Archive for April, 2009

BattleForge Review of Moneygrubbing +1

Tweet BattleForge is a PC game that blends so many genres and games into on big-assed acronym your head will spin.  So get your neck brace ready to find out if the world’s first MMORPGRTSCCG is as awesome as the letters make them sound, or is EA just a genius at figuring out ways to [...]

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Ripten Interview: Founders of BioWare Talk Mass Effect 2, Story in Games and Psycho Mantis

Tweet Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk Emily Balistrieri and I had the rare opportunity to interview the founders of BioWare, Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, the minds behind Baldur’s Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire and Mass Effect about BioWare’s upcoming titles, as well as experience the almost tangible passion and [...]

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More Pretty Screens From Final Fantasy XIII

Tweet I am a little late getting to this since I have turned off the Internet at my house, but looks like Square Enix has released some new (a month ago, but if you haven’t seen them yet…) shots to get you all excited or upset at the latest Final Fantasy installment.

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Preview: Military Madness

Tweet Way before Advance Wars, there was Military Madness for TurboGrafx-16, and now, here it is again, only for XBLA, PSN, and WiiWare. Hudson is doing a full 3-D remake of the original campaign, but also throwing in a brand new multiplayer mode. Obviously a classic turn-based strategy game is going to play like one, [...]

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Do This On the Assassin’s Creed 2 Website for a Secret

Tweet Ok, do you see this picture? You see how I’m holding this print out in front of my webcam? Do the same on the Assassin’s Creed 2 Teaser website and something pretty sweet will happen. After the video, get the print out by clicking on the symbol in the center of the page and [...]

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PSP Review — Final Fantasy: Dissidia

Tweet I decided after getting my Japanese stimulus check that I should use it for something good, like video games.  I chose to pick up another new PSP and the games Final Fantasy: Dissidia, and another secret game that I will review at another time.  Dissidia turned out to be more than I thought it [...]

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Motion sensing remote revealed for Xbox 360

Tweet Try hold hold in your amazement, folks. This “Gametrak Freedom” from PDP (Performance Designed Products) is coming the Xbox 360 in the Autumn. It features four face buttons, a D-pad, and one trigger on the back, and will ship with one game, Squeeballs (a “Party” game). Well, this is just unbelievable. Who would have [...]

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Konami Announces Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for the Wii, PS2, and PSP

Tweet Sure, we already knew it was coming thanks to the leaked cover of May’s Nintendo Power, but today Konami sent out the press release for the newest Silent Hill game- the first for the Wii- Shattered Memories. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories seems to be more centered on puzzles this time around, as according to [...]

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LEGO Rock Band Confirmed By Harmonix’s Dan Teasdale?

Tweet It’s not like we didn’t see this coming, but at least now we have a 100% solid source. Harmonix’s Dan Teasdale published his full presentation from GDC, including a slide that listed every Harmonix game coming out over the next year, including Rock Band for PSP, The Beatles: Rock Band, and Lego Rock Band. [...]

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Get Your BioShock 2 Gameplay, Killzone 2 and PunchOut Announcements, More on Next GTTV

Tweet The next episode of GameTrailers TV, airing this Thursday night at 12:30 PM, will be epic featuring the premier gameplay of BioShock 2 featuring none other than the Big Sisters, a “major announcement” and look at what’s next to come for Killzone 2, an announcement for PuncOut on the Wii by Reggie Fils-Aime, and [...]

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Nintendo Wares: DSiWare Now Available

Tweet An exciting week for Nintendo fans with the release of the Nintendo DSi and it’s online store, DSiWare. With the release of the DSiWare comes the first six downloadable titles, including WarioWare: Snapped! and the Nintendo DSi Browser. And don’t forget to check out the WiiWare and Virtual Console for their new uploads today [...]

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New Assassin’s Creed 2 details soon; in the meantime, teaser site is up

Tweet The Editor-in-Chief of Game Informer, Andy McNamara, has hinted on his Twitter page that the next issue of the magazine will have new information on Assassin’s Creed in some form. Until then, head here to look at a Da Vinci- styled video which has no useful information on the sequel other than, well, it’s [...]

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New Game Releases: 4/5 – 4/11

Tweet The big news this week is of course the release of the new Nintendo DSi. Hitting stores at a $169.99 price tag, the new iteration of Nintendo’s famous handheld features bigger screens, two cameras and downloadable game support. Along with the DSi, Rhythm Heaven comes out this week as a great launch title and [...]

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Phoenix Wright Special DSi To Be Released in May in Japan

Tweet The very popular lawyer series for Nintendo DS, Phoenix Wright, will release a special design DSi to go along with the new software. 

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Don’t Play Big Budget Titles, Lest Mega64 Punches You In The Face

Tweet [youtube width="510" height="313"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=617lGZjYyNo[/youtube] With the popularization of indie titles over the past couple of years, many people have taken a stance of elitism regarding indie games. With both feet in their mouth, they’ll say that independently developed games are nonpareil to others, and pretty much say “If you’re not indie, f*ck you.” Mega64 took [...]

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