Archive for April, 2009

Red Faction: Guerilla Releases June 3rd, Demo on April 23rd

Tweet It’s no secret that we here at Ripten are fans of Red Faction: Guerilla. Sure, the builds we’ve seen have got a couple of bugs to sort out, but for the most part, the game’s destructive nature is just pure fun. With this in mind, you can understand why we’re happy that THQ has [...]

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April Fool’s Brings Dance Battles to World of Warcraft

Tweet So, do you really think you have what it takes to be the number one dancer? You better check yo’self before you wreck yo’self then, son. Prove your skill in Blizzard’s new April Fool’s joke for World of Warcraft: the PvP Dance Battle System. The new “Dance Battle System” will allow players to custoize [...]

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Driving Games Make Us More Angry than FPS Games

Tweet Now all those Thompson supporters can be shut up about violent FPS games making players violent. Research has shown that driving and even table tennis games make players more agitated and aggressive.

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Chuck Liddell Video Helps Decide Who’s Tougher: Gladiators or Apaches

Tweet Chuck Liddell makes an appearance on Spike TV’s newest show, Deadliest Warrior, which uses a scientific approach to determine who the deadliest warriors of all time were. Each Show pits one warrior type against another and ends with CGI simulated fight with match ups including: Pirate vs. Knight, Taliban vs. IRA, Yakuza vs. Mafia, [...]

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New PSP and PS2 Jak and Daxter announced

Tweet The Playstation blog announced today that High Impact Games are in the process of developing a brand new Jak and Daxter game for the PS2 and PSP. Called ‘Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier’, the game takes the player to “the edge of the world.” There you’ll fight “air pirates and sinister creatures in [...]

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Ubisoft developing Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs game

Tweet Ubisoft announced today that they are developing a video game based on the upcoming Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation CG film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Ubisoft has partnered with Sony Pictures Animation previously for the video games based off of Surf’s Up and Open Season.

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Hideo Kojima tricks entire gaming press (yes, including us)

Tweet Remember the announcement in Hideo Kojima’s keynote at GDC? The one where he teased the new Metal Gear? Yeah, that was an April Fool’s joke. The video above was posted here, and it details the true extent to which Kojima was having us on. By the way, Kojima-san, you’re doing it wrong. You’re supposed [...]

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