the world leveling up my character. Although I only fiddled...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008
I already get a little bit of a No Country for Old Men vibe from Far Cry 2. As I'm gadding about the Dark Continent, I'll occasionally check the little light on my not terribly sophisticated tracking device. And when...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
You might not know who Ageia is. They're the jerks who came up with the bright idea to make a dedicated physics chip for videogames to use. This meant you could buy a fancy something-hundred dollar card to install in...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Yesterday, I spent about five hours with Sacred 2, the nifty action RPG from German developer Ascaron. Most of those five hours were troubleshooting. For instance: Question: Why can't my robot dog with a laser cannon for an arm equip...
POSTED Thursday, November 13, 2008
The mere name of Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ out-American McGees American McGee, whose attempts to make edgy fairy tales using Alice in Wonderland and the Brother Grimm begin with the act of appending his name onto the title....
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
Midway is going out of its way to make sure Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe gets a T-rating instead of an M-rating. 1up has detailed a couple of the fatalities that were toned down. It seems the difference between a...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
This is a letter from me to Gears of War 2, but I'm also cc'ing it to all shooters in general:Dear game, It's okay if you don't have a vehicle sequence. Because given the choice between a terrible vehicle sequence...
POSTED Thursday, November 6, 2008
Hellgate: London is dead. It's alive. It's dead. It's alive. I was having trouble keeping track of this undead zombie game's status, so I'm glad that Namco stepped up and in no uncertain terms promised that those of us in...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
A remake/update of the classic car combat game Vigilante 8 just went live on Xbox Live. At least, I think it's a classic. I was sure I'd played this, but as I was looking around for info, I realized I'd...
POSTED Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Little Big Planet and Metal Gear Solid 4 aren't the only exclusives for Playstation 3 owners can brag about anymore. Now they're getting downloadable content for BioShock in the form of three "challenge rooms" that you can't play on the...
POSTED Tuesday, November 4, 2008
I don't keep up with the Spyro the Dragon games, even though I probably should. If there's one thing worse than cute, it's cute and purple But there must be a reason they sell enough copies that they've been going...
POSTED Wednesday, October 29, 2008
If the above screenshot evokes any nostalgia in you, then you simply must click here to see the video posted by Prince of Persia developer Jordan Mechner, whose been blogging with a 23 year delay. The 1985 entry for October...
POSTED Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Ever since Grand Theft Auto IV was released, it's included a viral infection gimmick based on one of the achievements. The "Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie" achievement is unlocked for anyone who kills one of the developers, or someone with the...
POSTED Friday, October 24, 2008
Trophies will be added to the Playstation 3 version of Mercenaries 2, but you won't get credit for the things you've already done. Time to restart the game. These trophies are are exactly the same as the Xbox 360 achievements,...
POSTED Friday, October 24, 2008
I've seen plenty of silly boss battles in my time. But this week's Spider-Man: Web of Shadows takes the cake. This being a Marvel comics mash-up, you meet Wolverine half-way into the game. Naturally, you start fighting. It would be...
POSTED Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The problem with exclusive retail pre-order bonuses and exclusive collector's edition goodies is that they're exclusive. For instance, you're not going to get the Wreckager cutlass from the Hall of the Dead in Fable 2 unless you buy the Limited...
POSTED Monday, October 20, 2008
As anyone with a copy of Soulcalibur IV knows, the Playstation 3 version got Darth Vader and the Xbox 360 version got Flubber/Yoda as unique characters. This week in Japan, they're each available as downloadable content on the other systems...
POSTED Monday, October 20, 2008
What's the difference between a beta and a demo? The time till the release date. The streamlined new action RPG Kivi's Underworld, from the creator of Depths of Peril, is still far enough out that you can't play a demo...
POSTED Thursday, October 16, 2008
Dead Space opens with you strapped into the seat of a space ship while a few crew members walk around the bridge, John McCain-like, delivering exposition about how you're all going to rescue an outpost that's gone mysteriously incommunicado*. Then...
POSTED Wednesday, October 15, 2008
In case you didn't get a lifetime supply of brooding Spider-Man from the second movie, there's always the launch trailer for the latest game. It takes a really sensitive superhero to struggle with the nature of good n' evil while...
