Archive for January, 2009

Bioshock Team’s Next Project Is A Multiplayer FPS

Tweet Bioshock was one of 2007′s best games and best in my opinion, but the only thing it lacked was an online multiplayer of any kind, unlike Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip. But 2K Boston’s next game won’t have this pitfall, as it seems that the project 2K Boston is currently working on is a [...]

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Olivia Munn and Kevin Pereira Love Pie… Literally

Tweet Attack of the Show hosts Olivia Munn and Kevin Pereira celebrate the success of their bid for America to observe a National Pie Week by stripping down into French maid outfits and diving into a giant pie. Yes, you read that correctly — Olivia Munn, French maid outfit, and pie. The video speaks for [...]

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Call of Duty: World at War, Another Double XP Weekend

Tweet That’s right COD gamers, you get another whole weekend of double experience points in World at War, so cancel all your ongoing plans! Not only are we getting double experience, but also two brand new multiplayer modes for the playlist: Team Tactical and Mercenary TDM. Team Tactical is a 4v4 mode that has two [...]

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Gears of War PC digital certificate expires, kills the game

Tweet Users on the Gears of War official forums are reporting that the digital certificates for the game have expired, as of 28th January 2009. This means that the game will not launch at a system date post-28th Jan. Obviously, this is awful news for those people who enjoy playing the game on the PC, [...]

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Boom Blox Sequel coming to Wii in Spring 2009

Tweet Shacknews reports that EA has announced a sequel to the acclaimed Spielberg- produced Wii title Boom Blox. Boom Blox Bash Party will add over 400 new levels to the Jenga-with-bombs-and-other-stuff formula, plus the ability to create and download user-created levels. New multiplayer modes join the “party”, too. The PR agent of Mr. Spielberg called [...]

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New Final Fantasy XIII Trailer Revealed

Tweet [youtube width="510" height="402"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Je8-zTxK0[/youtube] A new Final Fantasy XIII trailer has been revealed on the Square Enix countdown website. The video shows off some new characters and locations, as well as real-time gameplay! The game is looking better everytime I see it, but is still aways off. It’s already my most anticipated game of 2010. [...]

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Rumour: New Dead Rising and Lost Planet will be multiplatform

Tweet Capcom executive Keiji Inafune has mentioned in the newest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu that “We’re finally putting out new Dead Rising and Lost Planet games! As a main principle we’re thinking about multi-platform, and expanding upon both slightly from the Xbox 360 version.” That’s a pretty strong hint towards both games being [...]

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Why Star Wars: The Old Republic is the Ultimate KOTOR 3

Tweet While the Knights of the Old Republic series has not been the highest selling brand for LucasArts the same way that the Battlefront series has, the KOTOR games remain unique in their own way. For the first time ever, 4000 years before the events that set place in the movies, players found themselves introduced [...]

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Ripten Radio Presents: Ripcast Episode 10

Tweet What? Didn’t we just have a Ripcast, like, a week ago? You’re damn right we did, and here’s another one! Joining the usual crew of Jonathan, Dan, and Beau, we have a super extra special guest this time — Peter Molyneux! Okay, it’s not Peter Molyneux, it’s Mr. John “The Landmine” Landis. Coincidentally, there [...]

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Capcom Reveals New Monster and Field for MH3

Tweet Some people love the Monster Hunter series, me being one of those people.  I am always looking for info on the new Wii title Monster Hunter Tri and luckily Capcom delivers.

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Fallout 3 DLC released

Tweet We’re big fans of Fallout 3 here at Ripten. Here’s some good news for those of you who agree with us- the “Operation Anchorage” Downloadable Content has been released. The DLC allows the player to join in with the liberation of Alaska, and focuses more on stealth gameplay with a new set of weapons [...]

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Sony President Lives in Fantasy Land

Tweet Great news, Sony fans. According to Kaz Hirai, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America*, Sony is officially leading the console market with the PS3, disregarding silly things like sales numbers and market share.

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Wii-kly Virtual Console and WiiWare Update

Tweet This week’s Virtual Console and WiiWare updates bring us two games that are just minutes from downloading. For the Virtual Console we’ve got a Sega Genesis oldie with Wonder Boy in Monster Land and for the WiiWare we’ve got Niki – Rock ‘n’ Ball. Hit the jump for the full description of each game [...]

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New Game Releases: Jan. 25 – Jan. 31

Tweet This week in game releases gives us some nice samurai action in Afro Samurai (starring the voice of Samuel L. Jackson) for the 360 and PS3, along with a baseball management simulator with MLB Front Office Manager for the 360, PS3 and PC, among others. Hit the jump for the full list of game [...]

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F.E.A.R. 2 Demo Impressions

Tweet As you most likely know already, the demo for Monolith Productions’ F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin was released recently on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Obviously, so long as you own a device capable of running the demo, you can download and try it out for yourself. What I’d like to do, though, is share [...]

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