Archive for March, 2009

Left 4 Dead Survival pack releases April 21

Tweet Destructoid reports that Valve have confirmed the release date, April 21, for the free Left 4 Dead ‘Survival pack’ we reported on last month. The pack will contain the other two maps, Dead Air and Death Toll, for versus mode, as well as the new “Survival” mode in which you aim to survive the [...]

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Rockstar announces Max Payne 3

Tweet Rockstar have announced today that the third instalment of their bullet-time third-person action game series will be arriving during “Winter 2009″. The game “tells the story of a retired police detective embroiled in a world of corruption, turmoil and intense violence,” Rockstar says. Max Payne 3 will include “hyper-intense action” (“that fans have come [...]

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Super Mario Pasta

Tweet If food like this existed in my local grocery store I would put up less of a fight every time my girlfriend asked me to go shopping with her. Imagine store shelves packed with things like Master Chief’s Mac’n’Cheese, Luigi’s Lasagna, and Metriod Meatballs. While none of these things exist (to the best of [...]

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Wii Fit Sales Surpass That of Halo 3 in the United States

Tweet In a stunning move, Nintendo’s Wii Fit sales have surpassed that of Halo 3 in the United Sates. Selling in total 6 million units in the US, Wii Fit now holds bragging rights over Halo 3 which has 5.9 million units sold in the US. What also should be noted is that Halo 3 [...]

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Mass Effect 2 Plus Six World Exclusives on Friday’s GameTrailers TV (3/27)

Tweet Behold the power of Twitter!! In the span of about five hours Geoff Keighley, of GTTV fame, unleashed two noteworthy updates in the form of tweets on his Twitter page. The first reveals that new information regarding the Mass Effect sequel will be presented on GameTrailers TV this Friday, March 27th, and even included [...]

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Gamer Love Advice: How Not To Say I Love You

Tweet The funny little comic strip shown above hit my inbox a few minutes ago and I thought it would be worth sharing with you all. It certainly made me chuckle. The artist’s name is Shaun Boland and you can check out more of his work on Bol’s Eye by visiting his website bolseye.com.

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Microsoft Predicts More Sales of FFXIII and RE5 on Xbox 360 than PlayStation 3

Tweet A recent Gamespot interview discussed the February’s NPD sales figures with representatives of both Microsoft and Sony. The writer, Brendan Sinclair, closed the piece by making the following statement: “The [Microsoft] representative added that Microsoft expects entries in other formerly Sony-exclusive series such as Resident Evil 5 and Final Fantasy XIII to also sell [...]

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Download Digital Comic Books on your PS3?

Tweet According to a translated post on gaming site Polygamia, a PlayStation user submitted a screen grab of a survey he/she was presented with asking them if they would be interested in the idea of downloading comics, graphic novels, and manga via a fee based digital system on their Sony PlayStation 3 console. Proposed fees [...]

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Ripten Radio Presents: Ripcast Episode 13

Tweet It’s the Ripcast, hooray! Well, not really “hooray” with an exclamation point, maybe just kind of like with apathetic indifference (which is redundantly redundant). Point is, don’t get too excited — we certainly weren’t. If you care what the show is about, you should just stop wasting your time reading stupid words when you [...]

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Ian Cummings “The future of Madden is here baby!”

Tweet While observing my Twitter page, I noticed something that seemed very interesting and I though I would share it with you guys.

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U.S. Army Uses Resident Evil 5 Best Buy Launch Party to Recruit Fresh Meat Shields

Tweet Resident Evil 5 and the U.S. Army? Where do I sign up??!??!! The only thing comparable to the way I feel when I see U.S. Army recruiters mixed into events packed with teenage kids would be witnessing Michael Jackson driving a bus load of Catholic priests to Chuck E. Cheese for a quick bite [...]

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Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg “the PS3 is heading south”

Tweet In a vicious verbal attack on Sony’s PlayStation 3 gaming platform, Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg points out the PS3’s shortcomings

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Sega’s MadWorld of Marketing Gets Viral

Tweet If you ever wanted proof that the Nintendo Wii console is not just for little kids and rump shaking girls in their twenties, you can find several limbs strewn about England grasping a game you won’t see advertised during Sesame Street … or will you? Just how far will Sega go with their latest [...]

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Professors Say Videogame Violence Connection Not So Brilliant

Tweet Guinness draft illustrates connection between hot wings and violence. Ok, maybe not in those “exact words”, but not since the Guinness beer commercials have two supremely educated individuals come to a conclusion more “brilliant”. Professors John Kilburn and Christopher Ferguson of Texas A&M International University reached out to GamePolitics a few days ago (sorry, [...]

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World of Warcraft Tier 8 Stats & Bonuses Revealed, Talent Trees Updated

Tweet One of the latest posts on MMO-Champion reveals the tier 8 World of Warcraft stats and set bonuses. In addition, you can check out the latest plot to rain on your fun parade changes that will likely hit your talent tree in the 3.1 patch. As always, when you are done, you can head [...]

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