Archive for May, 2009

Did An Activision Creative Director Leak The Title Of The Next Tony Hawk Game?

Tweet Look, nobody’s perfect. And in the world we live in, people always to focus on these imperfections, as they tend to make or break a person’s career, or product. And the gaming industry is no different. Video games get leaked almost daily. Whether it’s gameplay footage, information, or even the game itself, leaks in [...]

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Konami (Sort of) Announces Contra Rebirth for WiiWare

Tweet That’s right, Contra is hitting the WiiWare old-school style! Konami has quietly announced that Contra Rebirth will be hitting the WiiWare next week, May 12, in Japan for 1000 Wii Points and with two-player co-op play. It’s kind of odd how they managed to keep this title under wraps for this long and that [...]

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Pokemon Gold and Silver Getting DS Remakes

Tweet Yep, it’s been confirmed. Pokemon Gold and Silver will be remade for the DS, which means the Pokemon crazy is officially never gonna be over. The ten year anniversary remakes will be called Pokemon Heart Gold and Pokemon Soul Silver. Expect the two titles to hit the Nintendo DS this fall with some added [...]

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No More Heroes!: Activision Announces Three More Guitar Hero Games for 2009

Tweet It seems nowadays that everytime I write up a post, I end up complaining about Activision and their cash cow known colloquially as Guitar Hero- and this post will unfortunately be no different. Because today, Activision announced three, yes three, more games for the Guitar Hero franchise, all of which are coming out this [...]

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Top 10 Great PC Games That Your Computer Will Run

Tweet A popular criticism of gaming on the PC is the cost of upgrading your machine to meet the specifications for all the latest games. What people who say this tend to forget, though, is there are plenty of games you can play on your PC without needing a hulking beast of a computer to [...]

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DJ Hero controller revealed

Tweet What you see before you is one of two renderings posted by DJHero on Twitter. Don’t worry, they’ve also been confirmed by Activision by way of a press release, in case you had any suspicions that the Twitter account might be false. They’re not really a surprising design; the only think that strikes me [...]

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Warrior Epic Preview: MMORPG Rewards You for Killing Your Character

Tweet Warrior Epic is the first RPG to reward players for letting their created characters die.  Having your created character bite the dust brings one of two benefits: you can either infuse the dead character’s soul into a weapon or one of your living characters can carry their spirit and use it as a powerful [...]

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Plants vs. Zombies now available

Tweet Plants vs. Zombies, the brand new puzzle/strategy game from Popcap Games, has been released. You can download the game from here or here, at $9.99 and $19.99 respectively. Why you’d pay $10 more for the non-Steam version I have no idea, but if it works for Popcap, good for them. Popcap, of course, are [...]

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Demigod demo coming soon

Tweet In an article explaining the issues around Demigod and the recent fixes, as well as some workarounds for connectivity issues, Stardock’s Brad Wardell has announced that there will be a demo coming soon. He has suggested that the demo be multiplayer only, although this isn’t set in stone at this point. The article’s got [...]

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NintendoWares: Animal Crossing Calculator and Clock, Penguin & Friends, Tower Toppler

Tweet All you Animal Crossing fans will be happy to know that the DSiWare is offering both an Animal Crossing Calculator and Clock for you to download to your DSi today. And they are only 200 DSi Points! Why anyone would pay for either of the two items (unless you were absolute die hard Animal [...]

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New Game Releases: 5/3 – 5/9

Tweet This week in new game releases brings us the Wii-make of Klonoa, Patapon 2 for the PSP and the Ben Stiller starring Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian for all the fans of the movie. Yes, all three of you. Hit the jump for the full list of new games this week [...]

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Rumour: Pokémon Gold and Silver remakes coming?

Tweet Pokémon Sunday, part of the TV section of the Pokémon monolith, has hinted that Nintendo are about to announce remakes of Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver. The show is going to announce something on next week’s episode, although at this point we don’t know what; but there is a theory that it will be [...]

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Zangief, is that you?

Tweet I know what you’re thinking, and yes, this is the best Zangief cosplay you’ve ever seen. It’s not often you see a cosplayer who has both the face and body of the character they’re portraying, so it really is a treat when you see one like this. I would say that I wanted to [...]

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Turtles in Time Remake On The Way

Tweet A few years ago I found a magic lamp on a beach and a genie told me I had three wishes. I asked to be rich, handsome, and to be able to play Turtles in Time on my Xbox 360. I may still be poor and ugly, but at least he kept his promise [...]

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Rumor: Call of Duty 7 Set During Vietnam War

Tweet Call of Duty isn’t going to stop any time soon. There’s been a new entry in the franchise released every year since 2005 and the last two are still fighting for the top spot on Xbox Live. Modern Warfare 2, the sixth installment, is set to hit later this year. So it comes as [...]

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