Archive for March, 2009

Final Fantasy XIII: New ATB Screens from Famitsu

Tweet Famitsu have got their hands on some brand new screenshots showing us mainly the Active Time Battle system in Final Fantasy XIII. We get a first look at the ‘Battle Results‘ screen as well, which gives you your stats, TP bonus, and rank. The rank is out of five stars. Right now, the battle [...]

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Burnout DLC now available on PC

Tweet For all of you PC Burnout players (and if you’re not one, you should be), Criterion have released a patch allowing you to download the previously announced DLC for the game from the Burnout Store. The patch can be downloaded directly from here, and players with the EA download manager should already have it. [...]

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GDC09: Leaked Uncharted 2 Gameplay Footage

Tweet Naughty Dog previewed a few minutes of gameplay from the upcoming sequel to Uncharted titled “Uncharted 2: Among Thieves” at GDC, and clearly at least one thief was in attendance — the internet video leaking variety. Thank (or blame) the makers of tiny devices capable of recording video and foreign gaming sites with writers [...]

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GDC09: Punch-Out!! Video Demonstration

Tweet Here’s a video directly from the Game Developer’s Conference with someone demonstrating how to play the new Punch-Out!! for the Wii. The person playing makes it seem pretty easy to get use to, which is great news because you know how motion controls can easily be a hit or miss. But remember you don’t [...]

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GDC09: Batman: Arkham Asylum Challenge Room Gameplay Video

Tweet Looks like we finally have some actual gameplay footage of the new Batman: Arkham Asylum title. Here’s a video of the game’s director, Sefton Hill, walking us through the Silent Knight Challenge Room, and quite honestly, I’m impressed. It’s been awhile since we’ve had a good Batman game. Actually, have we ever been given [...]

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Rumor: Square Enix Announcing New Game In April?

Tweet According to an upcoming issue of Official Playstation Magazine, Square Enix is poised to reveal a brand new action game sometime in April. Provided that this reveal doesn’t come on April 1st, you can probably bet on it being a Final Fantasy game. There’s a screenshot in the magazine as well, but as it [...]

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GDC09: Mezmer Games Announces Stalin vs. Martians: The Unknown Pages of the Second War

Tweet Ah, the RTS. Once a staple of strategy games, the genre’s been flooded with spinoffs, remakes, and more Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, and Warhammer releases than you can count. How are developers supposed to add vitality to a dwingling genre? With 20th-century mustachio dictator Josef Stalin and an extraterrestrial army, of course! [...]

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GDC09: First Mass Effect 2 Gameplay and Cut-Scene

Tweet The first gameplay of Mass Effect 2 has been released at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Above, you’ll see the first gameplay clip, which while it has bad quality, it is looking great. Read on for a look at a cut-scene from the game.

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GDC09: Two Games That Need to Stay On Your Gaming Radar

Tweet Hey, Jonathan Zungre here, reporting to you (not so) Live from GDC 09 and I’ve got two games that you may not know about but you really should. Mount and Blade and Majesty 2 are two games that really need to be on your gaming radar. Listen to my video preview so I can [...]

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Sony Making Announcement on March 31st

Tweet Sony has told gave notice that on Tuesday, March 31, 2009, they will be making an announcement. It’s odd because it is several days after the Game Developers Conference. They didn’t give any hints or details on the announcements, so all that’s left to do is speculate. What do you think? Price-cut? New game? [...]

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Arc Rise Fantasia Gets New Screens, Video

Tweet Marvelous Entertainment has released a third and brand new trailer for their upcoming Wii RPG, Arc Rise Fantasia. The trailer displays some gameplay, mainly the intriguing battle system, and Japanese people with odd clothing. Oh yeah, it also shows us a coolio dragon in CG. Check out the screens at 4Gamer. Read on for [...]

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Blizzard Working on Fifth Game, New IP?

Tweet It appears World of Warcraft developers, Blizzard, may be working on fifth game, said to be a new IP. Two new job listings have surfaced on Blizzrd’s job oppurtunities page looking for a Software Engineer in Client and in Gameplay under the category of ‘Unannounced’. The job description mentions they need the gameplay engineers [...]

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LittleBigPlanet update coming soon

Tweet The PS Blog reports that LittleBigPlanet will be receiving an update soon, including a multitude of fixes and improvements. The update notes are after the jump, and include such things as ‘the game doesn’t break much now’ and ‘it’s a bit better now’. Not really, but that’s the gist of it. The patch includes [...]

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Braid PC release delayed

Tweet Braid’s creator, Jonathan Blow, has posted on his blog that the PC version of the game will be delayed until 10 April, in order to “fix some problems that came up in testing with various versions of Windows.” The game will release on platforms Steam, Greenhouse, Impulse, and GamersGate, as well as any others [...]

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GDC09: MotionPlus, Wii Sports Resort Still Aimed for a Spring Release

Tweet Remember Wii Sports Resort and the MotionPlus device for the Wii? Well, I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t because they were no where to be seen at Nintendo’s GDC09 showing, although both are still on target for a spring release.

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