Archive for March, 2009

Majesty 2 Should Be On Your Radar

Tweet These videos may help explain why I’m interested in Majesty 2. Who wants to be a wandering hero collecting meager amounts of gold for bounties when you can be the King who has all the gold and can pay heroes whatever you want to do the bounties you assign?

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Banjo & Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts DLC Details

Tweet Although Banjo & Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts was released 4 months ago, it still has yet to recieve any of the DLC Rare had promised. Recently, Rare announced the first DLC for the game, entitled L.O.G.’s Lost Challenges, as well as the release date and price, April 7th for 400 MS Points. The DLC [...]

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Modder Makes Dreamcast into Dreamcast Tablet

Tweet Seeing as it’s arguably one of the best consoles of our time, the Dreamcast had way too short of a life. We all know that this is mainly the fault of the piratablity of the games, but the hardware could’ve used a little tweaking too. WERD of the Benheck forums knew this all too [...]

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Madden NFL 10 Gets August Release Date

Tweet Electronic Arts has announced the release date for this year’s entry in the Madden franchise, Madden NFL 10. The game will release on August 14, 2009, and of course football fans will gather that day to play each other online and curse each other out like there’s no tomorrow. Electronic Arts has said the [...]

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Behemoth’s Third Game a Mutliplayer Affair, May be Multiplatform

Tweet The Behemoth’s third project is looking great, judging from the trailer they debuted just about three weeks ago (which we’ve included at the jump). The game’s producer, John Baez, sat down with Gamasutra for some discussion on the upcoming project. Baez revealed that the game will be a multiplayer affair, meaning you can get [...]

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Sony Drops the PS2 Price to $99

Tweet A week ago,we reported the rumor that Sony was going to make an announcement on March 31st/April 1st, and now we know what that announcement is. Fortunately, it wasn’t a crudely made April Fool’s joke, (we hope) it was a price drop for the PlayStation 2. Although the chances are that anyone that was [...]

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Insomniac Games Is Hiring; Benefits Include Bermuda and Beef Jerky

Tweet It’s no secret that Insomniac Games is one of the best developer studios to work at- they’ve won a “Best Place to Work” award year after year. With the Ratchet and Clank and Resistance franchises in their repertoire, anyone wanting to break into the developer industry would be lucky to work for them- and [...]

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Final Fantasy Crystal Bearers Website Cashes Clicks for Video

Tweet Square Enix has launched the official website for their upcoming Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers for the Nintendo Wii. As of now, the website features the trailer released with the Japanese version of Echoes of Time and wallpaper from the game. There are two grayed out unclickables titled “It’s Gonna Be A [...]

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Did the ESRB Leak Max Payne 1 & 2 for the Xbox 360?

Tweet The ESRB has never been an impenetrable fortress of information, and the fact that they have a search function on their website doesn’t really help them keep things secret. Destructoid pointed our earlier today that the ESRB is now listing three Max Payne games, one being the poorly-recieved Max Payne Advance, and the other [...]

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Video Games Will Ruin Your Hands

Tweet According to one Mike Tomich (and a few other doctors), kids under the age of eight years old shouldn’t be playing any video games at all. And children under five shouldn’t be coloring! These grown-up activities will ruin their hands!

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Wii Gold Box Comes to Amazon Tomorrow

Tweet All you Wii gamers looking to catch a deal or two, get your wallets and one-click purchases ready because Amazon.com is holding a Wii Gold Box event tomorrow, March 31st. On the official Gold Box forum, the Amazon Gold Box team posted: All Wii Games, All Day. Make sure to visit the Gold Box [...]

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N4G Cares Not for Contributors, Only Bottom Line

Tweet Sites with user driven content sound great, but are they? N4G can be viewed as an example to many who have used it over the years of a site which started out great and has become little more than a corporate mouthpiece in recent months. If you have tried to submit a story containing [...]

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Wii-kly Virtual Console and WiiWare Update

Tweet I know, I know. I haven’t kept up with my Wii-kly Virtual Console and WiiWare update for the past two weeks or so, but I’m back with this week’s edition and it’s a fairly special one. Why so special you ask? Well according to Nintendo, this is “The Farewell Edition” of their normal Wii-kly [...]

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Funny MGS4 Skit Featuring Kojima and Cliffy B

Tweet The next time you attend a gaming convention like GDC, make sure to pack some gaming related costumes. Throw them on and beg a few recognizable developers to cameo in your own handheld movie. If done correctly, you too can be internet famous. Hit the jump for the video.

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Huge Company of Heroes update via Steam

Tweet A gigantic patch for both Company of Heroes and Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts has been released via Steam today, so restart your Steam clients to allow the update to automatically download. The patch includes way too much stuff to list here; the full list is after the jump for those of you who [...]

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