Archive for December, 2009

GDC 2010 Award Nomination Now Open

Tweet The tenth annual Game Developers Choice Awards, produced in conjunction with the Game Developers Conference (GDC), has begun accepting nominations for best of 2009. Nominees are selected by gaming industry related professionals worldwide on the Game Developers Choice website with finalists narrowed down by a 15-person Advisory Committee comprised of writers and developers on [...]

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Team Fortress 2 Update Week: Too Much Stuff to List Here

Tweet Today, Valve have released the information about all but one of the weapon unlocks, as well as the names and descriptions of the achievements for both classes. There’s a lot of exciting stuff to read through, so I’ll provide you with your links and an abridged description so you can be on your way. [...]

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Arkham Asylum II Bad Guys Almost Confirmed? GameTrailers Analysis Reaffirms Our Own

Tweet Geoff Keighley announced in a recent Tweet that Game Trailers had revealed a second take at Batman: Arkham Asylum II’s villain trailer. Pop up commentary offers a brief analysis of the clues that the trailer first introduced at the Spike Video Game Awards. This time, the team at GT took the debut trailer for [...]

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Even More Final Fantasy XIII Footage

Tweet In honor of Final Fantasy XIII’s much-celebrated release in Japan, 1up has released the sequel to the in-game footage shown earlier in the fall. This seventeen minute clip picks up where the demo left off and showcases a heaping helping of even more cinematic interludes. 1up also managed to capture several boss battles and [...]

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Spec Ops: The Line Already Generating Regional Controversy Over Dubai Setting

Tweet Spec Ops: The Line, which you can read all about here, is already creating controversy over its setting in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates is considering banning the game.

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Ring in the New Year with Boobs and Bayonetta

Tweet SEGA and Playboy, two companies that are very similar, are throwing a contest to send one lucky winner to Chicago to ring in the New Year with Bayonetta and Playboy.

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Final Fantasy XIII Launches In Japan

Tweet The long awaited Final Fantasy next gen sequel was released a few hours ago in Japan, and the above video clip gives you a look at a few people in line waiting for their chance to grab it. The rest of us will have to wait until March 9th as the Square Enix Twitter [...]

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Maximum Munn: Behind the Scenes Video of Olivia Munn’s Maxim Photo Shoot

Tweet If you’re a fan of G4TV’s Olivia Munn, you can pick up the January Maxim featuring her on the cover this Thursday. In the meantime, G4TV has released the following behind the scenes video at her shoot. Watch as Olivia spoons cool whip into her mouth, jumps on a trampoline, and dodges deadly sparks [...]

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Team Fortress 2 Update Week: Free Weekend, Merchandise, Soldier Unlock

Tweet Valve have today announced the first unlock for the Soldier, seen above. This one’s called “The Direct Hit”, probably because it rewards those who score, well, a direct hit. It has a 70% smaller blast radius than the normal rocket launcher, as well as an 80% faster firing speed and with “25% more destructive [...]

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Army of Two Developers Wouldn’t Have Done Modern Warfare 2 Airport Level

Tweet In a recent interview with CVG, Army of Two: The 40th Day producer Matt Turner said that, while he respects Infinity Ward for doing the infamous No Russian mission, they wouldn’t have done it themselves.

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New Mass Effect 2 Footage is Full Of Stars

Tweet Today is a great day for Mass Effect 2 news- first with the massive, packed collector’s being announced, and now, with 90 seconds of brand-new footage that signals the coming of a full trailer for the game. If the game looks anything like this footage, it’s sure to be a real contender for 2010 [...]

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Mortal Kombat Tattoo Sure To Have The Ladies Yelling “GET OVER HERE!”

Tweet Get it? Because that’s one of the things that is said in the game when yo- ah, forget it. Above is an image of Scorpion & Sub-Zero (you know, of Mortal Kombat fame.) on the back of the winner of Ripten’s Coolest Person Alive 2009*. One of them is performing a fatality on the [...]

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Fan Made Zelda Movie: The Hero of Time

Tweet Update: Nintendo has squashed the dream of the film makers asking them to take down the video — which they did. I guess it’s okay to say “I was drunk playing a game of Zelda” while you gesture masturbation, but you can’t actually make a tribute film about the game … unless of course [...]

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Media Molecule Details LittleBigPirates Of The Carribean Level Pack

Tweet Unfortunately, “LittleBigPirates of the Carribean” isn’t the official name for the map pack, but there’s still time, Media Molecule. The things that are official, according to MediaMolecule, are the pricing, release date, and content included in the pack. Sorry, Pirates fans- as an E-rated game, there’s no rum here. What there is included however, [...]

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X-Play Announces Their Best Game of 2009

Tweet The crew over at G4Tv’s X-Play have reached a decision on their best game of 2009, and the duo of Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb reveal the winner as …

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