Archive for August, 2008

PAX 08: Hands On With Red Faction: Guerilla

Tweet PAX 08 is rocking gamers with plenty of hands-on demos on the show floor, as Fall’s big-name titles make the rounds for their adoring public. Gamers queued up to get their greedy claws on Gears 2, Left 4 Dead, StarCraft II, and many others. But one of the surprising hits of the floor was [...]

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John McCain’s VP Pick Is… Lara Croft?

Tweet Think of electioneering as a real-time strategy game. You make your moves at the same time as your opponent, and in the end whoever has the most points (votes) wins. While politicos may scratch their heads at the pick of relatively inexperienced Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate, gamers will know that [...]

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Street Fighter IV Hits US Arcades, Canada Too

Tweet Kotaku is reporting the great news that Street Fighter IV has finally hit North American arcades. If you’re lucky enough, you’ll be able to find an arcade and if you’re even luckier you’ll find one with Street Fighter IV.

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Gears 2 Ending Will Satisfy While Leaving Room For Expansion, In Other News Money Is Good

Tweet Joystiq’s Dustin Burg is reporting that lead Gears of War 2 scribe, Josh Ortega, promises that the highly anticipated sequel will have “a fulfilling ending.” The apparent concern voiced by Joystiq was whether or not the game would follow in the footsteps of Halo 2 (not sure why they thought it would but lets [...]

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PAX 08: Day One Notes

Tweet PAX has begun, and with it has stirred the communal gamer vibe that continues to make it the gamer event of the year. The Washington Convention Center is crawling with gamers of every stripe and every developer worth a toss has shown up to show off. The gaming press was allowed early entry into [...]

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Square Enix Worried About Japanese Gaming Biz, Eyes Up Tecmo

Tweet Square Enix has confirmed it has approached Tecmo’s board to make a friendly takeover – and it’s doing it for the good of Japan, by the sound of the official spiel. The JPY 22.3 billion (USD 205 million) offer comes off the back of Itagaki’s departure and president Yoshimi Yashuda’s resignation, which Square Enix [...]

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Gamestop Cancels Ghostbusters Pre-orders

Tweet When Activision and Blizzard merged not too long ago, certain games were in danger of being canned. One of these games was Terminal Reality’s upcoming Ghostbusters game, which Sierra – who is owned by Activision – was set to publish prior to the merger. With its fate now uncertain, Gamestop has started informing customers [...]

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My Xbox 360 Has Become Abusive

Tweet I know that when my 360 hits me it’s only because I provoked it. These stories are getting a bit stale, aren’t they?  Not stale enough, apparently, or maybe it’s just not important for Microsoft to fix their shit.  You see, my latest Xbox 360 is dead.  I purchased a new Arcade version in [...]

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Review: SoulCalibur IV

Tweet Of all the new fighting games being released this year, SoulCalibur IV represents, like, half of them. Considering it doesn’t have much competition, SoulCalibur really didn’t need to try very hard to pillage the average fighting game fan’s cash. Instead of just phoning it in like some series do (*cough, Madden, *cough), Namco Bandai [...]

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Gears of War 2 Full Achievment List Unlocked

Tweet Gears of War 2 hits shelves in a little over two months now. With the release date quickly approaching, the full achievement list has now been revealed, as well as the rewards for the previously revealed linked achievements. Check them out after the break.

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Giant Working SNES Controller

Tweet Matt LaBoone, inspired the Giant NES coffee table (created by Kyle Downes), assembled a four-foot long fully functional SNES controller. Matt’s passion for the Super Nintendo stems in part to the fact he grew up playing the console. In addition to that, I am going to guess that he spent his non gaming time [...]

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Mercenaries 2 Free Gas Promotion – Might Be a Good Idea to Tip These Guys

Tweet EA and Pandemic Studios announced today, that from 6am this morning til whenever “the pumps run dry”, they will fit the bill to pump your car full of gas — if you can make it to 8489 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles CA before the deal goes up in flames. Seriously, who thought mixing flames, [...]

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Dead Space Coming Out Earlier Than Expected

Tweet EA has announced today that their upcoming sci-fi/survival horror game Dead Space is launching a week earlier than planned. The 360 and PS3 versions were originally set for an October 31st launch, but will instead be dropping on the 21st in North America and on the 24th in Europe. The PC version will still [...]

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Sony PS3 Customer Service FTW!

Tweet A few days ago, a long time friend of mine called to let me know that he had some positive video game related news for me, and I said “ok shoot.” He told me that his brother had gotten his COD4 disk stuck in his recently purchased PS3, and that the system would not [...]

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Brett Ratner Wants to Make Guitar Hero Movie About Small Town Kid … Blah Blah Blah

Tweet In an interview with MTV News, director Brett Ratner, expressed his interest in making a film based on Activision’s extremely successful Guitar Hero franchise. “I love Guitar Hero and I think it’s a part of pop culture … I would love to do a Guitar Hero movie, if Activision would ever let me. I’m [...]

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