Archive for July, 2008

Even PS3 Owners Rate Xbox Live Best

Tweet In a recent opinion poll, 74.7% of the PlayStation 3 owners surveyed considered Xbox Live to be the online service with the best feature set when compared to PlayStation Network and WiiConnect24.  In addition, 71.4% of the people that actually own an Xbox 360 feel as though Xbox Live is worth the subscription fee.

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Comic-Con 08: Prince of Persia Creator Shares His Thoughts On The Film’s Cast & More

Tweet Ripten’s own Michael Geslani is down in San Diego for Comic-Con 2008, where Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner discussed the upcoming film adaptation during a panel. Read all about it after the break.

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Feeling Sad and Lonely in a UK Prison? Play Some Video Games!

Tweet Are you an inmate in a United Kingdom prison who is contemplating suicide? Why not fire up the ol’ Xbox instead? Perhaps that will you make you realize the value in your life. At least that’s what the UK Prison Service hopes.

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Porn Star (& Special Producer) Tera Patrick “Finishes Off” Saints Row 2 Development Team

Tweet Asking yourself why a porn star is taking the reins as a “special producer” on the Saints Row sequel? The answer — why the hell not? The press release itself keys in on her “finishing” skills as an actress in the adult film world, and as we all know, producers (especially the special ones) [...]

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Nintendo Controller Foil Wallet

Tweet Shiny silver foil Nintendo Controller Wallet!!! At just $15.99 from Hot Topic, this retro coin collector is a must have for any Nintendo loving geek. The inside comes with a clear ID section, and several card slots perfect for your new Mii business cards. Have something you think we should show on Geeked-Out? Email [...]

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Miyamoto Talks Tradition: Mario Game In Works

Tweet In a recent interview with the UK based Telegraph, Miyamoto stated that there are teams working on new Mario, Zelda, and Pikmin projects. “They are all working on more Mario, Zelda and Pikmin projects … And they all work in close proximity to me, so I can keep a good eye on them.” Not [...]

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Hands-On Preview: FaceBreaker

Tweet If you were ever a fan of the arcade boxing game that first hit the Dreamcast back in 2000, Ready to Rumble, you’ll want to check out EA Sport’s newest IP in five years, FaceBreaker. Created by EA Canada, the same team that developed Fight Night Round 3, FaceBreaker is an arcade boxing game [...]

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Dylan Cuthbert Talks PixelJunk Eden and More

Tweet The PixelJunk series has taken the PlayStation Network by storm, with unique concepts feeding the addictive gaming need of the PlayStation massive.  I talk to Q-Games founder Dylan Cuthbert about their upcoming game PixelJunk Eden, in addition to Trophies, future projects and how they manage to pump out such great games at an astounding [...]

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God of War Movie Details Surface

Tweet God of War fans looking for some sort of film confirmation at this years Comic-Con, had a bone thrown their way in the form of a tiny leak courtesy of MGM’s “Robocop Reboot” press release. Below is a snippet from the release: “David Self’s credits include 13 Days and Road To Perdition. He wrote [...]

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EA Releases Dead Space: Downfall Trailer

Tweet Dead Space is easily one of the highest anticipated games to be released this fall, and definitely the most anticipated horror game. The game’s atmosphere and premise brings chills to my spine, and the beautifully-made trailers don’t help in lowering my anticipation for EA’s latest. However, not being content with a bone-quaking horror game [...]

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The Demise of E3: ESA to Blame? Think Again.

Tweet You never really appreciate something until it’s gone — or in this case, chased from a city by angry gaming press with torches and pitchforks. As E3 showed up, sputtered, then crept out of Los Angeles — hanging its head in dejected embarrassment — industry bloggers and reporters of every stripe began panning this [...]

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Geometry Wars 2 Coming to XBLA July 30th

Tweet Though the game was announced for an August 6th release at E3, it seems that Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 has already sped through certification for a July 30th release. Yeah, that’s next week. This morning, Bizzare Creations’ community leader Ben Ward let loose that 6 days from now, the sequel to Bizzare Creations’ [...]

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Splinter Cell Delayed: Fisher Stealth Till 2009

Tweet Want to get your hands on Sam Fisher? Yea, you and a whole lotta terrorists. You’re all going to have to wait a bit longer, as Fisher has disappeared into the shadows of delay. Ubisoft has pushed Splinter Cell: Conviction back to fiscal year 2009-2010, so don’t expect the spy any time this year. [...]

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Microsoft: E3 Not Big Enough Stage For Halo Announcment

Tweet In a recent interview, Microsoft’s Senior Vice President of Interactive Entertainment, Don Mattrick, responded to Bungie’s public disagreement with the company’s decision to put off their E3 Halo announcement. Mattrick was quoted saying: “One of the things that we decided, when you have the number one game in the world as we have in [...]

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Telltale Games To Create Episodic Wallace and Gromit Game

Tweet Straight out of San Diego comes the latest comic-book animation and videogame news: Telltale Games, who have made two seasons of Sam and Max episodic games and are working on the Homestar Runner Wiiware game, have announced they’ll be creating a series of games based on Wallace and Gromit. Wallace and Gromit are a [...]

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