POSTED Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Here's how you announce a patch! Electronic Arts has slapped together an appropriately splashy video to promote the just as splashily named "Total Payback Update" for Mercenaries 2, the open-world everything-is-destructible game set in Venezuela. Mostly, the patch lets players...
POSTED Monday, October 13, 2008
Microsoft and Bungie have released an extended version of the teaser for a few weeks ago along with their Tokyo Game Show announcement of Halo 3: Recon. Bungie is working on this new "campaign" (expansion pack? sequel? downloadable content?) for...
POSTED Thursday, October 9, 2008
Speaking of things that won't be in the game when you buy it from the store, a month before Tomb Raider: Underworld comes out, Eidos is announcing plans for downloadable content to be sold over the next few months. It's...
POSTED Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Here's something you don't see every day: substantive first-hand information on Kotaku, in this case about Lucasarts' plans for downloadable content for Force Unleashed. According to executive producer Haden Blackman (they even spelled his name right!), the download will include...
POSTED Wednesday, October 1, 2008
In Multiwinia's TRON-like world, you move little dudes around as they spawn. That's mostly all there is to it. Some of the incidental rules vary. You might be trying to occupy victory locations, cart a statue back to your base,...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
There's a big fat demo of Sacred 2 available now. It's a monster, coming in at 1.7GBs, and it's available from the usual hosts (Filefront and Fileshack, for instance). You can play a seraphim character up to level 10, although...
POSTED Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Force Unleashed is a pretty terrible game, and I can't recommend playing it. It's sloppy and underdone, with a surprising number of glitches for a AAA release from a big publisher. However, it is also the best bit of Star...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
Mike Griffith is the CEO of Activision Publishing (pictured above taking a flamethrower to your discretionary income). He doesn't make the company's games, but when he talks about ways to get more money from you, you better sit up and...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Games Radar has a painful comparison of Mercenaries 2 on the latest console systems and on the venerable Playstation 2. On one hand, I'm sure Playstation 2 owners are happy for whatever new games they can get their hands on....
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
There aren't any screenshots available yet for Kivi's Underworld, the next action RPG from the creators of Depths of Peril. So instead, I've posted a screenshot of the game I'm reminded of when Kivi's Underworld developer Steven Peeler talks about...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
You've seen what famous people do with Spore. Now check out what they do with Bangai-O Spirits. Unfortunately, the average celebrity won't be able to wrap his or her pretty head around Treasure's latest puzzle shooter. So you'll have to...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Sometimes I'm happy to be wrong. This is one such case. I had some reservations about whether the Wii was up to the task of bringing as many zombies to the slaughter as Dead Rising really needed. The original game...
POSTED Tuesday, September 9, 2008
"Castle Crashers is a buggy mess!" At least that's what I'd heard. It's apparently not quite ready for prime time when it comes to playing online, and the developers seem to know it. A patch is on the way. So...
POSTED Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Relic has posted an official Dawn of War 2 trailer showing off various Tyranids in action. I don't see a single thing in this video that couldn't have been done in the original Dawn of War engine, which belies the...
POSTED Friday, August 22, 2008
The Force Unleashed demo is available now from the Playstation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace, allowing you to get a taste of Lucasarts upcoming Dark Side Force sim, due out September 16th. If you've seen footage of the game, you...
POSTED Thursday, August 21, 2008
Did you ever get a game and deduce that it was really terrible, and then later realize…oops…you were playing it wrong? Well, I'm here to tell you that Bangai-O Spirits is really terrible…oh, wait, I was playing it wrong. Read...
POSTED Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Regardless of what I think of Too Human as an action RPG*, there's no denying that it contains some of the most memorable writing in a computer game since Richter barged in on Dracula and was told something about a...
POSTED Tuesday, August 19, 2008
It's a great time to be a fan of action RPGs. But not because of stinkers like Space Siege and Too Human. Instead, Monster Madness: Grave Danger is an update of last year's underappreciated monster-mashing hack-and-slash teens vs. zombies undeathmatch....
POSTED Monday, August 18, 2008
Soulcalibur IV is the latest in a 12-year tradition of ridiculous breasts, ridiculous beatdowns, and ridiculous Engrish storylines. As a fighting game, it's not as absurd as DOA, but it's not as revered as Street Fighter. It's not as technical...
