Archive for May, 2009

New Game Releases: 5/31 – 6/6

Tweet I know we’re all excited for E3 09 this week and to see what new games are gonna be shown and announced, but there’s still a few games actually hitting stores this week. The biggest title coming out has to be the long-awaited release of The Sims 3 for the PC. The Wii is [...]

read more

New Trailer for The Saboteur Features Shooting, Exploding, and Nazis

Tweet We don’t know much about The Saboteur right now, but EA’s WWII era shooter seems a bit more interesting with this new trailer. The video features the protagonist, as he makes his way to a rooftop, and gets poised to shoot some Nazis. The end of the video also gives us a loose date [...]

read more

Thumbs Down Potential Criminal! Florida Used Game Sellers Now Require Fingerprinting

Tweet A while back, I wrote an article about an individual I believed to be pawning a stolen console to a local GameStop. I was a little taken back by the obvious nature of the situation and the lack of hesitation by the GameStop employee who happily took it off her hands. Never in my [...]

read more

Ripten E3 2009 Predictions

Tweet E3 is back, and so are our glowing and always insightful predictions. These are from the heart people. Grab a Kleenex and hit the jump.

read more

BlizzCon 09 Tickets Sold Out, Scalpers Rejoice

Tweet The last batch of BlizzCon 09 tickets have come and gone. If you want guaranteed access to the show now, you’re going to have to down some serious scalpers — BlizzCon tickets are phat loot, and they won’t come cheap. The good news is, there will likely be a lottery/contest of sorts for you [...]

read more

Sega’s Bayonetta E3 Trailer Reveals Captured Daughter and Ass Kicking Gameplay

Tweet I’ve been a fan of this Platinum Games project since I first sketched it for you back at last year’s E3. Bayonetta features killer hair that doubles as a body suit, fashion statement gun accessories, and now … a child abducting villain! Seriously, what’s an epic battle between two forces without a little hostage [...]

read more

Expert Difficulty DJ Hero Footage Looks… Kind Of Boring.

Tweet When DJ Hero was first hinted at a year ago, I was kind of looking forward to it. I assumed it be a series of scratching to a bunch of hip-hop remixes, but I was completely wrong. Of course, you’ve already heard me complaing about the songs mixed for the game, but seeing as [...]

read more

Qore Accidentally Leaks the PSP Go [UPDATE]

Tweet [Post updated with a better quality video of the June 2009 episode of Qore. The audio's off, but you can still get the gist of what's occuring.] I’m sure that Sony won’t be too happy about this, but it seems that their video news service, Qore, has accidentally leaked the PSP Go only days [...]

read more

Leaked Assassin’s Creed 2 Footage… Doesn’t Show Much

Tweet Courtesy of our friends over at Destructoid, we’ve got some brand new leaked footage of Assassin’s Creed 2, featuring the Altair we all know and… tolerate. Of course, the video’s only eleven seconds, but if you don’t care so much, I’m sure this will tide you over until the game actually releases. God only [...]

read more

Nier a Sword, There a Sword, Everywhere a Big Sword (It Made Me Laugh)

Tweet Square Enix loves their big honking blades and I love them for loving them. Anywho, press release junkies got wind of Square’s newly announced title Nier earlier today, and now you can get a glimpse at the game’s first trailer via their official website. The trailer itself features more of that washed out dark [...]

read more

PS3 Exclusive Batman: Arkham Asylum Playable Joker Full of Surprises

Tweet What good is a console exclusive feature if you can’t rub it in the face of your competitor a few days before a large game related social gathering? Edios released a trailer of the PS3 exclusive Batman: Arkham Asylum playable Joker a few hours ago and if you haven’t seen it yet, I advise [...]

read more

Fight Night Round 4 Demo Now on Xbox Live

Tweet After a brief time of being exclusive to people who pre-ordered the game, the Fight Night Round 4 demo is now available on Xbox Live for all Gold members. The demo has two boxers, Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton and Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao. Those with a Xbox Live Silver membership will be able to download [...]

read more

Pac-Man Cereal Commercial with Christian Bale

Tweet That’s right! That’s John Connor himself dancing in joy over a marshmallow-filled Pac-Man cereal. It’s hard to see the resemblance with him being so young, but a visit to Internet Movie Database confirmed it. Batman loves his marshmallow.

read more

Analysts predict WiiFit Plus, new Mario or Zelda, other things at E3

Tweet Industry respected analysts, Macquarie Research, have predicted that Nintendo will announce WiiFit Plus along with a new Mario or Zelda game for the Wii at next week’s E3. After last year’s less than exciting E3 announcements of Wii Music and Wii Sports Resort, we can tell that Nintendo might have learned their lesson, so [...]

read more

Big Boss appears in Famitsu and on countdown page

Tweet This coutndown page has sparked a lot of new speculation about Kojima’s next Metal gear project. As you can see it recently showed an image of what appears to be Big Boss. Famitsu have also shown the image, along with one of what appears to be Raiden. I say “appears to be” because there [...]

read more