Tweet E3 08 bestowed upon us a great gift. Madden 09. With the ability to do backyard-football-like “do-overs” and an emphasis on teaching newer players how to play football, it looks like the Maddenest Madden yet. What more could two Italians straight from the old country wish for? Actually, I’m only one fourth Italian and [...]

Tweet I only played Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts for a couple minutes on the floor, but it was definitely enough to pique my interest. I was a fan of the original game, but Tooie didn’t hold my interest quite as well. The new one for Xbox 360 is looking really sharp, with plenty of fuzz [...]

Tweet A lot of times you’ll hear about religious lunatics who can’t wait for the impending apocalypse. I never understood how they can look forward to something as utterly tragic as Doomsday. Well, I have seen the blasted, radioactive future—and it is fun. Assuming our hands and eyeballs haven’t melted into goo, we can all [...]

Tweet Alan Wake, the upcoming action-thriller from Remedy Entertainment (developers behind Max Payne), was mysteriously missing at this year’s E3 convention. Now, however, it looks like the game will show up at this year’s Tokyo Games Show.

Tweet There you have it. E3 is over and here is the list of all the swag I got for the “win my swag” contest: Bottle Nuka-Cola and a pretty sick Fallout 3 viewfinder (courtesy of Bethesda) Legendary comic book (courtesy of Spark Unlimited) Gamecock socks, Gamecock shirt, and Gamecock bottle opener. Full version of [...]

Tweet Peter Moore, the latest to be assimilated. Every time EA pops up in the news, there is always this negative vibe that goes along with it.  It’s not fair, I say.  Yes, EA is a giant corporation that only cares about how much money they can make… but that isn’t any different than any [...]

Tweet In a recent interview at E3, Valve Software’s Erik Johnson stated that the PS3 port of The Orange Box was done “mostly” by EA. So if it was only “mostly” done by EA, does that mean that Valve actually had a hand in making a game they consistently denied being a part of? Why [...]

Tweet Update: Sega has responded to the cover, and has announced that the games official product page will hit sega.com tomorrow. Several hours ago, a Nintendo Power cover surfaced on the popular gaming forum Neogaf. The scan clearly stated that the issue would reveal information on a new Sega IP titled “Sonic & The Black [...]

Tweet Last year at E3, we were able to unearth information about a yet to be released NFL Head Coach game which ended up being confirmed several months later. This year’s conference has its share of surprises as well. It has been confirmed to me that the chain gang and on field referees will in [...]

Tweet One of the most popular games among the Ripten E3 crew (check out our last day of E3 podcast) has to be Sony’s LittleBigPlanet. Honestly, when I first heard of the game I wasn’t too interested. In fact, I wasn’t even going to play it at E3, but Chad told me to. Thanks Chad, [...]

Tweet Could this be the year Madden shuts up critics, and takes it to the house? Those who have been following Ripten since its inception just over a year ago, know that I have not been the biggest EA Sports/Madden supporter. I have compared their in-game animations and player control features to “constipation”, and openly [...]

Tweet The good news about Resident Evil 5 is the same as the bad news: It plays very, very similarly to Resident Evil 4. The stage we played at E3 was just like the Ganado Village at the start of RE4, only with a greater variety of zombies, ultra-sharp environments and lighting, and a few [...]

Tweet Can you believe it’s been ten years of planting crops and milking cows in Natsume’s cute farming sim, Harvest Moon? We got to check out the two newest additions to the “stable”: Island of Happiness (DS) and Tree of Tranquility (Wii).

Tweet When it comes to bling bling, Hollywood has long relied on the services of big names such as Jacob the Jeweler. Soon, the gaming world may call on a jeweler of their own. Third Project Juno has hand-crafted a slew of gaming related jewelry pretty enough to make Jay-Z holla-at-ya-gameboy! See what I did [...]

Tweet Ripten catches up with with David Hayter, the voice of Solid Snake, to talk about writing the screenplay for the upcoming Lost Planet movie and about the nature of heroes in society.  We got heavy!