POSTED Thursday, August 14, 2008
As the October release of BioShock lumbers slowly closer like a Big Daddy whose helmet is still glowing green, those of us who played on our PCs and Xbox 360s are wondering what the differences will be from the BioShock...
POSTED Friday, August 8, 2008
It's easy enough to jump into Soulcaliber IV, whale away on the buttons, and make things happen. You'll mostly win. At first. But then you'll start losing. Particularly if you try to make any progress in the Tower of Lost...
POSTED Thursday, August 7, 2008
You know how you can break down your opponent's blocking power to put him into soul crush mode, at which point you can respond to an attempted block with a carefully timed press of A+B+K+G to achieve a critical finish,...
POSTED Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Lots of people are reluctant to apply hardware mods, especially to console games. However, after the jump, I'll provide step-by-step instructions for how to mod Geometry Wars 2 to improve your scores. It will not invalidate your warranty, it doesn't...
POSTED Tuesday, August 5, 2008
If I wasn't at Quake Con, here's what I would be doing all day today. There's only so much you can do with the basic frantic goodness of Geometry Wars, but Bizarre Creations seems to be doing it even more...
POSTED Friday, August 1, 2008
Speaking of Geometry Wars, Multiwinia lives in a very similar space: an eerie cyberworld where the graphics are no less strange for being simple. Instead of simulating something you know, these games imagine something you've never seen. The priority is...
POSTED Friday, August 1, 2008
In an interview with IGN, Naughty Dog rep Arne Meyer explained that the upcoming trophy patch for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune will add 47 trophies, plus a 48th for getting all the trophies. Coincidentally, 47 is the exact number of "medals"...
POSTED Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Oh dear. Gas Powered Games has set loose a demo for their upcoming sci-fi action RPG. Space Siege, so named because it's a follow-up to Dungeon Siege and not because it has anything to do with the unlikely activity of...
POSTED Wednesday, July 30, 2008
You can download the Too Human demo from Xbox Live Marketplace for free to get a taste of the upcoming action RPG. Although the demo only let you play one of the game's five character classes when it was initially...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
This week is the usual whole lot of summer nothin', with the exception of Soul Calibur IV. Since many folks might not know a Soul Calibur from a Soul Reaver or a Soul Nomad, I've assembled the relevant bullet points...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
Save your money while you can. Once the end of August rolls around, you might need a second job to sustain you through the holidays. In the meantime, enjoy minimal to non-existent wallet threat levels. This week, for instance, the...
POSTED Monday, July 21, 2008
With the level of preview coverage it's getting, Too Human doesn't really need reviews when it's officially released in mid-August. The upcoming action RPG from Silicon Knights has been getting a lot of play on the internet lately, thanks in...
POSTED Thursday, July 3, 2008
The security system in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is strange. At least I think it's the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They don't actually call it that in Alone in the Dark. You can thank the museum's lawyers for keeping...
POSTED Thursday, June 26, 2008
One of the great things about the Ratchet & Clank games is how they move forward relentlessly. There was almost never an instance of spinning your wheels and getting nowhere. Even if you kept dying in a certain area, you...
POSTED Monday, June 23, 2008
The antics of David Jaffe are nothing if not entertaining, particularly when he's drunk at the Playboy mansion. Until the next instance of that, there's always his blog. The creator of the Twisted Metal and God of Wars series recently...
POSTED Monday, June 23, 2008
Brian Farrell, the CEO of THQ, discussed Saints Row 2 during a conference call with investors this week. He specifically mentioned how it's going to be distinct from Grand Theft Auto IV. We're always concerned about GTA as a competitor....
POSTED Friday, June 20, 2008
As you were playing through Metal Gear Solid 4, did you wonder what that flintlock did? The one with the long Japanese name that cost one million Drebin points? And how long was it before you realized there was no...
POSTED Friday, June 20, 2008
Three years ago, Square Enix acquired Taito. Which meant they got a catalog of games including Space Invaders, uh, let's see…Bubble Bobble…Qix, I think. And about a hundred ancient arcade games no one cared about. The move seemed more a...
POSTED Friday, June 20, 2008
There's only so scary a videogame can be. As near as I can tell, that amount of scary maxxed out three years ago in Fatal Frame 3. But the next best things to scary are weird and unsettling. Those things...
POSTED Thursday, June 19, 2008
I kind of feel sorry for Clank. I mean, it's not his fault that I just had a 40-hour slog through Metal Gear Solid 4. When you take into account the ratio of gameplay to cutscene, that's nearly ten hours...
POSTED Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Now you can play Rob Beschizza's Escape from Konami, exclusively at BoingBoing. The game was created in response to the alarming news that Metal Gear Solid 4 reviewers may have been forcibly detained so that they would sign NDAs. Waterboarding...
POSTED Sunday, June 15, 2008
So I get home from a midnight sale with my brand new copy of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Partiots. I pop the disc into the Playstation 3 and start the egg timer I got from the kitchen....
POSTED Thursday, June 12, 2008
Midway's underrated Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy is available as a free download from Fileplanet, but with some sort of built-in ad support (alternatively, you can get an ad-free version from IGN's Direct2Drive service for $15). Psi-Ops got a fair bit...
POSTED Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Please don't read this. Seriously, just skip on down to the thing about Fireteam Reloaded. Also, please don't post a comment about what a loser I am for saying what I'm about to say. You think I don't know already?...
POSTED Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Ten years ago, Fireteam was one of the first games with voice chat, which meant your opponent could actually hear your racial epithet or homophobic slur instead of having to read it. Although, to be fair to the original Fireteam,...
POSTED Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The guys at the automotive blog Jalopnik have obviously been playing Grand Theft Auto IV. In The Real Life Cars Behind Grand Theft Auto IV, they examine many of Liberty City's fictional vehicles for elements of their real-world counterparts. You...
POSTED Monday, June 9, 2008
Namco released new screenshots for their "hip-hop infused action/adventure game". Oh, dear. "Hip-hop infused"? Well, 50 Cent: Bulletproof actually sold well enough that a sequel is on the way. Given that this is based on an animated series from a...
POSTED Friday, June 6, 2008
The Incredible Hulk is out this week. It takes place in New York City. Not Liberty City, not Gotham, not Metropolis. But actual New York City. I know this for a fact because I've been running around seeing how...
POSTED Tuesday, June 3, 2008
In the latest patch for the PC version of Frontlines: Fuel of War: Players can no longer stick Landmines onto their legsI love gamers. I love that someone tried that. I love that there are probably entire clans that...
POSTED Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Metal Gear Solid 4 has really really long cut scenes – lots of them! – and a really really long installation time! At least that's the implication from the game's publisher, Konami. They made it a pre-condition that any...
POSTED Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Dear Black Spider Ninja Clan, Hello. Ryu Hayabusa here. How are you? I am fine. You probably remember me from the first part of Ninja Gaiden II I just played. I'm the one that killed about a thousand of...
POSTED Monday, June 2, 2008
The embargo on Capcom's recent press event lifts today, so you'll be seeing all sorts of Resident Evil 5 info popping up. Last night at midnight, Gametrailers posted the most recent trailer. Capcom took some heat for their last...
POSTED Monday, June 2, 2008
Dig this new trailer for the upcoming expansion/console port of World in Conflict, the superfast, supergorgeous, supermultiplayer action RTS from Swedish developer Massive. To quote John Carpenter's The Thing: "Hey, Swedes!" The first thing you might think is, 'Whoa,...
POSTED Saturday, May 31, 2008
So you've gotten to the end of GTA 4 and now - wait, you are done, aren't you? If not, you have to stop here. This is spoiler country. Is he gone, that guy who didn't get to the...
POSTED Thursday, May 29, 2008
Gametrailers has posted the audio of a radio appearance by Michael Hollick on a local radio show in Washington D.C. Hollick is the actor who does the terrific voicework and motion capture for Grand Theft Auto IV's lead character, Niko...
POSTED Tuesday, May 27, 2008
The Latino Review scooped this over a month ago, but it was just officially announced that Jake Gyllinhall Gyllenhall, whose name I always have to look up to spell correctly, is the new Prince of Persia. Good news or...
POSTED Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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